[Youngian]

He’s got some front, I’ll give him that.
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/9nG1FxD6sZU14U8F/?

[davidjay]

It is for the people of Ireland alone - the thing that no-one on his side seems able to address is that the people seem likely to give them an answer they don't like.

[Tubby Isaacs]

I mentioned this on the other thread, and obviously, I think Humza is a disingenuous twat, But Jez's idiocy still biting Labour on the arse. And it is Jez. The ommitment (£54bn ) was tagged on after the manifesto was launched.

[Tubby Isaacs]

I see we're back on to "Philosopher King Jez was ahead of his time".

Taxing improvements in (otherwise stagnant) productivity doesn't seem like a particularly good idea, as some BTL points out.

[Youngian]

Corbyn and many others like Bill Gates have a point. The wages paid to workers provide taxes to pay for pensions. Whose pockets will that money go into when technology replaces these workers?

[Tubby Isaacs]

Employment hasn't obviously been hit though, even in 2024, let alone in 2017 when Jez announced it.

[Tubby Isaacs]

I recall that the no-hope Socialist Party candidate in 2017, Hamon, had the same policy. I suppose it was understandable for a guy flailing about while Macron and Melenchon at up his voters on either side. I think it's a bit different for Jez, who was the Leader of the Opposition.

This theme is often linked with UBI. I wonder if that's what Jez was thinking of, and McDonnell pointed out he didn't really want to be going into an election with "Labour's £100bn tax bombshell", so just the tax was left.

[Youngian]

I’m constantly told that comparing AI doom mongers to farriers and horse dealers predicting new fangled motorcars will destroy jobs is complacent and not the same thing.

[Tubby Isaacs]

It's above my pay grade, but I don't see any sign of it yet.

[kreuzberger]

AI was something I first came across in the 1990s and found profoundly interesting until three months ago. Now, I use it in the shape of rather inappropriately named Chatbots to churn out vast tracts of content in my (distant) second language which are then peer-reviewed and passed largely without edits.

My genuinely lovely employers are convinced that I am the oracle for all-things bassoon, oboe, bass-clarinet, and obscure saxophone innovation.

At a meta level, this is a vast transfer of knowledge via a largely clueless conduit. On a day-to-day basis, it's just a job, albeit not one for a dedicated professional and a specialist translator.

[The Weeping Angel]

I see we're back on to "Philosopher King Jez was ahead of his time".

Taxing improvements in (otherwise stagnant) productivity doesn't seem like a particularly good idea, as some BTL points out.

When it comes to AI I'm not sure what to think. Should I be worried about it? or should I think it's nothing to worry about I just don't know. I'm sceptical about UBI though.

[davidjay]

On the right side of history again.

[Youngian]

Alice Roberts and Tony Robinson, bastards!

[Malcolm Armsteen]

Jason's a proper little shithead, isn't he?

[Tubby Isaacs]

Oh man.

About all we're missing is Philip Madoc in a German accent telling Alice Roberts that her name will also go on the list.

[Abernathy]

“Frank Owen’s Legendary Paintbrush” = terminally tedious cunt who once read The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists an thinks he’s a “socialist”.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Yep.

[davidjay]

It's one of life's great dilemmas - how the Cult seems to consist almost exclusively of people whose lives are consumed by politics yet who know nothing about how it works.

[mattomac]

I remember throughout the last year or two you’d get tireless posts after another council election loss that a town council election hadn’t been reported.

And it was usually one from 3 weeks back.