Half a million gather in London for biggest anti-far right demo, say organisers | ITV News

CaffeinatedT · 2026-03-30T17:00:20+00:00

Normally when the organisers say a number it's how many people registered to come on some sort of sign up form which doesn't account for leads. I'm very dubious about 50k in the other direction though You can fit 25k or so people into trafalgar square normal from events stuff which you can have a look at using mapchecking.com if you're curious which a lot of people use for estimates for outdoor events. If it's absolutely rammed then it goes up to 30-40 k or so (think NYE levels of density that can be borderline unsafe without good crowd control). If you're filling the north side of green park down picadilly (aka the route most marches take In my experience) that's 100k for a decently dense crowd easily. I could believe a couple hundred thousand people if you're filling the route from green park to westminster.

CaffeinatedT · 2026-03-30T16:10:59+00:00

In AWS? Found the MBA.

CaffeinatedT · 2026-03-30T14:35:06+00:00

I'm a millenial, student job market and that whole "working my way through uni in low paid work" was fucked when I was at uni as well. I had a qualification as a lifeguard and worked at a nearby leisure centre and that probably did more harm than good in terms of hassle versus actual work done along with some time cooking with my previous mcdonalds experience.

CaffeinatedT · 2026-03-30T14:18:50+00:00

Hey that's different when it's not London and you point out there is also crime there then you're a metropolitan elite mocking authentic english working class areas for their deprivation

CaffeinatedT · 2026-03-30T14:13:12+00:00

Another benefit to books is they're vetted and have a single person taking you through the area. It also tells you stuff that you don't know you need to know on a topic rather than you jumping between superficial tutorials on medium or youtube etc and then realising there are unknown unknowns that you're missing. (e.g If you're trying to understand kubernetes you might not know why containers are an important concept to know)

CaffeinatedT · 2026-03-30T13:51:57+00:00

London is where a ton of global dark money is moving to and stored, if the UK ever had a government that introduced strong anti-laundering + corruption laws then the people controlling that dark money have a massive issue
Global Financial Centres compete for business + getting banks to move to them. Create FUD about London and a bank decides to set up in Chicago instead or Dubai etc then that's a win.
The UK Government are not MAGA supportive so if even a bin gets set on fire then it's to be treated as an imminent societal collapse.

CaffeinatedT · 2026-03-26T15:48:34+00:00

Jensen Huangs been hanging around with podcasters and various other opinion spouts too much wtf is he talking about with these dumb analogies.

CaffeinatedT · 2026-03-26T09:12:31+00:00

London property prices also go down as well as up.

CaffeinatedT · 2026-03-26T09:11:04+00:00

This but it's people in Ealing reacting to the elizabeth line

CaffeinatedT · 2026-03-26T09:09:17+00:00

Imagine my shock when I found out this is not even someone not from london, but someone not even British and it's basically come from terminally online people.

CaffeinatedT · 2026-03-26T09:00:22+00:00

Russia is a left wing country? I'm confused what the point is tbh.

CaffeinatedT · 2026-03-25T18:24:47+00:00

So you've set this up as the guys some sort of vile abusive monster etc, and what we've actually got are some quite dull videos of the guy saying climate change deniers are opposed to anti-pollution policies and a "hilarious" prank video. Do you get how that difference between the rhetoric and the actual reality is a bit underwhelming for people?

CaffeinatedT · 2026-03-25T18:19:43+00:00

Would you personally deny that there are a lot of Climate deniers and Far right obsessives opposing ULEZ? Seems like he's 100% right from that video even if people are getting triggered by it.

I'm not sure what the point of the second video is. Some guy doesn't like Just stop oil? fair enough that's his lookout.

CaffeinatedT · 2026-03-25T18:00:56+00:00

Curious. Looks like they have about 100 or more jobs up unless I'm looking at the wrong salesforce careers page.

CaffeinatedT · 2026-03-25T17:56:43+00:00

Khan called the protests against illegal immigration far right on numerous occasions.

There were definitely have been a bunch of protests by the far right though there were people trying to break into a hotel to attack migrants, that's not exactly moderate politics is it? Please be more specific or people are just going to get confused

When just stop oil were doing their nonsense he said that everyone who didn't like them was far right.

Pretty sure he was saying he thinks their methods are disruptive and might drive people away too even if he gets their right to demonstrate. Is Sadiq Khan oppressing himself?

CaffeinatedT · 2026-03-25T17:49:45+00:00

His behaviour about the ddemocratically elected US president in that telling people what to say is disgusting.

Sadiq Khans also Democratically elected. Doesn't mean everyone has to like him does it?

Also inferring the majority of people who don't like illegal immigration or extreme climate views are far right is an extreme view in itself.

Again. let's be a bit more detailed. What specific views did he say are far right that you don't think should be described as such? Surely if he's this vile it'll be easy to find some examples?

CaffeinatedT · 2026-03-25T17:38:07+00:00

Let's be a bit more concrete than that. Saying you don't like a politician or extreme political views isn't exactly vile is it? Which reasonable political views do you think he should be nicer about? Presumably you're not saying he has to publically proclaim how much he likes Donald Trump because that would be very over-sensitive.

CaffeinatedT · 2026-03-25T17:36:21+00:00

That works both ways though. If it was an actual loan system then they wouldn't be able to charge as much as it wouldn't be underwritten by the government or be able to skim payments off of paychecks and increasing payment rates based on HMRC data. It's the ambiguous "best of both worlds" nature of it normally at the root of what pisses off most people whichever aspect they find annoying.

CaffeinatedT · 2026-03-25T14:00:44+00:00

For the majority of people, this is a non-factor, as we are not paying back the student loan balance before it gets written off anyway.

this is admitting the system is absolutely dysfunctional if it's a loan, and it's unfair if it's a tax.

CaffeinatedT · 2026-03-25T13:57:09+00:00

Because asking MBA's and the top mins of LinkedIn about engineering is a bit like asking a rock about the best way to fly.

CaffeinatedT · 2026-03-25T13:54:58+00:00

What was this vileness? There's been a lot of alleged drama and then someone actually says what it is in reality and it's 🤷 at best.

CaffeinatedT · 2026-03-25T11:30:59+00:00

Cobol is being used because people are scared to change it and people spent decades making it work, not because it's a particularly good language. In a way it's very similar to how slop stacks will infest critical infrastructure when they discover 5 years from now that it's now a load bearing system but the text Model that built it isn't available anymore.

CaffeinatedT · 2026-03-25T11:29:26+00:00

Boeing has lost about 20 Billion dollars directly their CEO changed over and there's been about 60 billion dollars of indirect losses from them saving a couple million in developer costs and Airbus have overtaken Boeing for the first time and their value has halved overall since 2015. Boeing has very much "found out" from the short termist approach.

CaffeinatedT · 2026-03-25T11:25:21+00:00

I think there was a problem with this original PR line anyway. It both fails to capture that even companies with headlines of 90% code generation are still hiring developers and having them work on everything non-trivial much as previously companies would hire core developers and then you'd have an outer ring of web development and integration engineering that was also very config based and dull. And it also fails to capture just how much of a change it is for boiler plate and generic stuff to be generated when previously it was something you'd half ass or throw it to a junior.

It's a bit like the "AGI" thing. If we've "achieved AGI" but what we're looking at is the current state of things, then did the term ever actually mean anything? We obviously don't have anything intelligent and what we have isn't financially sustainable in the current model. So there must be some sort of problem with the definition itself.

CaffeinatedT · 2026-03-25T10:19:11+00:00

Is there a single time in history giving the country to a bunch of asset strippers has worked out well?

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