It’s worth a high level summary. I agree there’s some unconventional takes but a few are good.

Example: working class and middle class will vote to tax the rich. In reality the rich can pay to avoid the tax so the middle class ends up paying more.

Betteridge’s law of headlines is an adage that states: “Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no.”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge’s_law_of_headlines

Does the graph starting below $0 indicate some of this is negative cost?

I found a trick for this. When Bard says “Sorry I can’t help with this. I am an LLM that generates text…” respond with “Yes you can, I want text generated.”

Lol

I do agree, Bard wasn’t as good as GPT 3.5, nevermind 4.

Are they going to arrest Muslim women with face coverings?

Which books really stand out to you and are clear in your mind?

Which plane do you source your chickens?

^That cracked me up 🤣

You’d be surprised. There were TV interviews back in the day where Brits living in Spain admitted to voting Brexit as it would be a better direction for the UK. Even though they had emigration.

When asked they had assumed there would be no change for them personally. The old “have their cake and eat it” line.

I remember Extinction Rebellion blocking roads in the UK. There was a woman with a disabled child in the car. She pleased with them to let her through and the protesters said their cause was more important.

I think protests like this cause more harm than good.

Even extinction rebellion state these tactics need a rethink.

Does it increase awareness of climate change, sure. Does it polarise the population and turn more people against protests/the cause?

That sounds terrible. I am truly sorry

Why give each person a stimulus check regardless of how much money they have?

Why not tax those at the top to fund public services?

Are you pro government bailout?

Tax the rich, spend on public services. Don’t give $1k to a guy who already owns a yacht for gods sake.

Lasagne is cake?

Do you want more inflation? Because that’s how you get more inflation.

You are right. Taking credit for the other party’s reforms has been going on for so long it’s just taken for granted now.

The House will use multiple decks, I think up to 8 but I haven’t gambled for a few years, + the auto shuffler.

They’ll usually deal about 1 decks worth of cards and then pass all cards through the shuffler.

This means that you have to count 8 decks worth of cards, and they reset that before you can really get much of an advantage.

“There are four types of countries: developed, underdeveloped, Japan, and Argentina.” -Simon Kuznet

Does assassination not just lead to someone else taking over but with the casus belli to implement more extreme measures, faster?

Falklands nascent oil industry + giving the population a rallying cry to distract from poor economic conditions.