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I have been known to breathe in (and occasionally out again), without thinking about spaceships.
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(And, of course, much like Cities Skylines II discovering that "removing landlords from the game" was the only way to stop cities from becoming completely unaffordable, the simulations keep generating problems and solutions which tell us what we already know but refuse to act on.)
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That's just LLM type "AI" that is essentially a plausible-sounding bullshit generator - the type that is actually useful can use simulations and machine learning to model the most efficient outcomes for things like traffic congestion.
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Well yes.
Which is why AI keeps inventing trains as a solution to traffic.
It's the obvious solution, but they don't wanna.
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Yes, but all the television news give massive prominence to the newspapers' front pages and design their output around them.
So if the Mail prints some nonsense about immigrants stealing the internet, guess what informs the discussion on BBC news that day.
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Starmer has a massive majority. Ram the laws through right now.
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Further; media ownership to be as diffused as possible. Nobody able to own more than 1% of a news outlet.
Editors to be made legally liable for their output.
Corrections legally required to have the same prominence as original claims.
All foreign donations to parties and think tanks banned.
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Yes.
HOWEVER, I do wish RTD had shoved all the fanwank into those three and started Ncuti off with a completely blank slate.
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Nah. Anything that does not seek to return my stolen rights and citizenship in full is worthless to me.
Brexit was a mistake. It needs fixing.
Zero time or effort should be devoted to turd-polishing.
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Oh, sweetheart.
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From babies, aye?
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Good. The Turing Scheme was only ever designed to let rich kids make business contacts in the States.
Absolutely nothing of value to ordinary students.
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Yes, but that would only be possible if they hadn't already deselected everyone who holds Labour values, in favour of the weird kids who took briefcases to primary school.
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He is since the crypto scams.
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Yeahhhhhh you still need to replace literally every machine and piece of software in every government department.
Fixing that will cost trillions just to maintain basic national security interests.
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Trump can only imagine "our people" vs "foreigners". He cannot imagine the idea that foreigners might help your citizens liberate your country.
Similar to Brexiters in that regard. Foreigners are always "them" rather than a wider "us" against a common foe.
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The war generation also voted overwhelmingly to Remain, there just weren't many of them left in 2016.
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Trouble is that's not really how TV production works any more. We've not had a consistent annual series since 2009, because HD took so much longer to make than SD. 4K makes that SO much worse.
That's why Davies' plan was to shoot S1&2 back to back, and (probably) S3&4 back to back after S1 aired.
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Honestly, I'd ask Debbie Moon if she fancied a go. Wolfblood was excellent.
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Titling something "season one" with a host of returning characters and plot threads is quite obviously mad.
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Exactly, but obviously you can't do that for a 60th anniversary run (not that those specials really WERE an anniversary celebration in that sense).
Hence reckoning it's fine to have a big fanwanky blowout for the anniversary specials, and then a fresh, unburdoned jumping-on point for newbies.
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Yes, I think contemporary Who works best when we're seeing the world through the companion's eyes, which keeps the Doctor at a distance.
Moffat was correct when he said having two companions allows the Doctor to be someone who gets talked about and speculated about.
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That's certainly true - why bother trotting these characters back out if you're going to twist them beyond all recognition?
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RTD appears to be of the thinking that because everything's on iPlayer, everyone's done the homework. But he shouldn't be thinking that at all.
Save any back-references for big anniversary episodes. Keep looking forward. Ditch the convoluted backstories, returning characters and mess.
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The classic show didn't really have this issue simply because it couldn't.
Even at its most fanwanky in the Saward era, it still had to explain everything to the audience properly so they could follow along. The basic concepts were re-explained every few years.
We currently have none of that.
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I don't think it needs a rest.
I *do* think it needs new blood and a clean slate.
This era should have been the Tennant specials wrapping up all the 2005+ threads, and then the Disney+ era starting fresh with zero prior knowledge required, and RTD taking an advisory role to a new team of writers.
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Could it possibly have anything to do with newspapers drip-feeding poison, and the generations who don't read newspapers are immune? 🤔
You know what the cause is, it's the same as that which caused Trump, Brexit and every other catastrophe. Stop playing thick.
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In fairness I think the Rani was a specific ask of Gatwa, as he and Millie had watched a couple of Mel stories to get to know the character.
But the constant flashbacks and reliance on having seen stuff from decades ago to feel any impact is wild.
Needed a clean slate, got the opposite.
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Mmm, I do think he's contracted a severe case of the George Lucases and needs someone to tell him when something is a shit idea and reel him back in.
Doing a victory lap for something that was on telly fifteen years ago and expecting seven year olds to be interested is frankly nuts.
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What even is Rose's job at UNIT? Making the plushies for the gift shop?
The only technical expertise or alien knowledge she has was from the DoctorDonna, and she gave that all up...?
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As we can see from extending the graph, there were 0 non-white people in the UK in 1990 🤣
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Standard.
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Well certainly that too, but much of that is still infrastructure based (i.e. Scotland's oil was spent to fund London's infrastructure). But it's also historical & can't be changed.
In the present, iScotland would be fine, as it brings in more than it spends, and can therefore borrow to invest.
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And so it's not reliant on England for anything. It sells more than it buys, therefore it makes money.
The reason it is poor is because of lack of investment. The reason for the lack of investment in Scotland is that the only body that can borrow to invest in Scotland is Westminster.
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No, you're wheeling out a crank that disagrees with the science, much like the BBC had to keep wheeling out Minford to pretend Brexit had any support among economists
The vast majority of the population don't care. Just you weird culture war nutters who can't stop thinking about strangers' genitals
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Except we don't do that either - that would be PR. We elect local representatives, who may or may not be party affiliated.
And virtually none of them have the support of the majority of their constituents, either.
The rest of it was bolted on later, and is incoherent.
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It's also, by the way, why the Supreme Court refused to actually offer a legal definition of "woman" - because they know as well as you do that any specific definition offered will exclude a lot of cis women as well.
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Yes, they do.
You'll always be able to drag out some ancient quack who swears by leeches & trepanning.
That's why scientific consensus doesn't demand unanimity.
Biology is messy and there are infinite factors influencing human development.
It is nowhere near as simple as stand-up/sit-down wees.
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As I said.
They get to lock the doors and do whatever they want without further public consultation.
It would never have happened under PR.
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Scotland is a net exporter.
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As for nutters, exactly how many people voted to put Liz Truss in Downing Street?
That would never have happened under PR.
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Evidently someone voted for them. A percentage similar to their representation in Parliament, in fact.
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You're a simple soul, aren't you?
Geneticists, anatomists and anthropoligists keep trying to explain to you why you're wrong, but you learned something when you were six and absolutely refused to believe there could ever be anything more complicated.
But then, all you do is repeat stock phrases.
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Nobody's ever accused you of being a bright man, have they?
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No, it's an awful system of elective dictatorship.
Whichever party gets ~a third of the vote gets to lock the doors and do whatever they like for as long as they like.
Given we have no written constitution and no guardrails, the only thing stopping them abolishing further elections is convention.
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Oh certainly, I'm a big advocate for the crumbling victorian terraces in our major cities bring demolished and replaced with modern mixed-use apartment buildings.
The trouble is, the UK's laws around flats & apartments are awful and exploitative, so nobody wants to live in them.
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Most of that is the UK having refused to invest in infrastructure since Thatcher.
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*"Coltitz" should read "Escape from Colditz", of course 😅
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Most of them didn't even have that. They grew up watching Dad's Army & The Great Escape, playing Coltitz, building Airfix Spitfires and reading Victor comics, and that's the prism they understand the world through.
Doesn't matter that it happened before they were born, they imagine they were there.
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Evidently someone voted for them.