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fuctifino posted:Anyone fancy a job? You don't need to understand anything about the law, but there's a backlog of proles to process I'm not sure it's worth the loss of salary, but part of me wonders what would happen if you did this and just took a very public "ah, but aren't the problems here really societal rather than individual in nature?" stance in your decisions. [edit] Dominic Raab used up 399 braincells trying to put this on Twitter
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Nov 18, 2022 23:47
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there was a ps2 game called evil magistrate where you were a ye olde Japanese judge guy who conspired with various criminal enterprises to grift up as many bribes as you could in order to hire guards and set traps to save yourself from ninjas and samurai trying to bring you down. I consider this job experience and will bring new and innovative corruptions to local jurisdiction
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I just had my cult leader in rimworld accuse a prisoner of some arbitrary crime so that I could stuff him in a machine that rips his brain out so I can stuff it in a giant murder robot without anybody else feeling bad about it. I would describe myself as a moderate.
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Nov 18, 2022 23:55
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I used to care about world cups for the football, now it's just watching a country-wide Fyre festival. What are they saving the cash for, more bribes to FIFA?
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Nov 19, 2022 00:13
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Gotta fund opulent unoccupied skyscrapers to fit in with your Emirate neighbours somehow No you can't use the oil money, that's for corruption on a world scale
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qa.tar is when they bring everyone together qa.tar.gz is when they put them in the ski bags el dingo posted:I don't know but tell me about Space Karen 
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Charlize Theron is also a white Seth Efricun. She's probably ''OK'' though. This one's got layers.
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I love how all of these daytime TV shows sort of condemn Qatar for all of its horrible poo poo, then flip to "weyhey its the footie" without so much as a beat. There was an interview with Bryan Cranston years back about Breaking Bad where he talked about a core theme being how much money would it take to sacrifice your morals. I look at all these shits and can't help but think it's just a loving game of football that's enough for them to show just how much they care for the rights of others. It'll be a sure bet that as soon as England get knocked out, there'll be nothing but bad press for Qatar and the Fifa corruption. Even that wanker Badiell is getting in on it by creating a new world Cup song, while trying to milk as much as he can from the antisemitism train.
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kingturnip posted:I'm not sure it's worth the loss of salary, but part of me wonders what would happen if you did this and just took a very public "ah, but aren't the problems here really societal rather than individual in nature?" stance in your decisions. the tabloids would whip up all the hard of thinking in the country until they invaded your home and beat you to death
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Kin posted:Even that wanker Badiell is getting in on it by creating a new world Cup song, while trying to milk as much as he can from the antisemitism train. They're banning Jews They're banning Qatar still bans public displays of Jewish religious symbols and activities as part of a systemic and systematic process of state antisemitism But I'm still watching
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Only Kindness posted:Charlize Theron is also a white Seth Efricun. She's probably ''OK'' though. She got a bunch of white Sith Ifricans very mad at comments that Afrikaans is a dying language spoken by "about 44 people" lately so that's funny.
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It's not dying, but less than 40% of first language speakers are white, so the worst nationalist types can't correct her on it.
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Reveilled posted:Unironically yes, or at least, fine with everyone that Musk wants to satisfy. The thing advertisers care about is whether someone can take a screenshot of their ad next to a racism. As long as it's at least a screen height away they want those ads there because chuds buy stuff (sometimes they even buy your stuff so they can destroy it performatively!). If this was the only change Musk made he could have probably threaded the needle of enabling his fans hate speech while satisfying advertisers. Of course he's decided to crash twitter into the ground for good measure so I expect a lot of advertisers will be sceptical he can follow through with his "no screenshots of your ad next to a racism" policy. That is the main problem here - he can't promise any kind of meaningful content moderation because he's fired/lost his entire goddamned moderation team.
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forkboy84 posted:She got a bunch of white Sith Ifricans very mad at comments that Afrikaans is a dying language spoken by "about 44 people" lately so that's funny. She got even more of them mad by adopting two black children and supporting her three year old trans daughter when she told her she was a girl.
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Glad to have confirmation of my suspicion that Charlize is a GBOL. Now let's talk about Lupita Nyong'o and De Beers (not mentioned on her wiki page, probably nobody's got round to it).  UKMT: You're #1 soucre for celebrtiy goss + pix!!!!!1!
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Only Kindness posted:Glad to have confirmation of my suspicion that Charlize is a GBOL. What is a GBOL? Asking for a dim friend - ahem.
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fork of COBOL that operates natively in a numerical base derived from £.s.d
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Speaking of policing white blonde women, Elizabeth Holmes got 11 years (for defrauding rich people, not for scamming patients who got the wrong diagnosis). https://www.reuters.com/business/he...ors-2022-11-18/
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quote:Before handing down the sentence, Davila called the case "troubling on so many levels," questioning what motivated Holmes, a "brilliant" entrepreneur, to misrepresent her company to investors. I think lying to investors is what makes you an entrepeneur, and getting caught makes you a bad one.
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Only Kindness posted:Speaking of policing white blonde women, Elizabeth Holmes got 11 years (for defrauding rich people, not for scamming patients who got the wrong diagnosis). It's still funny because her lawyer was trying to get 18 months. But yes, her great crime was defrauding other rich people. Like George Shultz. If you've never read Bad Blood It's really worth looking for on LibGen, extremely funny how loving stupid VC types end up looking.
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We've already had The Book Version, The Podcast Version and The Television Miniseries Version, but I was actually idly looking forward to The Already-Redundant Movie Version simply because I wanted to see how J-Law did That loving Stupid Voice She Puts On.
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Nothingtoseehere posted:There is a effective 60% rate on earnings between 100k-125k, because you're both being charged at 40% and also losing some personal allowance. Then at 125k you're only paying 45% marginal rate, which is silly given it was 60% before. I'll just about go over 100k for the first time this year, up from c60k last tax year. If I get a good bonus next year I might hit 150k. Last week I got in a taxi and the driver reminded me that i'd done a runner on him, must be 10 or more years back, when I couldn't persuade the cash machine to give me a tenner at 3am on the way back from the casino. Now i'm considering how I can mitigate the tax impact of hitting six figures with pension contributons and salary sacrifice. But still i'll never be legitimately 'wealthy', having started paying into my pension and taking on a mortgage at close to 40. I'm pretty much at the top end of what I can earn now as an employee, having traded this far on my capabilty and a fair bit of luck along the way. The options I have for any kind of significant pay rise now come with signfcant risks, which I can't justify given what I suddenly have to lose. So i'll do what I do now for another 25 years. Wake up at 3am an agonisr because my boss wants me to produce a PowerPoint presentation about what 'Big Data' really means to me as a person. Do what I can for the people who work for me and never quiet know if i'm doing it for them or because it helps me if they think I'm on their side. And hope like just that we all realise that its not the people in the next tax bracket up or down who are the problem,.
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Is there any sort of tracker similar to the voting history of MPs where you can see what was voted on by parliament and the outcome of said policy change? Like a rolling list that's updated with the outcomes such as "brexit policies turning into -7% gdp hole, causing massive amounts of inflation, supply bottlenecks, etc"?? I know this won't be official because it's subjective, but any sort of credible resource will do.
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What does "wealthy" even mean though? Like unless you are paying £50k in rent you have more discretionary income in a year than I and most have ever had in our lives. Like if you are being paid between £100k and £150k a year you should be able to put away enough money that quite soon you could quit your job and live a long time without ever going to work again. You might not be able to live in london when you do but you could absolutely retire to a quiet little place up north and leave a life of far greater peace and security than most of us will ever see in our lives, if you kept up a little work here and there you would be afforded far more time and freedom than the vast majority of people and you would never have to fear about where the food is going to come from or whether you'll be homeless next month. If you tell people on normal money that you don't feel secure because you're not "truly wealthy" then a lot of us are going to think you're absolutely insane, is it insecurity because you don't have as big of a boat as the other guy you work with? You could very realistically become a literal millionaire with that income, and even sooner you could reach the point where you would have enough sheer money in the bank that you will almost certainly die before you spent it all, living a very comfortable life without senseless extravagance. That is like, the maximum level of "security" I could possibly want, that's literally what I dream of having. If I could expect to spend a good portion of my life just living in my own little place with a couple of rooms, and able to go out for a walk whenever I want to, always had food on the table and a roof over my head, that would be paradise. If your job is giving you anxiety, you have a route where you could stop going to it. The vast majority of people do not have that and never will have it. And I promise you we still spend our time being hosed up by our jobs, we just don't get anywhere for it. So if you experience antipathy from people with less than you when you say things like that it's because what you are saying is simply not comprehensible to us. OwlFancier fucked around with this message at 05:22 on Nov 19, 2022 |
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fuctifino posted:Anyone fancy a job? You don't need to understand anything about the law, but there's a backlog of proles to process unpaid volunteer magistrates seems... odd, to my yank mind
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Yes but you also elect your judges or give them life appointments by the president, both of which are possibly the only things worse than doing it the way the UK does it.
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I thought the same honestly. But getting to a six figure salary at 40 doesn't mean I can retire any time soon. I'm not secure at all, i've got to keep up with an increaslingly small group of high preformers at work or be shown the door. I'm down south, so as a first time buyer a semi-detached in a half decent area is the best I could get, which is more than I ever expected to manage. I absolutely cannot afford a boat. What I have left after tax/bills is a healthy abount, but will not make me a millionaire.
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hoooooo boy, while this is not in the UK you loving know it will be tomorrow. Banks are the only thing we have left. Dgitised trial, but the acceleration of this by the Fed and banks is alarming - this was supposed to be a "oh maybe in 5 years time" thing pushed forward to early next year. https://www.reuters.com/markets/currencies/banking-giants-new-york-fed-start-12-week-digital-dollar-pilot-2022-11-15/
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Mugsbaloney posted:Boats aren't always expensive either!!!!!!! The other half wants a hottub. I honestly can't comprehend how you can sit in one and not feel like an absolute twat.
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I'm not that wealthy you guyyyyyyys *is contemplating buying a hottub*
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KM Scorchio posted:I thought the same honestly. But getting to a six figure salary at 40 doesn't mean I can retire any time soon. I'm not secure at all, i've got to keep up with an increaslingly small group of high preformers at work or be shown the door. I'm down south, so as a first time buyer a semi-detached in a half decent area is the best I could get, which is more than I ever expected to manage. I absolutely cannot afford a boat. What I have left after tax/bills is a healthy abount, but will not make me a millionaire. You should probably post these woes in the finance thread. You're literally complaining to a bunch of people who are, in the main, way worse off you. People relying on the largesse of the DWP to keep themselves warm and fed. Goondolences for your semi detached in a half decent area.
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If I 'earnt' my bosses salary on top of mine, it still wouldn't equate to 100k per annum - so I'm kinda with the crowd here.
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There's a bit of a treadmill effect with increasing income where you just commit more and more of what you earn on liabilities, like a mortgage for the best house you can afford, a loan for the best car, children, the best childcare. Then you have barely any disposable income left so you feel precarious. You know that if you lose your job you could barely last 3 months, so you feel vulnerable.
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KM Scorchio posted:a six figure salary at 40 Is this like when Brexit and Trump didn’t cause racism, they just emboldened the racists who had previously been shamed into keeping their views silent? The Tories have gone full mask-off, gently caress the poor, gently caress anyone who isn’t already a millionaire, and now the people who earn six figures don’t feel the need to hide any more? If I earned six figures, I’d be very happy that I was rich now, and I’d sure as gently caress keep it to myself and not complain about how hard it is. I get that six figures isn’t wealthy but it still places your income above 96% of the UK population.
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