RickChasey

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Sport is pretty weak on BlueSky.

Cycling is very thin on the ground, for example

Can you imagine how upset yanks would be if some random yank boat got blown up for no reason?

There is a confidence around entrepreneurialism they have because the consequence of failure are minimal, and that does offer some additional confidence.

But that’s a money thing.

I worked in a (small) firm where around 80% of the front office staff went to Eton or Harrow and they “joked” I was a diversity hire as I went to state school.

Black tie/white tie jokes aside, they were as varied as any other group.

It was awful, but not for the school thing.

Isn’t there everywhere, though?

It’s a character trait, not some school thing.

Not defending Farage et al here, obviously.

Tbh I think it’s more that politics weeds put those without sufficient ambition to weather the endless character attacks (accurate or otherwise) and politics is an easier choice to make when you’ve already made your money.

I loathe private & public schools; were I king for a day I would banish them all, and country would be better for it.

But this caricature of public schools boys never resonates when you actually meet people who went to them.

Tempted to run on a Limp Bizkit “My Generation” mandate until we sort out the social contract

It’s not enough they polluted the atmosphere with all their fossil fuel burning, nor that they’ve wrecked the housing market to hammer people to keep a roof over their head, the boomers really want to salt the earth by blocking all attempts to solve the demography problem too

Periodic reminder that this is almost always correct

There’s a whole swathe of music that now just doesn’t sound right because it doesn’t have the CDRW burn skips and clicks.

Proof, if needed, that psyops, secret service KGB crap is mightily overrated.

Yes you can be wildly successful, but to what end?!

I’ve got a fund to sell him sssh

Even the Chinese Communist Party abandoned socialist economics (!)

You have to love the all the Christmas traditions - A* faff is very much part of it 😑😑

Helmet broken because some white van passenger, having lost his rag with all the cyclists behind me, honking, shouting and swerving, decided to throw a bottle of something at my head.

Helmet did its job but for fuck sake.

I am fascinated by how AI is eroding the tools we use to evaluate people.

Whether it is in education or recruitment - I’m sure there are others.

I am equally fascinated by how and what tools we develop to counter this, and how they will reflect what criteria is useful to know in an AI world

You have to be quite the egoistical maniac parent to not wince when your children inevitably act as a mirror to your best and worst behaviour.

And, oh boy, do they.

It’s just nonsense.

The premise of MMT is the monopoly issuer of currency must spend the currency into existence to collect tax.

The main risk is therefore demand-led inflation, mitigated by tax.

What those weird Reddit people are pedalling is just incoherent babble

“MMT does not argue for dynamic tax policy to manage the business cycle. This is one of the most common misunderstandings.”

….

“Managing inflation through the business cycle is handled with the job guarantee.”

WTF does that even mean.

This is absolute garbled nonsense.

Yes and the west’s failure to enact counter-cyclical spending, despite markets begging for ir

I had always assumed it was born out of the zero-interest-rate-no-inflation era

Thanks for making me feel better haha.

I think they’re guessing too, mate

Sometimes I wish I studied economics.

a little girl is sitting at a table with a plate of food and a bottle of water ALT: a little girl is sitting at a table with a plate of food and a bottle of water

Us liquid boys are just jealous of both the allocations and fee margins those private credit boys get.

Not fair