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https://x.com/keir_starmer/status/1859869653159510171

As Director of Public Prosecutions, I saw the terrible effect of anti-social behaviour first hand - and fought for justice for victims.

As Prime Minister, I am delivering on my promise to tackle it with new Respect Orders, so people face the consequences of their actions.

Considering how badly the police are handling non-crime hate incidents, how the police are captured by the trans lobby, I suspect this is going to go horribly wrong. Not sure faith in the British police has ever been lower.

"captured by the trans lobby...?"

Typo for trains. They are all obsessed with Deltics and argue online about the best liveries for 1990's sectorialisation. Personally liked the railfreight livery...

Bud light ad just dropped

Mocking woke stuff after that terrible ad with that cross dressing bloke in a Bath

https://x.com/ianonpatriot/status/1859590446218899896?s=61

That’s actually quite funny

It's a good ad. So was the one that caused the fuss. You have to try different things or everything gets stale.

Like this, you mean?

https://youtu.be/h5kCRSQsOqE

Lol, yes. Very few ads I don't like. Trying to think of one. Oh god yes - the one with that woman behaving like a total madam and ending with "what would you do for love?" That makes me go and put the kettle on.

Well quite. She's very pretty but no thanks. (Not that I'd ever get the chance!)

Sigh...

ICLR submission (not mine) flagged for Ethics Review based on the use of the term "black box." Reminiscent of the drama involving the term "Byzantine," though there is relevant guidance from ACM this time.

https://x.com/thegautamkamath/status/1859787202173206840

Due to this,

https://www.acm.org/diversity-inclusion/words-matter

There are some crackers, but LOL...quantum supremacy....that's a no no too....The term has long been associated with crimes against humanity and genocide.

This is a satire, right?

Nope. Last year, the use of Byzantine caused a massive stir after a paper addressing the long standing Byzantine Generals Problem was deemed by a reviewer to be so horrifically offensive they wouldn't even read the paper after seeing the title. So they put together a guide of no no words.

An entire Indignation Industry has sprung up. It seems quite a fun thing to be part of. How do you get insde the loop?

Just before 2008 crash I was reading a paper by a lady who was trading CDO^2. She'd just traded an experimental CDO^3 and argued in the paper that higher orders were next. Very gifted. IIRC, she had 2 PhDs

Anyway, it occurs to me that the Indignation Industry is up and running. As is the Indignation About The Indignation Industry Industry (anti-woke) etc.

So the where we could get in on the ground floor is the Indignation About The Indignation About The Indignation Industry Industry Industry.

Indignation^3

Websites, advertising, media appearances. All there for the taking. Whose in?

Slightly ahead of you - I'm already animated by animus of animus to woke.

Let's structure it and issue a bond.

Nah - spilt the market.

You go for the odd numbered powers, I'll go even.

Deal?

https://x.com/keir_starmer/status/1859869653159510171

As Director of Public Prosecutions, I saw the terrible effect of anti-social behaviour first hand - and fought for justice for victims.

As Prime Minister, I am delivering on my promise to tackle it with new Respect Orders, so people face the consequences of their actions.

Considering how badly the police are handling non-crime hate incidents, how the police are captured by the trans lobby, I suspect this is going to go horribly wrong. Not sure faith in the British police has ever been lower.

"captured by the trans lobby...?"

Typo for trains. They are all obsessed with Deltics and argue online about the best liveries for 1990's sectorialisation. Personally liked the railfreight livery...

Well, who wouldn't be obsessed with Deltics? https://youtu.be/Avy6KKRFhl4?si=EanZKDoprJD2Wcgl

Bud light ad just dropped

Mocking woke stuff after that terrible ad with that cross dressing bloke in a Bath

https://x.com/ianonpatriot/status/1859590446218899896?s=61

That’s actually quite funny

It's a good ad. So was the one that caused the fuss. You have to try different things or everything gets stale.

Like this, you mean?

https://youtu.be/h5kCRSQsOqE

Lol, yes. Very few ads I don't like. Trying to think of one. Oh god yes - the one with that woman behaving like a total madam and ending with "what would you do for love?" That makes me go and put the kettle on.

Natalie Portman.

The Daisy, Daisy, Daisy advert makes me want to throw something at the TV plus the Pure Cremation and Funeral Plan ads.

All perfume adverts are inane.
I have some sympathy. How does one advertise perfume? You can't see how something smells. Most products, the visual sense helps; with perfume, it doesn't.

But surely no-one can be encouraged to think better of the brand by the inanity produced in the name of selling this stuff?

There is a perfume advert for a product called 'Sauvage'. I cannot see it without wanting to graffiti the 'v' into an 's'.

Sigh...

ICLR submission (not mine) flagged for Ethics Review based on the use of the term "black box." Reminiscent of the drama involving the term "Byzantine," though there is relevant guidance from ACM this time.

https://x.com/thegautamkamath/status/1859787202173206840

Due to this,

https://www.acm.org/diversity-inclusion/words-matter

There are some crackers, but LOL...quantum supremacy....that's a no no too....The term has long been associated with crimes against humanity and genocide.

This is a satire, right?

Nope. Last year, the use of Byzantine caused a massive stir after a paper addressing the long standing Byzantine Generals Problem was deemed by a reviewer to be so horrifically offensive they wouldn't even read the paper after seeing the title. So they put together a guide of no no words.

An entire Indignation Industry has sprung up. It seems quite a fun thing to be part of. How do you get insde the loop?

Just before 2008 crash I was reading a paper by a lady who was trading CDO^2. She'd just traded an experimental CDO^3 and argued in the paper that higher orders were next. Very gifted. IIRC, she had 2 PhDs

Anyway, it occurs to me that the Indignation Industry is up and running. As is the Indignation About The Indignation Industry Industry (anti-woke) etc.

So the where we could get in on the ground floor is the Indignation About The Indignation About The Indignation Industry Industry Industry.

Indignation^3

Websites, advertising, media appearances. All there for the taking. Whose in?

Slightly ahead of you - I'm already animated by animus of animus to woke.

Let's structure it and issue a bond.

Anyway, good morning everyone. No snow in South Manchester but weirdly icy in a way I've only ever seen once before: the temperature must have dropped quite suddenly after yesterday evening's heavy sleet, leaving all the pavements and many of the roads covered by a solid and unbroken film of ice. It would have been hard to make them icier had it been done deliberately. Not particularly conducive to getting anywhere but quite pretty, with everywhere looking very shiny.

This happened in Oxford a few years ago right in the middle of the evening rush hour. Was absolute chaos.

The police had to close the A34 eventually & clear all the vehicles off it.

Freezing rain is much more common in continental climates than the UK, but it does occur. Usually with entrenched cold air underneath and a warm front moving in. We had a notorious one in the 90's in Wiltshire - predicted as heavy snow but the air moving in was too warm so it was freezing rain. Formed about a cm of solid ice on all surfaces. I ended up crawling to my house up the slope.

Even during the beast from the east we saw a period of freezing rain during the 18 hour snow storm. It led to a laying of crunchy ice about 2 inches down in the snow (as there was 6 inches of snow under it and 2 on top). A warm sector had moved over for a while during the night.

When we lived in Germany in the 1970s you would often see snow banks that had been cut open by a snow plough. It was like geology in that you could see the depth of snow that had fallen on each occasion and the layer of grit, dirt or grime that accumulated before the next fall of snow. And yes, you often got layers of frozen rain as well which were quite dangerous if you slid into the bank because they were like concrete and could do horrible things to your paintwork.

I've not seen snow like that in this country since the early 1990s.

2010 was the heaviest snow I can remember, more than anything in the 80s and 90s though I did live on top of a small hill at the time whilst I didn't in the 90s.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_of_2010–11_in_the_British_Isles

Maximum snowfall accumulation 1.5 m (5 ft) at Sheffield, United Kingdom

Sigh...

ICLR submission (not mine) flagged for Ethics Review based on the use of the term "black box." Reminiscent of the drama involving the term "Byzantine," though there is relevant guidance from ACM this time.

https://x.com/thegautamkamath/status/1859787202173206840

Due to this,

https://www.acm.org/diversity-inclusion/words-matter

There are some crackers, but LOL...quantum supremacy....that's a no no too....The term has long been associated with crimes against humanity and genocide.

This is a satire, right?

Nope. Last year, the use of Byzantine caused a massive stir after a paper addressing the long standing Byzantine Generals Problem was deemed by a reviewer to be so horrifically offensive they wouldn't even read the paper after seeing the title. So they put together a guide of no no words.

An entire Indignation Industry has sprung up. It seems quite a fun thing to be part of. How do you get insde the loop?

The key thing is to be indignant on behalf of another (unknown to you) person, and therefore get the credit for being sensitive to the feelings of others without being sensitive yourself.