Strong smell of not wanting to upset the sugar daddy there.
Not that I'm sure he's even wrong. I don't really know where I stand on it. I think it's the hardware I'm opposed to, not just the software.
His argument rests on family pressure being enough to counteract the addiction algorithms.
I'd like to think that is true but I need to be convinced.
There's a multi-billion $ payday vs Mom and Pop.
Not even that- there are some children who have the misfortune to be born to terrible parents. And those children are very liable to be very expensive for society to deal with for decades to come.
A lot of "parents should be trusted to do X/Y/Z" comes down to a reluctance for the state to have to pay to do anything about X/Y/Z right now. After all the costs will land on the next generation.
Although I suspect that any alternative attitude than 'parents should be trusted to do X/Y/Z' will have more harmful consequences, in the round.
Some parents are terrible. But most alternative sources of authority are worse imv.
British lawyers are always on holiday or asleep, claim US rivals
Lawyers at American firms have vented their spleen online at London’s legal culture, amid accusations of a ‘pay war’ for the best British junior solicitors
Americans may be late to footballing prowess, but for years their lawyers have been battling English counterparts for dominance of the international legal market.
Now an episode of football-style handbags has broken out online between the two legal cultures as lawyers at leading US firms reportedly have been venting their spleen at City rivals whom they brand as “stuffy” and “always sleeping or on vacation”.
A “big law” online forum has been humming with the views of anonymous lawyers at large US practices that make tough reading for their rivals in the City of London.
One American lawyer described their counterpart at large London firms as “academic rather than practical”, “overly cautious” and unable to “take a view on anything.”
Another reserved specific criticism of City lawyer Oxbridge graduates, who were described as being “socially coded to want to appear articulate and intelligent rather than efficient and direct”.
More seriously, one US lawyer highlighted a spate of sexual harassment cases over recent years at City law firms by commenting that London lawyers “have sex with other people in the office at a much higher rate than Americans”.
One American did have a positive comment, conceding that London rivals were stronger with the mutual language. City lawyers were seen to be better drafters, with UK documents being “much clearer than US drafting”.
Great to see the Commons are bringing back an identical Assisted Dying law to that which was passed last term. Good!
Hopefully the Commons passes it, and the Lords can stop dicking around and act like adults and either choose reasonable amendments that the Commons accepts to improve the bill, or the Parliament Act sees it go through unamended since the elected chamber has passed it twice by that point.
It's a Private Mermbers Bill and not part of the Government's Manifesto - the Parliament Act doesn't apply...
Great to see the Commons are bringing back an identical Assisted Dying law to that which was passed last term. Good!
Hopefully the Commons passes it, and the Lords can stop dicking around and act like adults and either choose reasonable amendments that the Commons accepts to improve the bill, or the Parliament Act sees it go through unamended since the elected chamber has passed it twice by that point.
It's a Private Mermbers Bill and not part of the Government's Manifesto - the Parliament Act doesn't apply...
Is the manifesto thing an issue here- isn't that the Salisbury convention that the Lords don't block anything that was in a winning manifesto at all?
Your reminder to stay the eff away from bungee or rope jumping.
Woman dies after safety cord left off in Brazil rope jump
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/world/brazil-rope-jump-safety-cord-woman-dies-6182501 ..In videos of the Saturday accident circulating online, two men hoist the 21-year-old above their heads and launch her off Skeleton Bridge, in the interior of Sao Paulo state, while onlookers realise there is no safety mechanism attached and shout "Guys, the cord!"
"The safety equipment was not properly secured at the time of the jump. The victim did not survive the fall," police said in a statement to AFP.
Three men were arrested for "homicide with dolus eventualis" - meaning they were aware of the risk of death but went ahead anyway...
A few years ago I acidentally did the Giant Tarzan Swing at Monteverde in Costa Rica:
It was only afterwards when I read the reviews that I found out that they had miscalculated a few months previously and broken someones legs.
Accidentally ?
Yes...
I had done the ziplining, including the 1.5 kilometre one, and they asked me if I wanted to do the Tarzan swing. I said "no" but I would like to have a look. As I got to the platform, the guy in front of me chickened out, so the guys clipped* me on and released the trapdoor...
* I was still wearing the harness from doing the ziplining.
Your reminder to stay the eff away from bungee or rope jumping.
Woman dies after safety cord left off in Brazil rope jump
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/world/brazil-rope-jump-safety-cord-woman-dies-6182501 ..In videos of the Saturday accident circulating online, two men hoist the 21-year-old above their heads and launch her off Skeleton Bridge, in the interior of Sao Paulo state, while onlookers realise there is no safety mechanism attached and shout "Guys, the cord!"
"The safety equipment was not properly secured at the time of the jump. The victim did not survive the fall," police said in a statement to AFP.
Three men were arrested for "homicide with dolus eventualis" - meaning they were aware of the risk of death but went ahead anyway...
A few years ago I acidentally did the Giant Tarzan Swing at Monteverde in Costa Rica:
It was only afterwards when I read the reviews that I found out that they had miscalculated a few months previously and broken someones legs.
Accidentally ?
I used to be part of a bungee display team which involved leaping 150ft from a crane, landing on the ground and then being yanked off again (no, not in that way, stop sniggering LuckyGuy). While wearing a top hat, coat and tails.
Retaining the function of my legs relied on the crane being precisely the right height (and also that the bungee cord wasn't left out in the sun).
In hindsight, I'll admit this was perhaps a little foolhardy.
Question. Is there any major politician committed to removing the state pension triple lock?
From what I'm hearing on this thread, doing so would be absolute political gold dust. I'm amazed all our politicians are failing to appreciate the magic.
you mistake PB for public opinion, not all out there have the mullah that posters here have.
Regular pb.com posters are overwhelmingly males over the age of 60 who either don't work, don't need to work, or officially work but barely bother.
Opinions tend to be conventional liberal centre-left, with a few exceptions.
Except I could right now off the top of my head list out 50 regular posters who are not at all conventional liberal centre-left.
I'm not going to, all will be relieved to hear, but I definitely could.
Go on then. Name the 50.
Too torrid. But you'd be there obviously. And just from this page of this thread, so a tiny sample, Malcolm, Lucky, Blanche, Alga, RCS, Bart, TSE, Jim, Malmesbury, Contrarian, Williamglenn ... that's a dozen already.
Can't move for all you not-centre-lefters.
That's eleven, and the posting frequency is far less.
Against that there's Chris, NigelB, Bondegezou, Kinabulu, Foxy, MexicanPete, Roger, "Peter", Dura, OnlyLivingBoy, OldKingCole, Murali_S, Tres, Eabhal, FF43, Brixian59, Jonathan, RochdalePioneers, Nico67, SandyRentool, DecrepiterJohnL, DougSeal etc. which is double your count for a start, and the posting rate is far higher.
Now, don't get me wrong, I'm personally fond of many of those posters. But you can't argue that's what dominates the site.
12. You didn't count you.
And that's not apples and pears. My 12 were just this page this thread. You've done a general trawl. If I did that I'd be listing lots more.
No, the charge of big leftish bias just isn't correct. A charge of 'liberal' bias maybe has more going for it. Not sure though. I'd need to check my files.
I have Eabhal and DougSeal as being basically centre-right not centre-left, plus we have Barnes Observer, the Moth Collector from Devon, the Conservative chap from the Lake District (not doing well with names), and iirc AnneJGP, and at least 8 members of the Leonine Order.
I'm delighted not to be pigeon-holed !
First time anyone’s called me centre right in my life! I’ve been quiet because I self identify as left liberal but interested to see other’s perceptions of me differ from my own. I was a member of the LDs for a very short period and even joined the mailing list of the local Co-Operative Party but that may just be tribalism.
Yes - a one dimensional spectrum no longer works.
I've always been centre-right economically - back in the 1990s others called me a Thatcherite, and more of a liberal individualist socially / morally, with a big dose of a proper communitarianism based on decades of involvement with people in the "intentional community" movement. That is very different from the New Labour usage of the term, which was more about categorising people into groups.
I'm currently considering what needs to be reassessed looking at the remaining wreckage of the Cons, which I joined to give my voice towards the levelling-up agenda (which turned out to be a smokescreen).
I think the key movement we need to rescue our politics is around civic engagement at a local level, with a smidgeon of community activism as happens in the USA, but with a politics around commonwealth, not ideology or fear and loathing.
Funily enough even though I always saw you as being on the Left we are actually alot closer in our views than I thought. Though mine are such an incoherent bag of beliefs that I am not sure how I would categorise myself these days. I always usd to say that I was a cowardly anarchist. In theory I believe in small, verging on tiny/non existent government but I have way to much vested in the status quo to want it to actually happen.
Question. Is there any major politician committed to removing the state pension triple lock?
From what I'm hearing on this thread, doing so would be absolute political gold dust. I'm amazed all our politicians are failing to appreciate the magic.
you mistake PB for public opinion, not all out there have the mullah that posters here have.
Regular pb.com posters are overwhelmingly males over the age of 60 who either don't work, don't need to work, or officially work but barely bother.
Opinions tend to be conventional liberal centre-left, with a few exceptions.
Except I could right now off the top of my head list out 50 regular posters who are not at all conventional liberal centre-left.
I'm not going to, all will be relieved to hear, but I definitely could.
Go on then. Name the 50.
Too torrid. But you'd be there obviously. And just from this page of this thread, so a tiny sample, Malcolm, Lucky, Blanche, Alga, RCS, Bart, TSE, Jim, Malmesbury, Contrarian, Williamglenn ... that's a dozen already.
Can't move for all you not-centre-lefters.
That's eleven, and the posting frequency is far less.
Against that there's Chris, NigelB, Bondegezou, Kinabulu, Foxy, MexicanPete, Roger, "Peter", Dura, OnlyLivingBoy, OldKingCole, Murali_S, Tres, Eabhal, FF43, Brixian59, Jonathan, RochdalePioneers, Nico67, SandyRentool, DecrepiterJohnL, DougSeal etc. which is double your count for a start, and the posting rate is far higher.
Now, don't get me wrong, I'm personally fond of many of those posters. But you can't argue that's what dominates the site.
12. You didn't count you.
And that's not apples and pears. My 12 were just this page this thread. You've done a general trawl. If I did that I'd be listing lots more.
No, the charge of big leftish bias just isn't correct. A charge of 'liberal' bias maybe has more going for it. Not sure though. I'd need to check my files.
I have Eabhal and DougSeal as being basically centre-right not centre-left, plus we have Barnes Observer, the Moth Collector from Devon, the Conservative chap from the Lake District (not doing well with names), and iirc AnneJGP, and at least 8 members of the Leonine Order.
I'm delighted not to be pigeon-holed !
First time anyone’s called me centre right in my life! I’ve been quiet because I self identify as left liberal but interested to see other’s perceptions of me differ from my own. I was a member of the LDs for a very short period and even joined the mailing list of the local Co-Operative Party but that may just be tribalism.
Yes - a one dimensional spectrum no longer works.
I've always been centre-right economically - back in the 1990s others called me a Thatcherite, and more of a liberal individualist socially / morally, with a big dose of a proper communitarianism based on decades of involvement with people in the "intentional community" movement. That is very different from the New Labour usage of the term, which was more about categorising people into groups.
I'm currently considering what needs to be reassessed looking at the remaining wreckage of the Cons, which I joined to give my voice towards the levelling-up agenda (which turned out to be a smokescreen).
I think the key movement we need to rescue our politics is around civic engagement at a local level, with a smidgeon of community activism as happens in the USA, but with a politics around commonwealth, not ideology or fear and loathing.
Funily enough even though I always saw you as being on the Left we are actually alot closer in our views than I thought. Though mine are such an incoherent bag of beliefs that I am not sure how I would categorise myself these days. I always usd to say that I was a cowardly anarchist. In theory I believe in small, verging on tiny/non existent government but I have way to much vested in the status quo to want it to actually happen.
And on the 'not left of centre' stakes I am terribly insulted to be left out of the list. Oh and I never had NigelB down as Left of centre
Question. Is there any major politician committed to removing the state pension triple lock?
From what I'm hearing on this thread, doing so would be absolute political gold dust. I'm amazed all our politicians are failing to appreciate the magic.
you mistake PB for public opinion, not all out there have the mullah that posters here have.
Regular pb.com posters are overwhelmingly males over the age of 60 who either don't work, don't need to work, or officially work but barely bother.
Opinions tend to be conventional liberal centre-left, with a few exceptions.
Except I could right now off the top of my head list out 50 regular posters who are not at all conventional liberal centre-left.
I'm not going to, all will be relieved to hear, but I definitely could.
Go on then. Name the 50.
Too torrid. But you'd be there obviously. And just from this page of this thread, so a tiny sample, Malcolm, Lucky, Blanche, Alga, RCS, Bart, TSE, Jim, Malmesbury, Contrarian, Williamglenn ... that's a dozen already.
Can't move for all you not-centre-lefters.
That's eleven, and the posting frequency is far less.
Against that there's Chris, NigelB, Bondegezou, Kinabulu, Foxy, MexicanPete, Roger, "Peter", Dura, OnlyLivingBoy, OldKingCole, Murali_S, Tres, Eabhal, FF43, Brixian59, Jonathan, RochdalePioneers, Nico67, SandyRentool, DecrepiterJohnL, DougSeal etc. which is double your count for a start, and the posting rate is far higher.
Now, don't get me wrong, I'm personally fond of many of those posters. But you can't argue that's what dominates the site.
12. You didn't count you.
And that's not apples and pears. My 12 were just this page this thread. You've done a general trawl. If I did that I'd be listing lots more.
No, the charge of big leftish bias just isn't correct. A charge of 'liberal' bias maybe has more going for it. Not sure though. I'd need to check my files.
I have Eabhal and DougSeal as being basically centre-right not centre-left, plus we have Barnes Observer, the Moth Collector from Devon, the Conservative chap from the Lake District (not doing well with names), and iirc AnneJGP, and at least 8 members of the Leonine Order.
I'm delighted not to be pigeon-holed !
First time anyone’s called me centre right in my life! I’ve been quiet because I self identify as left liberal but interested to see other’s perceptions of me differ from my own. I was a member of the LDs for a very short period and even joined the mailing list of the local Co-Operative Party but that may just be tribalism.
Yes - a one dimensional spectrum no longer works.
I've always been centre-right economically - back in the 1990s others called me a Thatcherite, and more of a liberal individualist socially / morally, with a big dose of a proper communitarianism based on decades of involvement with people in the "intentional community" movement. That is very different from the New Labour usage of the term, which was more about categorising people into groups.
I'm currently considering what needs to be reassessed looking at the remaining wreckage of the Cons, which I joined to give my voice towards the levelling-up agenda (which turned out to be a smokescreen).
I think the key movement we need to rescue our politics is around civic engagement at a local level, with a smidgeon of community activism as happens in the USA, but with a politics around commonwealth, not ideology or fear and loathing.
Funily enough even though I always saw you as being on the Left we are actually alot closer in our views than I thought. Though mine are such an incoherent bag of beliefs that I am not sure how I would categorise myself these days. I always usd to say that I was a cowardly anarchist. In theory I believe in small, verging on tiny/non existent government but I have way to much vested in the status quo to want it to actually happen.
Ron Swanson and Leslie Knope couldn't put it better. I suspect that a lot of our difficulties of having societal conversations come from making them abstract and remote. It's much harder to be shouty, and probably much easier to come to shared agreeements, when the questions are converted into concrete ones. What do we want the shared space around us to be like? How do we want to treat each other and be treated by each other? How should we pay for it all?
And those questions are much clearer at a local level. A really local level- a village, a parish, the 200 households of that episode of Yes, Prime Minister.
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Some parents are terrible. But most alternative sources of authority are worse imv.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gyxgwkyxyo
Whereas this is the Parliament Act, which the internet claims can be applied even for bills not mentioned in manifestoes;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliament_Acts_1911_and_1949#Parliament_Act_1949
(Wasn't it part of the farago over the Rwanda scheme, which couldn't really be justified on the basis of the Conservative manifesto of 2019?)
https://x.com/theipaper/status/2066206809468072277
The surprising job offer Keir Starmer is hoping for
I had done the ziplining, including the 1.5 kilometre one, and they asked me if I wanted to do the Tarzan swing. I said "no" but I would like to have a look. As I got to the platform, the guy in front of me chickened out, so the guys clipped* me on and released the trapdoor...
* I was still wearing the harness from doing the ziplining.
Retaining the function of my legs relied on the crane being precisely the right height (and also that the bungee cord wasn't left out in the sun).
In hindsight, I'll admit this was perhaps a little foolhardy.
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And those questions are much clearer at a local level. A really local level- a village, a parish, the 200 households of that episode of Yes, Prime Minister.