jubnz.bsky.social
Kiwi living in the UK and muddling through
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There are drugs to make them thin & sexually active, people can stick hair on their ageing scalps. Their sons are not dying in barbed wire strewn battlefields, their daughters are not dying in childbirth or burying infants snatched by disease. They can get in planes & fly to where it’s sunny.
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From 2025 Q1 forward, the BoE is forecasting quarterly GDP will be £26.9bn higher by 2027Q4, compared with a growth forecast of £25.1bn over the same period back in November
Over the year ahead the forcast growth is down a bit - from £10.5bn to £9.5bn - but it is subsequently more than made up
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All of the disappointment happened in 2024, though, so this is in no way a forecast. The forward looking bit of the BoE's actual forecast is stronger than it was in November as this levels chart we put on the FT's Monetary Policy Radar shows
on.ft.com/3CJ1paG
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In conclusion
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Women are encouraged by pop feminism, self help books and bullshit leadership courses to internalise the ways that they aren’t taken seriously in the workplace and to label that as imposter syndrome that they have to overcome. It puts all the blame on women as individuals. It’s anti-solidarity.
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Some tech gurus are saying AI has already plateaued. It’s scraped up all the useable data on the planet, and any new data now could be tainted with AI, so is unreliable. And more and more powerful processors are only yielding incremental improvements, so it’s not getting smarter. It’s a scam.
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This is very well expressed thank you. Crystallises general worry beads very clearly
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Not the episode of West Wing most resistlibs would demand Trump watch to change his mind on an issue, but an accurate one.
youtu.be/eLqC3FNNOaI?...
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"Her recently acquired view that it's a scandal, having spent a lot of time on social media over Christmas... Not once in eight years did she stand here and say what she's just said. They want a national inquiry... We had a national inquiry. Twenty recommendations. Not a single one implemented."
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That bill, Starmer says, has provisions to protect kids by registering those not in school. Starmer: "What I don't understand is why anybody would vote today again [the bill]. It will kill the bill. it will stop those provisions for children at risk today. I implore them: vote for the bill."