Callum

Techy dingus who spends way too much money on toys and boardgames.

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@xxxxxavi3r @MAFU1985 @BelRedDevils The rest of us call it corruption but whatever.

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@Melodymornings @RobertJenrick Yeah this is the key point, the UK parliament functions based on convention. The convention is pretty clear after the last decade of Tory shenanigans.

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@JasonBrookes8 @Number10cat @RobertJenrick Like or it not, our democratic process just isn't structured in a way that the public directly choose the PM. I mean we can't even do anything in the event that our actual elected representative decides to defect to a different political party.

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@JasonBrookes8 @Number10cat @RobertJenrick The net result of which would be essentially making the PM untouchable. If that had been the case here do you think there would have been the pressure to force Starmer out? Or would the cabinet have left him to it in the face of abysmal favourability?

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@SueKirk74170877 @PS_is_Back Should she have been rolling around on the floor pissed out of her skull?

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@VladimirPanick @Plingplonghed @MrsGolby @GMB Are you talking about student loans? They came in under the tories. The Blair government introduced tuition fees on university education.

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@DeathlyAcorn @Save_AmericaUS @EdKrassen https://t.co/vWwoHrNrm5

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@JamesHarme89861 @stephenleah3 @implausibleblog It wasn't "buying British" we imported an Italian brand... The £ dropped which made the converted price much cheaper for EU customers than buying from a local retailer. The brand responded by increasing the UK pricing to protect their domestic market. UK customers now pay more.

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@JamesHarme89861 @stephenleah3 @implausibleblog It also wasn't a tariff. There was no additional tax applied to the imports.

It was a market adjustment, the supplier told us (and every other UK retailer) our prices needed to go up to bring them inline with the € price or we would have a purchasing block put on our account.

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@JamesHarme89861 @stephenleah3 @implausibleblog Weird how when your currency takes a massive hit other countries can afford to buy more of your stuff...

It's literally the reason our supplier gave for making UK market pricing corrections.

Still, you asked for 1 negative outcome, I gave you one and now you're deflecting.

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@JamesHarme89861 @stephenleah3 @implausibleblog Do you really need to me explain to you how a weakened currency results in more expensive imports and the impact that has on businesses that import goods for sale in the UK market?

The currency index has never recovered to pre-2016 levels https://t.co/E72nJqScI9

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@JamesHarme89861 @stephenleah3 @implausibleblog Oh if you can't spot it on your chart... It's this vertical line

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@JamesHarme89861 @stephenleah3 @implausibleblog Specifically this one. You know, the one that happened the moment the referendum results were confirmed.

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@JamesHarme89861 @stephenleah3 @implausibleblog Obviously we could choose to ignore the new RRP but doing so would have meant that 1. we'd make no profit because the cost prices also increased and 2. the supplier threatened to put a block on our account preventing any further restocking.

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@JamesHarme89861 @stephenleah3 @implausibleblog Within 2 weeks of the referendum our EU suppliers put the UK RRP up by 25% because the collapse of the £ effectively made our exports too appealing and upset the EU market.

The end result was no difference for those in the EU but substantially more expensive goods for the UK.

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@FeldsparElodie @paullewismoney Except people will still gamble. The demand will still exist and the customers will just use one of their competitors instead. Those other shops will become busier and need more staff... 🤷

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@Art10Joylne @TheRealWakozi @brooksleefnclub @AntiVector @IsThisA3DModel In my specific example, yes. I've never had it offer me anything useful.

Although based on my processor usage since the last update I'm fairly sure at least some of the analysis is being done locally before they send my work back to their server to train their dickhead AI tool.

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@TheRealWakozi @Art10Joylne @brooksleefnclub @AntiVector @IsThisA3DModel What do you mean by exponential growth? Growth of what? It's hilarious you think LLMs are only 5 years old. My first mobile phone had predictive text...

Unless there's some major technical breakthrough we'll eventually run out of water to cool data centres. So, that's 1 limit.