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BREXIT - what it means for small manufacturers
coppice:
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--- Quote from: fcb on January 02, 2021, 03:48:08 pm ---It's slippery and fairly inevitable slope we are on, and made even more likely by BREXIT.
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Yep, dark moment is coming, watch the video at the link I pointed above, where near at the end where the reporter Nick reported on what he got when interviewed a lady which has children crying on these issue, must be a lot of really stressful people there. :'(
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As Thomas Sowell observed of the current generation "The problem isn't that Johnny can't read. The problem isn't even that Johnny can't think. The problem is that Johnny doesn't know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.". Huge numbers are voting on long term decisions based on how they feel today. Those still able and inclined to think have little solid information on which to base their thinking, as the media mostly presents the public with more feelings, and little hard information. Most people in the media couldn't even present hard information, as they show day after day a lack of understanding of basics statistical processes - e.g. the shocking news that schools are now performing so poorly that around half are below average. We should have been able to laugh at the idiot reporter who said that as an anomaly, but its actually business as usual in the media.
bd139:
Exactly that. Measuring what people believe is true was a job of mine once. There is a lot of parity with media and a lot of disparity with fact. I digress but I noped out of that place fairly quickly and it became an instrument of today’s shitshow.
Thinking is hard so people subcontract it out to the lowest bidder. That’s usually the gutter press.
Cerebus:
--- Quote from: coppice on January 02, 2021, 05:33:41 pm ---As Thomas Sowell observed of the current generation "The problem isn't that Johnny can't read. The problem isn't even that Johnny can't think. The problem is that Johnny doesn't know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.".
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No he didn't. He wrote that in "Inside American Education" in 1993. That's 27 years ago and about a previous generation. It might have been true then, it might be true now, but it wasn't this current generation he was talking about.
Personally I'd take the opinions of someone who has spent so much of their life working at American conservative think tanks with a pinch of salt, a pithy sounding quotation lends the thinking of the quoted a respectability that perhaps it is not due. Ironically, that quotation engages only with feelings, it offers no logic for, nor any evidence for its stated position.
tggzzz:
--- Quote from: fcb on January 02, 2021, 03:48:08 pm ---There's a good chance that if Scotland gets another 'once-in-a-generation' vote on independance soon they'll vote to leave the Union.
The actual name for the Tories is the "Conservative and Unionist Party", which tells you how much opposistion there will be to a vote in Northern Ireland on reuniting with Ireland (for those not familar with British politics the Unionist's want to remain in the United Kingdom and not 'reUNITE' with Ireland).
It's slippery and fairly inevitable slope we are on, and made even more likely by BREXIT.
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And once the United Kingdom (of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) has lost NI, all the .uk URLs will be incorrect/obsolete. OK, so we could flip to .gb URLs, but what happens if Scotland seceeds?
Mind you, I think it is unlikely that Scotland would be readily admitted to the EU: Spain would veto it lest the Catalans be emboldened.
Re-uniting the bits of Ireland should be possible from the EU perspective, though, just as it was with the bits of Germany.
bd139:
Don’t even go there. I had to shoot my .eu domain a while back :-DD
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