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@aryehazan There is an element of elite collision to keep things going. But at the end of the day the basic problem is that the median voter will vote for the guy with the nice hair when continued existence as a nation is on the line.

@aryehazan The people are retarded. I've been trying to convince people that radical action is necessary for about 20 years. I can get them to agree that eg ethnic crime etc must be dealt with harshly, that islam is dangerous, etc. Then they go right back to voting social democrat

like there’s all this talk of pitchforks and lampposts but very little action at the ballot box

@miniapeur I bet the sex department doesn't leave the good stuff as an exercise to the reader

@liminal_warmth Sounds like lawyer is about to pull out a gom jabbar

These verbal cat and mouse legal games (which he is playing obviously correctly) make my inner autist want to SCREEEEE when I hear them “Time to carefully thread guarded truths and defensible lies so I don’t step in a reputation smear trap repeatedly drawn before me”

@tritlo Since a lot of language is cyclical occasionally they'll match the current version of gangsta rappers by accident

do you think elves have to relearn the common tongue every few centuries or do they just talk with a ridiculous archaic accent

@viperwave I have no interest in the game, but it is annoying how many people complain that the music in a product called Mixtape was niche and not mainstream. That was the point of mixtapes! If the game was called Top 40 hits of 1995 it would be valid to complain about no Aerosmith

I think a lot of gamers brains sadly calcified in 2014 so theyre still stuck talking about how Mixtape isnt a real game or isnt art when when the real issue is that Ive never played a game that desperate to be liked. Its hitting every button it can to try and get you to like it.

@moseskagan @JonesOnTheNBA He's done 73k minutes of high impact wear and tear on a huge frame. Neither glory nor fame will make his joints any better and he's likely already pretty short on cartilage for the next 40 years of life.

@JonesOnTheNBA If I were him, I'd play for the minimum for the right team What is the incremental $ worth vs. going out in a blaze of glory

Anyone suggesting LeBron is playing for the mid-level somewhere gotta be trolling. I would bet $25 million is his absolute floor to continue playing.

@Robyn4110122680 @peterrhague The Chinese has been needlessly cruel longer than the UK has existed as a state

@peterrhague only because they've been fending you off for 200 years, you cunt

China: where cruelty is just another ingredient

@moderaterna Att hålla liv i fler gängkriminella är inte någon prestation. Vad tänker ni göra åt de tiotusentals som lever i frihet, säljer knark, rånar folk, misshandlar och rekryterar barn att begå brott? Utvisa och fängsla tiotusentals brottslingar eller lämna över till någon annan

Ytterligare en gängtopp har gripits. Sedan 2022 har antalet efterlysta svenskar som gripits utomlands fördubblats – ofta gängkriminella som ska ställas inför rätta i Sverige. Samtidigt har det dödliga gängvåldet halverats och skjutningarna minskat med 60 %. Det visar att förändring är möjlig och att det spelar roll vad man gör. Med fler gängtoppar bakom galler rekryteras färre barn och fler svenskar kan känna sig trygga på våra gator och torg. Det är rättvist. Foto: Polisen

@khurasanid @BlindBearMedia Why are we deluged with non-white people lying to come and live with us?

@BlindBearMedia Go to sweden as a non white person and come back in 10 years, i will see you if it bothers you or not, sweden js a racist islamaphobe country that the people wont even allow you to sit next to them in the bus

It’ll forever bother me that Khamzat does hang the Swedish flag The country took you in, trained you, kept you safe and you dropped them like a hot potato Really disgraceful to say the absolute least

@SRtriple_7 @BlindBearMedia He came begging to be taken in a protected claiming he was fleeing for his life. Either he is a liar and a criminal or the people of Sweden saved his life.

Spreading misinformation around like a dumb ass. Do your research, why would he represent a country that never granted him a passport? Why would he promote Sweden after they did nothing about the Quran burning in 2023? He felt Sweden didn't want him (by denying his citizenship), and he didn't want Sweden (due to cultural and religious differences). He now considers himself a proud representative of the UAE and his native Chechnya. Deal with it.

@spandrell4 Let's focus on what's going on with her tits

No need to go full Elon but how hasn't he put 10 babies in her.

@fsporsen Hon är ju lika puckad som Maria Palmeus. Karaktärsmord och lite villkorligt är att komma väldigt billigt undan.

Oisin har en viss poäng i att hon potentiellt skulle utgöra ett säkerhetshot, men går det inte lite över gränsen till att bara bli karaktärsmordsfrosseri när han utöver att skriva om en rätt extrem potentiell händelse som inte nödvändigtvis är sann (andra kan ha köpt åt henne, hon kan ha köpt anonymt, osv) dessutom hävdar att hon har ett "långvarigt och omfattande missbruk" när det verkar röra sig om tre tillfällen som kan ha varit så långt tillbaka i tiden som mellan maj 2025 och januari 2026? (Rätta mig om jag har fel) Visst, om man definierar all form av bruk av narkotika som missbruk, men eftersom han inte specificerar tid och frekvens så blir konnotationerna extrema för läsaren. Är det verkligen hederlig journalistik? Är Oisin egentligen mest intresserad av säkerhetshotet eller karaktärsmordet?

@PeterOlsson Det handlar om rättssäkerhet 🙃

Svenska politikers misslyckade 40-åriga kamp för att medelst lagstiftning hindra en handfull blandmissbrukare från att äga tiotusentals bilar som används för brott är inte jätteimponerande.

@IsaacKing314 I routinely do it bc I dislike lying or just hiding relevant info in general. If the employer feels like there should be game like, strategic considerations made, rather than treating work as high trust cooperation, I prefer not to work there.

A norm of being able to discuss compensation with one's coworkers is: 1. Good, because it decreases information asymmetries and leads to more efficient allocation of labor. 2. Bad, because it incentivizes collusion and price-fixing. 3. Something else.

@QuinnyPig Well humans also contain a lot more than 3.4 oz of fluid. Clearly the correct solution here is to reduce all passengers to their essential salts and use the abominable rite of AshKente to reconstitute them into soulless automatons on arrival. Would save a lot on fuel.

Somewhere a chemist is explaining that yes, a whole roasted bird contains more than 3.4 oz of liquid, and somewhere else a TSA social media manager is getting a raise for not caring.

@memogetter It's pretty much the same way I dodge anything I don't like in social science

@RndmObjcts @TheZvi Funny way to dodge anything an LLM tells you if you don’t like it lol

10/10, no notes. Seriously, though, the top 10 is 10/10, with no notes, and with honorable mentions it is 16/16.

@GergelyOrosz Any time I've tried to use an LLM for writing it either messes up the fluff:signal ratio or butcher the style. In either case the result is more work than not involving the LLM. If I wanted to generate a bunch of seo slop it would be very useful.

AI - in theory - should make writing easier, thus expressing ideas should be a lot easier. And yet, I don't see all that much more things that are worthwhile to read. Sure, there's a lot more junk. But I don't see more interesting eng blogs, personal tech-related blogs etc. What is going on? (Is this a discoverability issue? Or are people / teams not writing/sharing all that much more, indeed?)

@fsporsen När det invandrade typ 20 thaifruar om året på 90-talet var det krigsrubriker i DN.

Om premissen för invandring på allvar hade varit att adressera barnafödandet, och inte bara ett ogrundat svepsjälsnarrativ i mängden, så hade kvinnor marcherat runt i SS-kostymer vid gränsen.

@TomChivers Have you tried asking it if killing the poor would work?

I got my Claude to do a UK version. … Fun prompt. Below is my honest swing at it for the UK. Caveat upfront: "fix everything switch" overstates things — these are policies where I think the case is unusually strong and the standard objections look weak relative to the upside, not magic wands. Confidence ratings are about "this would meaningfully improve UK welfare/growth if well-implemented," not "this is politically easy." 1. Radical planning liberalisation (housing + infrastructure) Confidence: Very high. Reasoning: The UK's discretionary planning system is the single biggest unforced error in British policy. It drives the housing crisis, suppresses productivity (workers can't move to high-wage cities), worsens regional inequality, slows clean energy buildout, kneecaps infrastructure, and arguably depresses fertility. Most rich-country peers build more housing per capita. Moving to a zoning/rules-based system with by-right approval, looser greenbelt around stations, street votes, and curtailed judicial review on planning would be transformative. Why not done: Homeowners are an enormous, high-turnout voting bloc whose paper wealth depends on scarcity. Greenbelt is politically sacred. The losses are visible and concentrated (a new block next door); the gains are diffuse and slow. Both main parties have flirted with reform and flinched. 2. Council tax revaluation and property tax reform Confidence: Very high it's needed; high it would be beneficial. Reasoning: Council tax bands are still based on 1991 property values. A flat in Hartlepool can pay more council tax than a mansion in Westminster. This is regressive, distorts the housing market, and starves councils. Revaluing — or better, replacing council tax and stamp duty with a proportional property tax or land value tax — is one of the most-endorsed-by-economists reforms going. Why not done: Revaluation creates visible losers (London/South East homeowners) and quieter winners. Treasury also fears the transition. The Mirrlees Review laid this out in 2011 and basically nothing has happened since. 3. Abolish stamp duty on primary residences Confidence: High. Reasoning: Stamp duty has among the worst deadweight losses of any UK tax — it taxes transactions, so it discourages downsizing, labour mobility, and matching people to suitable homes. The empirical literature on this is unusually unified. Why not done: It raises ~£12bn and is invisible to most voters most of the time. Replacing it (ideally with #2 above) needs political capital nobody wants to spend. 4. Build clean energy and grid infrastructure fast Confidence: High. Reasoning: UK industrial electricity prices are among the highest in the OECD, which is quietly hollowing out manufacturing. Cheap, abundant electricity is the most undervalued input to almost every modern industry. Streamlining onshore wind, solar, nuclear (SMRs and large), and especially grid connections and transmission would compound for decades. Connection queues currently stretch into the 2030s. Why not done: Planning (see #1), Ofgem incentives that historically rewarded keeping grid investment low, judicial review, NIMBYism around pylons, and a regulatory culture that treats new build as risky and the status quo as safe. 5. Devolve real fiscal and policy power to cities and regions Confidence: High. Reasoning: The UK is one of the most fiscally centralised democracies in the OECD. Manchester, Birmingham, Leeds, Glasgow are dramatically underpowered relative to peers like Munich or Lyon. Mayors with proper tax-raising power, transport authority, and skills budgets would let cities tailor solutions and compete. Most evidence on agglomeration economics suggests this matters a lot. Why not done: The Treasury genuinely hates losing control of money; this is a deep institutional preference that survives changes of government. Westminster MPs don't like rival power centres either. 6. A genuinely competitive high-skilled immigration regime Confidence: Medium-high. Reasoning: Top-talent immigration is close to a free lunch for receiving countries — fiscally positive, innovation-boosting, and concentrated in tradeable sectors. The UK has the language and the universities; it's leaving money on the table with slow visas, high fees (the NHS surcharge plus visa costs for a family is brutal), and a Global Talent visa that's narrower than it looks. Why not done: Immigration politics is toxic and the public doesn't reliably distinguish high- from low-skilled flows. Total numbers have been high recently, which makes it hard to argue for more of any category even when the composition matters more than the total. 7. Childcare cost reform Confidence: Medium-high. Reasoning: The UK has among the highest childcare costs in the OECD as a share of household income. This depresses female labour force participation, suppresses fertility, and acts as a giant marginal tax on the second earner. The recent expansion of "free hours" helps but the supply-side problem (provider economics, ratios, planning for nurseries) isn't fixed. Why not done: It's expensive, the sector is politically diffuse, and ratios/quality regulations have genuine trade-offs that aren't easy to legislate around. 8. NHS productivity reform plus sustained capital investment Confidence: Medium. Reasoning: NHS productivity has fallen meaningfully since 2019 even as funding rose. The UK has unusually few CT/MRI scanners per capita, old buildings, and weak digital infrastructure. Capital investment with productivity-linked reform (better IT, more diagnostic capacity, GP/secondary care interface) is probably higher-ROI than another marginal headcount increase. Why not done: The NHS is genuinely a political third rail; structural reform gets framed as privatisation regardless of content. Capital is the easiest budget to cut in any given year, so it gets cut repeatedly. 9. Curtail judicial review of major infrastructure Confidence: Medium. Reasoning: HS2, Heathrow, nuclear, transmission lines — UK infrastructure costs are 2–4x peer countries partly because of endless legal challenges and the consultations that anticipate them. A narrower "did the decision-maker follow the process" standard, with tight time limits, would lower costs without sacrificing core rule-of-law protections. Why not done: Constitutionally fraught, lawyers and the legal establishment push back hard, and any government doing this is accused of authoritarianism — sometimes fairly. 10. Reform the pensions triple lock and the wider intergenerational settlement Confidence: Medium-high on the need; medium on whether reform alone "fixes" much. Reasoning: The triple lock ratchets state pension spending up faster than wages or prices and is a major driver of long-run fiscal pressure. Combined with NI exemption for pensioners and protected pensioner benefits, the UK has built a fiscal regime that systematically transfers from young workers to older asset-holders. Untangling this would free fiscal space for investment in #4, #7, #8. Why not done: Pensioners vote at roughly 75% turnout; under-30s at roughly 50%. The maths is unforgiving. A few honourable mentions I cut: tax simplification (genuinely good but rarely "fix everything"), proportional representation (large effects but unclear sign), drug policy reform (good evidence base, narrower scope), regulator growth duties / a serious bonfire of Quangos rationalisation, and reforming the apprenticeship levy. The pattern. Almost every item above is blocked by the same underlying thing: a system that makes losses visible and concentrated while gains are diffuse and slow, in a country where homeowners and pensioners vote heavily. The "switch" in the meme exists; it's just wired to a circuit that the median voter has a strong short-run reason to leave alone. That's not a reason not to flip it — it's a reason the case has to be made repeatedly and honestly. Standard disclaimer: reasonable people disagree on all of this, especially #6, #9, and #10, and "well-implemented" is doing a lot of work in every line above.