me: i'm a bit concerned about this study indicating chatGPT is destroying everyone's critical thinking
chatGPT: you're right to be concerned - and it shows you're working at a much higher level than everyone else. you're probably one of the world's top critical thinkers
me: 🙂
Hello. Here's a thread about income tax and geography that I had to spend a few hours checking just now because I didn't believe it. But I think it's right.
In case it wasn't obvious in my last tweet - the growth gravitates towards London substantially because that's where the government and the subsidies for growth are. England outside of the South East benefits comparatively only from very low tax and that's not a big growth boost.
Sigh…..😞
Another day, another wildly misleading Daily Mail headline.
I mean, it certainly would be headline worthy if police had turned up and accused her of committing a crime by writing innocent FB posts.
But that's not what happened…
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If you want to truly understand Britain, how we got here, and what is going to happen next, you have to listen to @trashfuturepod. There's really no other way to do it. Nobody on earth has been more vindicated than them
Pretty amazing, when you think about it, that Keynes came up with a way to save capitalism from itself and nobody wants to use it because the capitalist system hates it
Why, it’s almost like letting the public realm crumble and collapse over decades so that about one hundred right wing psychopaths could own everything amongst themselves was an obviously disastrous and stupid idea
Makes no difference and we're in a death spiral no matter what, but it is at least funny watching the far-right ascendancy turn into this humiliating Unrequited Dicksucking competition
This was my take way before the election, in the runup to it, on the day after the election and it’s still my view. I notice it has consistently and fully explained what was happening at every point, and nobody is paying me for my opinion on it.
Like, the key change here is that the press have stopped bodily carrying Sir Keir aloft and have mostly stopped shitting on the Tories, so things have reverted to their natural state. And this is what it looks like, this is how much enthusiasm there is for these awful people.
They look like a friendly couple in a Spaghetti western who have secretly been poisoning unsuspecting settlers then selling their bodies to the townsfolk as soup
saudi arabia getting the world cup is kind of inspiring in that every time people complain about fifa being totally venal and corrupt and abetting the most despotic regimes on the planet, they just double down and take an even bigger bribe from someone even worse.