Chris von Simson

Chris von Simson @chrisvonsimson.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 12:06 UTC

While not unique, I wonder if the British are "more aware than the average nation" of climate and weather shifts: lots of gardening, dog-walking. Ancient histories of footpaths, detecting seasons and wind.

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Chris von Simson @chrisvonsimson.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 22:35 UTC

Yep, we got one of those too. It's just not as good as the standalone countertop one. Lesson learned.

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Chris von Simson @chrisvonsimson.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 22:22 UTC

Definitely check. Also, there's no need to "get a range". We have had great success trying it out with a single plug-in induction appliance. After using it on the counter, simply put it away :) (A few years back I noticed pro chefs were using plug-in induction for their demonstrations)

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Chris von Simson @chrisvonsimson.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 22:19 UTC

Not all induction stoves are the same, there's quite a variability.

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Chris von Simson @chrisvonsimson.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 19:36 UTC

I wonder if like the orange man organization in the americas it could be a used as a laundering operation.

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Chris von Simson @chrisvonsimson.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 18:48 UTC

Spectacular in a good way! Thanks for sharing.

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Chris von Simson @chrisvonsimson.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 13:39 UTC

Very useful, thank you

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Chris von Simson @chrisvonsimson.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 03:06 UTC

There’s a book in the wretched tangled mysteries of holding that Downing Street office post Brexit.

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Chris von Simson @chrisvonsimson.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 02:57 UTC

I wonder if he undid “being run by officials” through the reported micromanaging. Unwitting self destruction through Head Boy behavior?

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Chris von Simson @chrisvonsimson.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 23, 2024 at 12:53 UTC

Dark. Shivers, thinking about the grisly twenty years before.

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Chris von Simson @chrisvonsimson.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 23, 2024 at 12:39 UTC

Thanks @chadbourn.bsky.social I hope you're right. and I like them too.
Over at the New Statesman there's Ben Walker's good work updated daily (at the moment) here, with an actual map and data table you can open (and even make a copy)
sotn.newstatesman.com/2024/05/brit...

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Chris von Simson @chrisvonsimson.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 23, 2024 at 12:22 UTC

I'm wondering about this too. What do we want from it?
Seats declared by election officials in near-real-time?
National Map?
Do we have any early leads or hopefuls for this?
For example: www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/map_home.html can be useful...

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Chris von Simson @chrisvonsimson.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 22, 2024 at 22:02 UTC

The Rest Is Politics does a YouTube stream. Channel 4, I’m not sure. To be determined.

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Chris von Simson @chrisvonsimson.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 22, 2024 at 21:56 UTC

I’m also far away. Hoping the Channel 4/The Rest is Politics stream might help.

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Chris von Simson @chrisvonsimson.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 21, 2024 at 21:13 UTC

Seems like a good time to ask @chadbourn.bsky.social what his setup is for Election Night. What sites? Which radio?

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Chris von Simson @chrisvonsimson.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 21, 2024 at 15:50 UTC

Very difficult to find in print in the USA, so here's a useful link: archive.org/details/grim...

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Chris von Simson @chrisvonsimson.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 21, 2024 at 15:36 UTC

There's a terrible risk of bad message, poorly executed, very late being not just "too little, too late", but making it *worse* - a jolt to emphasize the "punishment" aspect that appears this week (Ashcroft et al).

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Chris von Simson @chrisvonsimson.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 17, 2024 at 11:43 UTC

I permit myself some optimism about the reports that Starmer is possibly less doctrinaire political and more pragmatic ("what works" is reported). Governments must become more useful, local, visible, obvious. Here Strong Towns (.org) is good on this.

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Chris von Simson @chrisvonsimson.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 17, 2024 at 11:39 UTC

Agreement on all points. I'm based in the USA (Virginia) and it is similar. So, I'm a first-generation immigrant (highly controlled though via Green Card). We immigrants (and some economists) know that we contribute massively to GDP growth. I think your point is bigger though...

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Chris von Simson @chrisvonsimson.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 17, 2024 at 10:46 UTC

Some (e.g. Timothy Snyder) make a fair argument about this as, writ large, a worldwide democratic problem. There is a tension between the John Major view of centrist parties as doomed to lose to an extreme at some point, and the current situational Macron play in France.

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Chris von Simson @chrisvonsimson.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 17, 2024 at 10:26 UTC

I mostly agree with this, yet as you have noted in other recent posts there is evidence of outright mad panic appearing (the Jenrick and Cash things you noted). I'm wondering if at the constituency level the numbers reveal a lethal pincer btw Reform erosion and either a LD or Labour win.

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