That makes sense. I guess if you want the star to be explicitly European then it could be a yellow star on a blue cloud, on a white background. Whatever you think works well really. I just thought I’d point out the socialist star thing since that other poster said they were reminded of Russia.

I see, thanks for the info. Apparently Diane Abbott has suggested Labour should introduce a wealth tax instead of tightening rules around PIP. But maybe it’s unlikely that the government will do this.

Fair point. I think a single star in the context of a co-operative business could make people think of the communist/socialist star symbol though.

Perhaps if the single star in the logo was replaced with a ring of stars, like the EU flag, then it might look more explicitly European.

Maybe I’m wrong but that’s just what I thought.

I don’t think I can conclude whether Labour’s proposals on this matter will be good or not until I see some numbers, conveying how this will actually affect people. I think everyone understands that the country can’t afford everything, but also of course people who can’t work should be financially supported.

This article says that tightening the eligibility rules for PIP “could mean about 620,000 people lose £675 a month on average”. That sounds like a lot. How much do they already get though? Maybe £675 a month is too much to lose. I guess I’ll follow the news to see how this actually affects people.

I read the same story on CNN this morning.

Apparently the Democrats have a favourability rating of 29% (“a record low in CNN’s polling dating back to 1992 and a drop of 20 points since January 2021”) while the Republicans have a favourability rating of 36%.

I wonder if there’s some validity to what OpenAI is saying though (but I certainly don’t completely agree with them).

If the US makes it too costly to train AI models, then maybe China will relax any copyright laws so that Chinese AI models can be trained quickly and cheaply. This might result in China developing better AI models than the US.

Maybe the US should require AI companies to pay a large chunk of their profits to copyright holders. So copyright holders would be compensated, but an AI company would only have to pay if they generate profits.

Maybe someone more knowledgeable in this field will tell me I’m totally wrong.

I read this article, I thought it was interesting. The author says that he ended up being grateful for the strictness from his mother - he thinks she took him away from a dangerous criminal life.

I wonder whether British parents generally these days are not strict enough, or too strict. Clearly this guy thinks that strictness when growing up can be beneficial, even if it’s painful at the time.

AfD got 21% in the election though, higher than just 6%. I think it’s like someone else in this thread said - the right don’t want to buy Teslas because electric cars are seen as “woke”, while the left don’t want to buy Teslas because they don’t like Musk.

94% say they won’t buy a Tesla car

It would be cool if European countries joined together to make a European nuclear force (starting with French and British nukes I guess, and then they can pool money to fund further weapons development).

Maybe this will happen in the future, but it might be a while until then.

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I liked the look of those 2009 - 2016 cars.

I know some people don’t like the narrow rear wings but overall I think the cars looked good. They weren’t too big, they had clean lines. I liked them.

True. I know a lot of Linux people hate Ubuntu but I think it’s a decent distro especially for beginners, and like you say, Canonical is based in London.

Manson guitars are from the UK.

Also there are several Japanese guitar companies - sure they’re not European, but at least they’re not American. Examples would be Ibanez, ESP, Yamaha.

I don’t think that’s necessarily true. And surely the Ukraine war shows that nukes are useful for deterrence. Biden was reluctant to give things to Ukraine (tanks and planes) because he feared escalation from Russia - i.e. the use of tactical nukes.

If Ukraine had nukes, maybe they wouldn’t have been invaded.

This reminds me of something I read from a British left-wing journalist the other day (source). She suggested that perhaps the left should focus less on identity politics, and more on wealth and class:

By making a virtue of marginalisation, breaking ourselves down into ever smaller and mutually hostile groupings, we make it impossible to build a mass movement capable of taking on extreme concentrations of wealth and power

Fair enough. I don’t think I’m convinced of God’s existence myself. But I think freedom of belief is important - we should be free to believe or not believe in God, because I don’t think anybody knows the answer for certain.

What evidence is there that proves God’s existence?

1. You’ve assumed that person is a westerner, which I think is unbelievably arrogant
2. You’re suggesting that person shouldn’t comment at all just because of a mistake they made

To me it seems the arrogant one here is you

You’re making a lot of assumptions based of one mistake, but you don’t have to insult me.

You’re a member of the wrong instance if you don’t like assumptions and insults.