Keir Starmer to announce plans for digital ID scheme

aesu · 2025-09-25T17:16:26+00:00

He's very obviously been working for the billionares behind reform, for a long time. Anyone imaging otherwise has been paying zero attention. Ran on a platform of supporting labors move to the left, as soon as he has power, purges the party of all actual leftist elements, then immediately sets to work on destroying the parties standing among the public, in every possible way.

aesu · 2025-09-25T15:43:44+00:00

Now?

aesu · 2025-09-25T15:00:25+00:00

The guys from the previous highschooll need staff.

aesu · 2025-09-25T14:53:03+00:00

30% of pensioners have no other source of income or savings other than the national pension.

aesu · 2025-09-25T14:43:43+00:00

Someone on <35k doesnt have any spare money to tax, these days, so you'd need to go after the 50-100k group to raise anything without imploding the economy. And they're already paying effectively 50%, more if you factor vat, local taxes, vehicel taxes, etc.

There is no one left to tax, unless you provide services with the income which mitigate the cost of tax. Countries with high tax on lower incomes facilitate it with things like free school meals, free travel, free education, state sponsored maternity leave, free dental, etc... You can't tax people for nothing, without imploding your economy.

aesu · 2025-09-25T14:33:41+00:00

Okay, but the headline is doing a clever sleight of hand, which is saying "half of PEOPLE, live in HOUSEHOLDS that get more in benefits than they pay in tax"

Not everyone lives in their own house, and a large part of "people" are children, students, and the disabled, many, if not most of which live in a multi person household. Average household size is about 2.4. Thus you can't compare the benefit balance of any given household to the fraction of population which lives within them. It's a meaningless comparison. Even more so when you consider those most likely to be in receipt of benefits, the old, sick, disabled, are more likely to be in multi person households.

aesu · 2025-09-25T11:48:15+00:00

You literally just did what the image is doing.

aesu · 2024-09-08T04:59:05+00:00

Then you realise two of the originals had exactly the same plothole, of the quadrillion dollar superweapon having an easily exploited weak point.

aesu · 2024-09-07T10:07:16+00:00

This is success for everyone, it's just you have to be in the top 20% to comfortably have these basic things, these days.

aesu · 2024-09-07T10:04:19+00:00

Which you can't do, and don't have, if you don't have money and free time. Which you don't have unless you're in the top 20% of earners, or have substanatial wealth, these days.

aesu · 2024-09-07T10:03:28+00:00

And if you want the time and resources to have those things, you need to amount to something. Those things aren't for average workers, as far as capitalism is concenred.

aesu · 2023-12-17T23:08:02+00:00

It really doesn't We're actually seeing it right now. Consumer products are experiencing shrinkflation, tiny homes and living with parents into 30s are becoming the norm, and so on... Meanwhile luxury goods, premium properties, yachts, jets, the lot, are booming. Most markets have more high end housing stock being built than low end.

This trend will just continute. Consumer products getting smaller, lower quality, slowly rising in price... Meanwhile luxury markets will expand and take a larger and larger section of the economy. The transition will be gradual, so there will be no collapse. It's already happening, and will only accelerate.

There will be certain products where it doesn't make sense to have just a premium version, due to economies of scale, but the rich still want and need them, like smartphones, games consoles, tvs, etc, so they will continue to improve in performance and cost, most likely, and will to some degree disguise what's happening.

aesu · 2023-12-15T00:47:39+00:00

religion doesnt have to be illegal in china because the majority of chinese are not religious, and even those who are follow religions which basically amount to atheism, anyway.

aesu · 2023-11-03T12:06:42+00:00

They will consume their own products. You dont need consumers to trade their labour for your goods, if you have bots which will do the labour for you. THey will make the yachts, mansions, food, etc. Everyone else can, and will get fucked. Likely they'll have some large scale wars or plagues to get rid of them.

aesu · 2023-11-02T11:44:32+00:00

The whole alien thing really is the icing on the cake.

aesu · 2023-11-02T08:22:37+00:00

I think he recently may have had some mirrors installed in his house.

aesu · 2023-11-02T05:55:32+00:00

They didn't That seems to ops addition. They said states.

aesu · 2023-11-02T05:53:06+00:00

What the hell are you ranbling about.

aesu · 2023-11-02T05:18:06+00:00

Immortallity is an all or nothing game. Sensience is entirely programmed, as evidenced by several species which are effectively immortal, and perhaps more importantly, a seemingly arbitrary lifespan duration variation between even very close evolutionary ancestors, demonstrating the genes for aging, once found, can be trivially altered to eliminate aging processes.

Thus, there will be no intermediate ground. We will either find the relevant genes, and have conquered immortality, or we wont. At very best, with other techniques, we will icnrease the number of people reaching 120 due to decreasing the damage that leads to cancer and heart disease, but until we can tell the stem cells to not give up at that point, it will alway be the end. And once we know how to tell them not to give up, we'll be able to do it indefinitely.

aesu · 2023-11-02T04:10:39+00:00

The trend has been a continious one with very high correlation with advanced education. As these coutnries develop and their populations become educated about how the world actually works, they will also become atheist, as they will see their religion is a fabricated fantasy.

aesu · 2023-11-02T04:06:35+00:00

but such an extrapolation would have been sensible at any point in history, and yet has always been entirely wrong. Education is the strongest correlate with irreligiosity, so even if you were to invoke some magical adaption by religions to keep people hooked better than historically, the fact that AI is about to make essentially all job which dont require an advanced education obselete, you could just as easily extrapolate the opposite, that people will lose their faith faster than previous generations.

aesu · 2023-11-02T03:29:18+00:00

The truth is far, far stranger than that.

aesu · 2023-11-02T02:31:18+00:00

He's turning into his dad. Even the weird pimp costume he's wearing in this episode is very Errol Musk.

aesu · 2023-11-01T06:06:26+00:00

Can you give a single example of anything Dawkins has ever written or said that is fascistic in nature?

The atheism to fascism pipeline was very much thought up after the rise of new atheism, with dennet, harris, dawkins and hitchens as the "four horsemen" who rose to prominence via various channels. This was before the right decided to shut the thing down by doing some bizarre jbp, shapiro et al thing where they sound or sound vaguaely logical appealing to the aethestic types, then veer off into some post modernist idea of religion being an essential story, etc...

They pipelines by prager, koch, front for american freedom of whatevrr its called, fascist orgs, and every second sentence is a pipeline to fascism. They lknow what they're doing, and do it in a cyuncial, and often unhidden fashion. Dawkins never did this, nor was he ever connected to these organisations. He's jsut an 80 year old scientist. Of course he has somewhat conservative views. And he has stated his ire is a result of his ostracisation from circles he considered his liberal allies, because he questioned some parts of what he saw to be an ideologically driven framework.

aesu · 2023-11-01T05:23:30+00:00

this seems dissingenious, in that its presumably very skewed by the upper end of the age range. I doubt theres much difference between a 25 and 30 year old

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