byroon

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byroon ,

GDP is not a good metric

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The green party have over 300

True, but the green party also have over 800 councillors
Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-68956733

byroon ,

What is EAST?

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Is American cheese any good? TV shows seem to imply it isn't but it seems weird you wouldn't have good cheese by now
Edit: I meant cheese made/available in the US, rather than the type called "American cheese". But thanks for the answers

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Oh my god who cares, shut the fuck up

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Sausage roll abuse is beyond the pale

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Worth remembering that it wasn't always a free-for-all before minimum wage was introduced. I think there was a mechanism to set minimum wages by industry, which got dismantled by thatcher (not sure on specifics but pretty sure there was some mechanism to set minimum wages).

byroon ,

They keep emailing me to say mine has reached its end of life and needs to be replaced - and yet funnily enough it still works while all these smart meters don't

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Does everyone know they're not real? I'm not suggesting they are real, only that for all I know the quality of these fakes might be convincing.
Whether this story is "overblown" or not is subjective I guess but the victim's being "creeped out" does seem like actual harm to me

byroon ,

The headline frames this as if levelling up is useless, rather than it was a slogan that the Tories stole and then did absolutely nothing to fulfill

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Sometimes it is bullshit.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/02/scientists-aghast-at-bizarre-ai-rat-with-huge-genitals-in-peer-reviewed-article/

Like callouscomic said, sometimes academics are incentivised to churn out bullshit

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At the last election, the tory party changed their twitter account display-name and profile-picture to pretend to be the "Fact Check UK" account. They have no integrity.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/nov/19/tories-tweet-anti-labour-posts-under-factcheckuk-brand
Edit: to be clear, I do think the potential for deepfake misinfo is concerning. But the Tories can absolutely fuck off about it

byroon ,

People do care but they struggle to make change against the rich who do not care

byroon ,

Not just incomplete. You probably need to start with inequality. 25% of global emissions are created by the richest 1%. 50% by the richest 10%

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4000 parents is still basically nothing

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Ban all religious schools tbh

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This is what the Bank of England intended when it raised the interest rate right?

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I don't think you can say either the US or UK office is better than the other, they're too different

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Peep Show also notable I think for how many failed attempts there have been to adapt i

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Councils need to provide public transport, and support walking and cycling

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And a peephole

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Stupid cunt reveals banal fact about self

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