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There's a frightening number of people in this world who really seem to believe "We could have avoided Nazism, if only I'd been around to wittily point out the logical fallacies in Hitler's arguments."
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Mike Morris
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Mike Morris
@MD_Morris
British/Irish architect. Morality mainly derived from Dr Who, politics somewhere between Tony Benn and Lenin. @[email protected]
Cork انضم Mart 2009
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@bbishdotdev @JadenJTW @kentcdodds [Sigh] This is just a dumbed-down version of the prisoner's dilemma. Actual research has shown that most people choose blue in real world situations (well, the prisoner's dilemma equivalent). This is all old hat. I wish you people would try learning things sometimes.
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Simple:
There are no downsides to red. You cannot control people’s choices without force. If you pick red it’s emphasizing 100% survivability and 0% risk at an individual maximum freedom of choice principle.
If you are choosing blue, you’re likely caught up in the moral superiority play, but for the wrong reasons. And honestly I think the majority of blue voters if this thing was ACTUALLY real would vote red. It’s performative by nature, and even if not you’re advocating to enforce 50% of the population to vote blue in order for your bet to work. You are choosing control by force, disguising it as the morally superior choice, all while illuding the fact that if push comes to shove, you’d go red.
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@SeanDaBlack Jesus Christ, this is just the Prisoner's Dilemma simplified. Would these people ever try reading more than one book
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Him spamming this video under every right wing losers tweet perfectly encapsulates him as a red button presser
Jaden Williams@JadenJTW
Which do you press? 🔵/🔴
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@SWmoff I'd hate to demur in any way of course; I would have put 'A Good Man...' way higher myself, top 5 nuwho for me. But The Parting of the Ways, which for me is top 3, is entirely absent, which suggests to me frankly questionable taste in Dr Who. Clean link: ew.com/doctor-who-bes…
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Seven of the top 10. 3 of the top 3. Preening odiously
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@joelgolby He's a cautionary tale about the importance of, once in a while, saying the equivalent of "yeah, I guess that episode of The IT Crowd was a bit dodge, sorry about that." The man double-downed himself into batshitland
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hate seeing Glinner videos because I do think every man has a bomb in his head that can explode and do that and you fear it going off. what will melt my mind, I wonder? it's going to be the council not doing enough about potholes or something
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Whether Arsenal win the Prem League or not, Mikel Arteta should be credited for an astonishing achievement: getting neutrals to cheer for Man City
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@BadWritingTakes What's he said since the Mermaids issue? (Genuine question, I thought he'd backed out of the debate entirely)
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I remember when Robert Webb had to actually talk to the parent of a trans child on the radio and acted like a total coward because he couldn't really defend his position, then went back to being a bigoted ghoul afterwards.
TERFs are all such cowards.
jessica pseudonym@mealdealtruther
My favourite Peep Show Queer Moment™ is when Robert Webb said that, if he was a child nowadays, he would've been trans'd because he didn't like football :-)
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@markpougatch I can't believe people still refer to forwards "firing in a shot," even as we near the 360th anniversary of the Great Fire of London
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Football reporters should never ever, ever, ever use the word ‘disaster’ in relation to giving a goal away. We’ve just marked the Hillsborough tragedy. Check your language. Do much better.
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@ianberriman Can't believe people still use the expression "spreading like wildfire" as we near the 360th anniversary of the Great Fire of London
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@carrigman @KennethFitzsi15 Older English people will still often say "Roman Catholic" to distinguish from e.g. Anglo Catholics or Old Catholics. Less common now but it doesn't surprise me to see it on an old census form.
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@KennethFitzsi15 Members of the Protestant churches would not have entered their religion as Catholic on the census so the appending of Roman on the form by some official was unnecessary. It was clear what religion was meant as, indeed, it is today.
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Some official was careful to ensure that the inhabitants of the household were classed as ROMAN Catholics. In case they might have been mistaken for Greek Orthodox Catholics, presumably :-) #1926Census
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@pollybirkbeck "The late Damon Albarn, who choked on the olive in his dry martini"
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@AllyFogg @DaveHasProblems @NicholasTyrone Yeah, Ireland's Green Party has a high contingent of (UK translation warning) Tories On Bikes, who paradoxically can be pretty puritanical about personal behaviour. I guess that's near-inevitable if you see climate change entirely within the framework of consumer choice.
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@MD_Morris @DaveHasProblems @NicholasTyrone Yep, they were among those I was thinking of. Generally one of the striking things about new Greens is how little of that there is, also very little Vegan Police moralism & deep green Puritanism.
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Both Reform and the Greens, as less established parties than the big two, face entryism as an issue. Yet while I see reasonable evidence of Reform battling against entryism within their ranks, the Greens don’t seem to have even realised they have a problem yet.
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@AllyFogg @DaveHasProblems @NicholasTyrone I would also add that the Greens historically had quite a few members who were advocates of e.g. woo medicine, so the levels of crankery have dropped, if anything
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@DaveHasProblems @NicholasTyrone As for ‘influx of crankery’ I would firstly (of course) question your definition of crankery, I suspect you’re referring to opinions that are very commonly held everywhere except parliament, but also the GP has always had many very radical policies & members. It’s no influx.
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@AllyFogg @NicholasTyrone It's amazing how certain words have been broadened to the point of uselessness.
Hypocrisy = caring about something a bit more than you care about other things.
Entryism = lots of people joining a party who act like they don't want to work for a think tank
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@NicholasTyrone Can I assume that by ‘entryism’ you mean having a large number of members who actually like their leadership, agree with their policies and support their positions?
TBF that is quite unusual in modern politics I guess.
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@JeffCarnage Is it? The lyrics scan perfectly but the tune's quite different...
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How have I got to 44 years old, and only just realised that the “I want my MTV” line in Money For Nothing is to the tune of “don’t stand so close to me”?!
Frank Skinner used to call this an idiotic eureka moment.
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@ianberriman One of my favourite things to do in Paris is walk along the Seine going "that's the steps Duggan came down while following the Doctor and Romana. Actually, it's those identical steps over there. Or maybe those ones..."
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Going to Paris at the weekend, so obviously I am watching the best Doctor Who story ever, “City Of Death”.
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@Eloxeron Well if you are paying 50% you're earning about 750k pa, so forgive me if I'm happy for you and people like you to pay for most things.
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@MD_Morris I’m fortunate that I can. But that’s not point. The burden of taxation is shouldered by a small number of tax payers in the country plus some windfall corporate tax. The redistribution effect is totally wastefull in Ireland - knock yourself out finding examples, there are plenty!
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Quick example of misinformed radicalisation:
You want something done about fuel prices
You see protests. Go on my son
Gov refuses to talk. You cant understand why
Your algorithm says taxes are to blame. Makes perfect sense
Gov wont lower taxes. You cant understand why 1/
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@Eloxeron @EO_Halloran If you pay a total of 50% tax on your income, sounds like you can afford it.
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@EO_Halloran As a consumer I paid €165 for about 75l of diesel today. For that €165 I had to earn about €330 gross income to receive about €80 worth of diesel. So the entire tax paid for the 75l I got was c. €250. That €250 is pissed down the drain on wastefull government overspends.
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@AnnaClarke_____ @AllyFogg Minor point, but you say in the report that a car charger costs £1200. I now live in Ireland where construction costs are higher, and fitted one for 1100 euro. FWIW.
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@AnnaClarke_____ @AllyFogg Would also add that 20k as a government cost for utilities is nuts, and you've included a heat pump as a potential abnormal while also including it in the future homes cost. A few more double-ups in there. As an experienced architect, I'm not impressed by this document.
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Building *only* social housing is perfectly possible (private housebuilders can build it for you if you like). But it requires around £100,000 subsidy per new home. I'd quite like to see the Green Party's plans for how to fund it.
Saul Staniforth@SaulStaniforth
"The unrealistic thing is to expect property developers.. to build us out of this crisis.. what we really need is a party.. who say we need to build social housing, council housing.. it will require intervention [&] thats absolutely what we must do" @ZackPolanski yesterday
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