zatapatique
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Just saw in the trailer for the upcoming French movie about de Gaulle (which looks well shit BTW) that it's Simon Russell Beale who plays Churchill. I know it's his second go at it, but it'll never not be funny that he is both Churchill and Beria
December 15, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Just saw in the trailer for the upcoming French movie about de Gaulle (which looks well shit BTW) that it's Simon Russell Beale who plays Churchill. I know it's his second go at it, but it'll never not be funny that he is both Churchill and Beria
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Good timing for this graph to make a reappearance:
New research on the connection between austerity and falling wages.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
New research on the connection between austerity and falling wages.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
December 15, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Good timing for this graph to make a reappearance:
New research on the connection between austerity and falling wages.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
New research on the connection between austerity and falling wages.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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apart from the sheer inconceivable horror of the El Fasher massacre and its attendant horrors itself, the thing I'm feeling depressed about is that it probably won't matter.
these were people already on the utmost margins of the global system, who the world has already decided it doesn't care about
these were people already on the utmost margins of the global system, who the world has already decided it doesn't care about
60,000 is the *low end* estimate.
So, El Fasher looks like one of the worst single event atrocities to happen this century so far, but the evidence has come in such a trickle it seems to only now be getting verified
December 13, 2025 at 6:34 AM
apart from the sheer inconceivable horror of the El Fasher massacre and its attendant horrors itself, the thing I'm feeling depressed about is that it probably won't matter.
these were people already on the utmost margins of the global system, who the world has already decided it doesn't care about
these were people already on the utmost margins of the global system, who the world has already decided it doesn't care about
Autism/vaccines here, but this is a claim made way too often in general: "yes, counter reaction X is awful, but it wouldn't have worked if social trend Y hadn't gone too far". The causality is often just declared as true, under evidenced and doesn't engage with the history of X before we even had Y
This bit!
"The conspiracy-laden crusades by US health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr and others to discredit vaccines, blaming them for rising autism rates, would have less success had diagnosis rates not been inflated by expanded diagnostic criteria."
Has JBM heard of the first MMR go around? 🙄
"The conspiracy-laden crusades by US health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr and others to discredit vaccines, blaming them for rising autism rates, would have less success had diagnosis rates not been inflated by expanded diagnostic criteria."
Has JBM heard of the first MMR go around? 🙄
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December 13, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Autism/vaccines here, but this is a claim made way too often in general: "yes, counter reaction X is awful, but it wouldn't have worked if social trend Y hadn't gone too far". The causality is often just declared as true, under evidenced and doesn't engage with the history of X before we even had Y
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Absolutely incredible scenes in the Bloomberg Intelligence Rates & FX chat at this hour. Every social platform every invented has this common problem lmao.
December 10, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Absolutely incredible scenes in the Bloomberg Intelligence Rates & FX chat at this hour. Every social platform every invented has this common problem lmao.
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My all-time favorite newspaper correction:
December 10, 2025 at 3:24 PM
My all-time favorite newspaper correction:
The man most associated with the idea that led to this turn of events is leading in the polls, and government policy is to chase any and every fart he makes
Today's customs union vote is entirely symbolic, it's true. But what does it symbolise that no one is now arguing *for* Brexit?
thecritic.co.uk/regr...
thecritic.co.uk/regr...
December 9, 2025 at 7:36 PM
The man most associated with the idea that led to this turn of events is leading in the polls, and government policy is to chase any and every fart he makes
It's also: you don't know who is going to become what. A society more confident in itself would believe a little bit more in its ability to make anyone thrive and give back.
My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’
This is so disgusting.
December 7, 2025 at 8:46 AM
It's also: you don't know who is going to become what. A society more confident in itself would believe a little bit more in its ability to make anyone thrive and give back.
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When they rolled out sports gambling in my state, they had the sitting governor cut a TV spot and I got targeted with between $5-10k of promotional bet comps between the platforms. You don’t hand out multiple months of median income if you think you won’t make way more than that!
December 6, 2025 at 10:11 AM
When they rolled out sports gambling in my state, they had the sitting governor cut a TV spot and I got targeted with between $5-10k of promotional bet comps between the platforms. You don’t hand out multiple months of median income if you think you won’t make way more than that!
A very cool thing to do with say, age 6-14, is to ask them to beat LLMs at their specialist knowledge. "Pick a topic you know well and see if you can ask stuff it can't answer right". Triggers the Columbo bit that a lot of kids have, and is a good way to teach intuition on the current limitations
I have raised it with teachers and my take away was that not everyone is as aware as people on here tend to be that AI is somewhat error-prone
December 6, 2025 at 10:12 AM
A very cool thing to do with say, age 6-14, is to ask them to beat LLMs at their specialist knowledge. "Pick a topic you know well and see if you can ask stuff it can't answer right". Triggers the Columbo bit that a lot of kids have, and is a good way to teach intuition on the current limitations
The thing about the "you're going to have gambling anyway, might as well be open and free" retort is that it... is obviously not true. We do have significantly larger amounts of it now that it's everywhere!
December 6, 2025 at 9:54 AM
The thing about the "you're going to have gambling anyway, might as well be open and free" retort is that it... is obviously not true. We do have significantly larger amounts of it now that it's everywhere!
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"Online gambling should be illegal and gambling is a thing you have to travel to a heavily regulated destination for if you REALLY want to play" is my least liberal opinion but I stand by it
December 6, 2025 at 9:33 AM
"Online gambling should be illegal and gambling is a thing you have to travel to a heavily regulated destination for if you REALLY want to play" is my least liberal opinion but I stand by it
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Dr king certainly didnt agree with identity politics.
December 5, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Dr king certainly didnt agree with identity politics.
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Bond Investors Raise Specter Of Hasset-Liability Mismatch
December 3, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Bond Investors Raise Specter Of Hasset-Liability Mismatch
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You’re absolutely right — you are Pagliacci. It would certainly be difficult for you to attend your own performance! I should not have given such paradoxical advice, and I apologize deeply for the error. There is no excuse for my failure.
December 3, 2025 at 1:12 AM
You’re absolutely right — you are Pagliacci. It would certainly be difficult for you to attend your own performance! I should not have given such paradoxical advice, and I apologize deeply for the error. There is no excuse for my failure.
One thing no one is going to say on here is that the problem of 'kids don't work these days because AI' is that from the parent perspective, the problem goes a bit both ways. I don't know about uni lectures, but some secondary school stuff I've seen lately, is <spiderman fingerpointing dot gif>
November 30, 2025 at 9:23 AM
One thing no one is going to say on here is that the problem of 'kids don't work these days because AI' is that from the parent perspective, the problem goes a bit both ways. I don't know about uni lectures, but some secondary school stuff I've seen lately, is <spiderman fingerpointing dot gif>
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The modal British voter thinks that pensioners are the group who gets the least good deal from the state! You can't have a serious conversation either about shrinking the state or expanding the tax base from that starting point!
November 27, 2025 at 10:19 PM
The modal British voter thinks that pensioners are the group who gets the least good deal from the state! You can't have a serious conversation either about shrinking the state or expanding the tax base from that starting point!
That video of Mamdani name dropping random back catalogue Arsenal players has revived peak "men only like one thing, and that's sitting back and quoting obscure sports people's names at each other for hours" discourse in the French speaking group chats.
November 28, 2025 at 7:16 AM
That video of Mamdani name dropping random back catalogue Arsenal players has revived peak "men only like one thing, and that's sitting back and quoting obscure sports people's names at each other for hours" discourse in the French speaking group chats.
Personally also convinced that the ubiquity of delivery services has made the actually good bits of the policy (lower quintiles wage growth outperforming) feel like an additional injury.
Some have mentioned unresolved COVID trauma to explain that phenomenon and I remain skeptical.
Personally, I'm a partisan of the "it's just inflation" theory. Human beings seem to love Ze Price Stabilité more than life itself, and appear willing sacrifice *anything* to achieve it.
Personally, I'm a partisan of the "it's just inflation" theory. Human beings seem to love Ze Price Stabilité more than life itself, and appear willing sacrifice *anything* to achieve it.
The biggest blackpill for me was a poll that found that, despite Trump's abysmal approvals and Dems cleaning house lately, an hypothetical 2024 rematch would still be a tossup. The insane reality is that a majority of US voters really experienced the Biden years as some kind of epochal catastrophe!
November 25, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Personally also convinced that the ubiquity of delivery services has made the actually good bits of the policy (lower quintiles wage growth outperforming) feel like an additional injury.
This has been commented ad nauseam already but the part that always jumps at me in those screeds is how the 'dismiss intergenerational bonds' is always painted as going one way only.
November 25, 2025 at 8:29 AM
This has been commented ad nauseam already but the part that always jumps at me in those screeds is how the 'dismiss intergenerational bonds' is always painted as going one way only.
This snippet is literally about Fortunato asking Montresor for more of that delicious amontillado
November 22, 2025 at 1:54 PM
This snippet is literally about Fortunato asking Montresor for more of that delicious amontillado
Randomly remembering that one of main state interventions in education during the pandemic was to come up with an algorithm which main effect was to make sure the grades/uni rights of kids from good places were adjusted back to the history of said places, and kids from bad places, can you guess?
November 21, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Randomly remembering that one of main state interventions in education during the pandemic was to come up with an algorithm which main effect was to make sure the grades/uni rights of kids from good places were adjusted back to the history of said places, and kids from bad places, can you guess?