I'm not sure we have a denomination high enough for such an ovine unit. Should we ever suffer some Zimbabwe-style inflation (and who knows, with everything going on), I nominate this sheep for the £10,000,000 note.
Pretty on the nose though really - quite small, rather twee and traditional in appearance, turns out to be a little murderous bastard in nature.
I really wanted to go, but when I asked how much the tickets would be, the operator just sucked their teeth and then started talking about how bad the last festival I went to was.
Isn't she supposedly an engineer of some sort? I assume she was down at the docks volunteering with the spanners to get things seaworthy then, rather than just spouting off meaningless antagonistic bollocks without the required contextual knowledge?
I know I’ve got some Labour local gov’t types following me, so I want to say this clearly so that you can share it internally as appropriate: I will never again vote Labour while these policies, or Wes Streeting, are in place. I will not vote Labour at any level because of this.
It does feel very much like it would slot neatly into his oeuvre, I'm assuming he probably checks the news regularly with his agents number dialled in except for the final digit.
so what happened was, i read nine john le carré books, then i saw the pictures of the preposterous drapery SCIF at mar a lago where the iran war was being conducted, and then i thought about how many spies there must be at that place
and then i wrote a short story
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This needs to be both a novel, and a brutally dry and dark film, comedy, farce and tragedy rolled together.
...or to trumpet it as some kind of economic boon is beyond me. I'm not saying data centres aren't necessary things, but they're symbiotic at best, parasitic at worst - none of the money will stay in your economy.
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The goal of any data centre owner is reducing costs, growing margin. They will go where energy is cheap, where regulation is lax/unenforced, and they will eliminate any job they can, sod the externalities. Why a government would ever be stupid enough to try and encourage this...
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The whole "data centres on the moon/in space!" crap is also a grift, but it also highlights definitively that the whole trajectory of these things is "fewer people/more automation". The platonic ideal of a date centre is the same as a dark factory - no people, just tech.
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Data centres create jobs is one of the most obvious and inexcusable grifts imaginable, to the extent that I can't believe it's out there being said by governments. The whole sector has been focused on throwaway redundancy and automation for years.
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Yeah, I'd have more time for that kind of critique if it were applied equally. Very few Reform policies hang together legally or financially (let's ignore morally for the moment), and yet they're reported on as if they're governing certainties. Policies are process, more people engage, they improve.
To be fair, Philip Glass is the musical equivalent of "I've just realised I've watched this loop 6 times while waiting for something to happen". He is *made* for TikTok.
Oh, I missed that thread 9 days ago. It's superb. The hard part of delivering solutions to problems has never, ever, been typing them in.
No argument. I know it's something that worries me a lot, having a son growing up in this environment, but it's absolutely on me to make sure he doesn't grow up as one of these men.
The post mortem of 2024 is a classic in only acknowledging the top line result, rather than thinking what par would have been for the starting position. Hemorrhaging votes in solid Labour areas should have been a massive warning light.
(I'm not expecting any, or trying to put the work on anyone else, just a general ambient wish - apologies if it comes across that way!)
That's a really good point, thanks for pushing my brain in that direction. I wish I had more than empathy to offer in situations like that; I'd love to listen to any thoughts about how that dynamic could be changed.
Best not look up who Prue Leith's son is then... (Although to be fair it doesn't sound like they see eye to eye on politics).
I wonder whether (given the perfectly reasonable change in expectation from women) those men are a lot less likely to get married than their boomer counterparts? Women (hopefully) less likely to put up with misogynist man-children?
"would otherwise receive immediate access to welfare and social housing" is BS.
Correct: "after 5 years working in a care home, would be eligible to apply for welfare and social housing on the same basis as the rest of us."
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Deliberately misleading/disingenous.
It's what he would have wante - aaaahh, I can't, it's too grim.
No, that's not the worst case, you predatory oompa loompa, the worst case is that it triggers mass conflict, destabilises an entire region, disrupts goods, energy and people worldwide, and plunges the planet into another deepening crisis, but hey! You got to play with your toy planes, good job.
Nothing says "hyper-masculine, only care about macros, nutri-maxxing chad fuel" than having to add the fact that it's Salted Fudge flavour in tiny letters in the corner. Flavours are woke, it should taste of wood shavings and righteous anger (which isn't an emotion, ok?).
That last picture, with the neon-esque internal lighting, looks like the best rave anyone might ever have been to.
"Just popped outside to chill out, watching the aurora - back in soon when it wears off a bit..."
"Richard! Stop hiding under a cache-misère of your own mythology! We have guests!"
Could we legislate that all LLM responses must be set in Comic Sans, and ban the use of emoji in favour of 90s clip art? People would trust it a lot less if it communicated like the one mad family uncle who still emails every batshit opinion from an all-in-one desktop Compaq.
This is something I tell anyone joining a new team, particularly juniors. Right now, all of this is fresh and novel, and you'll see things that everyone else has stopped noticing. You're an opportunity for the team, and you're best placed to make a difference. Capture every thought, however trivial!
So basically Tate if you want to try and pretend to yourself you're an intellectual? Ick. What a sad and lonely world he must envisage as his future.
