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Last Notes npub195f5d6t9ke7nsc9sxynxt7mtlpcxlmtqr8kpkfwazda05psllwmqspnqyg Benoît Jones Great distance and at a good pace! Well done! And that looks like what my local cafe calls a 'morning bun', only with ice cream on top! npub195f5d6t9ke7nsc9sxynxt7mtlpcxlmtqr8kpkfwazda05psllwmqspnqyg Benoît Jones I'm thinking that tariffs are a great way of shifting the tax burden from rich people to poor people... npub195f5d6t9ke7nsc9sxynxt7mtlpcxlmtqr8kpkfwazda05psllwmqspnqyg Benoît Jones I often felt like an odd one out. I felt most at home as a postgrad at Southampton, as in our group it was quite international, but also the UK postgrads were more likely to be from similar backgrounds to me. npub195f5d6t9ke7nsc9sxynxt7mtlpcxlmtqr8kpkfwazda05psllwmqspnqyg Benoît Jones Johnson was not a liberal by any stretch of the imagination, he was a populist who had no ideology. I think you are using the word carelessly to mean any roughly centrist politician, but liberalism is not centrism and nor is it capitalism. It is about valuing the rights and freedoms of individuals. So yes, the ECHR is a liberal project, I don't understand why you think human rights are a bad thing? npub195f5d6t9ke7nsc9sxynxt7mtlpcxlmtqr8kpkfwazda05psllwmqspnqyg Benoît Jones it seems like the left has given up on trying to move the window, whereas the right are actively trying to move it. npub195f5d6t9ke7nsc9sxynxt7mtlpcxlmtqr8kpkfwazda05psllwmqspnqyg Benoît Jones thanks! npub195f5d6t9ke7nsc9sxynxt7mtlpcxlmtqr8kpkfwazda05psllwmqspnqyg Benoît Jones Maybe the skills needed to get elected are a totally different set of skills from those needed to govern well? Case in point: BoJo. npub195f5d6t9ke7nsc9sxynxt7mtlpcxlmtqr8kpkfwazda05psllwmqspnqyg Benoît Jones My grand theory of creativity, let's call it "Jones's Law"(TM, patent pending), is that creativity loves constraints. It begins with constraints, it is shaped by constraints. It is very hard to be creative without constraints. npub195f5d6t9ke7nsc9sxynxt7mtlpcxlmtqr8kpkfwazda05psllwmqspnqyg Benoît Jones The problem with this is you first have to define what you mean by 'believe'. npub195f5d6t9ke7nsc9sxynxt7mtlpcxlmtqr8kpkfwazda05psllwmqspnqyg Benoît Jones Is mstdn.social ok? I presume it is a different server because I'm on it and I get no spam. npub195f5d6t9ke7nsc9sxynxt7mtlpcxlmtqr8kpkfwazda05psllwmqspnqyg Benoît Jones I think just generally speaking, academia is not a healthy place to work. It's often quite isolated and stressful.
