Mark Slater

Praising effort not achievement seems to be the best way of helping children achieve their potential rather than teaching them they have to beat everyone and that failure is unacceptable rather than a valuable opportunity to learn from on the way to success.

We live in a society where most of the leaders and figures of admiration are male must have something to do with it. People in positions of power assume they got there by being talented & clever, therefore less successful people must be less clever and talented. It's the Just World fallacy perhaps?

Is hoarding obscene wealth psychologically different from all other types of hoarding, the rest of which are generally viewed as a mental disorder?

It's related to the Just World fallacy: they believe rich people are rich because they are clever and work hard, whereas poor people are poor because they are stupid and lazy.

It's comments like hers that almost makes me wish the Bible was true. It would be great if Badenoch had to try and explain this one to Jesus one day...

Awesome work! That'd be impressive on a treadmill, let alone outside...

Trump wants Russia to win because he likes and admires Putin and views him as someone he can get something from, including knowledge of how to increase personal power and remain in office beyond previous limits.

Not really, they have no brain. They rest some of the time, but don't seem to be asleep in any normal sense.

I think much of this is based on belief in the Just World fallacy: people who own their own homes are clever and work hard, but others aren't clever & haven't worked hard enough, so householders deserve help & everyone else needs motivation. I'm convinced this is at the heart of much conservatism.

I was wondering whether sea urchins sleep earlier...

Fraser Nelson declared Liz Truss's ludicrously damaging budget something along the lines of the best ever delivered by a British Chancellor... This is your proof? 🤔

I think nearly everyone agrees he's a predator, it's just some won't admit it and some more don't care. Shameful either way.

I don't think Labour being Labour will make them more unpopular, I think it has them not being openly Labour that has cost them more.

Looks like AI to me...

I also think they like to think their prejudice is rationally justified and is just them being honest about what they think is reality. Other people are very prejudiced in their eyes, especially the targets of their hatred, for denying 'the truth', but not them, oh no...

The worst people in politics have been pushing the idea that all politicians are the same as it excuses their worst excesses and drags everyone else down to their level. The idea has sunken in so deep that taxation is now seen as theft because government is regarded as entirely useless. Bad times..

I doubt it. He has to deliver actual, real, huge results to get the trillion. I think those days are long gone for Musk.

Neurodiversity doesn't make people into assholes - being an asshole does.

It's happened to me. It was a cable I'd only used once or twice over fifteen years before I chucked it and never needed it again - until the week after I binned it... FFS!

As you should. I had a big clear out several years ago and the following week, desperately needed a cable I'd just thrown away that I hadn't used for at least fifteen years and would have sworn I wouldn't use again... It was awful.

As a former music producer, I have many boxes of cables. I had a big clear out several years ago and, I swear, literally one week after chucking out a bin bag full, I needed a cable I'd just thrown away that I hadn't needed for at least fifteen years previously. Never again!

Not to mention fragile...

Microscopes don't intentionally invent things to show you what they think you want to see.

It just occurred to me that Trump craves attention more than anything else, so when everything has undeniably and irredeemably gone tits up, he may well go woke...

Spot on. Trump flatters his supporter's ignorance and glorifies their worst impulses. He tells them they are free of responsibility to others and nothing is their fault. This is what a favoured child raised by a sociopath learns, and it is now happening to the US.

Quite right too. I don't think parents should have the right to prevent their child being vaccinated. We don't allow them to put them at risk in lots of other ways, and we intervene if their child is consistently putting other children at risk in any other context.

Trump believes whatever he wants is the undeniable will of the USA. He truly thinks he rules everything just by wanting to. To be fair, he hasn't had that much contrary evidence thanks to the monumental gullibility of the US electorate and the craveness of all those sliming along behind him.

I've seen Primal Scream four times, and Mani elevated them to another level while he was with them. Also saw him in the Roses at Finsbury Park. He was immense both times I saw him - haven't seen a better bassist in thirty years of gigs and festivals (except maybe Thundercat, but he's different).

I started switching Johnson over/off during the pandemic, and have successfully avoided all but the odd word of mendacious waffle ever since. His words are useless as a source of information other than telling you what he wants you to think at that moment, and I have no interest whatsoever in that.

Well done, and toot away - richly deserved!