How is that becoming like Britain? :)

We can now bowl, curl and luge, Jannik Sinner is on TV every five minutes, but we can't give North Macedonia a good old trashing.

Italy is becoming like Britain: really good at a ton of sports, but increasingly bad at the one everyone really cares about.

Trot in the 70s, neocon in the aughts, resistance grandpa in the 20s.

Basically the reputational scorecard from best to worst is: (1) neocons, (2) Mormons, (3) Main Street Caucus, (4) Blue State moderates, (5) libertarians, (6) evangelical Christian right.

I have made my party allegiance quite clear. bsky.app/profile/leon...

(I am particularly proud of the way I crafted this post because virtually anyone who is guilty of this themselves can attribute it to some reviled factional outgroup.)

I think open list are great, as long as preferential votes are optional and one can cast a list vote (normally, these end up being 70-80% of the votes).

Yeah, the goal is outsourcing the mindless data extraction and management tasks that used to make up about 60% of my workflow.

I strongly recommend my peers and competitors on the job market to stick to old-fashioned manual coding. Think of all the water you're going to save.

Thanks Rob for your support.

The immigration debate stems from increased immigration. Very little evidence that it's driven by the economy, to the point that places like the US, Denmark and Australia - which have experienced high growth and standards of living - also experienced it.