Ben Collier
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Ben Collier
@bencollier
Keen techie. Tech leader and strategic consultant. Retrocomputing enthusiast, home brewer, chorister and maker of curries.
🇬🇧 Manchester Beigetreten Kasım 2007
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@nicoinlowercase @Craig49903318 He was singer of Culture Club, they had a hit with Karma Chameleon in 1991.
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@bencollier @VinnieSull1van @BygoneBritain @Britains___Pubs A quick google of the family name and Glastonbury suggests the trams still existed in 2022 and still owned by Nigel the son, there are pics on Facebook, the layout seemed to last until the early 2000s!
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@MvelohEnhleh @realMJThompson Yes, it’s Epstein.
He owns a formula 1 team now called “Aston Martin “
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@afneil If somebody gives you advice but it's bad advice, how is that YOUR fault?
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@ghosted0192 @Aelthemplaer @grok If it's any help - it's about how an empire treats its peripheries. The late Roman Empire neglected its outer provinces, expecting taxes but not offering defence. It led to the provinces building independent capabilities, which neutralised later attempts at asserting authority.
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@Aelthemplaer @grok please explain what this post is talking about
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@LeavesOfOrange @implausibleblog It was Macmillan. Our own nuclear deterrent "Blue Streak" couldn't be launched quickly enough and was based at specific sites which could be targeted and destroyed. The US replacement, Polaris, could be launched from submarines. France took a different line and are better off.
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@implausibleblog What retard decided it would be a good idea to not have an entirely independently made and maintained nuclear deterrent? I mean how fucking stupid do you have to be?
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Robert Peston, "Your entire approach is predicated on the idea that Donald Trump is amenable to reason, and respects the rule of law"
"But it's patently that neither of those two assumptions are true"
"So when will you consider some kind of economic retaliation through tariffs"
"And will you talk to the Monarch, The King, about not going to America to celebrate 250 years of independence?"
Keir Starmer, "Well, Robert, umm, this is a serious situation"
"Threatening tariffs on allies is the wrong thing to do completely"
"And a trade war is not in our interests"
"It is in our nation interest to continue to work with the Americans when it comes to defence, security and intelligence"
"Our nuclear deterrent requires us to have a good relationship with the United States"
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Diego Garcia is a British-owned atoll in the Indian Ocean, leased to the US for a major military base since the 1960s. Farage seems to suggest that if the US worries about Greenland's strategic vulnerabilities (e.g., to foreign powers), it should reconsider relying on UK territory for its own key assets amid the tariff dispute.
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We don’t always agree with the US government and in this case we certainly don’t. These tariffs will hurt us.
If Greenland is vulnerable to malign influences, then have another look at Diego Garcia.
BBC Breaking News@BBCBreaking
US President Donald Trump announces plan to impose extra tariffs on UK, Denmark and other European countries over Greenland row bbc.in/45j8Hgt
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@Dr_Robert_Lomas hi - I'm based in Stockport, and was wondering if it might be possible to visit Coronation in Runcorn. I can't find contact details online. I'm with Mellor 3844.
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@Kaffekone @innovateonward @ShadowofEzra They really aren't. Those would be grounds for being thrown out of the masons.
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@innovateonward @ShadowofEzra The freemasons working for the police are supposed to let other freemasons off the hook or sweep their crimes under the rug.
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Freemasons are seeking an emergency injunction from the High Court to block a new Metropolitan Police policy that would require them to disclose their membership in the organization.
They have filed legal papers in London, arguing the policy amounts to “religious discrimination” against Freemasons.
Police officials say anyone who is, or has been, part of a hierarchical organization that requires members to support and protect one another must declare it.
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@BarclaysUKHelp @carlosmagnorosa Hi @BarclaysUKHelp I'm having the same problem, happy to pop to DMs - I can't get to a human who can solve the problem on the phone, and everything else tells me to use the app, which doesn't work, obviously!
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@carlosmagnorosa Hey there 🙋♀️ Thanks for reaching out and I hope you're doing ok 😊
Ah let me have a look into this for you! If you can pop over to DM with your full name, postcode and contact number. I'll be able to do some digging into this for you 😊 -Alex twitter.com/messages/compo…
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@BarclaysUKHelp hello, I signed up yesterday to a Barclays accounts to benefit from the switch bonus. Yesterday evening when attempting the switch I kept getting Something went wrong error. This morning I get BA040 when trying to get in the app. Can you help? Thanks
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@MyFitnessPal By "Black Friday" are you referring to today's outage?
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@gamesyouloved "It looks like it was built by a blind Bulgarian bricklayer!"
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@ArthurMuir1901 @GoodwinMJ Entirely possible this is being driven partly by votes at 16.
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@GoodwinMJ Who on earth are the 15% voting for Zack Polenski's Greens? They live amongst us....
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@paulg @SenMarkKelly Isn’t it pretty simple? Members of congress can’t share sensitive information with their investor spouse.
The same way that a therapist can’t share what their clients say in sessions.
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@lucastech @paulg @SenMarkKelly There would need to be a clause along the lines of "if your trading activity results in the disclosure of privileged information, an offence has been committed".
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@paulg @SenMarkKelly Instead of banning, it should be full transparency. If you/family make a trade, it becomes public knowledge immediately.
The problem is that they have to file some 1990s style paperwork to disclose, which do they don't for years, and they don't get punished for it.
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@MuseumCommodore I'll wait for Commodore themselves to release an FPGA-based machine. They'll need to negotiate some rights but I don't want a software emulation, I want real hardware.
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