I just can’t get past Labour winning 65% of seats off 34% of the vote.
Absolutely wild mismatch between the headline result and, well, everything else.
Britain is now a multi-party system, and first-past-the-post can’t cope.
It’s astonishing isn’t it: THE VOTE SHARE. No honeymoon with that ~ massive majority on v low vote share
Starmer 2024 33.8% of vote = 412 seats. Majority 168. CORBYN WON MORE VOTES IN 2019 THAN STARMER in 2024 > 10.2m v 9.7m
Blair 2024 43.2% of vote = 419 seats. Majority 179
GPT-4 has already created apps, new businesses & an Ai generated episode of Friends.
It's Day 3 of GPT-4 and the new usecases keep flooding in.
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when money was free and interest rates were basically zero, the UK destroyed its public services in the pursuit of balanced budgets. Now money is expensive the UK going to borrow lots of it to spend on cutting taxes for rich people 😸
What do we call it in other countries when a minister from the governing party threatens the national broadcaster with funding cuts for criticising the national leader?
“A war that begun for no wise purpose, carried on with... rashness & timidity, brought to a close after suffering & disaster... Not one benefit.. Our eventual evacuation... resembled the retreat of an army defeated.” G. Gleig on the 1842 (!) British evacuation from Kabul...
@nic_carter@TuurDemeester Would it be possible to program the CBDC so that you can't do this? Say for example it could only be spent on a particular sector such as consumer staples or something
For every $1 of aid the global South receives, they lose $14 through unequal exchange with the North. Poor countries are developing rich countries, not the other way around.
Noise Cancellation
The world is a noisy place. We are constantly hammered by stimuli competing for our attention.
The ability to cancel out the noise - to truly focus on the task at hand - is both broadly applicable and extremely powerful.