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Finance/M&A in Software/Payments. United Fan.

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I feel like AI has raised the bar for what counts as "quality information". When ChatGPT first released, I believed an absurd amount of what it was telling me. Now I am default skeptical with anything an LLM tells me and place very high value on content that I know is coming from humans.

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@LBC An unfathomably awful human being

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@narindertweets How do you know that it's racism that's causing this?

If there were factors other than racism causing it, wouldn't you want to know so this problem can be fixed?

Or is it that you'd rather just attribute everything to racism because it's convenient for you?

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You listed out Attlee-era policies as evidence there hasn't been left wing in government since. The fact that Labour are currently nationalising rail - one of the left wing policies you noted - was therefore an open goal.

If you want some other left wing policies from the last 50 years, try the expansion in government spending & the welfare state, the introduction of the minimum wage, massive public service investment by Blair & Brown, net zero. There are many others. I see the current government as left wing & much of the politics over the last 50 years as the same. If you disagree, that's fine. Left wing can mean different things to different people. Does it really matter? It's a pointless semantic argument

You appear to be mistaking me for someone who's unanimously pro-privatisation. The privatisation of the water industry in the UK created a monopoly that has clearly been abused. No reasonable person could argue that's a good thing. Does that mean the private sector is never good at providing goods and services? Of course not.

The original tweet identified a series of problems that most people would recognise and presented them as an indictment of "neoliberalism", which I saw as implying the solution was to go further left on everything. A better approach is "what is the best solution for each of these problems" & work from there. In some instances it's probably a mix of solutions from across the political spectrum. But it's not instinctively choosing one side over the other on everything. I think you're the one who has some more to deconstruct

[Mike Solana @micsolana]

almost every city in the country now sits atop a system in which a minority of highly-productive young people are expected to work away their best years around the clock, just to cover rent, while giving away half their income to crazy people, criminals, and bureaucrats.

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@MorrishCharles @daubn27 @LFC_YNTA @Chester_16_11 @David__Osland So you agree nationalisation is a left wing policy. Which Labour did with South Western Railway.

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@CliveRoper @connor_naismith Includes champions league final

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@daubn27 @LFC_YNTA @Chester_16_11 @David__Osland What does left wing mean to you?

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@HarryStebbings @nico_laqua This guy looks absolutely exhausted.

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@TurkTalksFC Pochettino.

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@LFC_YNTA @Chester_16_11 @David__Osland What does left wing mean to you?

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@Chester_16_11 @David__Osland Lol

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I don't disagree on that at all. But it's important to remember that the system today - while privatised - is not a free market. It's regional monopolization. I don't have the solution - maybe you could create competition on price by allowing different providers to run on the same tracks. But I do know the solution is not public ownership.

[Seeking Sigma @allfronts21]

Yes, low skilled mass immigration simultaneously suppresses wages and places pressure on the welfare state. You finally seem to be getting it

[Sai Ishaya @Sai_Ishaya_]

Every day, we're trapped in the paradox of the "Schrödinger’s immigrant", a mythical outsider who exists simultaneously as a lazy welfare dependent & an unstoppable machine taking all the jobs(both skilled & unskilled).

The immigrant remains a highly convenient shape shifting scapegoat designed to explain away ALL complex, systemic domestic failures.
Keeping this paradox alive ensures politicians never have to answer for a decade of chronic underinvestment, flatlining productivity, & broken infrastructure.

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There’s been a very obvious degradation of policing standards in the UK, with more people than ever arrested for social media posts at roughly the same time as charge rates have hit rock bottom. Many crimes (burglary, theft) have been de-facto de-criminalised.

We’ve also just witnessed an horrific injustice with the murder of Henry Nowak, which - along with the grooming gangs scandal - raises serious and alarming questions about how public officials are being taught to perform their jobs.

Why does @mrjamesob seem more interested in creating a caricature of a person who barely exists than trying to get to the bottom of these issues?

Maybe it’s because he’s a professional troll, rather than someone interested in getting to the truth and making society a better place. Just hypothesising.

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@Muncomagic To make it even worse, local authorities are often allocated spots in the home at an artificially low & potentially lossmaking rate. Meaning they raise prices on self-funders to make up the gap.

It's an absolute disgrace.

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@NipseyHoussle This is literally so untrue it hurts my brain

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@realEstateTrent I sometimes think back to times in my life when I felt angry at the world & it 100% led me to act negatively towards others in ways that seem insane to me now, like I was a totally different person. “Going through stuff” can lead to very irrational behaviour