danny.

Who needs to be humble? And show foresight how? Are you talking about people that moved to Dubai that now might be injured or killed because of events likely out of their control? I'm a bit confused what point you are making here.

Something that bemuses me, people DID like Obama, and I don't think there was much difference between the US then and now. Obama oversees > 3m ICE deportations = fine Trump ICE deportations = racist/nazi/fascist Obama led operations in Libya = fine Trump led operations in Venezuela = racist/nazi/fascist I maintain it's just the face of the country that people have a problem with, not their actions.

Maybe to you, and maybe to a lot of people. But not to many, otherwise they wouldn't have been polling so high for so long. He's a very charismatic and charming man (almost certainly a psychopath) and I think that a lot of people genuinely thought, and still think, that he's some kind of saviour to fix all the country's problems.

Because people are seeing through Reform that it's just another project for Farage to get attention and money.

We are you talking about Reform - you said "The "vote Leave" wasn't about any high minded ideas of "sovereignty", it was about continuing to be a small part of ongoing maniacal American hegemony." Reform didn't exist in 2016. And please don't say "Farage, so all the same" because that is a conflation of a complex situation. Leave/stay wasn't a left/right thing. Farage wanted to leave, but so did Corbyn.

Source for that?

It really wasn’t, you’re projecting as the USA is a fundamental part of your worldview. Many people barely give the USA a thought.

Talking about it is one of the hardest things to do. Also amazing once you start talking about it how many other people are feeling the same way, and often you'd never know. As someone said, this time of year doesn't help either, plus all the valid pressures of life these days, we're definitely not living through an easy period in time.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/02/meta-oversight-board-ai "AI can be dangerous; chatbots advise teens on suicide and may soon be capable of instructing on how to create biological weapons. Yet there is no equivalent to the Federal Drug Administration, testing new models for safety before public release. Unlike in the nuclear industry, companies often don’t have to disclose dangerous breaches or accidents." Insane, but good that high profile people are calling this out now.

You're trying not to laugh that people might be injured or killed by bombs? Wow.

It's a rare talent TBF

Sorry to hear that chap. Impostor syndrome is brutal and way more common than people think, I reckon the majority of people who are any good at what they do feel it at some point. Hope you're talking to people around you as well. Look after yourself.

love this <3

There’s a theme here…

Yea it's great on a windy day - but as you say marginal pricing is a big issue, and we really do need to upgrade the infrastructure, and stop burning ~1.5 billion a year to turn off wind. We could definitely change things in the short term that would help people out on costs though, it's totally unsustainable combined with massive food inflation, rising tax and stagnant wages.

Edit: must not feed the troll.

“Pretty much the only country on earth” is a stretch. I agree that we’re unusual among comparable developed nations though. The US energy market is largely private and cheaper than us (we’ll pretty much everyone is cheaper than us). Can’t agree with the claim that GB Energy “gets around privatised contracts.” It really doesn’t, It’s not re-nationalising anything or replacing existing energy companies. It’s an investment and development company that co-invests with the private sector. It won’t even supply electricity to households. It *might* help with costs long term but it’s not going to bypass our current market structure. Reforming the marginal pricing model would make a much bigger impact and far more quickly.

It’s a fair point but our energy doesn’t have to be as expensive as it is. We’re the most expensive for non-domestic and second for domestic, our government could bring down costs if they wanted to, every other country on the planet has managed it.

And... we're back to tribalism, the liars are graded depending on whose tribe they are from (not directed at you, just a general observation).

They are all liars. All of them.

I don't agree with the US actions here - not a fan of the Islamic Republic of Iran - but it's no business of the USA at all what they do, and they obviously have nefarious motives rather than any kind of benevolence as claimed. However, did everyone saying it's Trump also say the same against the Democrat "military interventions" i.e. Korea, Cuba, Vietnam, Bosnia, Kosovo and Libya? I think the US needs to be called out but I don't remember Obama being called out like Trump is called out. Fully aware I will now be called, again, a Trump/Farage supporter etc. so go for it! But the point stands.

The mental health angle is really interesting, I think the same principal applied with social media too - we invented it for "good" but the it caused massive mental health problems for people. I've had the same chat about a weird "brain-stretching" effect using AI extensively with a few colleagues now, I think that it might be something that we end up studying in the future if it becomes widespread. It's obviously really easy to be super productive now using agents, doing 5-10x the amount of work you could without, but it seems to leave a really weird feeling which I can only describe as a feeling of being not that tired but simultaneously really burnt out with my brain feeling like it's been tugged in 10 directions all day. Which isn't far from the truth. Homo sapiens evolved to do 1-2 tasks at once and a relatively small amount in a day, and then we invented machines and then computers which let us do much more. Now we're working on multiple large projects and dozens of smaller tasks in one day which still takes up brain space and has cognitive cost, which I'm not sure our brains are liking at all.

*Classic USA. He was obviously involved heavily else he’d have released them by now. Everyone knows it but he jut has to kick the ball down the road until everyone gets bored/tired of asking for them to be fully released.

Thanks for the comprehensive reply, that was interesting! In terms of computing, I meant that in the 60s computers were massively larger physically than they are now, more power hungry and CPU speed/cores and memory aren't comparable at all. The Model 75J no doubt was great for its time but the Apple Watch on my wrist is exponentially more powerful.

It's weird how apparently this is so tough when we did it nearly 60 years ago with computers and general tech the level of potatoes.