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My hobby: giving sermons in graveyards.

Then what do people pay you for. Jesus. Can't even do your job and people pay you. Literally "close your eyes and think of England" as a population gr...

It doesn't. It just means you're slowly being colonised by CCP rhetoric by being here.

I had no idea we could agree on things.

Let's see if I got this right. (1) Treasury gives money to FED to make leveraged bets with. (2) Fed buys currently untradeable crap from banks for cas...

I don't think so. If people are drawn to relativism and nihilism, it's because they're drawn to explanations that resonate with their life. I'd place ...

"I know all about the effects of the EU on the UK because I put tiles on a roof" That is absolutely ridiculous. Identity politics at its finest. You'r...

The forum isn't Twitter, repeatedly spamming the thread with decontextualised single line posts gets them deleted.

I was definitely waving my hands.

There are billionaires on both sides. Screw Blair and Bojo. The UK is not going to get a better deal with the EU than the one it had while in it. The ...

That makes sense. The UK population is very concentrated in its urban areas though. I mean, the population density and road density is not particularl...

Aye. I didn't have that impression. I imagined you were imagining population density in populated areas. The measure @"Isaac" cited looks to care abou...

The average number of voronoi cells per 1000km2 would probably track the amount of unpopulated/uninhabited/unconnected areas too. Those areas would ha...

My hand never has much of worth to say.

From @"Frank Apisa", sorting out the thing merge does.

That's fucking brutal.

I agree with that, except calling it fascism. I guess I don't understand what "big politics" means to you though. Something I really don't understand ...

I think you're probably right, I did overstate that. :up: Agree with that. I don't think this was a strictly Tory thing, my impression at the time was...

@"StreetlightX" linked me this today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJoe_daP0DE It was fascinating. It puts the globalisation/immigration right narr...

I don't really know if it will make it easier for them or not. It's a mixed bag I think. The Tories are in the unenviable position of having donors an...

Is a response to Punshhh, but also relevant for @"frank", I think. It's a bit of a rant because I can't be bothered sourcing everything I'm saying thi...

I should also say that David Cameron's policies were pretty libertarian lite too; the "Big Society" was his strategic spin on it. It is worthwhile rem...

Glad to be of service! It makes obsessively reading the news worthwhile.

The "coup", if you want to put it like that, was by the anti-immigration "small government" wing of the Tory party (figurehead: Bojo) against the "fre...

That is what it represented to people with the politics of @"Chester" I think. People who identify as working class and losing from globalisation, peo...

Let me put this in a language you won't dismiss as being middle class, now that we're swearing at each other based on UK nationality. You gravy bathin...

Ok! Other than things you have not provided evidence for and have been disconfirmed, what makes you think this is due to immigration specifically, rat...

You already have my words, you don't need to put ones I've not said in my mouth. What evidence would it take for you to change your mind about anythin...

It isn't. Repeatedly asserting something doesn't justify it, evidence does. You have provided no evidence, and the evidence contradicts what you've sa...

Ah, sorry about that. Science uses concepts. A biologist will use concepts like organism, gene, structure and function. These concepts link up with pr...

My perspective on it: Brexit is actually more of the same from the establishment. If you read the report I mentioned, it speaks about the big variance...

Dear @"Chester", You wrote: That immigration puts downward pressure on wages. I responded with this, that shows the effects on wages of immigration in...

@"frank" This looks like a good data driven breakdown of why the UK voted in Brexit the way it did.

Nonono, you introduced the topic: You explicitly emphasized the economic impacts of "mass importation"/mass migration from EU countries to the UK on U...

If you need a cliffnotes of my post: There's no evidence that immigration has made a difference in the economic status of UK natives. You're doing the...

Ah I see, you can't provide evidence for your opinions because you've got a life. I appreciate that you're busy and you have constraints on your time,...

Come on man. I went through the effort of citing everything I said. All you've done is speculate without evidence.

Apologies about the previous post, I made an assumption somewhere in it that was extremely wrong, will retract it if you've already read it. The Migra...

You thought it through much better than I did.

Compression on computers is often compression with loss, though. You can't get the uncompressed input from the compressed output with most image, vide...

There are a bunch of information concepts. There's minimum description length: how precisely something can be stated in full (specified completely in ...

This isn't entirely directed at you, but it's directed at years of realising the limitations of Heidegger after finding reading him one of the most pr...

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Habit. Enjoy talking about philosophy in a structured way. I learn a lot from other posters too. It's also quite nice to read what people write to get...

It promoted it, yes. It weaponised British identity stereotypes (white, working class) against the PEOPLE from some countries, and piggybacked off pre...

Eh, he frames it like the government being in a position to tighten borders and make immigration (only from the EU!) and migrant labour (only from the...

The Cummings video I posted above is quite informative on how they got people to engage with the Brexit is good narrative, they cite a few catastrophe...

It's interesting to pay attention to exactly what he doesn't say, because it reflects badly on him. "We used Facebook's terrible user privacy standard...

:up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDbRxH9Kiy4

You are talking about how the left are worse than you. Because they, allegedly, don't care in the right way about Chinese workers. And apparently you ...