Chris

[Chris @IdentityChrisis]

@MrBButterfield In preparation for attending your show on Sunday, we hosted a Treat Day

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@TomChivers @TheAA_UK Might want to give Starling a look, you can make virtual cards with separate pots of money. It's great for subscriptions as you can just delete the card or not put any money on if they play silly buggers.

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@s8mb Have you ever read the Scott Alexander post on the book Albion's Seed?: https://t.co/aLdWNgo7GQ

It's plausible that some parts of culture are very sticky, and the US is weird and unique in many ways because of that, rather than surface-level differences

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@jayforeman @charltonbrooker and @JonnElledge as endorsements?That's exactly my hyper-specific niche! Bought

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@RobinWigg Not the heroes we deserve, but the ones we need

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@TomChivers Very reminiscent of David Nutt. An expert academic in charge puts out a nuanced piece, immediately there are calls to depose them because they may not find the result that the review was commissioned to find.

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@Capt_Swing @tomhfh @adamtweets85 Fortunately, if you hate landlords, a great strategy would be to increase the supply of housing, decrease property prices and crash their portfolios! 😉 Certainly better than letting prices appreciate and giving them capital gains too!

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@paulg @s8mb The UK planning system is one of the most restrictive in the world. Things like getting data centres built need to show "local benefit", which is usually impossible as the benefit is more regional. It's simply not hard to build in many US states

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@jayforeman It isn't all bad https://t.co/ZxFv8KyUF4

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@AnyaM8_ There was an EU directive in 2002 that required 1/2-click unsubscription, and then GDPR strengthened this. I think some git just realised a loophole - sign you up for 10 sublists, and each time you unsub only unsub you from the one it was sent to. Then this proliferated.

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@yashkaf It's the UK, of course class still underpins most things heavily. To a far greater extent than I think most other anglo nations realise until they move here.

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@jo3hill Office costs £2bn
Professional Services £10bn
Technology £8bn
Social Value, Circular Economy and the kitchen sink £50bn
Administration £1bn

someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my civil service is dying

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@Aella_Girl @chloekleinxx Sounds like cross-pollination leads to a cross poly nation

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@tombutlerbowdon @rcolvile It's seen as a good store of value because it is a good store of value, because supply is constrained and consistently doesn't meet demand. That would stop if there were enough supply, people would change behaviour pretty quick if prices were consistently flat or falling.

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@jburnmurdoch @gw_emily I think most people haven't worked with (m)any good managers. It can be both hard to see the value they provide, and there are far more managers needed than good managers that exist, so you get a lot of bad or unwilling ones.

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@TomChivers The stereotypes will persist in lore and for NPCs, currently it's hard to build interesting characters like your pacificist vampire as you gimp yourself hard due to the stat mechanics. Similarly, feats are interesting, but hard to actually pick in 5e, the game is worse for it.

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@TomChivers I play and DM DnD and this isn't really something to be upset about imo. Racial stat bonuses are actually quite limiting for player character design. Want to play a good wizard? Probably pick gnome for +2 INT. Cleric? Dwarf. Etc.

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@TorstenBell Torsten, I'm a big fan, but wearing the rosette there makes it look like you've been shot in the abdomen

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@DeadFishCapital @echetus @ichthys30 District heating is for hot water, people still use hot water during the summer to bathe and do the dishes.

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@Sleek_Otter @DanNeidle He's written extensively about how he'd reform them all here: https://t.co/32urwm8knZ