Bobby Deluxe posted:

Did someone say MUSCLE WIZARD

Skull Servant posted:

I don't think this is a correct read of the situation at all. His brother was convicted of sexual abuse of someone underage. If the timeline constructed by others is correct, the guy Schofield was having the affair with was between 19-20. Certainly questionable and immoral (both the age difference and the power balance are issues warranting attention), but certainly not pedophilic in nature.

I'm personally more sympathetic to him on principle because I've seen this happen countless times with older closeted gays and lesbians. I can probably count on one hand those who came out at 40+ and don't end up having some form of relationship with a twenty-something year old. They're always embarrassed a year after and settle with someone their own age. They seem to want to pretend that they are that age and reclaim time they spent in the closet. Overall, it is a bit odd, but there is nothing inherently evil about it.

I'm especially concerned with the language and debate surrounding him, as a member of the LGBT community. The right has ramped up their attacks within the last year or so. Currently, trans people are having their identities erased under the argument that their mere existence around children is a threat to the child. While this isn't new, they have become emboldened by their successes across multiple nations and are now setting their sights on the wider community.

This issue, unfortunately, is wider than Schofield and there are legitimate reasons to defend him (to a certain degree), at the moment.

fuctifino posted:

https://twitter.com/SirEmmerson/status/1665364834979041281

Darth Walrus posted:

TBF, even Bellingcat (which is very pro-Ukrainian) is starting to put out threads going 'oh hey there sure are a lot of neo-Nazis at the core of these much-hyped military operations'.

One of the guys running the anti-Putin border insurgency, for instance, sells the Christchurch manifesto in his online store ands seems to be fighting Russia because he doesn't think it's racist enough.

fuctifino posted:

It's a shoop. This is the original, which still looks ridiculous

peanut- posted:

Unfortunately it’s a spat between Lloyds and the Barclay family over a holding company, The Telegraph itself is heavily profitable and would get bought as a going concern immediately.

Mega Comrade posted:

To be honest that's much more interesting than another remainer vs leaver debate.

Leavers fascinate me and actually makes me intrigued to watch this. It's like a very pink nature program

Endjinneer posted:

This is worrying. Nigel Adams pre-dates Bojo's meteoric arc by a long time and represents a constituency that would vote for a fox if it wore a blue rosette.
Why are all the rats leaving? What do they know that we don't.

The Question IRL posted:

Also this point falls apart when you realize that Putin's Russia has far more in common with the Nazi's than it does Communist Russia.

Private Speech posted:

I find it pretty funny how people on mortgages in the news are moaning about the rates going up when they were historically low for years.

Paying 900PCM on a 3 bed house sure sounds terrible, compare that to the rent of 1600PCM and not getting a house in the end, uhh, wait.

BalloonFish posted:

I'm pretty sure they just appoint as many MPs as are bailing out to the two offices for minutes at a time until they're all out.

feedmegin posted:

Why? Nothing stopping you being appointed to the same office several times in a row.

Kin posted:

I'm starting to get my finances in order with my second kid due in a month and just opened up a savings account with a 3.91% interest rate (Shawbrook if anyone's interested).

I'm just doing the long-term sums and wondering if I have them right.

Basically, we've put £10k in there, to begin with, and plan on topping it up with £12k a year every year until we retire (we're 40 now)

I know interest rates will rise and fall, but if they stay flat at 3.91% for the next 35 years and we keep putting £12k in each year, my excel sums say that when I'm 75, the account will be making ~£37k a year in interest. Does that sound about right?

I dragged that pattern out for another 25 years till I'm 100 and the annual interest jumps up to £116k per year.

If my kids take it on and continue to contribute to it in the same way, then pass it on to my potential grandkids, by the time they hit about 70 the interest will be over half a million per year.

Surely there's a cap to this, or is this basically how the rich stay rich by passing on generational wealth using compound interests (and possibly some sort of inheritance tax avoidance to speed it up).

I mean it's a silly long time to consider, but by the time the account is 115 years old (if my sums are right) it'll be making £1M a year in interest and be long past the point of it actually needing additional money put into it.

oxford_town posted:

broadly speaking yes, but you haven't accounted for inflation in your sums (and taxes if you're outside an ISA).

as Jel Shaker says you should probably be in equities for that investment horizon rather than a savings account. I also think you should probably do this in a SIPP if you're not planning to touch this until retirement.

smellmycheese posted:

Appears he got off lightly. The SNP wanted to dynamite him

grobbo posted:

It just feels incredibly hard to believe that there will be genuine long-term consequences here - as opposed to Boris taking his turn in the dunce's corner for a year or two, then briefing an enthusiastic press and his allies that "the time is right for a return to frontbench politics" and returning with a flourish as if nothing ever happened.

Sure, Kevin Maguire can roar today that Johnson has ruined his career and condemned himself to eternal disgrace - but nothing's eternal in UK politics, and everything is performative.

Pablo Bluth posted:

https://twitter.com/LouisHenwood/status/1669473600468860930

Shocked I am.

serious gaylord posted:

The man doodled the nuke codes

fuctifino posted:

https://twitter.com/RishiSunak/status/1670367307682422784

His dad can't bare to look at him, and his mum seems to have nothing but disappointment in her eyes. Rishi looks over enthusiastic in his tone deaf ways....

This is the best photo he had.

Going back to that Malin Bogue woman, I can see why the establishment press have mostly kept her name out of the media so far. It's quite a rabbit hole of connections.

https://twitter.com/WriterJackWhite/status/1549041739570106368

Convex posted:

Her Dryer posted:

God that was such a funny month between this and the Queen dying, just an incredible time for content.

Also low hanging fruit but big lol at Harry and Meghan getting paid like 20 million quid to do a podcast and then doing 12 episodes where they didn't even bother to interview their guests and had someone else do it for them.

smellmycheese posted:

So the Sub the billionaires paid millions to go to the bottom of the ocean in is a cobbled together piece of poo poo operated by a Logitech Mad Katz game controller lmao

https://twitter.com/ecto_fun/status/1670945751206117376?s=46&t=m_nNbkNoHG4lLitcpyHReg

NotJustANumber99 posted:

They narrative seems to have changed. That actually the sub most likely imploded the second they lost it. Which is a less good news story but probably preferable for those involved.

kingturnip posted:

There's something very Westminster-y about the fact that people are querying Shaun Bailey's peerage on the grounds that he attended one of the lockdown parties, rather than the fact he's been very publicly racist.

fuctifino posted:

I'm glad it wasn't just me. I watched that video three times, and I just got even more confused each time I watched it.

Here's another gem from tonight's QT

https://twitter.com/implausibleblog/status/1671978186521845773

Mega Comrade posted:

AI is really really good at certain types of medical diagnosis. It's a game changer for stuff like cancer screening. But you're completely right. Instead of going with high quality academics we will just have an open bidding system allowing the worst grifters access to private records and a bunch of funding.

Mega Comrade posted:

You are mostly correct.
As painful as it is what the bank of England are doing does work, we have a century of evidence to prove this. But what people often don't talk about is it isn't the only way to do it.

Under Nixon in America they brought in a freeze on salaries and prices. Literally for a 6 month period it was illegal to raise your price on anything and illegal to raise someone's salary. And it worked

Another solution is forced savings, you apply a special tax on everyone, taking away their money then slowly give it back to them through a repayment system. It causes the same effect as interest rates but the money doesn't vanish, everyone eventually gets it back.

But for whatever reason countries just prefer the interest rate approach, I guess cos it's more proven to be reliable even though it's by far the most painful for the lower and middle classes.

smellmycheese posted:

https://twitter.com/adambienkov/status/1671876256281903105?s=46&t=m_nNbkNoHG4lLitcpyHReg

crispix posted:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-66003650

loool

forkboy84 posted:

I'm going to be ever so slightly sceptical of any poll that suggests the Tories will have more MSPs than they have MPs. Seems like the stuff of fantasies (or in this case nightmares. Kieth's Red Tories with a majority that big is a grim prospect)