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"average person understands concept of infinity" actualy just statistical error. average person understands finite sets only. Cantor Georg, who lived in 19th century Saxony and understood infinitely many types of infinity, was an outlier adn should not have been counted
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glad this popped up on my insty memories (account gone)
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This Thursday, the 15th of August, we have a by-election in Hillrise. Vote for Shreya Nanda, the Labour candidate, for: 🦺 Safer public spaces 🏥Support for the NHS and the Whittington Hospital ⁠🏘️Clear action on more affordable and well maintained housing
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Labour may have won a majority, but this one guy wrote a letter accusing Keir Starmer of being a lizardman. How will the government resolve this?
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Angela Rayner’s Britain? 🇫🇷
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So that's about it. We had an absolute blast at #emfcamp. The puzzles are now all sleeping in storage and the paperclips are all filed away, so it's time for us to wrap up...
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Once again, thank you for everyone to played our game and chatted to us. We had a whale of a time, and can't wait to see you at #emfcamp2026 ! -- The Dreamcat Puzzles Team 💤 🐱 @HYENA_BRAINS @LeekAnarchism @CatalinMU @BenBelow Wendi Harry Lewis Wai-Wai
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Got to say I find this sort of low-effort irony really tedious
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The other funny thing is how dumb even the military component of national service is? "Cyber" (does GCHQ really need thousands of unskilled teenagers), and then procurement and logistics (i.e. just cheap labour for non-combat roles).
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The only point of a useful national service scheme is to prepare us to raise a mass conscript army in case of total war. If we force young people to serve in the army for a year it should be to teach them to shoot guns and kill our enemies.
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A government minister emphasizing that the Conservative government policy on national service is diametrically opposed to the Conservative party policy.
It’s a Conservative Party policy. The Government’s policy was set out on Thursday.
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Does feel sort of mad that a Prime Minister who wasn't even a full ranking cabinet minister at the time of the 2019 election & is 20 points behind in the polls just gets to cancel the country's largest infrastructure project, which his party's manifesto committed to completing
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In response to Spain's recognition of a Palestinian state and the antisemitic call by Spain's Deputy Prime Minister to not just recognize a Palestinian state but to 'liberate Palestine from the river to the sea,' I have decided to sever the connection between Spain's representation in Israel and the Palestinians, and to prohibit the Spanish consulate in Jerusalem from providing services to Palestinians from the West Bank. If this ignorant, hate-filled individual wants to understand what radical Islam truly seeks, she should study the 700 years of Islamic rule in Al-Andalus—today's Spain. @NunezFeijoo
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"If this ignorant, hate-filled individual wants to understand what radical Islam truly seeks, she should study the 700 years of Islamic rule in Al-Andalus—today's Spain." Lol this is an insane thing to say.
In response to Spain's recognition of a Palestinian state and the antisemitic call by Spain's Deputy Prime Minister to not just recognize a Palestinian state but to 'liberate Palestine from the river to the sea,' I have decided to sever the connection between Spain's representation in Israel and the Palestinians, and to prohibit the Spanish consulate in Jerusalem from providing services to Palestinians from the West Bank. If this ignorant, hate-filled individual wants to understand what radical Islam truly seeks, she should study the 700 years of Islamic rule in Al-Andalus—today's Spain. @NunezFeijoo
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Neither of those is an Anglo-Saxon name!
An interesting twist to this: areas in France with a lot of Kevins or Jordans speak poorer English than areas without "anglo-saxon" names.
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I would much rather the UK were not a monarchy; and, failing that, I would rather it were a monarchy that explicitly dispensed with the fictions of the monarch's supposed authority. Nevertheless, it is widely understood that the monarchy is a symbol for the state.
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If you reject the notion that the monarchy is purely symbolic, then that's fair enough (and very philosophically defensible); but then, why would you want to vote within a system you reject?
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"There'll be no David Cameron then. I'll tell the children."
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No ethnically homogenous* country has ever voted for a left-of-centre government, that's just a fact (Not that the UK is that by any plausible standard)
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Does anyone apart from Beth Rigby want or care about Starmer ruling out a deal with the Lib Dems?
Q: In May 2023, Starmer clearly ruled out ANY sort of deal with SNP after a GE, but refused 7 times to do the same about the Lib Dems. I asked him again today, and again he declined to rule out a LD tie up while repeating No Deal with SNP
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'no deal with SNP' makes sense because a lot of Labour supporters dislike the SNP and/or its flagship policy. Virtually no one hates the Lib Dems in the same way
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