9JollyOtter

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by 9JollyOtter 9mo ago
> 40 RA, my mum used to drive a Vauxhall Carlton They were/are nice cars. I did dream of buying a Lotus Carlton, but unless a few million falls into my lap it will remain a dream :D > I mean it's true and it does work for th
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by 9JollyOtter 9mo ago
> I completely agree with criticism of expansion of government powers in some contexts but my original point was about gaining perspective and avoiding sensationalism, which I argue the article and many comments here fall into. Yet you w
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by 9JollyOtter 9mo ago
> but the median is IMO still the best you can do here, because it ignores outliers completely (on both sides). Using the Median as far as I am concerned is meaningless as the South/South-East skews everything. It is quite obvious a
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by 9JollyOtter 9mo ago
> What’s the point in expressing opinions if you’re going to refuse to put any weight behind them whatsoever? I did a long detailed response in this thread where I spent a lot of time detailing why I believed somebody's assessment
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by 9JollyOtter 9mo ago
It is going to exist pretty much anywhere. Wealth is going to be concentrated in some areas and not others. So comparing the Median income of the entire country is not representative of the whole. e.g. Jobs in London (even remote ones) wil
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by 9JollyOtter 9mo ago
I don't understand how comments like yours fundamentally misunderstand both complaints. Regarding the Rape gangs. The complaint is "People migrated to the country and committed heinous crimes, the local authorities tried to cover
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by 9JollyOtter 9mo ago
It depends where you are in the UK. Almost all the wealth is in the South East of England. Outside of that the country is much poorer. I drive from Manchester to Dorset once a month to visit my parents. There is a clear line where I notice
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by 9JollyOtter 9mo ago
> I don’t understand how it could have caused any improvement Which is exactly why any answer I give you would be unsatisfactory.
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by 9JollyOtter 9mo ago
Unfortunately that mindset exists amongst a worrying number of people.
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by 9JollyOtter 9mo ago
Your best option in your area was a protest vote, but you still believe there are good options. To me that sounds like cognitive dissonance. I don't vote. There are many reasons I don't vote. However the biggest reason I don'
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by 9JollyOtter 9mo ago
> This comment pops up a few times, often from programmers. Unfortunately, because of how messy the term AI now is, the same concerns still apply. Your adoption helps promote the companies making these tools. People see you using it and
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by 9JollyOtter 9mo ago
There is simply no-incentive to. Generally there are many incentives to increase the number of laws, as they can be seen as doing something about a some recent issue. Many of the recent online safety laws (even before OSA) are good examples
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by 9JollyOtter 9mo ago
Any answer I give would be found unsatisfactory so there is little point in bothering. I've already stated my impression of what happened in Parliament leading during that time period, it was obvious that people were being obstructioni
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by 9JollyOtter 9mo ago
It seems when some people don't have an answer they prefer to deflect with a joke.
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by 9JollyOtter 9mo ago
> As a Brit, I find it very hard to believe that the majority of comments in this thread are not either written out of ignorance or are bots. I am a Brit and I object to a lot of the expansion of powers that have happened in Britain duri
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by 9JollyOtter 9mo ago
There are Ethnic groups in England that have been present for several thousand years. Some people clearly mean this and can't articulate it better. Rushi Sunak ancestry is obviously Indian. I don't really care about his ethnicity
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by 9JollyOtter 9mo ago
> It’s very rare these people have any idea how to actually execute their plans. Regarding Cummins, Why exactly? Dominic Cummins is articulate, seems to be quite intelligent and seems to be very fact/data orientated. I've also
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by 9JollyOtter 9mo ago
As the sibling comment said. You are making the assumption that every Reform voter would have held their nose and voted Conservative instead. A lot more people would have stayed home I think. I don't think anyone thought the Conservati
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by 9JollyOtter 9mo ago
Turnout was historically low. Labour didn't really "win", the Conservatives lost. A lot of Conservatives voters didn't really recognise the party. Also not every Reform voter would vote Conservative if Reform didn't
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by 9JollyOtter 9mo ago
> I've viewed and read an interminable number of interviews with Cummings. The statements you have made don't really line up with the interviews I've listened to. The context around the events and what his involvement was
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by 9JollyOtter 9mo ago
> He was of the opinion that the best thing for the UK economy was Brexit, and that the the best team to carry out that out was to be headed by Boris Johnson. Not exactly. I think you need to listen to the interviews. Dominic Cummins ha
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by 9JollyOtter 9mo ago
Most don't want any of the options presented to them. Almost all the parties don't really serve the electorate, so a large number of people are abstaining. I appreciate this in an anecdotal but I've spoken to quite a few peop
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by 9JollyOtter 9mo ago
I don't think Starmer really knows what he is doing one way or another. The Island of Strangers speech out flaked Farage to the right. Dominic Cummings had a bunch of interview appearances online. His experience in office when he was w
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by 9JollyOtter 9mo ago
I don't agree. The British State has been going in this direction ever since Blair's government and probably before that. I don't remember Blair's government being that unpopular.
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by 9JollyOtter 9mo ago
In the UK what you are going to need to do going forward is essentially have an official and a non-official presence online. You are also going to need to use the cockroach strategy (at least tech wise), until this stuff gets unpopular enou