Tootlefish
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It's quicker to generate an AI video of a Tesla fire than find an old video that fits your narrative, that hasn't already done the rounds. Finding old relevant footage for your shithausery will become effort posting.
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I suspect we are all frog boiling and have already liked AI that we've been duped by. Survivorship bias will give us false confidence that we can still spot it.
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Unfortunately doubt can no longer be removed with facts. It's developed antibiotic resistance to reality.
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The funniest thing about Dubai, is few people respect moving to Dubai. And that really annoys the sort of person who likes Dubai. "No you don't understand, you need to accept it's good, let's go over it again."
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Awful. The microwaves should always be just out of sight. Basic stuff.
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Perhaps, I don't know but my best guess is it's lifelong members who can't let go. But in effect yes, given a final 2 you would back them to vote for the least electable 4 times out of 5.
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Yes it ramps up the brazenness required. To do a transaction and pass the barrier with something in you coat and a member of staff supervising, will be enough to put some off
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Yes, I've not thought of it in those terms but it sort of is. The pros are obviously cheap rent, but the cons of rent control exist, a loss of mobility and you're motivated to tolerate the maintenance issues as you want to keep your head down.
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I know people with 'golden handcuffs' who can't justify moving as their deal is good.
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Yes, people think of high rotation city centre flats which are probably quite close to the market maximum. Lots of long term tenants are not charged what an estate agent would list it for if they left.
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What makes it worse is when they do bin Badenoch, they'll probably choose Jenrick who will keep offering the Tory picnic to reform. Can't see them getting their act together before 2 leadership elections pass. (If ever)
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Yes a better measure. But the US is an outlier on that selection. Earlier you mentioned how China's 1 child policy changed the structure of society which I agree with, I think it's probable the 2008-2025 period has done the same in Europe, and it's a permanent change.
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Sure it's a global composite that contains all the things you mention. But to me this shows globally it will dip below 1.1 at some point and a global labour supply crunch will follow in the decades after. Certain countries won't experience it.
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The global trend is relentless in its direction as it stands.
Fertility chart showing global rates falling from. 2.75 in 2000 to 2.25 in 2023.
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The let's do natalism arguments can only hold for so long when it doesn't work. But this isn't imminent in many countries.
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I'm fairly convinced in the long grass this will change migration politics on its head and countries will be actively and overtly competing for immigrants.
Angry tabloid headlines about the french attracting ours before they reach Calais.
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Love the world food aisles. You get different selections in different places based on which communities are in numbers nearby. One little bit of local variation in a sea of supermarket uniformity.
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If for the purposes of the thought experiment you assume conversation stays off politics and on pets, weather, sport etc. and put aside the my prior strong negative feelings. I would probably add Farage reluctantly. This is basically what successful populists excel at.
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Ed Davey. Grooms chatty uncle at a stag do vibe.
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I guess the premiums for a company like that are now bonkers and needs a lot of bartering. And the draft contract is probably full of get outs and exclusions which your IT and Legal people need to spend weeks plugging before signing. Probably quite a long lead time.
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Let it go I reckon, so few people are willing to change their minds these days we shouldn't make them do a repentance thing when they do. (Unless they deserve it).
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Yes , unfortunately my brain is meme-addled at this point. Beyond repair.