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by an9n 4y ago
I'm worried they might have got their fingers burnt!
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by an9n 4y ago
100% this. If it's really sooo bad, why wouldn't you just leave instead of staying in order to suffer and create mischief? Musk built the company. It's his. It's revolutionary. Go elsewhere if you don't like it. One
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by an9n 4y ago
The right would argue something like it's a trojan horse for spreading socialism more widely, or a means of bashing the government with constant attacks based on exaggerating its problems, scaremongering over potential reform/priv
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by an9n 4y ago
I seem to be in drastic opposition in that I hate complexity, and will do anything to avoid it. I shudder with horror when I look at the teetering stacks all over the place these days.
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by an9n 4y ago
See my comment above - the weaponise term is from a quote that was disavowed by the Labour leader-before-last, but that he certainly seems to have spoken. Here's an article on the topic - from a socialist source: https://www
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by an9n 4y ago
I got this terminology straight from the horse's mouth: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/jan/12/labour-refu... 'Labour has defended the way it is campaigning on the NHS – but once agai
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by an9n 4y ago
Let's hope you make a better fist of it than the UK - the NHS is currently unreformable to any significant degree, due to it being weaponised by the left.
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by an9n 4y ago
> especially when the alternative to reducing our emissions is completely destroyed ecosystems and probably having to deal with extreme droughts every other year. all of this is based on modelling that is open to question.
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by an9n 4y ago
And what happens if you want to work longer? Some kind of lockdown?
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by an9n 4y ago
There's an amusing paradox I've seen many times amongst GIS managers - their complaints about how dreadful OSM data is are pretty much the direct opposite of their enthusiasm to use it!
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by an9n 4y ago
As someone with formal education plus getting on for 20 years in the field I've often wondered whether the software really needs to be so damned hard to use! I like the interface and I think nobody has yet conclusively cracked the prob
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by an9n 4y ago
> We all know that the UK has a massive skills shortage, and so we can't close our borders. Alternatively we could do something to wean our country off its addiction to cheap imported labour, and invest in the skills and pay of the
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by an9n 4y ago
They've since scrapped it.
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by an9n 4y ago
> The UK's current gov is firmly wedded to a delusional image of itself as a major imperial power of vast wealth and influence. Such is its majesty it is for ever in danger of being infiltrated and undermined by unpleasantly indepen
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by an9n 4y ago
> Immigration policy doubly so... Name me a party with a chance of winning a general election in the UK that explicitly commits to lowering immigration substantially as a key policy. There isn't one!
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by an9n 4y ago
I suppose we could do something crazy like, I don't know, moving somewhere cooler?
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by an9n 4y ago
I've noticed people starting to use the term 'socialise' when they mean 'to share': 'And then we'll socialise these information products with stakeholders' instead of 'I'll email some docume
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by an9n 4y ago
> It's an entirely baffling situation One of the theories I've read is that CV is a cover for a shutdown related to incipient WW3 - to further stretch failing supply lines to breaking point and thereby hurt the West. I'm n
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by an9n 4y ago
'next pandemic'...
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by an9n 4y ago
And what is the solution then when the population of the UK is 100 million, Or 200 million, and more still want to come? The government already lie about the genuine population because the numbers are so alarming. There has to be an upper l
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by an9n 5y ago
Isn't it the case that the global temperatures are stubbornly refusing to match the (increasingly bonkers) rhetoric? Perhaps that's the reason for warmists digging their heels in even further, censoring dissent etc.
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by an9n 5y ago
And here it is: 'wealthy nations will need to contribute financial aid to low-income countries, to address inequities in vulnerability to climate change and to accelerate the clean-energy transition in a way that benefits all' In
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by an9n 5y ago
Why do I have the feeling that even if we found a source of limitless clean power tomorrow, activists would not rejoice, but would simply spin up another of their hijacked agenda in the ongoing agitation for global communism sorry I mean Bu
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by an9n 5y ago
We keep hearing this assertion. Where is the evidence?
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by an9n 5y ago
> Good journalism requires context Almost uncanny how that context always leans in a certain direction, almost like all the MSM were owned by the same people.
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by an9n 5y ago
The last thing the US wants is a strong, independent Europe taking care of itself. The only thing worse would be, horror of horrors, a strong independent Europe trading happily with a strong independent Russia, with no scope for the US to i
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by an9n 5y ago
I'd like to know the same. I'm near the point of leaving the industry just out of disgust at where it's going.
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by an9n 5y ago
> the US say (and why would they lie) you're not serious?
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by an9n 5y ago
If the West could swallow it's pride for a while, it could go all out for fracking, reopen coal mines and build enormous gas to fuel plants etc., and buy itself time to go full carbon neutral. But it won't. Why not? Because the ec
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by an9n 5y ago
> rejected by historians which historians? And why should we pay any attention to their consensus?

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