there’s been some … further events in this story since 2024 fyi!
November 22, 2025 at 3:28 PM
there’s been some … further events in this story since 2024 fyi!
This is why the movie is so polarising - Heinlein thought Forever War was Good, Actually, and would make America more American (laudatory) , while Verhoeven thought the same thing (derogatory).
November 17, 2025 at 10:44 PM
This is why the movie is so polarising - Heinlein thought Forever War was Good, Actually, and would make America more American (laudatory) , while Verhoeven thought the same thing (derogatory).
They deliberately speed ran becoming too big to fail and thus here we are. On the plus side, they might get us all killed, sparing us from my second biggest worry, generations of corruption and organised crime from cryptocurrency dynasties.
November 17, 2025 at 7:50 PM
They deliberately speed ran becoming too big to fail and thus here we are. On the plus side, they might get us all killed, sparing us from my second biggest worry, generations of corruption and organised crime from cryptocurrency dynasties.
If only anyone had said something!
November 17, 2025 at 10:07 AM
If only anyone had said something!
Coming around to the believe that underrated advantage of being in the EU was government wasn’t involved in picking winners-UK business just hired and did trade in whatever way worked rather than having to beg for shortage listing for their employees and lower trade friction for their niche.
November 17, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Coming around to the believe that underrated advantage of being in the EU was government wasn’t involved in picking winners-UK business just hired and did trade in whatever way worked rather than having to beg for shortage listing for their employees and lower trade friction for their niche.
It really is rather odd how universal the conflation of it all is, even by people who presumably understand the difference and would directly benefit (as would we all) if the public did too.
November 15, 2025 at 12:08 PM
It really is rather odd how universal the conflation of it all is, even by people who presumably understand the difference and would directly benefit (as would we all) if the public did too.
and that was for something much less dumb than “we borrowed a trillion dollars to build all these warehouses full of graphics cards that last like three years” - at least the houses still existed and remained house-y
November 8, 2025 at 11:32 PM
and that was for something much less dumb than “we borrowed a trillion dollars to build all these warehouses full of graphics cards that last like three years” - at least the houses still existed and remained house-y
How is it like the House of Lords at all? It’s fully democratically elected, using an elaborate multi member preferential party list system per state, on a separate timetable to the lower house, as well as existing inside a real written constitution instead of made up conventions.
November 8, 2025 at 9:26 PM
How is it like the House of Lords at all? It’s fully democratically elected, using an elaborate multi member preferential party list system per state, on a separate timetable to the lower house, as well as existing inside a real written constitution instead of made up conventions.
in the grand traditions of doing dumb things, but with computers, we finally reach phrenology, but with computers
November 6, 2025 at 7:26 PM
in the grand traditions of doing dumb things, but with computers, we finally reach phrenology, but with computers
definitely managed to get un-buyable positive PR from the BBC though
November 1, 2025 at 2:39 AM
definitely managed to get un-buyable positive PR from the BBC though
is the communist … kayfabe still much of factor in limiting what is seen as acceptable / possible / tolerable in government even when the consequences are so severe and unwanted? it doesn’t seem like the private sector feels very bound to appear as humble working folk contributing as best they can.
October 30, 2025 at 3:16 PM
is the communist … kayfabe still much of factor in limiting what is seen as acceptable / possible / tolerable in government even when the consequences are so severe and unwanted? it doesn’t seem like the private sector feels very bound to appear as humble working folk contributing as best they can.
have there been serious attempts to try to move to that model?
October 30, 2025 at 3:09 PM
have there been serious attempts to try to move to that model?
common misspelling of SMAC there
October 21, 2025 at 3:14 PM
common misspelling of SMAC there
I want to watch this Werner Herzog film
October 16, 2025 at 8:36 PM
I want to watch this Werner Herzog film
even more so “remote management”, both in terms of providing a good environment in which a range of your people can succeed and in terms of managers being able to emotionally endure it and not snapping and demanding everyone RTO for poorly articulated reasons
October 13, 2025 at 5:10 PM
even more so “remote management”, both in terms of providing a good environment in which a range of your people can succeed and in terms of managers being able to emotionally endure it and not snapping and demanding everyone RTO for poorly articulated reasons
so it’s even more embarrassing - your mum made up the rules for a thing to make it exclusive, and then excluded some actually accomplished person to add you instead? how could anyone possibly accept such a thing.
October 12, 2025 at 10:20 PM
so it’s even more embarrassing - your mum made up the rules for a thing to make it exclusive, and then excluded some actually accomplished person to add you instead? how could anyone possibly accept such a thing.
Which book says “rich countries can borrow at 0%, now you should slash welfare and investment in the future for the next six years then flip a coin on slashing gdp by 4%”?
October 12, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Which book says “rich countries can borrow at 0%, now you should slash welfare and investment in the future for the next six years then flip a coin on slashing gdp by 4%”?
Order the Garter is obviously hilarious in general, but all the more so when you get admitted because your mum is in charge of it and for some reason feels bad for you.
October 12, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Order the Garter is obviously hilarious in general, but all the more so when you get admitted because your mum is in charge of it and for some reason feels bad for you.
oh wow, finally unseating the Doritos factoid in the lore
September 26, 2025 at 3:53 PM
oh wow, finally unseating the Doritos factoid in the lore
Ireland more or less just split the concept to get around opposition - PPS card for dealing with the government and banks and passport card for travel in EU.
September 26, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Ireland more or less just split the concept to get around opposition - PPS card for dealing with the government and banks and passport card for travel in EU.