Jon

Bleeding heart reactionary.
Former aid and development worker, returned from other men's wars, other nations' disfunctions.

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@default_friend Not weird at all.
Guy gets to write about things he finds interesting, meet interesting people. Seems pretty chill.

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@aswren Yes, that one was particularly execrable.

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@katrosenfield @larissaphillip It's great.

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@___jehuty___ The book is fun. Very straightforward.

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@BDSixsmith Rawls called this "reflective equilibrium."

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@BovrilG Not video games.
Those are ace.

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@TheSimonEvansX @IainDale @jfwduffield @BBCNewsnight @vicderbyshire I don't know.
The parable of the talents rather speaks to supply side reforms.
Encouraged tax revenue with the render unto Caesar bit.
And he recruited both entrepreneurs and tax collectors to his core team.
Arguably took a rather aggressive approach to banking reform.

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@baylissbaghdad I think they're high on their own supply.
It isn't a strategy, it's a howl.

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@TheSimonEvansX In our compressed timeline, the whole "first they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you" thing has to be run simultaneously.

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@bencobley 3) if you inadvertently fall asleep you don't miss your stop.

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It's funny working there.
There's both a great preoccupation with history (and very selective readings of it) and odd bits of complete ignorance.
Got challenged by a female Israeli conscript at a checkpoint (one used by Palestinian laborers, probably never or rarely saw foreigners).
Had to provide my passport. "Britain, what is Britain?" Quite aggressive. But she appeared to be genuinely in the dark.
(n.b. the IDF and other types I encountered were largely completely civil, this wasn't typical).

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@LoftusSteve The most glaring was probably the guy who burned a copy of the Koran, was attacked with a knife and kicked when he fell down (by another party).
Prosecuted for a fictional offence, his first attacker got a suspended sentence, and they didn't bother with the second at all.

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@SimonMagus This is next level.

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@mathewclarke @aeronlaffere @AaronBastani A reasonable distinction to make (and I should have spelled it out in more detail).
But, shorn of a testable manifestation in the world, "unconscious bias" is an entirely ideological or religious commitment.

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@pegobry_en @richardbrem Rousseau bought into that as well (IIRC, I read him a long time ago). And protein consumption being linked to aggression.

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@aeronlaffere @AaronBastani Notably, disowned by two of its three inventors. The third being a Marxist who makes coin speaking about it.

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@chalmermagne Montesquieu might be elusive.
But you have to make attempts.

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@CatharineHoey Because they believe that they are the centre.

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@surplustakes Rough winds.

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Okay, I think I understand where the (my) confusion arises.
She refers to the murder weapon as a dagger at one point. And then makes reference to his claim that it was a kirpan. It's a restatement of his claim, although by conceding that it's under the legal length and adding the bit of blurb about the Nihang, she seems to be implicitly conceding it.
And the Sikh Federation are pushing a line that they think give the best chance of avoiding a ban (and may be their sincere belief).
I now see what you mean.