@docrussjackson We are human computers in that our socialisation and education programs us to think in a certain way - in this case as competitive consumers. We need to reprogram ourselves to be collaborative people who value creativity, nature and the social aspects of our lives.
@DPJHodges For white middle class nobodies (like me) to take the knee is performative b/s. We need to stand up and be counted in our day to day lives, not virtue signal.
@WheelieFUMS@nightingales2_2 Monday - panic that AI and a lack of demand means there will be a lack of work for people to do.
Tuesday - insist support for disabled people must be cut, leading to a reduction in demand and work for people to do.
Cruelty? Distraction? Economic illiteracy?
A mix of all 3?
@peterjukes@FolkHull ยฃ5m = a 'Nige'
ยฃ7.5m = a 'Pedro'
An 'Ange' is any small amount of money.
For example, 'the geezer offered me an Ange, I told him no way - at least a Nige and if really dodgy I would want A Pedro.'
@nightingales2_2@Bleache1rs 'I once went out with Sam Fox'
'NASA hired me to save Apollo 13'
'I wore a wig so I could pretend to be Trevor Brooking commentating on ITVs the big match'
'I burped and a hamster came up'
'A mate solved cold fusion but left the mathematical proof onam a #17 bus'
@bbclaurak@BBCPolitics But she promptly escaped from the Gorbals Stockade to the Dunfermline underground, where if you need help, and you can find her, maybe you can hire, the S Team.
@nightingales2_2@MrMatthewTodd Blair plans to privatise all temperatures above 25C. Under privatisation those temperatures would be lost, mislaid or become simply unaffordable. Bosh. Problem solved.
@Sillyshib E F Schumacher- Small is Beautiful - productivity improvements only benefit society finds other productive work, otherwise it just leads to poverty, slows growth and breaks down society.