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Without a pattern this is simply Twitter being Twitter. That is,misguided people - the type that don't understand correlation from cause - are having their free time sucked up, and they like it that way.
Find a pattern. Let's discuss that.
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Indeed. The "lovable bumbling fool" image he puts across is a very conscious choice on his part. Despite what you think about his politics (and I'm personally not a fan) you can't deny that Johnson is much smarter than he wants us to think.
> you can't deny that Johnson is much smarter than he wants us to think. In playing the political game at least, definitely so. Lots of reports from coworkers (especially from the Foreign Office) that he is genuinely as clueless as he comes across when it comes to other elements of his job.
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Describing the ENA as a university is misleading [0]: its does no research and does grant degrees [1]. All "students" are civil servant in training that have been hired through the civil service examinations and will go on to their jobs. They spend more than half of their "studies" working already to learn on the job. It's like saying Parris Island is a university. [0] In my opinion, this characterization as universi…
How can you miss the point so intently?
I always thought that the ENA was similar to the Ecole de Petrole (a prestigious engineering school) but for economics or something like that.
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> The last thing anyone would know about Arcuri is that she was very briefly a model. Sky News: "Boris Johnson: 'No interest to declare' over links with former model Jennifer Arcuri" The Mirror: "Boris Johnson 'had affair with ex-model Jennifer Arcuri while London mayor'" The Sun: "Who is Jennifer Arcuri? Model connected to Boris Johnson" The Independent: "Jennifer Arcuri: Boris Johnson repeatedly refuses to deny aff…
Fair point. Looks like I read the wrong newspapers! Anyway... BREAKING: this particular ex-model's just had her laptop stolen while she was in the UK... containing 6 years of emails, documents, photos and personal who-knows-what from the time when she was reportedly giving technology lessons to our now Prime Minister. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7522877/Jennifer-Ar...
My respect level for Boris actually went up a few notches after reading about this :)
Perhaps it's just a new thing invented by PR coaches. Anyway, I hope that Google fixes this kind of SEO.
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No, but some people get to be Telegraph columnists and into positions of power without having to do as much work and face as much scrutiny as others because of their skin colour, their familial wealth and connections, and because they went an elite school.
I strongly disagree that skin colour has anything to do with it. In reality the elite school doesn't even help. It all comes down to wealth and connections.
The most worrying for me? Even after countless updates to their algorithms, breakthrough AI and ML, breaking hundred of thousands of legit website each time, Google is still dumb enough to be tricked by such a simplistic tactics :-( Or is Google biased toward "official" speech (even from a really-not-trustable source) like Twitter is when it will allow BS from a President (because it's an official account so not subj…
I mean the query "Boris Johnson model" is genuinely ambiguous, it's a property of language rather than Google. There are a lot of queries out there that are truly ambiguous. Can't reproduce the "wrong" result locally, but I bet the results for the "woman model" interpretation are just below the results for the "model of restraint" interpretation.
But besides that - most of the time I myself would prefer if Google served more diverse than more popular results.
E.g. seeing several most popular results for a term from every month this year will have way more information than 20 different content copies for the same event popular right now
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I strongly disagree that skin colour has anything to do with it. In reality the elite school doesn't even help. It all comes down to wealth and connections.
Those schools help with the connections
(They help more than nothing but less than you'd hope as a parent - even money can't buy your children entry to the upper classes.)
> I wonder why nobody else is willing to do this? Well there was a story on french president Macron who was apparently thinking of renaming the ENA (one if not the most prestigeous uni in France) to "Institut Superieur des Fonctionaires", ISF in short ( http://www.lefigaro.fr/politique/le-scan/l-ena-remplacee-par... sorry it's in French). But ISF is also the short name of the tax on the richest, which he has gotten r…
Describing the ENA as a university is misleading [0]: its does no research and does grant degrees [1]. All "students" are civil servant in training that have been hired through the civil service examinations and will go on to their jobs. They spend more than half of their "studies" working already to learn on the job. It's like saying Parris Island is a university. [0] In my opinion, this characterization as universi…