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Two new VI voting polls out today adding to the confusion – politicalbetting.com
Two new VI voting polls out today adding to the confusion – politicalbetting.com
After my piece yesterday suggesting that this week’s Redfield poll might be an outlier we’ve had two other Westminster VI poll out today. ComRes has a CON lead of 7% while Kantar has it down to 3%.
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Basically, Facebook, Apple, Google, etc., want to continue to build up their development hubs in the Silicon Valley area, but their enormous hiring sprees have sent rents in SF and the Bay Area through the roof. A public school teacher simply can't afford to live within 50 miles of Cupertino.
There is therefore enormous resistance from a lot of long-term residents to their actions, because their growth has negative externalities.
But Apple, etc., have shot back with Without our tax revenues, you would have serious problems keeping the lights on. And if we start moving development to Austin, or Bangalore, then that whole expertise will start moving outside California or even the US as a whole.
And that's the difficult choice people have.
You may have to ban yourself
It seems to be at least two or three different explosions? The last one is enormous. Suggests at least two or more suicide bombers. A well organised, sophisticated attack
https://twitter.com/LeakedReality/status/1430937364831035394?s=20
Joe Root started the day on 1277 Test runs in 2021, which was 41st on the list for the most runs in a calendar year.
Since then he has gone past:
https://twitter.com/geofflemonsport/status/1430888609092018179?s=21
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#BREAKING: The Wall Street Journal is reporting the U.S. ambassador in Kabul has told staff there that four U.S. Marines were killed in an explosion at the city’s airport and three wounded, a U.S. official with knowledge of the briefing said. #Afghanistan
https://twitter.com/ronzheimer/status/1430649098961555458
EDIT: however there are also videos which seem to show the 1st bomb exploding at twilight, which makes this video questionable
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Four U.S. Marines were among those killed in the explosions at Kabul airport, and three were wounded, the U.S. ambassador told staff, an official said
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Very very bad for Biden
Normally suicide attacks are the cry of rage of the powerless. But the taliban are winning. Everyone is getting out. All their dreams are coming true. Who can be induced to blow themselves up in these circumstances?
Présidentielle 2022: Michel Barnier va annoncer sa candidature à la primaire de la droite
https://twitter.com/bfmtv/status/1430885855053312002?s=21
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/26/isis-affiliate-iskp-is-prime-suspect-for-kabul-airport-suicide-bomb
Atletico Madrid, Porto, and AC Milan.
Also misleading since real Guardianistas are sensible middle-class lefties who love to espouse left causes but rarely man (or woman) the barricades - we're usually far too busy shopping in Waitrose.
Simeone is the only manager who has ever managed to get under Klopp's skin.
I think Liverpool will win all three home gains, we've missed the fans on European nights.
If he retaliates (and many will demand that) who can he hit, and where will it end up? What's the point?
If he just accepts the deaths, and ends the evacuation, and scuttles, that looks appalling, and he will leave thousands behind
If he continues with the evacuation, more US soldiers, citizens and others will likely die
Too late now.
Which kinda makes sense. They would know
Good grief, these people.
Unresolvable differences about what sort of dystopia they want?
In 2017 they got 1.6% and when many on the left were disillusioned with Corbyn they only crept up to 2.7%
These figures are for England and Wales because there is a separate Green party in Scotland.
The mission will be accomplished.
It is terrible for their standing and their abilty to project control over the scattered provinces.
What's the point? The Indians are not going to bat out the best part of three days There's no rain forecast; a decalration just before lunch tomorrow will be plenty early enough.
(Ok, only one test, but I think all rounders have made terrible test captains for England, Flintoff and Botham for example.)
I don't think its a slam dunk one way or another.
(Still no Gary Pratt though).
There are reports coming in that all gates to the airport have been sealed
Can they really persist with the evacuation if suicide bombers are menacing the thousands on the airport perimeter, and US and allied troops?
But too late now to do that so all academic anyway.
So the first bombs went off when it was still sunny, it was the second bomb, at Baron Hotel, that took place around dusk
Which means my original video of the multiple explosions might well be real
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58339762
Firstly, Just:
Back in March 2020, our entire US workforce was in Los Angeles / Orange County, and our entire UK workforce was in London. Now, our US workforce is spread out across the US - we have two people in Ohio, one in Sacramento, etc. We no longer require people to be based near us. If they are, great! If they aren't, it's not the end of the world.
In the UK, we have actually given up our office space. We have more employees in the UK (and in the EU) than before, but they are all remote. This has also meant we can get people in Spain and Poland, and pay them local rates, rather than paying them London rates. Until we get really big, I wouldn't expect us to actually have a permanent London office again.
Secondly, PythonAnywhere:
PA is also going to be giving up its London office, and it's employees have "scattered". One is spending half his time in Lisbon and half in London. One has returned to Hong Kong (probably temporarily). Two new hires are in Poland. And the London based people are all working from home.
I think Covid is good for places with cheap, technically savvy young people. They can work for British (or American) companies without moving country.
It is bad for places with poor technological infrastructure. There is - for example - a massive gulf between Portugal (amazing connectivity) and Greece (dreadful).
It is good for places with good technical universities, and low cost of living. And bad for expensive places which don't.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58348541
Dex Dexter and Ted Dexter have sadly died at almost the same time. Dex Dexter was Joan Collins' boyfriend in Dynasty, real name Michael Nader.
You should never declare when you could have the tailenders have a slog.
http://www.howstat.com/cricket/statistics/Matches/MatchBothInningsDeclared.asp
Mrs U probably be happy to get me out the house and out from under her feet.
You then have the Harris factor. Latest poll out shows not only a very bad rating for her but also unprecedented negative numbers when it comes to people feeling very negative about her.
Not looking good.
To add to the anecdotes - spoke to a CEO of a tech company, fairly well established and sizeable. Said the pandemic for him and other startup CEOs he spoke to has been an absolute Godsend - got rid of expensive space they didn’t need, worked out they could fire 40pc of the staff and things would still work out well and new methods of working. They are not going back to the old ways.
I mean, it seems odd to blow yourself up at all, but if you really insanely believe in something and are otherwise impotent, I can see how the pros and cons work out. But to blow yourself up so your lot of nutters get a slight tactical advantage over the other seemingly identically insane lot of nutters? It's like breaking your leg to prevent a throw-in.
And here we have ISIS-K (supposedly), looking to move in and fill a vacuum.
"Only in hyper-paranoid Edwardian Britain could eight be seen as a reasonable compromise between four and six."
(the number of Dreadnought hulls laid down).
In the end we entered WWI with 30 to the German's 19...
https://twitter.com/LittleBrownUK/status/1430848260625797124?s=20