2026-04-28T00:56:25Z https://yabu.me Token Sane Person https://yabu.me/npub1qqzpvqdujsqud97ujdgux8jvx2jktua6tdfz9gs07e8e5xfqhwpsw74kpw https://mastodon.me.uk/system/accounts/avatars/110/119/576/402/736/812/original/db37cb6d93e5a242.jpg https://mastodon.me.uk/system/accounts/avatars/110/119/576/402/736/812/original/db37cb6d93e5a242.jpg https://yabu.me/nevent1qqswdk8yyunq4mw6tnxxa9cur773y7f8mp4jxzhle5kqcrcwua3q8qqzyqqqg9sphj2qr35hmjf4rsc7fse22e0nhfd4yg4zplmylxseyzacx8vxqvk In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsq4zyrs4uzycugg5jzh07s5rlfnfpgql27p9zzcwn8twqzgq0hg3gar0d6y'>nevent1q…0d6y</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>For more spooky, see the start of #Connections by #JamesBurke. He stands on top of the WTC and talks about a power cut where Scandinavian Flight 911 was at risk of hitting a building. <br/><br/><video controls width="100%" class="max-h-[90vh] bg-neutral-300 dark:bg-zinc-700"><source src="https://archive.org/details/ConnectionsByJamesBurke/Connections/Season+1/Connections+S01E01+-+The+Trigger+Effect.mp4"></video> 2026-03-15T18:00:31Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs9tlhnnkrju7zvj0l8xp8xkmxdj4azhfvuh9tcsv6upu8hz9ynqyszyqqqg9sphj2qr35hmjf4rsc7fse22e0nhfd4yg4zplmylxseyzacxtjqmv3 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqspjemmem23lf4u7cgwa2j54kdjsfdc6x90xta666kek936zyfkjyq3ja9v5'>nevent1q…a9v5</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I long ago concluded that #Trump is not a Russian *asset*, in the sense of taking instructions from #Russia or feeding them intel. Rather, #Putin supported Trump&#39;s election because he believed that President Trump would weaken and divide #America while Russia just sat back and watched. And Putin was right. 2026-03-07T09:33:30Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsg4vtss0su6spqyvj4hx4crnm3yzpse05q9drdh72n8h0hqtwuesszyqqqg9sphj2qr35hmjf4rsc7fse22e0nhfd4yg4zplmylxseyzacx3p4a8d In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqswc446xg2k4e877fhy4ranvp0780gq5tdn8z4ak770tag5lpgu6dsjt6ux3'>nevent1q…6ux3</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>In America I once saw a sign next to a freeway saying &#34;POLICE PATROLS DRIVE CAREFULLY&#34;. 2026-02-07T22:13:07Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsv2ftwa7ye2ra0n2y5agcdjk8l4r7xpykreqx3zgmam8frrctl9sqzyqqqg9sphj2qr35hmjf4rsc7fse22e0nhfd4yg4zplmylxseyzacxs02emj In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs8ps7j4p2mps29wnl8h3pttrwussqma7dncqjqfnr3en2ranwa84q6sjj7z'>nevent1q…jj7z</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Here is the graphic from the #economist article, showing seats currently held by Labour and the most likely challenger in each.<br/> <img src="https://mastodon.me.uk/system/media_attachments/files/115/996/073/489/521/153/original/48cffeec7e0ddef2.png"> <br/> 2026-02-01T15:33:39Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsts6hsxddlegjjtnv55kpggx2uxec8mpa4nvqx9mklcxfaj6f3haqzyqqqg9sphj2qr35hmjf4rsc7fse22e0nhfd4yg4zplmylxseyzacxeplevl In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsy3fp4hm23jhzra67wgc60ef6xzzxcxwrzd65a77r5lg9n36j4ddgw78cx3'>nevent1q…8cx3</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Gold is meant to be a safe haven because it holds a steady real world value regardless of inflation, currency fluctuations or whatever. But when it suddenly doubles or trebles in value it looks less like a safe stable asset and more like a volatile and speculative asset. It&#39;s gone shooting up, now it could just as rapidly come tumbling down. 2026-01-31T20:39:48Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsre4rm2xj0xtv3kg7n95zts4xj8srhry7l5g0th0y234fvl80crqczyqqqg9sphj2qr35hmjf4rsc7fse22e0nhfd4yg4zplmylxseyzacx2n0udc In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsys08w7sdfjmqc5c836v4tye6w5356ml4d74st7rd75purejxc0msftq74q'>nevent1q…q74q</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I read a piece some time ago saying that the second US civil war won&#39;t be armies and set-piece battles, it will be more like the Troubles in Northern Ireland, and the Irish independence fight before that: death squads at midnight, car bombs, kneecapping. Things are developing right along that trajectory at the moment. It&#39;s going to get worse before it gets better. Sorry. 2026-01-17T20:07:29Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsqsf0a9ypfakdfcjpkp6apqx80354tw6t4kqfagr72una904f2ehczyqqqg9sphj2qr35hmjf4rsc7fse22e0nhfd4yg4zplmylxseyzacxhjld5n In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsfz94ytx3djhd2gfer8p0eavm4r6d40z5xnnmjdkxrr545ducwawsanv2zw'>nevent1q…v2zw</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Looking through the lists of symptoms and issues, and trying to see it through a 19th century mindset, I&#39;ve a nasty feeling that as such children would merely be labelled &#34;wicked&#34;, and the recommended treatment would be &#34;more beatings&#34;. As an adult they would be left to fend for themselves, and would likely have a string of arrests for petty offences interspersed with time in the Workhouse. 2026-01-11T10:22:39Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsqfrc78xeh8pdxlv9lelpezq6cscfk89z4anrkewelrjglskfmg8szyqqqg9sphj2qr35hmjf4rsc7fse22e0nhfd4yg4zplmylxseyzacxd7jas8 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsq2kudwu4v224jkvdwv9e5rsewh49nqwh9933gvpdl766aur8w3nqfdayjw'>nevent1q…ayjw</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>How exactly does &#34;good speech&#34; prevent CSAM from harming people? 2026-01-09T20:36:59Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqst6teqqqgmdzxr5ee8pj99crw7hn7etjthfc58q9spcxchf9y8nggzyqqqg9sphj2qr35hmjf4rsc7fse22e0nhfd4yg4zplmylxseyzacxphmsjj In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs2r0hnv7cmhekrzcaw8vsnmj7h4jzs2n252a6lsufecvzrnfqepjcf0dkuv'>nevent1q…dkuv</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>And ABBA. 2025-12-25T08:22:23Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsf7y5xtzj5p7x8a0c3yhs4nntza0psjpt59npl3ku2mgadr6z0fvczyqqqg9sphj2qr35hmjf4rsc7fse22e0nhfd4yg4zplmylxseyzacxzs3u0v In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs9m3c0xrwg5t3d4jvzsq6mw7m38l5xk00guaxz6ek0fg3pyhyejssnwwt7u'>nevent1q…wt7u</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>RE: <a href="https://zirk.us/@ChrisMayLA6/115761689670613212">https://zirk.us/@ChrisMayLA6/115761689670613212</a><br/><br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub12pw99cs5a6j6r56yafxt355j8h38hhw6fh3zwunhj99m3gv3nfds7zzvxn" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Emeritus Prof Christopher May</span> (<span class="italic">npub12pw…zvxn</span>)</a></span> AKA the Principal Agent Problem (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal%E2%80%93agent_problem">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal%E2%80%93agent_problem</a>).<br/><br/>I&#39;m beginning to think that this is *the* fundamental problem of political science. Any institution set up to manage society must be run by people acting as agents for the rest of us, and will be subverted to their benefit.<br/><br/> (I know I&#39;m mansplaining to an actual expert here, but maybe others will read it too)<br/>nostr:note1thrs7vxu3ghzmtyc9qp4kaahz0lgdv773e6v94nv7j3zzfwfn9pq07msmd<br/> 2025-12-22T19:22:19Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs9myje3zfady9un4e8su202pk5cn554ja5wejtwcswtq5yk42fm2szyqqqg9sphj2qr35hmjf4rsc7fse22e0nhfd4yg4zplmylxseyzacxrdy9e4 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqspz6letqfxyze0tlgxzjdsgtm3ffkja2z8jnsvtgaufgcx87gdv9qurvh27'>nevent1q…vh27</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I&#39;ve come to the conclusion that it is merely a fiction that firms exist to make their shareholders rich.<br/><br/>&#34;The purpose of a system is what it does&#34; (Stafford Beer). The people who decide what a firm does are its directors. Ergo, the purpose of a firm is to make its *directors* rich.<br/><br/>This is a special case of a more general problem. Any economic system requires a class of skilled resource allocators. So, how do you stop them allocating the resources to themselves? 2025-12-21T22:01:49Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsxjuk8pkw293taxvyrpw92qvgt8723mt8xxd22h6sylt2cuc955rqzyqqqg9sphj2qr35hmjf4rsc7fse22e0nhfd4yg4zplmylxseyzacxxhyk08 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsgvgjrgxgnnxwwjrpa9yc8x0ztzdr8p7elh202wrne9nlqsw8uvlsh5lurt'>nevent1q…lurt</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Can one co-op hire another to do stuff? Presumably. So what stops a wealthy co-op from exploiting unskilled labour by hiring small co-ops to do low skilled work at exploitative rates?<br/><br/>Can you be a sole trader (i.e., a co-op of one)? What stops you being hired on a zero hours contract?<br/><br/>How is retirement saving handled? Your retirement fund can&#39;t invest in shares. Bonds only?<br/><br/>What happens when a co-op goes bust? It&#39;s members lose both job and shares.<br/><br/>/end 2025-12-21T20:14:41Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsgvgjrgxgnnxwwjrpa9yc8x0ztzdr8p7elh202wrne9nlqsw8uvlszyqqqg9sphj2qr35hmjf4rsc7fse22e0nhfd4yg4zplmylxseyzacx5yvj8q In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsy3rj8vcqhlmnjc8sskntkjlapxwxg9etafycge93qscu6ngmtx9ctetdtq'>nevent1q…tdtq</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>The issue is not so much how a co-op can work on an individual entity, it&#39;s how the economy works over the long term when that is the only form.<br/><br/>How does a new enterprise get start up capital? You can&#39;t get a loan if you have no collateral and a high chance of going bust. The capitalist solution is to sell shares, but a co-op can&#39;t do that. <br/><br/>/1 2025-12-21T20:08:19Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsz775jff77et4a9k4sfulru5wddh4phy5rz9nythvxs46r00ga8aqzyqqqg9sphj2qr35hmjf4rsc7fse22e0nhfd4yg4zplmylxseyzacx2nn0kg In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsqn92wdz98jxuzjfv4kmqs0rc6p8mr5y8ntghwydxqr94rmjmgs3q58rc0g'>nevent1q…rc0g</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Indeed I have. But it&#39;s a special case due to its environment. 2025-12-21T18:00:00Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsvg7slhyvr2dzxlv5rxr6z9kg8q3jvmnpqdg6pl9c0vnfq32zq9fgzyqqqg9sphj2qr35hmjf4rsc7fse22e0nhfd4yg4zplmylxseyzacxgk9e8h In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs0368tmhyu8e5y0kk85988k7yqgh4680c9u2v5s0culnus68n4r9qgl386g'>nevent1q…386g</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I&#39;ve been looking for an alternative to capitalism for years. I&#39;ve seen a lot of handwaving but nothing I would consider a workable blueprint. The nearest I&#39;ve seen is the replacement of companies with worker co-ops, but too many crucial questions about the management of investment and the economic relations between these co-ops remain unanswered.<br/><br/>The economy is a safety-critical system. &#34;Move fast and break things&#34; is not an acceptable policy. 2025-12-21T16:37:12Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsgwafukvuannuy5vsfztl002me54yxeyvzvpar4qft3khj3vuft4szyqqqg9sphj2qr35hmjf4rsc7fse22e0nhfd4yg4zplmylxseyzacx20cpgq In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsdqcaufmy2cfwdudeqzdhzthtsc9ugrw7nsysny578v83eq5czetc9e46cv'>nevent1q…46cv</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>What happens if the employer complains that Dedwood Jnr isn&#39;t doing the work, or not properly, or whatever? Can they be sacked? Do they then have benefits withdrawn? Or do they carry on &#34;working&#34; and being &#34;paid&#34; regardless? Either you hand an employer power to stop benefits or you make this a &#34;we pretend to work and they pretend to pay us&#34; situation. Neither is good.<br/><br/>Also, what about jobs where you need your own transport to get there? You can&#39;t buy &amp; run a car on benefits. 2025-12-07T19:40:06Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsw4kqah3fqrnspd48a3nlv7dxzvnxj5p28a0jvqsj4k79awpvqpaszyqqqg9sphj2qr35hmjf4rsc7fse22e0nhfd4yg4zplmylxseyzacxepnc7c In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsf8l0fmw27jnucfrfeatsf9zztlhkv5e4ndxs6zundvxa6nhuj6ng02h2ng'>nevent1q…h2ng</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>You could try asking here: <a href="https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/">https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/</a> They specialise in answering questions like this. 2025-11-22T09:05:58Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs0zv0enxg0pktwjx0nlyhrntwr7lqrnl93cnfsmdsr2q0qy245tpczyqqqg9sphj2qr35hmjf4rsc7fse22e0nhfd4yg4zplmylxseyzacxepxpve In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsf8l0fmw27jnucfrfeatsf9zztlhkv5e4ndxs6zundvxa6nhuj6ng02h2ng'>nevent1q…h2ng</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>It&#39;s not a new idea. My mum had a set of these, inherited from her mum I think. You boil the food and then put it in the jar while still hot. The high temperature ensures that the contents are sterile, so they keep indefinitely just like canned food. But unlike cans the jars are reusable, although you might need to replace the seals every decade or so.<br/><br/>Unfortunately doing this is a big faff in a time when we have convenience food on every supermarket shelf.<br/> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilner_jar">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilner_jar</a> 2025-11-22T09:01:13Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs9n6xsv3e97tz5xpyrqv9vae2ax4hyzvsuzsdapls84qqs668a5rczyqqqg9sphj2qr35hmjf4rsc7fse22e0nhfd4yg4zplmylxseyzacx0rchqf #FungiFriday<br/> <img src="https://mastodon.me.uk/system/media_attachments/files/115/588/519/885/316/900/original/02913514d4ef2c43.jpg"> <br/> 2025-11-21T16:00:53Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqszd92jlsuemlxw3hh9c3fdt3e3le7q6ldafp3czm7upg54ht5v3lgzyqqqg9sphj2qr35hmjf4rsc7fse22e0nhfd4yg4zplmylxseyzacxfng4h9 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsfjn36tfu09z7lc23488c2ylw4nswfxcxea8634v3u9055nwptsxcyy2aup'>nevent1q…2aup</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>The education system is a procrustean bed and always has been. And I speak as one who didn&#39;t fit. Things are improving, but slowly.<br/><br/>At the root of the problem, I believe, is the unsettled question of what schools are for. Are they for mass-producing literate workers graded by quality? Or inspiring the next generation of artists and scientists? Or teaching pupils how to live a fulfilling life?<br/><br/>These goals conflict. Until we decide we won&#39;t know how to educate. 2025-11-09T12:55:47Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqswe3y5nn3vjlcwvq9knhv7z82wyq63rzvugnva72f5mymy3z6lv5qzyqqqg9sphj2qr35hmjf4rsc7fse22e0nhfd4yg4zplmylxseyzacxlvephu In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqspedkka6jdpsupwfv5n4zm55qflz3lllrg4x6wyhfu7fgq0lufd9g3nxjg9'>nevent1q…xjg9</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>This is one of those &#34;slowly, then all at once&#34; bankruptcy-like things. China has set itself a strategic goal of replacing the dollar because being the world reserve currency has significant benefits. Eventually it will reach a tipping point and USA will wonder how it happened so suddenly.<br/><br/>Personally I&#39;d prefer the Euro, but Europe is constitutionally incapable of setting any strategic goals. 2025-10-24T07:40:05Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsr2fukyrqh6knna7qyrw9k8n7al03fhgt58drsemnpcmvrqmjdy5szyqqqg9sphj2qr35hmjf4rsc7fse22e0nhfd4yg4zplmylxseyzacxmen8an In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsyl55c2uskn5yymh4gl209g9aemvvkvstvgcl6aux9mvratlkaessd7k6he'>nevent1q…k6he</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>The top bar on that graph is the top 1%. So either that&#39;s wrong or we&#39;re talking about a tiny fraction of the top 1%. 2025-10-17T16:40:54Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs0h4xnpqr082yx7km3ky0ze6uwndwcj23krzmygxpga6v0wsqpljszyqqqg9sphj2qr35hmjf4rsc7fse22e0nhfd4yg4zplmylxseyzacxy2egne In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsv8dgds34lm3d77et6rfmqhgd90ckt3dpstkun99x9g0tcjkcscfg9anyzp'>nevent1q…nyzp</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>So this means inequality is decreasing. Right? Isn&#39;t that good? 2025-10-17T06:59:07Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsqd2gvuhvuvt88h4uzdr6cv278vw3v7ypey7rz2eykucwmdv2dpqszyqqqg9sphj2qr35hmjf4rsc7fse22e0nhfd4yg4zplmylxseyzacx4ha7yl In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsyq3uyxvrwyf5ztt3a8s0r7wffayt5ahllycf5zkhpmxkgu7k09sguyw5hf'>nevent1q…w5hf</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>My reading is, it&#39;s not a global calculation about the cost effectiveness of the vaccine, it&#39;s the mechanism of top-down budgeting. Somewhere these vaccines are a line item in a spreadsheet. It&#39;s total is a line item in a higher level sheet, and so on up to the Treasury. Those totals are set top-down, as are the objectives for the spend. Tree hierarchies can&#39;t represent cross cutting effects, so stuff like this always happens. 2025-10-13T10:46:29Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqstdghfwxtqrtasqmy6qay06sp9vy8lzncxmt9w49dzz2gx8fprptqzyqqqg9sphj2qr35hmjf4rsc7fse22e0nhfd4yg4zplmylxseyzacxtyny9e In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsw5s25tsvu9e7lra86e9gwk9g36a9wn2spkvkfrr8lxq2f9tl56qq5vaheg'>nevent1q…aheg</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>It&#39;s going to be even messier than that. Some big players are financing their server farms by mortgaging their Nvidia chips. #Nvidia irself is part of this financing scheme. So it&#39;s all looking very frothy. #AI #generativeAI <a href="https://fortune.com/2025/09/28/nvidia-openai-circular-financing-ai-bubble/">https://fortune.com/2025/09/28/nvidia-openai-circular-financing-ai-bubble/</a> 2025-10-02T07:00:26Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsw7rvkwl4upu9aemxr9er9u7mcc65s98hxhertrz8jlsww3ql5wdgzyqqqg9sphj2qr35hmjf4rsc7fse22e0nhfd4yg4zplmylxseyzacxppfm46 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsx4tffeffnkdkq3ecg2z9mufxaznh4dpl5wwwvtgxmkkdxpe8h8dc2d33rf'>nevent1q…33rf</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>The only way this makes sense is as a way to designate any opposition as &#34;Antifa&#34; as a pretext for arrests, seizures etc.<br/><br/>OTOH this is #Trump, so it doesn&#39;t have to make sense. 2025-09-23T17:30:52Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs9jmyfx89a89cs437xrf2ylgvug94rd9rsnl9clc0jne83q5a2hdszyqqqg9sphj2qr35hmjf4rsc7fse22e0nhfd4yg4zplmylxseyzacx9xntx0 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsdu9tgepr7teyuqcaf65ngsp973drfyfvpsqaqr5nuh990wtmayygfupc5g'>nevent1q…pc5g</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Good question. I put the odds at 50:50. A change of HS is a good opportunity to drop an increasingly untenable policy, but Starmer will still take some damage from doing so, so he may be tempted to tell the new HS to hang on. (Plus, for all we know, the secret intel they&#39;ve been using as justification might actually be real) 2025-09-14T18:14:00Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs2umcxw039uvnwyk5u9hu07854s7xd3g2m2tfcvda8y0rsm048gzszyqqqg9sphj2qr35hmjf4rsc7fse22e0nhfd4yg4zplmylxseyzacxhsa434 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqswd69e57aa9ta6xf375n3n867h2s2cq6mgtjlw2eqvyw6mvqyf68ge39eth'>nevent1q…9eth</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Also, on a slightly different angle, this is political as well. The Home Secretary decided to proscribe PA. Either she enforces that or she loses her job. So I strongly suspect that the police didn&#39;t get to set their own priorities on this. 2025-09-14T16:49:52Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs245vkkju3kf8vhj6veqls0xc04cqph92kap0pehmq2dc2z9xa66czyqqqg9sphj2qr35hmjf4rsc7fse22e0nhfd4yg4zplmylxseyzacxsyyc4k In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsq7hn6z4tc0me00a4whvdg64wf56srwldup9sfuulveh9hr89s3uqdntxkd'>nevent1q…txkd</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>The police mandate is to arrest people who break the law and collect evidence for their prosecution. How they do that is largely up to them (subject to PACE). I agree that the proscription of PA stinks, but that&#39;s not a police decision.<br/><br/>I disagree that the PA protesters didn&#39;t want to be arrested. Its a classic strategy, straight out of Ghandi&#39;s playbook. The police said they would be arrested if they held up those signs. Nobody was surprised. 2025-09-14T14:11:15Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsw5tzuxcfvcvh3hv3jjeqje6dgr4ygxvqjwvl99qnp26fs2qya3uqzyqqqg9sphj2qr35hmjf4rsc7fse22e0nhfd4yg4zplmylxseyzacxywt3u2 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsfjhe4lf7s8px7ezrpyq7g3fphfc7nn092f77j4e2ygef29rx03fq66d04u'>nevent1q…d04u</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I&#39;m assuming you mean the #PalestineAction protests. The police objective is to arrest lawbreakers with minimum risk and cost. Photographing the PA protesters for later arrest would cost a lot more. Unlike the fascists the PA protesters *wanted* to be arrested to demonstrate the absurdity of the law. This is best considered as a scripted performance performed for the media by the police and protesters, both acting to send their chosen messages. 2025-09-14T13:09:20Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsx4fkswdgzgyjzntlusrv54l7en9dna9562jxp50nlahyslqwzunszyqqqg9sphj2qr35hmjf4rsc7fse22e0nhfd4yg4zplmylxseyzacx4935uw In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsvf5wm06as0fhsrmjhv6aqgt70k99fg0ajspda3v0e7gma2xj2gsg3msfdh'>nevent1q…sfdh</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>AIUI, the police filmed it all &amp; will be identifying and arresting perps over the coming days, like they did in the riots last year. They don&#39;t wade into an angry crowd waving handcuffs because that would be suicidally stupid. 2025-09-14T08:06:02Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs2wzp8fa8rt4huw5ltreeprne4n8du99h3qt0ls7h6u9j696j5dkgzyqqqg9sphj2qr35hmjf4rsc7fse22e0nhfd4yg4zplmylxseyzacxpvn9qu Picking up on an essay a while ago by <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1fdrpydz4n2dpgpy5xhsa6rjg8ytggn82mt0addw6sf93272nhhnqsjlvhs" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Cory Doctorow</span> (<span class="italic">npub1fdr…lvhs</span>)</a></span> about how the Left can peel Republican voters away from #Trump, #TheEconomist has an article about the five clusters in the #Republican vote. Of these two, the Moderates and the Economic Populists, look like they might be sympathetic to arguments about Economic injustice.<br/><br/>The article is behind a pay wall, but here are a couple of graphics from it.<br/> <img src="https://mastodon.me.uk/system/media_attachments/files/115/164/326/550/042/394/original/51c656fbfca99721.jpg"> <br/> <img src="https://mastodon.me.uk/system/media_attachments/files/115/164/352/039/157/677/original/1a9c5f600b2fed64.jpg"> <br/> 2025-09-07T18:11:36Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs8yvy66ffnlfxp7ngdw8z6wkpxxth9qewxc636mcsgxqh94sxt63qzyqqqg9sphj2qr35hmjf4rsc7fse22e0nhfd4yg4zplmylxseyzacxxyh222 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsplyfnmvm6mxmlt4y3fkya876ay5ctjkv6wg7cjjyd5fjkyt4a02s77z69v'>nevent1q…z69v</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I think a lot of people are scared of legal action. I&#39;ve had quite a few people tell me urban legends of things that might get me sued, including clearing snow off the pavement outside my house and providing first aid at an accident. To people with no experience of the law it feels like those bears that will jump out and eat you as soon as you step in a line in AA Milne&#39;s poem. 2025-09-03T17:13:04Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs07nlr47gsen5f2fhfpv8pqs0523fq0y3mjm6usfml496vm0hk7tgzyqqqg9sphj2qr35hmjf4rsc7fse22e0nhfd4yg4zplmylxseyzacxs4jz9u In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqszmtse2x3erad63qym5gw884a6e52d69fqhpsm9kxpjwrypr06t7celatr2'>nevent1q…atr2</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>A more likely scenario, I fear, is to let Reform position itself as the &#34;moderate&#34; anti-immigration party, thereby encouraging more people to vote for them. <br/><a href="https://beyondphilosophy.com/revealed-dont-like-extremes/">https://beyondphilosophy.com/revealed-dont-like-extremes/</a> 2025-08-30T09:21:11Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsyy8slychzs736uvnm4nrwc0pzcwhkacyaecz2r3hqtyuvejpwykqzyqqqg9sphj2qr35hmjf4rsc7fse22e0nhfd4yg4zplmylxseyzacx54n532 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs0pm4qkrp5ert54my9nj8p430q2cwf22c8mkgz5usm4ndc096ruyquegzcc'>nevent1q…gzcc</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Actually you&#39;re right. I&#39;m not sure what I&#39;m trying to achieve, other than scratching an itch. Never mind. 2025-08-14T07:04:39Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsrzw97uc6zg9tfa7d2g3g4xwy252su7qpzttd0qj4mrtu6g7x0pkszyqqqg9sphj2qr35hmjf4rsc7fse22e0nhfd4yg4zplmylxseyzacxpxveen In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqswsllry2sgahl0ap7d94eyycsaax8fmum9j4jsr5d5mt7m2q3erusp4vgrc'>nevent1q…vgrc</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Electronics accounts for ~1% of gold production. As for jewellery, why do people still make jewellery out of gold instead of shiny yellow plastic that would look just as nice but be a lot cheaper? Answer: because jewellery is both a store of value and a way to display wealth. People make jewellery from gold because gold is valuable, not the other way around. So tell me again, why is gold valuable? 2025-08-14T06:56:04Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs0vtmkkgx7h4rms7yycylqs3s742u5algqxfyvcaxuvz09qqcclzszyqqqg9sphj2qr35hmjf4rsc7fse22e0nhfd4yg4zplmylxseyzacxapy358 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsz4l63lv5dypzx3akfq03wqw9yv4fyd26pzxqhtvqfmwvv9hthzgsn4ev29'>nevent1q…ev29</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>So, just like gold, then. 2025-08-14T06:20:12Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsf7rwl9qahjkw9c6s0hpvzmlahpjzukqfzlm6jghr75fxzxt7k67gzyqqqg9sphj2qr35hmjf4rsc7fse22e0nhfd4yg4zplmylxseyzacxudvlm2 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs2vywnkzsr4dqwg2kngycmzwu0u683a4jn4lnxhqv933hx602k43qwf3nj7'>nevent1q…3nj7</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Every so often I find myself arguing with a creationist, and the human spine is exhibit #1 against the Argument From Design. Exhibit #2 is the human reproductive system, #3 is the roundabout route taken by the nerves for the voicebox <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recurrent_laryngeal_nerve">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recurrent_laryngeal_nerve</a>, and #4 is the fact that our retinas have the blood vessels in front, not behind. 2025-08-12T18:17:17Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs028s4wsphwvtk96l7z2u4kxd52t8xxppv454wxxpsxjqxkj38k8gzyqqqg9sphj2qr35hmjf4rsc7fse22e0nhfd4yg4zplmylxseyzacxl23ef5 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsqy6plmpkwve2zfwsk87wx9w5k5eygl6vms4xjwg3zk6npgdamujqadzkr5'>nevent1q…zkr5</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>If it costs more then it&#39;s not easier. 2025-08-11T08:30:06Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsy8pdhlemn5r6gxc8u096t5gujaep3t09quavxlyjl2ws3gfj9mzgzyqqqg9sphj2qr35hmjf4rsc7fse22e0nhfd4yg4zplmylxseyzacxtgknx7 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs89aqn7wuflc30z85zsvymuw3ghr0yhrgv3cczfmr26ewxh62l0kga6rqja'>nevent1q…rqja</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Meanwhile the Government is aware of this and is trying to fix it. But getting planning permission is a problem. Landowners along any proposed route create NIMBY opposition groups and file objections and lawsuits to block the new line. <br/><br/>Kier Starmer&#39;s one Big Idea is to streamline this, but its tricky. Nobody set out to make new infrastructure impossible: every planning rule was introduced for a good reason and has its defenders. <br/><br/><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ceqq9vzdeqzo">https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ceqq9vzdeqzo</a> 2025-08-11T06:34:27Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsqj0pnj9dgh2562ha8z2mfjg9etpzw2uf9dtfp7mghv0csp2ejvygzyqqqg9sphj2qr35hmjf4rsc7fse22e0nhfd4yg4zplmylxseyzacxgt0mju In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsdq7jx3462eslehr3n4kwlj7ef8a73m0hgsqyrj924tngrm6zzs3gu9euaz'>nevent1q…euaz</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>The other side of the problem is, which language shoud you learn?<br/><br/>I&#39;m currently learning German, but after &gt; 2 years I still can&#39;t understand anything but the simplest German texts. Should I go anywhere other than Germany, Austria or Switzerland, even that will be worthless. Meanwhile the choice of 2nd language for any non-anglophone is obvious: English.<br/><br/>(And I suspect most Germans will still start speaking English to me anyway, because it&#39;s less painful) 2025-08-03T17:51:17Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs0axlfwlau2unay6up4fvrx404l2ktqquqekttw6nmjelp8vdhwpszyqqqg9sphj2qr35hmjf4rsc7fse22e0nhfd4yg4zplmylxseyzacxyrch2k In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsgf9nwtjcx8qawntkrgqtjals0hatmts0ygxxtjzny5a7hzpzljrcltujmv'>nevent1q…ujmv</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Like a lot of government tech law, it might have done some good if it had been passed a decade previously. 2025-08-03T06:51:57Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsrgkxcnde0342hl2c7hfj6lpqvdchmv2tet0cz0lef8j9qzv460dszyqqqg9sphj2qr35hmjf4rsc7fse22e0nhfd4yg4zplmylxseyzacxdcdt0l In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqstmyfyd6yzscqvr3u7p5wlcwm3sm76uqv38jnw9cf0j5uvunm6xggzrymmx'>nevent1q…ymmx</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I suggest that we call this mysterious fluid the &#34;luminiferous aether&#34; :-) 2025-07-16T18:34:56Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsgell8tqarzwzsluehrg8drlsvccte6e06d4qtmv0mf7aswfpsn6szyqqqg9sphj2qr35hmjf4rsc7fse22e0nhfd4yg4zplmylxseyzacx9p9whm In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqszhfq2hejc5qangxvukdsmr3dwsm3asp8rqnp7egnuwtcuuyu3dwsgpee9m'>nevent1q…ee9m</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>The problem is, nobody can agree on which is which. 2025-06-30T06:29:08Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqst0mltu4lj746dkvl0uf42duq78pw7l3euqkrd5jg9lc0m59uf52qzyqqqg9sphj2qr35hmjf4rsc7fse22e0nhfd4yg4zplmylxseyzacxu3zzua In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsw7dzqdmyunmqzgc6lkk24nrgtcnrzfp5ny36p38y9x5u8j2cq75c5k6xvv'>nevent1q…6xvv</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Now that&#39;s a cat who KNOWS where the light shines from. 2025-06-18T06:35:09Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsttpdq0ffymzw58fr69mkc0vq7yv4mkl6lhxaustp9v7vkw4unkkczyqqqg9sphj2qr35hmjf4rsc7fse22e0nhfd4yg4zplmylxseyzacx0hhzxk In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsffgs74gzalk5ezru2fv9damfpf2pwrnp7eu6vt0r5a66gzpl5xcspes2xz'>nevent1q…s2xz</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Absolutely. Here in the #UK in the 70s and 80s the far-right National Front hijacked the Union Jack, so nobody else wanted to display it for fear of being thought an NF supporter. Thankfully those days are gone. Don&#39;t let the MAGAts do the same to your flag. 2025-06-14T19:59:00Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsgyrd000mc3w3g2y4xx8k3ctfum4237hfcwfc7cu09l35tns37muszyqqqg9sphj2qr35hmjf4rsc7fse22e0nhfd4yg4zplmylxseyzacxwytr9j In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqstghjvdhpgwf587wmyzcpxy5nvnnqf85w8sn6mckwa4ez98zmp3ucgt36u6'>nevent1q…36u6</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>So what&#39;s his take on imaginary and complex numbers?<br/><br/>Leopold Kronecker once wrote that &#34;God made the integers; all else is the work of man.&#34; 2025-05-04T18:09:04Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs2zszmdle3ry2t4fvjlzkns3dw35srnvwe0u27lmyyxzmzjxtyweszyqqqg9sphj2qr35hmjf4rsc7fse22e0nhfd4yg4zplmylxseyzacx653w6y In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqswagaz9e3wsmal09jhuskqw8kgpfxn25a7pq3c07tfa7ryg0ugcdgwjgzve'>nevent1q…gzve</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Possible answer, though I think this is US law: <a href="https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/33946/do-legal-tender-laws-prevent-no-cash-restaurants">https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/33946/do-legal-tender-laws-prevent-no-cash-restaurants</a><br/><br/>I guess you would be in breach of contract, so they could sue you for all the extra costs involved in taking a few pounds to a bank, manually processing the VAT etc. Which would probably exceed the cost of the meal.<br/><br/>Also, legal tender rules don&#39;t require them to make change. 2025-03-16T09:09:40Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs90ht3y2epf8jqm04hhn2rjnyqy43ku66g9m9dwwhmsdx7vpjsc4czyqqqg9sphj2qr35hmjf4rsc7fse22e0nhfd4yg4zplmylxseyzacxvdg0ap In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsz69l9as2mzn73e40qfcakjxnew29y9qsawgf8kylcgy9m9pv2hysh2p0lj'>nevent1q…p0lj</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Sorry, that was a bit terse. What I mean is, of course #Trump is finding #Russia easy to deal with: he&#39;s giving Putin everything he wants. 2025-03-07T19:05:06Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsf5gsehqu8jaunq3e4v94vfauagaxaxultvfej58mpcy7lvuk45qszyqqqg9sphj2qr35hmjf4rsc7fse22e0nhfd4yg4zplmylxseyzacx9ejy4p In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsvetmgk68h76c2nrqzuqqx0qljc6jlk7fp0txyvl5k63eurr9hd2s945yve'>nevent1q…5yve</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Anybody is easy to deal with, if you just give them everything they want. 2025-03-07T18:47:34Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsw2zh2mpfx2yxu6k408nzpg72yajp0ssgvxlrgstw5vly0avxd97gzyqqqg9sphj2qr35hmjf4rsc7fse22e0nhfd4yg4zplmylxseyzacxv2eq6e In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs8zrrcxslnrk240s4v5d5w266tyvlqvllvnaf08nfgtle5pl5fd8cxq6q4y'>nevent1q…6q4y</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>OTOH managers of interest bearing accounts make money off the difference between the interest they earn and pay. TANSTAAFL. 2025-02-21T07:52:33Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs97wczfc9cva50we9z8a2c8jny83kwar9twqm02ju8gg58vclmsdczyqqqg9sphj2qr35hmjf4rsc7fse22e0nhfd4yg4zplmylxseyzacxqxxw6t In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqszd3td7zhp0dkaxe2pwz44nf5k6sv9q3uanvpl53023cp9t3q7seczchpuh'>nevent1q…hpuh</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Big Procurement is an unsolved problem because 1) it attracts grift because of the huge sums, &amp; 2) its done by people who are mostly unaffected by the outcome (Agency Problem). So huge procedural defences against grift are needed. These are slow &amp; costly, and the only suppliers who can win contracts are specialised to navigate them rather than on actually delivering the contracts. During COVID all this was too slow, so grift was implicitly accepted as the cost of speed. 2025-02-10T09:35:29Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsykjs44809nphwg5gmdg03lp3vsk5ax20nza9rl4zz74gxlnve6zqzyqqqg9sphj2qr35hmjf4rsc7fse22e0nhfd4yg4zplmylxseyzacxjakfzw In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsyje5aqmmvcm7vmamqupje9fzcg36a6tgs9emhgqjxaeuh3wgg00qr7em4k'>nevent1q…em4k</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>What are Reason and the WSJ doing in the &#34;center&#34; column? 2025-02-08T08:44:14Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs8fjwt0qrdea3g6fc9g9tzkm6gedg0ah4chf7mfp45wchv2tk0rtszyqqqg9sphj2qr35hmjf4rsc7fse22e0nhfd4yg4zplmylxseyzacx4lscuw In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsgmzm0hagecwm5wj6qdn22hn9l57ymtv2lmhdep95x26ajutsuaqsa07f47'>nevent1q…7f47</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>How does anyone &#34;belong&#34; to a sex at conception? The only interpretation I can give to this is chromosome gender. But then what about people with a faulty SRY gene who are XY but are born female?<br/><br/>The &#34;only 2 sexes&#34; idea just sets up two procrustean beds: you have to fit in one or the other, and anything that doesn&#39;t fit gets cut off. 2025-01-21T18:53:58Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsr73m89hkvlud6qtdm2cht74mc9tf0mrp4a3gz7p2z4eh9xa08w2czyqqqg9sphj2qr35hmjf4rsc7fse22e0nhfd4yg4zplmylxseyzacxrxh27e In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqszu7n8txnjul4q5wau2cw7ja53q4ndlwnapkcwxa6nvcu29dfpuhq3wrerj'>nevent1q…rerj</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I think that works for trad media: I read The Guardian and The Economist, and watch BBC and Sky News. But I don&#39;t see how it can work with social media. 2025-01-19T08:48:17Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs2wxwxm9u8yeqpg0ftk7dkw8s3c4e76adzvd42uxpwumky8xy6smszyqqqg9sphj2qr35hmjf4rsc7fse22e0nhfd4yg4zplmylxseyzacxrkh5rg In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsttt57m8zepj4tffkmkjfv7ana22xw6urtugg7hr759glxqutw4xsc3mg3q'>nevent1q…mg3q</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Whenever I see a big national number I divide it by 25 million, which is roughly the number of households. So that&#39;s about £24 per household over 5 years, so £5 per year. Chump change. 2025-01-12T09:54:12Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsv5atqa2zmqw9yrndwy4eqae2dpkt97ywhaw0uenjxve7swk0ctsqzyqqqg9sphj2qr35hmjf4rsc7fse22e0nhfd4yg4zplmylxseyzacx4z575w In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs2ecvutk45hm6pzq3eg5yx88k936cusgny4frufjwnr207z984eaceutfnt'>nevent1q…tfnt</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Some Heinlein would be good, but not others. His work runs from boys-own adventures like &#34;Have Spacesuit Will Travel&#34; and &#34;Starman Jones&#34; to some very weird stuff, like Time Enough For Love and Stranger in a Strange Land. Rule of thumb: avoid any of his books more than half an inch thick for now.<br/><br/>They are of course products of their time. Expect to explain why he shows Venus as habitable. Some have unacceptable racial themes, such as Farnham&#39;s Freehold. 2024-12-07T14:53:44Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsgy8g434fmtk6jwk8uk365g7fv5w2r7p7d07anvlrqlugunx5hvlczyqqqg9sphj2qr35hmjf4rsc7fse22e0nhfd4yg4zplmylxseyzacxq7gwkz In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsr07z2x03x0aurtem9s4urp7ygg4gfea92chlvy24z9vg5rd0dsqse235xx'>nevent1q…35xx</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I don&#39;t know about &#34;becoming&#34;. They&#39;ve been a feature of air travel for decades and the mechanism has always been very obvious. This is from 2010, and as the first comment says, it&#39;s real title is &#34;The Ryanair Song&#34;. It went viral at the time precisely because everyone knew who and what it was lampooning. Note how the singers get emotionally attached to their &#34;flights for 50p&#34; in the early verses.<br/><br/><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAg0lUYHHFc">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAg0lUYHHFc</a> 2024-12-01T11:00:10Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsyhy5lyvnctarshvuqjfgld6etee2m4r37r504rtgr0456j2dhq4qzyqqqg9sphj2qr35hmjf4rsc7fse22e0nhfd4yg4zplmylxseyzacxrxv5mx In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqspvahsfu002vj804txhsj6xtn43ttkedndk68l727cj0f925885scnj7u7g'>nevent1q…7u7g</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>However another name for taking on risk is &#34;gambling&#34;. Risk is difficult to measure in aggregate. House fires are uncorrelated, but flooding is not. Economic risks are often correlated in obscure ways.<br/><br/>On top of this are agency problems. Gambling with other people&#39;s money exposes the principal to the loss, but the gambler only to the upside. Hence there are perverse motives to hide risk, cross fingers and hope.<br/>/end 2024-11-30T11:26:44Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqspvahsfu002vj804txhsj6xtn43ttkedndk68l727cj0f925885sczyqqqg9sphj2qr35hmjf4rsc7fse22e0nhfd4yg4zplmylxseyzacxv7qmre In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsvjlzwpkua5x4lv73qwn9m5llumf04wnvvxth7qdwawqfdmdzae3g32nh76'>nevent1q…nh76</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>One way of looking at derivatives and the like is to think of it as trading risk. If you are exposed to a risk, you can pay someone to take it off your hands. Pooled risk often shrinks; a 1% chance of disaster, across hundreds of instances, becomes a predictable 1% loss. So that&#39;s a good thing.<br/>/1 2024-11-30T11:20:36Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsfre03kkel0u0lqcuugdjuzwlzfxw44lms6n4nqegc35t4e708pwqzyqqqg9sphj2qr35hmjf4rsc7fse22e0nhfd4yg4zplmylxseyzacxqu37dg #silentsunday #london #photography #urbanphotography <br/><br/>I win!<br/> <img src="https://mastodon.me.uk/system/media_attachments/files/113/539/493/705/101/842/original/72f6e6d0dd930834.jpg"> <br/> 2024-11-24T19:11:22Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs8v8a4c0lp8jf2u2th3aplj0q4gf4fvht7y56gnm5t3ydxjlkrh2szyqqqg9sphj2qr35hmjf4rsc7fse22e0nhfd4yg4zplmylxseyzacx6kghcd In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsp95mzj665py4h9a6ke5hau5wjfe9t0rhf045dfjvskajqdp982xca227zu'>nevent1q…27zu</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>So if your land, equipment and livestock are worth £2M, why not sell it and live off the interest? 3% of £2M is £60k, which is a pretty comfy wage for doing nothing instead of slogging your guts out 12 hours a day doing dirty dangerous work in all weathers. <br/><br/>The nearest I&#39;ve heard to an answer is &#34;tradition&#34;, leaving the farm to the next generation, who are presumably supposed to be grateful for the opportunity to have the same lifestyle 2024-11-17T14:45:16Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqswzkluxh0g7sa3q20n9gd6p2txa4zte5p3pz3wzcmqumzkvpgr7sqzyqqqg9sphj2qr35hmjf4rsc7fse22e0nhfd4yg4zplmylxseyzacxcz75uj In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs29qt465j9jz8y8l0x5ya9q49c0222yudxg5eupumcn596cr0lq2qw78hj7'>nevent1q…8hj7</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>If I had to make one suggestion, it would be for the NHS to focus on defining interoperable standards for health care information, and then let different parts of the NHS get their products from wherever. That way you could have niche products for different departments or specialisms from different vendors, but be confident that they can all talk to one another. If one product doesn&#39;t work it can be swapped out. Interface definitions are firewalls for change.<br/>/end 2024-10-26T16:10:46Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs29qt465j9jz8y8l0x5ya9q49c0222yudxg5eupumcn596cr0lq2qzyqqqg9sphj2qr35hmjf4rsc7fse22e0nhfd4yg4zplmylxseyzacxzjh5cg In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsy27ygp9r275xwezpasg3k9xhcuznlkjzmdml7tkm6dlr73cvms4qgadaqz'>nevent1q…daqz</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Merely bringing the whole thing in-house doesn&#39;t fix the problem either. You just wind up with a huge department soaking up money and not producing any visible value while being hated by everyone else. Have you ever seen a corp IT dept praised by its end users? I haven&#39;t.<br/>/4 2024-10-26T16:08:16Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsy27ygp9r275xwezpasg3k9xhcuznlkjzmdml7tkm6dlr73cvms4qzyqqqg9sphj2qr35hmjf4rsc7fse22e0nhfd4yg4zplmylxseyzacxvwzvgs In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs2d0ymzqhwutddwnyu0v53gk0vuwt9p7kvct8s6qzd5m60a28kvkgfhrlnv'>nevent1q…rlnv</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Meanwhile government has a system for big projects: put it out to tender. Trouble is, there are few orgs big enough to tackle such a project, and merely bidding is a big project in itself (I once saw 20 people work for 2 years on a bid, with no guarantee of any contract at the end). Getting The Contract is a &#34;Core Competence&#34;. That&#39;s why its always one of the Usual Suspects who wins. Ability to do the job is secondary to ability to bid.<br/>/3 2024-10-26T16:05:19Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs2d0ymzqhwutddwnyu0v53gk0vuwt9p7kvct8s6qzd5m60a28kvkgzyqqqg9sphj2qr35hmjf4rsc7fse22e0nhfd4yg4zplmylxseyzacxe0qjrl In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqst502zn45xk5ed4533u2a02654nw4ppgr5t3mezj4jr47mazel3jgrdpt5f'>nevent1q…pt5f</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Still less are they able to work with you to re-envisage how they are going to work with all the other people in the system, about who&#39;s work they know little.<br/><br/>Big systems are supposed to be developed from requirements, but those reqs can&#39;t be written without understand what everyone does and how, including Jane In The Office who has a big tottering collection of spreadsheets that only she understands. <br/>/2 2024-10-26T16:01:10Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqst502zn45xk5ed4533u2a02654nw4ppgr5t3mezj4jr47mazel3jgzyqqqg9sphj2qr35hmjf4rsc7fse22e0nhfd4yg4zplmylxseyzacxknetw9 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsgmuggczunplqmjur0zlq2yknq73cpynzh9e3cw0eg4p9s35x7k7cvqs4a8'>nevent1q…s4a8</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I&#39;m a developer, so I want to comment on the IT side of things.<br/><br/>Big IT projects *never* deliver a good system on time and on budget. Not just rarely, *never*. At best they make something mostly-functional, but *2 late and over-budget. Reason: its not just the IT you are designing, its the people who use it and the processes they follow. But if you talk to those users they are too busy to give you more than the barest outline of what they do and how. <br/>/1 2024-10-26T15:58:00Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsqkgx2dmnsts4da05efdwwj5tmce3u8een4j4vgjkwpdfsjhyf3fgzyqqqg9sphj2qr35hmjf4rsc7fse22e0nhfd4yg4zplmylxseyzacxg0jwar In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsgmuggczunplqmjur0zlq2yknq73cpynzh9e3cw0eg4p9s35x7k7cvqs4a8'>nevent1q…s4a8</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Coase says that companies grow using economies of scale, until they hit matching diseconomies of scale. The NHS is huge, so of course it has big diseconomies of scale.<br/><br/>Meanwhile health has become more complex. Used to be, cancer meant an operation, then you were either cured or (more often) it came back and you died. These days there is chemo, radio, surgery, physio, its complex and needs to be coordinated. 2024-10-26T15:53:23Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs0nw59mvpq94n4e4ljjlt90wg6j6lnpe8h66f6ur54vl96zuhfwkczyqqqg9sphj2qr35hmjf4rsc7fse22e0nhfd4yg4zplmylxseyzacxexcnc8 #mosstodon <br/>Moss and lichen on a tree stump in woodland.<br/> <img src="https://mastodon.me.uk/system/media_attachments/files/113/373/178/412/910/969/original/ddba7576cc87cc3c.jpg"> <br/> 2024-10-26T10:11:30Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsgcd3zxctjk389pgz2ys3gmvqsf653dze8at6gw6t4ptjgdzl0jzgzyqqqg9sphj2qr35hmjf4rsc7fse22e0nhfd4yg4zplmylxseyzacxqjjpyu In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs2ktnchpum6w3ssr0geeeffynpfyaf7vfr4vdkc8avk3j0u7pwm7gfpy39u'>nevent1q…y39u</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Sorry, I was referring to this. <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_law_of_oligarchy">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_law_of_oligarchy</a><br/><br/>Michels later despaired of democracy and became a fascist. I&#39;m less pessimistic. I see a tension between democracy and technocracy (rule by experts). Modern society needs specialist managers, but pure technocracy leads to the USSR: a self-selecting oligarchy.<br/><br/>My own formulation is: every society needs specialist resource-allocators. The problem is to stop them allocating all the resources to themselves. 2024-10-15T14:48:32Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs8jka7ysmeh7xpy73nu2a0fyylcusywa0mjfw44xfde07eghz37qgzyqqqg9sphj2qr35hmjf4rsc7fse22e0nhfd4yg4zplmylxseyzacxgkmc94 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqstqqy3fpzfasn6lz4st9qw3xvlgfmrcmglc8g0ykw7hvh39jqu8tc9zqdkv'>nevent1q…qdkv</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>And he who sys &#34;Organisation&#34; says &#34;Oligarchy&#34;. 2024-10-15T06:43:30Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsr0r9myhd3g2y94kwmdxfm7gsmv4fumkzre5g5pdfsm66j39shg8szyqqqg9sphj2qr35hmjf4rsc7fse22e0nhfd4yg4zplmylxseyzacxw2sqh5 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqszuptzn7r73xug8m9qdtqv6js77cduarqqjpcv2w8j5hxv9xjtvyg4ejdys'>nevent1q…jdys</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>That&#39;s more or less what happened to DOJ vs IBM. The case ran from 1969-82 and was eventually dismissed for lack of merit. In the meantime IBM went from near monopoly (&#34;IBM and the 7 dwarves&#34;) to an also-ran that was having its lunch eaten by DEC and other upstarts. And then the IBM PC happened.<br/><br/>The relative impact of the legal case versus other missteps is debatable. See &#34;The Innovator&#39;s Dilemma&#34; by Christensen for an alternative framework for events. 2024-10-09T12:34:39Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsy0j6nr6gt3sfy098jtgzgk60fq5tx9hf6u6xjfwavxmyhqksa9kqzyqqqg9sphj2qr35hmjf4rsc7fse22e0nhfd4yg4zplmylxseyzacxawe8ej #Georgia #gun #censorship #republicans <br/><br/>I wish I could retire this.<br/><br/>Please feel free to post it on any other social media, stick printed copies on lamp-posts etc.<br/> <img src="https://mastodon.me.uk/system/media_attachments/files/113/085/461/363/572/543/original/ab7668939441a783.png"> <br/> 2024-09-05T14:43:58Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs2u0uan3yumxthajrp7es0rxwgnfvdw5808u5q7tpu5eulavur4rczyqqqg9sphj2qr35hmjf4rsc7fse22e0nhfd4yg4zplmylxseyzacxpl8wg7 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs0yj7qvd3fh5jst08cskdrgelc5v48dfg759z4rgxqrts0mw8qd4cgv4m0d'>nevent1q…4m0d</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>You can still install RPMs using rpm-ostree. The underlying FS is a bit like git, but for file system images, so each thing you install becomes a delta on the image and can be removed by just omitting that delta rather than undoing the install. 2024-09-03T21:00:03Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs8jtqkkveh0tzl4mftns0xsxpehvpflyjzdla4svg57zesgvkkzpszyqqqg9sphj2qr35hmjf4rsc7fse22e0nhfd4yg4zplmylxseyzacxl8j4f7 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsx880ltmukta8r09wsxdhwgu4fxsfeewkds5e7plclg0snxcjvxvqnhaksy'>nevent1q…aksy</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I&#39;m with <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub12pw99cs5a6j6r56yafxt355j8h38hhw6fh3zwunhj99m3gv3nfds7zzvxn" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Emeritus Prof Christopher May</span> (<span class="italic">npub12pw…zvxn</span>)</a></span> on this. I keep seeing posts with gruesome fantasies of cruel and unusual punishment for those in power, but if you call people out on it, you get &#34;just joking&#34; or &#34;just my frustration speaking&#34;, and &#34;I don&#39;t really mean it&#34;.<br/><br/>The disturbing thing is that the form of these posts is indistinguishable from the revenge fantasies of the fascists talking about Jews and libtards. Only the names of the targets are different. 2024-09-03T13:38:31Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs86cf280m982gpm87xlz9q2jqlwz9qumkpa7n4yreuhue7qdjj7zqzyqqqg9sphj2qr35hmjf4rsc7fse22e0nhfd4yg4zplmylxseyzacxsursyk In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsxzldm9h7xm2wvlvf8a6ka48u7vf938pum9r75svs6jjf46sgjszg6re6f6'>nevent1q…e6f6</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>You do it with Jewish Space Lasers, obviously. 2024-08-20T08:05:40Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs80394sd6xsk0ggxr3dyan84cpnw89tf5mu2rc428gj7eqpgdugaqzyqqqg9sphj2qr35hmjf4rsc7fse22e0nhfd4yg4zplmylxseyzacxmnweye Inuit children invented their own system for writing numbers which makes arithmetic easier. Now its in Unicode.<br/><br/><a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-number-system-invented-by-inuit-schoolchildren-will-make-its-silicon-valley-debut/">https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-number-system-invented-by-inuit-schoolchildren-will-make-its-silicon-valley-debut/</a> 2023-04-13T07:14:45Z