Politics & Stuff

[MoroccanBlue 5,320]

17 hours ago, Fulham Broadway said:

American taxpayers have given Israel 280 billion dollars for weapons since 1948

Meanwhile almost all Americans have already depleted their savings. Majority are also living paycheck to paycheck. 

[Fulham Broadway 16,962]

Just now, MoroccanBlue said:

Meanwhile almost all Americans have already depleted their savings. Majority are also living paycheck to paycheck. 

There are stories in the right wing media of surveys whereby the record homelessness in some States needs to 'be solved' by forcibly moving them out of cities into wilderness and desert tent cities. 

So not only Ethnic cleansing in Gaza and the West Bank but also in the US

[robsblubot 3,555]

1 hour ago, MoroccanBlue said:

Meanwhile almost all Americans have already depleted their savings. Majority are also living paycheck to paycheck. 

Weapons is big business for the US gov. It makes tons of money from it. None goes to the people, of course.

1 hour ago, Fulham Broadway said:

There are stories in the right wing media of surveys whereby the record homelessness in some States needs to 'be solved' by forcibly moving them out of cities into wilderness and desert tent cities. 

So not only Ethnic cleansing in Gaza and the West Bank but also in the US

I feel very strongly about this one as I actually live downtown.

Yes, people should be taken care of, some even belong in some institution given their mental health. The better solutions involve something in the city.
One thing that is plainly obvious to me is that you can't lose the city... period. SF downtown business are in trouble because of that--many stores closing (small and big). This is really not about ethnicity: in certain regions of the US most homeless people are white. Yes, poverty and ethnicity are linked in most regions, but I think that's a different problem and a much harder to solve one. Lack of a public option health insurance in the US is key here as well.

I just don't see how letting tents, shit and garbage, proliferate everywhere helps anyone. Eventually, like it's happening in SF, the business will close down and even the homeless people living there will end up isolated.

[Fulham Broadway 16,962]

6 hours ago, robsblubot said:

I feel very strongly about this one as I actually live downtown.

Yes, people should be taken care of, some even belong in some institution given their mental health. The better solutions involve something in the city.
One thing that is plainly obvious to me is that you can't lose the city... period. SF downtown business are in trouble because of that--many stores closing (small and big). This is really not about ethnicity: in certain regions of the US most homeless people are white. Yes, poverty and ethnicity are linked in most regions, but I think that's a different problem and a much harder to solve one

Yes I agree -however most 'solutions' tend to be focussed on sticking plaster remedies, rather than any long term preventative measures. From the Bohemian Grove Cremation of Care, Melania Trumps coat 'I just dont care' there seems a casual discarding of vast swathes of people (in the UK and other rich so called democracies') It seems to be a functionality of Western countries to have an 'underclass', it makes the minimum wagers and working class see them selves as not as bad as the visible homeless.

 

6 hours ago, robsblubot said:

Lack of a public option health insurance in the US is key here as well.

Think this is key, and the root of the gaping division. Take away a fundamental safety net, and you have a spiral into disease and death

[cosmicway 1,333]

I wonder why the Americans don't like free health care.
It's not as if the rich are immune to diseases, if they were then it's a different matter.
On the other hand if we are against excessive public spending then the so called "free education" is the logical target.
Free education does n't exist. If it existed then again it's a different matter but it does n't.
It does n't exist so it's money wasted.

[YorkshireBlue 3,126]

18 minutes ago, cosmicway said:

I wonder why the Americans don't like free health care.
It's not as if the rich are immune to diseases, if they were then it's a different matter.
On the other hand if we are against excessive public spending then the so called "free education" is the logical target.
Free education does n't exist. If it existed then again it's a different matter but it does n't.
It does n't exist so it's money wasted.

Rich don't have to be immune, they can afford the health care.

[cosmicway 1,333]

3 hours ago, YorkshireBlue said:

Rich don't have to be immune, they can afford the health care.

Not only the rich but also people who are insured.
So my father, a senior civil servant, was insured by the state.
As a youngster I enjoyed the same benefit because it was for the entire family, but not now of course - so I 'm NHS (our equivalent).
But anyway nobody is immune and you don't want to have to pay lots of money even if you are rich.
So it's strange to me.

Greek NHS do crazy things sometimes it's true.
Last May I went to a specialist for a check up.
That one was private and he said "you 're ok but let's also do a scan to be complete".
The family GP concurred, he says "let's do that - at the general hospital".
So I go there early in the morning with the recommendation.
I did n't know nothing and it appears one has to ask for an appointment with a hospital doctor for the specialist's recommendation to be accepted.
So a crazy woman in woke appareil comes over and she puts her finger on my nose and wanted to call the police !
I say "call the police and you will see what will happen to you".
She did n't even care to explain me the rule - I would n't react if she had.
Then the GP who was accompanying me yanked me out and he said "don't speak to anyone about it" - he got terribly scared.
The body scan costs 50 quid if you go private ...
It's these things I suppose some people don't want.

[Fernando 6,496]

In Ecuador crazy stuff going with crime. 

I don't know if you realize but there's like a wave of lawlessness going on around the world. 

We have the war in Ukraine vs Russia, in the middle east Israel with Hamas in Gaza, in Venezuela and Guyana a rising tension over land, rising tension in Taiwan with China and what is currently happening in Ecuador. Among others. 

The world is a restlessness state and lawlessness is increasing like crazy. 

[robsblubot 3,555]

9 hours ago, YorkshireBlue said:

Rich don't have to be immune, they can afford the health care.

Even Brazil has a better solution: very basic health care for the poor, and (much) better health care for whoever can afford it.

It's really not rocket science, but if you'd hear republicans (and some dems -- also bought and paid for) talk about it (like during the Obamacare discussions back then), one would think it's a difficult problem the world is yet to find a solution for. 🙄

[YorkshireBlue 3,126]

12 minutes ago, robsblubot said:

Even Brazil has a better solution: very basic health care for the poor, and (much) better health care for whoever can afford it.

It's really not rocket science, but if you'd hear republicans (and some dems -- also bought and paid for) talk about it (like during the Obamacare discussions back then), one would think it's a difficult problem the world is yet to find a solution for. 🙄

I'm from the UK mate, I don't have that problem lol 

[Fulham Broadway 16,962]

3 hours ago, Fernando said:

In Ecuador crazy stuff going with crime. 

I don't know if you realize but there's like a wave of lawlessness going on around the world. 

We have the war in Ukraine vs Russia, in the middle east Israel with Hamas in Gaza, in Venezuela and Guyana a rising tension over land, rising tension in Taiwan with China and what is currently happening in Ecuador. Among others. 

The world is a restlessness state and lawlessness is increasing like crazy. 

Add to that the UK Cabinet is meeting tonight to work out a bombing strategy with the US on the Huthis and maybe Iran = unthinkable escalation if that happens...

and Sweden has gone into meltdown as they have been told to prepare for war with Russia......

[cosmicway 1,333]

Why is there a war in Gaza happening now ?
It's simple to explain:
Things were going towards a negotiated solution, albeit with obstacles and backward steps.
To radicalize the muslim world against Israel Hamas decided to attack.
They knew Israelis would take them on in Gaza, but that's what they wanted. 7/10 without any Israeli retaliation would be useless for them.
Also Gaza is not really a strategic point for them. They could not use the Gaza settlement to defeat Israel (like for example Hitler could use Stalingrad and the surrounding area to defeat the Soviets in the war or the Japanese could use the Coral sea to defeat the Americans in the Pacific). Gaza was a sacrificial lamb, deliberately so.
At the same time the provocation was so big Israelis could not possibly fail to react.
Could the Palestinians do something else on 7/10 ? Something with the same effect but avoiding murdering the innocent babies ? What might that be ? They could n't.
 

 

Edited January 12, 2024 by cosmicway

[lucio 5,418]

prominent synagogue in new York where people would fly from all over to come to 

Hidden tunnels discovered and members attacking the police and protesting hard to avoid investigation 

Bloodied childs mattress , highchair and stroller uncovered from within 

 

 

[Vesper 29,143]

Barefoot and Pregnant

 

[Vesper 29,143]

[Vesper 29,143]

The Conservatives are on course for a 1997-style electoral wipeout, a major new poll suggests, predicting Labour would win a 120-seat majority if an election were held today.

Commissioned by Tory critics of Sunak, the MRP, seat-by-seat YouGov poll finds the Tories would lose every red wall seat they gained in 2019. Published by The Telegraph, the poll was commissioned by a group of Tory donors, the Conservative Britain Alliance, and backed by the former Brexit minister Lord Frost – who claimed that the only way to avoid the likely defeat was “to be as tough as it takes on immigration”.

Obviously, this is very bad. However, for the psephologically curious, may I recommend the former YouGov president Peter Kellner on the possible perils of MRP polling. In short, polls of this kind – where you use national data to predict the result of individual constituencies – could risk overstating Tory losses at a general election. Grant Shapps, unsurprisingly, played down the poll on Times Radio this morning, and said some of the government's measures, like the recent cut to national insurance, will “take time to work through the system”. He said: “The poll on polling day is the one that really matters.” 

[MoroccanBlue 5,320]

On 12/08/2023 at 07:34, Sir Mikel OBE said:

We are halfway here as Microsoft Enterprise copilot as its already guaranteed business data is secure: https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2023/03/16/introducing-microsoft-365-copilot-your-copilot-for-work/

I do agree OpenAI is still hit or miss with data(especially the new 4 models) but it is being tweaked constantly. The key is not making it perfect. The key is making it good enough to where we can replace a team of 5 data scientists with 2 or 1. That is where the job loss will happen, and where it is already happening in other fields.

The most sobering thing to happen to me this summer at least was seeing all of our interns at Microsoft work on these AI projects all happy, and then realize now that the internship is over where in the past years 80%+ of them had full time job offers for the next summer that next to none are getting offers now. We just dont have the need anymore.

Copilot upon launch can't work with any data set greater than 500 rows in excel before crashing. 

$20/a month for this bollocks. 

[Sir Mikel OBE 4,920]

8 hours ago, MoroccanBlue said:

Copilot upon launch can't work with any data set greater than 500 rows in excel before crashing. 

$20/a month for this bollocks. 

That sounds about right lol. Are you using .xlsx files or .xslm?