think the issue is people find it hard to view the economy as a dynamic machine with tendencies or counter-tendencies (cybernetics is useful here) technological unemployment in one sector has the impact of raising the pool of unemployed labour sector-wide, thereby reducing the drive for automation

The show was doing something interesting in its middle seasons but it this season is turning into conformation that it's stuck. The show's premise is basically "Rick can solve any problem except an interpersonal one" but they've run out of interpersonal problems and don't want to push it forward

I, for one, am thankful for getting so many uses out of this.

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the brits are screaming wonderwall in the azteca. god is dead

Arteta, bless this low block and give England the gas to beat this demon

something something where does English power lie

being a trans British socialist is fun because I am of course a big believer in the NHS State Religion, I will not tolerate any compromise on it. But also if the NHS is an murderous organisation that I'm working around at every turn to live a life worth living

girl with a corruption kink: omg FIFA did what? 🫦

But is Jefferson wearing a period accurate Miku binder.

It's not just that he didn't do these things, it's that on most of them he actively resisted it or, in many cases, has worsened them. The 2027 and 2028 budgets are apocalyptic, his defence plan is unfunded, immigration and race relations are worse than ever, he suspended MPs over child poverty!

well thankfully Starmer hasn't overseen massive planned cuts to the FCDO, right, right chat

I mean, firstly, it's 15%, not 25%, and secondly, how many of that 15% were actually plausible SNP voters given it is quite an extreme position, even amongst Christians!

Lisa Nandy clearing her desk in hope of a new job and discovering a weird wired basket with INTRAY written on it. What's this she thinks and starts to read the papers inside it...

Such a waste to do Lunch with the FT and not try to match Gavin Ewart

Getting my attachment style absolutely cooked here bsky.app/profile/tali...

That’s so true Morgan. We should find out who gave him the job and hold them accountable!

This is going to be a trainwreck. r/UKpolitics has been infiltrated by fash for over a decade. I remember that subreddit being flooded with UKIPpers in 2015.

Someone in his team has not done even the cursory amount of research needed to discover that choosing this particular subreddit is like doing an AMA on X

Oh wow – I just realised that North West Bylines have asked *this person* to write an article about Pride for them.

Goes without saying, this is also not the same thing! People meeting gay people became more positive, that is not the same as seeing a picture of a trans person, the research actually shows the exact same thing for trans people, because, and this may shock Helen, they're people.

i beg you all to stop speaking of zack polanski, a grown man, like he's your son

Andy Burnham failing does not make Keir Starmer a success Say it again Andy Burnham failing does not make Keir Starmer a success

witnessing the birth of a new all timer post is such a beautiful thing

Duck You Sucker (1971) opening with a Mao quote in a film where James Coburn plays a 1913 IRA Explosives expert during the Mexican Revolution. 1968 really impacted everyone I guess, even apolitical Sergio

guys if you want high productivity factories they need automation if you want high employment factories you need to move down the value chain

it's funny because people wanting high-productivity manufacturing and high employment via manufacturing are two very different orthogonal goals!

Don't let yourself get attached to any politician you are not willing to walk out on in 30 seconds flat if you feel the bad politics around the corner

Day three of briefing increasingly mental things in an attempt to force Burnham to retain me. Deeply unserious country.

Sack her, bin her policies, eject her into the outer darkness. The worst case of Home Office brain I’ve ever seen

The idea is to introduce something a bit like student loan payments by refugees, fixed at £10k, + to make it a hurdle for permanent status in the UK to be granted. (The term "migrants" is used, not refugees, though this is about people whose asylum claim for refugee protection is deemed valid

why am I supposed to be excited about a “reindustrialised Britain”? I like working in services!

beatings will continue until morale improves

one thing i wish well-meaning people would stop doing is trying to steelman UKgov immigration policy, which has consistently been /very clearly/ geared towards expelling as many people as possible regardless of the merits for the last twenty years

These are not "new safe routes" for people to seek asylum as Labour is claiming. They are reworkings of existing routes in a manner designed to exclude as many people as possible and put the onus of protection on individuals and community groups instead of the state which is required to provide it

Like idk I'm sorry I just can't sympathise with or even tolerate this argument when the vulgar way it registers in people's heads is "stop funding the army, that's why the NHS sucks"

That's the dumbest rhetorical question there is in the Year of Our Lord 2026, when something something Russia's war on Ukraine record low defense spending etc etc etc

we can't always find money for wars which is why a fifth of Ukraine is still occupied by Russia and the defence secretary just quit his job

Zack, the defence minister just resigned because they wouldn't fund the military

Can I just add, and I'm exasperated at this stage, I don't know how Dan is able to keep his composure IF IT'S CAPPED, THEN IT'S NOT A SAFE ROUTE

Watching When Harry Met Sally... (1989) Two desperately lonely people walking and talking in a park might describe like half of my friendships And watching movies together over the phone describes the other half. Watching this film is an act of self harm

The biggest crime in British Politics is having a working memory That's why Burnham is going to be the next PM

you can't go around remembering things from the recent past, that's not fair

A lot of discussion of Burnham bringing back Purnell discussing the potential risks of Flint Capital's clients (very fair!) But not enough of the fact he seems likely to bring back Josh Simons who nuked his own career by trying to shop a journalist to MI5

Thinking about watching this in Dec 2019 and admitting that yeah Keir is a good speaker because this lecture (Big CW) is really good. So sure I guess it makes sense that when it comes to shorter form stuff he would struggle because this is a long form, rehearsed thing and its a different skill

And so the Starmer era ends as it started, constrained by tax pledges and forced into a compromise that pleases no-one.

At one point Perry talks about tradwives and dismisses them as an "online phenomenon", without realising that her entire worldview is the result of being too online. This in particular is a view so batshit you could only have arrived at it by forgetting what childhood/adolescence is actually like

Whole conversation really turns me into a clichéd Marxist. Literally zero materialism throughout, talking about: the sexual revolution, contraception, women entering the labour market, MeToo etc. Not a solitary mention of domestic violence. It's not a word I use often, but it's just so bourgeois