Seeking Sigma

@SamCKx It must be really hard being the sole enlightened one in the room while everyone else is being manipulated by the media. Please tell us all how you do it.

The replies to this post have put absolutely beyond doubt that the hatred for Keir Starmer is 99% based on misinformation. Just read through them, people spouting the same misinformation they have been repeatedly fed over the last year or so, disproven countless times, but still believed and amplified by so many. This is how easy it is to brainwash millions of people if you have the resources. This is how societies are destroyed.

@staysaasy As someone with a young family living in Jersey City, can confirm that it absolutely fucks

NJ is amazing. If you’re working in NYC with any regularity, there’s a line of towns from Ridgewood to Westfield that are your standard nice commutable suburbs. If you’re working five days a week in the city just move to Jersey City or Hoboken. Both absolutely fuck. Hoboken better for singles. JC for families. But both great. Ridgewood - great downtown, conservative leaning Montclair - great downtown, super liberal, interracial Wakanda Livingston - Jewish Wakanda Summit - solid downtown, banker dudes Milburn/Short Hills - expensive, amazing schools, boring Maplewood/South Orange - hip/cool/more affordable Westfield - nice, Jersey shore north All of those towns have little satellite towns on their perimeter that are super nice. There’s a second ring of towns slightly farther out like Morristown and Pompton lakes that are nice, conservative leaning. If you want amazing schools and have a savant child and don’t have to commute - Princeton There’s a pocket of specific towns like A Teaneck/Englewood/Alpine where you never meet anyone who lives there but they’re very nice. I think they might be specific ethnicit wealthy enclaves but I’m not sure. If you almost never have to commute it opens up the Jersey Shore which just ask me and I’ll post 9 tweets about.

@barstoolsports And I’m still expected to think physiognomy isn’t real

As expected, Knicks fans were stealing the signature blue and orange garbage cans during the parade yesterday

@AaronBastani Can anyone seriously hear about this story and continue not to support the death penalty?

I’m desensitised to most things but this story is just another level. Rest in peace little Preston.

The system is full of stiflingly stupid, incompetent people who just do not care about doing their jobs well. They want minimal friction; they don't want to make difficult choices, especially if it's going to keep them working past 5pm. They want to collect a paycheck and go and get pissed and go on holiday. They've fallen into jobs like this because they weren't smart enough to do anything else. They simply don't care and the system has made it impossible to fire them. And the result is sickening acts of abuse like this that should NEVER have been allowed to happen.

There’s a timeline here of what happened to Preston Davey. I literally can’t comprehend why child protection didn’t remove this poor baby from these evil men. dailymail.com/news/article-1…

@davidyelland "I'm the enlightened one with the correct opinions, and if anyone disagrees with me it's because they've been manipulated by Elon Musk and absolutely not because of what they're seeing with their own eyes and ears around them"

What has Elon Musk taken from you? So ask many including Andrew Neil. Here's the answer: He has taken our peace of mind. He has purposefully pushed us apart, divided us further and profited from our loss of community. And that is hard to ever forgive.

I feel like AI has raised the bar for what counts as "quality information". When ChatGPT first released, I believed an absurd amount of what it was telling me. Now I am default skeptical with anything an LLM tells me and place very high value on content that I know is coming from humans.

@LBC An unfathomably awful human being

“They hate the fact that police no longer treat ethnic minorities as the wrong ‘un” James O'Brien thinks he’s worked out why certain people are so ‘outraged’ by Henry Nowak’s death.

@narindertweets How do you know that it's racism that's causing this? If there were factors other than racism causing it, wouldn't you want to know so this problem can be fixed? Or is it that you'd rather just attribute everything to racism because it's convenient for you?

Sophy Ridge points out that Black women are more likely to die during childbirth. Claire Coutinho Disgracefully says it might be because there were other health factors involved & we need to root out the ideology that says its driven by racism. FML BABIES ARE DYING. Black babies!! Black women are 4x more likely to die and Babies born to black mothers 81% more likely to die in neonatal care, NHS study shows! A direct result of stark socioeconomic and ethnic inequalities!!!!! Not health factors. How is this woman an MP?

You listed out Attlee-era policies as evidence there hasn't been left wing in government since. The fact that Labour are currently nationalising rail - one of the left wing policies you noted - was therefore an open goal. If you want some other left wing policies from the last 50 years, try the expansion in government spending & the welfare state, the introduction of the minimum wage, massive public service investment by Blair & Brown, net zero. There are many others. I see the current government as left wing & much of the politics over the last 50 years as the same. If you disagree, that's fine. Left wing can mean different things to different people. Does it really matter? It's a pointless semantic argument You appear to be mistaking me for someone who's unanimously pro-privatisation. The privatisation of the water industry in the UK created a monopoly that has clearly been abused. No reasonable person could argue that's a good thing. Does that mean the private sector is never good at providing goods and services? Of course not. The original tweet identified a series of problems that most people would recognise and presented them as an indictment of "neoliberalism", which I saw as implying the solution was to go further left on everything. A better approach is "what is the best solution for each of these problems" & work from there. In some instances it's probably a mix of solutions from across the political spectrum. But it's not instinctively choosing one side over the other on everything. I think you're the one who has some more to deconstruct

@allfronts21 @daubn27 @LFC_YNTA @Chester_16_11 @David__Osland 😂😂😂 ah yes let’s compare one piece of nationalisation in place for a year after taking over a failed run down private entity and use its current performance as a gotcha. You have a little more to deconstruct I think. Oh and btw how do you like your privatised water ?

Britain has the dirtiest rivers, the most expensive energy, the least reliable trains, the most overcrowded prisons, the worst access to healthcare and the widest gap between rich and poor in all of Europe. If you want a verdict on 40 years of neoliberalism, there it is.

almost every city in the country now sits atop a system in which a minority of highly-productive young people are expected to work away their best years around the clock, just to cover rent, while giving away half their income to crazy people, criminals, and bureaucrats.

@MorrishCharles @daubn27 @LFC_YNTA @Chester_16_11 @David__Osland So you agree nationalisation is a left wing policy. Which Labour did with South Western Railway.

@allfronts21 @daubn27 @LFC_YNTA @Chester_16_11 @David__Osland You don’t understand what left wing is. Look at Attlee’s govt for examples: built near 1m council homes, set up NHS, nationalised energy, fully funded state education, nationalised rail all in 5 years and in a country effectively bankrupt after WW2. So yes 47 yrs is about right

@CliveRoper @connor_naismith Includes champions league final

The fact that, for the first time in its history, the Champions League final will not be free to watch in the UK is a case study in everything that's wrong with modern football.

@daubn27 @LFC_YNTA @Chester_16_11 @David__Osland What does left wing mean to you?

@allfronts21 @LFC_YNTA @Chester_16_11 @David__Osland You’re so lost. Do you think Labour is left wing?

@HarryStebbings @nico_laqua This guy looks absolutely exhausted.

"If you are not working 7 days per week, you are going to lose". Corgi Insurance is the most intense workplace culture in startups. - The company works 7 days per week. - Founder (@nico_laqua) lives and sleeps in the office. - He built a cafe in the office because there was no local cafe that was open 24/7. - 2/3 of the first 30 team members have the Corgi logo as a tattoo. Today I went behind the scenes with Nico, who has used this culture to scale the company to a $2.6BN valuation in just two years. My condensed notes below: 1. If You Are Not Working 7 Days Per Week, You Are Going to Lose: Whatever you can get done in 5 days, you'll get more done in 6 and 7. If you are trying to solve the world’s hardest problems, a standard 5-day workweek will not cut it. 2. Work Trials Repel the Mediocre: Corgi forces candidates into mock work trials over the weekend. If seeing a full office on a Saturday scares them, they don't belong. True intensity acts as a natural filter to attract killers and repel clock-watchers. 3. Lead from the Front Lines You can’t demand 7-day weeks while sitting on a yacht. Nico sleeps 3–4 hours a night on a mattress inside the office. If you want your troops to bleed, you have to be in the trenches with them. 4. Culture Only Means One Thing: Winning Forget superficial jargon like "hackers" or "ex-founders." Strip away the corporate fluff. A great startup culture is aggressively optimized around one single word: Winning. 5. Lifespan vs. Victories Building something world-historic requires radical sacrifice. When asked if he'd rather build a trillion-dollar company and die at 50, or fail and live to 80, the answer was easy. "I would rather measure my lifespan in victories." 6. Reject the Comfort of "Quiet Quitting." If you are operating in a hyper-growth environment and your days off happen to be Saturday and Sunday every single week, you are quiet quitting. To win, you must deliberately bypass the off-ramps of personal comfort and low volatility. Corgi isn't for everyone—and that’s exactly the point.

@TurkTalksFC Pochettino.

Has a highly-rated PL manager ever ‘upgraded’ within the league and actually succeeded?

@LFC_YNTA @Chester_16_11 @David__Osland What does left wing mean to you?

@allfronts21 @Chester_16_11 @David__Osland Name the left wing policies we've had over the past 47 years.

@Chester_16_11 @David__Osland Lol

@allfronts21 @David__Osland We haven't had a left wing government in 47 YEARS

I don't disagree on that at all. But it's important to remember that the system today - while privatised - is not a free market. It's regional monopolization. I don't have the solution - maybe you could create competition on price by allowing different providers to run on the same tracks. But I do know the solution is not public ownership.

@allfronts21 @David__Osland It’s still has to run on a catastrophically underfunded network that suffers constant infrastructure failures. It is still forced to lease rolling stock at eye watering costs from 3rd party leeches created by Tories at privisation. I could go on and on.