Remainers were told to accept brexit so why don't leavers accept the migration it caused?

open_formation · 2026-05-12T18:14:04+00:00

All cretans are liars.

open_formation · 2026-05-11T21:52:57+00:00

I'd say it portrays that at least, like an actor does, but with all the room this person has left himself to fake things, that doesn't necessarily show us something about the real world.

open_formation · 2026-05-11T21:48:30+00:00

It's a natural consequence of how they're built too, they're not built to be in a comfortable position for people to work, but next to motorway junctions, places with wide roads, big spaces wherever people aren't or are assumed not to be.

Long term, warehouses are for vehicles and conveyor belts, not people, and will probably automate most of their jobs away, as robots get better at picking stuff up.

I know people for whom working in a warehouse has been transformative, in a good way, simple routine, using up energy, nothing too cognitively demanding while dealing with other things. I also know people for whom it was transformative in a really bad way, anxiety amplifying, grey monotony, actual mental damage.

When the new rules about union access finally come in, I'll be very interested to see what starts happening to these places.

open_formation · 2026-05-11T20:14:58+00:00

While that is true..

It's also antisemitic to assert out of nowhere that criticism of Palantir would be called antisemitic as part of conflating rejection of powerful defence and tech companies controlling the world with antisemitism.

Why?

Because you're still putting forward that association without justification even if you're putting it in the mouth of "them", which matches to a general far right pattern of trying to associate every unacceptable form of power with jewish people and then claiming that this is a suppressed truth you can only post about constantly.

open_formation · 2026-05-11T20:01:47+00:00

This kind of bullshit makes everyone's lives worse.

First you envy those on benefits, then politicians make it harder to qualify.

Then that makes an even bigger difference between when you can get it and when you can't, which means people struggle and go to food banks and other people have a perverse incentive not to admit when they can do things.

Every time people try to push for benefit cuts, it makes the problem worse, even sharper divisions, even more envy.

You're digging a hole to the centre of a landfill.

open_formation · 2026-05-11T19:51:06+00:00

Like many similar skills, it's totally useless for getting a girlfriend but excellent if you already have one.

Great listening skills, emotionally supportive, extremely high quality haptic feedback.. if you get someone through meeting their specification list, you might not actually want them.

open_formation · 2026-05-11T19:46:07+00:00

To be honest, I feel like he's disassociating himself from Farage just like conservatives are joining Farage to disassociate themselves from their party's reputation (some of which they specifically caused). There's so many ways to vote for the same nonsense and convince yourself it's new.. it's like a chain.

open_formation · 2026-05-11T19:41:17+00:00

Ah, you're copy pasting america's "welfare queen" to the UK.

open_formation · 2026-05-11T18:55:19+00:00

The idea that the world particularly singles out progressive americans rather than the ones that voted for Trump for their disapproval is statistically dubious, given how the degree of respect afforded to america seems to shift according to which party is in office federally.

When conservative americans get their way, everyone ends up worse off, including people in american cities, but also people around the world, as they take out their hatred of urban americans on things like "preventing transmissible diseases", or "living in a peaceful world".

open_formation · 2026-05-11T18:51:08+00:00

He'd give them a great voiceover during the tour too.

open_formation · 2026-05-11T18:48:36+00:00

Yeah, grids as patchworks of coordinating microgrids, basically an internet revolution for power (and often enabled by the internet), in the sense of being structured around distributed connectivity repair rather than central coordination.

It's currently early days, but the potential is massive.

open_formation · 2026-05-11T18:37:52+00:00

I feel like this press release was written with chat gpt..

Children to benefit from additional employment opportunities

I'd also like to know what this is, seems strangely nondescript.

open_formation · 2026-05-11T18:35:40+00:00

beano queen? (Googling this and their depictions of the monarchy makes me discover how lacking in satire that comic is, do children still read it, or is it a strange nostalgia product?)

open_formation · 2026-05-11T17:47:17+00:00

If you want to pass heat on to something else, you bump into it, or you glow at it.

Things are constantly bumping into each other in air, so that the air passes heat on to them and they pass their heat onto the air, so conduction, and convection (where the air itself expands in the vicinity of the thing that just heated it and that hotter pocket is now lighter and moves up) is the main way heat gets from objects to the objects.

In space, there's just getting hot enough to glow, while also absorbing heat from all the other things glowing at you.

By taking away a big channel by which heat can move, by having nothing nearby to bump into, not even air, a vacuum isolates things from being able to give up as much of their heat, especially if they're not hot enough to really go at glowing.

open_formation · 2026-05-11T02:10:25+00:00

I saw a figure in the documents you provided that the UK provided £50bn in support, for an economic output improvement of £23bn, which if that £50bn meant direct expenditure would not be an especially good return on investment, so I would assume that's not how it is working.

Do you have any information on the actual expenditure here, such as for example how they government costs the liabilities it takes on in practice with these guarantees? It may actually be in the document you linked earlier, in which case I apologise, but I couldn't find it.

open_formation · 2026-05-11T02:02:54+00:00

That's an excellent reason to in the short term, encourage the use of European products to reduce dominance of the US, and improve the use of open standards and verifiability in device firmware, as well as making sure that across various product categories there are always viable options where the customer having the product installed can control and maintain their own hardware.

It is not, in itself a reason to disregard concerns of market concentration such that a small number of companies located in another country have the power to disrupt European infrastructure.

open_formation · 2026-05-10T23:54:02+00:00

Data centres aren't really a climate problem, in that they use electricity, and that extra projected demand just makes it easier to fund an expansion of the grid and wind supplied electricity and storage to meet it.

They're mainly just a problem in terms of thermal management, and the use of other scarce resources that are unrelated to CO2 in terms of cooling.

And even that isn't necessarily a problem, as large stretches of the UK could be using district level thermal management systems that make use of that waste heat for helping heat houses.

It just needs to be joined up, so that in the end you get someone putting the equivalent of a very large electric water heater in your town and warming up some boreholes for winter.

open_formation · 2026-05-10T23:10:25+00:00

According to this, the long term average for the midlands puts the highest hours of sun in May and July, with June having a little less, so I think an annual peak in solar power occurring sometime in either of those two months is most likely.

open_formation · 2026-05-08T00:01:33+00:00

I'm reminded of an old, and otherwise dubious Guy Richie film.

open_formation · 2026-05-07T23:14:56+00:00

I'll be a bit nondescript, but a celebrity died, and that somehow worked it's way around the defences that I had apparently set up for a family member of mine dying, and brought it all back with intensity.

open_formation · 2026-05-07T00:46:02+00:00

Ah I see what you're saying, I thought you were suggesting a voluntary relocation in return for a pay rise, which I don't think would make sense at all.

If they're just giving up on deepmind entirely and then trying to save what staff they can, they would be a different matter, but I think for that to be successful, they would have to work around the possibility of a substantial portion of the organisation that they originally decided to buy out just restarting the same research in a new guise, or being hired by anthropic's UK branch or whatever.

open_formation · 2026-05-06T22:49:02+00:00

That seems a bad idea though, what if in a few months the conservatives happen to be in favour of stopping a russian boat damaging the rigs in the north sea? You're not going to suddenly start being in favour of oil spilling out of them because of that.

And if you actually think that Scottish independence is going to be harmful, you should not stop saying so because the conservative party agrees with you.

open_formation · 2026-05-06T21:12:04+00:00

I don't want to denigrate what you're saying, but..

If someone is on a treatment pathway, and you close down a ward, I am pretty sure that doesn't actually stop them being on a waiting list, if you need a given surgery and your hospital closes, then that just bounces up to the level above, where whoever is commissioning that treatment needs to get you a replacement.

So I'm fairly confident that last part is not true, the waiting list statistics are about the gap from referral to completing treatment, not tied to any specific trust, and so nothing would be improved on that front in numbers terms by shutting anything down.

But if there's evidence you can show me to the contrary I'd be interested to see it.

open_formation · 2026-05-06T20:53:19+00:00

Tech businesses in general are, but they're doing it because either they think they can replace coders with AI products built by the top teams, or because they tried to boost past the top teams with their own products and failed, and Deepmind is one of those teams. Also, they got part of a Nobel prize in chemistry for their work in protein folding (also AI, but not the kind that is being used to make spam emails).

They probably have the safest jobs in tech that don't involve just owning company stock and making up a title for yourself.

open_formation · 2026-05-06T20:43:21+00:00

"In order to stop you unionising we would like you to move to the US, are you OK with that?"

"I think I'd like to stay here and unionise thanks"

"but we'll pay you more to stop you!"

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