@zswaff@DKThomp The group were made to have conversations with AI, but not asked to avoid conversations with anyone else. So either these conversations *did* supplant human interactions, or it's the conversations with AI that's inducing these effects rather than any lack of human interaction.
@ChiefDefective@DanNeidle I think you're missing the point. No one said anything about fairness, and you said yourself that many people paid stamp duty before the *announcement*. The issue is the effect that this spectre could have on gumming up the market anticipating a removal.
@EO_Halloran@s8mb Is this an example of an easy, actionable win, though? Lowering the cost of train tickets would be an easy, actionable win because it could be actioned more or less immediately. This seems almost the opposite.
@guy_herbert They've been sent a clear message, and now the government will pour all of its energy and zeal into further hastening the rollout of new, exciting bans on things people enjoy.
@eliatieleos@jessesingal Patel is *also* suing for defamation, as is his right. This is separate to that, a criminal investigation into the "leaks" which is basically unheard in cases where no privileged information is divulged.
@dahontr3@Sam_Dumitriu He was talking about agricultural serf farms, though. Don't you find it odd that this collusion - manifesting in increased unemployment - seems to strongly correlate with increases to the youngest tier of the minimum wage? Are they colluding more today than, say, 15 years ago?
@dahontr3@Sam_Dumitriu I don't think anyone advocates for lower wages, do they? They advocate for a lower *minimum* wage so that those whose labour isn't worth that amount aren't essentially banned from employment.
@charlotteahenry 12 long, relaxing days of rest to break up the hectic schedule of recovering from injuries. Or, in the case of half of our bench, a good opportunity to really crack on with revising for their GCSE mocks.