Typical bedwetting from the Torygraph. Hardly anyone will know or care.
They will as it will cost more to buy and more to. Use. He is an epic cnt
Heat pump tumble dryers are more expensive to buy but much cheaper to use & the lower electricity costs over their lifetime vastly outweighs the initial extra expense.
Plus you can put the things anywhere & don’t have to watch all that lovely heat being vented out of the house in winter like all condenser tumble dryers.
Yep. Bought our one a year and a bit ago and its ace.
Same, my cleaner says it is awesome.
I'd say the same, but the my wife would (a) kill me for calling her the cleaner and (b) she isn't very good at cleaning...
This is a very British thing. Having a terrible cleaner but being too polite to mention anything
I just occasionally mumble about “uhm, dusting” and leave it at that. Partly coz she’s also a true chirpy cockney lass in her later years. They’re a dying breed in these parts so I feel I’m doing my bit by paying her to not clean very well
I think it is also a terribly British thing to be terribly uncomfortable to admit to having a cleaner at all.
The absolute worst thing about the pandemic for me was that I had to clean my own house as well as wash and iron my clothes.
I’ve employed a cleaner from 2000 onwards so this was a new hell for me.
Likewise. I had to do HOOVERING
FFS
In truth I think I was so depressed I quickly gave up cleaning and just let everything fester for five months
My other problem is that I am as germaphobe and neat freak, so I couldn’t leave things untidy.
It was a circle of hell.
I got chatting about the pando with the locals in Rwanda. It was a suicide-inducing disaster for them as well. Esp those in the tourist biz. No money for 2 years and no government furlough to bail them out. And lockdowns
The pandemic is a unique thing. Never before has one event impacted every single person on the planet in a fairly similar way. Parts of the world never saw the Black Death. World War Two barely touched some countries
But the pando was everywhere doing evil shit to everyone. I suspect we all have PTSD but just don’t realise because it’s universal
Spanish flu. Worldwide and just over 100 years ago and devastating compared to Covid. Covid killed 0.01% of the world population. Spanish flu killed between 1 - 5.4% of the world population so 100 - 500 times more lethal and impacted the whole world.
But that was just a very very nasty disease. They didn’t have lockdowns. International travel didn’t end. Schools weren’t closed worldwide
Covid was unique
Pretty much everywhere in the world had lockdowns. A unique experiment in human history and arguably a total disaster
Eh? What? First of all it was a different time so international travel for the vast majority wasn't a thing so you can't use that comparison and as far as lockdowns were concerned they were widespread and for very long periods. Most were organised regionally rather than nationally, but that again reflects the time. There was even mandatory mask wearing.
So yes schools were closed as were theatres, churches, public meetings etc. Lockdowns sometimes were only for a month, but others for half a year.
It was very similar to Covid (if you take into account the time difference of less travel and more regional rather national control around the world), except the death toll was far more severe and more devastating on the young.
'Just a very nasty disease'! Honestly what nonsense. It was far worse. Why do you have to over dramatise everything you live through.
This is utter nonsense. "It was very similar to Covid (if you take into account the world was totally different)" - so it was totally different? Got you
In 1918 almost no one outside the USA "locked down". It simply did not happen. The British Empire had other business, continental Europe was recovering from World War One and was distracted, outside the western world (of the time) the Flu was just another new and hideous disease amongst many, at a time when early deaths were sadly very common
Even within the USA the lockdowns were patchy, short and sporadic, A few cities did it bigtime, many hardly bothered
What a ridiculous statement. You are a silly person. Go away and read Pale Rider
This analysis is interesting in a geeky way. Tumble-dryers are quite efficient providing you stop before the clothes are completely dry and finish them off through airing. Problem is, people run them too long.
For real efficiency -> washing line under a shelter or a drying rack. I use my second shower and a small dehumidifier.
It's just the Telegraph trolling the basement dwellers of Tunbridge Wells. The Two Minute Hate is important. It will be the same sort of 7 day wonder as the LED light bulb outrage.
We don't have one and haven't had one for 20.yrs Outside is best.
“Over the past seven years, Harborne has given more than £22m to Farage’s political party. That accounts for two-thirds of all funding received by Reform UK (previously called the Brexit party), making it uniquely dependent among British parties on a single benefactor. August’s £9m was the largest single amount ever given by a living donor. Another £3m followed in November.”
Seems to be pure anecdotage but might nonetheless be useful info for bettors:
"The Polanski negative vibe shift is crazy. Just been chatting to some student baristas and they said their whole lecture group has totally gone off him and will now vote Labour or Reform. What's going on"
Postal voters vote - nudging an 80% return rate in some of the wards in Bradford, 70% on average, with still a couple of days to go.
Any idea what percentage of the votes will be postal? Local elections are not renowned for high turnouts.
75% plus return isn’t however unusual for postal votes; it’s the standard. But a fair few are handed in to polling stations on the day, so if Bradford is already at 80%, that’s high.
I believe the last GE achieved the record for the highest proportion of total votes that were by post rather than in person; I can’t remember whether it was a quarter or a third; I’ve a feeling it was the latter. The stat is in the 2024 election campaign book somewhere
Turnout in local elections is usually much lower than a general though.
At the polling station, yes, but less so for postal votes
Which implies the postal voting percentage could be very high indeed.
Seems to be pure anecdotage but might nonetheless be useful info for bettors:
"The Polanski negative vibe shift is crazy. Just been chatting to some student baristas and they said their whole lecture group has totally gone off him and will now vote Labour or Reform. What's going on"
Sapporo 🇬🇧 🐘🌲 @landofangle · 1 May Ridiculous, illegally installed violating the Town and Country Planning Act and the Highways Act. It does not have the Secretary of State's approval either. Robin ""Bansky"" Gunningham should be arrestecuted and Restore Britain must flag the entire area by Sunday.
Seems to be pure anecdotage but might nonetheless be useful info for bettors:
"The Polanski negative vibe shift is crazy. Just been chatting to some student baristas and they said their whole lecture group has totally gone off him and will now vote Labour or Reform. What's going on"
Seems to be pure anecdotage but might nonetheless be useful info for bettors:
"The Polanski negative vibe shift is crazy. Just been chatting to some student baristas and they said their whole lecture group has totally gone off him and will now vote Labour or Reform. What's going on"
Sapporo 🇬🇧 🐘🌲 @landofangle · 1 May Ridiculous, illegally installed violating the Town and Country Planning Act and the Highways Act. It does not have the Secretary of State's approval either. Robin ""Bansky"" Gunningham should be arrestecuted and Restore Britain must flag the entire area by Sunday.
I don't believe that tweet is meant satirically, but it might mean the tweet is totally unreliable
Jesus X Christ this country. HS2 are digging up my road AGAIN. This must be the twentieth time in ten years. By now the Chinese would have built a tramline to Neptune
Think yourself lucky,
In my neck of the woods, they're digging up roads to replace Victorian/Edwardian gas infrastructure.
But I genuinely don't understand it. They have been building HS2 since 2017, down here at Euston/Camden. LITERALLY almost a decade. How the fuck can they still be discovering stuff they have to dig up, at the same place, yet again, nine years later???
Seems to be pure anecdotage but might nonetheless be useful info for bettors:
"The Polanski negative vibe shift is crazy. Just been chatting to some student baristas and they said their whole lecture group has totally gone off him and will now vote Labour or Reform. What's going on"
It was questioning police tactics on stopping a terrorist attack that did it IMO. Everyone could see how scary that was for everyone involved and then to have a third rate politician question that has made people turn against that and start questioning all the other nonsense he's been spouting.
Just received a personally addressed letter from Ruth Davidson (they even spelled my name correctly), they must have a lot of money to spaff about so indiscriminately. She entreats me to vote SCon on the list to 'absolutely ensure they (the SNP) don't win a majority of seats on 7th May'. Q: what happens if they do win a majority?
Practically nothing as we'll be stymied by an ongoing merry-go-round of obsessing over the constitutional question. Witness the past 19 years.
Just received a personally addressed letter from Ruth Davidson (they even spelled my name correctly), they must have a lot of money to spaff about so indiscriminately. She entreats me to vote SCon on the list to 'absolutely ensure they (the SNP) don't win a majority of seats on 7th May'. Q: what happens if they do win a majority?
I’m now really depressed - this morning my LinkedIn feed (yes, I know) suggested I might like to follow Rupert Lowe, based on mutual contacts.
Seems to be pure anecdotage but might nonetheless be useful info for bettors:
"The Polanski negative vibe shift is crazy. Just been chatting to some student baristas and they said their whole lecture group has totally gone off him and will now vote Labour or Reform. What's going on"
It was questioning police tactics on stopping a terrorist attack that did it IMO. Everyone could see how scary that was for everyone involved and then to have a third rate politician question that has made people turn against that and start questioning all the other nonsense he's been spouting.
Yes, and I saw a tweet from pollster Luke Tryl (I might try and find it later when less busy) making exactly your point. He said he'd done focus groups in the north (IIRC) and he was really surprised how much Golders Green had cut through, when other attacks don't. Perhaps BECAUSE we had that video of the attacker, after nearly butchering two Jews
Any sane person understood exactly why the coppers did what they did, he still had the knife, he was still resisting, he had not surrendered after tasering, he was actively trying to kill people. In 99% of countries he'd have been shot dead at that point
Only fools and anti-Semites found it questionable, Polanski is certainly in the first category, and proved it at that moment
Zack Polanski wrongly claimed on @BBCr4today that the Golders Green suspect was "handcuffed" when he was kicked by officers.
That's simply not right... his hands were free and he was holding a knife!
Polanski to Nick Robinson: "I was traumatised by seeing someone handcuffed and repeatedly kicked in the head”.
Lying arse needs to be called out constantly.
Polanski was traumatised by what he *thought he saw*
As Professor R L Gregory pointed out, in his excellent books on the eye and the brain, much of what we perceive is heavily edited by the brain. This is often how optical illusions work.
In this case Zack wanted to see (subconsciously) police brutality. So his internal LLM did the job for him.
It’s probably punching down to insist of him using objective facts. That would traumatise him further.
Zack Polanski: "The Green Party are an anti-racist party" Nick Robinson: "You can't just say the words 'we're an anti-racist party' when I've just read you out five of the most revolting comments"
Lol
Sure he can as long as there are people who will believe it. I fear that young women in particular seem to be susceptible to social media manipulation by these types just as young men have become susceptible to social media manipulation by Andrew Tate and others like him.
It’s like the young women I met in Africa. Bright, smart, likeable, kind. But they’ve been persuaded to believe obviously untrue things. Consoling “facts” which can be falsified in seconds. But they don’t want to hear the truth. They prefer the comforting lie - which is nearly always lefty and woke
I know it's a pain but I'm afraid you reactionary righties can't expect to keep the mendacious populist lane all to yourselves. Given how wide it is it's only fair you share it with others.
Indeed not. Given how important it is - apparently - to the young to have "strong cultural-progressive positions that are fundamental to political identity" (as @IanB2 put it) there needs to be a party for such people, preferably led by a liar (as all populist leaders tend to be), and the fact that some of its activists call a minority "an abomination on the planet", "cockroaches" or to be fed "feet first" into a shredder reply really is neither here nor there. This is just "the media having a go" according to @NickPalmer and not the sort of scrutiny that all political parties do and should face.
There are various reasons people are drawn towards the Greens. I have some sympathy with leftists who bemoan a huge financial crisis then all the talk of austerity, a climate crisis and expensive housing.
However if you believe we are living in a society that is structurally racist and fundamentally corrupt, what does that say about a minority group who seem disproportionately successful in such a settlement? It doesn't reflect well on them. In an earlier age they might have been called the bourgeoisie. So long as Jews are seen as doing well in a profoundly immoral society they will be a target for the radical left. There's no answer other than to try and minimise the number of people attracted to revolutionary sentiment. (Our education system seems to be doing the opposite). Or for Jews to be less successful.
On one of the pro Gaza marches some bohemian chap was bemoaning that there was a lot of Jewish money in the arts. Now you might think that a wannabe artist would be quite grateful for this! But of course not. You see most artists don't get grants and are inevitably a little envious of those that do. So by being generous patrons you unfortunately become a target for resentment.
This is where IQ is relevant, even if we wish it wasn't. Average Ashkenazim Jewish IQ is ~115. A full SD above the norm. Even if you set aside all cultural factors (a Jewish emphasis on education, a culture of hard work and capitalism, etc) that means Jews are going to be markedly more successful than any other ethnic group. And they are. Whether you look at Nobel prizes or Fields medals, CEOs or billionaires, thriving entrepreneurs or go-getting retail barons, Jews are and will be "over-represented". This causes resentment which turns into prejudice which, if not stopped, eventually turns into pogroms
The problem I have is that it's both preposterous to think all races (for want of a better word) have exactly equal intelligence (what plausible reason could there be for that?) but also preposterous to think that some races could be (after controlling for environment, culture etc) a full standard deviation away*, never mind the claims of some of average IQ in Botswana being 60 and so on. These are both ridiculous positions but it seems everyone has to pick one...
*A full standard deviation leads to totally implausible numbers of either genii or dribbling imbeciles, depending which way you go
Why does Polanski continue to dig a deeper hole for himself ?
I think the vast majority of the public couldn’t care less if the perpetrator was kicked in the head . If you attempt to kill people then refuse to hand over the knife you get what you deserve !
If I’m thinking this as a so called leftie liberal then I think Polanski has really scored a spectacular own goal !
Zack Polanski: "The Green Party are an anti-racist party" Nick Robinson: "You can't just say the words 'we're an anti-racist party' when I've just read you out five of the most revolting comments"
Lol
Sure he can as long as there are people who will believe it. I fear that young women in particular seem to be susceptible to social media manipulation by these types just as young men have become susceptible to social media manipulation by Andrew Tate and others like him.
It’s like the young women I met in Africa. Bright, smart, likeable, kind. But they’ve been persuaded to believe obviously untrue things. Consoling “facts” which can be falsified in seconds. But they don’t want to hear the truth. They prefer the comforting lie - which is nearly always lefty and woke
I know it's a pain but I'm afraid you reactionary righties can't expect to keep the mendacious populist lane all to yourselves. Given how wide it is it's only fair you share it with others.
Indeed not. Given how important it is - apparently - to the young to have "strong cultural-progressive positions that are fundamental to political identity" (as @IanB2 put it) there needs to be a party for such people, preferably led by a liar (as all populist leaders tend to be), and the fact that some of its activists call a minority "an abomination on the planet", "cockroaches" or to be fed "feet first" into a shredder reply really is neither here nor there. This is just "the media having a go" according to @NickPalmer and not the sort of scrutiny that all political parties do and should face.
Is my point if widened. Farage and Polanski share the populist leader dna of mendacity, exploitation of grievance, and tolerance of bigotry amongst activists and supporters. And with Farage you have the added twist of shameless grift and corruption. So hearing supporters of his (which I know doesn't include you) get upset about Polanski invites the big raspberry.
Zack Polanski: "The Green Party are an anti-racist party" Nick Robinson: "You can't just say the words 'we're an anti-racist party' when I've just read you out five of the most revolting comments"
Lol
Sure he can as long as there are people who will believe it. I fear that young women in particular seem to be susceptible to social media manipulation by these types just as young men have become susceptible to social media manipulation by Andrew Tate and others like him.
It’s like the young women I met in Africa. Bright, smart, likeable, kind. But they’ve been persuaded to believe obviously untrue things. Consoling “facts” which can be falsified in seconds. But they don’t want to hear the truth. They prefer the comforting lie - which is nearly always lefty and woke
I know it's a pain but I'm afraid you reactionary righties can't expect to keep the mendacious populist lane all to yourselves. Given how wide it is it's only fair you share it with others.
Indeed not. Given how important it is - apparently - to the young to have "strong cultural-progressive positions that are fundamental to political identity" (as @IanB2 put it) there needs to be a party for such people, preferably led by a liar (as all populist leaders tend to be), and the fact that some of its activists call a minority "an abomination on the planet", "cockroaches" or to be fed "feet first" into a shredder reply really is neither here nor there. This is just "the media having a go" according to @NickPalmer and not the sort of scrutiny that all political parties do and should face.
There are various reasons people are drawn towards the Greens. I have some sympathy with leftists who bemoan a huge financial crisis then all the talk of austerity, a climate crisis and expensive housing.
However if you believe we are living in a society that is structurally racist and fundamentally corrupt, what does that say about a minority group who seem disproportionately successful in such a settlement? It doesn't reflect well on them. In an earlier age they might have been called the bourgeoisie. So long as Jews are seen as doing well in a profoundly immoral society they will be a target for the radical left. There's no answer other than to try and minimise the number of people attracted to revolutionary sentiment. (Our education system seems to be doing the opposite). Or for Jews to be less successful.
On one of the pro Gaza marches some bohemian chap was bemoaning that there was a lot of Jewish money in the arts. Now you might think that a wannabe artist would be quite grateful for this! But of course not. You see most artists don't get grants and are inevitably a little envious of those that do. So by being generous patrons you unfortunately become a target for resentment.
This is where IQ is relevant, even if we wish it wasn't. Average Ashkenazim Jewish IQ is ~115. A full SD above the norm. Even if you set aside all cultural factors (a Jewish emphasis on education, a culture of hard work and capitalism, etc) that means Jews are going to be markedly more successful than any other ethnic group. And they are. Whether you look at Nobel prizes or Fields medals, CEOs or billionaires, thriving entrepreneurs or go-getting retail barons, Jews are and will be "over-represented". This causes resentment which turns into prejudice which, if not stopped, eventually turns into pogroms
The problem I have is that it's both preposterous to think all races (for want of a better word) have exactly equal intelligence (what plausible reason could there be for that?) but also preposterous to think that some races could be (after controlling for environment, culture etc) a full standard deviation away*, never mind the claims of some of average IQ in Botswana being 60 and so on. These are both ridiculous positions but it seems everyone has to pick one...
*A full standard deviation leads to totally implausible numbers of either genii or dribbling imbeciles, depending which way you go
I don't want to go down this rabbit hole today. It always ends up in a venomous place
But I'll just say this: the Ashkenazi Jewish IQ finding is real and is consistent over time. Around 115, though some have it lower around 107 or 110
When you look at Jewish intellectual over-achievement, is it so mad? - Ashkenazi Jews are around 0.2% of the world population and have won something on the order of 20–25% of Nobel Prizes in the sciences and economics. They have similar overrepresentation among Fields medallists, chess grandmasters, and senior US academics
How much of this is "IQ", and whether "IQ" really means anything, is for another time or a different place. I have a huge flint to knap, starting today
PB seems to have gone a bit eugenic this afternoon.
IQ is a terrible measure for most of what people want it to prove. It measures a narrow slice of cognitive performance, not wisdom, judgement, morality, creativity or human worth.
“IQ tests favour people who are good at IQ tests” sounds circular, but there’s a real point underneath it. They measure a narrow, test-friendly slice of cognition: abstract reasoning, working memory, verbal and pattern skills, speed, and familiarity with formal testing. They do not measure practical competence, social intelligence, moral seriousness, or whether someone should stop posting.
Why does Polanski continue to dig a deeper hole for himself ?
I think the vast majority of the public couldn’t care less if the perpetrator was kicked in the head . If you attempt to kill people then refuse to hand over the knife you get what you deserve !
If I’m thinking this as a so called leftie liberal then I think Polanski has really scored a spectacular own goal !
Pride?
How many times in public life have you seen cases where the options are
- Issue a carefully worded climb down/apology - Say nothing - Fire up Bagger 288 and kick it into high gear.
Having the paragraph in bold contain the word ‘Tories’ four times, plus a ‘Tory’, is extraordinary
Somebody hates elegant variation
Good. I hate elegant variation too. It's inelegant inaccuracy. Pick a word and stick to it. A cigar is a cigar, not a stogie, blunt, stick, tube or cheroot.
Typical bedwetting from the Torygraph. Hardly anyone will know or care.
They will as it will cost more to buy and more to. Use. He is an epic cnt
Heat pump tumble dryers are more expensive to buy but much cheaper to use & the lower electricity costs over their lifetime vastly outweighs the initial extra expense.
Plus you can put the things anywhere & don’t have to watch all that lovely heat being vented out of the house in winter like all condenser tumble dryers.
Yep. Bought our one a year and a bit ago and its ace.
Same, my cleaner says it is awesome.
I'd say the same, but the my wife would (a) kill me for calling her the cleaner and (b) she isn't very good at cleaning...
This is a very British thing. Having a terrible cleaner but being too polite to mention anything
I just occasionally mumble about “uhm, dusting” and leave it at that. Partly coz she’s also a true chirpy cockney lass in her later years. They’re a dying breed in these parts so I feel I’m doing my bit by paying her to not clean very well
I think it is also a terribly British thing to be terribly uncomfortable to admit to having a cleaner at all.
The absolute worst thing about the pandemic for me was that I had to clean my own house as well as wash and iron my clothes.
I’ve employed a cleaner from 2000 onwards so this was a new hell for me.
Likewise. I had to do HOOVERING
FFS
In truth I think I was so depressed I quickly gave up cleaning and just let everything fester for five months
My other problem is that I am as germaphobe and neat freak, so I couldn’t leave things untidy.
It was a circle of hell.
I got chatting about the pando with the locals in Rwanda. It was a suicide-inducing disaster for them as well. Esp those in the tourist biz. No money for 2 years and no government furlough to bail them out. And lockdowns
The pandemic is a unique thing. Never before has one event impacted every single person on the planet in a fairly similar way. Parts of the world never saw the Black Death. World War Two barely touched some countries
But the pando was everywhere doing evil shit to everyone. I suspect we all have PTSD but just don’t realise because it’s universal
Spanish flu. Worldwide and just over 100 years ago and devastating compared to Covid. Covid killed 0.01% of the world population. Spanish flu killed between 1 - 5.4% of the world population so 100 - 500 times more lethal and impacted the whole world.
But that was just a very very nasty disease. They didn’t have lockdowns. International travel didn’t end. Schools weren’t closed worldwide
Covid was unique
Pretty much everywhere in the world had lockdowns. A unique experiment in human history and arguably a total disaster
Eh? What? First of all it was a different time so international travel for the vast majority wasn't a thing so you can't use that comparison and as far as lockdowns were concerned they were widespread and for very long periods. Most were organised regionally rather than nationally, but that again reflects the time. There was even mandatory mask wearing.
So yes schools were closed as were theatres, churches, public meetings etc. Lockdowns sometimes were only for a month, but others for half a year.
It was very similar to Covid (if you take into account the time difference of less travel and more regional rather national control around the world), except the death toll was far more severe and more devastating on the young.
'Just a very nasty disease'! Honestly what nonsense. It was far worse. Why do you have to over dramatise everything you live through.
This is utter nonsense. "It was very similar to Covid (if you take into account the world was totally different)" - so it was totally different? Got you
In 1918 almost no one outside the USA "locked down". It simply did not happen. The British Empire had other business, continental Europe was recovering from World War One and was distracted, outside the western world (of the time) the Flu was just another new and hideous disease amongst many, at a time when early deaths were sadly very common
Even within the USA the lockdowns were patchy, short and sporadic, A few cities did it bigtime, many hardly bothered
What a ridiculous statement. You are a silly person. Go away and read Pale Rider
This is pathetic:
a) The following countries had lockdowns during Spanish Flu: US, Canada, Australia, UK, France, Italy and most of Western Europe (you know those ones you thought had other things on their mind. The list is far longer.
b) Regarding International travel I made the point that a comparison of now to then is bonkers because we do a lot more of it. However to be pedantic you were also wrong on that statement as well. Borders were closed, quarantine was introduced and transport closed down in many many places throughout the world.
c) And your 'Got you' statement is utterly irrational. You can compare like for likes, but you can't compare not likes for likes. People going to shops, church, theatres will have a level of comparison between then and now. People flying to Benidorm for their summer holidays largely didn't happen in 1918.
So in summary:
The two instances of things you said didn't happen during Spanish Flu both did and one of the examples you gave was bonkers.
This utter nonsense is why I took a break from PB and why I am off again.
You live in a world that just revolves around you and your experiences. And your experiences, which for most would be normal, are just so extreme in your head. For most people Covid is just a memory from their recent past, but comes up in conversations every so often. Most people aren't suffering from PTSD as a consequence. Most people however will suffer from several far greater traumas during their long lives and this is normal.
Zack Polanski: "The Green Party are an anti-racist party" Nick Robinson: "You can't just say the words 'we're an anti-racist party' when I've just read you out five of the most revolting comments"
Lol
Sure he can as long as there are people who will believe it. I fear that young women in particular seem to be susceptible to social media manipulation by these types just as young men have become susceptible to social media manipulation by Andrew Tate and others like him.
It’s like the young women I met in Africa. Bright, smart, likeable, kind. But they’ve been persuaded to believe obviously untrue things. Consoling “facts” which can be falsified in seconds. But they don’t want to hear the truth. They prefer the comforting lie - which is nearly always lefty and woke
I know it's a pain but I'm afraid you reactionary righties can't expect to keep the mendacious populist lane all to yourselves. Given how wide it is it's only fair you share it with others.
Indeed not. Given how important it is - apparently - to the young to have "strong cultural-progressive positions that are fundamental to political identity" (as @IanB2 put it) there needs to be a party for such people, preferably led by a liar (as all populist leaders tend to be), and the fact that some of its activists call a minority "an abomination on the planet", "cockroaches" or to be fed "feet first" into a shredder reply really is neither here nor there. This is just "the media having a go" according to @NickPalmer and not the sort of scrutiny that all political parties do and should face.
There are various reasons people are drawn towards the Greens. I have some sympathy with leftists who bemoan a huge financial crisis then all the talk of austerity, a climate crisis and expensive housing.
However if you believe we are living in a society that is structurally racist and fundamentally corrupt, what does that say about a minority group who seem disproportionately successful in such a settlement? It doesn't reflect well on them. In an earlier age they might have been called the bourgeoisie. So long as Jews are seen as doing well in a profoundly immoral society they will be a target for the radical left. There's no answer other than to try and minimise the number of people attracted to revolutionary sentiment. (Our education system seems to be doing the opposite). Or for Jews to be less successful.
On one of the pro Gaza marches some bohemian chap was bemoaning that there was a lot of Jewish money in the arts. Now you might think that a wannabe artist would be quite grateful for this! But of course not. You see most artists don't get grants and are inevitably a little envious of those that do. So by being generous patrons you unfortunately become a target for resentment.
This is where IQ is relevant, even if we wish it wasn't. Average Ashkenazim Jewish IQ is ~115. A full SD above the norm. Even if you set aside all cultural factors (a Jewish emphasis on education, a culture of hard work and capitalism, etc) that means Jews are going to be markedly more successful than any other ethnic group. And they are. Whether you look at Nobel prizes or Fields medals, CEOs or billionaires, thriving entrepreneurs or go-getting retail barons, Jews are and will be "over-represented". This causes resentment which turns into prejudice which, if not stopped, eventually turns into pogroms
The problem I have is that it's both preposterous to think all races (for want of a better word) have exactly equal intelligence (what plausible reason could there be for that?) but also preposterous to think that some races could be (after controlling for environment, culture etc) a full standard deviation away*, never mind the claims of some of average IQ in Botswana being 60 and so on. These are both ridiculous positions but it seems everyone has to pick one...
*A full standard deviation leads to totally implausible numbers of either genii or dribbling imbeciles, depending which way you go
The Manhattan Project was led by a group of Hungarian supergeniuses, all born in Budapest between 1890 and 1920. These included Manhattan Project founder Leo Szilard, H-bomb creator Edward Teller, Nobel-Prize-winning quantum physicist Eugene Wigner, and legendary polymath John von Neumann, namesake of the List Of Things Named After John Von Neumann.
It's a good read but for tl;dr read the first few paras then see part 3
Seems to be pure anecdotage but might nonetheless be useful info for bettors:
"The Polanski negative vibe shift is crazy. Just been chatting to some student baristas and they said their whole lecture group has totally gone off him and will now vote Labour or Reform. What's going on"
It was questioning police tactics on stopping a terrorist attack that did it IMO. Everyone could see how scary that was for everyone involved and then to have a third rate politician question that has made people turn against that and start questioning all the other nonsense he's been spouting.
Yes, and I saw a tweet from pollster Luke Tryl (I might try and find it later when less busy) making exactly your point. He said he'd done focus groups in the north (IIRC) and he was really surprised how much Golders Green had cut through, when other attacks don't. Perhaps BECAUSE we had that video of the attacker, after nearly butchering two Jews
Any sane person understood exactly why the coppers did what they did, he still had the knife, he was still resisting, he had not surrendered after tasering, he was actively trying to kill people. In 99% of countries he'd have been shot dead at that point
Only fools and anti-Semites found it questionable, Polanski is certainly in the first category, and proved it at that moment
The way I see it, ordinary people empathise with the person being stabbed and worry about them. Polanski has shown us he's empathising with a potential terrorist and is worried about the rights of a perpetrator.
For most people it's beyond the pale to advocate for someone who's just stabbed two people and put the blame on the police who for once did a good job under the circumstances to eliminate a threat before anyone died.
It shows us one of two things, either Polanski has a completely empathy compass (probably true) or he's calculated that supporting a Muslim terrorist vs Jews will win him votes (maybe true). Either one shows he's unfit for office but as we've been discussing, many young women seem to let all of the facts wash over them and seem to want to put their own feel good factor first, right now voting for the greens makes them feel good about themselves. That may change over time but probably not in the short term.
Why does Polanski continue to dig a deeper hole for himself ?
I think the vast majority of the public couldn’t care less if the perpetrator was kicked in the head . If you attempt to kill people then refuse to hand over the knife you get what you deserve !
If I’m thinking this as a so called leftie liberal then I think Polanski has really scored a spectacular own goal !
If the man is schitzophrenic and has no control over his actions isn't it better that we have authorities who still care about his safety? We could always do it the American way and just shoot him but surely if at all possible the other way must be better? It made me feel rather queasy just beating up and kicking someone who was clearly not in control of himself
Zack Polanski: "The Green Party are an anti-racist party" Nick Robinson: "You can't just say the words 'we're an anti-racist party' when I've just read you out five of the most revolting comments"
Lol
Sure he can as long as there are people who will believe it. I fear that young women in particular seem to be susceptible to social media manipulation by these types just as young men have become susceptible to social media manipulation by Andrew Tate and others like him.
It’s like the young women I met in Africa. Bright, smart, likeable, kind. But they’ve been persuaded to believe obviously untrue things. Consoling “facts” which can be falsified in seconds. But they don’t want to hear the truth. They prefer the comforting lie - which is nearly always lefty and woke
I shared a house with a young French girl about twenty years ago, when James D Watson made his controversial comments about race and IQ. We discussed it and she said even if he were proven to be right, she wouldn’t believe it and thought we should carry on as if he were wrong.
I’m not saying he was right, I struggle to see how it could be proven one way or the other, but it did surprise me she thought that way, and it is proof that people will, or are prepared to, value consoling facts over hard truths . I suppose it is a more compassionate view and the left want/aim to be compassionate.
However suppose for a moment there are hard truths to know about race and IQ. Another truth the 20th century tells us is that applying a set of political principles to a sub set of the human race as a whole leads to a century of an unimaginable horror show. and piles of corpses millions deep.
Fact X may be true of sub set Y as a whole. Let is say that Indians produce the best spin bowlers. But they didn't produce Shane Warne, better than all of them. The moment you take your eye of people as human individuals, you lose something vital to our common humanity. So what the French girl though 20 years ago may have been inelegantly expressed but on the whole she was right.
The problem is I think she would have accepted it as true had Watson found the opposite
The problem is that Watson's IQ science wasn't science.
Crick had his own issues with political incorrectness (an interest in eugenics, for example), but was the more productive scientist of the two, in the years after their breakthrough on the structure of DNA.
Seems to be pure anecdotage but might nonetheless be useful info for bettors:
"The Polanski negative vibe shift is crazy. Just been chatting to some student baristas and they said their whole lecture group has totally gone off him and will now vote Labour or Reform. What's going on"
Zack Polanski: "The Green Party are an anti-racist party" Nick Robinson: "You can't just say the words 'we're an anti-racist party' when I've just read you out five of the most revolting comments"
Lol
Sure he can as long as there are people who will believe it. I fear that young women in particular seem to be susceptible to social media manipulation by these types just as young men have become susceptible to social media manipulation by Andrew Tate and others like him.
It’s like the young women I met in Africa. Bright, smart, likeable, kind. But they’ve been persuaded to believe obviously untrue things. Consoling “facts” which can be falsified in seconds. But they don’t want to hear the truth. They prefer the comforting lie - which is nearly always lefty and woke
I know it's a pain but I'm afraid you reactionary righties can't expect to keep the mendacious populist lane all to yourselves. Given how wide it is it's only fair you share it with others.
Indeed not. Given how important it is - apparently - to the young to have "strong cultural-progressive positions that are fundamental to political identity" (as @IanB2 put it) there needs to be a party for such people, preferably led by a liar (as all populist leaders tend to be), and the fact that some of its activists call a minority "an abomination on the planet", "cockroaches" or to be fed "feet first" into a shredder reply really is neither here nor there. This is just "the media having a go" according to @NickPalmer and not the sort of scrutiny that all political parties do and should face.
There are various reasons people are drawn towards the Greens. I have some sympathy with leftists who bemoan a huge financial crisis then all the talk of austerity, a climate crisis and expensive housing.
However if you believe we are living in a society that is structurally racist and fundamentally corrupt, what does that say about a minority group who seem disproportionately successful in such a settlement? It doesn't reflect well on them. In an earlier age they might have been called the bourgeoisie. So long as Jews are seen as doing well in a profoundly immoral society they will be a target for the radical left. There's no answer other than to try and minimise the number of people attracted to revolutionary sentiment. (Our education system seems to be doing the opposite). Or for Jews to be less successful.
On one of the pro Gaza marches some bohemian chap was bemoaning that there was a lot of Jewish money in the arts. Now you might think that a wannabe artist would be quite grateful for this! But of course not. You see most artists don't get grants and are inevitably a little envious of those that do. So by being generous patrons you unfortunately become a target for resentment.
This is where IQ is relevant, even if we wish it wasn't. Average Ashkenazim Jewish IQ is ~115. A full SD above the norm. Even if you set aside all cultural factors (a Jewish emphasis on education, a culture of hard work and capitalism, etc) that means Jews are going to be markedly more successful than any other ethnic group. And they are. Whether you look at Nobel prizes or Fields medals, CEOs or billionaires, thriving entrepreneurs or go-getting retail barons, Jews are and will be "over-represented". This causes resentment which turns into prejudice which, if not stopped, eventually turns into pogroms
The problem I have is that it's both preposterous to think all races (for want of a better word) have exactly equal intelligence (what plausible reason could there be for that?) but also preposterous to think that some races could be (after controlling for environment, culture etc) a full standard deviation away*, never mind the claims of some of average IQ in Botswana being 60 and so on. These are both ridiculous positions but it seems everyone has to pick one...
*A full standard deviation leads to totally implausible numbers of either genii or dribbling imbeciles, depending which way you go
I don't want to go down this rabbit hole today. It always ends up in a venomous place
But I'll just say this: the Ashkenazi Jewish IQ finding is real and is consistent over time. Around 115, though some have it lower around 107 or 110
That's my point though. Half a standard deviation is plausible with respect to observed reality. A full one isn't. And most of the people wittering on about it propose greater differences than that!
I suspect this is because "it matters, but only a little bit" doesn't suit anyone's agenda.
Why does Polanski continue to dig a deeper hole for himself ?
I think the vast majority of the public couldn’t care less if the perpetrator was kicked in the head . If you attempt to kill people then refuse to hand over the knife you get what you deserve !
If I’m thinking this as a so called leftie liberal then I think Polanski has really scored a spectacular own goal !
If the man is schitzophrenic and has no control over his actions isn't it better that we have authorities who still care about his safety? We could always do it the American way and just shoot him but surely if at all possible the other way must be better? It made me feel rather queasy just beating up and kicking someone who was clearly not in control of himself
In the USA he would have had his head blown off ! So he’s alive and can be held accountable.
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Why does Polanski continue to dig a deeper hole for himself ?
I think the vast majority of the public couldn’t care less if the perpetrator was kicked in the head . If you attempt to kill people then refuse to hand over the knife you get what you deserve !
If I’m thinking this as a so called leftie liberal then I think Polanski has really scored a spectacular own goal !
If the man is schitzophrenic and has no control over his actions isn't it better that we have authorities who still care about his safety? We could always do it the American way and just shoot him but surely if at all possible the other way must be better? It made me feel rather queasy just beating up and kicking someone who was clearly not in control of himself
In the USA he would have had his head blown off ! So he’s alive and can be held accountable.
The UK is very rare in Western countries for not routinely arming police with guns.
Yes, having stabbed two people, and resisting arrest, he could expect to be shot by police almost anywhere else.
Somewhat ironically, the British armed police announce themselves as such, which generally elicits a surrender from a suspect without a gun.
Typical bedwetting from the Torygraph. Hardly anyone will know or care.
They will as it will cost more to buy and more to. Use. He is an epic cnt
Heat pump tumble dryers are more expensive to buy but much cheaper to use & the lower electricity costs over their lifetime vastly outweighs the initial extra expense.
Plus you can put the things anywhere & don’t have to watch all that lovely heat being vented out of the house in winter like all condenser tumble dryers.
Yep. Bought our one a year and a bit ago and its ace.
Same, my cleaner says it is awesome.
I'd say the same, but the my wife would (a) kill me for calling her the cleaner and (b) she isn't very good at cleaning...
Nice knowing you @turbotubbs. If you were going to be killed for calling her a cleaner calling her a bad cleaner is going to be painfully terminal.
Seems to be pure anecdotage but might nonetheless be useful info for bettors:
"The Polanski negative vibe shift is crazy. Just been chatting to some student baristas and they said their whole lecture group has totally gone off him and will now vote Labour or Reform. What's going on"
It was questioning police tactics on stopping a terrorist attack that did it IMO. Everyone could see how scary that was for everyone involved and then to have a third rate politician question that has made people turn against that and start questioning all the other nonsense he's been spouting.
Yes, and I saw a tweet from pollster Luke Tryl (I might try and find it later when less busy) making exactly your point. He said he'd done focus groups in the north (IIRC) and he was really surprised how much Golders Green had cut through, when other attacks don't. Perhaps BECAUSE we had that video of the attacker, after nearly butchering two Jews
Any sane person understood exactly why the coppers did what they did, he still had the knife, he was still resisting, he had not surrendered after tasering, he was actively trying to kill people. In 99% of countries he'd have been shot dead at that point
Only fools and anti-Semites found it questionable, Polanski is certainly in the first category, and proved it at that moment
The way I see it, ordinary people empathise with the person being stabbed and worry about them. Polanski has shown us he's empathising with a potential terrorist and is worried about the rights of a perpetrator.
For most people it's beyond the pale to advocate for someone who's just stabbed two people and put the blame on the police who for once did a good job under the circumstances to eliminate a threat before anyone died.
It shows us one of two things, either Polanski has a completely empathy compass (probably true) or he's calculated that supporting a Muslim terrorist vs Jews will win him votes (maybe true). Either one shows he's unfit for office but as we've been discussing, many young women seem to let all of the facts wash over them and seem to want to put their own feel good factor first, right now voting for the greens makes them feel good about themselves. That may change over time but probably not in the short term.
I agree it is a daft thing for the Green leader to have got involved. However, I wonder whether it was more a thoughtless intervention - that for reasons he’s not willing to simply hold his hands up to admit a mistake. Arguably that is the more interesting aspect of this awful saga. What wasn’t he willing to say “on reflection that wasn’t a great call”?
I have just listened to the Private Eye podcast and this man is permanently online while also presumably quite busy running a not tiny political party. Apparently he’s managed to like circa 35k posts on bluesky - I didn’t know there were even that many posts on that not-twitter upstart. How much thought is or can realistically go into the things he is “liking”? Clearly he has a flavour of things he likes (and it includes people saying how great he is and how rubbish his opponents are).
Even commentators on PB.com occasionally pick-up social media posts that aren’t quite what they seem. For me the big story is his reaction, and it was not pretty, and does not look like someone who likes scrutiny (and willing to cast aside accuracy if it gets him out of trouble). Perhaps that is what he has in common with fellow political entrepreneur Nigel Farage.
Typical bedwetting from the Torygraph. Hardly anyone will know or care.
They will as it will cost more to buy and more to. Use. He is an epic cnt
Heat pump tumble dryers are more expensive to buy but much cheaper to use & the lower electricity costs over their lifetime vastly outweighs the initial extra expense.
Plus you can put the things anywhere & don’t have to watch all that lovely heat being vented out of the house in winter like all condenser tumble dryers.
Yep. Bought our one a year and a bit ago and its ace.
Same, my cleaner says it is awesome.
I'd say the same, but the my wife would (a) kill me for calling her the cleaner and (b) she isn't very good at cleaning...
This is a very British thing. Having a terrible cleaner but being too polite to mention anything
I just occasionally mumble about “uhm, dusting” and leave it at that. Partly coz she’s also a true chirpy cockney lass in her later years. They’re a dying breed in these parts so I feel I’m doing my bit by paying her to not clean very well
I think it is also a terribly British thing to be terribly uncomfortable to admit to having a cleaner at all.
The absolute worst thing about the pandemic for me was that I had to clean my own house as well as wash and iron my clothes.
I’ve employed a cleaner from 2000 onwards so this was a new hell for me.
Likewise. I had to do HOOVERING
FFS
In truth I think I was so depressed I quickly gave up cleaning and just let everything fester for five months
My other problem is that I am as germaphobe and neat freak, so I couldn’t leave things untidy.
It was a circle of hell.
I got chatting about the pando with the locals in Rwanda. It was a suicide-inducing disaster for them as well. Esp those in the tourist biz. No money for 2 years and no government furlough to bail them out. And lockdowns
The pandemic is a unique thing. Never before has one event impacted every single person on the planet in a fairly similar way. Parts of the world never saw the Black Death. World War Two barely touched some countries
But the pando was everywhere doing evil shit to everyone. I suspect we all have PTSD but just don’t realise because it’s universal
Spanish flu. Worldwide and just over 100 years ago and devastating compared to Covid. Covid killed 0.01% of the world population. Spanish flu killed between 1 - 5.4% of the world population so 100 - 500 times more lethal and impacted the whole world.
But that was just a very very nasty disease. They didn’t have lockdowns. International travel didn’t end. Schools weren’t closed worldwide
Covid was unique
Pretty much everywhere in the world had lockdowns. A unique experiment in human history and arguably a total disaster
Maybe 15 million died worldwide as a consequence of Covid 19; 50-100 million for Spanish flu on a smaller world population. The Covid numbers would undoubtedly be much higher without the medical and non-medical interventions. Possibly similar numbers to Spanish Flu.
Covid is fascinatingly unique. For the first time in human history, every human being on earth shares a recent traumatic memory. That has never been true before
It's pretty fleeting. There's a new generation born during the pandemic who have no memory of it and the eldest of those is six now.
I remember when I first spoke to a colleague at work who had been too young to remember 9/11, which was a jarring experience. And that was nine years ago.
Typical bedwetting from the Torygraph. Hardly anyone will know or care.
They will as it will cost more to buy and more to. Use. He is an epic cnt
Heat pump tumble dryers are more expensive to buy but much cheaper to use & the lower electricity costs over their lifetime vastly outweighs the initial extra expense.
Plus you can put the things anywhere & don’t have to watch all that lovely heat being vented out of the house in winter like all condenser tumble dryers.
Yep. Bought our one a year and a bit ago and its ace.
Same, my cleaner says it is awesome.
I'd say the same, but the my wife would (a) kill me for calling her the cleaner and (b) she isn't very good at cleaning...
This is a very British thing. Having a terrible cleaner but being too polite to mention anything
I just occasionally mumble about “uhm, dusting” and leave it at that. Partly coz she’s also a true chirpy cockney lass in her later years. They’re a dying breed in these parts so I feel I’m doing my bit by paying her to not clean very well
I think it is also a terribly British thing to be terribly uncomfortable to admit to having a cleaner at all.
The absolute worst thing about the pandemic for me was that I had to clean my own house as well as wash and iron my clothes.
I’ve employed a cleaner from 2000 onwards so this was a new hell for me.
Likewise. I had to do HOOVERING
FFS
In truth I think I was so depressed I quickly gave up cleaning and just let everything fester for five months
My other problem is that I am as germaphobe and neat freak, so I couldn’t leave things untidy.
It was a circle of hell.
I got chatting about the pando with the locals in Rwanda. It was a suicide-inducing disaster for them as well. Esp those in the tourist biz. No money for 2 years and no government furlough to bail them out. And lockdowns
The pandemic is a unique thing. Never before has one event impacted every single person on the planet in a fairly similar way. Parts of the world never saw the Black Death. World War Two barely touched some countries
But the pando was everywhere doing evil shit to everyone. I suspect we all have PTSD but just don’t realise because it’s universal
Spanish flu. Worldwide and just over 100 years ago and devastating compared to Covid. Covid killed 0.01% of the world population. Spanish flu killed between 1 - 5.4% of the world population so 100 - 500 times more lethal and impacted the whole world.
But that was just a very very nasty disease. They didn’t have lockdowns. International travel didn’t end. Schools weren’t closed worldwide
Covid was unique
Pretty much everywhere in the world had lockdowns. A unique experiment in human history and arguably a total disaster
Maybe 15 million died worldwide as a consequence of Covid 19; 50-100 million for Spanish flu on a smaller world population. The Covid numbers would undoubtedly be much higher without the medical and non-medical interventions. Possibly similar numbers to Spanish Flu.
Covid is fascinatingly unique. For the first time in human history, every human being on earth shares a recent traumatic memory. That has never been true before
It's pretty fleeting. There's a new generation born during the pandemic who have no memory of it and the eldest of those is six now.
I remember when I first spoke to a colleague at work who had been too young to remember 9/11, which was a jarring experience. And that was nine years ago.
Seems to be pure anecdotage but might nonetheless be useful info for bettors:
"The Polanski negative vibe shift is crazy. Just been chatting to some student baristas and they said their whole lecture group has totally gone off him and will now vote Labour or Reform. What's going on"
It was questioning police tactics on stopping a terrorist attack that did it IMO. Everyone could see how scary that was for everyone involved and then to have a third rate politician question that has made people turn against that and start questioning all the other nonsense he's been spouting.
You don't have to go full Tony Martin to think it's reasonable for the police to use a bit of force to disarm and arrest a knife-wielding terrorist.
And he's still lying and equivocating about it now. You learn a lot about when you see how they react to making a mistake. Polanski made a mistake on this, but he's refusing to see it. Really bad sign.
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Zack Polanski wrongly claimed on @BBCr4today that the Golders Green suspect was "handcuffed" when he was kicked by officers.
That's simply not right... his hands were free and he was holding a knife!
Polanski to Nick Robinson: "I was traumatised by seeing someone handcuffed and repeatedly kicked in the head”.
In 1918 almost no one outside the USA "locked down". It simply did not happen. The British Empire had other business, continental Europe was recovering from World War One and was distracted, outside the western world (of the time) the Flu was just another new and hideous disease amongst many, at a time when early deaths were sadly very common
Even within the USA the lockdowns were patchy, short and sporadic, A few cities did it bigtime, many hardly bothered
What a ridiculous statement. You are a silly person. Go away and read Pale Rider
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"The Polanski negative vibe shift is crazy. Just been chatting to some student baristas and they said their whole lecture group has totally gone off him and will now vote Labour or Reform. What's going on"
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Witness the past 19 years.
Any sane person understood exactly why the coppers did what they did, he still had the knife, he was still resisting, he had not surrendered after tasering, he was actively trying to kill people. In 99% of countries he'd have been shot dead at that point
Only fools and anti-Semites found it questionable, Polanski is certainly in the first category, and proved it at that moment
As Professor R L Gregory pointed out, in his excellent books on the eye and the brain, much of what we perceive is heavily edited by the brain. This is often how optical illusions work.
In this case Zack wanted to see (subconsciously) police brutality. So his internal LLM did the job for him.
It’s probably punching down to insist of him using objective facts. That would traumatise him further.
*A full standard deviation leads to totally implausible numbers of either genii or dribbling imbeciles, depending which way you go
I think the vast majority of the public couldn’t care less if the perpetrator was kicked in the head . If you attempt to kill people then refuse to hand over the knife you get what you deserve !
If I’m thinking this as a so called leftie liberal then I think Polanski has really scored a spectacular own goal !
But I'll just say this: the Ashkenazi Jewish IQ finding is real and is consistent over time. Around 115, though some have it lower around 107 or 110
When you look at Jewish intellectual over-achievement, is it so mad? - Ashkenazi Jews are around 0.2% of the world population and have won something on the order of 20–25% of Nobel Prizes in the sciences and economics. They have similar overrepresentation among Fields medallists, chess grandmasters, and senior US academics
How much of this is "IQ", and whether "IQ" really means anything, is for another time or a different place. I have a huge flint to knap, starting today
Later, PB!
IQ is a terrible measure for most of what people want it to prove. It measures a narrow slice of cognitive performance, not wisdom, judgement, morality, creativity or human worth.
“IQ tests favour people who are good at IQ tests” sounds circular, but there’s a real point underneath it. They measure a narrow, test-friendly slice of cognition: abstract reasoning, working memory, verbal and pattern skills, speed, and familiarity with formal testing. They do not measure practical competence, social intelligence, moral seriousness, or whether someone should stop posting.
How many times in public life have you seen cases where the options are
- Issue a carefully worded climb down/apology
- Say nothing
- Fire up Bagger 288 and kick it into high gear.
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a) The following countries had lockdowns during Spanish Flu: US, Canada, Australia, UK, France, Italy and most of Western Europe (you know those ones you thought had other things on their mind. The list is far longer.
b) Regarding International travel I made the point that a comparison of now to then is bonkers because we do a lot more of it. However to be pedantic you were also wrong on that statement as well. Borders were closed, quarantine was introduced and transport closed down in many many places throughout the world.
c) And your 'Got you' statement is utterly irrational. You can compare like for likes, but you can't compare not likes for likes. People going to shops, church, theatres will have a level of comparison between then and now. People flying to Benidorm for their summer holidays largely didn't happen in 1918.
So in summary:
The two instances of things you said didn't happen during Spanish Flu both did and one of the examples you gave was bonkers.
This utter nonsense is why I took a break from PB and why I am off again.
You live in a world that just revolves around you and your experiences. And your experiences, which for most would be normal, are just so extreme in your head. For most people Covid is just a memory from their recent past, but comes up in conversations every so often. Most people aren't suffering from PTSD as a consequence. Most people however will suffer from several far greater traumas during their long lives and this is normal.
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It's a good read but for tl;dr read the first few paras then see part 3
For most people it's beyond the pale to advocate for someone who's just stabbed two people and put the blame on the police who for once did a good job under the circumstances to eliminate a threat before anyone died.
It shows us one of two things, either Polanski has a completely empathy compass (probably true) or he's calculated that supporting a Muslim terrorist vs Jews will win him votes (maybe true). Either one shows he's unfit for office but as we've been discussing, many young women seem to let all of the facts wash over them and seem to want to put their own feel good factor first, right now voting for the greens makes them feel good about themselves. That may change over time but probably not in the short term.
Crick had his own issues with political incorrectness (an interest in eugenics, for example), but was the more productive scientist of the two, in the years after their breakthrough on the structure of DNA.
I suspect this is because "it matters, but only a little bit" doesn't suit anyone's agenda.
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Yes, having stabbed two people, and resisting arrest, he could expect to be shot by police almost anywhere else.
Somewhat ironically, the British armed police announce themselves as such, which generally elicits a surrender from a suspect without a gun.
I have just listened to the Private Eye podcast and this man is permanently online while also presumably quite busy running a not tiny political party. Apparently he’s managed to like circa 35k posts on bluesky - I didn’t know there were even that many posts on that not-twitter upstart. How much thought is or can realistically go into the things he is “liking”? Clearly he has a flavour of things he likes (and it includes people saying how great he is and how rubbish his opponents are).
Even commentators on PB.com occasionally pick-up social media posts that aren’t quite what they seem. For me the big story is his reaction, and it was not pretty, and does not look like someone who likes scrutiny (and willing to cast aside accuracy if it gets him out of trouble). Perhaps that is what he has in common with fellow political entrepreneur Nigel Farage.
I remember when I first spoke to a colleague at work who had been too young to remember 9/11, which was a jarring experience. And that was nine years ago.
And he's still lying and equivocating about it now. You learn a lot about when you see how they react to making a mistake. Polanski made a mistake on this, but he's refusing to see it. Really bad sign.