MPs have extra protection for the things they say in parliament. If he did say this in parliament it would be much harder to bring about chargers related to hate speech, encouraging violence etc.
It would also be immediately challenged and rebutted by well informed MPs. Resulting in a very humiliating clip for Farage. Hence, why he makes these comments on social media where he isn’t directly and immediately challenged.
It’s like camping in the garden, in the hopes you’ll reduce your commute.
They never were the responsible party. It’s a myth. Your better informed now, than in the past. It’s the only thing that’s changed.
The conservatives control the narrative of politics and the media. Even when not in power. When Cameron came to power the media kept pushing the message that he has reformed the tories, they are no longer the nasty corrupt party. Rise and repeat the same thing will happen again. This is how the tories spend most of the time in power since working class people got the vote, despite labour being better reprentation of them and their issues. Even when not in power
Labour are still heavily influenced by the tories. Margret Thatcher said Tony Blair was her greatest achievement.
It’s insane people fall for this again and again. People that think government doesn’t work and is ineffective shouldn’t be chosen to lead governments. They won’t do a good job. Either they don’t believe it’s possible, they want bad governance or their ideological beliefs will prevent them from doing a good job. Instead this paradox has been labelled as ‘responsible’.
The tories also get votes because they are so horrible, they know this and play to it. It does help them, put people don’t want to admit this to pollsters so they don’t poll as well. Especially when they are completely undefendable like they are now. Nothing drives people like hate and anger, which the press and tories stir up at every chance. They’ll complain about immigration and how bad immigrants are, despite them being responsible for the highest levels of immigration ever (tories like immigration it keeps wages down and makes unions weaker).
The tories will get more votes than you would expect, not enough to win. The tories have always been this nasty and incompetent. They still won elections.
The tories are better funded that another political party by a large margin. They’ll be fine.
That’s just how humans are. The average rating is 7. If it was perfectly even it would be 5. But it isn’t. We are objective or rational when we’re asked to put a number to our personal opinion.
How people rate things is skewed. 5 really means there isn’t anything redeemable about it.
For someone to mark below the midway point it tends to be because they are offended or upset about it. At that point a quality rating isn’t appropriate, it should be 0.
They wouldn’t be seen to do this. Because throughout the entire affair they will be criticising the SNP on real and imagined issues. They have substantially more political media presence in Scotland (SNPs presence is largely government, or criticism of the SNP). They are also substantially better funded than the other parties in Scotland, despite a significantly smaller number of members. This means they can set their narrative rather well. Those that don’t pay much attention to politics will base their vote on Rishi Sunak rather than Douglas Ross.
Those that pay attention to politics in Scotland are less likely to be changing their vote irregardless of the Conservatives parliamentary record and will do so again. They are voting for a leader with three jobs, who repeatedly shows he doesn’t understand how the Scottish Parliament operates and in a friendly interview when he first became leader proposed enacting genocidal legislation if he was prime minister for a day.
The Scottish Parliament has a serious lack of talent in the opposition parties. There are some exceptions of previous leaders that were sacked and some newer MSPs. The SNPs landslide elections and the way party’s selected candidates in Scotland PR system prior to this wiped out the vast majority of senior party and talented members in particular. If you follow Scottish politics closely it’s hard to see anyone that is going to compently run the Scottish Government other than the SNP.
Only if the post of FM is vacant for 28 days, or a 2/3 majority votes for it.
The SNP are unlikely to support an earlier election as they don’t have a lot of spare funding.
The conservatives are unlikely to support an earlier election as they are set to lose many of their seats.
The green party leadership knows they are likely to lose votes in an election where they’ve opposed the SNP. The leadership is aware that most of their votes come from SNP voters choosing to vote Greens on their second vote to increase pro independence MSPs. The Green members and junior MSPs don’t seem to understand this and it’s caused this arrangement to end. The SNP can whip it’s members to support the government, the Greens struggle with this. Only the green leaders seem to accept that they are part of the government (until know).
This leaves 27 MSPs, out of 129 that would support an early election. Getting a 2/3rd majority for non-ordinary election means the post has to be left vacant for 28 days. Then the next election has to happen on the first Thursday of May, which will be May 2025 due to the timing.
The SNP only needs the support of one of Labour, Conservatives, LibDems or Greens to remain in government as a minority. They will probably get the support of the Greens, even after being kicked out of government. A Labour/LibDem/Conservative agenda won’t be as pro green issues as the SNP. If the SNP don’t get the greens support they are likely able to make deals with one of the other parties, including play them off each other.
He is credited with discovering natural selection not evolution. The two are often confused and he is associated with evolution.
Natural selection is how most animals came to be. Animal breeders also do selection, unnatural or artificial selection, but the process is still evolution. People definitely thought animals change, they even changed animals themselves. But the detailed understanding of how and why they changed is what Darwin discovered. Like you say this took a lot of work and insight.
People had ideas and hypothesis, but no theory till Darwin.
It won’t generate random numbers. It’ll generate random numbers from its training data.
If it’s asked to generate passwords I wouldn’t be surprised if it generated lists of leaked passwords available online.
These models are created from masses of data scraped from the internet. Most of which is unreviewed and unverified. They really don’t want to review and verify it because it’s expensive and much of their data is illegal.
They would have to set it up before leaving. Or have someone in the household change their router settings to enable it and share the details with them.
If you ever look at local WiFi networks in most residential areas you will see 90%+ use the default router supplied by thier isp. Also using the default SSID and password printed on the router. Most wouldn’t even venture into the routers web page to change the settings. So the likelihood someone would configure this is low.
If you don’t already, change your default WiFi SSID and password. It makes it easier to share with visitors, you can use the same ones when you switch routers (saves reconfiguring all devices). It also removes the possiblity of your ISP leaking the SSID and password to anyone. If it’s been printed, then it isn’t encrypted when stored. Many ISPs have lost lots of customers data in breaches, many of which they resit making public.
It better they quit than have them refuse to leave because of their own personal financial situation.
This policy and headline are designed to argue people that don’t think these situations through. If political positions put people in difficult finical positions only those that are already wealthy can take up offices. This would be bad for democracy. Our political system is already very prone to aristocracy it doesn’t need any more encouragement.
This is close to reasonable. But the argument politicians shouldn’t be paid well is bad. If you can’t earn a good income as a politician, then the only people that can be politicians are those that are already wealthy.
A working class person (or background) that can do well as a minister will struggle to put their family in the position of earning a reduced salary compared to a job in the private sector that will pay them more.
A good example of this problem is Rishi Sunak. His wife is a billionaire. He doesn’t need a salary and PM. He has extended internal combustion engine sales deadline, supported the war in Gaza as soon as a Gaza permit for BP was announced and spitefully stopped the expansion of high speed rail by selling off the land purchased for it. All these actions are in direct support of BP a company his wife directly benefits from.
It would be much better if our politicians earned their income through their salary. We have a dearth of talent due to low pay and high stress roles, only those that are swindling millions out of it are willing to endure.
Your correct that military action does inflame people. But this action is trying to stop the people sponsoring the terrorist.
A better approach would be to stop sponsoring Israel’s genocidal war on Palestine. This would decrease tensions and allow diplomatic options to become viable.
Israel had a cease fire, which appears to have been motivated by the US pausing delivery of weapons to Israel. As soon as the weapons were delivered they went right back at it. So the US does have considerable influence.
The people doing these attacks in Yemen claim they are trying to disrupt Israel and it’s war on Gaza. Take away their moral cover and their support will weaken. They’ll be seen as terrorists if they don’t stop and will be politically easier to attack and politically harder to support.
The solution here is to bring a bucket of dirt inside and stick the ground rod in that.
If the electronics your handling have a metal frame just use that. Your unlikely to causing damaging static shocks if you take precautions you’ve already been carrying out.
Any large metal structure would cause the static to dissipate. Your cars only good if your working in your car, it is likely to be a different voltage from anything else it doesn’t share a ground with. The metal frame of your electronics will likely be connected to their reference ground.
When your building that many ships each year your ship design and building capabilities are going to rise very fast. China is serious about challenging the US liberal order. This is bad for everyone the world over, China is very authoritarian and current trajectory is more nationalist and authoritarian.
We have higher and higher output signals. Your assuming the WiFi signals in homes now represent all the signals humans output, this isn’t the case by far.
An encoded signal still appears as a manmade signal and not the result of a natural phenomenon.
Any alien civilization that travels between planets or solar systems would have multiple high gain networks.
Even if they used lasers, that would make detection easier. Lasers are not a natural phenomenon. If we observed one in nature that would be a new mechanism or evidence of alien life.
To add to this most of the suns energy leaves the planet. Very little is retained. What the sun provides is a source of low entropy.