Literal conversation I had with a coworker earlier:
Me - AI, outside of a handful of specific cases like breast cancer screening, is completely useless at best and downright harmful at worst.
Coworker - no AI is pretty good actually, I used ChatGPT to improve my CV.
Me - did you get the job?
Coworker -
This comment can see you arrested for expressing support of a proscribed terrorist organisation. This could have you jailed for up to 6 months and/or a fine of up to £5,000
And that fact is fucking stupid.
A pretty large spreadsheet into which goes all the incomings and outgoings, logged and averaged over 12 months to give a pretty accurate idea of how much disposable income me and my partner will have after all the bills and savings have been calculated.
Still no excuse for the officer to kick the guy in the head and try to get him again.
Worst of all is he’s trying to spin it as an attempt to subdue him, despite the fact he’s already on the floor, been tasered, and is being restrained by another officer.
Circumstances will almost certainly justify him getting angry and lashing out. He’s just been punched multiple times, seen two female officers get laid out in front of him, it’s understandable that he saw red and acted excessively but he’s decided to go for a lie that he acted in a rational and considered manner.
Hey, I don’t particularly like Oasis either but there’s no need to be a nob
Yeah duh. Even if there’s no improvement in water quality at least our money won’t be going to shareholders and CEOs. Just that would be an improvement.
No. I put it in the air fryer
Drawing attention to the abuse of these powers is now terrorism. Please hand yourself in to your nearest police station for reeducation.
Rod Liddle has always been a piece of shit and this is absolutely standard operating procedure for him.
Don’t forget that he ditched his wife and their young children, on their honeymoon, to instead shack up with a younger woman, who he later assaulted while she was pregnant.
I once had a really long running bout of hiccups, like more than a day and it was really draining on me and I was very tired. I looked myself in the mirror and said “you don’t have hiccups any more” and they stopped immediately.
Tried it again several times since and it never worked again but for that brief moment I was invincible.
They likely believe they’re doing all this in God’s name even though it is entirely against the actual teachings of Jesus.
He said also to the man who had invited him, “When you give a dinner or a banquet, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or rich neighbors, lest they also invite you in return and you be repaid. But when you give a feast, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind, and you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you. For you will be repaid at the resurrection of the just.”
Luke 14:12-14
How about one night we smash the windows of Latino owned businesses so they know we really don’t want them.
They are, what has changed is the sentences you’re likely to get for doing them (and causing an accident or being caught by the police).
Instead of points and/or a fine, you’re likely to get a temporary driving ban instead.
Interestingly it seems they’ll punish commercial vehicle drivers like this as well which could easily result in losing your job if it’s required for work.
What this article is failing to mention is these new sentencing guidelines apply to people who have caused an accident through their careless driving.
I drive a commercial vehicle for work and while it would be a lie to say I’ve never been distracted behind the wheel (everyone is to varying degrees) but I see potentially serious accidents almost occur daily. From people cutting blind corners, driving in the middle of the road, phone in front of their face, phone glued to their ear, not looking or indicating at junctions and roundabouts.
Theres an epidemic of bad driving and we need more of this sort of low level punishment to make people think before they take that call or queue up a new song on Spotify.
Median house price in France is €160,000 and in the UK it’s £297,000 ~ €350,000
Median salary in France is €23,280 and in the UK it’s £37,400 ~ €43,000
A house in France costs, on average, 6.87 times the average annual salary and in the UK it costs 8.14 times.
Caveat: all these numbers come from 2 minutes of googling figures so I do not vouch for their accuracy. This also doesn’t take into account the rental market or the availability of social housing just owner-occupier purchase price.
Cautionary Tales by Tim Harford.
Takes stories of errors, mistakes, catastrophes of the far and recent past and analyses the causes of them and what lessons can be learned. Everything from assigning success to personality over circumstance to the “curse of information” to what to do in a plane crash.
Interesting, insightful, exceptionally well written and presented, always interesting and entertaining.
There’s a not insignificant number of people here who are so obsessed with how they are free from US/EU propaganda that they’ve gone full circle and lap up literal Russian state media as a reliable source.