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by rsynnott 5d ago
> Many people think that the words “Artificial Intelligence” are inaccurate, and very ineloquent, relative to AI, or Artificial Intelligence. Noted eloquence expert Donald Trump, there. > President DONALD J. TRUMP What's with the
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by rsynnott 5d ago
Maybe your tax consultant is also using Claude :)
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by rsynnott 5d ago
> Younger investors are also more likely to trust AI than financial influencers or TV shows I mean, you absolutely should not trust any of those things on financial matters, bloody hell.
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by rsynnott 7d ago
That would be a pretty big deal if found. There's only one known domesticated species of cat.
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by rsynnott 8d ago
Probably Simcity 2000. I think most of them had a debt mechanic, but 2000 was particularly insistent on it.
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by rsynnott 9d ago
> I recall on my first trip here ending up in hospital, being mistaken for an American and shown one price list, only for my insurance company to get on the phone and promptly a new price list appeared and a lot of "We're sorry
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by rsynnott 9d ago
See Putin on Ukraine. Very much the same idea; "country near us having its own foreign policy is an attack on us!!!"
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by rsynnott 9d ago
Schengen isn't necessary for freedom of movement, FWIW
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by rsynnott 9d ago
Well, I mean, realistically in 50 years oil exports presumably won’t really be a thing anyway. Canada is likely going to need to at least somewhat reorient away from resources. Obviously decoupling from the US would take time. But the best
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by rsynnott 9d ago
The EU is quite big; there are seven AWS regions there, each with three AZs.
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by rsynnott 9d ago
> But so far I'm pretty satisfied how Congress and the judiciary are putting reins on his powers. He recently threatened to halt all trade with Europe over Canada's associate EU membership. There's no way he can do that. C
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by rsynnott 9d ago
See “The Good Place”.
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by rsynnott 9d ago
Have _any_ image generation models advanced beyond cosmic horror food? I don't think I've ever seen AI-generated food images that don't look severely off-putting. We're fairly attuned to food that looks _wrong_.
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by rsynnott 9d ago
> Canada is too intertwined with the US to truly divorce the US or even shift significant trade to Europe. So in 1960, 70% of Ireland's exports went to the UK. By 2000, it was about 25%. It's now about 8%. It's _possible_
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by rsynnott 9d ago
The Council of Europe is strictly speaking not an EU thing at all, though all EU countries are required to be members of the Council of Europe, and, confusingly, they share a flag. The UK is still a member of the Council of Europe, for inst
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by rsynnott 9d ago
> The only bit the EU is rowing back is that they mentioned during BRExit that there would be no more custom deals so this simply a case of the realpolitik winning out. This isn't _really_ what they said. In practice, if the UK want
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by rsynnott 9d ago
> Half of the right wing influencers on X is going bananas because when the US was "offering" Canada to join them, they said a firm "NO" but for the EU they are opening the door. I mean, it's a very, very differe
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by rsynnott 9d ago
The trouble is, Pandora's box has been opened. It turns out that the president of the US can act like a crazy post-Soviet-style dictator, and that the mechanisms which are supposed to prevent that are simply not fit for purpose. Even i
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by rsynnott 9d ago
For skilled immigration, this is highly unlikely to be the case.
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by rsynnott 9d ago
> Just to be clear on this - Australia is primarily interested in methods of reducing trade barriers, not any sort of political union. So, at a certain point, that gets fuzzy. The EU and Australia already have a free trade agreement whic
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by rsynnott 9d ago
It's, ah, not that simple. So for instance, on speech, see things like https://www.texastribune.org/2023/11/20/texas-ken-paxton-elo... . In the US, some states are politically... out there (Ken Paxton th
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by rsynnott 9d ago
> Or Britain and Spain today. Those are all socialist societies by their own definitions. ... Er, no, Britain is not a socialist society by its own definitions, or anyone else's (unless you want to stretch the term so far that it en
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by rsynnott 10d ago
I mean, if pegged against Sterling, they'd be about where they are now; Scotland has no meaningful control over Sterling currently.
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by rsynnott 10d ago
I think that’s a non-issue, then, as the requirement is only four working weeks.
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by rsynnott 10d ago
Traditionally (in the modern pejorative sense), it means "things the speaker doesn't like", in much the same sense as "common sense" means "the speaker's opinions".
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by rsynnott 10d ago
Also, well, women in major non-romantic roles in the 1960s! I'm struggling to think of another major TV example of that from the time period, honestly.
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by rsynnott 10d ago
It's provisionally in force, though (fairly standard for EU trade agreements, which take _forever_ to fully ratify).
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by rsynnott 10d ago
Which countries are these? The UK used to have a derogation which allowed them to do this, and Malta has some weird thing, but otherwise I wasn't aware of any exceptions?
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by rsynnott 10d ago
Germany got a whole new constitution which was fairly explicitly designed to prevent that from happening again. The trouble for the US is that it is now very clear that the US president can just act like a crazy dictator, and that the mecha
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by rsynnott 10d ago
> because they’d be without a currency in the interim period From independence 1922 to 1979 (when we joined the EMS) Ireland just used a currency pegged to Sterling. An independent Scotland would presumably use a newly-created currency p

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