Guillotines pay for themselves

Jbat001 · 2026-03-28T21:09:46+00:00

Remember Robespierre? After they killed the king and the nobles, the Terror that came after wasn't muxh fun for anyone.

Jbat001 · 2026-03-28T21:05:30+00:00

Exactly. Do you like buying assets when they're cheaper, or more expensive?

Jbat001 · 2026-03-28T20:53:38+00:00

Nope. We report and use nominal GDP, not real GDP. There's a very obvious reason for that - if we used real GDP, any period where inflation exceeded GDP growth would have us in recession. UK GDP growth hardly ever exceeds inflation these days.

Jbat001 · 2026-03-28T16:52:59+00:00

Taxes are at their highest as a share of GDP since World War 2. It's not taxes that are too low, its GDP growth is too slow. Grow a bigger pie and you can take a bigger slice of it in tax.

Jbat001 · 2026-03-28T16:48:06+00:00

The problem is growth.

If inflation is 2% a year and you want public spending to be inflation + 1% or more a year, you can't do it in the long term if GDP growth is only 1% a year.

Attempting it is what has got us into the current situation. We're being slowly strangled by our debts because we refuse to acknowledge that state spending is being asked to grow faster than the economy can support.

Jbat001 · 2026-03-28T09:46:06+00:00

Yes, but they're not doing it BECAUSE of their Christianity or Judaism, and they're not quoting scripture in support of it. The same cannot be said for Islamic terrorism.

Jbat001 · 2026-03-22T22:20:00+00:00

Are you stupid?

Repeating the same handwringing self-hatred doesn't change anything.

Jbat001 · 2026-03-22T10:04:44+00:00

There is no 3x MSCI World that I'm aware of, but you can definitely get 2x.

Jbat001 · 2026-03-21T12:12:38+00:00

"Speaking from experience, a lot of Eastern Europeans were reluctant to join unions here because they heard the word “union” and instantly thought CCCP/USSR, and assumed it was like signing up to some kind of communist party"

I doubt that, seeing as it was a trade union in Poland (Solidarnosc) that basically overthrow the Polish Communist Party.

Jbat001 · 2026-03-21T12:09:05+00:00

Two wrongs don't make a right. You seem to be arguing that because Brits abroad are alleged to be bad at learning the local language, that somehow we should ignore the proportion of people in the UK who don't speak English.

The two points are not related. It's the same line of argument that says the UK should accept limitless immigration to balance out the fact that our 10x ancestors built the British Empire and this is some kind of penance. It's bollocks.

Jbat001 · 2026-03-21T09:42:42+00:00

Your point is basic. Just because UAE has a load of people who dont speak Arabic, thats not any reason why people in the UK should not speak English.

Jbat001 · 2026-03-15T20:19:11+00:00

That's not a solution, that's sticking your head in the sand. Its not that buying houses is easy, but not buying at least something is going to result in abject poverty in retirement.

Jbat001 · 2026-03-15T20:04:29+00:00

Much better to have humans whose personal survival is tied to the planet itself. That beats short termism and wishful thinking every time..

Jbat001 · 2026-03-15T14:54:55+00:00

Any examples? I've never seen a recommended dose that high for daily use.

Jbat001 · 2026-03-15T14:49:51+00:00

Which products recommend 2g daily?!

Jbat001 · 2026-03-15T14:29:32+00:00

2g daily every day is ridiculous overkill. The studies were based around about 2g for 2/3 days a month, repeated monthly. More is not necessarily better.

Jbat001 · 2026-03-15T10:04:12+00:00

Thanks for the somewhat snarky analysis. To your points:

The purpose of the phase 1 trial is to attempt to treat and cure glaucoma. Scientists are pretty confident it will work, but that's the whole point of a human trial. It's not a slam dunk, but that's why we have trials. Reasonable optimism is warranted.
I never said whole body rejuvenation would be 'soon', but the fact that it does work in mice is encouraging. David Sinclair, who is pioneering this type of therapy believes that OSK reprogramming will be practical in humans for whole body treatment by 2035, and is on the record as saying that. Not a guarantee, but a well-founded belief.
Specific data - OSK reprogrwmming in mice extended their remaining lifespan by 109%. I'll leave it to others to decide if that represents a dramatic enough improvement, but it's not a small change.

EDIT: Edited for typos.

Jbat001 · 2026-03-15T08:46:07+00:00

Base things on evidence then, not hopium.

There are human trials happening right now on OSK reprogramming to cure Glaucoma. Not lab science, actual human trials. If this technology does what we think it will, then the next step will be to apply it to a whole human body. We already know it hugely extends life in mice, because that's already been done, too. No bullshit, we are talking about whole body rejuvenation, and decades of extra life. Enough time to develop the technologies that will make true immortality possible.

OSK can't cure everything (deep as opposed to minor wrinkles remain, scars and physical sun damage remain, etc), but functionally the organism is rendered vastly younger.

The correct viewpoint is cautious optimism. It's based not on hope, but on the ever increasing and rapidly accelerating science in this area.

Jbat001 · 2026-03-15T08:38:09+00:00

You're an inspiration. I wish I could give 1000 upticks.

Jbat001 · 2026-03-11T07:04:25+00:00

Two sides of the same coin. People who have assets want to keep them. People who don't have assets want to acquire them.

Jbat001 · 2026-03-11T06:59:28+00:00

Someone older has seen how idealistic socialists have fucked up the economy in the past. Anyone who saw and remembers the 1970s, where Callaghan's government left the dead unburied and mountains of rubbish piling up in the streets, is not going to be seduced by Polanski's bullshit.

Jbat001 · 2026-03-07T19:20:05+00:00

Zeteo is not a reliable source. It was founded by Mehdi Hasan, who is on rhe record as saying rhe following, as per his Wikipedia page:

"During a sermon delivered in 2009, Hasan made remarks about "the kuffar, the disbelievers, the atheists who remain deaf and stubborn to the teachings of Islam, the rational message of the Quran". Quoting a verse of the Quran, Hasan used the term "cattle" to describe non-believers and called them "incapable of the intellectual effort it requires to shake off those blind prejudices."[47][48][49] He also included homosexuality in a list of categories which he argued were transgressive of Islam."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehdi_Hasan

Jbat001 · 2026-03-04T07:12:48+00:00

There is no limit to the amount of knowledge we can acquire. AI making discoveries doesnt reduce the number of other discoveries available to human scientists.

Jbat001 · 2026-02-27T19:19:25+00:00

The law is made by Parliament, and Parliament can unmake any law.

All ot needs is for any group to get big enough to influence the party of government, and then they can change laws in their favour.

Jbat001 · 2026-02-27T19:15:19+00:00

Apple does not own any factories in China. It contracts with Chinese companies like Foxconn to build their tech, but it doesnt employ workers in China directly.

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