It's not news. It's shit. All AI is shit. I don't really see the need for it other than to excelerate our own destruction. bit like social media (which i am really not on and haven't been for years). This is the closest I get to social media and I think most of you mongs are real. Except Jamesob obviously...
Climate change and AI are pretty much going to kill us. It's a question of which one first. Anyone fancy a beer?
Chicago: Nihilist.
You could use AI to spell check your posts…
It is my way of proving I am real. Also typing on the fly in-between clients. No time to spell check.
Chicago: Busy.
I treated it as a meta-joke about Microsoft incorporating Copilot into Office.
Am I the only person totally confused by the outrage over the budget? So she made things seem worse than they were in the lead up, so that the actual budget would be better than expected. Isn’t that just politics?
Ask yourself what equivalent scrutiny of previous recent Tory budgets would look like, or should have looked like in terms of analysis for people in the country, if it had been applied.
Now compare with scrutiny of the current government (you could be forgiven for thinking that one of the biggest stories in the last ten years was that someone bought a field to put a donkey in).
If you are honest in your analysis, you will know exactly what the problem is.
It’s just faux outrage from the media isn’t it, almost all of which is right wing and owned by tax dodgers based overseas. The Telegraph is now being bought by the Daily Mail group which will make it even more extreme. I’m not sure how centrist or slightly left wing politics can survive in this climate. Just look at today’s headlines:
I thought it was a shit budget. She should have raised income tax by 2 or 3 %. People would have accepted it if it was given with the honest message that we need to spend more on defense, and welfare if that is their choice.
I hate the disingenuous side. And this isn't aimed at labour solely, I thought Hunts last budget (maybe the last 2) were awful too. Reducing NI purely as a trap with no justification.
That being said, it wasn't as catastrophic as her first budget, it was just a bit shit. Lots of little things for the future. Many will cost me, but not by much more than a 2% on income tax would have, so it's not personal interest.
The salary sacrifice limit on pension is probably understandable, but way to low, it should be at least £5k pa.
They are not supposed to survive. It's war against the actual interests of the people, versus the interests of the accumulation of money and power.
Babelfish says: Not actually true, but the propaganda will get her.
Remember just last week when "thinking about a policy" was reported as "performing a u-turn"?
The only interesting question is what the critical thinking capability of the electorate is like.
Babelfish says: Not good.
Given the right wing press have wanked themselves into a frenzy over things she didn't say in the run up to the budget, just imagine if she had “broken a manifesto commitment” and increased income tax.
Also, I think you’ve got the pension thing wrong. The first £2000 of salary sacrifice is exempt from NIC (i.e., your contribution, not your employers). There is no change to the income tax taper that existed before.
Farages dodgy house purchase went quiet very quickly, didn’t it.
Was that the thing that they trotted out as a merkin* to the proven russian corruption at leadership level of reform, or was than another thing?
I lose track.
* Intentionally wooly obfuscation of a diseased cunt.
He avoided tax by claiming his partner had purchased the house with cash provided by her wealthy family. The issue is her family aren’t wealthy and wouldn’t have that kind of money. He just started shouting and it went away.
Perhaps she's indirectly related to Vladimir Putin?
On a micro non-Russian level the 6 weeks spent talking the economy down for political gain has been a fucking pain in the the arse. It's had a noticeable effect on sales during what is normally our peak trading and therefore cashflow has been an utter cunt.
Don't worry about little details like the economy when there's devisive fascism to be enjoyed. Anyway, our bexshit bonus* willl more than offset the tanking of the economy that it inevitably leads to.
Babelfish says:
"Our' = currency traders, petrochemical money buying our assets, big data controlling our movement and rights.
"Brexshit" = the political movement around more direct russian/fascist/petrostate money control of the UK.
"Bonus" = Not for the likes of us, soft lad.
