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Tomato Soup
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Anything posted here are my personal views.

Anonymised UK policy generalist with far too much experience, especially economic, tax, and international.

Preferred pronouns: They/Them/Their.

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Honestly, closer to 😢, but I appreciate the empathetic rage.
December 12, 2025 at 3:44 PM
True, but none of them will want to spend that much on civil servants to process and store the data.
December 11, 2025 at 9:10 PM
That’s the usual Disney way, but given the size of the AI bubble, they probably want to get on board rather than try and pop it.
December 11, 2025 at 5:18 PM
I would guess about 900 to journalists who didn't get advance copies.
December 11, 2025 at 5:00 PM
I doubt anyone will go this overboard even on reciprocity...most nations wouldn't even have any interest in storing that much info. Some increase? Sure, but not that extreme.
December 11, 2025 at 4:58 PM
All those stories of illness spreading? Believe them…

Graphed data on coughing levels from all users of the sleep app I use

(Blanked out central London to hide my personal location, sorry!)
December 11, 2025 at 4:49 PM
This may be Disney's attempt to have SOME level of control over how AI abuses their IP.
December 11, 2025 at 4:47 PM
I agree, maybe Disney is just betting on their horse to be the bubble that survives the pop
December 11, 2025 at 2:26 PM
The main thing they seem to get is an AI company recognising their ownership of the intellectual property. A pretty low bar...
December 11, 2025 at 2:23 PM
What an absurdly dumb take.

Legitimising fascists doesn't prevent fascism.

Though maybe that's your angle?
December 11, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Oh I understand the news piece, I was talking about related stuff in the intelligence sphere with the USA choosing to become an enemy rather than an ally. "leak" was used as the term, but not with the meaning of unintentional.

You also wildly underestimate the other members of 5E
December 11, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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"womens rights activist" is the pretence for loud misogynists, transphobes, and homophobes, in the current society where such bigotry is government policy.
December 10, 2025 at 11:11 PM
"womens rights activist" is the pretence for loud misogynists, transphobes, and homophobes, in the current society where such bigotry is government policy.
December 10, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Florence and the machine was my guess, but I think she was probably early October (I have no idea who has been on Kimmel, Just a big fan of Florence)
December 10, 2025 at 11:06 PM
I had toyed with other numbers, need to find a balance between "multiple full parliments" and "can appoint a meaningful amount each year when divided by parties".

But ultimately, something like this keeps the best bits of the Lords, without the awful current system of packing it.
December 10, 2025 at 11:03 PM
a 15 year term. So that way there is a slow constant churn over the 15 years. If a Lord wants to resign early, or dies etc then the party that originally appointed them gets to re-appoint for the remainder of that term.
December 10, 2025 at 10:59 PM
I've long thought that the Lords should be about avoiding damage from the Commons potentially flip-flopping every 5 years + MPs who are obsessed with being elected.

Each year, the parties of the Commons should be allowed to appoint 1/15th of the lords, split proportionally by party. Each Lord gets
December 10, 2025 at 10:59 PM
You can be certain that 5eyes are keeping careful track of whats leaking from the USA
December 10, 2025 at 12:23 PM