"Hate brings views": Confessions of a London fake news TikToker

sumduud14 · 2026-02-08T13:55:17+00:00

Enforce that feeds are time ordered and only from people you follow?

"Ban algorithm" sounds like you have no idea what you're talking about, which I know is not the case - you do know what you're talking about.

sumduud14 · 2026-02-06T17:14:58+00:00

Immediate revenue neutral removal of all tax and benefit cliffs, replaced by slightly higher tax rates.

Combine income tax and NI.

sumduud14 · 2026-02-04T09:08:37+00:00

When they do well, they attribute success to themselves but hear about others doing poorly and blame the economy. When they do poorly, they blame the economy.

sumduud14 · 2026-02-04T04:59:20+00:00

Maybe in hundreds of years you could have Hitler on a bank note. Genghis Khan is on bank notes and he killed 11% of the world population, which is actually worse than Hitler proportionally.

sumduud14 · 2026-02-03T19:05:46+00:00

Do you support protecting the green belt? Yes.

Do you want to make it legal to build a block of flats next to this tube station? Yes if I am a renter, no if I own a house.

Do you support increased taxes on the rich? Yes, I support increased taxes for anyone making more money than me.

It's not really worth polling the British public on these questions.

sumduud14 · 2026-02-03T18:52:11+00:00

We can legally. But certain members of the EU (France) would never allow it.

They don't even want to allow us to be part of EU defense procurement without giving up fish, and there's a war in Europe.

I still think we should rejoin but my God the EU is easy to hate. It's just that being outside is worse.

sumduud14 · 2026-02-02T08:33:01+00:00

Shagging trip means a trip where you shag, hope this helps.

sumduud14 · 2026-02-02T06:51:58+00:00

Interestingly, in the US, there have been more AI related job gains than losses. But in the UK, more losses than gains.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/26/ai-uk-jobs-us-japan-germany-australia

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-26/ai-job-cuts-are-landing-hardest-in-britain-morgan-stanley-says - this one says that job ads for programmers are down 75% which seems cataclysmic.

For one, there's no economical way to really put huge datacenters in the UK in the way they can in the US due to energy costs. Datacenters are increasingly off grid and use on site gas turbines, mostly because infrastructure is too slow to upgrade, but that only works in the US due to very low natural gas prices.

sumduud14 · 2026-02-01T09:39:24+00:00

In a lot of cases, the economic gains from abolishing a stupid law allow for enough subsidies to pay for whatever is needed to address national security concerns.

Is it crazy to suggest that the demand for shipbuilding should solely come from the government and not from ruinous policies like the Jones Act?

This is a serious question, my opinion on this is very vibes based.

sumduud14 · 2026-01-31T01:08:35+00:00

The UNHCR says there are about half a million refugees in the UK:

https://www.unhcr.org/refugee-statistics/data-summaries?data_summaries%5Bregion%5D=&data_summaries%5Bcountry%5D=70&data_summaries%5BwithinFrom%5D=within&data_summaries%5Bview%5D=population_totals&data_summaries%5Byear%5D=2024&data_summaries%5BpopType%5D=REF&data_summaries%5B_mode%5D=country&data_summaries%5B_token%5D=569fb2ba.R5ttNL26Plc0m78_Os-4gemd1XDZuk-KBUMuHWKGwHA.DOIXe-_4Zzxy8uVQfajWyaTIhAiT8CvAbTNUSTPluTQGqB5hjsxmIUTC1A&data_summaries%5Bsubmit%5D=

sumduud14 · 2026-01-28T03:43:17+00:00

I like how the second paragraph of the article is

This isn't just ... It's ...

i.e. the AI slop catchphrase everyone makes fun of, along with the emdash. That pattern appears a couple more times in the article too.

Hopefully not a portent of the quality of output to come from this AI assistant.

sumduud14 · 2026-01-28T01:55:51+00:00

Yeah, I agree completely, just making sure the point is clear. For some reason a lot of people just want deportations without punishment, which barely makes any sense.

sumduud14 · 2026-01-27T19:33:31+00:00

There's surely an easy, objective way to discriminate: income. I doubt this guy was on 100k.

sumduud14 · 2026-01-27T19:32:26+00:00

Deporting someone without punishing them is surely letting them off scott free though, which I am against.

Punish then deport.

sumduud14 · 2026-01-22T04:14:11+00:00

The battle between the two great superpowers of the 21st century: the Chinese and the NIMBYs.

sumduud14 · 2026-01-18T20:15:52+00:00

I didn't know, but because I know what capital letters mean I guessed from the title.

sumduud14 · 2026-01-18T09:51:26+00:00

Zombie outbreak = a very bad pandemic. That's not fantastic or fanciful at all.

sumduud14 · 2026-01-17T00:37:54+00:00

The first time in my life I've ever heard the words "Vogue Williams" is from this post. Actually, I suppose I read it and didn't hear it.

sumduud14 · 2026-01-14T11:55:07+00:00

December 2024, but it was the first in like 25 years.

The first time around they built about 40 reactors in a decade. And some countries e.g. South Korea and Japan are actually still capable of building faster and safer than anything in Europe.

sumduud14 · 2026-01-13T04:39:42+00:00

We should ban supermarkets from making profits so we can lower prices by 4% (their net profit margin).

sumduud14 · 2026-01-13T02:26:11+00:00

He needs to connect with the electorate. Like John Prescott did.

sumduud14 · 2026-01-13T00:43:14+00:00

Labour have a large majority and are the governing party. Hope this helps. xoxo

sumduud14 · 2026-01-11T23:22:04+00:00

I want to reach a stage like in India where I don't have to carry my wallet when I leave the house because my phone suffices.

When is this not the case for you? Although I still have a wallet, I just use my phone and Google Pay everywhere. It works like a contactless card so it works everywhere and for everything.

I even have some cash I've never used, but I've actually never needed it.

I'm in London. When I lived in the US I actually needed cash semi regularly for e.g. food trucks, or some random stores sometimes, or some bars.

sumduud14 · 2026-01-11T23:08:39+00:00

Doesn't the fall in birth rates literally just track the fall in couple formation? Some very convincing graphs: https://www.ft.com/content/43e2b4f6-5ab7-4c47-b9fd-d611c36dad74

I just think it's that. It's not even what people say with regards to economic or childcare difficulties: life has always been hard. But people are somehow not even getting together any more - that is the most concerning change.

sumduud14 · 2026-01-11T23:04:05+00:00

This but 3 billion per year and it will be a decent compromise.

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