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[coollino]

This is an interesting thread

 

[Rita_Poon]

something about keeping the british end up... etc

 

[Yarrgh]

That's true, he barely even acknowledged John Wayne

The hell he did.

 

[Spadge Vernacular]

Toad and the orange man

Farage's role as Trump's poodle will only heap more embarrassment on the UK

The former Ukip leader was front and centre at Trump's Iowa watch party - but his influence in the US will be 'zilch', says one expert

inews.co.uk

 

[verreauxi]

This is an interesting thread

Looks like an interesting thread but nitter.net is no more, so I can't read it.

 

[Wizard]

Looks like an interesting thread but nitter.net is no more, so I can't read it.

Here’s the article.

A new global gender divide is emerging

Young men and young women’s world views are pulling apart. The consequences could be far-reaching

www.ft.com

 

[coollino]

Looks like an interesting thread but nitter.net is no more, so I can't read it.

Ohhh had no idea about that site

 

[tsubaki]

This is an interesting thread

The first fruits of at least a decade's work by traditional media, social media and "free thinkers" to try and prevent the otherwise inevitable demise of what claims to be modern conservatism.

 

[verreauxi]

Here’s the article.

A new global gender divide is emerging

Young men and young women’s world views are pulling apart. The consequences could be far-reaching

www.ft.com

Just saw a bunch of posts on Bluesky where folks had reanalyzed those data showing that it isn’t as divisive as claimed. Basically they are time-series data which are notoriously hard to paramertize and assign proper weighting schemes. Different runs of the same data show different trend lines.

 

[Wizard]

Just saw a bunch of posts on Bluesky where folks had reanalyzed those data showing that it isn’t as divisive as claimed. Basically they are time-series data which are notoriously hard to paramertize and assign proper weighting schemes. Different runs of the same data show different trend lines.

He’s discussed this since as someone questioned him on it. Basically comes down the the different data sets used from what I can tell.

I’ve followed him for a while and he does seem to be pretty reliable when it comes to statistical analysis. But I can see how different data sets could present different outcomes.

 

[longers]

 

[tsubaki]

Imagine the first day in boot camp

Sgt Major: What’s your name son
Him: Ryan-Mark, it’s hyphenated
Sgt Major: *eyebrow raises*

 

[ArtetaMoney]

He’d cry the first day of Basic Training the little wet wipe.

 

[Blue 1]

What a whining little fanny.

 

[longers]

Oh lordy



Got to number 1 on US itunes charts as well, chuckling at the thought of loads of conservative boomers buying music they hate just to pwn the libs.