pheadtony.bsky.social
Near Bristol UK.
Likes: well behaved politicians, bikes, football (#LFC)
Dislikes: dishonesty, populist nonsense
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I doubt they did really. Diplomacy innit.
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Yes exactly. That's the point, they are talking about her. That is the only tool she has, and she decided to use it.
Perhaps you'd have preferred if she parachuted in with M16s and grenades, or used The Force ™️ "You *will* stop this genocide..."
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I don't believe you're so naive? It's a (brave) effort to change the narrative.
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It's publicity. An effort to shift the prevailing narrative.
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You don't achieve success in anything without effort and failure.
And more pertinently, because of who it is, this is a failed effort that may have some measure of success in publicising what's going on.
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Did you try, Paul?
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It's going to be less surely
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You'd still get some halfwits reversing into aunty fanny on her mobility scooter.
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Could try 14.6mph?
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Or, glass half empty, we're all too siloed, with few shared cultural / social interests in common? 😬
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Meanwhile, the evidence for 20mph in places where people live their lives, grows and grows 🤷🏼♂️
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Exactly the argument a friend of mine uses. If you're not competent to keep a vehicle at 20, frankly you shouldn't be driving at all.
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We're never going to convince everyone in every situation. As long as less motorists are driving at 30, and we continue to incentivise reduced speeds, then road safety should improve.
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If the only question we ask at elections is "am I better off now?" we'll never get a politics that thinks long term; that makes sacrifices for great causes; or that calls some to pay more in solidarity with others.
We're citizens, not customers. The left, of all movts, needs to keep that idea alive
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What a time to be alive
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And is that rate normally 0 percent? 1 percent? 10 percent? Does the report include yoy changes historically?
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What was the rate of change the year before and the year before that?
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So dire predictions of 26% (144,103 children) leaving private schools were unfounded
Instead just 1.9% (11,000) left, which was even below the OBRs lowest forecast
Due to the falling birth rate 59,600 left state schools
It's margin of error stuff
www.taxpayersalliance.com/analysis_vat...
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This is good news for drug cartels considering what the products they make & supply do to people.
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'loosing' 😞
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An engineer looks at the exceptions and is perplexed that anyone would care / tries to forcibly suppress such noise on a "good enough" model.
A scientist looks at the exceptions and goes, "oh, okay, gotta throw out our ancient model as complete bullshit; guess 'sex' isn't really A Thing."
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They point to a bimodal distribution and go "there, we identified a thing; this is a useful conceptual tool" whereas actual scientists look at the exceptions and the messiness of the underlying gene dynamics and are aghast that anyone would think there's ontological solidity there.
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Some have suggested national service to address defence gaps. Half of Britons would support bringing back military national service. Brits in every age group are more likely to think it’s a good idea than not, except for 18-24, the group at the age where they would actually have to do it themselves
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Surely 1 in 5 would be plenty ?
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Yup waste rhetoric convinced people there is lots of fat, so they don't think they are being cakeist when they say no to tax rises or cuts. 44% think you can cut 20% of spending without impacting services/economy- even accounting for people are bad at large numbers shows how embedded that thought is
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It's just blokes from down the pub thinking they can sort things out with a bit of their common sense.
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*Trough trump
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Is it bad that I don't recognise either of these names.
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I have low expectations that we can do any better than the US 🤦🏼♂️
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They are already aping doge at the local council level 🤦🏼♂️, so it wouldn't surprise me
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Yep, hopefully they haven't grouped both sentiments together to come up with that number 😁
And...'Europe' what does that mean?
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📍They fight discrimination
📍Ensure disabled access
📍Improve care for marginalised communities
📍Improve representation for everyone
📍Prevent costly legal claims
📍They make public services work better for more people, saving more in the long term.
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