Death, taxes and Microsoft (being wankers)

Having a calculator doesn’t make me any better at maths. LLMs are just word calculators.

Garbage in, garbage out, still applies.

The NASDAQ

how are you measuring “innovation”?

Patents, breakthroughs. Most happen in US or China.

No risk, no reward.

Put a 10% tobin tax on all US stocks and bonds. Spend the tax on the wokist shit we can think of.

It needs to be sustainable obviously

That’s not what people like Draghi think.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draghi_report

Stifled innovation means a loss of competitive advantage.

I’m not saying don’t regulate.

I would much rather have the government stiffle innovation if that means that consumer are safe and benefit from said innovation.

How can they benefit from innovation that has been stifled?

Exactly the sort of thinking that has stagnated Europe in all areas of innovation this century.

I don’t think governments should be in charge of deciding what’s innovative

What legislation?

No. Britain is England, Scotland and Wales.

Until a better option becomes available, and then being stuck with just usb c will suck

Unbelievably there is no way to expell a member state

It’s not going to cost them net anything though. 4b to setup and then fees for as long as the currency lasts…so they’ll recoup all their costs and then it’ll be free money

On 5 November 2025, the London Gazette included a notice which stated that:

THE KING has been pleased by Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the Realm dated 3 November 2025 to declare that Andrew Mountbatten Windsor shall no longer be entitled to hold and enjoy the style, title or attribute of “Royal Highness” and the titular dignity of “Prince”.

https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-10370/

When did that actually happen?

Google it?

What are you on about? He had his titles removed

He was born 2nd in line, now he’s about 8th in line

Yep, he’s in police custody

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c70kjr9wjw0t