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@DrEricDing
Terrifying article
@DanielStrauss4
… tho (off topic) why do you state depth of Titanic as “13,000ft” (so 3,800m) right next to a discussion of depths in metres?
Last paragraph, same question. You state timeframes but the reader needs a lot of maths to understand how it fits?
Wow. 🤯
Simply the most astonishing use of position: sticky...
... to explain the unimaginable.
➜ Make a coffee. ☕️
➜ Sit down. 🪑
➜ Spend 5min with this. ⏱
By
@mkorostoff
Via
@charlesarthur
@TheOverspill
What I don't understand is this...
If you can do all this in the browser with
@threejs
, already.. why can't 10,000
@Meta
engineers make their demos look less shit?
@SenRonJohnson
@POTUS
@CDCgov
As an 🏴Englishman, just for the record, I can confirm this is total BS. 💩
~1% Jan-July were vaccinated. 640 of 51,281 souls.
See our 🇬🇧
@ONS
public stats office data in detail:
@DanielleFong
I’ve never understood this. What’s wrong with a bit of population decline?
We don’t need 8,000,000,000 humans and the planet can barely survive us.
What’s wrong with human population normalising at a sustainable level?
@BarryWasHere3
@wonderofscience
Trump. He makes the best. Some of the best. A lot of people. Planets. A lot of people tell me. Planets. Some of the best planets. He made, I hear a lot. The most wonderful planets.
#sorry
#longday
Humanity is not having a good century so far.
Endless wars, global pandemics, rich dying of disinformation, poor dying of famine & flood, rising populism, declining freedoms and occasional economic collapse & austerity.
There is a simple solution..
..but first a little “why”.
Our system of democracy isn’t designed to provide democratic choice - it is designed to consolidate & retain power by providing the illusion of choice at regular intervals.
But in the end our leadership knows that no-one wants that much choice anyway so all good? Yes?
NO. Why?
@ionewells
@mzdt
You misunderstand her answer.
What she means by the jury being out is; “My opinion on any subject, even which party I belong to, is subject to change depending on what I think, in the moment, will get me further ahead.”
Putting aside your red-team/blue-team politics for a moment; let’s look at the construct of our “political elite”..
Predominantly white, privately educated, wealthy men.
So why the demographic skew?
@atrupar
Why? I don’t follow..? What are the Bidens alleged to have done that’s nearly as bad as inciting an armed insurrection and storming of the Capitol?
#honestquestion
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In short:
If you want to fix society, education, poverty or the environment then you MUST accept that choosing once every 5 years between two rich, white men who’s only qualification is the giving & receiving of private favours will not achieve your goals.
5 years is a lot of trust on a binary choice!
Really?
Would you sign a fixed 5 year contract on your first day in a job?
Would you agree a fixed 5 years of cohabitation before a first date?
NO.
Well, for one thing, politics here and in the US wasn’t built to a truly democratic design.
That’s an illusion.
In both cases it has evolved from a monarchic/religious power base which still holds most of the wealth and power today, especially here in the UK.
In both the UK & the US, public policy is bought & paid for by a few dozen corporations.
Through donations, revolving door employment, lobbying, research funding, foreign policy manipulation, bribery and judicial bullying corporations are now firmly in control.
In the UK & US we like to think that we live in a practical democracy; that it’s “a place where the people really decide regularly how to be governed”.
This myth is based on the facade that depicts a real, meaningful choice at the ballot box.
Here’s why it’s no real choice:
Because the system - and our society - has been corrupted by a new power base that has even out grown the old power structures of monarchy, religion & state.
This is the century of the corporation.
@TEDchris
Also, what’s often missed in these debates is that when AGI emerges there’s no rational reason why it would be recognisably like human intelligence.
Human intelligence is based firmly on a sense of individualism: limited knowledge conditioned from few enduring relationships.
@theJeremyVine
@toryboypierce
If you ever need a vignette to explain the effects of our modern fame/populist/idolatry/narcissist-fuelled ultra-processes-media on would-be normal people…
The actual words she’s saying…
She just can’t see the false equivalence for the trees.
Astonishing. 🤯
Don’t believe me?
Consider for a moment what it takes to reach the cabinet, the Lords, the senate or the presidency..
Put aside the financial aspects of campaigning and consider the deals made, the friends collected, the favours called in - the sheer work to reach the top.
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@archer_rs
Written for a US audience tho. Evidence is irrelevant. We just don’t do “legal implications” in this country — certainly not for members of the club anyway.
Our politics are corrupted by our corporations cos that’s where the money and power is.
It’s not fanciful to assert that this will never change while we treat leadership as a right, while we associate leadership with power, while we keep voting for the status quo.
So what then?
But I vote don’t I?
Yes; but consider the myriad of things you care about… your job, health, tax, commute, kids’ education, digital privacy, local forest…
… not to mention foreign policy, aid, views on immigration, deforestation, space travel.
@thomasforth
Fixed the headline:
Economic bloc doesn’t include country that is neither part of bloc nor can be trusted to complete infrastructure projects from infrastructure plans. Quelle surprise!
Y’all know I’m working hard to build a better news app —
@OneSub_
I need your
#help
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OneSub delivers many benefits to me. I know the stories are well sourced, they’re likely to be true, they give me facts of the matter first and then explain the varied opinions and
🧠 Reality Distortion Fields 👇
This is what the
@BBC
does every time it platforms someone like Katie Hopkins, Lord Sumption or Lawrence Fox in a debate against rational people.
It's really not good for anyone's future. 😢
🤦♂️ The truth about why Wuhan is doing well?? 🦠
🇨🇳 was prepared from SARS 2002.
🏥 hi-flo CT scans
⏱ 4hr tests
🚓 draconian powers
🔐 civil obedience
🏠 NO home-isolation.
This aired March people. 🌟 MARCH. 🌟
Not complicated. 🤷♂️
No conspiracy. 👇
@DanielleFong
Reminds me of tower hard-drives with data transfer lights that (it turned out) echoed the data… hackable from across the street. 🤦♂️
… or passwords from watching your accelerometer.
Obs this is even more crazy!
@DrEricDing
@DanielStrauss4
(It’s a genuine question born out of interest/curiosity. I’m ot sure if rushed/typo or an editorial style … and I’m trying to learn for a project I’m working on…)
@JeffreyPeel
@TexasLindsay_
Any particular reason why the BBC would cover it? It’s not particularly relevant to anyone here - it’s only an announcement. Long time till the election and it’s not even ours.
So what then?
A simple, collaborative, truly democratic, open approach to policy & politics based on consensus, duty and the will of the people.
I’ll try and explain 👇 or you can follow
@HausosProject
to find out how we’re going to achieve this.
Consider a party where everyone has a voice, where there is no “leadership” and yet where no decision languishes unmade nor gets made in haste or because of dogma.
If you don’t think that could work then why do you accept the idea of jury trials for high crimes & misdemeanour?
Over time, policy is formed, refined, agreed, updated, considered, tested, discussed, critiqued, adjusted and reformed.
Everything in public.
Everything written down.
Everything transparent.
Everything open to contribution.
Everything built to improve society.
@jimwaterson
He sounds like the harbinger of everything that’s broken with the US .. who are slipping towards a populist coup...
... but otherwise, yeah, why not?
This is why not. 👇
All the while the influence of corporate lobbying on policy design is mitigated because…
… if you take away the need for the accumulation of power & favour from those who make decisions, those with money & influence no-longer have anything of value to offer.
@DanielleFong
Yeah … but why does that matter? There are too many of us .. and we’re about to make a lot of us obsolete .. and we’ve been educating creativity, purpose, joy and individuality out of most of our kids for generations ..
I’m not trying to be obtuse - I genuinely don’t understand
@TEDchris
@sama
Getting too close to MSFT perhaps. The wording hints at something not disclosed, reiterates the “for everyone” principles and presumably not product related sure the product team are unaffected/elevated.
… we need to govern ourselves according to what SOCIETY needs, as a whole and as a people - the things that make the world a safer, cleaner, more fulfilling place for everyone.
@JoJoFromJerz
@atrupar
Shhh.. It will be a terrific sleep. Some of the best. Beautiful sleep. A lot of people tell me. Some of the best sleep. Tremendous. Strong. Let's dominate it. We're gonna dominate sleep. Beautiful domination of sleep.
MAKE SLEEP GREAT AGAIN!
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It's early days - but we're pretty excited!
#buildinginpublic
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… more accurate in terms of gender, ethnicity, socio-economic background, education, profession, family geography, life stage, age, experience, attitude & disposition.
Since everyone's talking about Kim Cattrall & Matthew Macfadyen recently ... this has to have been one of my favourite live stage performances of all time.
@TheatreRBath
some years ago now..
Second: to resign their seat for by-election at a pre-determined, randomly selected time within the 5 year term.
This will create an auctions asynchronous, continuous rotation of MPs as well as panel members.