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The neighborhood of Hampstead is just at present exercised with a series of events which seem to run on lines parallel to those of what was known to the writers of headlines and "The Kensington Horror," or "The Stabbing Woman," or "The Woman in Black." During the past two or three days several cases have occurred of young children straying from home or neglecting to return from their playing on the Heath. In all these cases the children were too young to give any properly intelligible account of themselves, but the consensus of their excuses is that they had been with a "bloofer lady." It has always been late in the evening when they have been missed, and on two occasions the children have not been found until early in the following morning. It is generally supposed in the neighborhood that, as the first child missed gave as his reason for being away that a "bloofer lady" had asked him to come for a walk, the others had picked up the phrase and used it as occasion served. This is the more natural as the favorite game of the little ones at present is luring each other away by wiles. A correspondent writes us that to see some of the tiny tots pretending to be the"bloofer lady" is supremely funny. Some of our caricaturists might, he says, take a lesson in the irony of grotesque by comparing the reality and the picture. It is only in accordance with general principles of human nature that the "bloofer lady" should be the popular role at these al fresco performances.
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BurdensomeCount
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8hr ago
Agreed and honestly I'd wager for most babies born on travel visas their parents would rather they didn't get US citizenship, US tax reporting and being a US persion is a severe burden due to FATCA in pretty much all the rest of the world (banks may well refuse to serve you for example). If you're a successful businessman in Italy the last thing you want is the IRS coming for its cut even though you've never visited the US since childhood and don't even have a US passport. Sure some anchor babies benefit from the current ruling but for others it's really just extra hassle they didn't sign up for.
BurdensomeCount
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10hr ago
We all know England are going to make it to the semis and then flop in the worst possible way imaginable.
BurdensomeCount
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1d ago
Eh, I'd take good old Leo as leader of the free world over Trump.
BurdensomeCount
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1d ago
Not quite, it's possible to be a foreigner but not an alien, e.g. a US citizen who also has German citizenship. It's also possible to be an alien but not a foreigner, e.g. a native American back before they were all given citizenship; and it's definitely possible to be an ambassador/foreign minister without being either a foreigner or an alien and you use this language specifically to ensure that it doesn't apply to US ambassadors or foreign ministers who are also US citizens for instance in their own right separately.
The UK actually does something like this. If you're just a random migrant spending time on almost any "residnence" visa category in the UK after 10 years you'll be eligible for ILR (permanent residence basically). However if you're specifically in the UK as an exercise of being part of a foreign nation's retinue to it's mission in the UK there are additional issues and you can't just apply for ILR or naturalisation until you are no longer not subject to immigration control (basically not until your formal status as a diplomat has ended).
It would make perfect sense for children of ambassadors and foreign ministers while they are serving in their capacity as an ambassador/foreign minister to be carved out of US citizenship as a way to not create direct US ties and jurisdiction (like e.g. family law jurisdiction) over a family member of a serving diplomat of the other country, which the other country almost certainly would not be happy about.
BurdensomeCount
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1d ago
Other parse: this will not include person born in the United state who are foreigners AND aliens AND belong to (the families of ambassdors OR foreign ministers). So to be exempt you'd have to be a foreigner and an alien and be born to an ambassador or minister accredited to the USA.
BurdensomeCount
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1d ago
Fair point. But it'll be a more inclusive "white" which I'll take.
BurdensomeCount
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1d ago
Wrong. I think there's a lot good about western countries and their history and everything. It's the people I mostly have an issue with, not the countries themselves. The USA for example I think has it in it to become the shining city on a hill it aspires to be, the geographic expanse, the natural beauty, the resources, it's the people and more specifically the mindset of these people that irks me.
BurdensomeCount
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1d ago
50 years/60 years are also good enough for me. By then the makeup of the US will be so different to right now it'll be effectively a different country regardless!
BurdensomeCount
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1d ago
Important thing is that 5 justices agreed to the main majority ruling which means this issue is hopefully settled and dead for another 130 years. The right is free to try to change the constitution if they don't like the consequences.
I'm halfway through Alito's dissent and man is that dude a hack. Same level of bad as Sotomayor.
BurdensomeCount
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5d ago
I don't see why Watson v RNC is even controversial at all to the point of being a Supreme Court case. In the UK postal votes must be recevied by the close of polling which is absolutely the correct way to do things otherwise even 2 days after polls have closed and counts and recounts have been done if the race is very close it would be possible for a new batch of votes to suddenly turn up because the mail service has been slow and flip the result. Voters and candidates need certainty quickly after polling is concluded about who has won and where we all go from here as a result, the process shouldn't be held hostage by the possibility of some votes turning up 5 days later.
It's not like this is particularly prejudicial to postal voters either, they normally get their ballots many weeks in advance and it's not hard to fill it out (takes minutes) and get it sent off many many weeks before the election. If you delay until the last few days to send off your vote and it gets delayed and doesn't arrive in time then sorry, that's on you.
BurdensomeCount
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7d ago
Yes, this is the most newsworthy thing of it all.
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11d ago
Akshually...
This whole "good faith" negotiation is very much a civilian (meaning civil law)/American thing, in English contract law there is no obligation that the parties are acting in good faith or anything like that. Good faith is mostly reserved for "relational" contracts in English law meaning things like Employment contracts and Franchise agreements where both parties expect there to be long term relations between them.
BurdensomeCount
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11d ago
Hey, jews still have the Jewish Autonomous Oblast. It's even got a rainbow as its official flag!
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14d ago
Degeneracy... degeneracy everywhere...
BurdensomeCount
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14d ago
I do program, and 4.8 is definitely a better programmer than 4.6, but yes non-programming capabilities in general seem to have degrated. Apropos of the same, GLM-5.2 (open weights!) just released and it's literally 2nd on the arena.ai coding leaderboard, above Opus 4.8 even, but is nowhere to be seen on the creative writing or document benchmarks. Companies are correctly focusing on making the best coding models because it's commerically useful in a way that being able to spit out Harry/Snape fanfics at speed isn't.
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15d ago
I make an exception for the Anthropic set; they genuinely seem to believe they have duties to the rest of humanity and accept that we live in an interconnected society. No wedgies for them, only strong legal protections and a functioning judicial system limiting government overreach!
BurdensomeCount
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15d ago
If there are any Anthropic people reading this you should seriously consider relocating your company to the UK. We'd welcome you with open arms and treat you as an equal partner and not a vassal to do our bidding. London has a talent density and ecosystem unmatched by anywhere else outside the US.
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18d ago
Apropos of that old cyotography algorithm as a book first amendment case, absolutely nothing prevents Anthropic from publishing and open sourcing Mythos 5 weights as a book available world over to strike back at the government. Would be a totally glorious act of self immolation, think Denethor's pyre etc. as China and co are brought up to the exact same level of AI tech as the US in one single, simple, beautiful act of spite.
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18d ago
the fate of the planet and/or the universe is in the end going to be decided by DC bureaucrats and not SF tech nerds.
SF tech nerds have desperately been in need of a wedgie for the last 7-8+ years. Regardless, this was always going to happen once the nerds got their hands on anything that was more than a plaything. I remember that meme about how the US was full of innovators who make things and Europe is full of lawyers and bureaucrats who only have it in them to regulate. In the end the "regulating" lawyers are going to win out over the "creating" "innovators", first internally and then world over.
BurdensomeCount
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21d ago
I'd still take the AI techbros, you're likely looking back to the feminist communists with rose tinted glasses.
BurdensomeCount
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21d ago
I've been feeling we are due for a crash since around 2018 basically. What do I know...
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22d ago
There is way too much money floating around in these communities. It breeds certain pathologies, obscenely paid escorts being one of them. See also how there's the whole "unless you follow exactly our ideologies and beliefs and do what we say is the right way to do things then you'll be damned forever part of the eternal underclass".
The solution here is for these communities to be put in their place, which is only really going to happen via some form of external shock. When and if that happens nobody can say.
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27d ago
This can be 100% true and it still be right for Digwa to get convicted for murder, just like how the hood rat gets convicted for murder. The whole "but anti white racism" bring played up by far right grifters is its own thing but Digwa absolutely deserves being convicted here.
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27d ago
He was a goner regardless even if the police had done everything right, his stab wound from before the police arrived was already lethal.
Indeed, this is Papal Territory. What more apt thing can I or the US Supreme Court say to the vanquised MAGA losers other than "Begone
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