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Wasn’t this expected though?

The Bank of England said that they weren’t going to alter interest rates despite a slight interest rise because they believed it was only temporary and would settle back down in a few months.

Obviously though mortgage lenders can do whatever they want. They have a justification for raising rates right now so why wouldn’t they?

That’s what “heated tobacco products” means

The problem is if she’s giving advice on asbestos then fine but realistically that’s not what she’s giving advice on. We are aware that asbestos is cancerous and we’ve already banned it, so there’s not much more of a discussion that needs to be had.

The primary carcinogen that is still commercially available is tobacco products. There’s no reasonable way to believe that she isn’t consulting on the tobacco industry despite having invested interests, regardless of what “assurances” she gives, it doesn’t matter if she’s declared them, she still compromised there’s no way that you wouldn’t be compromised in that situation.

When I read the headline I was thinking it was a bit odd. By saying “the UK government” it seems to suggest that she was appointed recently under Labour.

I get that she’s probably still there now but that’s not quite the same thing. Although Labour need to get rid of her now, acting on this will demonstrate how they are different from the conservatives.

She was interviewed by The Tories who almost certainly had a particular viewpoint they wished presented to them. The vetting process was compromised.

Seriously I’m convinced that Tesco’s carry out more thorough background checks.

Yeah one can be prevented the other can’t so let’s worry about the thing we can prevent.

If AI is going to kill us all the only thing we could do to stop that is not make AI which is basically not going to happen. We can alter society so that it’s no longer based on the assumption that everyone will be able to find employment.

How very edgy of you. Except you don’t actually have a point do you?

No one’s life would be damaged by changing the system without consultation. What’s the point in consultation with people who have no understanding of the system, the vast majority of the population have no reasonable input that they could provide. The whole point of government is so that the entire population doesn’t have to worry about complicated administrative matters.

Let’s face it though, the movie never made a lot of sense.

They replaced humans with artificial intelligence, an artificial intelligence capable of independent thought (why did it need to be capable of independent thought).

All they needed to do was literally replace the humans with remote control relays, there’s absolutely no reason for it to be an AI. If you are giving artificial intelligence access to weapons, then you are the problem, not the artificial intelligence.

I wish we could have a sensible conversation about AI without assuming that it’s going to kill everyone because it happened in some movie. AI’s biggest threat to humans is that it will replace everyone by doing a better job, and our entire economic system will fall apart, not that it’s going to start Armageddon.

Well there’s a continuum isn’t there between asking everyone about everything and asking nobody about anything. So where are we on that continuum, because if the government just hold referendums every time they change any policy then they may as well not exist, and we might as well just have direct democracy (Which never works).

So why should we hold a referendum for this, but not hold a referendum for example increasing the pay of railway workers?

Brexit happened because the conservatives couldn’t be arsed sorting out their own affairs so made it everyone else’s problem.

We should not have a referendum on changing the election system. They should just change it, there’s no reasonable person that would have a problem with it, but there’s plenty of unreasonable people and uninformed people that would vote against their own interests if it was put to a referendum.

It is somewhat depressing that everybody’s understanding of artificial intelligence and technology in general is derived from a sensationalist movie, which made no effort to be even remotely realistic.

How is that a counter argument?

“Sure you have a point, but I’m not going to listen to it because I don’t want to”

I think you’ve just demonstrated that you’re not at all interested in rigorous intellectual discourse and instead merely interested in trying to engage in some kind of one-upmanship.

Ironic that you mentioned Nazis.

There are some people who have become obsessed with the idea that if you don’t wear a poppy you’re some kind of warmonger.

They go around and try and shame people about it. I don’t know why they just don’t hound out white feathers.

Honestly it’s just people with nothing better to do with their lives then harang everyone else for not exactly conforming to their personal worldview.

My girlfriend is a teacher and due to the stories that I’ve heard I’ve come to the conclusion that a lot of teachers and particularly head teachers, are total lunatics.

It’s pretty clear what I meant they’re not banning smoking they are banning smoking outside of hospitals.

Jesus you go out of your way to be an obtuse idiot

Yeah let’s kill all the children.

They don’t burning smoking your idiot they’re bunning smoking outside of hospitals and schools it’s right there in the title.

As per usual she’s tempting to rewrite history on that one. She’s now said that she forgives him and that everyone should move on. Telling everyone to move on from problematic things she or her party have done seems to be her only tactic, I don’t believe it’s going to work however.

How much time does it have to be before it becomes history rather than just the past. When does history start?

He has some limits I guess

Given TV personalities recent convictions that’s kind of actually good going.