For those PBers like me who love American politics and history, there's a new Netflix series on the Revolution - exec producer Tom Hanks and all star cast of interviewees and so on:
On Reddit, if someone starts complaining about such, everyone just downvotes them.
Last year it was to show support for burning asylum seekers.
This year it is to show support for an England team that is the epitome of multi-culturalism.
It just doesn’t have the same aura or level of interest previous ones have had I’m finding here. Few pubs doing stuff, because of the times I’m guessing, and the supermarkets have little too.
On Reddit, if someone starts complaining about such, everyone just downvotes them.
Last year it was to show support for burning asylum seekers.
This year it is to show support for an England team that is the epitome of multi-culturalism.
It just doesn’t have the same aura or level of interest previous ones have had I’m finding here. Few pubs doing stuff, because of the times I’m guessing, and the supermarkets have little too.
Is this for the asylum seeker burning or the football? Both seem a little less popular round here this summer.
On Reddit, if someone starts complaining about such, everyone just downvotes them.
Last year it was to show support for burning asylum seekers.
This year it is to show support for an England team that is the epitome of multi-culturalism.
It just doesn’t have the same aura or level of interest previous ones have had I’m finding here. Few pubs doing stuff, because of the times I’m guessing, and the supermarkets have little too.
Is this for the asylum seeker burning or the football? Both seem a little less popular round here this summer.
I might be turning right wing in my old age but this is an absurdity. Back at Tanks and Drums in Bradford complaining about the heat would get one escorted out of the factory.
It was a very matter of fact kind of a place. At a Management meeting the MD, a heavy set bluff Yorkshireman from Queensbury, explained; "salesmen? If it were up to me I wouldn't pay you bastards in washers".
I might be turning right wing in my old age but this is an absurdity. Back at Tanks and Drums in Bradford complaining about the heat would get one escorted out of the factory.
It was a very matter of fact kind of a place. At a Management meeting the MD, a heavy set bluff Yorkshireman from Queensbury, explained; "salesmen? If it were up to me I wouldn't pay you bastards in washers".
Imagine working in a foundry or a trade moulder in the middle of summer with that sort of law !!
Do you guys remember when the current US administration was in favor of free speech?
Two people — Savanna Batten and Elizabeth Soto — weren’t involved in planning the protest, arrived separately from the others, and left when guards told them to, before the shooting. They were each sentenced to 50 years in prison. Among other accusations, the government declared they “were part of a group that created and distributed insurrectionary materials called ‘zines.’” Daniel Sanchez-Estrada, who didn’t attend the protest at all, was sentenced to 30 years in prison for moving a box of zines — an act prosecutors claimed was “corruptly concealing a document or record.” Ines Soto, Elizabeth Soto’s husband, was granted a continuance and will be sentenced on July 1st, according to the Department of Justice. (So will seven others who pleaded guilty to one count of providing material support to terrorists, some of whom testified as witnesses in the trial.) The other sentences handed down suggest that his will be similarly harsh.
I might be turning right wing in my old age but this is an absurdity. Back at Tanks and Drums in Bradford complaining about the heat would get one escorted out of the factory.
It was a very matter of fact kind of a place. At a Management meeting the MD, a heavy set bluff Yorkshireman from Queensbury, explained; "salesmen? If it were up to me I wouldn't pay you bastards in washers".
Imagine working in a foundry or a trade moulder in the middle of summer with that sort of law !!
Or working all day in PPE with an FP3 mask.
The issue is more subtle. The problem is not so much temperature, as temprature combined with humidity. The same temperatures that we have had today would be fine with a humidity like that in Phoenix or Marrakesh. It is 72% humidity today here.
Shabana Mahmood to sack immigration minister for ‘unauthorised remarks’
In a piece for The Times, Mike Tapp called for foreign care workers to be exempt from reforms, but the home secretary was unaware he had written the article
Mike Tapp, the immigration minister, is expected to be sacked after he wrote an unauthorised article calling for foreign care workers to be exempt from her hardline immigration reforms.
In an article for The Times, Tapp said it was his “strong belief” that migrant care workers should not have to wait longer to apply for permanent settlement.
Shabana Mahmood, the home secretary, was unaware he had written the article and he is expected to be sacked from his job as minister for migration and citizenship for breaching the ministerial code.
Oh well he won't be a minister in the next few years..
“Care worker” visas were the first to be abused - and to farcical levels.
Several care home companies, apparently, imported multiple hundred percent of their staff size. Without their staff size increasing.
When the current government cut them off, a delegation went to No. 10 to try and apply pressure. They were told that perhaps they could fill their staff shortages from the large numbers of people they’d given visas to, who weren’t working in the care sector.
There has been continual pressure to restart the scheme, of course.
Give them all ILR then those wiping arses won’t be doing it for long so they probably will need to open up the Visas again !
I know things are tight, but could we just pay £16 an hour instead of £13 an hour and have no visas? See also prison guard visas. And TfL station assistants. And so on.
Well yes, of course.
And this is something I swing back on forth on. On the one hand, why do we want to be importing low skilled labour?
On the other, take Singapore, they have lots of low skilled immigration, because they've done a really good job of upskilling the locals. Isn't that a model we should be replicating?
You have claimed this before but as has been pointed out many times it is not really true.
Singapore has 2 distinct migration pathways.
High skilled - can lead to permanent residence. Comparable rights and responsibilities to British migration.
Unskilled - no path to permanent residence. Forbidden from bringing dependents. Forbidden from marrying Singaporeans.
Is that the path you want us to take?
We've discussed this to death, and there is no easy or definitive answer. Singapore -like the Gulf States- makes it very easy to get a working visa with no path to permanent residence or citizenship. Singapore is slightly easier, because you can enroll in classes there to 'uprate' your skills - and lots of people do; Singapore has a fabulous education system. But unless you get yourself educated you will not be staying. That doesn't seem like that stupid a strategy.
(For what it's worth, that's not that dissimilar to the historic systems in Switzerland and Germany.)
Shabana Mahmood to sack immigration minister for ‘unauthorised remarks’
In a piece for The Times, Mike Tapp called for foreign care workers to be exempt from reforms, but the home secretary was unaware he had written the article
Mike Tapp, the immigration minister, is expected to be sacked after he wrote an unauthorised article calling for foreign care workers to be exempt from her hardline immigration reforms.
In an article for The Times, Tapp said it was his “strong belief” that migrant care workers should not have to wait longer to apply for permanent settlement.
Shabana Mahmood, the home secretary, was unaware he had written the article and he is expected to be sacked from his job as minister for migration and citizenship for breaching the ministerial code.
Oh well he won't be a minister in the next few years..
“Care worker” visas were the first to be abused - and to farcical levels.
Several care home companies, apparently, imported multiple hundred percent of their staff size. Without their staff size increasing.
When the current government cut them off, a delegation went to No. 10 to try and apply pressure. They were told that perhaps they could fill their staff shortages from the large numbers of people they’d given visas to, who weren’t working in the care sector.
There has been continual pressure to restart the scheme, of course.
Give them all ILR then those wiping arses won’t be doing it for long so they probably will need to open up the Visas again !
I know things are tight, but could we just pay £16 an hour instead of £13 an hour and have no visas? See also prison guard visas. And TfL station assistants. And so on.
Well yes, of course.
And this is something I swing back on forth on. On the one hand, why do we want to be importing low skilled labour?
On the other, take Singapore, they have lots of low skilled immigration, because they've done a really good job of upskilling the locals. Isn't that a model we should be replicating?
How many NEETS, disability claimants and general layabouts does Singapore have in its population ?
The UK has welfarised its locals, not upskilled them.
Indeed; the UK's tax, education and benefits systems seem almost designed to damage the long-term employability of the natives.
Funny when I said about how stupid planning rules are here you said I was stupid
It’s a question. Answered by Malmesbury.
I’m also unsure if, even if it’s a permitted development, you’d need covenant consent.
Utter gibberish
Covenant consent is where, even if you are the freeholder, you have to ask for permission if you have restrictive covenants on your property. I own the freehold on my house but there are restrictive covenants. Height of fences etc etc.
My wife had to do so when she put a porch on her house, it was a permitted development but still needed covenant consent.
She did obtain it, from Yuill.
However it can be a problem selling homes and there is specialised insurance where people haven’t got it as neighbours can complain and it fall foul of that.
I might be turning right wing in my old age but this is an absurdity. Back at Tanks and Drums in Bradford complaining about the heat would get one escorted out of the factory.
It was a very matter of fact kind of a place. At a Management meeting the MD, a heavy set bluff Yorkshireman from Queensbury, explained; "salesmen? If it were up to me I wouldn't pay you bastards in washers".
Imagine working in a foundry or a trade moulder in the middle of summer with that sort of law !!
Or working all day in PPE with an FP3 mask.
The issue is more subtle. The problem is not so much temperature, as temprature combined with humidity. The same temperatures that we have had today would be fine with a humidity like that in Phoenix or Marrakesh. It is 72% humidity today here.
Yeah, I’m just back from Kos and it feels far more oppressive here than it was there.
Do you guys remember when the current US administration was in favor of free speech?
Two people — Savanna Batten and Elizabeth Soto — weren’t involved in planning the protest, arrived separately from the others, and left when guards told them to, before the shooting. They were each sentenced to 50 years in prison. Among other accusations, the government declared they “were part of a group that created and distributed insurrectionary materials called ‘zines.’” Daniel Sanchez-Estrada, who didn’t attend the protest at all, was sentenced to 30 years in prison for moving a box of zines — an act prosecutors claimed was “corruptly concealing a document or record.” Ines Soto, Elizabeth Soto’s husband, was granted a continuance and will be sentenced on July 1st, according to the Department of Justice. (So will seven others who pleaded guilty to one count of providing material support to terrorists, some of whom testified as witnesses in the trial.) The other sentences handed down suggest that his will be similarly harsh.
Do you guys remember when the current US administration was in favor of free speech?
Two people — Savanna Batten and Elizabeth Soto — weren’t involved in planning the protest, arrived separately from the others, and left when guards told them to, before the shooting. They were each sentenced to 50 years in prison. Among other accusations, the government declared they “were part of a group that created and distributed insurrectionary materials called ‘zines.’” Daniel Sanchez-Estrada, who didn’t attend the protest at all, was sentenced to 30 years in prison for moving a box of zines — an act prosecutors claimed was “corruptly concealing a document or record.” Ines Soto, Elizabeth Soto’s husband, was granted a continuance and will be sentenced on July 1st, according to the Department of Justice. (So will seven others who pleaded guilty to one count of providing material support to terrorists, some of whom testified as witnesses in the trial.) The other sentences handed down suggest that his will be similarly harsh.
While the Jan 6th crew get pardons. Two tier Trump.
The sentencing is grotesque.
I agree.
It’s obscene
I don’t disagree with the principle that some of these people to to jail. Especially the guy who fired the gun. But this seems little more than using the judicial system to enact retribution.
If it's about to burst, they're not going to wait, I wouldn't think.
I think this won’t happen. It’s been kicked back and unless there’s a major improvement in sentiment it will be like the Dr Who Xmas Special, quietly then publicly dropped.
I also think, due to the slump in SpaceX and today’s commentary from JP Morgan that makes it less attractive to go now,
Do you guys remember when the current US administration was in favor of free speech?
Two people — Savanna Batten and Elizabeth Soto — weren’t involved in planning the protest, arrived separately from the others, and left when guards told them to, before the shooting. They were each sentenced to 50 years in prison. Among other accusations, the government declared they “were part of a group that created and distributed insurrectionary materials called ‘zines.’” Daniel Sanchez-Estrada, who didn’t attend the protest at all, was sentenced to 30 years in prison for moving a box of zines — an act prosecutors claimed was “corruptly concealing a document or record.” Ines Soto, Elizabeth Soto’s husband, was granted a continuance and will be sentenced on July 1st, according to the Department of Justice. (So will seven others who pleaded guilty to one count of providing material support to terrorists, some of whom testified as witnesses in the trial.) The other sentences handed down suggest that his will be similarly harsh.
Yet sedition and treason would appear to be OK under certain circumstances, particularly if one was a losing Presidential candidate
Apparently, as of last week Todd Blanche can personally put them in general population in the most dangerous Federal penitentiary in the US. He can do the same to any convicted Democrat or convicted in a Trump court, Trump critic.
I hate to say this but I think you might be living in a version of the Soviet Union.
Nope - but it's a planning officer who is simply doing what they've been told and won't be aware that Air conditioning systems have been permitted Development since April 2025...
Heck if you look on the thread in Reddit it takes a long time before someone actually found the correct details.
Nope - but it's a planning officer who is simply doing what they've been told and won't be aware that Air conditioning systems have been permitted Development since April 2025...
Heck if you look on the thread in Reddit it takes a long time before someone actually found the correct details.
If it's about to burst, they're not going to wait, I wouldn't think.
I think this won’t happen. It’s been kicked back and unless there’s a major improvement in sentiment it will be like the Dr Who Xmas Special, quietly then publicly dropped.
I also think, due to the slump in SpaceX and today’s commentary from JP Morgan that makes it less attractive to go now,
Elon Musk grabbed all the available money - there isn't the available cash for OpenAI to go public..
Problem is OpenAI finances are scarily bad and it doesn't seem possible that they can grow sales enough to offset their loses..
Do you guys remember when the current US administration was in favor of free speech?
Two people — Savanna Batten and Elizabeth Soto — weren’t involved in planning the protest, arrived separately from the others, and left when guards told them to, before the shooting. They were each sentenced to 50 years in prison. Among other accusations, the government declared they “were part of a group that created and distributed insurrectionary materials called ‘zines.’” Daniel Sanchez-Estrada, who didn’t attend the protest at all, was sentenced to 30 years in prison for moving a box of zines — an act prosecutors claimed was “corruptly concealing a document or record.” Ines Soto, Elizabeth Soto’s husband, was granted a continuance and will be sentenced on July 1st, according to the Department of Justice. (So will seven others who pleaded guilty to one count of providing material support to terrorists, some of whom testified as witnesses in the trial.) The other sentences handed down suggest that his will be similarly harsh.
Yet sedition and treason would appear to be OK under certain circumstances, particularly if one was a losing Presidential candidate
Apparently, as of last week Todd Blanche can personally put them in general population in the most dangerous Federal penitentiary in the US. He can do the same to any convicted Democrat or convicted in a Trump court, Trump critic.
I hate to say this but I think you might be living in a version of the Soviet Union.
JD Vance: "I think Nixon's historical legacy is enjoying a bit of a renaissance, and deservedly so. I joked that if Watergate happened tomorrow, it would be like a 12 hours news story. The idea that it took down a presidency is crazy."
If it's about to burst, they're not going to wait, I wouldn't think.
I think this won’t happen. It’s been kicked back and unless there’s a major improvement in sentiment it will be like the Dr Who Xmas Special, quietly then publicly dropped.
I also think, due to the slump in SpaceX and today’s commentary from JP Morgan that makes it less attractive to go now,
Elon Musk grabbed all the available money - there isn't the available cash for OpenAI to go public..
Problem is OpenAI finances are scarily bad and it doesn't seem possible that they can grow sales enough to offset their loses..
OpenAI is not being allowed by the US government to release its latest model generally. Just like Anthropic. Can’t be good for business.
If it's about to burst, they're not going to wait, I wouldn't think.
I think this won’t happen. It’s been kicked back and unless there’s a major improvement in sentiment it will be like the Dr Who Xmas Special, quietly then publicly dropped.
I also think, due to the slump in SpaceX and today’s commentary from JP Morgan that makes it less attractive to go now,
Elon Musk grabbed all the available money - there isn't the available cash for OpenAI to go public..
Problem is OpenAI finances are scarily bad and it doesn't seem possible that they can grow sales enough to offset their loses..
Absolutely. It just seems to burn cash and where is the return coming from ? I’d give this a very wide berth even if it was coming to market. But I’m glad it isn’t as it would end up in a tracker or two I hold.
I’d guess the same will happen with the Anthropic IPO too.
I remember the words of Warren Buffet. IPO - It’s Probably Overvalued.
If it's about to burst, they're not going to wait, I wouldn't think.
I think this won’t happen. It’s been kicked back and unless there’s a major improvement in sentiment it will be like the Dr Who Xmas Special, quietly then publicly dropped.
I also think, due to the slump in SpaceX and today’s commentary from JP Morgan that makes it less attractive to go now,
Elon Musk grabbed all the available money - there isn't the available cash for OpenAI to go public..
Problem is OpenAI finances are scarily bad and it doesn't seem possible that they can grow sales enough to offset their loses..
OpenAI is not being allowed by the US government to release its latest model generally. Just like Anthropic. Can’t be good for business.
Even if it’s resolved short term there’s always the longer term risk.
Also probably the first time we’ve had a PM (or soon to be) and leader of the opposition who both look like they enjoy/relish the job rather than being pained by it since Blair-Cameron.
What about Boris-Corbyn?
Corbyn never looked as if he enjoyed the job. IIRC, he finds Parliamentary politics to be rather beneath him, compared to protest, direct action, standing for principles instead of policy. He couldn't cope with basic tasks like running meetings, holding people to deadlines, and generally not fucking around. Whether you like him or not, he simply wan't up to snuff per Attlee.
Once there he eventually developed the taste for it, he fought to hold on rather than go after all, but it's hard to argue it did not match his skill set.
It did open him up to a new adoring audience post leadership though, even if in the last 12 months Polanksi has gotten more love.
For those PBers like me who love American politics and history, there's a new Netflix series on the Revolution - exec producer Tom Hanks and all star cast of interviewees and so on:
Think the Scottish might understand why the English really don’t like the German national football team today. Jammy sods, who also refuse to win when you need them to.
For those PBers like me who love American politics and history, there's a new Netflix series on the Revolution - exec producer Tom Hanks and all star cast of interviewees and so on:
Different from the Ken Burns series currently on BBC4 presumably, which is pretty good.
Hopefully not the same quality gap between Hank’s’ WWII series and World at War, though I fear the worst.
The Americans are totally incapable of making an objective documentary of their own revolution.
Too many cherised myths.
If it is able to acknowledge it as an issue which divided those living there, rather than just being dominated by sneering English toffs, it would be a step up from some of the mythologising.
Think the Scottish might understand why the English really don’t like the German national football team today. Jammy sods, who also refuse to win when you need them to.
Every required element is present in this BBC story, a parable for our age:
A man who was restrained on a Jet2 flight by fellow travellers after he allegedly assaulted another passenger and cabin crew, has died.
Police were called to reports of a passenger attacking another customer and a staff member on the Jet2 flight from Cyprus to Manchester and being "disruptive and aggressive" in the early hours of Monday.
On landing at Manchester Airport, officers used handcuffs to detain Callum Kerr, 35, of Warrington, but quickly found he was "unresponsive" and performed CPR on him before taking him to hospital, Greater Manchester Police (GMP) said.
Kerr, a bare-knuckle fighter, died on Tuesday. An investigation into his death is under way.
Paying tribute, Kerr's loved ones said: "Callum was a family man, father to three beautiful young children, a lover of sport and with a heart of gold."
Funny when I said about how stupid planning rules are here you said I was stupid
It’s a question. Answered by Malmesbury.
I’m also unsure if, even if it’s a permitted development, you’d need covenant consent.
Utter gibberish
Covenant consent is where, even if you are the freeholder, you have to ask for permission if you have restrictive covenants on your property. I own the freehold on my house but there are restrictive covenants. Height of fences etc etc.
My wife had to do so when she put a porch on her house, it was a permitted development but still needed covenant consent.
She did obtain it, from Yuill.
However it can be a problem selling homes and there is specialised insurance where people haven’t got it as neighbours can complain and it fall foul of that.
For those PBers like me who love American politics and history, there's a new Netflix series on the Revolution - exec producer Tom Hanks and all star cast of interviewees and so on:
A lot of the fighting was between American Loyalists and American Patriots, as well as probably a majority who just wanted a quiet life. I suppose true of most civil wars.
A lot of those Loyalists moved to Canada as a result.
I might be turning right wing in my old age but this is an absurdity. Back at Tanks and Drums in Bradford complaining about the heat would get one escorted out of the factory.
It was a very matter of fact kind of a place. At a Management meeting the MD, a heavy set bluff Yorkshireman from Queensbury, explained; "salesmen? If it were up to me I wouldn't pay you bastards in washers".
Imagine working in a foundry or a trade moulder in the middle of summer with that sort of law !!
Or working all day in PPE with an FP3 mask.
The issue is more subtle. The problem is not so much temperature, as temprature combined with humidity. The same temperatures that we have had today would be fine with a humidity like that in Phoenix or Marrakesh. It is 72% humidity today here.
I thought the Australian attitude to this was quite sensible when I was working there - employers take skin cancer and heat stroke seriously and will either reduce work during hot periods or provide the clothing and shelter required.
The cultural shift required in the UK is going to be difficult to achieve. You’re going to have feeble managers posturing rather than taking a rational approach - can’t imagine ever being given 12-3 off to sit in the shade, or being forced to wear an enormous hat.
If it involves banning or restricting something, the British public will be all for it. If it has merit that is a happy coincidence.
The interesting counterpolling would be "facilities you use (shops, schools etc) should close when the temperature gets above X".
There's a reason why our Mediterranean friends do a mixture of working in the morning and evening in low summer, then buggering off to the beach or the mountains in high summer. It's the only sensible thing to do in the circumstances. And those circumstances are coming this way, thanks to the global warming that's already baked in for the next few decades.
(When I was living in Seville, the city had lots of advertising displays with temperature monitors built in. One summer- I think it was 1999 and linked to the World Athletics championships happening in August, for pity's sake- the city council switched them all off.)
Funny when I said about how stupid planning rules are here you said I was stupid
It’s a question. Answered by Malmesbury.
I’m also unsure if, even if it’s a permitted development, you’d need covenant consent.
Utter gibberish
Covenant consent is where, even if you are the freeholder, you have to ask for permission if you have restrictive covenants on your property. I own the freehold on my house but there are restrictive covenants. Height of fences etc etc.
My wife had to do so when she put a porch on her house, it was a permitted development but still needed covenant consent.
She did obtain it, from Yuill.
However it can be a problem selling homes and there is specialised insurance where people haven’t got it as neighbours can complain and it fall foul of that.
No, my personal experience. I dealt with the sale of my wife’s house last year. I don’t even use ChatGPt 👍 if it’s gibberish why were we asked for it by the vendors solicitor. In fact I won’t waste any more time on this with you.
My own home has restrictive covenants. For example no fence can be erected above 2 metres.
You’ll find I’m right. Ask one of those experts you humblebrag about knowing while vagueposting some worthless shite anyone could have got on Twitter. “I have it on good authority ……” 😂😂😂😂
For those PBers like me who love American politics and history, there's a new Netflix series on the Revolution - exec producer Tom Hanks and all star cast of interviewees and so on:
Different from the Ken Burns series currently on BBC4 presumably, which is pretty good.
Hopefully not the same quality gap between Hank’s’ WWII series and World at War, though I fear the worst.
The Americans are totally incapable of making an objective documentary of their own revolution.
Too many cherised myths.
If it is able to acknowledge it as an issue which divided those living there, rather than just being dominated by sneering English toffs, it would be a step up from some of the mythologising.
JD Vance says his grandmother "had loaded revolvers all over the house" adding, "she made sure that no matter where she was, if somebody walked in her door, she would have a loaded revolver within arm's reach."
If it involves banning or restricting something, the British public will be all for it. If it has merit that is a happy coincidence.
As long as it bans or restricts something they don't do. It's like people being in favour of higher taxes or less benefits for all the people who are not them.
JD Vance says his grandmother "had loaded revolvers all over the house" adding, "she made sure that no matter where she was, if somebody walked in her door, she would have a loaded revolver within arm's reach."
If it involves banning or restricting something, the British public will be all for it. If it has merit that is a happy coincidence.
As long as it bans or restricts something they don't do. It's like people being in favour of higher taxes or less benefits for all the people who are not them.
Remember the poll in COVID which had something like 20% of people favouring night clubs being closed permanently ?
Great result for Ecuador. Keeps my 100/1 ew bet going a bit longer. Thought they'd might win the group but that bet failed. 4/1 to beat Germany was nice though. Scotland should be packing their bags now. They didn't deserve to go through. Scotland and Turkey have been the two most disappointing teams.
Their finances got leaked, which deprived OpenAI of the opportunity to put a positive spin on them before the IPO. The numbers are so horrible the market is starting to realise there is no path to profitability.
And if OpenAI can't IPO it dies, because there is no other way to raise enough money to pay for all the commitments they've made for purchasing hardware and renting compute capacity.
JD Vance says his grandmother "had loaded revolvers all over the house" adding, "she made sure that no matter where she was, if somebody walked in her door, she would have a loaded revolver within arm's reach."
Their finances got leaked, which deprived OpenAI of the opportunity to put a positive spin on them before the IPO. The numbers are so horrible the market is starting to realise there is no path to profitability.
And if OpenAI can't IPO it dies, because there is no other way to raise enough money to pay for all the commitments they've made for purchasing hardware and renting compute capacity.
All Good points. I am merely a layman but I cannot see anything other than a business burning through cash with no viable plan to make money.
At least SpaceX makes money. Even if IPO at 100x earnings was challenging.
Their finances got leaked, which deprived OpenAI of the opportunity to put a positive spin on them before the IPO. The numbers are so horrible the market is starting to realise there is no path to profitability.
And if OpenAI can't IPO it dies, because there is no other way to raise enough money to pay for all the commitments they've made for purchasing hardware and renting compute capacity.
Great result for Ecuador. Keeps my 100/1 ew bet going a bit longer. Thought they'd might win the group but that bet failed. 4/1 to beat Germany was nice though. Scotland should be packing their bags now. They didn't deserve to go through. Scotland and Turkey have been the two most disappointing teams.
Meanwhile, a Reform gain from Labour:
Camp Hill, Nuneaton & Bedworth
Ref: 460 Lab: 400 Con: 84
Turnout 16.84%
"Ecuador. Keeps my 100/1 ew bet going a bit longer."
In case anyone is wondering. The Labour councillor in Nuneaton who resigned was elected in 2024. The changes are with 2026 locals. So that's how it's a Reform gain.
We should ban party affiliations on parish councils. It is completely unnecessary and is only a fairly recent development. In 1991 only 10% of Parish and Town councillors had a declared party affiliation and only 4% of councils were run on political lines.
Evening DD. Thanks for these. On the Camp Hill result, how can that be a Reform gain from Labour when, based on the numbers there, the Labour vote increased far more than the Reform vote?
Now it makes sense why Whitehall has seized control over planning at Cherwell District Council. They can force through the Bicester plans irrespective of local views.
Their finances got leaked, which deprived OpenAI of the opportunity to put a positive spin on them before the IPO. The numbers are so horrible the market is starting to realise there is no path to profitability.
And if OpenAI can't IPO it dies, because there is no other way to raise enough money to pay for all the commitments they've made for purchasing hardware and renting compute capacity.
Why would bad numbers surprise anyone?
Because they're really quite horrible, a $33bn yearly loss with $20bn of that coming from operations.
It's costing OpenAI $20bn to run a service that brings in $13bn from customers. They are also spending north of $5bn on marketing to get those customers. This does not include the very significant costs of developing the models, or the enormous spending commitments.
If my back of an envelope maths are correct, OpenAI needs to either IPO or roughly triple their customer base in a year or they will run out of money around Q3 or Q4 next year.
We should ban party affiliations on parish councils. It is completely unnecessary and is only a fairly recent development. In 1991 only 10% of Parish and Town councillors had a declared party affiliation and only 4% of councils were run on political lines.
Is it formal i.e at most one candidate can have the party name on the ballot, or informal? I wouldn't want to ban someone saying what party they like, as freedom of association.
Very off topic but. Does anyone know why Japan's football team play in blue? Their flag isn't. And their rugby team wear the correct colours of cherry and white hoops.
An avalanche of by-elections tonight. Summat for Labour, Reform, PC and Greens to smile about so far. Plenty of opportunities for Tories and LD later to get into the game.
Their finances got leaked, which deprived OpenAI of the opportunity to put a positive spin on them before the IPO. The numbers are so horrible the market is starting to realise there is no path to profitability.
And if OpenAI can't IPO it dies, because there is no other way to raise enough money to pay for all the commitments they've made for purchasing hardware and renting compute capacity.
Why would bad numbers surprise anyone?
Because they're really quite horrible, a $33bn yearly loss with $20bn of that coming from operations.
It's costing OpenAI $20bn to run a service that brings in $13bn from customers. They are also spending north of $5bn on marketing to get those customers. This does not include the very significant costs of developing the models, or the enormous spending commitments.
If my back of an envelope maths are correct, OpenAI needs to either IPO or roughly triple their customer base in a year or they will run out of money around Q3 or Q4 next year.
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https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/
Ymmv finding playable copies.
https://x.com/YouGov/status/2070171606652010698?s=20
This year it is to show support for an England team that is the epitome of multi-culturalism.
https://x.com/nonregemesse/status/2070243190892867957?s=61
The other pastime I’ve never had interest in.
I might be turning right wing in my old age but this is an absurdity. Back at Tanks and Drums in Bradford complaining about the heat would get one escorted out of the factory.
It was a very matter of fact kind of a place. At a Management meeting the MD, a heavy set bluff Yorkshireman from Queensbury, explained; "salesmen? If it were up to me I wouldn't pay you bastards in washers".
I’m also unsure if, even if it’s a permitted development, you’d need covenant consent.
Two people — Savanna Batten and Elizabeth Soto — weren’t involved in planning the protest, arrived separately from the others, and left when guards told them to, before the shooting. They were each sentenced to 50 years in prison. Among other accusations, the government declared they “were part of a group that created and distributed insurrectionary materials called ‘zines.’” Daniel Sanchez-Estrada, who didn’t attend the protest at all, was sentenced to 30 years in prison for moving a box of zines — an act prosecutors claimed was “corruptly concealing a document or record.” Ines Soto, Elizabeth Soto’s husband, was granted a continuance and will be sentenced on July 1st, according to the Department of Justice. (So will seven others who pleaded guilty to one count of providing material support to terrorists, some of whom testified as witnesses in the trial.) The other sentences handed down suggest that his will be similarly harsh.
https://www.theverge.com/policy/956404/prairieland-sentencing-zines-trump-antifa
The issue is more subtle. The problem is not so much temperature, as temprature combined with humidity. The same temperatures that we have had today would be fine with a humidity like that in Phoenix or Marrakesh. It is 72% humidity today here.
(For what it's worth, that's not that dissimilar to the historic systems in Switzerland and Germany.)
Covenant consent is where, even if you are the freeholder, you have to ask for permission if you have restrictive covenants on your property. I own the freehold on my house but there are restrictive covenants. Height of fences etc etc.
My wife had to do so when she put a porch on her house, it was a permitted development but still needed covenant consent.
She did obtain it, from Yuill.
However it can be a problem selling homes and there is specialised insurance where people haven’t got it as neighbours can complain and it fall foul of that.
https://www.geplegal.co.uk/restrictive-covenant-indemnity-insurance/
“ BREAKING: OpenAI is now "leaning toward" pushing its IPO until 2027, per NYT.
Details include:
1. "Choppy" markets in recent weeks have led OpenAI to reconsider the timeline of the IPO
2. The company is worried it may not find much enthusiasm from retail investors
3. Advisors are recommending OpenAI either wait until 2027 to IPO at $1 trillion or lower the valuation for a quicker IPO
Recent volatility in tech stocks has raised concerns around OpenAI's IPO.”
https://x.com/kobeissiletter/status/2070248030234706379?s=61
Two tier Trump.
The sentencing is grotesque.
It’s obscene
I don’t disagree with the principle that some of these people to to jail. Especially the guy who fired the gun. But this seems little more than using the judicial system to enact retribution.
I also think, due to the slump in SpaceX and today’s commentary from JP Morgan that makes it less attractive to go now,
Apparently, as of last week Todd Blanche can personally put them in general population in the most dangerous Federal penitentiary in the US. He can do the same to any convicted Democrat or convicted in a Trump court, Trump critic.
I hate to say this but I think you might be living in a version of the Soviet Union.
Heck if you look on the thread in Reddit it takes a long time before someone actually found the correct details.
Problem is OpenAI finances are scarily bad and it doesn't seem possible that they can grow sales enough to offset their loses..
https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mp5ddlp3322x
And you know that Vance is right. Watergate would not even be a one day wonder in this administration.
Deserved too.
I’d guess the same will happen with the Anthropic IPO too.
I remember the words of Warren Buffet. IPO - It’s Probably Overvalued.
https://x.com/DrNeilStone/status/2070241662262026602
It did open him up to a new adoring audience post leadership though, even if in the last 12 months Polanksi has gotten more love.
Too many cherised myths.
https://x.com/UKPoliticsLive/status/2070263798129131828
For a different perspective this is an interesting work:
https://amzn.eu/d/01g8bQp7
A lot of the fighting was between American Loyalists and American Patriots, as well as probably a majority who just wanted a quiet life. I suppose true of most civil wars.
A lot of those Loyalists moved to Canada as a result.
The cultural shift required in the UK is going to be difficult to achieve. You’re going to have feeble managers posturing rather than taking a rational approach - can’t imagine ever being given 12-3 off to sit in the shade, or being forced to wear an enormous hat.
There's a reason why our Mediterranean friends do a mixture of working in the morning and evening in low summer, then buggering off to the beach or the mountains in high summer. It's the only sensible thing to do in the circumstances. And those circumstances are coming this way, thanks to the global warming that's already baked in for the next few decades.
(When I was living in Seville, the city had lots of advertising displays with temperature monitors built in. One summer- I think it was 1999 and linked to the World Athletics championships happening in August, for pity's sake- the city council switched them all off.)
My own home has restrictive covenants. For example no fence can be erected above 2 metres.
You’ll find I’m right. Ask one of those experts you humblebrag about knowing while vagueposting some worthless shite anyone could have got on Twitter. “I have it on good authority ……” 😂😂😂😂
When’s your next flounce due ?
Not holding my breath.
Aaron Rupar
@atrupar
JD Vance says his grandmother "had loaded revolvers all over the house" adding, "she made sure that no matter where she was, if somebody walked in her door, she would have a loaded revolver within arm's reach."
https://x.com/atrupar/status/2070244005573521752
Meanwhile, a Reform gain from Labour:
Camp Hill, Nuneaton & Bedworth
Ref: 460
Lab: 400
Con: 84
Turnout 16.84%
There was a GOTV campaign too from Labour. I know Sacriston quite well. Cycle through it quite regularly.
‘ Great result in our local byelection for Sacriston Parish Council today:
Labour 268 (68.2%)
Lib Dem 125 (31.8%)’
https://x.com/lukeakehurst/status/2070257035849908615?s=61
And if OpenAI can't IPO it dies, because there is no other way to raise enough money to pay for all the commitments they've made for purchasing hardware and renting compute capacity.
At least SpaceX makes money. Even if IPO at 100x earnings was challenging.
Camp Hill (Nuneaton & Bedworth) Council By-Election Result:
➡️ RFM: 48.7% (+2.6)
🌹 LAB: 42.4% (+19.3)
🌳 CON: 8.9% (-2.6)
No GRN (-17.8) as previous.
Reform GAIN from Labour.
Changes w/ 2026.
Farnworth (Halton) Council By-Election Result:
🌹 LAB: 51.0% (+14.6)
➡️ RFM: 36.4% (-0.0)
🌳 CON: 7.7% (-5.7)
🌍 GRN: 4.7% (-9.0)
🦅 LBT: 0.2% (New)
Labour HOLD.
Changes w/ 2026.
Nice
I'm on at 130/1 to win
Edit: Apologies, just saw your subsequent post
Now it makes sense why Whitehall has seized control over planning at Cherwell District Council. They can force through the Bicester plans irrespective of local views.
It's costing OpenAI $20bn to run a service that brings in $13bn from customers. They are also spending north of $5bn on marketing to get those customers. This does not include the very significant costs of developing the models, or the enormous spending commitments.
If my back of an envelope maths are correct, OpenAI needs to either IPO or roughly triple their customer base in a year or they will run out of money around Q3 or Q4 next year.
Does anyone know why Japan's football team play in blue?
Their flag isn't. And their rugby team wear the correct colours of cherry and white hoops.
Summat for Labour, Reform, PC and Greens to smile about so far.
Plenty of opportunities for Tories and LD later to get into the game.
They beat Haiti 1-0. Doesn't scream deserve to qualify to me.
He's gonna spend his weekend in Haydock Asda rather than Chequers isn't he?