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The US’s 2nd septuagenarian President has ratings as bad as the first – politicalbetting.com
The US’s 2nd septuagenarian President has ratings as bad as the first – politicalbetting.com
The latest monthly Gallup poll with is Presdiential approval ratings out and the trend is shown in the chart above. The firm makes the following observation:
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If there's a problem with Biden it aint nothing like the problem with a Trump 2nd term.
Like I rate the last two POTUSES.
The characters in White Lotus are superbly drawn. These Americans are REALLY like this. The super-rich families whose kids just stay on their screens, in their $5000 a night suites
I went to a safari camp in Kafue in Zambia once, mega luxurious on the Busanga Plains, you have to fly in, I was told that just before me the entire camp had been rented by a billionaire Microsoft dude, for his family. He hired several helicopters to make sure everything was brought in, including satellite dishes and the like, to make sure that he and his kids were always online, despite this being one of the most remote places on earth (ordinarily there is no wifi let alone mobile signal)
The result was that his spoilt kids spent their whole time on their phones, arguing and sexting, and they barely did any safari (and Kafue has some of the best safari on the planet)
Probably cost him a million dollars for one holiday. Or more
After weeks of talks with @GBNEWS, resulting in exit settlement, the channel then broke it by briefing Mail on Sunday with load of smears/lies then unilaterally cancelling exit deal. Leaving me free to do, say whatever I want + never again be on GBNews. Couldn’t be happier.
https://twitter.com/afneil/status/1440797569836146690?s=21
When I was doing my PhD, I was in the US for a bit and I took a vacation to the arse end of nowhere, some fairly unpretentious cabins by a lake in the Pacific Northwest.
Next cabin to myself and Mrs U, family turned up via a really nice boat that must have cost a fair bit, but seemed nice normal people, got chatting, nothing particularly out of the ordinary. They clearly has some money. Kids seemed normal, had them out doing things jobs needed for the fires and general chores needed when you do that sort of trip.
Guy asks me about my research, seems overly interested without asking anything particularly technical. We hang out for a bit over the next couple of days, and he is very quiet about what he does, just say works in tech, so I guessed probably Microsoft software engineer or something and isn't allowed to say too much.
Then they go to leave, guy comes over, hands me a card, says when you finished if you fancy a job, drop me a message...not going to say who (as name won't mean anything to anybody outside the biz anyway), but super high up Microsoft, has to multi multi multi millionaire from stock options....but he was holidaying in this totally non descript, but very beautiful place, that Mrs U and I, who were poor research students could even afford.
It was definitely one of 'em. and this was the story told me by several Kafue staffers and rangers. They all confirmed it. Mad rich people with freaky kids
The endless successes that Andra produces through the labours of his own chubby wee fingers is startling, particularly in the face of everyone else fcuking up. Generous of him to share his happiness on twitter also.
https://twitter.com/PoliticsForAlI/status/1440780033044353033?s=20
78 is just too fucking old. It just IS. Especially if you're not in especially good mental shape, and I fear that is the case for Crazy Joe
https://twitter.com/demishassabis/status/1440688117304872971?s=20
But what does Demis know....some lady who did an Religious Studies degree / PhD and claims to be an "anthropologist in AI / Robotics", claims something something Brexit, something something British exceptionalism is stupid...
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/22/uk-publishes-plan-to-become-ai-superpower-and-rival-us-and-china.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/sportsnews/article-10018601/No-betting-firms-sponsor-football-shirts-governments-review-gambling-laws.html
What I do know, is I highly doubt such a background has any real insight into cutting edge AI research, as conducted by the likes of Demis....but Brexit Brexit Brexit, British exceptionalism in AI is nonsense, hence why Google, Microsoft, Amazon, etc definitely don't have very large well funded research centres here and DeepMinds definitely don't have special privileges to flip the switch on Google massive worldwide infrastructure to use it for cutting edge AI research.
Time to take your foot off the gas and let inertia carry you over the line.
If imcumbents seem doddering or out of touch there may be a reaction against that toward younger candidates (Trump is a bit different perhaps - he might be both, but he's certainly energetic and lively in campaigning).
Shows how the Constitution, the most advanced political document of its day, desperately needs updating to become a document for today.
Indeed, doing it early then having nothing to carry you over the line (as you will be told to shut up about politics, and criticised if you make money) can also be a problem.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/zygo.12494
Hopefully the AI budget won't go into 'research' like that.
Isn't it some student in a bedroom who is very very good at passing on other people's news items and playing the algorithms? fair play to him/him but it is not the Washington Post.
Why send him/her an embargoed item of this stature?
Bonkers?
...do we now have a fielder on the third person boundary?
Good night all.
In a way no upper limit is not so much of a problem if you could rely on parties not to select people who are incapable of doing the job anymore, or rely on people not to vote for people who are incapable, but that is not very likely. Even at Cllr level it can be a struggle to prevent someone not mentally up to it from restanding, either because they might appear ok, or just stubborn it out and find enough signatures.
Is that a boast? No, I'm just lucky to be healthy and in various jobs that I enjoy, and not having intermissions and meditating is just personal choice. But I'm reasonably good at what I do and it'd be daft to choose someone else to do one or all of them instead just because they were 69.
ALL WORK AND NO PLAY MAKES KEIR A DULL BOY
ALL WORK AND NO PLAY MAKES KEIR A DULL BOY
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It just isn't comparable to saying you have a 9-5 day job, some some bits and pieces in the evenings and have a social life.
I don't believe any 70 year olds can operate at that level.
PD 19.4%
Lega 19.3
Fdl 18.2%
M5S 18.0%
FI 7.9%
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_next_Italian_general_election#2021
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_candidacy#Comparison_chart
Painters, poets and architects often peak in those decades. And also politicians. The accumulated knowledge adds up to something special, Churchill was 65 when he became Prime Minister in 1940. It is extremely hard to argue that he was a bad choice
But by the 1950s he was in his late 70s. Too old
But there is a big difference between 71 and 78 (those ARE years of decline, I fear) and there is a HUGE difference between what you do and what the President of the USA has to do
I'm not being brutally unfair. I'm saying 70 or at most 75 should be a cut-off date to be a new first term president of the USA. Ruling out Biden
Hopefully medical science will change all this in years to come, and dementia and senility and the like will be defeated. But until then.....
$1m is 2% of that - equivalent to about about £300-400 for the person on median income in the Uk (approximation).
Moderna vs. Pfizer: Both Knockouts, but One Seems to Have the Edge
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/22/health/covid-moderna-pfizer-vaccines.html
The second is to support British cloud hosting, supercomputing and quantum computing or those will be more areas where British AI research spaffs money across the Atlantic.
However just because you are an older president does not mean you cannot articulate a vision. Reagan for instance was 70 already when he finished his first year in office, was re elected by a landslide and probably the most influential president since FDR in terms of setting the way for winning the Cold War and a surge in US economic growth
The super-rich are rich in a way most people cannot comprehend. You CAN drop a million on a holiday and it is the equivalent to going to IKEA for the average punter
https://twitter.com/dralanwager/status/1440770581989715969?s=21
If you reach 50 your hopes of being a sports star or film star may be over if you have not already done it but your chances of getting to the top in politics or business are only really coming to a head.
As Prince Charles can also well attest becoming a monarch often requires waiting until well past retirement age
Bob Dylan and Paul McCartney - 80 odd each - are both still making work, maybe some of the best of their careers.
Also, I think voters should get to choose, weighing up all the factors and deciding what matters to them. Biden is older than Trump and less of a live wire. Voters thought it over and decided they preferred him, and I suspect many felt frankly they wouldn't care what he was like so long as he wasn't Trump. Why should we refuse them that choice by saying that 75 is a total bar?
Like I said. Rose to fame. Which is odd. Since he seems to have been around for ever.
Hang on a minute though...
Hmm. Remind me again who writes the rules.
"Some of the best of their careers?"
Blonde on Blonde, Revolver, Highway 61, The White Album, Blood on the Tracks. ...
Not really.
Very decent? I'll give you that.
He might do the odd concert or write the odd new song but he is not doing a full time job 7 days a week like Biden is
My point was the biz seems reasonably favourable that the government are forming a strategy around this, but some non-entity who knows the square route of f##k all about cutting edge AI immediately bleating about Brexit and British exceptionalism....I am surprised she didn't get something about colonialism in there just for good measure.
GPT is open source. You want to make a change, you fork the project and you make it.
All the woke in the world won't change it, for better or for worse.
And thought bloody hell that’s good.
As, come to mention it, was OGH.
Spooky...
Had a rockdown in the lockdown lol!
The trouble is that many are against gambling per se, not just compulsive gambling. Ironically this makes it harder to get legislation to support responsible punters like us.
New gambling minister Chris Philp has barely got his legs under the desk. Is someone trying to bounce him or his equally new boss, Nadine Dorries?
Kamala is the likely candidate, and she's pretty awful. But Trump is unlikely to have gotten any saner in the next three years.
Sigh.
Ever wondered who the hell are a lot of these gambling companies are, most of which also have Chinese language version in their logo. And how they seem to be here one season, gone the next. The open secret is they don't actually want your business, if you go to their site, most are just white labelled sportsbook of a bigger operator.
The real money is if you try and visit that same site in the Far East....you don't get sent to the white labelled sportsbook, you get sent to an illegal bookmaker, who will happily take your bets via things like crypto, and the biggest operator of this network is a well known Triad.
https://www.nacional.hr/football-leaks-how-chinese-triad-online-bookmaker-paul-phua-bought-coast-of-montenegro/
But hey ho. Boris is an instinctive liberal.
We are repeatedly told. Ad nauseum
They do business at suffrance of the State. And owe it fealty.
Maybe Foxy is right and Xi is cracking down. No sense Putin is.
Folk need to scrub the idea you can do normal business in either place.
And he doesn't do business in China like that, I don't believe he even enters mainland China.
Not without a High Court order.
They are intent on handicapping it, severely
Anyone woke can happily handicap GPT3, and it'll get happily forked.
New documents show that just 18 months before the first Covid-19 cases appeared, researchers had submitted plans to release skin-penetrating nanoparticles and aerosols containing “novel chimeric spike proteins” of bat coronaviruses into cave bats in Yunnan, China.
They also planned to create chimeric viruses, genetically enhanced to infect humans more easily, and requested $14million from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) to fund the work.
Pretty much wraps up the argument about lab origin.