Simon W Randall

This ticks so many boxes theguardian.com/stage/2022/mar…

Couple comes in for their annual review. $2.8 million. Well invested. Solid Pension. Completely on track. I ask the question I ask everyone. "How is your daughter doing?" Mom's face changed first. Their daughter is 39. Hasn't asked for anything. Never complained. But she's been in the same apartment for six years. Daycare alone is $1,800 a month. Down payment feels impossible. Dad said "we always figured she'd get it eventually." I pulled up a simple chart. Statistically they live to 88. She inherits at 56. Maybe 60. At 60 her own retirement is eight years away. The money that could change everything at 39 arrives when her finish line is already close. Neither of them had ever seen it framed that way. The annual gift exclusion is $19,000 per parent per child. They can move $38,000 a year to her. No gift tax. No estate implications. Over ten years that's $380,000 transferred while they're healthy enough to watch it matter. Dad looked at his wife. "Why are we waiting?" Most families leave everything at death because nobody showed them the math of giving it while they're alive.

Absolute bombshell. Jamie Rubin confirms a historic peace deal with Iran was completely within reach. Iran offered to freeze enrichment, but Israel intentionally sabotaged the deal because they want a permanent war, not peace.

@Femi_sorry The KKK used the barn to kill black folk. The brothers knew this and were baiting the KKK when they bought it

It's an action film about post-slavery racism. In the opening scene a KKK guy sells them a building while racially abusing them, as part of a plot to kill black folk. And you're complaining that the film shows violence against the KKK? You racists love telling on yourselves.👀

From Reform UK yesterday alone: Sarah Pochin wanted to wear a tartan burqa. Nigel Farage called Welsh people 'foreign speakers'. He also called for every religious celebration to be banned in the UK. Lied about Ed Miliband. Claimed that Britain was built on Judeo-Christianity. Lost control of Kent County Council. Banned media from another council — Nottinghamshire. Put a man who believes that abortion should be illegal, even in cases of rape and incest, on BBC Question Time. In one day. Have they been called out by anyone in the broadcast media? No. Will they be? Also, no.

Why pay for LinkedIn Premium when you can just fire up Chrome devtools? 😏

I lost my job because of AI today, and now I won't shut up about my game. Wishlist SOULGRAVE - it's the only thing I have left now

Bad news for Reform UK in Wales: New Law to make it illegal to lie in Welsh elections is passed in Senedd. It is now a criminal offence in Wales to make false or misleading statements as an election candidate. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

@kimheller3 They were probably stocking up before moving back to SA

Two white South Africans were arrested for shoplifting in America this week After Trump welcomed them into the US 🙅‍♀️🙅‍♀️🙅‍♀️🙅‍♀️🙅‍♀️🙅‍♀️🙅‍♀️🙅‍♀️🙅‍♀️🙅‍♀️🙅‍♀️🙅‍♀️🙅‍♀️

Who else misses #Twitter before @Elonmusk filled it with Nazis and hate propaganda?

Tucker: "Was Iran about to get a nuke?" Kent: "No. They've had a religious ruling against it since 2004. We had no intelligence that it was being disobeyed." So the entire war-the thousands dead, the billions spent, the American soldiers buried-was based on nothing. No nukes. No threat. Just a lie sold to justify a war that was always for Israel

"This disputes everything the president has said." Rep. Goldman reads from the unredacted Epstein file the DOJ tried to hide. One minute. Watch it.

@esjesjesj Because she believed it was going to kill her

Why would she turn off autopilot just to immediately crash into a wall.

@vicious696 Tomb Raider meets Jedi Fallen Order

EXODUS combat screams Mass Effect and Im here for it

What this basically means is that an American account can post false news about the killing of 30,000 protesters in Iran or elsewhere, then restrict everyone from that region who would have debunked the info from commenting. X is working hard to push propaganda without checks.

@JordanEVGuy We only have lamp posts on one side of the road in UK and even half of them got taken out

This doesn’t look like much, but it changes everything. What you’re looking at is an evpzee lamppost charger. It is the smartest solution to one of the biggest barriers to EV adoption. A standard street lamp, quietly turned into an EV charger. No digging up roads, it is installed in just 30 minutes. No huge infrastructure projects, a full street can be electrified in a matter of hours. Manufactured and assembled in the UK and fully OCPP. Using what’s already there. For millions of people across the UK, especially those without driveways, this is the difference between “I can’t have an EV” and “actually…I can.” It’s easy to overlook innovations like this because they’re not flashy. No 350kW ultra-rapid chargers. No massive charging hubs. Just practical, scalable, everyday infrastructure doing exactly what it needs to do. And that’s the point. The EV transition will be be driven by everyone having the ability to charge when they need to. Simple. Effective.

@mcuspider616 You never see Dr Strange?

Goddamn Destin is bringing in shots that has never been done before in live action

@KingBobIIV Was it within it's best before date?

I don't mean to alarm anyone, but I've just finished a bottle of Worcestershire Sauce. What happens now? Does this tear a hole in the space time continuum or something? The last time this happened David Bowie, George Micheal, John Hurt and Professor Snape died. Is there a number to call to something?

@notsotroubled Too entirely different genres and themes. Stupid comparison

The stark contrast in quality between this and the Dune trailer, lmao

@MCUSpideyShots You made it look like a UE4 game?

I edited a few shots of Brand New Day to make New York look more yellowish and I honestly love it in most cases

@iam_jlc Both are 100% human but too paranoid and dumb alpha males. So they would rather die than trust each other. That's what fits the story.

John Carpenter’s The Thing is his masterpiece. The greatest remake of all time. The greatest Sci-Fi/Horror film of all time. And the more I see it, the more convinced I am, that come the end, MacReady is The Thing.