Druidic neo-pagan (maybe), Christian, Quaker, software developer, anarchist, Green, and many other things I am not very good at.
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Last Notes npub1k4jqwfds9x95chsqztpcwths88zhwnfaehv9clehf0jrkla4flzsn7gvpm Schroedingers_Cat Agreed - an instance that is not going beyond "Is it legal" is not really doing their job. npub1k4jqwfds9x95chsqztpcwths88zhwnfaehv9clehf0jrkla4flzsn7gvpm Schroedingers_Cat Why is it that nobody seems to be listening to the fact that TRUMP RAPED CHILDREN. npub1k4jqwfds9x95chsqztpcwths88zhwnfaehv9clehf0jrkla4flzsn7gvpm Schroedingers_Cat No, but I will see if I can find this. npub1k4jqwfds9x95chsqztpcwths88zhwnfaehv9clehf0jrkla4flzsn7gvpm Schroedingers_Cat In fairness, though, it is too long for what I was listening to. The others are short pieces (ok 10 minutes for Barber). Not a whole symphony. npub1k4jqwfds9x95chsqztpcwths88zhwnfaehv9clehf0jrkla4flzsn7gvpm Schroedingers_Cat I mean, I know there are many other claimants. These were the ones I know, as someone who really doesn't know classical music. I will look into this too. npub1k4jqwfds9x95chsqztpcwths88zhwnfaehv9clehf0jrkla4flzsn7gvpm Schroedingers_Cat Most beautiful and poignant piece of classical music: npub1k4jqwfds9x95chsqztpcwths88zhwnfaehv9clehf0jrkla4flzsn7gvpm Schroedingers_Cat When you have Alzheimers, you learn something new every day. npub1k4jqwfds9x95chsqztpcwths88zhwnfaehv9clehf0jrkla4flzsn7gvpm Schroedingers_Cat Ah yeah - sorry. I meant I don't worry specifically about things made in my country thing. I don't really bother where my things come from - I know most are made outside the UK. I don't think - for us - there is a major premium for produced in the UK products as much as there are for some other countries. npub1k4jqwfds9x95chsqztpcwths88zhwnfaehv9clehf0jrkla4flzsn7gvpm Schroedingers_Cat Personally, I don't worry about this, but I get your point. I don't mind "Made in China" things. I do mind "Made very cheaply in China" things. npub1k4jqwfds9x95chsqztpcwths88zhwnfaehv9clehf0jrkla4flzsn7gvpm Schroedingers_Cat "Undeliverable" the excuse of every politician who sees a good idea but doesn't have the political will to implement it. npub1k4jqwfds9x95chsqztpcwths88zhwnfaehv9clehf0jrkla4flzsn7gvpm Schroedingers_Cat "This one clever trick I learned from my Grandpa: npub1k4jqwfds9x95chsqztpcwths88zhwnfaehv9clehf0jrkla4flzsn7gvpm Schroedingers_Cat I love how, in TV dramas, people can open someone elses computer and immediately find the files that they need - the pictures or the videos that are pertinent to whatever has happened. npub1k4jqwfds9x95chsqztpcwths88zhwnfaehv9clehf0jrkla4flzsn7gvpm Schroedingers_Cat If you are not - why not? The idea is brilliant, and Kate is an amazing speaker and enthusiast for sustainable economics. npub1k4jqwfds9x95chsqztpcwths88zhwnfaehv9clehf0jrkla4flzsn7gvpm Schroedingers_Cat Did you use AI to spell the first option??? npub1k4jqwfds9x95chsqztpcwths88zhwnfaehv9clehf0jrkla4flzsn7gvpm Schroedingers_Cat To all exiles from #BlueSky - welcome. This is a place of oddity, peculiarity, and lovely people. npub1k4jqwfds9x95chsqztpcwths88zhwnfaehv9clehf0jrkla4flzsn7gvpm Schroedingers_Cat SUrely the invisible hand of the market will handle this? npub1k4jqwfds9x95chsqztpcwths88zhwnfaehv9clehf0jrkla4flzsn7gvpm Schroedingers_Cat Are they going to build large numbers of affordable housing? No. It will be middle-class housing at middle-class prices, which is not what is needed at all. npub1k4jqwfds9x95chsqztpcwths88zhwnfaehv9clehf0jrkla4flzsn7gvpm Schroedingers_Cat I had hoped that Jeremy could bring his many years of experience as a politician to bear, with the life and vitality of Zarah. To build something for the future. But it is seeming not, sadly. npub1k4jqwfds9x95chsqztpcwths88zhwnfaehv9clehf0jrkla4flzsn7gvpm Schroedingers_Cat Wymondham? There are two places with this name. And they are both pronounced differently. npub1k4jqwfds9x95chsqztpcwths88zhwnfaehv9clehf0jrkla4flzsn7gvpm Schroedingers_Cat A film called "All the Presidents Men" these days would be a very different one, I feel. npub1k4jqwfds9x95chsqztpcwths88zhwnfaehv9clehf0jrkla4flzsn7gvpm Schroedingers_Cat So I have just finished reading this : https://www.amazon.co.uk/Listen-Land-Speak-Journey-beneath/dp/0717192598 npub1k4jqwfds9x95chsqztpcwths88zhwnfaehv9clehf0jrkla4flzsn7gvpm Schroedingers_Cat Just an interesting insight - my son works for a police force (civilian side). His forces (there are three who work together) are suffering from cash problems and are making cuts. npub1k4jqwfds9x95chsqztpcwths88zhwnfaehv9clehf0jrkla4flzsn7gvpm Schroedingers_Cat One of the few books I gave up. npub1k4jqwfds9x95chsqztpcwths88zhwnfaehv9clehf0jrkla4flzsn7gvpm Schroedingers_Cat It is difficult to quantify. And the nature of the books does make a difference. npub1k4jqwfds9x95chsqztpcwths88zhwnfaehv9clehf0jrkla4flzsn7gvpm Schroedingers_Cat It is one of my bugbears that society is so dismissive of worn clothing. We should be able to wear it if we like it. We should be able to wear clothes with holes in if they make us feel good. npub1k4jqwfds9x95chsqztpcwths88zhwnfaehv9clehf0jrkla4flzsn7gvpm Schroedingers_Cat Yes, and I don't specifically disagree with targetting it. It is not about cultural "understanding" - I am not saying it is acceptable because it is culturally based. npub1k4jqwfds9x95chsqztpcwths88zhwnfaehv9clehf0jrkla4flzsn7gvpm Schroedingers_Cat I heard about that this morning, and - while I do think honour killing is terrible and needs to be stopped - it feels very - racist. Unless it will also be applied to "Christian" families who abuse their gay members. Cut them off. npub1k4jqwfds9x95chsqztpcwths88zhwnfaehv9clehf0jrkla4flzsn7gvpm Schroedingers_Cat I think the idea of helping people who have been in social housing for a long time to buy a property is good - and the properly often has to be the one the person has lived in. npub1k4jqwfds9x95chsqztpcwths88zhwnfaehv9clehf0jrkla4flzsn7gvpm Schroedingers_Cat Just watching something on the Lost Gardens of Helligan. npub1k4jqwfds9x95chsqztpcwths88zhwnfaehv9clehf0jrkla4flzsn7gvpm Schroedingers_Cat I grew up in the midlands, the industrial heartlands. My dad was an engineer - skilled manual work. npub1k4jqwfds9x95chsqztpcwths88zhwnfaehv9clehf0jrkla4flzsn7gvpm Schroedingers_Cat Polo shirts are good. These days, I have my look - jeans and rugby shirt or shorts and t-shirt. npub1k4jqwfds9x95chsqztpcwths88zhwnfaehv9clehf0jrkla4flzsn7gvpm Schroedingers_Cat I really don't know on this. I hated wearing uniform at school - but we all had to, so it sort of leveled people. But the cost was quite significant (we were not wealthy, but also, not poor. So we managed it for all 3 of us). npub1k4jqwfds9x95chsqztpcwths88zhwnfaehv9clehf0jrkla4flzsn7gvpm Schroedingers_Cat Be grateful. You probably have encountered them, and they are fucking insane. Basically rampant capitalists who don't want to pay any tax, or support any form of government. npub1k4jqwfds9x95chsqztpcwths88zhwnfaehv9clehf0jrkla4flzsn7gvpm Schroedingers_Cat So - and I get this - those protesting immigrants have legitimate concerns about the way this country is being run. All that you say is legitimate. npub1k4jqwfds9x95chsqztpcwths88zhwnfaehv9clehf0jrkla4flzsn7gvpm Schroedingers_Cat The only thing he considers "first rate" is any media who licks his arse and panders to his crazed ego. npub1k4jqwfds9x95chsqztpcwths88zhwnfaehv9clehf0jrkla4flzsn7gvpm Schroedingers_Cat Watching Unforgivable - a BBC drama from this week. npub1k4jqwfds9x95chsqztpcwths88zhwnfaehv9clehf0jrkla4flzsn7gvpm Schroedingers_Cat I take a different view - that most of the rich have inherited money, or family wealth or at least security. Meaning they can mess up a few times and it is not a big deal. npub1k4jqwfds9x95chsqztpcwths88zhwnfaehv9clehf0jrkla4flzsn7gvpm Schroedingers_Cat I think it can work when you get used to it. And when it is not used as a gimmick, but it becomes natural. npub1k4jqwfds9x95chsqztpcwths88zhwnfaehv9clehf0jrkla4flzsn7gvpm Schroedingers_Cat I think it is difficult to read, but get why it can work. npub1k4jqwfds9x95chsqztpcwths88zhwnfaehv9clehf0jrkla4flzsn7gvpm Schroedingers_Cat But, of course, they totally believe in the importance of family? npub1k4jqwfds9x95chsqztpcwths88zhwnfaehv9clehf0jrkla4flzsn7gvpm Schroedingers_Cat Not a hope. I am a reasonably fast reader and I wouldn't read so much in that time. I would probably get through 200 pages ish in that sort of total time - but I do tend to speed up as I get into a book. npub1k4jqwfds9x95chsqztpcwths88zhwnfaehv9clehf0jrkla4flzsn7gvpm Schroedingers_Cat One thing this Musk/Trump is showing us is how ridiculous the utopia from Atlas Shrugged is. This is how it would actually be - all the entitled fuckwits constantly falling out and arguing and bitching. npub1k4jqwfds9x95chsqztpcwths88zhwnfaehv9clehf0jrkla4flzsn7gvpm Schroedingers_Cat I mean, the first time in this set I have voted (the first time I have known the band/music) and you get it wrong. npub1k4jqwfds9x95chsqztpcwths88zhwnfaehv9clehf0jrkla4flzsn7gvpm Schroedingers_Cat I think the divisions, the stranger-ness that people do see - and you see this played on by Reform especially, but other parties as well - is actually this divide from the establishment. npub1k4jqwfds9x95chsqztpcwths88zhwnfaehv9clehf0jrkla4flzsn7gvpm Schroedingers_Cat I think we are becoming an island ruled by strangers. That the real strangers are those in power, those in charge. npub1k4jqwfds9x95chsqztpcwths88zhwnfaehv9clehf0jrkla4flzsn7gvpm Schroedingers_Cat So they openly acknowledge that his drivel is unpublishable, but still accept than he can stay as President? npub1k4jqwfds9x95chsqztpcwths88zhwnfaehv9clehf0jrkla4flzsn7gvpm Schroedingers_Cat I joined the Greens decades ago - for a lot of reasons, but because they (we) do not focus policies around financial approaches, as Labour and Tories do. npub1k4jqwfds9x95chsqztpcwths88zhwnfaehv9clehf0jrkla4flzsn7gvpm Schroedingers_Cat Thing is, he is weak against other people who are either strong or at least shouty. npub1k4jqwfds9x95chsqztpcwths88zhwnfaehv9clehf0jrkla4flzsn7gvpm Schroedingers_Cat I am not entirely with you - I think the elves are really important parts of the story. npub1k4jqwfds9x95chsqztpcwths88zhwnfaehv9clehf0jrkla4flzsn7gvpm Schroedingers_Cat What strikes me is that, because it is not caused by an industry or market having problems, it is caused by self-inflicted damage to the trade routes, it will not just be a gentle recession, or a mild one - it will be incredibly harsh and deep. npub1k4jqwfds9x95chsqztpcwths88zhwnfaehv9clehf0jrkla4flzsn7gvpm Schroedingers_Cat Prompted by you, of course, pointing out that winning is not the sole aim. npub1k4jqwfds9x95chsqztpcwths88zhwnfaehv9clehf0jrkla4flzsn7gvpm Schroedingers_Cat Doesn't matter if they are not 100% right. No party is. npub1k4jqwfds9x95chsqztpcwths88zhwnfaehv9clehf0jrkla4flzsn7gvpm Schroedingers_Cat I don't sell through Amazon at all - only on Lulu. Which is a pain, but I am not supporting that monster. npub1k4jqwfds9x95chsqztpcwths88zhwnfaehv9clehf0jrkla4flzsn7gvpm Schroedingers_Cat Thank you! Hope you enjoy. npub1k4jqwfds9x95chsqztpcwths88zhwnfaehv9clehf0jrkla4flzsn7gvpm Schroedingers_Cat You clearly need my books (see my pinned toot). Real world magic. Ordinary people. lots of cynicism and humour. npub1k4jqwfds9x95chsqztpcwths88zhwnfaehv9clehf0jrkla4flzsn7gvpm Schroedingers_Cat But were there any zombies? npub1k4jqwfds9x95chsqztpcwths88zhwnfaehv9clehf0jrkla4flzsn7gvpm Schroedingers_Cat I have read stuff that is just poorly written. I would probably just ignore that and move on. npub1k4jqwfds9x95chsqztpcwths88zhwnfaehv9clehf0jrkla4flzsn7gvpm Schroedingers_Cat Oh no, of course politicians are not out of touch: npub1k4jqwfds9x95chsqztpcwths88zhwnfaehv9clehf0jrkla4flzsn7gvpm Schroedingers_Cat Good on Zelensky walking out. But then he knows about dealing with untrustworthy dictators. npub1k4jqwfds9x95chsqztpcwths88zhwnfaehv9clehf0jrkla4flzsn7gvpm Schroedingers_Cat I think it is really improtant that these names are made public. npub1k4jqwfds9x95chsqztpcwths88zhwnfaehv9clehf0jrkla4flzsn7gvpm Schroedingers_Cat I always resisted, but a few years ago, my companies rewards scheme enabled me to get a kindle for nothing, so I did. I love it. npub1k4jqwfds9x95chsqztpcwths88zhwnfaehv9clehf0jrkla4flzsn7gvpm Schroedingers_Cat I am reading about Cognative Dissonance at the moment. From a psychological perspective. npub1k4jqwfds9x95chsqztpcwths88zhwnfaehv9clehf0jrkla4flzsn7gvpm Schroedingers_Cat Aparently, on an android phone, if you tell Gemini to "Fuck right off and take any other fucking AI off my fucking phone you pointelss piece of shit" it doesn't work. npub1k4jqwfds9x95chsqztpcwths88zhwnfaehv9clehf0jrkla4flzsn7gvpm Schroedingers_Cat The point is that it has all of the problems of any other LLM system. npub1k4jqwfds9x95chsqztpcwths88zhwnfaehv9clehf0jrkla4flzsn7gvpm Schroedingers_Cat The terminology is confusing, not least becuase it is often cross-used (including by me). npub1k4jqwfds9x95chsqztpcwths88zhwnfaehv9clehf0jrkla4flzsn7gvpm Schroedingers_Cat In the UK at least - where this discussion started - there is quite enough pressure on the NHS. npub1k4jqwfds9x95chsqztpcwths88zhwnfaehv9clehf0jrkla4flzsn7gvpm Schroedingers_Cat I am not saying it is a problem. I am saying including LLM assessment will not help with reducing clinical costs. In fact, it will do quite the opposite. npub1k4jqwfds9x95chsqztpcwths88zhwnfaehv9clehf0jrkla4flzsn7gvpm Schroedingers_Cat The problem is, an LLM could, say, identify some tumours from x-rays better than a person. npub1k4jqwfds9x95chsqztpcwths88zhwnfaehv9clehf0jrkla4flzsn7gvpm Schroedingers_Cat Interesting - in the UK, it was a fairly common thing for families to do, so for us, it may just be a more traditional family. npub1k4jqwfds9x95chsqztpcwths88zhwnfaehv9clehf0jrkla4flzsn7gvpm Schroedingers_Cat The kind that we come to expect. npub1k4jqwfds9x95chsqztpcwths88zhwnfaehv9clehf0jrkla4flzsn7gvpm Schroedingers_Cat Perfectly. npub1k4jqwfds9x95chsqztpcwths88zhwnfaehv9clehf0jrkla4flzsn7gvpm Schroedingers_Cat It is a tricky one, because for smaller parties, if they can attract one or two larger donations - of the 100K level - it can make a huge difference. npub1k4jqwfds9x95chsqztpcwths88zhwnfaehv9clehf0jrkla4flzsn7gvpm Schroedingers_Cat Strictly, objects are only really classified as UFOs, not identified. npub1k4jqwfds9x95chsqztpcwths88zhwnfaehv9clehf0jrkla4flzsn7gvpm Schroedingers_Cat Was it a c-list celebrity? They seem to do al lth eturning on of lights these days. npub1k4jqwfds9x95chsqztpcwths88zhwnfaehv9clehf0jrkla4flzsn7gvpm Schroedingers_Cat Oh, well, I had better die with my asbestos clothing then. npub1k4jqwfds9x95chsqztpcwths88zhwnfaehv9clehf0jrkla4flzsn7gvpm Schroedingers_Cat We do have velux windows, so I might be OK. npub1k4jqwfds9x95chsqztpcwths88zhwnfaehv9clehf0jrkla4flzsn7gvpm Schroedingers_Cat Hang on, he is to rule for "time, times and half a time". Maybe he has had time. So it might be less. npub1k4jqwfds9x95chsqztpcwths88zhwnfaehv9clehf0jrkla4flzsn7gvpm Schroedingers_Cat We can always hope the next season has to be cut short. npub1k4jqwfds9x95chsqztpcwths88zhwnfaehv9clehf0jrkla4flzsn7gvpm Schroedingers_Cat #AhooDaryaei - the woman who protested in Iran and may have been executed - is a rock star. npub1k4jqwfds9x95chsqztpcwths88zhwnfaehv9clehf0jrkla4flzsn7gvpm Schroedingers_Cat Bat out of Hell by Meatloaf. npub1k4jqwfds9x95chsqztpcwths88zhwnfaehv9clehf0jrkla4flzsn7gvpm Schroedingers_Cat Hancock was a little before my time. And he was always - sad. Given what happened, I think that was showing in his work. npub1k4jqwfds9x95chsqztpcwths88zhwnfaehv9clehf0jrkla4flzsn7gvpm Schroedingers_Cat I should also point out that some of the other mensans, who all have high IQ results, are absolute pricks. I would far rather spend my time with you lot. npub1k4jqwfds9x95chsqztpcwths88zhwnfaehv9clehf0jrkla4flzsn7gvpm Schroedingers_Cat I took one many years ago and it showed I was (and still am) a genius. As I knew. npub1k4jqwfds9x95chsqztpcwths88zhwnfaehv9clehf0jrkla4flzsn7gvpm Schroedingers_Cat This is what I was going to say. They are both expressions of the same hate-filled belief. npub1k4jqwfds9x95chsqztpcwths88zhwnfaehv9clehf0jrkla4flzsn7gvpm Schroedingers_Cat Yes. No private healthcare, no private schools. npub1k4jqwfds9x95chsqztpcwths88zhwnfaehv9clehf0jrkla4flzsn7gvpm Schroedingers_Cat She rocks. If you get a chance to see her, her talks are very visual and really engaging. npub1k4jqwfds9x95chsqztpcwths88zhwnfaehv9clehf0jrkla4flzsn7gvpm Schroedingers_Cat The film (IIRC - it was a long time ago) was the same humour style as the series, but darker, as befitted a film that was never expected to be on TV. npub1k4jqwfds9x95chsqztpcwths88zhwnfaehv9clehf0jrkla4flzsn7gvpm Schroedingers_Cat I think the rest of the troop showed how to deal with him. Just accept him as he is. npub1k4jqwfds9x95chsqztpcwths88zhwnfaehv9clehf0jrkla4flzsn7gvpm Schroedingers_Cat Thing is, from what I recall, Klinger was neither mentally ill or a transvestite from the start. He came to enjoy the dressing up, the whole thing, and so probably was converted to it. npub1k4jqwfds9x95chsqztpcwths88zhwnfaehv9clehf0jrkla4flzsn7gvpm Schroedingers_Cat Agree of course. And yet the political classes are still refusing to accept this. And so cannot fix some of this countries woes because they refuse to see the root problem. npub1k4jqwfds9x95chsqztpcwths88zhwnfaehv9clehf0jrkla4flzsn7gvpm Schroedingers_Cat I think a lot of the "deeper forces" are also tory corruption - at a much deeper level. Not the politcial party - the ruling classes. npub1k4jqwfds9x95chsqztpcwths88zhwnfaehv9clehf0jrkla4flzsn7gvpm Schroedingers_Cat The West have decided that genocide is the better option. npub1k4jqwfds9x95chsqztpcwths88zhwnfaehv9clehf0jrkla4flzsn7gvpm Schroedingers_Cat And so it should (not meant in criticism of you). It is a book about authoritarian government, and it is intended to represent actual government, and is based on Orwells own observations and experience. npub1k4jqwfds9x95chsqztpcwths88zhwnfaehv9clehf0jrkla4flzsn7gvpm Schroedingers_Cat I think it si also significant that these counter demonstrators/antifa/decent people whatever seemed to outnumber the thugs and terrorists by a significant number. npub1k4jqwfds9x95chsqztpcwths88zhwnfaehv9clehf0jrkla4flzsn7gvpm Schroedingers_Cat Also, on the subject (very important) of tea, how do you ask for a black tea with milk in a tea shop with variations? I mean, it isn't white tea, that is different. It is white black tea. Which is a pain. npub1k4jqwfds9x95chsqztpcwths88zhwnfaehv9clehf0jrkla4flzsn7gvpm Schroedingers_Cat Oh don't get onto that one. For many of them, it is the King James Version, which was written by God apparently.
