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Taffy Osborne @poppingbubbles.bsky.social · 5h

Can also recommend their label printers. I had an retired ex brother volunteer when I ran a watersports centre who kept telling me to get one. I kept putting him off till he lost patience and brought one for me and I immediately loved it and have always had one since.

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Taffy Osborne @poppingbubbles.bsky.social · 7h

But seriously, there must be some kind of calculation here, which means that the world's most Authoritarian regime is scoring democracy points on something. I wonder what.

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Taffy Osborne @poppingbubbles.bsky.social · 9h

Oh yeah actually dynamic NPCs is a great shout. Has anyone done this yet?

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Taffy Osborne @poppingbubbles.bsky.social · 9h

@columnist.bsky.social what is the gaming use case?

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Taffy Osborne @poppingbubbles.bsky.social · 9h

Teaching yourself new skills I have found it pretty good for if you aren't doing something too niche and it's a field where mistakes are obvious early

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Taffy Osborne @poppingbubbles.bsky.social · 10h

Ian Banks would do it.

Taffy Osborne @poppingbubbles.bsky.social · 15h

Either you can see how to win an election again and you won't be accepted, or you will be accepted but you can't win an election again. No obvious route to power.

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Taffy Osborne @poppingbubbles.bsky.social · 15h

Right this is the thing. If you were Mr./Mrs. 1000% charisma blazing like the sun, and totally clear sighted in terms of where the party needed to be, vibing with our lanyards.... You just couldn't succeed in that environment you would fail all the purity tests. If ambitious you simply wouldn't join

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Taffy Osborne @poppingbubbles.bsky.social · 1d

"What then is the Green's response to lower back problems"

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Taffy Osborne @poppingbubbles.bsky.social · 1d

No I think it is just this.

Taffy Osborne @poppingbubbles.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like to have any chance you have to intervene very early, before the rabbit hole means that much to you, or very late, once they have acknowledged the state they are in at least subconsciously. So the more help out there for the former, the better.

Taffy Osborne @poppingbubbles.bsky.social · 1d

Absolutely nothing will happen there.

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Taffy Osborne @poppingbubbles.bsky.social · 1d

North West Wales, Llyn Peninsula

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Taffy Osborne @poppingbubbles.bsky.social · 1d

I wondered what you were up to.

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Taffy Osborne @poppingbubbles.bsky.social · 1d

At some point you have to look at your mountain of wealth and say, that's enough, I would like to play for a contender. Even with your eye on your post NFL career.

Taffy Osborne @poppingbubbles.bsky.social · 1d

The Kiwis and the Aussies were careful to only have it creep in over years though, so it wasn't obvious straight away (and the press was not effective in making this clear)

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Taffy Osborne @poppingbubbles.bsky.social · 1d

But this is the point though, even Mr Beast (OK I vaguely know who that is but we are here, so I am pretty online by definition) has no cultural footprint beyond a narrow part of the internet. I mean, it's a large narrow part of the internet with a lot of people in it (as politics!) but siloed.

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Taffy Osborne @poppingbubbles.bsky.social · 1d

Mad for it. Everyone I know talks of little else.

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Taffy Osborne @poppingbubbles.bsky.social · 1d

I mean to be fair, political partisans are like that with loads of things that just don't cut through at all.

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Taffy Osborne @poppingbubbles.bsky.social · 1d

There was that thing a while ago when everyone went mad for some drinks or something? Prime? And everyone outside their niche including me was like wtf is going on here?

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Taffy Osborne @poppingbubbles.bsky.social · 1d

Also I am not convinced that picking a fight with Zuccerberg/Musk would be bad politics domestically.

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Taffy Osborne @poppingbubbles.bsky.social · 1d

I just mean that blocking websites is actually a thing you can do long term which is enough of an incentive to tech to do the right thing. Obvs not trying to force users onto a UK gov adjacent system run by Euan Blair/Carrie Johnson a la China.

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Taffy Osborne @poppingbubbles.bsky.social · 1d

So set the rules, then just say "you are blocked till you can prove you are banning anti semites/giving anti Vax users good info about vaccines" or whatever policy you want to force on them.

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Taffy Osborne @poppingbubbles.bsky.social · 1d

I have a friend in China, it is possible to visit X or Facebook or whatever there via techy work arounds but normal people simply don't. The combination of potential difficulties with the authorities and the effort it would take is too much so everyone uses Chinese Google or whatever instead.

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Taffy Osborne @poppingbubbles.bsky.social · 1d

Well that's the compelling part. You CAN shape their behaviour, every time twitter or meta have come up against a government (Australia, Brazil) they have lost. They can just be blocked if they don't comply.

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