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@NexusWR @_Jabir_ 100%

@bladseed @_Jabir_ Crabs in a bucket and tall sunflower syndrome.

TFL employees: •40+ days of leave a year •70-100k+ salary •free travel •4 day work week And they’re still striking? 💀

@Jaay243 Happens when you move further away from the equator, already proven black people develop more mental health in cold countries/northern hemispheres from low vitamin D exposure. Add poor economic factors and you create the infamous uk beast

I’ve deeped the women in the UK are all mad. 😭

The UK is 51-55° North, it is on the same latitude as Siberia, and Alaska. In the UK, 26.6 million of the 28 million households are heated with natural gas. The British government is concerned about the country’s vulnerability to natural gas shocks. The government’s solution is that the UK must produce less natural gas domestically. So a 70% windfall tax is applied to domestic gas production. British voters agree. 🤔 As a result, there now isn’t enough gas for electricity generation. Electricity prices are rising. The British government is concerned about the country’s vulnerability to electricity price shocks. The government’s solution is that the UK must produce less electricity. A 55% windfall tax is now applied to electricity generation. British voters agree. 🤔 It’s difficult to be sympathetic here, maybe a sympathetic approach is that the UK is a good case study for mass delusion? Maybe people have been manipulated to feel this way? If they haven’t, then it’s difficult to be sympathetic.

The City of London is not London. It is a one-square-mile medieval enclave with its own laws, its own government, its own police force, and its own mayor — separate from the Mayor of London. It operates outside British law by design. It is the global capital of offshore banking, money laundering, and financial secrecy. Every corrupt oligarch, every rogue intelligence agency, every dark money operation on earth runs capital through it. It has operated this way since the medieval era. Pressure Britain to annex it. Force it to comply with modern banking regulations. And watch trillions in dark money get flushed out of the shadows and into legitimate markets.

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@ZyMazza One of the best docs ever made is an understatement

This is funny because the UK doesn't have high speed rail either but China does and China is larger than the US

POV: It’s Christmas morning in 2001 and you have no idea you’re playing one of the greatest video games that will ever be made

@OleGriersy New York isn’t even the first York, the idea it’s pioneered the ancient tradition of city walking from work (most of the Silk Road, Europe Asia etc) is wild lol

The UK is blatantly corrupt £179,000,000 is an insane amount of money There’s no possible way planning can cost this much Wonder how many MP’s kids work in ‘planning’ In Africa at least they’d bother to build some crappy road whilst pocketing 90% of it

The UK has a far flatter income distribution than the Communist Soviet Union. The UK take home minimum wage for working a full time job (40-hours) is now £22,555. At £100k salary, the take home is £68,558. That is a net income ratio of 3.04:1 We are now at the point where the wage compression and taxes in the UK means that the difference between minimum wage and a top 5% salary is a net income difference of only ~3x. In the USSR using the same comparison, this figure never fell below 5:1 It's actually even worse in reality because the person earning £100k in the UK often has student loans. Britain is nominally capitalist but functionally communist. China is nominally communist but functionally capitalist. Funny how that works.

There's a physicist at Stanford named Safi Bahcall who modeled this exact principle and the math is wild. He calls it "phase transitions in human networks." When you're stationary, your probability of a lucky event is limited to your existing surface area: the people you already know, the places you already go, the ideas you've already been exposed to. Your opportunity window is fixed. When you move, your collision rate with new nodes in a network increases nonlinearly. Double your movement (new conversations, new cities, new projects) and your probability of a serendipitous encounter doesn't double. It roughly quadruples. Because each new node connects you to their entire network, not just to them. Richard Wiseman ran a 10-year study at the University of Hertfordshire tracking self-described "lucky" and "unlucky" people. The single biggest differentiator wasn't IQ, education, or family money. Lucky people scored significantly higher on one trait: openness to experience. They talked to strangers more, varied their routines more, and said yes to invitations at nearly twice the rate. The "unlucky" group followed the same routes, ate at the same restaurants, and talked to the same 5 people. Their networks were closed loops. No new inputs, no new collisions. Luck isn't random. Luck is surface area. And surface area is a function of movement. The lobster emoji is doing more work than most people realize. Lobsters grow by shedding their shell when it gets too tight. The growth requires a period of total vulnerability. No protection, no armor, soft body exposed to the ocean. That's the cost of movement nobody posts about. You have to be uncomfortable first. The new shell only hardens after you've already moved.

@Kurrco Losing millions in tax revenue cos of this is crazy

Permission for Ye to enter the UK to perform at Wireless Festival is now officially under review by ministers. (via Sky News)

I would be more concerned about why people in the world's sixth richest country can't afford cheese

The trillion pound question

I’ve seen someone else on here suggest that the retired doctor who wrote this was a “junior” doctor in 1974 when he was “happy with £7,500” Just so we’re all clear on the maths: £7,500 in 1974 in today’s money is: 🔹 £114,756 by RPI inflation. 🔸 £72,046 by CPI inflation.

@JayVTheGreat Naive, we are in late stage capitalism it’s over soon for 99%. 250 years and the billionaire to trillionaire + automation is the end of the monopoly game. Watch documentaries on the federal reserve (Jekyll island specifically), the gold standard, compound interest etc.

Black capitalism is the only thing that can close the wealth gap. Not socialism, not communism. More black entrepreneurs; not more black welfare recipients.

@TheFilesWithDUB I’m tired of everyone else’s by mark rudimentary understanding of economics, they lack understanding of cause and effect. And they don’t even understand what money actually is after 1971, by design it funnels to the top because of compound interest. It’s unsustainable. They 50

🚨Marc Lamont Hill CRUSHED ISH & Zaire Franklin about CAPITALISM‼️ Marc Lamont Hill argued that Jay-Z has TAKEN ADVANTAGE of people to become a Billionaire 😱 Marc WALKED em DOWN‼️🗂️🏆

Lowkey hilarious how it looked promising during Obama’s years then down only during Trump’s first term, then sideways during Biden and then a sharp decline again in Trump’s second term he is such a cartoonish cliché of an end of an empire leader that if it were a movie you’d criticize it for being hyperbolic