I agree, but visit the United States and you will suddenly start to be very grateful.
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I agree, but visit the United States and you will suddenly start to be very grateful.
The problem with this policy is that there is no one who is actually suffering because of refugees, so no amount of tormenting refugees will improve anyone's life. This policy will have no effect because the refugee is a mythical enemy that can never be defeated.
Surely Labour knows this. They are not stupid. Why are they adopting these nonsense policies?
Vance may turn out to be (relatively) normal if he is freed from his bondage.
This is desperate wishful thinking.
I find it very sad that kids need a bike bus to bike to school.
Voting for Brexit, stopping the small boats – none of it will ever appease those who wage war on immigration | Nesrine Malik
As we all know poorer families won't benefit until all the small boats are stopped. At least, that is what I keep hearing.
Not impossible that in that universe all dogs (except Scrappy) are named Scooby.
Once the small boats are stopped this problem will be solved.
One thing Nineteen eighty four got so right was the effectiveness of the five minute hate. Orwell did not realise, however, that a 24 hour hate was even better.
Tour de force review on “Economics of Attention” by Loewenstein just published in J Econ Lit @aeajournals.bsky.social #behavioraleconomics
Perhaps these questions don't really mean much. There is also the Bible which at least starts out as science fiction before getting really crazy.
What earlier science fiction novels are there?
I read the wikipedia summary and it sounds kind of cool, with a plot very similar to Get Out.
This seems like a great idea, but I am not aware of democracy lessons currently being taught to students before they vote at 18. Why have we not previously been preparing people for their voting responsibility?
If you don't believe him here is the evidence.
Watched a Charles Bronson movie, one of the real stinkers, and ate too much cheese before going to bed.
I like Woody Allen, but surely he must realise this was not a great idea.
You have probably never held down a job that allows you to be treated like this. I have. It is awful. Those guys are not authority. They are some of the lowest people on the class hierarchy and because they are security guards often treated with contempt (in this way).
Those poor security guards.
This would be a good MBA teaching case.
My hypothesis: The cake shop owner would be better off if customers didn't cheat her, but it would be too expensive to stop them from doing so and she is better off using Just Eat than not offering that service.
This is an interesting problem. The cake shop owner says she is "out of pocket" but she has in fact earned less than she might have if all her orders had been legitimate. Also, she wants Just Eat to check complaints, but that would be costly and Just Eat will not want to bear that cost alone.
I did not see in this report that they asked GPT to consider retractions.
Yes but probably not by councils. I think if pro-immigrant and pro-Palestinian and pro-environment groups started to fly the English flag this would work. But who is going to be the first? And what would be the benefit?
The English flag is now widely used to express racist views, and this genie cannot easily be put back into the bottle.
Or the police and local council would look like they are supporting racism and insularity.
“If I said I was wearing a Palestine Action T-shirt would you get here quicker?” From the new Private Eye, in shops now.
Counts double.
Although self-driving cars are a crazy solution to problems that should be solved by trains, buses, bicycles and better housing, it is inevitable that they will be better than human driven cars.
This is a heartbreaking story but a good reminder that we should never have heroes.
See Toronto. They are replacing their ferries with electric ones, but the bike lanes ...
"On the other hand, many people, notably slave owners, benefited from the institution of slavery and welcomed it ..."
Tomorrow we will find that the worst of all worlds is even worse than the one we are imagining is the worst today. This has been happening for months now.
The evidence is clear - 20mph zones save lives. In London, they’ve cut deaths and serious injuries by 34% and child fatalities by 75%. That's why we need to see more 20mph areas. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Rail fares could be subsidized (and should be) by road tolls. Its an amazing absurdity that roads are free to use everywhere.
Good news. I just visited Toronto and cycling downtown is an absolute nightmare for a non-native. I wish you the best in changing that. Step one, I believe, is congestion charging.
Yvette Cooper scrambling to come up with a rationale for the proscription, but she needs more time.
What a marvellous thread.
Interesting article by the way. The explanation for why American health care is so expensive is interesting.
I guess manufacturing jobs are not the only kinds of jobs. Do you know the net effect of trade on jobs?
I sort of understand why The Guardian keeps Simon Jenkins on for "balance." But he is a clown nonetheless and I really wonder if there is not someone serious out there who could take an alternative perspective and make it credible.
Its probably quite costly to stock repair parts. So much of the cost will be handling the parts, and if demand is low then it might be as costly to supply a new screen as a new phone.
Surely Don Corleone had more integrity (even the Al Pacino version).
That idea is now a few years old and based on the Model T of LLMs. You can now get chatgpt to do both the original report, and the critique. And then if you want a critique of that too it is waiting to help. No human can beat chatgpt at its own game.
Do you have a link for this article?
Absolutely there should be a car cull, but I am not in favour of killing the drivers. Give them a free bicycle.
Its obvious that Trump simply repeats whatever the people he is with at the time are saying. Today there is this and his comment on Russia/Ukraine. Once he gets stateside and Vance et al get their hooks in him he will change his tune.
Wikipedia is the best encyclopedia that has ever existed and a very reliable source. There is no way you could use it and not realise that.
Capitalism is normal, cooperation is normal. There is no way Wikipedia would exist without both.
My experience with Wikipedia has not always been great. Its hard to edit, and if you add a significant amount of content someone deletes it. I still support it (financially) and use it, but I wonder if in the end it is not as democratic as it could be.
“Wikipedia is this economic anomaly. In many ways, it’s sort of magical that people will just volunteer without explicit economic incentives to create artifacts that are meant to share knowledge with everyone in the world”
How does The Telegraph expect people to respond to this?
This is so brave, and they have set a precedent too.
Sports journalism never fails to delight.
The business secretary is aware that other people don't understand asset markets.
Almost too late to be told this. And even if they had stolen aid, it would not have justified refusing to allow others to supply it.
Explanation: If they could get the food, security etc for free they would not insist on paying for it.
It says it is the source, but that is not the same as it being the source. It is not a link to the daily mail.
But (following on) this claim is just some nonsense past up job and is not from the Daily Mail anyway.
The Daily Mail is biased, in that its front page is usually some right wing tosh, but its news reporting is generally not distorted. It is absolutely nothing like The Enquirer. Maybe like the New York Daily Post, although I do not know that paper at all.
Pacino ... where have I heard that name before?
NEW: Tomorrow’s front page of Scottish newspaper, The National.
Hotel cleaners are super overworked and maybe don't need extra decision points.
"We cannot claim to care about democracy only when it costs nothing."
Although the courts may not use it as an admission of guilt, an individual is surely free to make logical inferences.
I am longing to disagree with you, but ...
One of those "ends of an era" that is really the end of an era.
Asked ChatGPT to evaluate this. Quite interesting. Part of the evaluation is here.
An unbearably sad statement from the Editorial Committee (SDJ) of the AFP news agency, please read: "Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die. AFP has been working with 1 writer, 3 photographers and 6 videographers, all freelance, in the Gaza Strip… /1
A vegan world would mean a huge decrease in deforestation, land use, water use, reduction in species loss, ocean dead zones and it would see an end to the brutal slaughter of 80 BILLION land animals each and every year, TRILLIONS when you include sea creatures. www.independent.co.uk/life-style/h...
The Feuillade box set is very nice.
It is on YouTube.
Even though I got into Feuillade because of Fantomas, this is my favourite of his serials. There is a Judex 2 but I believe it was lost -- perhaps you can tell us?
This is very difficult to read.
An article about planning fallacy and hindsight bias, but without using the terms.
I have made this many times and it is great.
Argento's last gasp. But it is quite a bit of fun.
Will soon end up up jailing hundreds of harmless pensioners as terrorists.
You'll never be sure until it's too late.
‘My parents got me out of Soviet Russia at the right time. Should my family now leave the US?’
Lucy Bronze on how she decided to blast her penalty down the middle (and score). “Statistically it’s risky for the goal keeper to stand still… so yeah, I love maths”.
That's what I thought.
I feel that many who have replied to this could reasonably have their right to the vote removed. But nonetheless I would defend (maybe not to the death) their right to retain it.
But others do? Do you, for instance? I would not say that my wishes are more important than a 16 year olds. Less so, since I have less time left.
Could you tell us about one of those studies?
Everything affects them personally.
Philip K. Dick wrote that book a long time ago.
A truly diabolical idea.
If this actually happens I would almost forgive the Labour party for everything.
Relax. We will once they are extinct.
By increasing the price of houses, more houses will be built. I guess. Might be other ways to do that but that is the one they chose.
I have watched most episodes of Columbo, many more than once, and most episodes of Poker Face. Fortunately I missed all the cases of "theft."
This discussion made me feel like sharing this brief review.
I love this "goof" on IMDB for Mon Oncle. Hard to believe anyone would have written it, but why they went ahead after they had that little insight at the end is anyone's guess.
Feel like the all seeing eye of god would have done that already.
I agree, but why is this purchase incentive not also an incentive to do those other things? Is it mental accounting?
