- It reminds me of the proposal to shake hands at the end of Goldeneye:
> Miyamoto, with a series of suggestions for the game. “One point was that there was too much close-up killing – he found it a bit too horrible. I don’t think I did anything with that input. The second point was, he felt the game was too tragic, with all the killing. He suggested that it might be nice if, at the end of the game, you got to shake hands with all your enemies in the hospital.”
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/oct/26/goldeneye...
- "Ireland also has relatively little money in politics, limits on donations..."
There are a crazy amount of NGOs in Ireland, 1 for every 155 people, many pushing forward their own political policies and views.
https://unherd.com/newsroom/in-ireland-its-progressives-who-...
- According to mongodb it is acid compliant.
https://www.mongodb.com/resources/products/capabilities/acid...
- The EDL hasn't been around for years.
The "far right" narrative is to hide state failure.
Even the group "Hope not Hate" (former far-left "Searchlight" publication) admitted the "far right" narrative was a hoax. [1]
[1] https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1933625/uk-riots-list-hoax
- There is no "far right" or people being "whipped up". Disorder is a consequence of failed government policy.
E.g. from 2023: "Northern seaside town now a 'powder keg' over asylum seeker tensions"
"The tension in Skegness has grown after hundreds of migrants from the Middle East, Africa and Albania were crammed into former tourist hotels on the seafront."
"Cars have been vandalised, shop windows broken, mattresses set alight and scuffles reported between migrants and security staff. Officials say 229 asylum seekers are staying in up to seven hotels on and around the town’s promenade, but locals say the figure is more like 700."
- It didn't used to have:
The hanging judge, that evil old man in scarlet robe and horse-hair wig,whom nothing short of dynamite will ever teach what century he is living in, but who will at any rate interpret the law according to the books and will in no circumstances take a money bribe, is one of the symbolic figures of England.
- Orwell
- In the UK there is "social media intelligence", where AI systems scan the firehose of messages as they appear. [1]
So people have been arrested for posting something online, even if nobody appears to have seen it, and they delete it shortly after.
The policing is selective, depending on political view. For example, there were recently people with placards in London calling for the death of JK Rowling, which is de facto allowed by the police.
In comparison the wrong social media post can carry a lengthy jail sentence. [2]
The difference is so noticeable, it is now called "two tier policing".
If someone perceives something you say as "hateful" they can report you to the police, who can record a "Non-crime hate incident" against your name. [3]
This can show up on enhanced job checks, affecting employment.
It's very similar to a Stasi file.
[1] https://policinginsight.com/feature/advertisement/social-med...
[2] https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-punishment-of-lucy-c...
[3] https://www.slaterheelis.co.uk/articles/crime-category/non-c...
- "Sitting among the gleaming steel fixtures and softly glowing concrete lines of the modernist Cologne Bonn Airport on a sunny Sunday morning in late 1977, en route to his homebase, the perennially nervous flier recoiled once again at the canned pop pleasantries mindlessly piped into such an inspired space. The music was not only an afterthought but also insulting to the idea that you would soon climb into a sleek metal tube and be propelled by engines through the sky at 40,000 feet. “I started thinking, ‘What should we be hearing here?’ I thought most of all you wanted music that didn’t try to pretend you weren’t going to die on the plane, ” Eno, laughing but serious."
https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/brian-eno-ambient-1-mus...
- In the UK, if you hold opinions that are the same as the state, then expressing yourself using your name is safe.
If you don't, then you risk having a police officer show up at your door.
No local model for me manages to get function calling right.