Whenever you're not sure what to do, build another tower on Canrary Wharf. Surely, this is what London needs.

If books turn muggles into wizards, we were all muggles once. Not sure if short--form content has the same effect though.

Gen Z aren't mugs.

Very true. Every one left London a long, long time ago for safer and affordable areas, then life in the safer and affordable areas became unaffordable, so they moved to the less safe, more affordable, and it goes on, all the way throughout the nation.

Add in some population expansion, you have an unfordable nation with no jobs, no growth, just a culture of capitalism on the way up, socialism on the way down.

The only deft or apt deployment I know, albeit rarely, is as a rhetorical hypthetical device, as in: Could you just f*** off? Then again, I'm not much of an engineer. ; )

I'd recommend anything by zhangkejia (with subtitles)

I'm not sure whether it's your bag but if you felt like trying something different. Subject matter is quite ordinary with original story telling. I hear that's he's criticized for painting less glamarous view of societal change with his lense, and that this favors foreign audiences. I feel he's just an uncompromising director.

I salute my neighbor, Brussels, for destroying their regional economy.

I came here to sell the same racket.

ahhh! The old cherry pick police data and swap out one form of violent crime for another game.

1990/2003 Hmmm.

Like a possesive, sociopathic ex-girlfriend, the uk gov has become.

I was in a store that sold Lego packs and model kits yesterday. How can printed pieces of plastic cost that much?

So much hype, globally.

Maybe it's also a great thing to not to have to attempt to project prowess and lead in every aspect.

Not sure about this either.

Wouldn't fragmentation (alternative approaches to technological development) also benefit global innovation, as opposed to developing in lockstep? Sure, there are benefits to joint sharing of technology, but that doesn't seem to be reality in many areas.

My take is that leaving a meeting after chewing through key areas and allowing other members to continue discussions is a sign of maturity and realism. There's obviously a lot of areas that might be important to represent. Somehow I don't imagine that all nations of the globe were represented. That's significant in that we should consider all nations equal.

Interesting rant.

Well, you anticpated that I couldn't make much sense of music theory. Oddly though, it all made logical sense in terms of already knowing basics of how chords are formed on a fretboard. In terms of scales and musical notation, not sure I know much beyond that you are talking much about resonance. What do you use in music theroy if not your ear?

I don't really get your critique of contemporary, but I wasn't sure if that is a juxtaposition to be considered in light of classical music. Contemporary is post 1940's? Electrified?

Did Beethoven say (paraphrasing and translating) 'all music is frequency over time'?

In my mind, classical needs defining:

Interesting how DEEPSEEK3.1 and GROK4 seem to share a very similar strategy. huhh. Maybe not the same, but from looking at performance.

I have a general question. Hopefully it does not come across as ludicrous to an immunologist.

If both recombinant and live vaccines were studied (but not live-recombinant as I understand from the article) and were both found to have significant outcomes on the likelihood of stemming the onset of dementia, does this indicate that contracting shingles in its naturally occurring state would also presumably have a similar outcome?

I head that China Telecom, offer services. Seriously.

Japan and Korea for quality (meat, seafood and service) Japan for rice quality Thai for taste Vietnamese for pho's life-giving nutrition Chinese and Malay for dexterity

It's weird right though, how we can be having a conversation on this topic which clearly is important as many people who feel that the level of technological subterfuge and corresponding snoopy-ness that we need to consider is quite insane.

Imagine a nation, I don't know, Iceland, population of 5m? just not putting up with ChatControl and going to back to their perfectly normal lives without phones.

Maybe all the people who held off getting a mobile for as long as they could are the same people opposing this?

You're quite right in your estimation of how ill-thought through my statement was. That's why I said 'kinda'.

The way I see it, it's not really easy for (most) people to live without a phone. But I guess I was thinking, if things got so bad, and I felt my private conversations with my lady were being stored, analyzed and flagged, I might have the mind to throw my phone out of the window. Like the sentiment of 'kill your television' to stop being brain washed by it. Or, if you wanted to escape the constraints of punctuality, we have the option to smash all our clocks.

Obviously, the limitation is largely affected by whether or not this happens on-masse.

But I think there's still substance there, if collectively we get to the point.

Free speech/freedom of speech is interesting in that you could impose whatever controls you want, but it's likely ineffective in that I could still say what I want in my head, and say nothing because you are the gestapo. Then when I get back home, I say it to everyone else.

You can kinda opt out of using a phone.

I started to watch this and really enjoyed the conversation up to where I nodded off.

Karl Popper is certainly a curious creature. I can't say that I've read it (The Open Society and Its Enemies) but I did read a book he wrote earlier which was more of a deep dive into scientific rationale, reasoning and rigor 'The Brain and Itself'. I'd say that it's actually a debate between the premise of our rationale, scientific mind through the lenses of Popper as a philosopher and scientist, and that of a neurologist. It was actually very helpful in understanding Popper's theoretical notion of worlds as physical, mental, and social constructs.

From what I understand, or feel, a lot of the popularity of his work was somewhat perverted by the ideals of the questionable and dubious 'thought leaders' of our more recent day. Like the interviewee suggested, probably Popper would be horrified by how his ideas have been taken out of context by NGO opportunists who read a few books that were shaping views at the turn of the century, and have created doctrine from misinterpreted conclusions for today.

I'll re-watch this, would like to know what conclusions they came to.