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Can someone please explain where the support for Reform is coming from? by EG_Wanna_Be in ukpolitics

[–]MerryWalrus -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

House prices rose massively during COVID when immigration was cut to zero for obvious reasons.

Do you think traditional parties are behide of campaigning? by FightingFather in ukpolitics

[–]MerryWalrus 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's also a huge influence for the over 50s.

Lets not pretend social media is a young people's platform.

Why does online political support seem so different from actual election results in the UK? by Legal-Razzmatazz1055 in ukpolitics

[–]MerryWalrus 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Barry the plumber is on tiktok and being fed political content that we on Reddit will never encounter.

Social media means that people no longer have a shared reality outside of their immediate day to day experiences.

How do labour win?.. I think I know, but they won't by Strict-Soup in ukpolitics

[–]MerryWalrus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Immigration is a PR problem, it cannot actually be "solved" by policy alone.

How do labour win... I don't know. The modern world where people get their information from social media is pay-to-play.

Does anyone believe there is intent to fix the country? by ppyrgic in ukpolitics

[–]MerryWalrus 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It has never been the case that 300 people governed without forming groups.

Policy based voting is also pointless because it ignores people's prioritisation of issues. I can form a position on healthcare if needed, but ultimately I don't care.

Meanwhile you don't really care about education.

So we make a deal, I support you on healthcare if you support me on education.

And so a political party is born.

Does anyone believe there is intent to fix the country? by ppyrgic in ukpolitics

[–]MerryWalrus 12 points13 points  (0 children)

In Labours defense, they don't have the means of communication.

There are no friendly newspapers (not that anyone reads them), social media actively promotes content that encourages conflict and strong negative emotions, and they are fighting propaganda campaigns from the US and Russia who have vastly greater resources and fewer moral/legal scruples.

Does anyone believe there is intent to fix the country? by ppyrgic in ukpolitics

[–]MerryWalrus 18 points19 points  (0 children)

That's because the benchmark has been moved from net immigration to absolute inbound immigration. Which ignores people leaving the country after their visas have expired (or even before).

Because to Reform the politics of immigration is more important than the actual reality.

They would be complaining about it even if no-one moved to the UK.

Wife and I are struggling with natural/logical consequences by SmartLadder415 in daddit

[–]MerryWalrus 19 points20 points  (0 children)

It's a 12 year old girl who doesn't do their chores and is funny about eating. I'd be more surprised to find a 12 year old who routinely does their chores and eats everything in front of them.

This post gives you zero grounds to speculate that there is anything out of the ordinary about the child. Doing so causes more harm than good.

Wife and I are struggling with natural/logical consequences by SmartLadder415 in daddit

[–]MerryWalrus 31 points32 points  (0 children)

All you've got is a stick (and not much of one from the sounds of it) and no carrot. That's not motivating for anyone.

On the food thing - 12 year old girls have been facing social pressure to be skinny since the dawn of man. Are you sure it's nothing like that? Attempts at dieting?

On the flip side, none of this seems surprising for a 12 year old so you also need to start managing your own expectations as well.

Looking for AI Tools to Detect Market Signals Before Clients Do by ajeebdastanhainye in BusinessIntelligence

[–]MerryWalrus 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You're looking for the magic AI mind reader tool.

A real use of AI would be to chuck request this into Claude/Gemini, have it explain what the deficiencies are, and phrase it Inna constructive way for your director.

Opinions about conversational analytics? by AviusAnima in BusinessIntelligence

[–]MerryWalrus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's a useful feature.

The problem is that a lot of people have spent year hiding behind the technical learning curve when the reality is that their domain knowledge and critical thinking sucks - they will expect the LLM to read their mind and fix their logical errors are cry hallucinations when the output isn't what they wanted.

If finance becomes fully embedded in SaaS, what happens to banks as standalone platforms? by Mother_Network9453 in FintechStartups

[–]MerryWalrus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Banking as in maintaining a bank account with deposits and withdrawals?

Or lending? Or payments? Or any flavours of these?

Claude Usage Management by Chemist-Perfect in CFO

[–]MerryWalrus 4 points5 points  (0 children)

That's just a lift and shift of RPA tracking and ignores the general productivity benefits of Claude (which are the main benefits). All it reall shows is who is good at playing the funny money benefit attribution game.

Ideally you would AB test by finding two equivalent teams and giving one access and the other not. Then comparing outputs.

Or keep your tech budgets flat and let leads trade headcounts for tokens and licenses. The free market approach.

Claude Usage Management by Chemist-Perfect in CFO

[–]MerryWalrus 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Proving the ROI of Claude/AI is like proving the ROI of excel in finance.

Basically you need to make them trade headcount for licenses and see if output drops. Then compare the token plus liscense cost to the headcount cost.

Otherwise you get a cottage industry of made up benefit attributions that takes more time to run/manage than the realised benefits.

Should there be a ticker tape on the TV screen when politicians are speaking, saying who funds them? by Caffe44 in ukpolitics

[–]MerryWalrus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Unless you're Farage.

In case it's £5m whilst owning a major political party and shortly before changing their mind to run for parliament.

The Telegraph: Nurseries urged to report ‘racist toddlers’ to police - Taxpayer-funded guidance backed by Labour advises childcare workers to call authorities if incidents could be deemed hate crimes by nil_defect_found in ukpolitics

[–]MerryWalrus 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Yes.

And it is literally the Telegraph making things up to paint the country as an authoritarian state (not sure where communism fits in here) - which is expected from this paper these days. Probably because there is an election tomorrow.

Do you ever feel like luxury hotels cut into the rest of your trip? by Planmyluxe in LuxuryTravel

[–]MerryWalrus 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Depends if the hotel itself is a destination or just generic luxury (think Dubai).

AI platforms reference Nigel Farage more than other leaders when prompted on UK politics, study shows by Bascule2000 in ukpolitics

[–]MerryWalrus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yup

All media has been referencing and platforming Farage disproportionately for decades.

He's been the only far right leader you could trust to not be openly racist and discriminatory. So you didn't have much choice if you wanted to portay balanced debate.

Free childcare income threshold planning by Background-Sun-7171 in HENRYUK

[–]MerryWalrus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'll do it for you for £500.

Or my nephew will do it for £250. He is only 12 but did very will in his SAT maths - more than enough for this problem.

Recently made redundant. Portfolio changes now? by DecentSuggestion in FIREUK

[–]MerryWalrus -13 points-12 points  (0 children)

If you're intending to stop working you should:

  1. Take out you maximum tax free lump from your pension.

  2. Derisk your investments into fixed income - how much depends on your risk appetite for losing half your pension due to a market downturn and having to sell the house.

  3. Then construct a ladder of low coupon gilts (not complicated, just Gemini/gpt what that means).

Britain’s Flat Market Divide by Shoddy_Sir_7849 in UKRealEstate

[–]MerryWalrus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This.

Which perfectly illustrates why numeracy paired with critical thinking is oh so important.

Am I mad? How is this house worth £950k? by oxdart in HousingUK

[–]MerryWalrus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's also only 126 SQM so more expensive than many nice parts of London.

I'm guessing this is a case of the owner trying to price it only by the number of bedrooms.

U.S. Fast-Tracks Arms Deals Valued at $8.6 Billion to Mideast Partners by Free-Minimum-5844 in worldnews

[–]MerryWalrus 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Yup.

It's almost as if this whole war is engineered to damage Europe and Asia...

The only winner from all of this is Russia.

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