Len Lawrence

@NickDixon Isn't a big part of this international sales? Is India/Pakistan a sizable market now? Is Africa a growing market. I could stomach that angle more than The Capture's recent propaganda.

Can’t believe this is real. Their racial hatred is beyond Hitler’s wildest dreams.

@Arto2077 @jfmaquine @GodPlaysCards The question isn't one of nationhood (or citizenship for that matter), it's ancestry. The Gauls are certainly ancestral to the (native) modern French people. Of course Vercingetorix can be claimed by the true French. (Regards from England)

@jfmaquine @GodPlaysCards Les gaulois et les francs précèdent la France, donc c'est anachronique de dire qu'ils aient été français, ces peuples font partie de notre histoire mais ils n'étaient pas français Et Clovis n'est plus considéré comme fondateur de la France par les historiens sérieux

The French surrendering jokes are easy, but I never quite like them. They've produced some of history's most ferocious and noble warriors: Vercingetorix, Clovis, Martel, de Charny, etc. the list goes on and on. Their warrior culture is undeniable, and should be celebrated.

@multiconco28270 @robbertleusink I very much doubt this is true. v unlikely the Dutch were worse than the Arab and Ottoman slavers.

@robbertleusink Also, the Dutch were the worst slave buying and selling country in the world in the 16th and 17th centuries. You never hear much about that glorious fact.

The industrial revolution did not begin in Birmingham in 1760 It began in Zaandam in 1592 Cornelis Corneliszoon invented the wind-powered sawmill Planks became uniform, ships became modular, and the Dutch merchant fleet scaled faster than any navy could match They built hull before frame Craftsmen became line workers And build time dropped from 12 months to 4 By 1670 the Dutch Republic owned half of all European merchant capacity Yards ran year-round on Baltic timber and Swedish iron while competitors waited for seasonal supply England and France bought their ships from the Dutch The country that would later surpass them learned how from them first

@Goeun_6121 @robbertleusink Not a 'revolution' though, more of an innovation; isolated and limited. The Industrial Revolution did of course begin in England.

@robbertleusink standardized parts, modular assembly, year-round supply chain. zaandam had all of it in 1592. we just call it 'industrial revolution' when the british do it.

@robbertleusink But that wasn't a 'revolution' it was more of an innovation, isolated and limited. The Industrial Revolution did of course begin in England.

@BenWilsonTweets I have to guess that all those geniuses came to Florence for patronage?

I don't think people understand how insane Renaissance Florence was. In a town of about ***50k people*** you had the following people all alive at the same time: * Leonardo Da Vinci * Michelangelo * Raphael * Amerigo Vespucci (explorer for whom America is named) * Niccolo Machiavelli * Sandro Botticelli * Lorenzo de Medici What happened to all that human capital? Did the intelligent men of Florence migrate elsewhere over the coming centuries?

@8019_sam @NickDixon It sounds like tin-hat stuff, but it does make one think. They could hardly press a more emotive button than this for many of us. ?? It certainly feels provocative.

@NickDixon To think the BBC puts this out there in a time of increased tensions. Almost like they are deliberately stirring the pot.

Britain is a dog loving country, as this report even admits. So why are the BBC suddenly putting out anti-dog propaganda? Something has changed. Can’t quite put my finger on it.

@NickDixon At this point it makes me wonder if some element at the BBC is trying to provoke?

@JohnCleese As if i didn't hate the BBC enough already.

I think that in recent years we have become too BBC-friendly They should concentrate more on making great programmes, and less on social engineering Social engineering is not what they are paid for

@realBigBrainAI This becomes an argument for tiered leadership roles. The General can be super smart and lead his very smart Colonels who lead their smart Captains who relate to the men. Any we (UK US) have tiered leadership.

Marc Andreessen says raw intelligence might be the worst qualification for leadership — and it changes everything about how we should think about AI. "If the leader is more than one standard deviation of IQ away from the followers, it's a real problem." Andreessen points to the US military, one of the earliest and most rigorous adopters of IQ testing, as the source of this insight. They slot people into specialties and leadership roles based on IQ scores. And over the years, they kept seeing the same pattern. A leader who is significantly less intelligent than their people struggles to model how those people think. That part is intuitive. But the reverse turns out to be equally true. "It's actually very hard for very smart people to model the internal thought processes of even moderately smart people." A leader who is two standard deviations above the norm of the organisation they're running also loses theory of mind, that ability to hold an accurate model of what's happening inside someone else's head. The gap is too wide in both directions. Andreessen then takes this to its logical conclusion: "If you had a person or a machine that had a thousand IQ or something like it, its understanding of reality would be so alien to the people or the things that it was managing that it wouldn't even be able to connect in any sort of realistic way." An AI that vastly outthinks every human in the room isn't positioned to lead those humans. It's positioned to be completely incomprehensible to them. Leadership has never really been an intelligence problem. It's a connection problem. And no amount of raw intelligence closes that gap — past a certain point, it only widens it. The world will not be run by the smartest thing in the room for a long time. Maybe ever.

@DrJohnVervaeke I'm having a related battle with myself now. I have done the saving, retired early but can't convince myself that i am definitely going to die and need to spend the money before that happens.

In one experiment, academics were presented with compelling evidence that they should start saving for retirement...they get absolutely convinced. But when you check in with them after six months, none of them are saving for their retirement. So what is the missing factor? Hal E. Hershfield and colleagues suggest vividly thinking about the subjective experience of the future self you are trying to be. It emphasizes your perspectival orientation towards your future self. Are you in first person or third person relationship to your future self?

@thinkingwest The West needs a new anima, a new cause, idea or inspiration. Without reinvigoration the cathedrals would stand empty or be turned into mosques.

What if we built more cathedrals than data centers?

@empiresunchnd @HistoryWJacob I felt immediately that there had to be more to the situation; as males (I am one so i remember this clearly) can do insanely dumb things until their frontal lobe develops fully around 25 -the flip-side are the Alexander the Greats who do insanely optimistic things and win

The historical reality is more complicated than the post suggests. The Romans who gave fourteen-year-olds the toga of manhood also had a separate legal category, the curator, appointed to supervise young men's financial decisions until age twenty-five, acknowledging in law that formal adulthood and actual mature judgment were different things. Medieval apprenticeships that began at thirteen typically ran for seven years precisely because masters understood that craft competence took time to develop regardless of legal status. The concept of adolescence as a distinct developmental phase wasn't invented by modernity; it was just handled through different institutional frameworks that acknowledged the gap between biological maturity and social readiness without having a word for it.

The concept of "teenager" is a modern invention. For most of human history, a boy of 13 was already a man, apprenticed in a trade or fighting in a war. George Washington was a professional surveyor at 16. Alexander Hamilton managed a trading company at 14. In medieval Europe, noble boys could be pages at 7 and squires by 14. In Rome, a boy put on the "toga of manhood" at 14. The idea that an 18 year-old is "still figuring things out" would have been incomprehensible to our ancestors. I believe this is why we think teenagers are so troubled. They are men and women stuck in a society that treats them as children. Of course they are going to "rebel". We should give them more responsibility and expect much more of them.

@Bernardchapin1 @lporiginalg I just assumed it was auto-complete and it slipped past you. :)

@LenLawrence7 @lporiginalg good point, but i did just finish that lawyer arrest video where the trans lawyer played an oppressed victim 25 times in 6 minutes so maybe that was on my mind lol

They're calling it the most female tweet of all time.

@IamMonaJo @lporiginalg She's not commenting on 'people' it's an expression of her feelings. Her comment did not pass through intellect and so she failed to see the hypocrisy, the judgementalism, the contradiction.

She’s saying people will judge the young girl and the older man differently, even though both chose to be in the relationship. An older man wanting a much younger woman is often seen as creepy. And when a young woman is with an older man, I can’t help but assume there’s some financial motive involved.

@Bernardchapin1 @lporiginalg 'expressed'

@lporiginalg men need to remember that the publicly oppressed opinions of these women are always designed to manipulate you. Ignore them completely

@WONGthink There are commonalities. Of course they can be referred to as white cutlure, or better imo as European cultures.

The Lord of the Rings is quintessentially English culture. The Witcher is quintessentially Polish/Slavic culture. The Bear and the Nightingale is quintessentially Russian culture. They are not interchangeably "white culture".

@jan_murray If someone can believe that, they can believe anything. Frightening

Guardian columnist Zoe Williams claims the reason we don't have mixed football teams is because “women are too good”. 🙄 Now, I’m no expert on football - but you don’t need to be. You can see it with your own eyes. Watch an elite men’s match and an elite women’s match side by side. The men are, on average, quicker, stronger and more powerful - which changes the pace, intensity and physicality of the game. Saying that doesn’t diminish women’s football. It’s simply acknowledging reality. Men’s and women’s football are different - because men and women are different. This isn’t really about Williams - it’s about the kind of baseless arguments that get bandied around to justify men in women’s sports and spaces. Including by women themselves.

@somarietto @neolatyno it's possible. I've seen two guys die after hitting heads on pavement. I'd run a mile to avoid a fight over concrete

@neolatyno Holi SHIT is the guy with the blue jacket dead?

A lot of you don’t understand that Europeans are tired of experiencing this uncivilised violence daily, and will vote for whoever wants to stop it immediately. Your party better start working on addressing THIS unsolved issue or a huge percentage of people will NOT vote for it.

@Glinner @pathe13233 The one in red is Sith. They are prepared to embrace their anger and hatred, using it to pervert the Force making themselves powerful in combat. It is entirely expected that it will be a challenge to defeat one.

@pathe13233 Very possibly, I'm only going by the clip; I've never seen it.

Lots of opinions on this but I haven't seen anyone mention the fact that it's 2v1. Surely that's why it doesn't work? They're ganging up on him and they're supposed to be the heroes.