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I say this with genuine sincerity - I really, really hope you’re right in your cynicism and get to tell us all you told us so. But truthfully, AI scares the living bejesus out of me.

Haha: I can only assume it was dodgy Google AI results before I just checked Wikipedia. Apparently he died about 20 years ago as well, feck me

I had a similar thing with Alan Ball recently too. Could’ve sworn 100% he died about a decade ago, I can even remember the headlines about the youngest of England 66 winning side dying. Only to google him and find he’s very much still alive.

Ok thanks. Then the explanation for the purple category is:

I understand purple after I saw the category but we really need a way to do spoiler tags to be able to discuss it

Elon Musk seems to have a weird fascination with Rupert Lowe so you can imagine everyone in the UK is going to get bashed over the head with pro-Restore Britain stuff on twitter for the next 3 years.

Definitely more feeling Reform are running out of steam

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Seems like everyone failed today though. Was a tough one

I was just listening to latest Rest is Politics podcast and they made a good point - at what point does Starmer need to start telling the public this rift in the world order is something different and the biggest we’ve faced since 1945? And at what point does he need to stop reassuring the British public and actually be honest and say “actually, we should be a little frightened?” and at what point does he need to say this is the age of the biggest radical shifts in thinking about our core philosophy of how we fundamentally want to be governed, or what it fundamentally even means to be a country since 1945 rather than dicking around the edges with tax and immigration policy? I don’t know. It’s an age of grand ambitious foreign policy and fundamental shifts in society like we haven’t seen in 80 years and I don’t know if Starmer is the right man for these times, because it’s so hard to know whether he’s buying himself time or whether he’s even woken up to the seriousness of America’s radical shift towards us yet. Love them or hate them, I can’t have seen big personalities like Churchill, Thatcher or Blair dithering around like this at a time like this.

Seems like everyone’s struggling with the blue and yellow categories today. There’s some brutal red herrings there today.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg36pknpl5o UK Police framed man for murder, new evidence suggests Imagine sitting in prison for 23 years after being framed by the police, jeez

Failed. Was close but just couldn’t quite get that blue category together, was a couple of red herrings in there. Connections Puzzle #981 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟦 🟦🟦🟨🟦 🟦🟨🟨🟨 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟪🟦🟦

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I think there’d be way too much uproar and families broken up for even Boris or Farage to ever dare touch the common travel area and not allow British and Irish people to live in each other countries. Something like 1/3 of people from England, Wales and Scotland have at least one Irish parent or grandparent, and that’s before you even mention the hard-fought peace in Northern Ireland. Apropos the EU, I’ve actually seen a couple of articles of how quite a few British-EU families have ended up moving to Ireland together after they either couldn’t get or couldn’t bare the hassle or months or years long waiting times to get visas to live in each other’s country. Kind of a weird quirk of the whole thing.

Completely agree with you, but couldn’t resist the pedantry of technically 2 tbf, as you can still live in Ireland on a UK passport and Irish passport holders can still live in the UK.

I wouldn’t say we’re isolationists at all. I think bovrik had it right though - some still romanticise too much of the commonwealth and the empire and so see the US as our “baby” - that’s what a lot of the Leave campaign focused on and that’s what Farage still focuses on in the way he romanticises the US even over the UK in many places. But we’re not in that world anymore countries like the US and India have long since stopped caring about us and are actively hostile to us these days.

We hate the Scots, Irish and Welsh too - Londoners and non-Londeners hate each other and constantly complain about each other. Then we united as a country, but we still kept our unique cultures and maintain a friendly rivalry with devolved powers, then most of 1 of those countries got independence - part of modern day France (Brittany) also used to be part of England… Bavarians also hate Prussians and Austrians. Venetians hated those from Piedmont-Sardinia - national borders in Europe have change historically all the time. If you lived to 100 years in Europe at any point over the past 1,000 years, you’re probably in the minority (or Portuguese) if you’re national borders haven’t changed with people you were supposedly previously cynical of. This is what I find weird about our opposition to the EU, given the UK itself is a federation of countries and cultures with devolved governments.

Yes it’s the same groups and colours for everyone. Purple is almost always a word one - they do that type of word one once every couple of weeks or so

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To an extent, but I also think we just don’t know how new technologies affect human brains over multiple decades until it’s often too late. I don’t think many would’ve predicted that this internet which opens up the world to social communication around the world would actually make it much more difficult to be social and make friends - and that itself then affects peoples outlooks and has 1,000 knock on effects on people’s mental health, culture, society, politics etc. Even now - just look how much of the discussion over AI is about how it affects the job market in the next 5 years, it’s not about how it will affect our governance system, the birth rate or justice system or people’s mental health or ability to socialise and make friends in 30 years time and how those things are often all connected.

Partly agree, partly disagree. Having Elon Musk types at the top who want to smash regulations because they have weird corporate libertarian dreams certainly doesn’t help, but unlike all other technology in human history, the point is we have no idea how AI works or what’s going on behind the scenes. Most of the problems with the internet also came from weird unintended consequences of content recommendation algorithms or forums and social sites that were designed to connect us that we had no real way to predict the issues they’d cause years later rather than deliberate bad faith decisions, it will be the same with AI - a lot of it’s biggest threats will come from weird unintended and unknowable consequences of unrelated stuff over bad faith human decisions

'Europe must stand on our own two feet'published at 10:36 10:36 Europe, the UK prime minister says, must stand on our own two feet. He says this can be achieved by putting an end to "petty concerns" and building a more European Nato, underpinned by "deeper links". He says that part of this foundation can be built by showing that "people who look different than each other can live peacefully together". "We are not the Britain of the Brexit years anymore," he says to loud applause. "Because we know that in a dangerous world, we would not take control by turning inward, we would surrender it," he says, adding: "And I won't let that happen."