psycho-babble.bsky.social
Dr. of Cognitive Psychology. Interested in Eyewitness memory, Evolutionary Psych, Economics, Modern Monetary Theory, Science, LFC, Politics, Nature, Dancing! Views my own.
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Hope they mean a year later than is ideal rather than a year too late…there’s still 4 years left for policies to work.
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One of my fave games - fun puzzles and not crazy difficult like many games
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I guessing he is calculating that apart from a relatively small percentage of people, most would like to limit immigration to highly skilled people and tighten rules around low skilled worker visas to avoid exploitation, and think a common language supports economic growth. I’m guessing though.
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That’s because you have no life
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See the quotes
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Hence the quotes
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I think he’s calculating that broadly speaking, people support immigration for high end skills that we need but want to stop boat landings and feel that legislation for low skilled visas is too loose and can be exploited. He needs to find a way of filling the social care “low skill” shortage gap.
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I have a friend that I’ve not seen for years. We’re like strangers almost now. I don’t have any plans to attack him as a result.
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Not sure how ‘strangers’ equates to ‘blood’. One signifies people not knowing each other, and the other signifies extreme violence. I’m guessing this was related to language barriers when immigrants don’t speak English.
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Punch someone in the face. They punch you back. You then walk away claiming to have beaten them into stopping their aggression.
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I’d argue it was the corruption and lack of investment in public services and the economy more than this.
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But aren’t tariffs paid by the foreign entity? Surely highlighting high tariffs is a win?
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To try to keep hold of the Red wall?
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A shame that you don’t have free healthcare
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Or maybe those that take balanced views don’t comment much
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I expected better journalism from Byline. Have you noticed the changes to law around workers rights, rail, energy, water, housing, private schools, plus NHS waiting lists, and many more. I think you don’t like his tackling of the
Immigration situation and that’s shaping your views.
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You mean who has interest bearing accounts at the federal reserve? This isn’t debt like household debt. Before buying the interest bearing instruments they had this amount is dollars in a current account at the fed. Because they have acquired $ through selling more to US than buying from.
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“War” 😂
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Yes I doubt this tool is meant to justify switching off poverty prevention methods, teaching respect for females etc…just a tool for those that turn into murderers.
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Yep. But if you know the key signs for say, incel murder, then it pays to look for people exhibiting those and keep an eye on them. Like is done now for potential terrorists and stops bombs going off.
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Academics have been trying to predict who will commit murder for 100yrs. Looks like a machine learning model where features of murderers and non murderers are used to train the algorithm to spot the difference. No problem. Problems arise around policies for false positives and false pos rate.
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Sounds like just a statement based on recent opinion polls
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What’s important is the amount of assets that left not number of people. If people sold their property and left, or sold their UK business, those assets remain in the UK and are taxable etc.
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I would imagine that pensioners selling a 3 bed in London and moving to Spain dominate the numbers
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I should have read your post before posting mine
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I read that it doesn’t matter if millionaires as individuals leave because most of their assets are fixed in the UK and therefore subject to UK laws and taxes. Eg property, businesses etc. This wealth isn’t in the form of cash in bank accounts that can be taken elsewhere.
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I remember that page…
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We should be paying them double that and banning them from taking extra work. There should also be a set of eligibility criteria based on actual useful skills rather than just the beauty contest election. We elect people that sound confident rather than people that are competent.
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What do you think about Labour meeting their target of 2M extra NHS appointments in first year - hitting it 7 months early?
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bsky.app/profile/seba...
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Problem is the successes (mostly progressive) don’t get reported. I’d recommend following bsky.app/profile/seba... who lists them each week.
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Austerity would be if the services themselves were cut.
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The benefits of UBI are undoubted. The practical challenge is managing inflation through the transition. Govt job guarantee is one way of doing that.
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Not really - It’s here alright but the percentage of jobs it’s making redundant won’t be substantial for quite a while
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But we’re a long way from a large proportion of productive output being automated
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Yes in the long term UBI will play a big role but its amount needs to map onto the productive capacity of the economy. As more stuff is made by robots and AI, UBI goes up…in sync
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Inflation would be huge. A better scheme is a govt job guarantee supported by a smaller UBI
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What information would we, as the public, need in order to have an informed opinion rather than an emotional reaction? I’d genuinely like to see some facts.
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If you have a 2 bed flat in Clapham bought in the 90’s, you count as one of those millionaires. Tax avoidance and Brexit are better places to go for a contribution
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Of course he knows that. There’s a big difference between what is known and public presentation. It’s a tightrope. Even if the plan was to fully and quickly disentangle he shouldn’t declare that.
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Makes total sense if your goal is the heal the rift rather than performatively virtue signal
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Different world now. There won’t be any foreign aid at all if we’re at war.
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Be interesting to know the date for this eg 2023…if so that would explain Israel