albrew.bsky.social
The older I get the less I think I know and the more comfortable I am with that.
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Like I said first time, defeatism dressed as sophistication. The Greens may be naive and/or stretched, the Spanish may have made a hash of their tax. Doesn’t mean it can’t be done effectively, especially when those saying it can’t specifically discount redistribution policy in their analysis :)
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Policy-free policy making, more like. The authors of that report specifically ring-fence inequality-reduction as a rationale for a wealth tax. Duh.
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This is defeatism dressed up as sophistication.
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I accept that these twits are going to do huge amounts of damage, and hurt many people.
But there is a thin silver lining:
They are going to provide a lot of entertainment, some of it slapstick.
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“Only the best people”
#Trump ‘s pick.
Trump’s judgment.
Trump’s complicity.
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Nothing personal to TY, but people with big egos in public life who say things like this have recently increasingly often turned out to be gropers and worse. This is bad judgment in Badenoch.
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“Supporting scepticism” …
yeesh.
Scepticism doesn’t need “support”. Scepticism is just normal science...
Until there are facts.
And there are.. facts.
These people are evil.
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So much belittlement in the comments. Wasted breath. They are contemptible, but they need to be beaten not insulted. This is how Brexit and Trump happened.
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Yes! Because it will mean standing for an ideal, a vision, beyond the tired old “more growth, more stuff”. But Starmer/Reeves’s problem (one partly of their own making) is how to plot a course from here to there without it looking desperate instead of bold.
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This shit has been going on now ever since the Tories indulged their fantasy that EVERYTHING (even natural monopolies) is better run by the private sector and flogged off the water companies. 40+ years of stuffing money that should have gone to investment into the pockets of largely foreign owners.
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Well, that aged well. But I guess the plane was worth saving.
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Perish that thought. America has the best judicial system money can buy.
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Call me a cynic, but would Putin let Assad board a Russian plane bound for Russia and then shoot it down to solve the problem of having him arrive? Mmm. Maybe.
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This is very very interesting/concerning. Maybe old Nick Bostrom (“Superintelligence” 2014) who I once heard a senior academic refer to as mad as a meat axe, is not, after all, as mad as a meat axe.
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Surely, it’s the COST of inaction that rises? The price is always attractively low.
The mismatching of price and cost is endemic to liberal democracy, and imperils it.
Elected officials know this but are supine. As we’ve just seen in America, many voters don’t know, and don’t care to know.
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We housed a refugee (on an urgent referral from Red Cross) who got the 28 days but minimal help/support in even *understanding* the huge change in his circumstances - from enforced helplessness to “on-your-own worker-bee”. 56 days better - but only if other deficiencies are addressed too.
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Why not ask “Man of the People” #Farage whether he needs $100m from a foreign billionaire to get his messages across - and if so why??
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Hmmm. What could possibly go wrong? Here’s one thought: unless these brilliant minds get down in the weeds to decide what programs different agencies have to cut, they might find the programs that get cut generate quite a lot of ill feeling in the wrong people. I’ve no idea. It’s just a thought.
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We really need to start educating people about the difference between MEAN and MEDIAN.
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“Supremely accomplished BALLET DANCER (who was outspoken about the Ukraine war), nips onto fifth floor balcony for a fag, AND LOSES BALANCE.”
Standards are slipping, either in Russian dance or British journalism.
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Thanks. Indicative. Not the knock out punch one might have hoped for. Though of course that point about Cherry-picking is surely valid.
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Could we have some data on the relative “botch” payout rate for outsourced vs unsourced procedures? Because without that, we remain in the dark about whether this is (as claimed) a reason not to outsource. (There may well be other good reasons…)
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That is a very important point.
Thank you.
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The critical thing to ADD to this (which I agree with) is that there are things the listener can DO. “Yes we can” kind of thing. Otherwise it’s just a more complex (and accurate) version of “we are fucked” - which leads to inaction/ changing the subject. We have to message power to choose futures.