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@cremieuxrecueil Proportion virgin at marriage?

Guess what thing that's happened less and less in Britain over time this is a graph of

@Ivantheboomer @jarvis_best UK, Japan, Australia, USA

@jarvis_best This is why there needs to be 3 to 4 countries that host the olympics and that's it.

Olympic Committee: “Alright, it’s 2022. You’re going to build the hockey rink right?” Some Italian Guy: “Oh yes oh yes we builda da rink we-ah building it right now!” OC: “It’s 2024 - how is that rink coming along?” SIG: “Eeeess almoss done.” OC: “The Olympics are in two weeks. Please tell me you built the hockey rink.” SIG: “Ehhhh no. We no build-ah da rink.”

@E60ms @MrJamesMay Paid to pedal? I don't think James May really has the build of a Tour de France cyclist.

@MrJamesMay How much you being paid to pedal this?

This petrol/diesel discussion has been very illuminating; thanks to everyone who has joined in. You dieselists are a defensive lot. Yes torque, yes mpg, yes energy density, blah blah blah. But you know, don’t you, deep in the deserted carport of your hearts, that when you reach for the black nozzle at the fuel pump, everyone around you looking on feels a pang of pity for you. And you feel one for yourself.

@lproven @ciphergoth @quirkyllama "LLMs are not a path towards AGI" what are your credentials to make this claim?

@ciphergoth @quirkyllama I am. I am a founder member of one of the biggest skeptical organisations in the world. There are all sorts of things I don't believe in, and many are far more plausible than this. AGI is not impossible, but it's very very hard and LLMs are not a path towards it.

There are still people who believe this.

@_imey @TomWright165389 @peterrhague Your hypothesis is that in 2024, Dubai mounted a worldwide marketing effort to redefine the term "dubai chocolate" because years earlier a few /pol/sters had used the words "dubai" and "chocolate" in the same paragraph?

@tomkandy @TomWright165389 @peterrhague What's your point? It's close enough

It’s important for people to understand that SEO is real, widely practiced and not at all a conspiracy theory. Of course “dubai chocolate” was invented to drown out embarrassing internet traffic. How can anybody doubt it?

@_imey @TomWright165389 @peterrhague Neither of these say "dubai chocolate", and they never had any traction. The term that was widely used was "dubai portapotty"

@tomkandy @TomWright165389 @peterrhague OK

@TomWright165389 @peterrhague Very far fetched. The *idea* that rich guys in Dubai were doing horrible things to instagram girlies isn't new at all, it was just never called "dubai chocolate".

@tomkandy @peterrhague what if… they pre-empted it? Yeah, getting tenuous but not entirely impossible

@Mark_McEathron @Cottonwood_331 "At trial, McEathron’s parents said he was with them at the time of the attack and could not have committed the crime" I guess your parents didn't feel the same way as you then?

@Cottonwood_331 Unfortunately, yes... share.google/kFyROfaRto9X1j…

My brother brutally assaulted a 14 year old girl. She was riding her bicycle and ran her off the road, shoving her off of her bike, punching her repeatedly. Then he dragged her into the woods, beat her some more, threatened her, then surried away when another vehicle approached. He was convicted and spent over 15 years in prison. I haven't spoken to him in well over a decade, once I got past the lies to the truth. My kids will have no relationship with their uncle. His own son has denounced him. Tucker is sick. This is evil.

@IrkedDinosaur @BDSixsmith The CPS knew a London jury wouldn't convict for murder

@BDSixsmith Any sense why this was charged as manslaughter when it reads like murder?

"You have committed us to a lifetime of pain."

@for_up67014 @thomasforth Meaningless paper money unless you intend to literally remortgage your house to buy tickets

A lot of Brits realising that, 1/ America is quite a lot richer than the UK now, and you buy football tickets in nominal dollars, not PPP dollars. 2/ American sports price to the market in a way that European sports, especially football, typical don't. Much higher prices ranges.

@Colin_d_m This is easier to do when you don't have to worry about voters. Disenfranchise retirees.

I was on a train across China with an English teacher eager to talk about all the new construction. When asked about opposition, she said the elderly always oppose it so they have a public hearing for them to complain. Then they ignore them and build. America must do the same.

@SydneyLWatson Not just sports. You're about 30% more likely to get into Oxford university if you're born in September vs. August

Texan boyfriend just explained that we aren't allowed to have an August-born child, because that child will be the youngest in their class and therefore, when they play sports, will be smaller than all the other kids and therefore will have a harder time. Is this seriously the shit you guys think about? He's not joking either. I genuinely don't know what to do with this. Planning kids around them playing football is so America-coded though lmao. 😂

Reminder on Human Rights law: ❌ PREVENTS NUCLEAR POWER REGULATION REFORMS (apparently) ✅ YOU CAN END THE 1000 YEAR HISTORY OF JURY TRIALS NO PROBLEM

@__VA_OPT__ @Cal_III

@dc_lawrence I've got a better formula than that - minus 5% a year and recipients don't get to vote.

This is one of the most important charts in UK fiscal policy. Wage growth tends to be followed by higher inflation with a one year lag. This means that the state pension gets up-rated *twice*, thanks to the triple lock – and any further increases compound. This 'double dipping' is completely unsustainable. The natural trajectory of the triple lock, if we didn't change it, would be to eventually consume the whole of UK GDP. That's why in a new report with @BritishProgress, we propose reformulating the earnings component of the lock such that it uses a 'past 10 year average'. This would avoid the double dipping scenario described, and save £6.2bn for the taxpayer in 2030, rising to over £35bn pa in 2045, without changing the fundamentals of the triple lock.

@KaneEmerson Bloody rapacious property developers putting profit over safety, we need to shut down the likes of, errr, the not for profit Peabody trust.

The housing association Peabody were planning to build 564 new homes in Ealing. 50% affordable. Now cancelled. The reason 👇

@rcolvile Pretty straightforward really

It is a genuine mystery to me why a progressive paper is so vehemently opposed to the idea of tackling a housing shortage by building houses, but there you go. Full thing here theguardian.com/society/2025/n…

Absolute peak Guardian - a heart-tugging 2,000-word article on the housing crisis that somehow fails to raise the idea of building more homes as a potential solution

@KaneEmerson The daughters of Cambridge property developers are going be very busy over the next few years

I just want affordable housing please

@pingthebird F