We used to have 14M people living in poverty in the UK. Anyone know today's figure? 18M? More?-> former donors who are now turning to food banks themselves as the soaring cost of living expands the demographic of people struggling to afford food - theguardian.com/society/2022/f…
Still can't believe at the last election when faced with a choice between someone with integrity and truth who cared about people versus whopping lies with no integrity who cares about himself that the UK went for Boris. I know, I know ... blasted remainers confusing it all.
I do hope at the next election they are muzzled before they sink that one as well. It's bad enough we have to suffer this lot.
Still, there are always some positives. I particularly like the MOD's moves on Terra Firma - theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/f… ... maybe the Gov can also move onto the whole host of PFIs that need sorting.
X : Why muzzle?
Me : We went from "Jeremy was popular with the electorate, on the basis that we would leave the EU and that we would respect the 2016 referendum result" to "dithering”, “dire”, “reflecting division”, “clearly a turn off" in a few years - docs.labourtogether.uk/Labour%20Toget…
Me : Remain (or as it should be called Return) will not be a vote winner for decades, if ever. It'll be political suicide as it was in 2019. My fear is that won't stop them sinking Labour every single time. I hope Labour has learned from 2019. Remain loses every time.
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X : Have you ever mapped mapping itself?
Me : Yes, long ago ...
X : So, mapping is evolving?
Me : My form of mapping is. I'm constantly looking for better ways to represent the landscape. Some experiments succeed, most fail.
Me : It's a constant trade-off between consistency, communication and usefulness. It's quite easy in these early stages to formalise the system to a point that it isn't useful to many.
Watched Dune. Fabulous cinematography, acting, directing ... everything. However, it never escapes the underlying and relentless plod of a story in which oppressed poor people need a rich dude to save them.
F&?ck Off!
Hopefully they surprise us in the next installment.
X : What would you like to see?
Me : Paul Atreides gets wiped out in the first battle being a chinless wonder. The prototype "love interest" Chani turns out to be Queen Boudica and wipes out all the oppressors, frees the planet and the Fremen whilst turning it into a green oasis.
It's like that old English tale of bandits using a moniker of "Robin Hood" to cause fear and confusion in a chattering ruling class being turned into a "rich dude saves poor oppressed people" ... as if.
X : Will Boris go?
Me : There's always a chance. Do you think he should?
X : Lack of integrity.
Me : Isn't that what we voted for at the last election? I don't see the point of voting for something and then grumbling that you got what you voted for -
X : Did you vote for Boris?
Me : Hell freeze over first. No, I voted for Corbyn as I liked both his integrity and his policies.
X : What about Starmer?
Me : Better than Boris but I doubt he will win. We really needed someone like @lisanandy.
X : But Labour is doing well in the polls!
Me : Yep and that's good to see. But a long way to go and I'm fairly convinced that as we get closer to an election then the Labour Remain wing will come out cheering and hence sink Labour's chances. I don't think they can be muzzled.
X : Are you doing physical events this year?
Me : Not intending to.
X : COVID?
Me : Nope. Reducing carbon usage and increasing inclusivity. I have no intention of not continuing to adapt to the new world that COVID has accelerated us into.
X : Accelerated?
Me : Yep. That shift from physical to virtual space was happening slowly anyway due to industrialisation of underlying tech - virtual conferencing etc. COVID acted as a forcing function and accelerated this.
X : Hybrid?
Me : Hybrid normally means "some future plus a bit of the past" e.g. hybrid cloud of public and private. It normally represents an unwillingness to adapt hidden behind arguments that certain niche cases are in fact the majority. It doesn't last long ... 10-15 years.
X : You don't like Web3?
Me : I don't like some of the ideology in cryptocurrencies that have tied themselves to the changes going on.
X : What about the metaverse?
Me : That's obviously the future, has been for sometime. I'm not sure that I want Zuckerberg to be the Architect.
X : Most would disagree about the metaverse.
Me : Only a minority thought cloud was the future. Only a minority thought serverless was the future, In all of these circumstances there are specific reasons related to industrialisation of the technology why the minority are right.
Me : The majority will first disagree (sticking with what they know) and then try to argue for a hybrid world ... it'll be wrong.
X : Is the minority always right?
Me : Nope. There are very specific circumstances related to industrialisation when you know the minority are right.