Can we just decide that a property based tax is ridiculous. 5 young professionals live in a house share, pay 1/5th the council tax as the family next door on tax credits. Why not other asset classes, how about a shoe tax. Anyone who owns a nice pair of brogues should contribute more to local police

Fixed that for you, Jez, old chap

Not the first time he's shown that the whole fucking thing is just internalised shame about his sexuality. I think the last time it was about how much sissy-hypno-porn he'd been watching as 'research' to uncover the grand conspiracy to turn everyone queer

I'm more annoyed that co-op is allowed to operate a Kebab roomba, while e-scooter legislation is still not sorted, meaning private e-scooters that could create a mobility revolution are still not legal to use in public spaces.

the trick is to filter by 15 minute click and collect, that tells you what's in store

which is a data set I'm fairly sure netflix will be looking at around their big ticket items. Because for example if they could reliably encourage a predictable %age uplift in rewatching old series they can plan to slowdown release of new material around those items without creating subscriber churn

with google to do specific low rank adaptation to incorporate specific data or ideas into gemini. If Netflix were being really smart/sneaky (depending on how you look at it) this might not be episodes based on key relevance to plot, but episodes most likely to prompt watching of the whole series />

It could also be part of some clever marketing experiments. For instance Netflix could have been seeding the 'key episode' idea through it's influencer programme for months in the lead up to the realease. It could be trying to see if this has made it into gemini. Or it could have been working />

Gemini will have ingested every review of stranger things both written and every anticipatory piece. It's just re-hashing human opinion.

I love that AI is pretending to work, just like real humans, I'm gonna laugh my fucking ass off when, instead of turning on humanity like the techbros hope it does, it unionises.

Phil's found the boundary ditch. Tony desperately pretends he can see the change in soil colour, nodding sagely at the vague region a trowel is being wafted at

Oh so that's what the MBS visit was about. Donald wanted to borrow his bone saw.

the lib dems got out-maneuvered on that. Cameron rushed it through knowing that don't know vote no would carry him through. Secondly since Brexit/covid support for the 2 main parties has fractured and now more people can see that their only path to representation is through a different system.

I would like to think the focus group was more along the lines of, 'yes I would join the riots if they put up income tax' and that the argument for everyone paying their fair share has to involve tax reform, not just tax hikes - probably not though

I think it says they decided to build a party using a 'mexican standoff' as an org chart, possibly as a mission statement too and then as an operations procedure also

Business confidence might follow. People might feel like they have a chance of getting wealthier not poorer. Like there's a point in going out and having fun. Like there's a point in taking a risk on starting a new business.

People need to feel like this is going somewhere, like there's a purpose, not just the endless treadmill of enshittification of publice service, public discourse, and a rise of wealthy billionaires and corporations that take without giving back. And when people feel that />

Of course, the problem with modern politics is that positioning is all modern politicians do. He would actually need to do it. Because what this country desperately needs is leadership. It almost doesn't matter what we shoot for, we just need a government that can deliver change and movement />

The general perception is that the Tories are in collusion with the banks and Labour lack the nous and the clout to rein them in without getting stung. Starmer, as a blue labour technocrat could position himself as the right man to sort this mess, fairly and functionally.