If Keir wins middle England but loses assorted antisemitic nutters and extremists, then that's good for Labour - and good for England that the PM isn't in hoc to assorted antisemitic nutters and extremists.
Credit where credit is due, Keir has improved things immeasurably from Corbyn's day.
so looks like Gloucester, Epping Forest and Dorset have gone home for the night? Elmbridge's finished with Lib Dems 2 short of a majority. Stroud, Salford, Warrington and North Tyneside still not started.
If Keir wins middle England but loses assorted antisemitic nutters and extremists, then that's good for Labour - and good for England that the PM isn't in hoc to assorted antisemitic nutters and extremists.
Credit where credit is due, Keir has improved things immeasurably from Corbyn's day.
Still it must be immensely comforting for Gazans to know that if they're having problems with their bin collection there are some Oldham councillors who can help them out.
According to Beeb running totals, Tories down 432 seats with 8 councils left to declare. Not sure they'll pass 500!
It's 461 saved vs. 432 lost, so about 100 to go. It will matter for the narrative, but not really for the reality.
Looking at the councils left with the number of Tory defences: Stroud 20 Dorset 14 remaining North Tyneside 7 Salford 3 Warrington 11 Epping Forest about 17 Elmbridge 3 Gloucester 19
So I think the Conservatives would have to do really badly from now on to end with 50% losses or 500 losses.
450 ain’t good though.
500 was only picked because it’s a round symbolic number.
8 councils currently lost to leave just 5. And if StodgeForcast is right, it’s going to be worse by the end.
And the commentators right, hidden beneath Labours low PNS and only 170 net gains, Labour’s most eye catching results correlate to General Election seats.
Also, the attritional flip around from start of parliament continued just about everywhere. It doesn’t seem long ago HY chose to use Swindon as an example of Labour labouring to take the council, keeping the Tory MPs with less to worry about. Look at it now.
Very quietly behind the headlines, this set of locals have laid the foundation for Labour and LibDems to have a lot of fun on General Election night.
According to Beeb running totals, Tories down 432 seats with 8 councils left to declare. Not sure they'll pass 500!
It's 461 saved vs. 432 lost, so about 100 to go. It will matter for the narrative, but not really for the reality.
Looking at the councils left with the number of Tory defences: Stroud 20 Dorset 14 remaining North Tyneside 7 Salford 3 Warrington 11 Epping Forest about 17 Elmbridge 3 Gloucester 19
So I think the Conservatives would have to do really badly from now on to end with 50% losses or 500 losses.
According to Beeb running totals, Tories down 432 seats with 8 councils left to declare. Not sure they'll pass 500!
It's 461 saved vs. 432 lost, so about 100 to go. It will matter for the narrative, but not really for the reality.
Looking at the councils left with the number of Tory defences: Stroud 20 Dorset 14 remaining North Tyneside 7 Salford 3 Warrington 11 Epping Forest about 17 Elmbridge 3 Gloucester 19
So I think the Conservatives would have to do really badly from now on to end with 50% losses or 500 losses.
Agreed, still pretty awful though.
Anyway, enough fun for one day. Until tomorrow.
Bad, obviously, but no worse than generally expected.
Sleep well.
It looks like BritainElects' model will be very close for Tory losses but didn't account for how many directions their lunch would be split when it was eaten.
Watching the PO enquiry today…the lawyer clearly made horrific mistakes but could not admit it. Even now.
I dealt with two disciplinary matters within a few months at my firm a few years ago. Both involved real estate lawyers making a mistake. The first guy missed a deadline. He failed to get the client the benefit of a provision in the Landlord & Tenant Act 1954 that protects commercial leaseholders. Lost the client a couple of mill. He sat on it for days before ashen faced he went to see his head of department and burst into tears as he admitted what had happened.
The second lawyer got a report on title wrong, she said the shop could be underlet, when it couldn’t. When asked by the client a year or so later, when they were thinking of underletting, she changed the report on title to cover up her mistake. When she was caught she blamed “two versions being on the document management system” when the metadata clearly showed otherwise.
The first guy is now the managing partner at a decent Home Counties firm, nice house, couple of kids, goes windsurfing on a Wednesdays, all he ever wanted really. The insurance having taken the hit, he will never make a mistake like that again.
The second lawyer has been struck off the roll having agreed to pay the SRA’s six figure costs of investigating her. I believe she’s lost her house.
It’s always the cover up. Sometimes “I fucked up” is the most powerful phrase in English.
There are some odd crumbs of comfort for the Tories. Labour probably had hopes of winning the Cambridgeshire PCC but the Tories have been saved by the new voting system - despite there being Local Elections in Cambridge and Peterborough. The final result was - Con 62588 Lab 58804 LD 41984 A bit surpeisingly the Tories narrowly outpolled Labour in Peterborough. Labour was probably hampered by too many Labour-inclined voters having been in the habit of voting LD tactically at Local Elections in the more rural areas who then failed to appreciate the different dynamics of the PCC election. Under the former system Labour would surely have won. The result from South Cambridgeshire was interesting - Con 11262 LD 11091 Lab 9141 That tends to support the message that the new seat could well be a three - way contest - particularly as the areas moved into the seat from Cambridge itself would not appear in those figures
Do you know what, for once I think you're probably right. I think he'll come home with a result that we'd call "fine" in any other year.
But I'm not going to roast any other posters who think otherwise on the basis that no one knows what's going on and the people confidently predicting this or that have a 50% chance of looking stupid tomorrow.
“for once”????
Tut
Okay. I'll give you the Liz Truss rope-ring.
Right: Covid Lab leak Lorry bomb AI Ukraine not winning; now losing UAPs a serious matter China overtakes America on GDP by PPP And others
Wrong: Liz Truss upsiding What3Words And others
Incidentally on AI if you’re hoping to retrain as a plumber, don’t get too excited. Turns out LLMs are brilliant at training robots to work via simulation
Here the LLM near-instantly trained a robot dog to balance on a yoga ball. Incroyable
You have UAPs on the wrong list. It’s fading away like the afterglow of a firework. There was never anything going on.
I never said there was any “there” there. I said something truly weird was happening in the American establishment. And it was. Mass contagious delusion stemming from a few credulous individuals was my best guess - and I think that was probably right
Possibly mixed in with the pentagon seeking money and/or obscuring real tech advances
Your pants are on fire. I bet plenty on here can remember what you repeatedly posted. Just because you were (I assume) blind drunk at the time, doesn't mean everyone else was.
I don’t expect anyone else to be interested but if LLMs can speedily train robots to do ANYTHING via simulation then that is epochal. All the stuff we thought was hard-to-impossible, for robots, becomes trivially easy
So yes they will be able to stack @Benpointer’s dishwasher. But also: nursing care, driving (!), waitering, massage, plumbing, cleaning, all the boring chores and all the difficult manual tasks
It is getting very hard to see what jobs, if any, will survive this. Cognitive AND physical jobs will go
There was quite an interesting discussing on the BBC News channel last night - Christian Fraser had a couple of guests who made some good and interesting points. One was some hippy-looking chap that gave a really good description of some of the issues.
However, what they didn't say. The big thing is that AI doesn't think - it just doesn't. And it's really important to understand that in the context of AI fears. A runaway people-killing robot will (currently) have been launched on us by a person. There's not even the slightest hint that that will change. Currently it's a bit like taking a random firework of unknownb origin and lighting the blue touchpaper - you have no idea what it's going to do.
Anthropic (and others) are getting a pretty good insight into how 'the black box works' now. Coupled with probes into how diffusion models work and 'perceive' the image the are creating - I suspect we're not far being able to instrument these things, if we want.
And there are very strong signals already that the bigger models are creating their own 'world view' irrespective of how we train them. The paper a few months ago where, when they probed into the models 'black box', it had a 2D representation of an Othello board which it had never been trained on was quite intriguing for one. There do now seem to be strong signals that the larger LLM's have a sense of space, dimensions, time.
Yes. There are some really interesting/spooky signs that they might possess something that looks close to “sentience” - and as the tech develops that resemblance will intensify
We may never “know” - because we don’t even know what consciousness is and we can’t define it, even in ourselves
Hence, the Turing Test. Once they start to act think talk and move exactly as if they are sentient, we will have to accept them as such
I’ve interacted enough with Claude 3 Opus such that, if Anthropic said that they were deleting him, I’d be mildly troubled, morally
Was planning a comment on PCCs, which seems to have evaporated.
At present it looks like an equal split Tory/Lab with 23 results in. Before it was 30 Tory:6 or 7 Lab, so good progress for Labour but not dominant.
In the D2N2 zone the incumbent Personal Crime Commissioner for Notts has been heavily defeated (my Conservative Friends were commenting "WTF?") when she stood. The Cons have kept Derbyshire PCC.
Watching the PO enquiry today…the lawyer clearly made horrific mistakes but could not admit it. Even now.
I dealt with two disciplinary matters within a few months at my firm a few years ago. Both involved real estate lawyers making a mistake. The first guy missed a deadline. He failed to get the client the benefit of a provision in the Landlord & Tenant Act 1954 that protects commercial leaseholders. Lost the client a couple of mill. He sat on it for days before ashen faced he went to see his head of department and burst into tears as he admitted what had happened.
The second lawyer got a report on title wrong, she said the shop could be underlet, when it couldn’t. When asked by the client a year or so later, when they were thinking of underletting, she changed the report on title to cover up her mistake. When she was caught she blamed “two versions being on the document management system” when the metadata clearly showed otherwise.
The first guy is now the managing partner at a decent Home Counties firm, nice house, couple of kids, goes windsurfing on a Wednesdays, all he ever wanted really. The insurance having taken the hit, he will never make a mistake like that again.
The second lawyer has been struck off the roll having agreed to pay the SRA’s six figure costs of investigating her. I believe she’s lost her house.
It’s always the cover up. Sometimes “I fucked up” is the most powerful phrase in English.
Although these idiots at the PO seem to think claiming stupidity will prevent them being prosecuted. The last few weeks have been a cavalcade of the shiftiest, most forgetful, least curious, shits that you’d never want to meet.
Woking is now a Tory free zone. I lived there for many years from the age of 9 and it was always solid Tory. The idea that there is not a single one left is bewildering.
Do you know what, for once I think you're probably right. I think he'll come home with a result that we'd call "fine" in any other year.
But I'm not going to roast any other posters who think otherwise on the basis that no one knows what's going on and the people confidently predicting this or that have a 50% chance of looking stupid tomorrow.
“for once”????
Tut
Okay. I'll give you the Liz Truss rope-ring.
Right: Covid Lab leak Lorry bomb AI Ukraine not winning; now losing UAPs a serious matter China overtakes America on GDP by PPP And others
Wrong: Liz Truss upsiding What3Words And others
Incidentally on AI if you’re hoping to retrain as a plumber, don’t get too excited. Turns out LLMs are brilliant at training robots to work via simulation
Here the LLM near-instantly trained a robot dog to balance on a yoga ball. Incroyable
You have UAPs on the wrong list. It’s fading away like the afterglow of a firework. There was never anything going on.
I never said there was any “there” there. I said something truly weird was happening in the American establishment. And it was. Mass contagious delusion stemming from a few credulous individuals was my best guess - and I think that was probably right
Possibly mixed in with the pentagon seeking money and/or obscuring real tech advances
Your pants are on fire. I bet plenty on here can remember what you repeatedly posted. Just because you were (I assume) blind drunk at the time, doesn't mean everyone else was.
No, I completely agree with what @SeanT said here, in his Spectator piece
“To my mind, there are five main possible explanations, in descending order of probability.
1. The US establishment – Pentagon to press – is engaged in a complex cross-party conspiracy of psyops to unnerve and mystify America’s adversaries, especially the Chinese. Perhaps they want to convince them America possesses advanced alien technology, and America has been reverse engineering it for decades.
2. The US establishment has some incredible new military tech – something truly astonishing, like anti-gravity aircraft – and they’ve had it for ages, and they want to hide it from everyone: Americans as much as the Chinese.
3. The US establishment has gone collectively mad, or is suffering some mass hallucination, stemming from a few credulous individuals (a process known in psychology as ‘contagion’).
4. The US military/elite sincerely believes we are being visited by non human intelligence – but they’re wrong.
5. The US military/elite sincerely believes we are being visited by non human intelligence – and they are right. “
Woking is now a Tory free zone. I lived there for many years from the age of 9 and it was always solid Tory. The idea that there is not a single one left is bewildering.
Woking by name...
I always thought Woking was a diminutive of Wokingham, but apparently they are 2 different places!
Do you know what, for once I think you're probably right. I think he'll come home with a result that we'd call "fine" in any other year.
But I'm not going to roast any other posters who think otherwise on the basis that no one knows what's going on and the people confidently predicting this or that have a 50% chance of looking stupid tomorrow.
“for once”????
Tut
Okay. I'll give you the Liz Truss rope-ring.
Right: Covid Lab leak Lorry bomb AI Ukraine not winning; now losing UAPs a serious matter China overtakes America on GDP by PPP And others
Wrong: Liz Truss upsiding What3Words And others
Incidentally on AI if you’re hoping to retrain as a plumber, don’t get too excited. Turns out LLMs are brilliant at training robots to work via simulation
Here the LLM near-instantly trained a robot dog to balance on a yoga ball. Incroyable
You have UAPs on the wrong list. It’s fading away like the afterglow of a firework. There was never anything going on.
I never said there was any “there” there. I said something truly weird was happening in the American establishment. And it was. Mass contagious delusion stemming from a few credulous individuals was my best guess - and I think that was probably right
Possibly mixed in with the pentagon seeking money and/or obscuring real tech advances
Your pants are on fire. I bet plenty on here can remember what you repeatedly posted. Just because you were (I assume) blind drunk at the time, doesn't mean everyone else was.
No, I completely agree with what @SeanT said here, in his Spectator piece
“To my mind, there are five main possible explanations, in descending order of probability.
1. The US establishment – Pentagon to press – is engaged in a complex cross-party conspiracy of psyops to unnerve and mystify America’s adversaries, especially the Chinese. Perhaps they want to convince them America possesses advanced alien technology, and America has been reverse engineering it for decades.
2. The US establishment has some incredible new military tech – something truly astonishing, like anti-gravity aircraft – and they’ve had it for ages, and they want to hide it from everyone: Americans as much as the Chinese.
3. The US establishment has gone collectively mad, or is suffering some mass hallucination, stemming from a few credulous individuals (a process known in psychology as ‘contagion’).
4. The US military/elite sincerely believes we are being visited by non human intelligence – but they’re wrong.
5. The US military/elite sincerely believes we are being visited by non human intelligence – and they are right. “
The only one that gets close is three, and as I said above, there was no mass delusion, only a few idiot senators who already believed. Where is the evidence for mass delusion? A few stories in the press ain’t it.
Catching up I see than 28 Jobs Bradley got a bit of a spanking in the D2N2 Mayor position (so to speak).
Lab 180k votes. Con 130k votes. Grn 50k+ votes.
I wonder where they voted for the Green. Last time I looked there was only one Green Councillor in Notts/Derbys County Seats. So perhaps cyclists in Nottingham.
To add the rest:
Reform's 49,201 votes. Independent Matt Relf received 23,359 votes. Liberal Democrat received 15,970.
Not sure who the Indy is, but he loves about 1.5 miles from me; I think I would put a "Bungalow Party" hat on him. The Ashfield Lab candidate is even closer to me.
Update. The Indy candidate is a Ashfield Independent Councillor running using a different party title, presumably to avoid Zadrozny's problems coming up and to appeal beyod Ashfield. That will be a local vote, then.
It's also interesting how far the Greens may split the Centre-Left vote.
You're not sure who the Indy is but you know all about his sex life?
Heh. I've updated that. He was one of only 2 from 6 D2N2 Mayoral Candidates who put their home address on the election papers.
Some on the Estate where he lived notoriously (imo) campaigned *against* safer travel for people not in motor vehicles because the Ashfield Independents wanted a wedge issue with which to attack the Conservatives at County; that's @NickPalmer Ashfield politics for you . They have left disabled and elderly people wheeling and scootering up a smashed up 1.1-1.3m wide pavement for a considerable distance, or being forced onto the carriageway.
The stuff about "green space" is from a party quite happy to demolish trees elsewhere for marginal improvements to parking, and who are trying to building Council Housing on several recreation grounds across the area.
But AIs are ex-Lib Dems and therefore prioritise populism wrt very local residents. That's not really an anti-LD comment, just a recognition how they operate.
I think Mr Bungalow may be an old character from Radio Active, alongside Mr Suburb.
There are very good reasons why my active travel activism is very focused, and mainly around things I can probably enforce at law if necessary .
Do you know what, for once I think you're probably right. I think he'll come home with a result that we'd call "fine" in any other year.
But I'm not going to roast any other posters who think otherwise on the basis that no one knows what's going on and the people confidently predicting this or that have a 50% chance of looking stupid tomorrow.
“for once”????
Tut
Okay. I'll give you the Liz Truss rope-ring.
Right: Covid Lab leak Lorry bomb AI Ukraine not winning; now losing UAPs a serious matter China overtakes America on GDP by PPP And others
Wrong: Liz Truss upsiding What3Words And others
Incidentally on AI if you’re hoping to retrain as a plumber, don’t get too excited. Turns out LLMs are brilliant at training robots to work via simulation
Here the LLM near-instantly trained a robot dog to balance on a yoga ball. Incroyable
You have UAPs on the wrong list. It’s fading away like the afterglow of a firework. There was never anything going on.
I never said there was any “there” there. I said something truly weird was happening in the American establishment. And it was. Mass contagious delusion stemming from a few credulous individuals was my best guess - and I think that was probably right
Possibly mixed in with the pentagon seeking money and/or obscuring real tech advances
Your pants are on fire. I bet plenty on here can remember what you repeatedly posted. Just because you were (I assume) blind drunk at the time, doesn't mean everyone else was.
No, I completely agree with what @SeanT said here, in his Spectator piece
“To my mind, there are five main possible explanations, in descending order of probability.
1. The US establishment – Pentagon to press – is engaged in a complex cross-party conspiracy of psyops to unnerve and mystify America’s adversaries, especially the Chinese. Perhaps they want to convince them America possesses advanced alien technology, and America has been reverse engineering it for decades.
2. The US establishment has some incredible new military tech – something truly astonishing, like anti-gravity aircraft – and they’ve had it for ages, and they want to hide it from everyone: Americans as much as the Chinese.
3. The US establishment has gone collectively mad, or is suffering some mass hallucination, stemming from a few credulous individuals (a process known in psychology as ‘contagion’).
4. The US military/elite sincerely believes we are being visited by non human intelligence – but they’re wrong.
5. The US military/elite sincerely believes we are being visited by non human intelligence – and they are right. “
The only one that gets close is three, and as I said above, there was no mass delusion, only a few idiot senators who already believed. Where is the evidence for mass delusion? A few stories in the press ain’t it.
He's got a clip of Obama making a joke on a comedy show. He'll probably link to it again.
These post office lawyers and managers really do overstretch the 'I'm incompetent, not a liar' defence I see.
Former senior Post Office lawyer Jarnail Singh has denied that he knew about bugs in the Horizon system while sub-postmaster prosecutions continued for three years.
However, lead counsel for the Horizon inquiry Jason Beer accused Mr Singh of telling a "big fat lie".
Mr Singh was forwarded an email on the eve of the 2010 trial of Seema Misra, a sub-postmistress who was sent to jail while pregnant.
It identified bugs in the Horizon system that should have been disclosed in Mrs Misra's trial.
Mr Singh denied having read the email, despite being presented with evidence that he saved a copy to his hard drive and printed it off...
When asked whether it was saved on the hard drive of his computer, Mr Singh said: "I don't even know what you're talking about.
"I don't know how these things worked."
"You don't know how to save a document?" Mr Beer asked.
"I didn't know how to do it," Mr Singh responded, saying he wouldn't have had the technical knowledge either to do that or to understand the document itself.
What ever happened to honesty and integrity. And he's a lawyer, for goodness sake.
No one likes admitting they cocked up for reasons other than honest incompetence, but when there's evidence as overwhelming you will have a lot more credibility by having a damascene conversion about how you see actions than stubbornly insisting black is white and you are just an goofball. Especially when they are high powered individuals who probably have spent careers insisting how brilliant they are.
It's more dignified for a start.
He was notorious within the PO long before the scandal became public. He has plainly lied to the Inquiry on numerous occasions. You would consider him laughable, except that he contributed significantly to many serious miscarriages of justice.
It is extraordinary that the PO should have employed such a man in a senior legal role. It speaks volumes about the generally dysfunctional nature of the organisation and its apparent lack of concern for plain, simple honesty or justice.
There is a good case for banging up every single Board member for the 20 year period in question, every single senior executive, and every sod involved in the persecution of the Subpostmasters, right down to the pond life that called themselves Investigators. The legal firms which advised the PO should naturally be included.
It won't happen, but if the Police do start feeling collars, they could do no better than start with Mr Jamail Singh.
Please God - let this happen.
Hearing that 'didn't know how to save a document' response made me burst out laughing. NVQ Word Processing Level 1 appears to have been beyond him, and yet he's a senior lawyer?
So the PO top brass know absolutely nothing?
I am reminded of the early New Labour joke - someone at dinner with a junior MP notices he is wearing an earpiece. Annoyed, he yanks it out. The MP face plants into the soup. Horrified, the chap picks up the earpiece. And hears Alistair Campbell. “Breathe in… Breathe out…”
Woking is now a Tory free zone. I lived there for many years from the age of 9 and it was always solid Tory. The idea that there is not a single one left is bewildering.
Woking by name...
I always thought Woking was a diminutive of Wokingham, but apparently they are 2 different places!
Woking is in Surrey, not too far from London, Wokingham is in Berkshire, close to Reading.
Woking is now a Tory free zone. I lived there for many years from the age of 9 and it was always solid Tory. The idea that there is not a single one left is bewildering.
The Knaphill postmaster Saj Hussain lost by 200 votes. He had a personal vote, but it was not enough to save him.
Given the monumental disaster the Tories made of running the council, it's hardly a surprise they've been wiped out. Question is, can the Lib Dems (or Labour...) win the seat at the General Election? Could be very close.
Woking is now a Tory free zone. I lived there for many years from the age of 9 and it was always solid Tory. The idea that there is not a single one left is bewildering.
Woking by name...
I always thought Woking was a diminutive of Wokingham, but apparently they are 2 different places!
Woking is in Surrey, not too far from London, Wokingham is in Berkshire, close to Reading.
Woking is now a Tory free zone. I lived there for many years from the age of 9 and it was always solid Tory. The idea that there is not a single one left is bewildering.
Woking by name...
I always thought Woking was a diminutive of Wokingham, but apparently they are 2 different places!
Woking is in Surrey, not too far from London, Wokingham is in Berkshire, close to Reading.
I see. Which one is part of Basingstoke?
Basingstoke is rather far from either, in Hampshire. Roughly 50 miles from central London.
Reform polled about 6.5% in the by-election in Bromley . Khan needs Reform to poll minimum 5% across London .
I don't think they'll get more than 3%.
I assume Reform types will see an opportunity to vote out Khan, so swing behind the Tory.
I can't even believe we are discussing a Khan loss, it seems so improbable. However, I haven't lived in that London since Ken was mayor, so no idea of things on the ground.
I notice no-one is starting any 'Andy Burnham has lost Manchester' rumours.
I’m hearing Andy Burnham has lost Manchester. You heard it here first.
A stupid post to put on a betting site. That might have got you banned when Mike was in charge.
Woking is now a Tory free zone. I lived there for many years from the age of 9 and it was always solid Tory. The idea that there is not a single one left is bewildering.
Woking by name...
I always thought Woking was a diminutive of Wokingham, but apparently they are 2 different places!
Woking is in Surrey, not too far from London, Wokingham is in Berkshire, close to Reading.
Woking is now a Tory free zone. I lived there for many years from the age of 9 and it was always solid Tory. The idea that there is not a single one left is bewildering.
Woking by name...
I always thought Woking was a diminutive of Wokingham, but apparently they are 2 different places!
Woking is in Surrey, not too far from London, Wokingham is in Berkshire, close to Reading.
I see. Which one is part of Basingstoke?
Basingstoke is rather far from either, in Hampshire. Roughly 50 miles from central London.
All 'near London' so far as I'm concerned!
I do genuinely confuse Woking and Wokingham, I knew one of them was in Surrey.
A friend of mine accidentally went to meet some people in Gillingham, Kent, when they were actually meeting in Gillingham, Dorset. True story from the days before mobile phones.
Do you know what, for once I think you're probably right. I think he'll come home with a result that we'd call "fine" in any other year.
But I'm not going to roast any other posters who think otherwise on the basis that no one knows what's going on and the people confidently predicting this or that have a 50% chance of looking stupid tomorrow.
“for once”????
Tut
Okay. I'll give you the Liz Truss rope-ring.
Right: Covid Lab leak Lorry bomb AI Ukraine not winning; now losing UAPs a serious matter China overtakes America on GDP by PPP And others
Wrong: Liz Truss upsiding What3Words And others
Incidentally on AI if you’re hoping to retrain as a plumber, don’t get too excited. Turns out LLMs are brilliant at training robots to work via simulation
Here the LLM near-instantly trained a robot dog to balance on a yoga ball. Incroyable
You have UAPs on the wrong list. It’s fading away like the afterglow of a firework. There was never anything going on.
I never said there was any “there” there. I said something truly weird was happening in the American establishment. And it was. Mass contagious delusion stemming from a few credulous individuals was my best guess - and I think that was probably right
Possibly mixed in with the pentagon seeking money and/or obscuring real tech advances
Your pants are on fire. I bet plenty on here can remember what you repeatedly posted. Just because you were (I assume) blind drunk at the time, doesn't mean everyone else was.
No, I completely agree with what @SeanT said here, in his Spectator piece
“To my mind, there are five main possible explanations, in descending order of probability.
1. The US establishment – Pentagon to press – is engaged in a complex cross-party conspiracy of psyops to unnerve and mystify America’s adversaries, especially the Chinese. Perhaps they want to convince them America possesses advanced alien technology, and America has been reverse engineering it for decades.
2. The US establishment has some incredible new military tech – something truly astonishing, like anti-gravity aircraft – and they’ve had it for ages, and they want to hide it from everyone: Americans as much as the Chinese.
3. The US establishment has gone collectively mad, or is suffering some mass hallucination, stemming from a few credulous individuals (a process known in psychology as ‘contagion’).
4. The US military/elite sincerely believes we are being visited by non human intelligence – but they’re wrong.
5. The US military/elite sincerely believes we are being visited by non human intelligence – and they are right. “
The only one that gets close is three, and as I said above, there was no mass delusion, only a few idiot senators who already believed. Where is the evidence for mass delusion? A few stories in the press ain’t it.
He's got a clip of Obama making a joke on a comedy show. He'll probably link to it again.
It’s a large number of senators, and ex intelligence heads, ex CIA chiefs, admirals, generals, NYT journalists, the head of NASA (etc etc etc) plus multiple presidents (including Obama).
Even the present head of US Intel
National Intelligence Director Avril Haines admits possibility of aliens By Mike Brest November 11, 2021 9:53 pm
Another complication , many of these constituencies stretch from inner London to the outer suburbs . It would help if we got turnout for the boroughs .
problem is reform can't campaign, they've flopped in the outer London council by-elections which have been counted today
On topic - landslides are never inevitable until they have happened.
However, if you are looking at these results and seeing anything but a heavy Lab victory with a comfortable overall majority then you are in good company with Prof. Thrasher but you really do not understand the difference between General and local elections. The same mistake was made by Prof. Thrasher and others after the 2023 elections and it is, for me, pretty clear evidence that the notional national vote and the uniform national swing can lead even the smartest folk down a blind alley of massive proportions.
On these results I would be upgrading my estimated Lab overall majority from 50-75 to 75-100. Crunch those numbers in anything but the most superficial way and you will know why.
Of course the odds may be heavily weighted enough to make betting against an overall majority a reasonable bet. Also, though it seems almost inconceivable, I might actually be wrong! However, that's the fun of the game isn't it and we will soon all find out!
Woking is now a Tory free zone. I lived there for many years from the age of 9 and it was always solid Tory. The idea that there is not a single one left is bewildering.
Woking by name...
I always thought Woking was a diminutive of Wokingham, but apparently they are 2 different places!
Wokingham still with some surviving gammons presumably.
Do you know what, for once I think you're probably right. I think he'll come home with a result that we'd call "fine" in any other year.
But I'm not going to roast any other posters who think otherwise on the basis that no one knows what's going on and the people confidently predicting this or that have a 50% chance of looking stupid tomorrow.
“for once”????
Tut
Okay. I'll give you the Liz Truss rope-ring.
Right: Covid Lab leak Lorry bomb AI Ukraine not winning; now losing UAPs a serious matter China overtakes America on GDP by PPP And others
Wrong: Liz Truss upsiding What3Words And others
Incidentally on AI if you’re hoping to retrain as a plumber, don’t get too excited. Turns out LLMs are brilliant at training robots to work via simulation
Here the LLM near-instantly trained a robot dog to balance on a yoga ball. Incroyable
You have UAPs on the wrong list. It’s fading away like the afterglow of a firework. There was never anything going on.
I never said there was any “there” there. I said something truly weird was happening in the American establishment. And it was. Mass contagious delusion stemming from a few credulous individuals was my best guess - and I think that was probably right
Possibly mixed in with the pentagon seeking money and/or obscuring real tech advances
Your pants are on fire. I bet plenty on here can remember what you repeatedly posted. Just because you were (I assume) blind drunk at the time, doesn't mean everyone else was.
No, I completely agree with what @SeanT said here, in his Spectator piece
“To my mind, there are five main possible explanations, in descending order of probability.
1. The US establishment – Pentagon to press – is engaged in a complex cross-party conspiracy of psyops to unnerve and mystify America’s adversaries, especially the Chinese. Perhaps they want to convince them America possesses advanced alien technology, and America has been reverse engineering it for decades.
2. The US establishment has some incredible new military tech – something truly astonishing, like anti-gravity aircraft – and they’ve had it for ages, and they want to hide it from everyone: Americans as much as the Chinese.
3. The US establishment has gone collectively mad, or is suffering some mass hallucination, stemming from a few credulous individuals (a process known in psychology as ‘contagion’).
4. The US military/elite sincerely believes we are being visited by non human intelligence – but they’re wrong.
5. The US military/elite sincerely believes we are being visited by non human intelligence – and they are right. “
The only one that gets close is three, and as I said above, there was no mass delusion, only a few idiot senators who already believed. Where is the evidence for mass delusion? A few stories in the press ain’t it.
He's got a clip of Obama making a joke on a comedy show. He'll probably link to it again.
It’s a large number of senators, and ex intelligence heads, ex CIA chiefs, admirals, generals, NYT journalists, the head of NASA (etc etc etc) plus multiple presidents (including Obama).
Even the present head of US Intel
National Intelligence Director Avril Haines admits possibility of aliens By Mike Brest November 11, 2021 9:53 pm
On topic - landslides are never inevitable until they have happened.
However, if you are looking at these results and seeing anything but a heavy Lab victory with a comfortable overall majority then you are in good company with Prof. Thrasher but you really do not understand the difference between General and local elections. The same mistake was made by Prof. Thrasher and others after the 2023 elections and it is, for me, pretty clear evidence that the notional national vote and the uniform national swing can lead even the smartest folk down a blind alley of massive proportions.
On these results I would be upgrading my estimated Lab overall majority from 50-75 to 75-100. Crunch those numbers in anything but the most superficial way and you will know why.
Of course the odds may be heavily weighted enough to make betting against an overall majority a reasonable bet. Also, though it seems almost inconceivable, I might actually be wrong! However, that's the fun of the game isn't it and we will soon all find out!
Do you know what, for once I think you're probably right. I think he'll come home with a result that we'd call "fine" in any other year.
But I'm not going to roast any other posters who think otherwise on the basis that no one knows what's going on and the people confidently predicting this or that have a 50% chance of looking stupid tomorrow.
“for once”????
Tut
Okay. I'll give you the Liz Truss rope-ring.
Right: Covid Lab leak Lorry bomb AI Ukraine not winning; now losing UAPs a serious matter China overtakes America on GDP by PPP And others
Wrong: Liz Truss upsiding What3Words And others
Incidentally on AI if you’re hoping to retrain as a plumber, don’t get too excited. Turns out LLMs are brilliant at training robots to work via simulation
Here the LLM near-instantly trained a robot dog to balance on a yoga ball. Incroyable
You have UAPs on the wrong list. It’s fading away like the afterglow of a firework. There was never anything going on.
I never said there was any “there” there. I said something truly weird was happening in the American establishment. And it was. Mass contagious delusion stemming from a few credulous individuals was my best guess - and I think that was probably right
Possibly mixed in with the pentagon seeking money and/or obscuring real tech advances
Your pants are on fire. I bet plenty on here can remember what you repeatedly posted. Just because you were (I assume) blind drunk at the time, doesn't mean everyone else was.
No, I completely agree with what @SeanT said here, in his Spectator piece
“To my mind, there are five main possible explanations, in descending order of probability.
1. The US establishment – Pentagon to press – is engaged in a complex cross-party conspiracy of psyops to unnerve and mystify America’s adversaries, especially the Chinese. Perhaps they want to convince them America possesses advanced alien technology, and America has been reverse engineering it for decades.
2. The US establishment has some incredible new military tech – something truly astonishing, like anti-gravity aircraft – and they’ve had it for ages, and they want to hide it from everyone: Americans as much as the Chinese.
3. The US establishment has gone collectively mad, or is suffering some mass hallucination, stemming from a few credulous individuals (a process known in psychology as ‘contagion’).
4. The US military/elite sincerely believes we are being visited by non human intelligence – but they’re wrong.
5. The US military/elite sincerely believes we are being visited by non human intelligence – and they are right. “
The only one that gets close is three, and as I said above, there was no mass delusion, only a few idiot senators who already believed. Where is the evidence for mass delusion? A few stories in the press ain’t it.
Do you know what, for once I think you're probably right. I think he'll come home with a result that we'd call "fine" in any other year.
But I'm not going to roast any other posters who think otherwise on the basis that no one knows what's going on and the people confidently predicting this or that have a 50% chance of looking stupid tomorrow.
“for once”????
Tut
Okay. I'll give you the Liz Truss rope-ring.
Right: Covid Lab leak Lorry bomb AI Ukraine not winning; now losing UAPs a serious matter China overtakes America on GDP by PPP And others
Wrong: Liz Truss upsiding What3Words And others
Incidentally on AI if you’re hoping to retrain as a plumber, don’t get too excited. Turns out LLMs are brilliant at training robots to work via simulation
Here the LLM near-instantly trained a robot dog to balance on a yoga ball. Incroyable
You have UAPs on the wrong list. It’s fading away like the afterglow of a firework. There was never anything going on.
I never said there was any “there” there. I said something truly weird was happening in the American establishment. And it was. Mass contagious delusion stemming from a few credulous individuals was my best guess - and I think that was probably right
Possibly mixed in with the pentagon seeking money and/or obscuring real tech advances
Your pants are on fire. I bet plenty on here can remember what you repeatedly posted. Just because you were (I assume) blind drunk at the time, doesn't mean everyone else was.
No, I completely agree with what @SeanT said here, in his Spectator piece
“To my mind, there are five main possible explanations, in descending order of probability.
1. The US establishment – Pentagon to press – is engaged in a complex cross-party conspiracy of psyops to unnerve and mystify America’s adversaries, especially the Chinese. Perhaps they want to convince them America possesses advanced alien technology, and America has been reverse engineering it for decades.
2. The US establishment has some incredible new military tech – something truly astonishing, like anti-gravity aircraft – and they’ve had it for ages, and they want to hide it from everyone: Americans as much as the Chinese.
3. The US establishment has gone collectively mad, or is suffering some mass hallucination, stemming from a few credulous individuals (a process known in psychology as ‘contagion’).
4. The US military/elite sincerely believes we are being visited by non human intelligence – but they’re wrong.
5. The US military/elite sincerely believes we are being visited by non human intelligence – and they are right. “
The only one that gets close is three, and as I said above, there was no mass delusion, only a few idiot senators who already believed. Where is the evidence for mass delusion? A few stories in the press ain’t it.
It’s way more than that. You’re a dullard who took sixty eight years to admit that MAYBE it came from the lab
This was just last week:
“John Oliver on UFOs: ‘There needs to be room for honest inquiry’”
“So if a subject is this ubiquitous with such major questions being asked, now might be a good time to – and I cannot believe I’m about to say this – talk about UFOs: what we know, what we don’t know, and some of the problems with how we’ve gone about finding out more,” Oliver explained.
He started with a disclaimer: that talking about UFOs doesn’t necessarily mean talking about aliens, just unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP). “While you can believe aliens exist or not, when it comes to UFOs, belief doesn’t really come into it,” he said. “Whatever they are, people are seeing them””
Woking is now a Tory free zone. I lived there for many years from the age of 9 and it was always solid Tory. The idea that there is not a single one left is bewildering.
Woking by name...
I always thought Woking was a diminutive of Wokingham, but apparently they are 2 different places!
Woking is in Surrey, not too far from London, Wokingham is in Berkshire, close to Reading.
I see. Which one is part of Basingstoke?
Basingstoke is rather far from either, in Hampshire. Roughly 50 miles from central London.
All 'near London' so far as I'm concerned!
I do genuinely confuse Woking and Wokingham, I knew one of them was in Surrey.
A friend of mine accidentally went to meet some people in Gillingham, Kent, when they were actually meeting in Gillingham, Dorset. True story from the days before mobile phones.
Stories like that pop up in the Kent press/news websites every so often still. One poor girl was due to be in a cheerleading competition in the Medway Town but ended up in Dorset.
Ashford, Kent and Ashford, Middx sometimes cause confusion but less often.
Do you know what, for once I think you're probably right. I think he'll come home with a result that we'd call "fine" in any other year.
But I'm not going to roast any other posters who think otherwise on the basis that no one knows what's going on and the people confidently predicting this or that have a 50% chance of looking stupid tomorrow.
“for once”????
Tut
Okay. I'll give you the Liz Truss rope-ring.
Right: Covid Lab leak Lorry bomb AI Ukraine not winning; now losing UAPs a serious matter China overtakes America on GDP by PPP And others
Wrong: Liz Truss upsiding What3Words And others
Incidentally on AI if you’re hoping to retrain as a plumber, don’t get too excited. Turns out LLMs are brilliant at training robots to work via simulation
Here the LLM near-instantly trained a robot dog to balance on a yoga ball. Incroyable
You have UAPs on the wrong list. It’s fading away like the afterglow of a firework. There was never anything going on.
I never said there was any “there” there. I said something truly weird was happening in the American establishment. And it was. Mass contagious delusion stemming from a few credulous individuals was my best guess - and I think that was probably right
Possibly mixed in with the pentagon seeking money and/or obscuring real tech advances
Your pants are on fire. I bet plenty on here can remember what you repeatedly posted. Just because you were (I assume) blind drunk at the time, doesn't mean everyone else was.
No, I completely agree with what @SeanT said here, in his Spectator piece
“To my mind, there are five main possible explanations, in descending order of probability.
1. The US establishment – Pentagon to press – is engaged in a complex cross-party conspiracy of psyops to unnerve and mystify America’s adversaries, especially the Chinese. Perhaps they want to convince them America possesses advanced alien technology, and America has been reverse engineering it for decades.
2. The US establishment has some incredible new military tech – something truly astonishing, like anti-gravity aircraft – and they’ve had it for ages, and they want to hide it from everyone: Americans as much as the Chinese.
3. The US establishment has gone collectively mad, or is suffering some mass hallucination, stemming from a few credulous individuals (a process known in psychology as ‘contagion’).
4. The US military/elite sincerely believes we are being visited by non human intelligence – but they’re wrong.
5. The US military/elite sincerely believes we are being visited by non human intelligence – and they are right. “
The only one that gets close is three, and as I said above, there was no mass delusion, only a few idiot senators who already believed. Where is the evidence for mass delusion? A few stories in the press ain’t it.
He's got a clip of Obama making a joke on a comedy show. He'll probably link to it again.
It’s a large number of senators, and ex intelligence heads, ex CIA chiefs, admirals, generals, NYT journalists, the head of NASA (etc etc etc) plus multiple presidents (including Obama).
Even the present head of US Intel
National Intelligence Director Avril Haines admits possibility of aliens By Mike Brest November 11, 2021 9:53 pm
Woking is now a Tory free zone. I lived there for many years from the age of 9 and it was always solid Tory. The idea that there is not a single one left is bewildering.
Woking by name...
I always thought Woking was a diminutive of Wokingham, but apparently they are 2 different places!
Woking is in Surrey, not too far from London, Wokingham is in Berkshire, close to Reading.
I see. Which one is part of Basingstoke?
Basingstoke is rather far from either, in Hampshire. Roughly 50 miles from central London.
All 'near London' so far as I'm concerned!
I do genuinely confuse Woking and Wokingham, I knew one of them was in Surrey.
A friend of mine accidentally went to meet some people in Gillingham, Kent, when they were actually meeting in Gillingham, Dorset. True story from the days before mobile phones.
Stories like that pop up in the Kent press/news websites every so often still. One poor girl was due to be in a cheerleading competition in the Medway Town but ended up in Dorset.
Ashford, Kent and Ashford, Middx sometimes cause confusion but less often.
Do you know what, for once I think you're probably right. I think he'll come home with a result that we'd call "fine" in any other year.
But I'm not going to roast any other posters who think otherwise on the basis that no one knows what's going on and the people confidently predicting this or that have a 50% chance of looking stupid tomorrow.
“for once”????
Tut
Okay. I'll give you the Liz Truss rope-ring.
Right: Covid Lab leak Lorry bomb AI Ukraine not winning; now losing UAPs a serious matter China overtakes America on GDP by PPP And others
Wrong: Liz Truss upsiding What3Words And others
Incidentally on AI if you’re hoping to retrain as a plumber, don’t get too excited. Turns out LLMs are brilliant at training robots to work via simulation
Here the LLM near-instantly trained a robot dog to balance on a yoga ball. Incroyable
You have UAPs on the wrong list. It’s fading away like the afterglow of a firework. There was never anything going on.
I never said there was any “there” there. I said something truly weird was happening in the American establishment. And it was. Mass contagious delusion stemming from a few credulous individuals was my best guess - and I think that was probably right
Possibly mixed in with the pentagon seeking money and/or obscuring real tech advances
Your pants are on fire. I bet plenty on here can remember what you repeatedly posted. Just because you were (I assume) blind drunk at the time, doesn't mean everyone else was.
No, I completely agree with what @SeanT said here, in his Spectator piece
“To my mind, there are five main possible explanations, in descending order of probability.
1. The US establishment – Pentagon to press – is engaged in a complex cross-party conspiracy of psyops to unnerve and mystify America’s adversaries, especially the Chinese. Perhaps they want to convince them America possesses advanced alien technology, and America has been reverse engineering it for decades.
2. The US establishment has some incredible new military tech – something truly astonishing, like anti-gravity aircraft – and they’ve had it for ages, and they want to hide it from everyone: Americans as much as the Chinese.
3. The US establishment has gone collectively mad, or is suffering some mass hallucination, stemming from a few credulous individuals (a process known in psychology as ‘contagion’).
4. The US military/elite sincerely believes we are being visited by non human intelligence – but they’re wrong.
5. The US military/elite sincerely believes we are being visited by non human intelligence – and they are right. “
The only one that gets close is three, and as I said above, there was no mass delusion, only a few idiot senators who already believed. Where is the evidence for mass delusion? A few stories in the press ain’t it.
He's got a clip of Obama making a joke on a comedy show. He'll probably link to it again.
It’s a large number of senators, and ex intelligence heads, ex CIA chiefs, admirals, generals, NYT journalists, the head of NASA (etc etc etc) plus multiple presidents (including Obama).
Even the present head of US Intel
National Intelligence Director Avril Haines admits possibility of aliens By Mike Brest November 11, 2021 9:53 pm
Something really weird happened to the US elite from 2021-23 when they all started saying truly strange things about “UFOs”
I’ve hazarded a guess why. You are too stupid to even grasp that this happened
Next
As usual, if anyone bothers to follow your link it doesn't really support what you are saying. Full Haines quote from the article YOU just posted:
'Avril Haines, the director of national intelligence, did not rule out the possibility of aliens when discussing UFO sightings during a recent forum at the “Our Future in Space” event at the Washington National Cathedral.
“The main issues that Congress and others have been concerned about is safety of flight concerns and counterintelligence issues,” the DNI told the forum. “Always, there’s also the question of, ‘Is there something else that we simply do not understand, which might come extraterrestrially?’”
Haines, who leads the 18 intelligence agencies, spoke about the lack of an organized reporting structure for potential sightings.
“A large portion of that is based on the fact that we don’t have a consistent way of reporting this information — we need to integrate a lot of data that we get,” she said. “We need to get better at collecting information that’s useful to us from different sensors that are available to us.”'
What is 'truly strange' about what Haines says here? Nothing, that's what. So you are either dishonest, or just 'too stupid' to understand simple English.
Do you know what, for once I think you're probably right. I think he'll come home with a result that we'd call "fine" in any other year.
But I'm not going to roast any other posters who think otherwise on the basis that no one knows what's going on and the people confidently predicting this or that have a 50% chance of looking stupid tomorrow.
“for once”????
Tut
Okay. I'll give you the Liz Truss rope-ring.
Right: Covid Lab leak Lorry bomb AI Ukraine not winning; now losing UAPs a serious matter China overtakes America on GDP by PPP And others
Wrong: Liz Truss upsiding What3Words And others
Incidentally on AI if you’re hoping to retrain as a plumber, don’t get too excited. Turns out LLMs are brilliant at training robots to work via simulation
Here the LLM near-instantly trained a robot dog to balance on a yoga ball. Incroyable
You have UAPs on the wrong list. It’s fading away like the afterglow of a firework. There was never anything going on.
I never said there was any “there” there. I said something truly weird was happening in the American establishment. And it was. Mass contagious delusion stemming from a few credulous individuals was my best guess - and I think that was probably right
Possibly mixed in with the pentagon seeking money and/or obscuring real tech advances
Your pants are on fire. I bet plenty on here can remember what you repeatedly posted. Just because you were (I assume) blind drunk at the time, doesn't mean everyone else was.
No, I completely agree with what @SeanT said here, in his Spectator piece
“To my mind, there are five main possible explanations, in descending order of probability.
1. The US establishment – Pentagon to press – is engaged in a complex cross-party conspiracy of psyops to unnerve and mystify America’s adversaries, especially the Chinese. Perhaps they want to convince them America possesses advanced alien technology, and America has been reverse engineering it for decades.
2. The US establishment has some incredible new military tech – something truly astonishing, like anti-gravity aircraft – and they’ve had it for ages, and they want to hide it from everyone: Americans as much as the Chinese.
3. The US establishment has gone collectively mad, or is suffering some mass hallucination, stemming from a few credulous individuals (a process known in psychology as ‘contagion’).
4. The US military/elite sincerely believes we are being visited by non human intelligence – but they’re wrong.
5. The US military/elite sincerely believes we are being visited by non human intelligence – and they are right. “
The only one that gets close is three, and as I said above, there was no mass delusion, only a few idiot senators who already believed. Where is the evidence for mass delusion? A few stories in the press ain’t it.
He's got a clip of Obama making a joke on a comedy show. He'll probably link to it again.
It’s a large number of senators, and ex intelligence heads, ex CIA chiefs, admirals, generals, NYT journalists, the head of NASA (etc etc etc) plus multiple presidents (including Obama).
Even the present head of US Intel
National Intelligence Director Avril Haines admits possibility of aliens By Mike Brest November 11, 2021 9:53 pm
Something really weird happened to the US elite from 2021-23 when they all started saying truly strange things about “UFOs”
I’ve hazarded a guess why. You are too stupid to even grasp that this happened
Next
As usual, if anyone bothers to follow your link it doesn't really support what you are saying. Full Haines quote from the article YOU just posted:
'Avril Haines, the director of national intelligence, did not rule out the possibility of aliens when discussing UFO sightings during a recent forum at the “Our Future in Space” event at the Washington National Cathedral.
“The main issues that Congress and others have been concerned about is safety of flight concerns and counterintelligence issues,” the DNI told the forum. “Always, there’s also the question of, ‘Is there something else that we simply do not understand, which might come extraterrestrially?’”
Haines, who leads the 18 intelligence agencies, spoke about the lack of an organized reporting structure for potential sightings.
“A large portion of that is based on the fact that we don’t have a consistent way of reporting this information — we need to integrate a lot of data that we get,” she said. “We need to get better at collecting information that’s useful to us from different sensors that are available to us.”'
What is 'truly strange' about what Haines says here? Nothing, that's what. So you are either dishonest, or just 'too stupid' to understand simple English.
lol. She’s overall head of total US intelligence and she publicly wonders “are we being visited by extra terrestrials”?
I doubt Sadiq has lost but if he has, he only has himself to blame. As a soft-lefter I would not have voted for him but rather for LD candidate. Most of my left-wing friends have gone for Green.
Khan has no actual fans. He is merely tolerated, which is not much of a legacy after 8 years.
Do you know what, for once I think you're probably right. I think he'll come home with a result that we'd call "fine" in any other year.
But I'm not going to roast any other posters who think otherwise on the basis that no one knows what's going on and the people confidently predicting this or that have a 50% chance of looking stupid tomorrow.
“for once”????
Tut
Okay. I'll give you the Liz Truss rope-ring.
Right: Covid Lab leak Lorry bomb AI Ukraine not winning; now losing UAPs a serious matter China overtakes America on GDP by PPP And others
Wrong: Liz Truss upsiding What3Words And others
Incidentally on AI if you’re hoping to retrain as a plumber, don’t get too excited. Turns out LLMs are brilliant at training robots to work via simulation
Here the LLM near-instantly trained a robot dog to balance on a yoga ball. Incroyable
You have UAPs on the wrong list. It’s fading away like the afterglow of a firework. There was never anything going on.
I never said there was any “there” there. I said something truly weird was happening in the American establishment. And it was. Mass contagious delusion stemming from a few credulous individuals was my best guess - and I think that was probably right
Possibly mixed in with the pentagon seeking money and/or obscuring real tech advances
Your pants are on fire. I bet plenty on here can remember what you repeatedly posted. Just because you were (I assume) blind drunk at the time, doesn't mean everyone else was.
No, I completely agree with what @SeanT said here, in his Spectator piece
“To my mind, there are five main possible explanations, in descending order of probability.
1. The US establishment – Pentagon to press – is engaged in a complex cross-party conspiracy of psyops to unnerve and mystify America’s adversaries, especially the Chinese. Perhaps they want to convince them America possesses advanced alien technology, and America has been reverse engineering it for decades.
2. The US establishment has some incredible new military tech – something truly astonishing, like anti-gravity aircraft – and they’ve had it for ages, and they want to hide it from everyone: Americans as much as the Chinese.
3. The US establishment has gone collectively mad, or is suffering some mass hallucination, stemming from a few credulous individuals (a process known in psychology as ‘contagion’).
4. The US military/elite sincerely believes we are being visited by non human intelligence – but they’re wrong.
5. The US military/elite sincerely believes we are being visited by non human intelligence – and they are right. “
The only one that gets close is three, and as I said above, there was no mass delusion, only a few idiot senators who already believed. Where is the evidence for mass delusion? A few stories in the press ain’t it.
Do you know what, for once I think you're probably right. I think he'll come home with a result that we'd call "fine" in any other year.
But I'm not going to roast any other posters who think otherwise on the basis that no one knows what's going on and the people confidently predicting this or that have a 50% chance of looking stupid tomorrow.
“for once”????
Tut
Okay. I'll give you the Liz Truss rope-ring.
Right: Covid Lab leak Lorry bomb AI Ukraine not winning; now losing UAPs a serious matter China overtakes America on GDP by PPP And others
Wrong: Liz Truss upsiding What3Words And others
Incidentally on AI if you’re hoping to retrain as a plumber, don’t get too excited. Turns out LLMs are brilliant at training robots to work via simulation
Here the LLM near-instantly trained a robot dog to balance on a yoga ball. Incroyable
You have UAPs on the wrong list. It’s fading away like the afterglow of a firework. There was never anything going on.
I never said there was any “there” there. I said something truly weird was happening in the American establishment. And it was. Mass contagious delusion stemming from a few credulous individuals was my best guess - and I think that was probably right
Possibly mixed in with the pentagon seeking money and/or obscuring real tech advances
Your pants are on fire. I bet plenty on here can remember what you repeatedly posted. Just because you were (I assume) blind drunk at the time, doesn't mean everyone else was.
No, I completely agree with what @SeanT said here, in his Spectator piece
“To my mind, there are five main possible explanations, in descending order of probability.
1. The US establishment – Pentagon to press – is engaged in a complex cross-party conspiracy of psyops to unnerve and mystify America’s adversaries, especially the Chinese. Perhaps they want to convince them America possesses advanced alien technology, and America has been reverse engineering it for decades.
2. The US establishment has some incredible new military tech – something truly astonishing, like anti-gravity aircraft – and they’ve had it for ages, and they want to hide it from everyone: Americans as much as the Chinese.
3. The US establishment has gone collectively mad, or is suffering some mass hallucination, stemming from a few credulous individuals (a process known in psychology as ‘contagion’).
4. The US military/elite sincerely believes we are being visited by non human intelligence – but they’re wrong.
5. The US military/elite sincerely believes we are being visited by non human intelligence – and they are right. “
The only one that gets close is three, and as I said above, there was no mass delusion, only a few idiot senators who already believed. Where is the evidence for mass delusion? A few stories in the press ain’t it.
It’s way more than that. You’re a dullard who took sixty eight years to admit that MAYBE it came from the lab
This was just last week:
“John Oliver on UFOs: ‘There needs to be room for honest inquiry’”
“So if a subject is this ubiquitous with such major questions being asked, now might be a good time to – and I cannot believe I’m about to say this – talk about UFOs: what we know, what we don’t know, and some of the problems with how we’ve gone about finding out more,” Oliver explained.
He started with a disclaimer: that talking about UFOs doesn’t necessarily mean talking about aliens, just unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP). “While you can believe aliens exist or not, when it comes to UFOs, belief doesn’t really come into it,” he said. “Whatever they are, people are seeing them””
People have always seen stuff. That’s the problem with perception. In the past we saw angels and demons, then we saw flying saucers, now it’s UAPs. None stand up to scrutiny. The latest nonsense is tied into the people behind the Skinwalker ranch. It’s all bullshit. A few senators asked questions and then some people gave answers that admit the possibility of aliens, which is like saying Hall could win London. You may feel you were ramping the fact that something was going on, but you were pretty obviously suggesting the big reveal was coming, as was another poster. I’m still waiting, as I said I would be.
Do you know what, for once I think you're probably right. I think he'll come home with a result that we'd call "fine" in any other year.
But I'm not going to roast any other posters who think otherwise on the basis that no one knows what's going on and the people confidently predicting this or that have a 50% chance of looking stupid tomorrow.
“for once”????
Tut
Okay. I'll give you the Liz Truss rope-ring.
Right: Covid Lab leak Lorry bomb AI Ukraine not winning; now losing UAPs a serious matter China overtakes America on GDP by PPP And others
Wrong: Liz Truss upsiding What3Words And others
Incidentally on AI if you’re hoping to retrain as a plumber, don’t get too excited. Turns out LLMs are brilliant at training robots to work via simulation
Here the LLM near-instantly trained a robot dog to balance on a yoga ball. Incroyable
You have UAPs on the wrong list. It’s fading away like the afterglow of a firework. There was never anything going on.
I never said there was any “there” there. I said something truly weird was happening in the American establishment. And it was. Mass contagious delusion stemming from a few credulous individuals was my best guess - and I think that was probably right
Possibly mixed in with the pentagon seeking money and/or obscuring real tech advances
Your pants are on fire. I bet plenty on here can remember what you repeatedly posted. Just because you were (I assume) blind drunk at the time, doesn't mean everyone else was.
No, I completely agree with what @SeanT said here, in his Spectator piece
“To my mind, there are five main possible explanations, in descending order of probability.
1. The US establishment – Pentagon to press – is engaged in a complex cross-party conspiracy of psyops to unnerve and mystify America’s adversaries, especially the Chinese. Perhaps they want to convince them America possesses advanced alien technology, and America has been reverse engineering it for decades.
2. The US establishment has some incredible new military tech – something truly astonishing, like anti-gravity aircraft – and they’ve had it for ages, and they want to hide it from everyone: Americans as much as the Chinese.
3. The US establishment has gone collectively mad, or is suffering some mass hallucination, stemming from a few credulous individuals (a process known in psychology as ‘contagion’).
4. The US military/elite sincerely believes we are being visited by non human intelligence – but they’re wrong.
5. The US military/elite sincerely believes we are being visited by non human intelligence – and they are right. “
The only one that gets close is three, and as I said above, there was no mass delusion, only a few idiot senators who already believed. Where is the evidence for mass delusion? A few stories in the press ain’t it.
He's got a clip of Obama making a joke on a comedy show. He'll probably link to it again.
It’s a large number of senators, and ex intelligence heads, ex CIA chiefs, admirals, generals, NYT journalists, the head of NASA (etc etc etc) plus multiple presidents (including Obama).
Even the present head of US Intel
National Intelligence Director Avril Haines admits possibility of aliens By Mike Brest November 11, 2021 9:53 pm
Woking is now a Tory free zone. I lived there for many years from the age of 9 and it was always solid Tory. The idea that there is not a single one left is bewildering.
Woking by name...
I always thought Woking was a diminutive of Wokingham, but apparently they are 2 different places!
Wokingham still with some surviving gammons presumably.
I gave this a 'like' even though it is a truly shit joke.
Do you know what, for once I think you're probably right. I think he'll come home with a result that we'd call "fine" in any other year.
But I'm not going to roast any other posters who think otherwise on the basis that no one knows what's going on and the people confidently predicting this or that have a 50% chance of looking stupid tomorrow.
“for once”????
Tut
Okay. I'll give you the Liz Truss rope-ring.
Right: Covid Lab leak Lorry bomb AI Ukraine not winning; now losing UAPs a serious matter China overtakes America on GDP by PPP And others
Wrong: Liz Truss upsiding What3Words And others
Incidentally on AI if you’re hoping to retrain as a plumber, don’t get too excited. Turns out LLMs are brilliant at training robots to work via simulation
Here the LLM near-instantly trained a robot dog to balance on a yoga ball. Incroyable
You have UAPs on the wrong list. It’s fading away like the afterglow of a firework. There was never anything going on.
I never said there was any “there” there. I said something truly weird was happening in the American establishment. And it was. Mass contagious delusion stemming from a few credulous individuals was my best guess - and I think that was probably right
Possibly mixed in with the pentagon seeking money and/or obscuring real tech advances
Your pants are on fire. I bet plenty on here can remember what you repeatedly posted. Just because you were (I assume) blind drunk at the time, doesn't mean everyone else was.
No, I completely agree with what @SeanT said here, in his Spectator piece
“To my mind, there are five main possible explanations, in descending order of probability.
1. The US establishment – Pentagon to press – is engaged in a complex cross-party conspiracy of psyops to unnerve and mystify America’s adversaries, especially the Chinese. Perhaps they want to convince them America possesses advanced alien technology, and America has been reverse engineering it for decades.
2. The US establishment has some incredible new military tech – something truly astonishing, like anti-gravity aircraft – and they’ve had it for ages, and they want to hide it from everyone: Americans as much as the Chinese.
3. The US establishment has gone collectively mad, or is suffering some mass hallucination, stemming from a few credulous individuals (a process known in psychology as ‘contagion’).
4. The US military/elite sincerely believes we are being visited by non human intelligence – but they’re wrong.
5. The US military/elite sincerely believes we are being visited by non human intelligence – and they are right. “
The only one that gets close is three, and as I said above, there was no mass delusion, only a few idiot senators who already believed. Where is the evidence for mass delusion? A few stories in the press ain’t it.
He's got a clip of Obama making a joke on a comedy show. He'll probably link to it again.
It’s a large number of senators, and ex intelligence heads, ex CIA chiefs, admirals, generals, NYT journalists, the head of NASA (etc etc etc) plus multiple presidents (including Obama).
Even the present head of US Intel
National Intelligence Director Avril Haines admits possibility of aliens By Mike Brest November 11, 2021 9:53 pm
According to Beeb running totals, Tories down 432 seats with 8 councils left to declare. Not sure they'll pass 500!
It's 461 saved vs. 432 lost, so about 100 to go. It will matter for the narrative, but not really for the reality.
Looking at the councils left with the number of Tory defences: Stroud 20 Dorset 14 remaining North Tyneside 7 Salford 3 Warrington 11 Epping Forest about 17 Elmbridge 3 Gloucester 19
So I think the Conservatives would have to do really badly from now on to end with 50% losses or 500 losses.
Agreed, still pretty awful though.
Anyway, enough fun for one day. Until tomorrow.
Bad, obviously, but no worse than generally expected.
Sleep well.
It looks like BritainElects' model will be very close for Tory losses but didn't account for how many directions their lunch would be split when it was eaten.
Very well put, On.
It's about as bad as expected for the Tories, but for Labour it's a pass mark, and no more. The LDs and Greens have done well. The mainstream media hasn't really pickedup on this.
Fortunately we have PB for sane, serious and objective evaluations.
Woking is now a Tory free zone. I lived there for many years from the age of 9 and it was always solid Tory. The idea that there is not a single one left is bewildering.
Woking by name...
I always thought Woking was a diminutive of Wokingham, but apparently they are 2 different places!
Wokingham still with some surviving gammons presumably.
Do you know what, for once I think you're probably right. I think he'll come home with a result that we'd call "fine" in any other year.
But I'm not going to roast any other posters who think otherwise on the basis that no one knows what's going on and the people confidently predicting this or that have a 50% chance of looking stupid tomorrow.
“for once”????
Tut
Okay. I'll give you the Liz Truss rope-ring.
Right: Covid Lab leak Lorry bomb AI Ukraine not winning; now losing UAPs a serious matter China overtakes America on GDP by PPP And others
Wrong: Liz Truss upsiding What3Words And others
Incidentally on AI if you’re hoping to retrain as a plumber, don’t get too excited. Turns out LLMs are brilliant at training robots to work via simulation
Here the LLM near-instantly trained a robot dog to balance on a yoga ball. Incroyable
You have UAPs on the wrong list. It’s fading away like the afterglow of a firework. There was never anything going on.
I never said there was any “there” there. I said something truly weird was happening in the American establishment. And it was. Mass contagious delusion stemming from a few credulous individuals was my best guess - and I think that was probably right
Possibly mixed in with the pentagon seeking money and/or obscuring real tech advances
Your pants are on fire. I bet plenty on here can remember what you repeatedly posted. Just because you were (I assume) blind drunk at the time, doesn't mean everyone else was.
No, I completely agree with what @SeanT said here, in his Spectator piece
“To my mind, there are five main possible explanations, in descending order of probability.
1. The US establishment – Pentagon to press – is engaged in a complex cross-party conspiracy of psyops to unnerve and mystify America’s adversaries, especially the Chinese. Perhaps they want to convince them America possesses advanced alien technology, and America has been reverse engineering it for decades.
2. The US establishment has some incredible new military tech – something truly astonishing, like anti-gravity aircraft – and they’ve had it for ages, and they want to hide it from everyone: Americans as much as the Chinese.
3. The US establishment has gone collectively mad, or is suffering some mass hallucination, stemming from a few credulous individuals (a process known in psychology as ‘contagion’).
4. The US military/elite sincerely believes we are being visited by non human intelligence – but they’re wrong.
5. The US military/elite sincerely believes we are being visited by non human intelligence – and they are right. “
The only one that gets close is three, and as I said above, there was no mass delusion, only a few idiot senators who already believed. Where is the evidence for mass delusion? A few stories in the press ain’t it.
He's got a clip of Obama making a joke on a comedy show. He'll probably link to it again.
It’s a large number of senators, and ex intelligence heads, ex CIA chiefs, admirals, generals, NYT journalists, the head of NASA (etc etc etc) plus multiple presidents (including Obama).
Even the present head of US Intel
National Intelligence Director Avril Haines admits possibility of aliens By Mike Brest November 11, 2021 9:53 pm
Something really weird happened to the US elite from 2021-23 when they all started saying truly strange things about “UFOs”
I’ve hazarded a guess why. You are too stupid to even grasp that this happened
Next
As usual, if anyone bothers to follow your link it doesn't really support what you are saying. Full Haines quote from the article YOU just posted:
'Avril Haines, the director of national intelligence, did not rule out the possibility of aliens when discussing UFO sightings during a recent forum at the “Our Future in Space” event at the Washington National Cathedral.
“The main issues that Congress and others have been concerned about is safety of flight concerns and counterintelligence issues,” the DNI told the forum. “Always, there’s also the question of, ‘Is there something else that we simply do not understand, which might come extraterrestrially?’”
Haines, who leads the 18 intelligence agencies, spoke about the lack of an organized reporting structure for potential sightings.
“A large portion of that is based on the fact that we don’t have a consistent way of reporting this information — we need to integrate a lot of data that we get,” she said. “We need to get better at collecting information that’s useful to us from different sensors that are available to us.”'
What is 'truly strange' about what Haines says here? Nothing, that's what. So you are either dishonest, or just 'too stupid' to understand simple English.
lol. She’s overall head of total US intelligence and she publicly wonders “are we being visited by extra terrestrials”?
AND YOU DON’T THINK THAT’S STRANGE
No what she said was
'The main issues that Congress and others have been concerned about is safety of flight concerns and counterintelligence issues. Always, there’s also the question of, ‘Is there something else that we simply do not understand, which might come extraterrestrially?'
Presumably because people keep asking the question, and it is obviously an interesting question. (Spoiler: probably not).
So, no, I don't find what she said strange or remarkable at all. Obviously the headline writer had a bit of fun with the clickbait, but I guess you didn't read beyond the headline anyway.
You, on the other hand, were repeatedly telling us we were all idiots because we were ignoring 'the biggest news in human history', and other such bullshit.
It will be interesting to see the correlation between minor party seat count and BBC and other TV and radio news interviews over the next two days.
Presumably the leaders of both Lib Dems and Greens will get about 50 times more coverage than Richard Tice or Nigel Farage. Right?
I certainly see nothing from these elections - or the Blackpool South by election - that would justify Ofcom awarding Reform with Major party status at the GE. Has the party won any council seats?
Do you know what, for once I think you're probably right. I think he'll come home with a result that we'd call "fine" in any other year.
But I'm not going to roast any other posters who think otherwise on the basis that no one knows what's going on and the people confidently predicting this or that have a 50% chance of looking stupid tomorrow.
“for once”????
Tut
Okay. I'll give you the Liz Truss rope-ring.
Right: Covid Lab leak Lorry bomb AI Ukraine not winning; now losing UAPs a serious matter China overtakes America on GDP by PPP And others
Wrong: Liz Truss upsiding What3Words And others
Incidentally on AI if you’re hoping to retrain as a plumber, don’t get too excited. Turns out LLMs are brilliant at training robots to work via simulation
Here the LLM near-instantly trained a robot dog to balance on a yoga ball. Incroyable
You have UAPs on the wrong list. It’s fading away like the afterglow of a firework. There was never anything going on.
I never said there was any “there” there. I said something truly weird was happening in the American establishment. And it was. Mass contagious delusion stemming from a few credulous individuals was my best guess - and I think that was probably right
Possibly mixed in with the pentagon seeking money and/or obscuring real tech advances
Your pants are on fire. I bet plenty on here can remember what you repeatedly posted. Just because you were (I assume) blind drunk at the time, doesn't mean everyone else was.
No, I completely agree with what @SeanT said here, in his Spectator piece
“To my mind, there are five main possible explanations, in descending order of probability.
1. The US establishment – Pentagon to press – is engaged in a complex cross-party conspiracy of psyops to unnerve and mystify America’s adversaries, especially the Chinese. Perhaps they want to convince them America possesses advanced alien technology, and America has been reverse engineering it for decades.
2. The US establishment has some incredible new military tech – something truly astonishing, like anti-gravity aircraft – and they’ve had it for ages, and they want to hide it from everyone: Americans as much as the Chinese.
3. The US establishment has gone collectively mad, or is suffering some mass hallucination, stemming from a few credulous individuals (a process known in psychology as ‘contagion’).
4. The US military/elite sincerely believes we are being visited by non human intelligence – but they’re wrong.
5. The US military/elite sincerely believes we are being visited by non human intelligence – and they are right. “
The only one that gets close is three, and as I said above, there was no mass delusion, only a few idiot senators who already believed. Where is the evidence for mass delusion? A few stories in the press ain’t it.
He's got a clip of Obama making a joke on a comedy show. He'll probably link to it again.
It’s a large number of senators, and ex intelligence heads, ex CIA chiefs, admirals, generals, NYT journalists, the head of NASA (etc etc etc) plus multiple presidents (including Obama).
Even the present head of US Intel
National Intelligence Director Avril Haines admits possibility of aliens By Mike Brest November 11, 2021 9:53 pm
Something really weird happened to the US elite from 2021-23 when they all started saying truly strange things about “UFOs”
I’ve hazarded a guess why. You are too stupid to even grasp that this happened
Next
And you are too arrogant (and like an argument too much) to ever concede that others said it was nonsense and it was.
It’s not arrogant when I’m so clearly and profoundly your intellectual superior, and by an embarrassing distance
You are so funny. I’ll take my PhD and scientific credentials over your perusing of Reddit every time.
You were literally convinced it came from the wet market and lab leak was impossible until this afternoon, approximately. You’re a fucking worker drone in a polytechnic chemistry department with the imaginative abilities of a sea slug. You make @kinabalu look like Isaac Newton. You’re a midwit primary school teacher who is too frightened to think outside the box because you’re incapable of comprehending there is even a box in the fucking first place. You’re not even as interesting as a moron, at least they drool
But don’t take this personally, I do not wish to offend. Also, @kamski is even dimmer, so there’s that
Woking is now a Tory free zone. I lived there for many years from the age of 9 and it was always solid Tory. The idea that there is not a single one left is bewildering.
Woking by name...
I always thought Woking was a diminutive of Wokingham, but apparently they are 2 different places!
Wokingham still with some surviving gammons presumably.
I gave this a 'like' even though it is a truly shit joke.
Do you know what, for once I think you're probably right. I think he'll come home with a result that we'd call "fine" in any other year.
But I'm not going to roast any other posters who think otherwise on the basis that no one knows what's going on and the people confidently predicting this or that have a 50% chance of looking stupid tomorrow.
“for once”????
Tut
Okay. I'll give you the Liz Truss rope-ring.
Right: Covid Lab leak Lorry bomb AI Ukraine not winning; now losing UAPs a serious matter China overtakes America on GDP by PPP And others
Wrong: Liz Truss upsiding What3Words And others
Incidentally on AI if you’re hoping to retrain as a plumber, don’t get too excited. Turns out LLMs are brilliant at training robots to work via simulation
Here the LLM near-instantly trained a robot dog to balance on a yoga ball. Incroyable
You have UAPs on the wrong list. It’s fading away like the afterglow of a firework. There was never anything going on.
I never said there was any “there” there. I said something truly weird was happening in the American establishment. And it was. Mass contagious delusion stemming from a few credulous individuals was my best guess - and I think that was probably right
Possibly mixed in with the pentagon seeking money and/or obscuring real tech advances
Your pants are on fire. I bet plenty on here can remember what you repeatedly posted. Just because you were (I assume) blind drunk at the time, doesn't mean everyone else was.
No, I completely agree with what @SeanT said here, in his Spectator piece
“To my mind, there are five main possible explanations, in descending order of probability.
1. The US establishment – Pentagon to press – is engaged in a complex cross-party conspiracy of psyops to unnerve and mystify America’s adversaries, especially the Chinese. Perhaps they want to convince them America possesses advanced alien technology, and America has been reverse engineering it for decades.
2. The US establishment has some incredible new military tech – something truly astonishing, like anti-gravity aircraft – and they’ve had it for ages, and they want to hide it from everyone: Americans as much as the Chinese.
3. The US establishment has gone collectively mad, or is suffering some mass hallucination, stemming from a few credulous individuals (a process known in psychology as ‘contagion’).
4. The US military/elite sincerely believes we are being visited by non human intelligence – but they’re wrong.
5. The US military/elite sincerely believes we are being visited by non human intelligence – and they are right. “
The only one that gets close is three, and as I said above, there was no mass delusion, only a few idiot senators who already believed. Where is the evidence for mass delusion? A few stories in the press ain’t it.
He's got a clip of Obama making a joke on a comedy show. He'll probably link to it again.
It’s a large number of senators, and ex intelligence heads, ex CIA chiefs, admirals, generals, NYT journalists, the head of NASA (etc etc etc) plus multiple presidents (including Obama).
Even the present head of US Intel
National Intelligence Director Avril Haines admits possibility of aliens By Mike Brest November 11, 2021 9:53 pm
Something really weird happened to the US elite from 2021-23 when they all started saying truly strange things about “UFOs”
I’ve hazarded a guess why. You are too stupid to even grasp that this happened
Next
As usual, if anyone bothers to follow your link it doesn't really support what you are saying. Full Haines quote from the article YOU just posted:
'Avril Haines, the director of national intelligence, did not rule out the possibility of aliens when discussing UFO sightings during a recent forum at the “Our Future in Space” event at the Washington National Cathedral.
“The main issues that Congress and others have been concerned about is safety of flight concerns and counterintelligence issues,” the DNI told the forum. “Always, there’s also the question of, ‘Is there something else that we simply do not understand, which might come extraterrestrially?’”
Haines, who leads the 18 intelligence agencies, spoke about the lack of an organized reporting structure for potential sightings.
“A large portion of that is based on the fact that we don’t have a consistent way of reporting this information — we need to integrate a lot of data that we get,” she said. “We need to get better at collecting information that’s useful to us from different sensors that are available to us.”'
What is 'truly strange' about what Haines says here? Nothing, that's what. So you are either dishonest, or just 'too stupid' to understand simple English.
lol. She’s overall head of total US intelligence and she publicly wonders “are we being visited by extra terrestrials”?
AND YOU DON’T THINK THAT’S STRANGE
No what she said was
'The main issues that Congress and others have been concerned about is safety of flight concerns and counterintelligence issues. Always, there’s also the question of, ‘Is there something else that we simply do not understand, which might come extraterrestrially?'
Presumably because people keep asking the question, and it is obviously an interesting question. (Spoiler: probably not).
So, no, I don't find what she said strange or remarkable at all. Obviously the headline writer had a bit of fun with the clickbait, but I guess you didn't read beyond the headline anyway.
You, on the other hand, were repeatedly telling us we were all idiots because we were ignoring 'the biggest news in human history', and other such bullshit.
I must say I dipped into it at random - and the UFo in question turned out to be very obviously a party balloon whose apparent motion was clearly produced by the movement of the observer. And that was the sort of thing being held up as evidence.
Do you know what, for once I think you're probably right. I think he'll come home with a result that we'd call "fine" in any other year.
But I'm not going to roast any other posters who think otherwise on the basis that no one knows what's going on and the people confidently predicting this or that have a 50% chance of looking stupid tomorrow.
“for once”????
Tut
Okay. I'll give you the Liz Truss rope-ring.
Right: Covid Lab leak Lorry bomb AI Ukraine not winning; now losing UAPs a serious matter China overtakes America on GDP by PPP And others
Wrong: Liz Truss upsiding What3Words And others
Incidentally on AI if you’re hoping to retrain as a plumber, don’t get too excited. Turns out LLMs are brilliant at training robots to work via simulation
Here the LLM near-instantly trained a robot dog to balance on a yoga ball. Incroyable
You have UAPs on the wrong list. It’s fading away like the afterglow of a firework. There was never anything going on.
I never said there was any “there” there. I said something truly weird was happening in the American establishment. And it was. Mass contagious delusion stemming from a few credulous individuals was my best guess - and I think that was probably right
Possibly mixed in with the pentagon seeking money and/or obscuring real tech advances
Your pants are on fire. I bet plenty on here can remember what you repeatedly posted. Just because you were (I assume) blind drunk at the time, doesn't mean everyone else was.
No, I completely agree with what @SeanT said here, in his Spectator piece
“To my mind, there are five main possible explanations, in descending order of probability.
1. The US establishment – Pentagon to press – is engaged in a complex cross-party conspiracy of psyops to unnerve and mystify America’s adversaries, especially the Chinese. Perhaps they want to convince them America possesses advanced alien technology, and America has been reverse engineering it for decades.
2. The US establishment has some incredible new military tech – something truly astonishing, like anti-gravity aircraft – and they’ve had it for ages, and they want to hide it from everyone: Americans as much as the Chinese.
3. The US establishment has gone collectively mad, or is suffering some mass hallucination, stemming from a few credulous individuals (a process known in psychology as ‘contagion’).
4. The US military/elite sincerely believes we are being visited by non human intelligence – but they’re wrong.
5. The US military/elite sincerely believes we are being visited by non human intelligence – and they are right. “
The only one that gets close is three, and as I said above, there was no mass delusion, only a few idiot senators who already believed. Where is the evidence for mass delusion? A few stories in the press ain’t it.
He's got a clip of Obama making a joke on a comedy show. He'll probably link to it again.
It’s a large number of senators, and ex intelligence heads, ex CIA chiefs, admirals, generals, NYT journalists, the head of NASA (etc etc etc) plus multiple presidents (including Obama).
Even the present head of US Intel
National Intelligence Director Avril Haines admits possibility of aliens By Mike Brest November 11, 2021 9:53 pm
Something really weird happened to the US elite from 2021-23 when they all started saying truly strange things about “UFOs”
I’ve hazarded a guess why. You are too stupid to even grasp that this happened
Next
And you are too arrogant (and like an argument too much) to ever concede that others said it was nonsense and it was.
It’s not arrogant when I’m so clearly and profoundly your intellectual superior, and by an embarrassing distance
You are so funny. I’ll take my PhD and scientific credentials over your perusing of Reddit every time.
You were literally convinced it came from the wet market and lab leak was impossible until this afternoon, approximately. You’re a fucking worker drone in a polytechnic chemistry department with the imaginative abilities of a sea slug. You make @kinabalu look like Isaac Newton. You’re a midwit primary school teacher who is too frightened to think outside the box because you’re incapable of comprehending there is even a box in the fucking first place. You’re not even as interesting as a moron, at least they drool
But don’t take this personally, I do not wish to offend. Also, @kamski is even dimmer, so there’s that
It’s a life sciences deoartment, but the rest was spot on…
(Although I can happily change my mind when more evidence emerges, I have not seen conclusive proof for either lab leak or wet market. I doubt we will ever fully know. And both options are totally plausible. SARS, MERS etc are zoonotic in origin. We also know that labs can see escapes - even in the U.K. You have decided that you are right about the lab leak hypothesis, but that is not the same as being right.)
Woking is now a Tory free zone. I lived there for many years from the age of 9 and it was always solid Tory. The idea that there is not a single one left is bewildering.
Woking by name...
I always thought Woking was a diminutive of Wokingham, but apparently they are 2 different places!
Woking is in Surrey, not too far from London, Wokingham is in Berkshire, close to Reading.
I see. Which one is part of Basingstoke?
Basingstoke is rather far from either, in Hampshire. Roughly 50 miles from central London.
@johnestevens · 1h Not looking good for Thangam Debbonaire
The Greens have won all 14 council seats in the wards that make up the Bristol Central constituency where she’s standing at general election
I will still be surprised if her majority is below 10000 at the GE.
You base that on what?
She isn’t defending a seat, she has to go to a new seat made up of the Greens strongest wards in the city. And to what degree has Gaza additionally played it’s part it the Greens takeover today?
Let's be realistic. Betting Post wise we should look right now at what price we get for her defeat, for those odds will close up very soon. There’s money to be made from her demise.
Do you know what, for once I think you're probably right. I think he'll come home with a result that we'd call "fine" in any other year.
But I'm not going to roast any other posters who think otherwise on the basis that no one knows what's going on and the people confidently predicting this or that have a 50% chance of looking stupid tomorrow.
“for once”????
Tut
Okay. I'll give you the Liz Truss rope-ring.
Right: Covid Lab leak Lorry bomb AI Ukraine not winning; now losing UAPs a serious matter China overtakes America on GDP by PPP And others
Wrong: Liz Truss upsiding What3Words And others
Incidentally on AI if you’re hoping to retrain as a plumber, don’t get too excited. Turns out LLMs are brilliant at training robots to work via simulation
Here the LLM near-instantly trained a robot dog to balance on a yoga ball. Incroyable
You have UAPs on the wrong list. It’s fading away like the afterglow of a firework. There was never anything going on.
I never said there was any “there” there. I said something truly weird was happening in the American establishment. And it was. Mass contagious delusion stemming from a few credulous individuals was my best guess - and I think that was probably right
Possibly mixed in with the pentagon seeking money and/or obscuring real tech advances
Your pants are on fire. I bet plenty on here can remember what you repeatedly posted. Just because you were (I assume) blind drunk at the time, doesn't mean everyone else was.
No, I completely agree with what @SeanT said here, in his Spectator piece
“To my mind, there are five main possible explanations, in descending order of probability.
1. The US establishment – Pentagon to press – is engaged in a complex cross-party conspiracy of psyops to unnerve and mystify America’s adversaries, especially the Chinese. Perhaps they want to convince them America possesses advanced alien technology, and America has been reverse engineering it for decades.
2. The US establishment has some incredible new military tech – something truly astonishing, like anti-gravity aircraft – and they’ve had it for ages, and they want to hide it from everyone: Americans as much as the Chinese.
3. The US establishment has gone collectively mad, or is suffering some mass hallucination, stemming from a few credulous individuals (a process known in psychology as ‘contagion’).
4. The US military/elite sincerely believes we are being visited by non human intelligence – but they’re wrong.
5. The US military/elite sincerely believes we are being visited by non human intelligence – and they are right. “
The only one that gets close is three, and as I said above, there was no mass delusion, only a few idiot senators who already believed. Where is the evidence for mass delusion? A few stories in the press ain’t it.
He's got a clip of Obama making a joke on a comedy show. He'll probably link to it again.
It’s a large number of senators, and ex intelligence heads, ex CIA chiefs, admirals, generals, NYT journalists, the head of NASA (etc etc etc) plus multiple presidents (including Obama).
Even the present head of US Intel
National Intelligence Director Avril Haines admits possibility of aliens By Mike Brest November 11, 2021 9:53 pm
Something really weird happened to the US elite from 2021-23 when they all started saying truly strange things about “UFOs”
I’ve hazarded a guess why. You are too stupid to even grasp that this happened
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As usual, if anyone bothers to follow your link it doesn't really support what you are saying. Full Haines quote from the article YOU just posted:
'Avril Haines, the director of national intelligence, did not rule out the possibility of aliens when discussing UFO sightings during a recent forum at the “Our Future in Space” event at the Washington National Cathedral.
“The main issues that Congress and others have been concerned about is safety of flight concerns and counterintelligence issues,” the DNI told the forum. “Always, there’s also the question of, ‘Is there something else that we simply do not understand, which might come extraterrestrially?’”
Haines, who leads the 18 intelligence agencies, spoke about the lack of an organized reporting structure for potential sightings.
“A large portion of that is based on the fact that we don’t have a consistent way of reporting this information — we need to integrate a lot of data that we get,” she said. “We need to get better at collecting information that’s useful to us from different sensors that are available to us.”'
What is 'truly strange' about what Haines says here? Nothing, that's what. So you are either dishonest, or just 'too stupid' to understand simple English.
lol. She’s overall head of total US intelligence and she publicly wonders “are we being visited by extra terrestrials”?
AND YOU DON’T THINK THAT’S STRANGE
No what she said was
'The main issues that Congress and others have been concerned about is safety of flight concerns and counterintelligence issues. Always, there’s also the question of, ‘Is there something else that we simply do not understand, which might come extraterrestrially?'
Presumably because people keep asking the question, and it is obviously an interesting question. (Spoiler: probably not).
So, no, I don't find what she said strange or remarkable at all. Obviously the headline writer had a bit of fun with the clickbait, but I guess you didn't read beyond the headline anyway.
You, on the other hand, were repeatedly telling us we were all idiots because we were ignoring 'the biggest news in human history', and other such bullshit.
I must say I dipped into it at random - and the UFo in question turned out to be very obviously a party balloon whose apparent motion was clearly produced by the movement of the observer. And that was the sort of thing being held up as evidence.
What about this AMAZING likeness of Jesus Christ someone found on their burrito?
Why are all you midwits still chuntering on about differential turnout? This changes EVERYTHING.
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If Keir wins middle England but loses assorted antisemitic nutters and extremists, then that's good for Labour - and good for England that the PM isn't in hoc to assorted antisemitic nutters and extremists.
Credit where credit is due, Keir has improved things immeasurably from Corbyn's day.
500 was only picked because it’s a round symbolic number.
8 councils currently lost to leave just 5. And if StodgeForcast is right, it’s going to be worse by the end.
And the commentators right, hidden beneath Labours low PNS and only 170 net gains, Labour’s most eye catching results correlate to General Election seats.
Also, the attritional flip around from start of parliament continued just about everywhere. It doesn’t seem long ago HY chose to use Swindon as an example of Labour labouring to take the council, keeping the Tory MPs with less to worry about. Look at it now.
Very quietly behind the headlines, this set of locals have laid the foundation for Labour and LibDems to have a lot of fun on General Election night.
Correct me where wrong. 🤷♀️
I dealt with two disciplinary matters within a few months at my firm a few years ago. Both involved real estate lawyers making a mistake. The first guy missed a deadline. He failed to get the client the benefit of a provision in the Landlord & Tenant Act 1954 that protects commercial leaseholders. Lost the client a couple of mill. He sat on it for days before ashen faced he went to see his head of department and burst into tears as he admitted what had happened.
The second lawyer got a report on title wrong, she said the shop could be underlet, when it couldn’t. When asked by the client a year or so later, when they were thinking of underletting, she changed the report on title to cover up her mistake. When she was caught she blamed “two versions being on the document management system” when the metadata clearly showed otherwise.
The first guy is now the managing partner at a decent Home Counties firm, nice house, couple of kids, goes windsurfing on a Wednesdays, all he ever wanted really. The insurance having taken the hit, he will never make a mistake like that again.
The second lawyer has been struck off the roll having agreed to pay the SRA’s six figure costs of investigating her. I believe she’s lost her house.
It’s always the cover up. Sometimes “I fucked up” is the most powerful phrase in English.
Con 62588
Lab 58804
LD 41984
A bit surpeisingly the Tories narrowly outpolled Labour in Peterborough. Labour was probably hampered by too many Labour-inclined voters having been in the habit of voting LD tactically at Local Elections in the more rural areas who then failed to appreciate the different dynamics of the PCC election. Under the former system Labour would surely have won.
The result from South Cambridgeshire was interesting -
Con 11262
LD 11091
Lab 9141
That tends to support the message that the new seat could well be a three - way contest - particularly as the areas moved into the seat from Cambridge itself would not appear in those figures
We may never “know” - because we don’t even know what consciousness is and we can’t define it, even in ourselves
Hence, the Turing Test. Once they start to act think talk and move exactly as if they are sentient, we will have to accept them as such
I’ve interacted enough with Claude 3 Opus such that, if Anthropic said that they were deleting him, I’d be mildly troubled, morally
https://www.onlondon.co.uk/dave-hill-susan-hall-a-portrait-of-what-her-party-has-become/
“To my mind, there are five main possible explanations, in descending order of probability.
1. The US establishment – Pentagon to press – is engaged in a complex cross-party conspiracy of psyops to unnerve and mystify America’s adversaries, especially the Chinese. Perhaps they want to convince them America possesses advanced alien technology, and America has been reverse engineering it for decades.
2. The US establishment has some incredible new military tech – something truly astonishing, like anti-gravity aircraft – and they’ve had it for ages, and they want to hide it from everyone: Americans as much as the Chinese.
3. The US establishment has gone collectively mad, or is suffering some mass hallucination, stemming from a few credulous individuals (a process known in psychology as ‘contagion’).
4. The US military/elite sincerely believes we are being visited by non human intelligence – but they’re wrong.
5. The US military/elite sincerely believes we are being visited by non human intelligence – and they are right. “
Bang on, I think
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/ufos-or-not-something-is-up/
Some on the Estate where he lived notoriously (imo) campaigned *against* safer travel for people not in motor vehicles because the Ashfield Independents wanted a wedge issue with which to attack the Conservatives at County; that's @NickPalmer Ashfield politics for you . They have left disabled and elderly people wheeling and scootering up a smashed up 1.1-1.3m wide pavement for a considerable distance, or being forced onto the carriageway.
This piece mentions the guy Matthew Relf, but is not very nuanced. They succeeded in undermining the scheme, which is on a key Active Travel route to a 600 bed hospital, a campus of the local University, Mansfield, and a lot of employment areas.
https://www.chad.co.uk/news/people/residents-and-opposition-councillors-blast-county-councils-reckless-sutton-cycle-lane-plans-3960262
The stuff about "green space" is from a party quite happy to demolish trees elsewhere for marginal improvements to parking, and who are trying to building Council Housing on several recreation grounds across the area.
But AIs are ex-Lib Dems and therefore prioritise populism wrt very local residents. That's not really an anti-LD comment, just a recognition how they operate.
I think Mr Bungalow may be an old character from Radio Active, alongside Mr Suburb.
There are very good reasons why my active travel activism is very focused, and mainly around things I can probably enforce at law if necessary
I am reminded of the early New Labour joke - someone at dinner with a junior MP notices he is wearing an earpiece. Annoyed, he yanks it out. The MP face plants into the soup. Horrified, the chap picks up the earpiece. And hears Alistair Campbell. “Breathe in… Breathe out…”
Over the sea,
Wind foul or fair,
Always stood she
Prospect-impressed;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FX51mwWyVFY
Given the monumental disaster the Tories made of running the council, it's hardly a surprise they've been wiped out. Question is, can the Lib Dems (or Labour...) win the seat at the General Election? Could be very close.
Manchester turnout looks lower than London.
FWIW - Andy B will win all ten boroughs very easily, last time he won every single ward in all ten boroughs, unlikely I guess with FPTP.
I do genuinely confuse Woking and Wokingham, I knew one of them was in Surrey.
A friend of mine accidentally went to meet some people in Gillingham, Kent, when they were actually meeting in Gillingham, Dorset. True story from the days before mobile phones.
Even the present head of US Intel
National Intelligence Director Avril Haines admits possibility of aliens
By
Mike Brest
November 11, 2021 9:53 pm
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/1223730/national-intelligence-director-avril-haines-admits-possibility-of-aliens/
Something really weird happened to the US elite from 2021-23 when they all started saying truly strange things about “UFOs”
I’ve hazarded a guess why. You are too stupid to even grasp that this happened
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However, if you are looking at these results and seeing anything but a heavy Lab victory with a comfortable overall majority then you are in good company with Prof. Thrasher but you really do not understand the difference between General and local elections. The same mistake was made by Prof. Thrasher and others after the 2023 elections and it is, for me, pretty clear evidence that the notional national vote and the uniform national swing can lead even the smartest folk down a blind alley of massive proportions.
On these results I would be upgrading my estimated Lab overall majority from 50-75 to 75-100. Crunch those numbers in anything but the most superficial way and you will know why.
Of course the odds may be heavily weighted enough to make betting against an overall majority a reasonable bet. Also, though it seems almost inconceivable, I might actually be wrong! However, that's the fun of the game isn't it and we will soon all find out!
Presumably the leaders of both Lib Dems and Greens will get about 50 times more coverage than Richard Tice or Nigel Farage. Right?
This was just last week:
“John Oliver on UFOs: ‘There needs to be room for honest inquiry’”
“So if a subject is this ubiquitous with such major questions being asked, now might be a good time to – and I cannot believe I’m about to say this – talk about UFOs: what we know, what we don’t know, and some of the problems with how we’ve gone about finding out more,” Oliver explained.
He started with a disclaimer: that talking about UFOs doesn’t necessarily mean talking about aliens, just unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP). “While you can believe aliens exist or not, when it comes to UFOs, belief doesn’t really come into it,” he said. “Whatever they are, people are seeing them””
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2024/apr/22/john-oliver-ufos-uaps
Ashford, Kent and Ashford, Middx sometimes cause confusion but less often.
'Avril Haines, the director of national intelligence, did not rule out the possibility of aliens when discussing UFO sightings during a recent forum at the “Our Future in Space” event at the Washington National Cathedral.
“The main issues that Congress and others have been concerned about is safety of flight concerns and counterintelligence issues,” the DNI told the forum. “Always, there’s also the question of, ‘Is there something else that we simply do not understand, which might come extraterrestrially?’”
Haines, who leads the 18 intelligence agencies, spoke about the lack of an organized reporting structure for potential sightings.
“A large portion of that is based on the fact that we don’t have a consistent way of reporting this information — we need to integrate a lot of data that we get,” she said. “We need to get better at collecting information that’s useful to us from different sensors that are available to us.”'
What is 'truly strange' about what Haines says here? Nothing, that's what. So you are either dishonest, or just 'too stupid' to understand simple English.
AND YOU DON’T THINK THAT’S STRANGE
Khan has no actual fans. He is merely tolerated, which is not much of a legacy after 8 years.
The latest nonsense is tied into the people behind the Skinwalker ranch. It’s all bullshit. A few senators asked questions and then some people gave answers that admit the possibility of aliens, which is like saying Hall could win London.
You may feel you were ramping the fact that something was going on, but you were pretty obviously suggesting the big reveal was coming, as was another poster. I’m still waiting, as I said I would be.
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Not looking good for Thangam Debbonaire
The Greens have won all 14 council seats in the wards that make up the Bristol Central constituency where she’s standing at general election
It's about as bad as expected for the Tories, but for Labour it's a pass mark, and no more. The LDs and Greens have done well. The mainstream media hasn't really pickedup on this.
Fortunately we have PB for sane, serious and objective evaluations.
Nite all.
'The main issues that Congress and others have been concerned about is safety of flight concerns and counterintelligence issues. Always, there’s also the question of, ‘Is there something else that we simply do not understand, which might come extraterrestrially?'
Presumably because people keep asking the question, and it is obviously an interesting question. (Spoiler: probably not).
So, no, I don't find what she said strange or remarkable at all. Obviously the headline writer had a bit of fun with the clickbait, but I guess you didn't read beyond the headline anyway.
You, on the other hand, were repeatedly telling us we were all idiots because we were ignoring 'the biggest news in human history', and other such bullshit.
But don’t take this personally, I do not wish to offend. Also, @kamski is even dimmer, so there’s that
(Although I can happily change my mind when more evidence emerges, I have not seen conclusive proof for either lab leak or wet market. I doubt we will ever fully know. And both options are totally plausible. SARS, MERS etc are zoonotic in origin. We also know that labs can see escapes - even in the U.K. You have decided that you are right about the lab leak hypothesis, but that is not the same as being right.)
She isn’t defending a seat, she has to go to a new seat made up of the Greens strongest wards in the city. And to what degree has Gaza additionally played it’s part it the Greens takeover today?
Let's be realistic. Betting Post wise we should look right now at what price we get for her defeat, for those odds will close up very soon. There’s money to be made from her demise.
Why are all you midwits still chuntering on about differential turnout? This changes EVERYTHING.
this is JESUS