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Why is it fine? I’m older enough to remember when the UK was homogenous and we had none of this. Diversity in the UK has mean division. Note it’s not equality it’s equity. And inclusion, why should we seek to include cultures and values at odds with ours?

I don’t think you understand LC. We might very well get the actual kind of fascism that you wrongly think we already have should the immigration issue in Europe not be fixed. And people like you will be partly to blame, because you think asking for papers and throwing people out of the country who aren’t supposed to be here is a extreme. Yet you don’t seem to understand that there are a bunch of ultra far-right loons, actual fascists, and actual extremists, who would do far worse if they could, will use the anti-immigration sentiment to get power.

I don’t get this kind of response. Does anyone believe that ‘due process’ has worked to curtail and remove the millions of illegal immigrants? It’s precisely because we are a soft touch that everyone is coming over. In the UK we have millions of illegal immigrants, put in hotels, fed, given some money while they are ‘processed’. My view is you enter a country illegally you don’t get a process you get shown the door. If that means ripping you off the street without a warrant fine. For anyone who is a citizen the government should be saying carry ID. Reminder I’m not American.

Different issue which I am unsighted off. Commenting only in the media and suing.

There is a third option. Maybe the report is BS, and Trump feels it is damaging to his reputation. The media seem to think they can publish what they want - ok - but it better be true. A few years ago they were saying Trump liked golden showers, Russia collusion, neo-Nazis fine people, and he was Putin’s puppet. There has to be a line somewhere, and if lawfare keeps the media honest that’s not a bad thing.

Ireland would seem like a good choice although it won’t move the needle that much on the share price. Would like to see them in the European and North American markets. They did have an exploration of Belgium with some stores but they wound that up. I feel they do better in NA. Maybe the market is just too saturated. Overall though it’s a stock I watch, might even get a slice at this valuation and see how it runs

Decent company. No fuss food and cheap too. I could see them continuing to do well if they can go more international. Looked at it several times and passed, only because I can’t see the future well enough. But at a PE of 11 it’s hard to see how you lose much money here, and with some luck you might make a ton.

Is it MAGA? Deep state is hardly a conspiracy. It’s basically a nod to civil servants, military, finance etc, and the quiet power they have.

No, I’m not even Canadian, nevermind a Trudeau fan. And just like the UK (where I am from) we vote for a party and we get that leadership, so when you vote for that party you are voting for that person to be PM.

I’m not ignoring it, I’m saying I don’t think it’s all that relevant. The Brits went and got him to be the head of their central bank. Why did you vote him to lead the country? What ideas specifically attracted you to him? Because all I’m hearing is that he was good at X, so he’s going to be a good PM, which doesn’t make sense. A politician is not a businessman, you can be good at the latter and terrible at the former. Many of the same people fawning over Carney’s career at the exact same people quick to deride Trump as being awful and unqualified.

Did OK at the Bank of England, the biggest criticism was that he made what seemed like political interventions. But yeh, many of the people who seem to have voted for him never mention policy, which is very odd to me.

This is the exactly the kind of thing I’m talking about. There isn’t a mention of policies / ideas. A good career and good education count for little if the are bad ideas. And if they are competent at executing, and have bad ideas, that’s a terrible combination. Who cares if someone was a drama teacher of career politician - do they get the issues or not. As it relates to Carney. Are there actually any of his ideas which you like?

I quite like Carney, but I don’t understand the adoration of his prior education or career, partly because I don’t see why it is necessary, and partly because many of these highly educated types still fall prey to group think in silly ideas as easily as anyone else. You either have the good ideas, ok ideas, or bad ones, and often they have nothing in common with their prior education. In fact, I’d argue many of the bad ideas in recent times have come from the highly educated career types.

Just to clarify, you were long the calls and you exited? I read that initially as selling Macy calls and I thought ‘that’s risky’.

Well done to those doing well, I’m only slightly up. If I had of stuck to my guns when I bought the dip April, I’d be up a lot. Kicking myself, instincts were correct.

I had to write a report for the area I work in, science basically. The output was generic garbage. Overall I think using LLMs cost me more time because I tried to work with the output but ended up just binning it. I wonder if - when it will make a big impact to my work. In theory it should but right now it can’t.

I doubt many are choosing their restaurants based on suggestions from ChatGPT. I still use trusty old Google if I am checking out the reviews from local food places. I’ve never once used ChatGPT for that. What I use ChatGPT is for knowledge based questions, the responses are good, but the Google AI responses are good too - and in some cases better. Example. I’m not a DIY type person, but I have a hole in the wall around a pipe from a recent building work done to the house. I asked ChatGPT how to fix it, but it didn’t seem right and I check with my father and online forums and they suggested something else. I happened to google it and the Google AI overview gave a better guide on how to fix the hole than ChatGPT. So what’s happening for me is that some of these knowledge searches are actually being checked on both Google and ChatGPT now. Edit - my intention was not to do a ChatGPT vs Google argument, rather than there is a large section of society that don’t give a crap about AI at all and for them that ‘life servers’ crap is just out of touch.

Im not saying that he shouldn’t, i’m just saying that those guys live in a bubble, surrounded by other tech bros. I used ChatGPT daily, some of my friends do too. But my family, and many others either use it rarely, or not at all, and really have no need or desire to use a ‘life operating system’. I’m saying that these guys don’t understand the normie mindset, which is a comfortable life, nice food, nice holidays etc. Its not syncing their life with an operating system. There is a whole section of women who for fun enjoy scrolling Instagram or Pinterest for fashion, food or home tips. I don’t get it either but the idea that these habits are going to ChatGPT I think is unlikely.

Tech bros think that the world will revolve around their new product. AI is super useful and important, I use ChatGPT a lot, but my google habits haven’t really changed that much. As for as an operating system for life, what exactly are they talking about, or more specifically, who are they talking? Like maybe a few % will do this, but most won’t.

What’s definitely more annoying than Trump himself, is the constant Hitlering of everything he says or does by the NYT writers and readers. I’m convinced if they just reported what they said and weren’t actively trying to undermine and get him out of office he’d be a lot less popular.

Iran can mostly certainly figure the rest out. They already have the ballistic missiles and I’m sure they can figure out ignition.

I think the breakup of Canada would be a terrible idea, but the fact that it is becoming more popular shows that governments just can’t keep pushing their agenda and not expect push back. At some point people just throw their hands up and think ‘fine, we are better off on our own’.

Could we keep to the spirit of the thread? The goal being investing ideas in the back of your mind, which you want to share, but aren’t sure if it’s worthy of creating a new thread about.

Good question. As far as I know, no, the abortion must be performed in a hospital or dedicated unit. Bizarrely, we could have the someone who performs a backstreet abortion prosecuted but not the mother. I think that’s how the law comes down. Most of these cases aren’t ‘back street’ but I believe the mother takes a pill which I think kills the baby. There have been cases where a woman has taken an abortion pill in the belief that they were much earlier in pregnancy - those are hard cases. But as the saying goes, hard cases make for bad laws.

Unfortunately John I think it’s two things. The first is a deep moral rot in the hearts of our governing class, and the second is cowardice for fear or being called racist, misogynist, transphobic etc. If you are a person who gets into these things, you have 24 weeks to figure it out. Across Europe that is already the among the most liberal abortion laws. After that you take your medicine. It’s little to cheer about, but I am glad to see that most social commentary from British people seem to be against this legalisation. This is extremism, a form i can’t quite put my finger on, it’s not hard left, it’s not certainly not politically right. I wish I was better with words.