Mark Amery

@eigenrobot (Possibly a pro of shooting at Israel is their defences are so good you'll barely kill anyone, so won't generate much of the kind of public outrage that makes peace harder, but you WILL disrupt Israeli life by pushing everyone into shelters, making their population desire peace.)

@eigenrobot Possibly you're right, I have no idea. I guess they disagree with that analysis though and think both the US and Israel care more about Israel getting hit.

why is iran still lobbing missiles at israel. morale i guess? feels basically pointless yet costly, as it exposes launchers and wastes missiles while accomplishing nothing tactically nor strategically

@thomasforth @Layo_FH This makes sense wrt social housing but doesn't address affordable housing, which I have always understood to pretty much just be rent controls on an arbitrary subset of privately owned property, much like canonical examples of rent control like NYC.

@XplodingCabbage @Layo_FH Here's the Gemini answer. Its as good as what I'd write. This is ultimately a question of semantics though, there's clearly some shared features across the two.

Is it true that London has ‘no rent controls?’ London has an awful lot of social rented properties, which are rent controlled. Due to inflation and an increasing regulatory burden it’s essentially become prohibitively expensive to build anything in London. And isn’t one of the major costs for developers the requirement for them to deliver a large % of their homes as social rented properties?

@andrewgwils What's wrong with "genAI"? It's slightly less specific than "LLMs" but that nonspecificity is often either desirable (if in context image or video generating AIs are intentionally also in scope) or unimportant (if it's clear in context they're *not* in scope).

It's funny how phrases like "generative AI" and "big data" are an efficient way of signaling that you are not a domain expert.

@JuanIsidro @quasistable @andrewgwils Why on earth would that be preferable? You have replaced a term that is clearly about tools that intelligently *generate* stuff (words, art, whatever) but non-specific about the mechanism with one so much vaguer it no longer even specifies the kind of task the tool is for.

@quasistable @andrewgwils Likely models.

@LibyaLiberty @Kiradavis For daring to pray in a chapel, not designated for any religion, that some Muslim men had decided to stake claim to and expected women to exclude themselves from? The only thing worth calling "hate" was going in the other direction, here.

@Kiradavis I’m sorry that you have so much hate in your heart.

I have a habit of stopping by airport chapels when I have the time. Most of them have closed down in the US in major airports, but DFW reopened theirs and they’re basically mosques. I had a very uncomfortable experience praying in the chapel on Palm Sunday, but I refused to leave while the Muslims were being so nasty. I refused to leave what is meant to be a temple of the Lord, especially on Palm Sunday. I had a long layover so I waited them out. One man grew frustrated after about 30 minutes and left, but not before others came in. They were clearly having conversations about me in Arabic. They weren’t being shy about letting me know they were talking about me. But I sat and prayed and read the Bible and I did not leave until the last Muslim had cleared out. It was actually a very scary experience given how isolated the chapel was, but I think we need to start staking ground.

@thomasforth @Layo_FH In what sense are affordable & social housing not "rent control"? Presumably your reason for saying this is that only an arbitrary subset of properties have rents controlled while others are rented at market rate, but isn't that USUALLY true of schemes named "rent control"?

@Layo_FH I think it's a really good question. I don't think London has rent controls really. It has something worse. And I actually think that rent controls could help fix that.

@but_cyclists @ArtistCyclist (I have not dug deeply enough to be totally sure but I can't see what other bit of data in the gov.uk tables could possibly have been used as a basis for the claim. And if I am right, it would explain why they removed it from their article.)

@but_cyclists @ArtistCyclist So I can only imagine that the stats for collisions involving that factor were the basis for CyclingUK's claim. But, obviously, a vehicle entering the road from the pavement being a contributory factor to a collision need not imply that the collision took place on the pavement.

Drivers who instantly see pedestrians as vulnerable when cyclists are allowed to share a path, never see cyclists as vulnerable when sharing a road with motorised vehicles.

@but_cyclists @ArtistCyclist I don't find it using CyclingUK's search function either. Do you have a link?

@XplodingCabbage @ArtistCyclist It's from CyclingUK but the stats are from the DfT, you can go and look them up.

@but_cyclists @ArtistCyclist Where's this from? Googling or Binging the exact phrase "it's commonly thought that pedestrians are at particular risk" yields no results.

@XplodingCabbage @ArtistCyclist

@EndeavoringIvy @BenShindel @thePartyPartyUS @austinc3301 What are the odds that someone dying in agony in care is non-depressed? Surely euthanasia is reasonable ONLY for depressed people? Or are you assuming "depression" is by definition irrational, so misery caused by unbearable circumstances is not "depression"? That's not the case.

@BenShindel @thePartyPartyUS @austinc3301 The topic was specifically about depressed people fwiw

What a bizarre interaction?

@but_cyclists @ArtistCyclist Source/derivation for this stat?

@ArtistCyclist The skewed perception of danger is fascinating. Motorists think a bicycle presents some sort of mortal danger to pedestrians when ridden on a pavement or shared path. In reality, motorists kill and seriously injure almost 100x more pedestrians *on pavements* than cyclists do.

@Guy8Q @doctor_rahmeh @Neilceeee What on earth would you even consider, in principle, to be "evidence" for the *non-existence* of such beds? If such a service exists, one would expect there to be some form of documentation about it. If it doesn't exist, obviously there will not be.

@XplodingCabbage @doctor_rahmeh @Neilceeee You point me to some "Evidence" that it is not the case, other than your trust me bro horse shit

Jews are the only group who operate their own ambulances (hatzola) and police (shomrim) in Britain. They do this in 14 other countries, mostly European. In the US, Hatzola has been accused of tending to jews while non-jews have died at the same scene. Why the apartheid?

@Guy8Q @doctor_rahmeh @Neilceeee Point me to some evidence of said beds' existence, then.

@XplodingCabbage @doctor_rahmeh @Neilceeee There are Eruv, shomrim, hazula, and 2500 trumped up charities one for every 120 jews, why does it surprise you that there are jewish only beds?

@doctor_rahmeh @Neilceeee What on earth are you talking about? There are, surely, no hospitals with "Jewish only beds" in the UK? I can't imagine such a thing being compatible with equality law (even if run entirely privately by a Jewish org), nor find any evidence of such existing when I google for it.

@Neilceeee And sometimes emergency room/bed queues if they go to hospitals that have jewish only beds

@sfrantzman Our plan was "we have nukes and powerful allies, and we're happy to leave you alone as long as you leave us alone, so attacking us would be obviously insane". Not enough in today's world, though.

What was the plan to defend against Russian missiles? Those are a threat as well, right? And have been for a while, right?