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by cbeach 10mo ago
I don’t understand why these agents lack a “second level” agent that oversees their commands and is able to veto anything dangerous Even models from several years ago would be able to understand whether an “rm -rf ~” made sense in the cont
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by cbeach 10mo ago
It’s mostly the Tories that were responsible for the drafting of the Online Safety Bill, and let’s not forget the downright evil Investigatory Powers Act. Another Tory creation. The OP was correct. The Tories were left wing and authoritaria
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by cbeach 10mo ago
So much to examine in this comment. Firstly "homeland": The last owners of "Palestine" were the British. But if we trace the history of the region further to see who the real indigenous people were, you'll find it w
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by cbeach 10mo ago
It's going to be hard to reason with each other if we just exchange the extreme examples we've seen in propaganda (on both sides). That's why I quoted Hamas themselves. Because that's not Israeli propaganda. It's a
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by cbeach 10mo ago
Some casual unscientific research - a question to my fellow autistic HN contributors: Do you have a "mind's eye" - that is, can you close your eyes, and voluntarily visualise mental images? If you can't, you have a condi
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by cbeach 10mo ago
Another factor the author didn’t mention: Cancel culture. Some of the biggest Scala companies and institutions have been heavily captured by the Left, and they have wreaked puritanical havoc on their political rival contributors, and anyone
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X.com is not a "breeding ground for racism and hate" any more than Reddit or Facebook (I've seen some hair-raising content on all the main platforms). The difference with X.com is that is doesn't systematically censor an
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by cbeach 10mo ago
> At this point, with the tech now available, almost everyone gets rich by doing net zero The likes of Dale Vince (Ecotricity), certainly get rich by doing net zero. Significant levies have been placed on taxpayers and consumers for year
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by cbeach 10mo ago
Seems you've found a leftwing historian who chooses to endorse the violent Islamic conquest of Southern Europe, re-imagining it as a vibrant exchange of cultures, predicated on extreme timeline distortion. The Renaissance is defined as
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> Removing ILR for example? You mean replacing it with renewable five year visas that have reasonable salary thresholds and English language criteria, and which still allow the holder to apply for citizenship? Why is that lunacy? ILR is
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by cbeach 10mo ago
The below are conservative estimates of the money raised by Reform policies: * £10bn+ per year - Adjusting how the Bank of England (BoE) treats reserves — e.g. stopping interest payments to commercial banks that receive money under quantita
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by cbeach 10mo ago
The “Health Ministry” is literally run by Hamas terrorists (Hamas is a proscribed terror organisation), and it fails to distinguish Gazan combatants from Gazan citizens. This fact seems to be lost on The Guardian and other Western leftwing
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by cbeach 11mo ago
The only link between the Renaissance and Islam is this: When the Byzantine Empire fell to the Ottomans, many Greek scholars fled to Italy bringing: • Greek manuscripts • Knowledge of ancient philosophy • Classical Greek language expertise
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by cbeach 11mo ago
The classic populist political policy was the creation of the NHS in 1948. Would you say that was "extremely short shortsighted and a wreck in a long term."?
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by cbeach 11mo ago
Out of curiosity, which of Reform's policies are "lunacy"? Removing the 2 child benefit cap? Increasing NHS spending? Returning to New Labour levels of net immigration, being a country with borders? > That said I will find
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by cbeach 11mo ago
Levels of EU vs non-EU immigration has been a particular subject of interest for the UK before and after Brexit. And note also that the UK and EU share high-quality education systems, Western Judeo-Christian culture and Western-aligned geop
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by cbeach 11mo ago
The media plays a big role in election outcomes. The Murdoch empire used to have an oversized influence, but since Murdoch exited Sky UK, that's been on the wane. The Sun (which helped Labour's Tony Blair win his landslide) is sti
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by cbeach 11mo ago
I wonder if your statement was ironic, as the article you posted does not describe Reform as far-right? From the article: > In March 2024, the BBC called the party far-right but soon retracted its statement and apologised to Reform UK, w
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by cbeach 11mo ago
> libertarian is not what that government will be How can you be so sure? Why do you assume that everything that the Reform chairman, Zia Yusuf (head of policy) is lies? What, from his history, suggests that he is a liar? > catastroph
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Net migration is only falling because of record high numbers of British and European people emigrating, against a backdrop of huge (800K+) levels of gross immigration.
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If it were national governments making laws like this (as opposed to the EU), citizens would be free to move to other European countries that respected their basic civil liberties. The first country that implemented Chat Control would suffe
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In the UK we've had an authoritarian Conservative government for 14 years, followed by an even more authoritarian Labour government, which we'll have until 2029. In 2029 it's likely we'll have a more libertarian governme
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by cbeach 11mo ago
This is a fascinating read, and it sounds plausible that we can achieve hugely more powerful rockets. However, what about the problem of space dust - where encountering a single grain of sand at speed would yield the force of a nuclear deto
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by cbeach 11mo ago
And the consequences? The World's favourite technology is designed by Americans in America by America-headquarted companies. And then the rest of the world buys it and loves it. The UK has ARM. The Netherlands has ASML. But those are B
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by cbeach 11mo ago
I think if you watch the two videos (original vs edited) you'll understand just how egregious this editing was. And it's not the first time the BBC has deliberately misquoted Trump to make him look like he is inciting. There is an
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by cbeach 11mo ago
The Telegraph is okay, but I find GB News publishes the stories that mainstream media chooses to avoid and/or minimise. Without GB News' coverage of the migrant crisis, the UK public would be barely aware that 110,000 undocumented
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by cbeach 11mo ago
Unfortunately it's well known that Wikipedia is asymmetric in its treatment of publications on the left and right of the political spectrum. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideological_bias_on_Wikipedia Co-creator o
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by cbeach 11mo ago
If political tribalism could be summed up with a single HN comment...
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Unreliable according to whom? Those who find GB News stories politically inconvenient maybe?
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The BBC is currently embroiled in an election interference scandal after it doctored a video of the President to fit the BBC's chosen political narrative. And it turns out this was just one of a series of political interventions made b

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