On the actually change - if moving I to bugger funds allows for them to actually own companies etc, then I think this is a good idea.

Aren’t pension funds supposed to spread their risks?

But if they are forced to invest for economic growth instead of pension fund growth, then that’s bad.

That appears to be the concern, that it will be used to invest in what the government wants to invest in, as a substitute for the government investing directly as they should be doing.

The GMB expert also rubbished Treasury arguments that pooled assets can be used to invest into a wider range of riskier and long-term assets.

“We are not speculators — we are not going to put it on the 4:30 at Haydock,” he said.

He said Treasury plans to have each administering authority set targets for investment in their local economies was also wrong-headed.

“We invest to get a return, we don’t invest in the local economy for the sake of it,” said Mr Georgiou.

The government that engineered his escape from standing trial for genocide, then indicted him for “kidnapping” only to dismiss the case.

Thank you.

The guardian article is also the second result for “Jonathan Powell pinochet” on google.

Honestly the only thing that concerns me about GM crops is allowing companies like monsanto to have patent monopolies on seeds.

It will be a short conversation I imagine.

Direction? To Britain they’re expats, to Spain they’re immigrants? (or whatever the Spanish word for Immigrants is, I suppose.)

This is my perspective too. “Compensating” slave owners was terrible, but the loss of life from the American approach was far more terrible.

Who is Emma?

Hence the “I’m not saying he should have to”. To clarify, I’m asking if there’s some rule or law of evidence that prevents someone doing that.

My interpretation is they wanted to use it, got denied, so used a more generic setting instead.

They’re suing him for using vaguely cyberpunk ai generated images?

As much as it seems like Musk is trying to make a real life cyberpunk dystopia, this seems a little silly.

I’m not saying he should have to, but is there a reason he can’t just submit, “video evidence”

If it’s not dystopian, it’s the only part of this government that isn’t.

It was announced really badly though, it did sound like they were going to force it on the unemployed.

Completely ignoring the impact of long covid. The whole article feels like another government propaganda hit job.

Why stop at short term?

And a tax on second, third, etc homes. Outside of summer some places are starting to look like a ghost town.

It’s because I was born disabled.

I’ll probably get downvoted for saying this, but as a transhumanist the potential for this kind of technology is huge.

It’s expensive now, but 20 years ago it cost $2.7 billion to sequence a full human genome, now it’s around $600. Imagine a world where this process is inexpensive and easily available.

Most if not all of that has been debunked https://stallmansupport.org/debunking-false-accusations-against-richard-stallman.html