I once told someone: „I‘m always happy to hear someone had a good time in my home country [Switzerland].“ They responded: „You must be happy all the time.“

the PRC's perennial problem is that a big corruption crackdown does nothing to alter the dynamics (opaqueness, hierarchy, lack of any outside audit) that creates corruption in the party or the PLA to begin with, so we see this endless cycle.

Psephologist Sir John Curtice told a Demos-sponsored event at the Conservative Party conference fringe that the Lib Dems “will almost undoubtedly win more seats” than the Tories at the next GE.

“The LD vote is now more geographically concentrated than your vote.”

I wonder if part of that could be explained by age.

In terms of political representation, workers critique forms of political inequality and political exclusion: Politicians, as part of the upper class, only serve the upper class; and politics is a self-referential sphere closed to non-experts.

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Also great mixed with a bit of condensed milk (or milk and sugar), or in ice cream, which I learnt in Vietnam.

also that allowing the debate on regulation to be dominated by 'we must worship the coming machine god/cripple the coming machine god' guys is useless and counterproductive, and that the actual regulatory steps should be tackling stuff like 'how do we stop old people from being conned'