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Adam Gold retweeted
With the heroes of the @RNLI under attack again, I’m reminded of this passage from Bill Bryson.
ALT I had never really stopped to consider what an extraordinary thing the Royal National Lifeboat Institution is. Think about it. A troubled ship calls for help, and eight people - teachers, plumbers, the guy who runs the pub - drop everything and put to sea, whatever the weather, asking no questions, imperilling their own lives, to try to help strangers. Is there anything more brave and noble than that? The RNLI - I looked this up later - is an organization run by volunteers, supported entirely by public donations. It maintains 233 stations around the coast of Britain and averages twenty-two call-outs per day. It saves 350 lives a year on average.
Adam Gold retweeted
This could be the perfect AGI test—the day ChatGPT comes up with something similar, it will verily have reached human General Intelligence levels.
HT @dilipsoman
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Adam Gold retweeted
Language is forever changing, but every rule has its exceptions—meet the English word- that hasn’t changed in sound or meaning in 8000 years: buff.ly/41yKOQP
Adam Gold retweeted
The Ukrainian "Peaky Blinders" drone unit received authentic hats from Steven Knight, the creator of the hit British TV show it is named after.
The hats were even signed by the star of the series, Cillian Murphy.
The Peaky Blinders unit is currently defending Ukraine on the frontlines.
Adam Gold retweeted
One of the most shocking opening paragraphs I have ever read about British governance.
#Grenfell
🎩 @piercepenniless @LRB
Adam Gold retweeted
Tim Farron, "The unpleasantness about this debate is only matched by the lack of proper information" #BBCQT
"85% of refugees settle in the country next to where they come from"
"The French take 3x more refugees than we do"
"The Germans take 4x more refugees than we do"
"If you put us back in the European Union, we are 19th in the league table when it comes to the number of refugees we take per capita"
"Do we need deterrents? Yes. The best deterrents is competence. If we assess people when they arrive - and they are not illegal immigrants - they are people seeking asylum.. From Sudan.. Afghanistan.. Iran.. Syria.. 90%+ turn out to be genuine refugees"
"If we have a competent government, and we haven't had one, let's see about this one.. And you assess them quickly.. And return the ones that are not refugees"
"That is your deterrent"
"Rwanda was a waste of money.. If they spent that money on case workers we could have processed these people, returned the ones that weren't refugees in a humane way, and let th eones who are genuine refugees, become British, pay their taxes, be part of our country, and we should be proud to admit them"
Very well said @timfarron 👏
Adam Gold retweeted
You see this, this is what happens in real life. The bots can't show up on the streets.
On the right there (yeah the far right) are the 6 nazis who turned up to cause mayhem.
Everyone else is there to stop them.
This is England.
Adam Gold retweeted
Beautiful economic dissection of Reform manifesto by @EdConwaySky - beautifully clear stuff in such a short space of time.
