Nini

I'm just an idiot. Far too much politics, not enough furry stuff and goofery, working on a balance.

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2025-04-16 08:22:41

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Or worse, go for Reform and end up with a full Vichy state.

2025-03-09 10:08:01

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Maybe people just got wise to the idea that their productivity should result in seeing actual gains in their wealth and less time working, not working more for much less even though they produce more than ever.

2025-03-02 10:26:53

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The emergency state is over and has been which is good, doesn't mean it was ever eradicated and if anything has only become more intense though no longer hospitalises nor kills as many as it did before a vaccine was developed. The Long COVID suffers are little more than the spectres of a painful time and will be ignored as such because far too many people have become virus deniers in the wake of COVID-19 in their rush to move past the trauma. At this point it's becoming an endemic, no longer a mere pandemic.

2025-03-02 10:12:27

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Problem here is that the "special relationship" has been a pretty abusive one with the US telling the UK what to do under threat of what it'd do if the UK didn't follow along. Wasn't ever specified but it was never a symbiotic one, just one that helped the US.

2025-02-25 09:56:39

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I'll probably be very staunchly "no new builds" until we sort out the issues of existing empty properties and private property going unused. The only places they'll consider building is in green belts and/or floodplains which is only going to be ruinous.

2025-02-23 19:40:16

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So, if more money is going into war I guess we're edging that much closer to one.

2025-02-21 09:17:03

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They'll waste far more money pursuing these supposed fraudsters than it'll save, it's pathetic but emblematic of the DWP existing mostly to punish anyone who slumps low enough to need them. Not a social safety net, more a means of seeing how badly you can treat someone for being unemployed, the greatest shame.

2025-02-20 13:19:45

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I love how they're trying to figure out why productivity is down and more people are opting out of the system without asking the people why.

2025-02-16 21:11:31

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If Scotland ever offered to annex everything north of Birmingham I wouldn't say no.

2025-02-15 11:37:38

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Europe will most likely be caught between two conspirator nations, every country is at risk if the union falls. Us here? Well, we're just a tiny island whose much vaunted "sovereignty" can be sold to whoever pays them enough. Given how it's likely either the Tories, Reform or some coalition of the two next up to lead, I expect we'll just become a vassal state of the US (which is itself basically a vassal state of Russia looking at those in chage).

2025-02-13 17:00:01

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America is merely the first to fall, feels like Putin has many helping lackeys installed in a lot of parties across the world and even if he doesn't any right-wing christofascist party will happily go with whatever he wants. I still reckon Putin wants an empire and there's nothing the far-right enjoys more than doing an imperialism.

2025-02-10 09:29:38

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Still waiting for the Momentum faction of Labour to stand up already and form their own party.

2025-02-08 20:40:51

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"Mystifies" is doing some heavy lifting, the scientists know what's happening, that's no puzzle. What's with the semi-ambiguous coward wording?
As for what's going to be done? Nothing, maybe a few feints towards something but it'll be like carbon capture and more about making money and greenlaundering the money.

2025-01-31 10:07:42

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Don't mistake wanting something for being powerless to prevent something, they've been handed a sackful of problems from two previous generations that were handed to them by other generations and in all cases each generation was told to fix it. Gen Z might simply be the one to say no and to let it all burn given they didn't make this mess and feel no obligation to fix it.
"You made this, don't look to us to deal with the problems. You're giving us all these issues to solve and nothing to fix them with; no money, no power, no stepping aside to let us work. If you're going to prevent us from fixing things our way then we won't do anything to stop it from breaking and that's on you."

2025-01-29 18:41:34

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Easier to punch down at people who cannot defend themselves, doesn't do a thing overall but is a show of strength of power and control to those on the receiving end of the outsized retribution.
"We won't go after tax evaders as we might mess with the wrong person if we do but we will go after the teeny fraction of fraud in benefits, might even spend more than we save but it's just because then all benefit recipients know they live solely at our behest and can take that away in moments."
Even though it was a Tory concept, Labour is still looking to allow the DWP to be able to search and seize people's property and let AI nosy around in people's private bank accounts for excuses to sanction or stop benefits. Don't really see the same rigours applied to tax evaders do you?

2025-01-29 08:54:04

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Once again the MBA thinking shows it'll harm us more than help, this focuses on what the stock market wants but does nothing to enrich the impoverished. Kinda like thinking as long as the peak is high enough it'll compensate for the major troughs in their graphs.

2025-01-27 09:49:36

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I did see that, yeah. I know there's some good uses coming from the medical field but like you and others mentioned the use of various terms for similar but fairly different areas and conflating them means it gets muddy very quickly. I was specific about my use of the term "LLMs" because of that, ML is often put under the AI umbrella but it's a misnomer as is AI in general for much of what we see in this area.

2025-01-27 08:39:44

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LLMs are useless at dealing with hard facts or situations where you cannot fudge the information, their output is next to useless for that sort of thing because it is just making assumptions about what should come next. Decisions like that can't be left to systems that weren't designed for it no matter how much data you feed it or power you give it to think up the wrong answer.

2025-01-25 09:21:38

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Funny how we had a system that funded it more effectively and helped everyone equally regardless of income or ability by being free at the point of use for quite a while. Something happened and now it's being underfunded intentionally so it can be dismantled for profit, how could this have happened?

2025-01-25 09:19:11

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Definitely shouldn't be sending anyone who's armed to a crisis unless someone was an actual threat. Given "threat" to the cops means not instantly complying with their demands they probably thought it was fine to murder this man. Ugh, to think these people are the ones who can extra-judicially murder at will and nobody else has a chance, it's like the problems in the US except nobody can fight back with a killing machine in their hands.

2025-01-24 09:13:39

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There's... there's not really many left of centre parties to get in, we have one but they're barely a blip as the media rarely if ever mentions them preferring to focus on the right to far-right outfits of varying shades of authoritarian conservatism.

2025-01-19 10:24:52

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An interesting causal effect, too many applications for fewer jobs means less people having their application even considered creating a problem of futility in job searching which makes the process of mass application more appealing as the net has to be cast ever wider, even for jobs that you wouldn't qualify for as it has equal chance of being rejected as the jobs you do qualify for. Any job as long as it pays the bills, that's the level of desperation involved and desperate people will do things that are antithetical to their goals like mass applications because it feels like they have no better option.

2025-01-16 09:19:17

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I dare say that an unstable and ever-changing government is intentional, makes it easier to get a strongman authoritarian in charge if the existing government can't be trusted.

2025-01-13 19:16:37

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Unless the action plan is ushering in a whole new fourth reich led by Putin and his US lapdogs I'm not sure. Probably caught that end-of-days eugenics cultist energy that techbros have.

2025-01-11 16:20:48

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If there is, it won't be mentioned in a public space.

2025-01-04 21:08:39

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Kinda been the case since the 90s, it's been upto the upcoming generation to sort out the sins of the previous generations (or just one). Just nobody ever asks why they need to be the ones to save everyone else, what are the previous generations doing to help solve the problems? You cannot ask people coming of age into the world to fix something they had no hand in and give them fewer resources and access than the generation prior who was also supposed to fix everything.
Why would they bother? Their inheritance is a choking rancid swamp left behind by others that they need to drain with an added bonus of not even having the basic tools to start anything significant. If they tell the others to fuck off and let it all burn, I can't say they're wrong.

2025-01-04 09:30:33

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"public" even.

2025-01-02 13:35:53

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If I became a passive income rentier type would I be economically inactive? Money continually going upwards to me but I hoard it?

2025-01-02 08:27:44

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Sounds like Streeting's plot to collapse the NHS is going well, if everyone hates interacting with the system it'll be that much easier to partially sell off chunks of it to private investment.

2025-01-01 10:59:02

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I'm fine with not being mentioned, less likelihood of having to fend off the bots and other personalities we don't like. Popularity is a double-edged sword after all and not all attention is good attention.

2024-12-27 09:12:58

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The question currently is a mix of "how much profit can we make from cutting workforce?", "we need to use this new tech, just shove it in!" and "we have this tool and no clue where to put it, let's just apply it to everything and see if it fixes it."

2024-12-24 09:16:37

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And I keep saying we don't need to build necessarily, there's a lot of empty buildings we could put to use for social benefits rather than private investments. I say this mainly due to a changing climate means our green belts are even more vital now and need to be protected from short-sightedness. Nobody wants their lovely new house to be considered uninsurable after the third flood in two years either.

2024-12-23 10:00:25

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It is why a lot of things fail, nobody at the upper levels is thinking further than their own tenure and how much they can leave with. Problems left for the next exec to fix, who needs to care about institutional knowledge if you can get contractors for cheap?

2024-12-21 19:58:32

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Given the increased melding of profit and governance since privatisation of the water boards, what's the likelihood that bringing them back into public ownership would do anything?

2024-12-19 21:23:21

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The economy means fuck all if any improvements are instantly captured by the rich, just represents how much money was stolen from the common person.

2024-12-17 10:05:48

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It's where the realities of nature bump up against needing more housing, can't build on floodplains when devastating rare events become more common and the space needed for floodplains grow due to rising water levels.

2024-12-13 20:52:07

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When they tell you there's a housing crisis, this should be what they mean.

2024-12-12 09:18:34

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Seems like it's just offloading the responsibility of protecting consumers by "enabling" them to protect themselves, much easier to let it fall to the individual to solve than legislation to prevent them doing it at all. Deregulation rarely helps anyone besides scammers and abusers.

2024-12-11 18:26:21

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I know, there's compromises to all things but if you continue to compromise on who to elect you'll have nothing to gain because it's always compromising with whichever party is least likely to leave bruising. It's an abusive relationship and one we can't leave even as things keep going south and all we have is minimal control over the speed and severity of the decline. At least give me 50% of something to agree with, not 20% with some added gotchas down the line.

2024-12-11 16:39:26

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Which in itself is damning for what our leadership and the options present are, "still better than the other one" is all we can manage. That's not great for democracy if all the options trend towards some authoritarian state with varying shades of brutality, democracy works best if it can engage the populace into participating because it could mean gaining something it wants, not to keep the worst option at bay with similarly terrible options.
There's a huge gaping void in the progressive political landscape, we just need to be able to back someone that'll occupy that position but if there's nobody even remotely close to it you might ask why bother at all.

2024-12-11 08:07:36

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There is a plan, just it doesn't involve the homeless or the vulnerable. They will be hurt definitely but it's more an incidental thing, not so much something done out of a specific malice per se (there's always some) but more done because they simply didn't notice or care.

2024-12-07 22:08:47

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It can be done but given we're still working on a timeline that spans to 50-100 years of zero emissions I doubt the will to do it without thinking it a waste of time and/or money a decade or two hangs over it.
These sorts of commitments are multi-generational in nature, they will last beyond our lifetimes and beyond that of every human alive today because they have to, without lengthy commitments there are no further generations to keep it going. It's not cheap no but this is the cost of a hundred years of emissions, low cost upfront but has a horrible interest rate.

2024-12-06 10:16:27

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It'd be more profitable long-term to keep EDI going but then short-termist thinking might see it as a pointless exercise and will make excuses for abandoning it. Or much like in the US they'll abandon them as they're way more scared by the far right being angry and loud about it.

2024-12-02 08:55:49

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Think Scotland would be taken in by a shady wanker from London trying to sell them some knockoff watches?

2024-12-01 10:13:01

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Well, there has been a long-term campaign to vilify and dehumanise those at the bottom. Marking them out as workshy, incompetent with money, selfish, liars and at the core of it blaming the poor for their own situation as if it was some form of radical self-determination to be poor.
Of course paired with that is the illusion that you, non-poor citizen, could be a rich person and not at all that you could far far more easily end up one of those poor.

2024-11-28 20:04:24

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It remains vital in my mind that any career in tech needs to have some complementary study of the humanities so they can't hyperfocus on one aspect and can become more cultured and worldly, connecting more with humans than the computers.

2024-11-27 08:27:15

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Might simply be part of the ongoing process towards privatisation, make the social option take forever (occasionally with limited options within it) so people will either suffer with the problem or go private.

2024-11-27 08:23:53

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Wondering about if they'll add on an age conditionality, feels like the sort of thing they'll attach where it'll be more difficult to get someone to sign off on it if the person is under 70 let's say.

2024-11-24 10:41:48

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That's a difficult nut to crack, not fully sure you can do so honestly. There's always going to be risk from outside influences of course but the safeguards proposed are limiting enough to make such a right worthless given the small window it can apply within.

2024-11-24 10:18:28

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Still don't like it, three authorities need to sign off on dying a few months sooner? What are they fretting about exactly? I feel like we're placing way too much on the "sanctity of life" while ignoring the individual who apparently has no free will.
My opinion that assisted dying shouldn't be determined by age nor health condition (be that mental or physical) but solely by the individual involved is a bit of an outlier sure but why can't someone leave this realm while their faculties are still intact and not be subject to a gradual deterioration of body and mind? All very Catholic if you ask me.

2024-11-23 11:59:46

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By which you mean these automated spammers? Yeah but it's also meaningless given they'll go anyplace they can find and spam there just the same. It's all coming from one instance which makes it easy to block but it's the biggest instance too which means cutting off some voices you might want to hear from or are hearing from.

2024-11-17 11:38:06

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I doubt their plight will ever be fully understood, how could it be when in a highly stratified social system with wide chasms in between they're well insulated from the realities others live with?
If it is ever understood it's usually in a very specific paternalistic way that's often patronising and ineffective for the actual issues with a lot of "self-reliance" nonsense to fill some of the gaps of which there are many. Not too much "self-reliance" though, you're poor and that's a personal failing so you can't be trusted too much.

2024-11-16 16:06:21

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Our leadership has long been too divorced from the populace in terms of wealth, common experiences and working for everyone, not just those who can pay you to work for them. Democracy is a sham, why should we expect anything from our supposed leaders that isn't just expected from rapacious pigs gorging themselves?
Nothing to do with the toot, just more a general vent of indignation.

2024-11-15 15:25:24

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I'm conflicted also but not for "tampering in god's domain" reasons, more about why you'd mess with the mosquito when you could just make them extinct.

2024-11-11 21:14:40

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They seem upset.

2024-11-10 11:02:04

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I don't think we can, we're still stuck in a mindset that a social housing project should be squalid and plain, fit for purpose but only just about. Too fancy? Nope, then that housing stock will be RTB'd and sold privately taking it out of the pool so what do you do, take away the power of private capital? Not likely, no it'll have to be the most begrudging of offerings in case people might actually like where they live.

2024-11-10 10:27:10

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If there's one thing corporations can't take back from the pandemic, it's remote working. It's worked well for everyone besides the beancounters with their vast empty buildings and the middle managers not able to surveil and loom over their minions.
I'd argue it might not be one they can win, they need the workforce more than it needs them.

2024-11-06 11:19:52

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Surely tethering yourself to the US' sinking ship is the least smart option, right?

2024-11-03 09:53:00

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Funny how they ignored devastating flash floods happening elsewhere in the world but when it happens in Europe it becomes a problem. Still, I don't think we can do much to stop a disaster in progress once it begins, if we did want to avoid it we'd have killed Big Oil back in the 90s when it was most needed.
These changes we need work on long timescales and we could hit zero or fully go into the negative today yet would still be dealing with a crisis for a decade because of how the effects are cumulative and slow to have impact. That slowness is what made people complacent, easy to kick down the road but that complacency is what'll cost humanity, wildlife, everything in the end.

2024-11-03 09:33:50

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It is weird that they're not entertaining decreased population numbers, is the idea of not growing that anathema?

2024-11-02 13:06:10

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So, with all that what exactly exists on the left or at the very least someplace more further left than the LDs?

2024-11-02 10:00:32

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Feels like the thing about making us more selfish is interesting, would say it's something of a knock-on effect of the upper echelons noting we might not want growth anymore during the lockdown really ratcheting down and getting us "back to normal" sooner making us more selfish as a result of their own selfishness taking more from people during the cost of living increases (which predominantly have not come back down).

2024-11-01 09:39:38

Open question: are we in the dot-matrix era of 3D printing right now?

2024-10-25 21:25:31

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How's your neck feeling? Good? You need more con badges.

2024-10-25 07:25:17

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With any luck, yes but given how pliant some the populace is towards sabotaging themselves at the request of people who'll profit from it we might not see that until it's too late. We still need to shake off the malaise of Thatcherite thinking and recognise we have way more in common with our continental counterparts than the offspring of the officious folk we had to kick out.

2024-10-23 09:56:22

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Probably not the key issue as I do feel like it's a self-determination thing first and foremost, having some religious guidance in said choices is unjust towards those who don't subscribe to those beliefs.

2024-10-23 08:47:26

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One of those things where your religion restricts you, you can't use it to restrict others who aren't even a part of your religion. I know, "this is a <religion> country" but that's irrelevant if the religion's authority doesn't extend to governmental concerns.

2024-10-22 19:06:12

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Right, yes... "we pissed away all that money you gave us, can we charge people more so we can pay for those investments we forgot to pay for?" Embezzlement by any other name...

2024-10-21 08:38:09

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Need to wonder who has in recent times actually been given a bonus who wasn't part of the executive set. It's twisted that they get to pay themselves dividends for failure while everyone else would be fired with such flagrancy to their jobs. Just pigs gorging themselves on money they didn't earn but felt entitled to more of nonetheless.

2024-10-19 09:56:21

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Not to mention work draining all the energy out from them so are unable to do late-night things. WFH can also mean less obligation to go out at night.