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I reckon the issue is that it would have worked a decade or two ago (it did with Griffin on QT), but thanks to this digital era where such bigots can freely ignore truth from the "MSM" and supplant it with their own, along with a thriving support network, means that such ideas can't be neutralised in that fashion anymore - those folks will simply continue to think their views are valid anyway.

Yep, it's been shown to work. An unfortunate corollary of this however is that distinctly more unsavoury things can actually happen under the auspicious of his party and he can use the same line to good effect.

It is sad, but sadly not unexpected out in various corners of the world.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cml2kvd2dvno A politician in South Korea is being criticised for making dangerous and unsubstantiated comments after linking a rise in male suicides to the increasingly “dominant” role of women in society. In a report, Seoul City councillor Kim Ki-duck argued women’s increased participation in the workforce over the years had made it harder for men to get jobs and to find women who wanted to marry them. He said the country had recently “begun to change into a female-dominant society” and that this might "partly be responsible for an increase in male suicide attempts”. South Korea has one of the highest suicide rates among the world’s rich countries but also has one of the worst records on gender equality. Mate, if you're going to be in high office it might be a good idea to pick your knuckles up off the ground first.

Fair to say. It's certainly a nascent tech that really needs more time to become truly effective in a lot of ways and there's a really long way to go. But here's hoping that through applications like the ones your workplace uses that the tech matures quickly and they become much more effective, because the end of the journey is certainly worth the trip IMO.

Fair to say, and apologies if the tone of my post was off, I do appreciate you making a point that needed to be made and one that required me to add needed clarity to my own point.

I don't know, I like a good honest epistemological circle jerk about the nature and use of scientific knowledge and the acquisition of it while people desperately need help. Don't you?

Yep, the key part there being the words "than average". Hotter average global temperatures will result in more extreme weather of lots of types. Wetter, drier, hotter, (perhaps) colder. Not meaning to step on toes, climate is a driver of weather, including those monthly variations. Too many people think otherwise and then are able to dismiss the obvious changes as "just weather" - I know your viewpoint is much more nuanced, but I would still offer caution.

If you'll permit my intrigue, may I ask why?

Turns out, yes, it can. To historical UK levels for July, in point of fact.

Broadly true, but it would be very situation dependent. For instance, Danny Ward being a Premiership level goalkeeper.

And likewise when you state an opinion on a public forum, people can and will state their own opinions about it.

Don't let that get in the way of picking the smallest of faults with the incoming administration (with a side order of false equivocation) because ideology.

Spot on. Also:

Pretty much, yeah. Those who want power will hitch themselves to what they think is the easiest way to grasp it. It's possible she isn't raging anti-LGBT herself, but that's of little consequence here IMO because she rather obviously enables and abets those who clearly are, which has no place in a supposedly advanced society.

Compared to the annual tax income, you're right, it isn't much at all. Hence the words "for a start". It must be part of a suite of solutions, as is the case with any problem this big. Whether or not that is part of such a solution, the fact remains that such a solution needs to be found - public services need to improve and long term infrastructure projects need to be funded and completed. That's not just moral duty to grant a society less divided and stratified in terms of quality of life, that's a matter of long term survival of things as they are. (I keep making that last point because it appears to be one some folks either don't know about or deliberately miss because it scares them or they don't care at all about the future.)

Agreed. And not only a just society, but one that actually lasts long enough to mean anything at all.

I see the point. Difficult issue to address, but addressing it to progress is a necessity.

Interesting. There's been reams written about such economics and it's fascinating to see so many viewpoints on it. The way I see it though it just plays into a bigger picture where money buys you the most precious resource of all - time for yourself in luxury. And even the self interested must know that for all their money, without money into certain big infrastructure projects, their own time in the comfort they enjoy is limited.

Yep. But then short term self interest at the expense of the future has always been an easy vote winner. It's hard to take the better pathway, so I see why so many don't.

Nah, why do that? Society has zero effect on people's choices and if you end up in jail it's entirely your own fault and no one else's. Build more, no need for prevention or rehabilitation. .... right?

https://www.sciencealert.com/this-new-map-reveals-the-predicted-future-climate-where-you-live Leicester twinned with Toulouse in the next 60 years. With the additional problem of rather a lot of people wanting to go to places that are still temperate.

Well, for a start, one that perhaps, just perhaps, has a higher band for the highest (let's say seven figure gross) earners. Of course, actually directing that tax income towards where it is needed rather than into already deep pockets involved in public projects is another problem, one that really does need addressing too. NB. It would just be nice to see a massive scale long term public infrastructure project that ends up like the Korean KTX network and not like the British HS2.

I guess it comes down to whether you want a functioning society in the long term, or not. If you do, a robustly functional tax system is essential - I wish people were more inclined to help others and to build a society out of the goodness of their hearts, but historical evidence is rather clear there. Speaking personally, I'd be happy to have a government that actually looks beyond their own voter base and the next five years. I guess we'll see if that's the case here.

Could have just left it at the bolded tbh. Ditto football Twitter/Reddit/whatever other social media platform. So much asinine stupidity generating clicks and revenue.