A lot of people hate seeing the EU succeed at anything, simply because they are envious or it does not validate their world view.

That’s a lot of words to tell everyone you don’t know what an “externality” is.

People who think reform are anti establishment genuinely fascinate me.

And people who think they are strong and will solve anything.

These populists thrive on anger and hate. Solve the problem and those are gone. And the problems aren't the ones they champion anyway.

I have to say Labour is putting on a shit show too though. They were supposed to be new and refreshed, instead they are Tory-Lite on steroids. Worse than Blair or Miliband ever were.

Really UK politics needs some sanity :'(

The housing problem has nothing to do with immigrants and everything with structural mismanagement and prioritisation of the settled middle and upper class who wants to see their house value go up and up. And also their NIMBYism concerns (again, a new housing estate nearby might drop their house value)

The amount of housing actually taken by immigrants is minimal and releasing those wouldn't fix anything. Most of them live in squalor and doing jobs regular English guys wouldn't touch, in particular for the exploitative pay. You want your 2am burger delivered for a quid. Or the puke cleaned up in the metro. Who's going to do that these days?

It's this age-old problem: https://realfiction.net/assets/careful-mate.jpg

But now it's being weaponised for political gain. They're making you mad at the wrong people. The people who are causing it all are the ones you're voting for.

Do you always take baseless claims at face value?

This is obviously made easier when your opposition doesn’t stockpile their weapons in, nor conduct their military operations from, schools and hopsitals.

> And while having kids may be warping my present judgement, it hasn't overwritten my memory. I remember perfectly well what life was like before.

It's funny that he actually believes this.

Naming things is your primary contribution to AI so well done for deliberating on it. I disagree with the outcome though. Autotune would have been much more fitting.

Whatever happened to that key is a key part of his origin story, that I’m sure will be revealed in due course.

And now you’ll have one less opportunity not to waste your finite time on the internet.

Host a “phones off” party, go to a sauna, go for a hike with friends with self control etc., but please don’t hold me hostage (connectivity wise) in a cramped metal tube for your sense of nostalgia.

Planes are just about the least pleasant space to experience involuntary offline-ness. (That said, people scrolling reels with the speaker on (or the display at brightness levels making me consider sunscreen) should immediately go on the no-fly list.)

Nobody is holding you hostage. Sounds like you need the timeout more than anyone.

And the assumption that this view was drawn from nostalgia is completely invalid.

> What’s nice is not that it’s just me, but that it’s everyone.

This made it sound like you enjoy me being offline, and that seems pretty selfish (as long as I don't annoy you somehow with my Internet connection, and on that, see my original comment).

I'm a big fan of offline gatherings (ideally in nature, which is pretty much the opposite of economy class on many dimensions), but I think this should be a choice.

I do enjoy you being offline. There’s nothing selfish about having different preferences to you. Selfish would be forcing those preferences on you. That you assumed one was the other is a good reason to reflect.