From the careless people woman we learn that he is unaccustomed to losing at Settlers of Catan because they all let him win.

If you're not much of a board game person this is _wild_ because Catan gets annoying with 1 beginner since you can see how they end up gifting the win to someone else.

So he either knows people are letting him win (and got mad at the newbie who didn't?) or he's too stupid to see them make mistakes or he thinks they're idiots but he keeps playing with them?

I dunno there was a lot of stuff from her that was damning but somehow this is the most damning thing to me, real insight into the man.

Reminds me of the UK prime minister's close protection officer and inner circle all gambling on the election date and getting caught.

What degree of corruption did you witness that this seemed OK?

What on earth makes you think you could know what's going on in someone else's brain with such confidence.

Wild.

Likely because of own experience and shared experience of others?

Medication here is not exactly new.

I'll quote Chris Gethard:

...mental health medications, to my knowledge, that’s the only type of medication that when people find out you’re taking it, they feel this freedom to offer up their entirely unsolicited opinions about it, right to your face, it happens all the time...

Like nobody has ever been diagnosed with diabetes and had their ignorant cousin go, “You’re gonna take insulin?” “For now, right? You’ll get off that shit someday.” No one in human history has ever said the words, “What’s so wrong with your life that you need chemotherapy?”

Once you're an adult some of the best lessons come from having bad teachers.

Adult here! No.

Adult here; there are lessons everywhere, but people learn very differently.

For the same reason weights and measures legislation is of course impossible.

This is why every time you go to the shops you have to carry your own standard weights and balance scale! The idea that society could regulate the weight and volume of every product in every shop is simply preposterous!

I think what's most worrying here is Trump & co publicly exerting influence over these huge companies.

So the concentration of economic power has made the number of oligarchs he needs to capture quite manageable.

More likely that sensible mainstream journalists will laugh at people under Govt surveillance because they sound like the reddit conspiracy nuts from their youth...

I think the point they are making is that google will let the fraudsters pay to place higher than the warnings because it's profitable to do so.

No embedding endpoints?

Seems like a rather large moral hazard if we don't?

At some point the courts should be able to say "ok fine you were the directors responsible for the company you're going to prison n years, sorry."

Bet we'd see a lot more documentation suddenly appear.

But think of the innovation we'd lose out on by jailing executives doing this. A bank that gives sub-market interest and "invests" part of the difference in a scratcher game that they run. Oh, and for complex legal reasons, they're not a bank, but they do offer bank accounts at a different bank.

I think you're absolutely on-point. There's literally no end to the amount of money they could innovate for themselves if we'd just let them do whatever the hell they want and then claim it's too confusing to figure out what happened when they steal it all. Won't someone think of the innovators?!

I'd bet 95% of fintech startups are just walking moral hazards to begin with.

I'm having a crack at making feeds that filter by topic and location using LLM. The current test feed is here: https://bsky.app/profile/super-james.bsky.social/feed/uk-pol...

But I'm in the middle of a big re-work so it'll get a lot better when I finish that.