@air_intel @TBrit90 The consequence would've been the buying Chinese or Russian jets. The reason we didn't oppose it because it was "better the devil you know" we know how to take down f-16s because we fight them all the time on red flag
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Ben G
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Ben G
@B0redBen
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Beigetreten Mayıs 2020
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@TBrit90 We should have opposed it, and sod the consequences
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Before we offer any support to Denmark & Greenland, we should going forward always first consider that they armed our enemy and factor that in.
Connor Stringer@connorstringer
🚨 NEW: The US forced Britain to accept a deal to arm Argentina with F-16 fighter jets. Argentina took delivery of American F-16s from Denmark late last year, a rare example of Western allies arming Buenos Aires. Yet Foreign Office officials were told “in no uncertain terms” not to oppose the weapons deal, despite concerns about the Falklands. W/@louisjemanuel
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@observer_drone @TBrit90 Projecting power is one of, if not THE biggest export of America. It keeps you the petro-dollar
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@TBrit90 Brother, I do not think that is the threat you think it is. Most Americans don't want to be entangled Europe, the Middle East or Africa. Only the the class of globalist merchants and their political clients would really be upset over that convenient excuse to walk away.
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Yes the US could fuck us with everything we buy from them, but we could fuck them in return.
Remove every US base from NATO and their ability to project power in Europe, Africa and the Middle East goes on life support. The Iran war could not have been sustained, nor could assets have so quickly responded.
Alexander Clarkson @APHClarkson
The United States will pretty quickly discover that bases and supply lines through the UK, Spain, Italy, Germany and France matter a lot more to America's position as a global power than keeping Milei happy
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@BladeoftheS Some people on benefits cost hundreds of thousands per person to keep. Should we get rid of them too?
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The Falklands is a barely inhabitable hellhole, arctic cold, permanent gales, nothing to do.
Less than 3,500 people live there and it costs over £100,000 per person per year to keep them there.
It is time to stop pretending it is anything but a massive worthless drain on the UK
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@rawespresso You're supposed to be saving your own pension too you know...
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@B0redBen They don’t have a price on them. They’re linked by barcode. You can’t just print your own stickers.
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In some stores, on trial.
If they wanted to increase the prices, without LED's, what do you think they do?
How do you think they increase prices now? They just print a new paper label.
Ben G@B0redBen
@dresserman Asda now has the led screen price tags so they can increase the prices easier
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@dresserman Wouldn't work here, people would just print their own stickers if they're all the same with no price on it
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@B0redBen No. You apply a sticker (In Albert Heijn it's a floral shaped sticker) to the product and the label flickers to say with sticker (kortig in dutch which is discount I believe) is 40% off, then it changes nearer the end of the day. etc.
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@dresserman They're not gonna change the price of the whole shelf because one thing at the front is going out of date.
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@NUFC_Murals @dresserman You think they wouldn't change their system to make something like that easier to make them more money?
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@dresserman @B0redBen And the honest truth is a lot of retailers internal systems just wouldn’t support a mid-day price change.
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@dresserman I bet fuel price change frequency greatly increased when they went from signs with physical letters to LED screens
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@B0redBen Reductions can be far more effective - we have seen this in Holland eg. But the continent all have electronic / digital labels. Any evidence of gouging or surge pricing?
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@arcuaria @nashblaine1919 You get 30 hours a week FREE and the rest is 20% off. It's not impossible to afford childcare.
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@nashblaine1919 Okay I’m genuinely so curious- daycare and sure start are they free? Does your partner work full time? Who picks them up after daycare?
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This genuinely is upsetting ngl. A criminal record, unable to claim any more money for herself and her kids, and has to pay it back? For the crime of not relying on her partner for financial support.
Grifty@TheGriftReport
Benefit cheat Bethany Elwood, 31, pocketed £78,057 in Universal Credit by lying she was single for over four years. The mum-of-two from Parson Cross, Sheffield, kept claiming as a lone parent even after her full-time employed boyfriend moved in with her in the mid-2020s. She failed to update the DWP and continued raking in the cash until a member of the public tipped off the fraud hotline in 2024. When interviewed she initially denied it but then made a full admission. At Sheffield Magistrates’ Court she was given a 12-month prison sentence suspended for two years and ordered to repay the full £78k at just £20 a month. The judge called it a “long term, wilful fraud for a great deal of money” that defrauds every taxpayer. £20 a month......
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@dresserman Asda now has the led screen price tags so they can increase the prices easier
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No surprise to anyone that Tesco are first to the 2D barcodes.
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@ligma__sigma @designed_future @sunnkssdseraph There's a netflix documentary about this called don't fuck with cats. Pretty sure the guy ended up killing someone, stabbing them like hundreds of times, then decapitating them and cutting off their limbs.
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@designed_future @sunnkssdseraph >sheriff's department went out to confront the scumbag
Uh, ok, did the sheriff's department actually do anything
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On 4chan, years ago, some guy put a post up saying he strangled his wife. Everyone was calling the photos fake, but he was insistent and told everyone strangling people is a lot harder than it looks in the movies. Eventually he said he son was coming home and so was going to just suicide by cop with a fake gun before he arrived. Some astute 4channer realised the photos were legit and used exif data to track the photos and warn the cops. Cops managed to arrest him without shooting him up and divert the kid before he arrived home. But it was seriously messed up and I stopped using 4chan after that.
quote@itsmubashi
What's the most disturbing confession you've ever come across on social media?
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@joeedgar1909 @SuellaBraverman The vetting is. The decision on what to do with the information from vetting doesn't come from the vetting service though. They just pass the information on to the relevant authority to make the decision
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@SuellaBraverman Can't be that rigorous given the numbers found to be unsuitable after passing the so called vetting. I'm sure like all other political measures you can buy success.
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As someone who has been through and passed Developed Vetting, I can assure you that it is an incredibly rigorous (and expensive) process.
The professionals involved in our vetting work to the highest standards. Rightly so.
It is absolutely fundamental to our national security.
Overrule or ignore it because of cronyism and the whole system comes crashing down.
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@Stonky420 @PeterMacKaris @visegrad24 Lane cha genis different than stopping for no reason. He didn't hit the trucks, did he.
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@PeterMacKaris @visegrad24 Not to mention the two trucks with brake lights on directly in front of them.
Don't be dense. 😂
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🇬🇧 Driver avoids jail after crash that overturned a military convoy vehicle and left soldier with broken back
Crenguta Aruxandei, 44, received a six-month suspended prison sentence, a 12-month driving ban, and a £154 victim surcharge after a collision in which a military Land Rover Defender flipped over, leaving its driver with a suspected broken back.
According to Northamptonshire Police, dashcam footage showed the incident was “completely avoidable.”
The video shows Aruxandei changing lanes in an Audi Q2 while exiting, forcing the Land Rover in a convoy to take evasive action, after which it rolled across both lanes.
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@Sir_Bianchi @Thatotherguy78 @Stonky420 @visegrad24 He did avoid a collision... Doesn't mean the person that caused the whole thing isn't liable
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@Thatotherguy78 @Stonky420 @visegrad24 If you have a trailer or a heavy load, you must maintain a greater safety distance and slower speed.
This way, if the vehicle in front brakes or changes direction suddenly, you can safely avoid a collision.
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@Stonky420 @Kris_Welshy @visegrad24 Yeah, a lane change, not slowing down to 5mph to turn onto a junction at 90 degrees on a dual carriageway that had a slip road.
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@Kris_Welshy @visegrad24 He even has his blinker on signifying a lane change 😂
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Incredibly old man tweet this...but it really is shocking how decrepit this country is becoming. Roads are fucked, there's litter and vandalism everywhere, no jobs, absurd cost of living. It's incredibly bleak and I can't see any way out of it for a very long time.
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@GrageDustin And the young people sacrificed their adolescence for them and all they do is fuck them over taking more and more in state pensions
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This photo still infuriates me every time.
Never forget what they did.
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