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The fun thing is, Liz Truss causing high interest rates is as true as "Labour left a note saying there is no money left". UK interest rates went up with US ones, was already starting to calm from the Truss panic when she got deposed and then rose to the same level under Sunak, just less dramatically. But it's the Tories suffering from journalists lack of financial literacy now so lol.
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Apr 21, 2024 19:54
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Rwanda is politically stable (don't ask how) and has made a effort to be approachable and workable with by the West from their government. Combined with Rwanda getting cash and money for building out of the deal, I can see why they'd respond when the Foreign office was shopping around for a country to send all our migrants to.
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Apr 26, 2024 06:22
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Like, if uou are president of Ukraine in 2022 and the Russians are invading, and half the country is under attack and you're not sure if Kyiv will hold, "do I sign a bad peace to save my people a pointless war" is a valid question. The typical example is the Czech Republic in 1938/1939 - Could they have fought the Germans effectively and been a tough fight for Nazi Germany then? Probably. Could they have won alone without support from the western powers? Probably not. Bojo turning up in Ukraine in April 2022 probably did reduce the chance of a "peace" agreement - where the peace is "Give Russia what they want and the fighting stops". Because when Zelensky received hope that fighting wouldn't be a pointless cause, he took it. That's what he wanted (as the most "pro-russian" candidate in the presidential elections) and it's what the country "wanted", as much as a country wants anything. And on the British side, we have been one of the biggest military supporters to Ukraine - giving our advanced equipment before others and with less concern. That isn't alone enough, because the British Army is not geared up to invade half the world now, unlike the US, but it's not like the UK hasn't been supporting Ukraine - the fact we're in a very left-wing discussion forum and still plenty of support for the establishment position of support indicates how far the consensus spreads in UK politics.
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Apr 26, 2024 18:16
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Guavanaut posted:It's local biometric, so it doesn't leave my device. And if someone has my device and my person and is prepared to use that level of force then a password isn't much good either. There's been a few cases in London of muggera forcing someone at knifepoint to send all their money, including savings to another account. It's basically "taken to a ATM at knifepoint" but updated. And since you technically approved the transactions, it's not fraud! Single points of failure are bad.
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Apr 26, 2024 22:25
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kecske posted:I feel like if I was able to work from home then the lines between workday/downtime would blur sufficiently that I would end up doing extra bits outside of my contracted hours. As it is, the second the workday ends I'm out of the door with tools left comically spinning in the air like a cartoon This is certainly true for me, but I actually like my job and work for the public sector, so any extra labour I contribute this way benefits the wider public and not a shareholder. Also some days I only spend 6 hours in the office do nothing else, so it all balances out in the end.
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Apr 27, 2024 15:37
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Because the North atlantic Ocean is really warm this year, we got a warm+wet winter because the predominant weather pattern was air masses off the Atlantic coming over the UK, which are full of evaporated water from the hotter Atlantic and pushed out the arctic and Scandinavian air masses that cause cold winters. The problem is that this has continued over spring, amd we've not had any air masses from Africa or Western Europe that usually cause hot weather in April. So we've had a "average" temperature April that feels missing because it's also been wet and cloudy the entire time. Hot Ocean doesn't necessarily mean Hot UK, just means not freezing.
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Apr 27, 2024 20:30
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Exercise makes you healthier, even accounting for weight. Finding a exercise you enjoy and doing it regularly is key, and usually easier than finding a diet you can sustain long-term. This isn't to say diet doesn't matter (it's the only way to lose weight), but in terms of healthiness it's only one piece. Doing lots of exercise does tend to make you more aware of if your weight is getting in the way of your athletic performance, which is a good diet motivation if you enjoy your regular exercise.
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Apr 28, 2024 15:38
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Mourning Due posted:A subject I've been obsessing over lately related to this, is the death of the monoculture (at least in the West). Honestly, I think this is part of "the kids are woke" is coming from. Politics is the only communal experience left. The only thing you can be certain to have seen at the same time as other people is a breaking news story. This isn't perfect (political polarisation and pigeonholing is a thing) but I think it's a large part of it - political/social beliefs and ideology is the marker of cultural identity.
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Apr 29, 2024 08:44
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Matinee posted:Just had a person from the Labour Party knocking on the door (in London) asking if I'd voted yet, and wanted to put details of who I'd voted for into an app on his phone. Usually they'll go around likely or confirmed labour voters, to ensure that their voters come out and vote. You might still be on the lists from 2019 or before as a likely labour voter, hence being a target for the GOTV campaign.
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May 2, 2024 21:57
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Boeing assassins can now... make you develop pneumonia and fight for your life for two weeks?
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May 3, 2024 10:53
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Jedit posted:The last one was found shot dead in his truck, leaving only a note dated several weeks previous saying "if they say I killed myself I loving didn't". The coroner ruled it a suicide. So yeah, I'm not ruling out poisoning at this point. It's just the lingering nature, you'd think if it was poison they'd pick one of many more lethal poisons, or just another "suicide" via firearm. If you're gonna get the corporate assassins out, they'd better be competent. Nothingtoseehere fucked around with this message at 11:17 on May 3, 2024 |
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May 3, 2024 11:15
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Apraxin posted:it feels like the big thing that spells Humiliation for Looser Rishi if it holds (unless he can somehow persuade are nige to stop shiving him) is that most of the wards where reform were standing had results like: It's basically a reverse 2019 - Boris has a bunch of Labour seats in the North fall into his lap due to the Brexit Party taking labour voters, and then the media breathlessly asked "how did Boris convince Labour voters to vote Tory???" ignoring all the evidence they didn't switch to Tory (pretty similar total vote to 2017), they just didn't vote labour. Now Starmer is getting the same boost. Sadly doubt it'll end with him getting booted out of being PM in disgrace.
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May 3, 2024 23:06
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The entire point of Boris's government was "we will actually spend money doing things, but also be Toryish on immigrats and the EU" turns out the rest of the Tory party forgot why Boris has charisma - he appeared like he would do things.
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May 4, 2024 18:39
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Kin posted:There's probably some super tory doner at the top of the SLC or something that would make this impossible for them to do. If you're in the UK, the way repayments are fixed and the 30 year cap means over a certain amount borrowing more money doesn't increase your repayments. Like I have £75K of student loan, but I'm not going to pay back any more than if I didn't do a fourth year and only had £60K of students loan instead. Things get messier when you're outside the UK for sure, but in most cases the amount you're borrowing already won't be paid back so borrowing even more is just "free" money.
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May 6, 2024 10:25
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There's only so much you can do to save your kids social life when all their friends are on social media because their parents gave them a smartphone at nine. It is a problem that requires collective action to solve, not individual responsibility.
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May 8, 2024 09:07
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Yea I don't think the internet itself is bad. It's kids having a smartphone and being attached to it 24/7, rather than only accessing it via a desktop PC at home (where it's basically another console). The drive towards smartphones is mostly driven by social media.
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May 8, 2024 09:16
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Nuclear Spoon posted:be proper funny if it's blair and then it completely loving tanks the polls Nah, it's George Osborne instead. LAB +20 though because Tory voters are on strike.
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May 14, 2024 22:54
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EvilHawk posted:I normally hate my home town like the next UKMT poster, but that dickhead being associated with here makes it even worse. He's not even local, from Winchester and just dragged in the nearest local club. Not like anyone would be into football at Winchester College.
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May 17, 2024 22:22
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