Packet
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Packet
@PacketGroove
Aging hippy. Gradually retarding. Engineer. AI, Cloud, Local LLMs. Positive vibes only ..... mostly ….. sometimes.
England, United Kingdom Joined Kasım 2025
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'A red kite took my mother-in-law's sausage rolls' bbc.in/3OL1vVc
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Should Britain Rejoin the European Union?
#ExitBrexit
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🔴 PM insists No 10 was unaware that peer had failed security checks despite officials knowing weeks before.
🔗 telegraph.co.uk/politics/2026/…

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NHS orders staff not to say 'it’s raining cats and dogs' over fears it will offend foreign patients
gbnews.com/news/nhs-order…
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@space_monkey_jr @trwsenti Nowt wrong with randos. Some of the best people I know are randos and I was a rando to them until I wasn’t.
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@PacketGroove @trwsenti Live in basically a hostel with some randos & Indians in the prime of their lives when they should be starting a family?
Our grandparents would have 2 kids, a mortgage & only one parent working an average manual job.
We should be aspiring to a lot more.
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£32,000 a year. Graduate job. What it actually comes to:
Gross: £2,667 a month.
Income tax: £324
National insurance: £225
Student loan Plan 2: £35
Pension (4% auto-enrol): £107
Take home: £1,976.
Rent in any UK city worth living in: £1,200.
Council tax, gas, electric, water, internet: £420.
Train or petrol to get to work: £250.
Bills alone eat £1,870 of it. Leaves you £106 a month for food, clothes, socialising and any kind of life.
This is what a 'good graduate job' looks like in 2026 after 3 years at uni and £50K of student debt. How did we let them sell this to us?
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@PacketGroove @trwsenti Not sure why you've assumed I'm brainwashed into thinking uni is the only way.... I've done a hell of a lot of work encouraging young people into apprenticeships actually.
And moving back home wasn't possible for me or plenty of others.
Liverpool is a great shout though.
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I moved south for work at 19 after spending 3 years at home while working. I stayed in shared accommodation for three years after that, made lifelong friends there. I rented for a few more years and then bought my first house in my late 20s. Worked my arse off, stupid hours, for the next 15 years to pay it off. Because I did that things are now much much easier.
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Certainly not Uni or capital cities, they are wank for accommodation. If you have been brainwashed into believing you must to go to Uni to be successful you aren’t obligated to stay there after the fact. Move back home, return to your roots. If you have learned real skills in Uni there are hundreds of towns in the UK you can work. Broaden your horizons, but if you really want to stay in left wing utopia, look for house shares in Liverpool.
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@PacketGroove @trwsenti Absolutely insane way to ignore the point but okay then so what right wing nirvana shall we look at instead, to compare rents?
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@CelticSky28 @trwsenti Nobody sane want to live in those left wing shitholes.
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@PacketGroove @trwsenti A room in an HMO in London is at LEAST a grand at the minute. Manchester £750 if you're lucky. Oxford £900. Bristol £800. Birmingham £750. Not a life changing saving anywhere. And paying those rents, how long will it take anyone to save up enough to rent or buy alone? Decades.
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@followrandomacc @trwsenti I did. I grew up on a council estate. Didn’t go to uni, f*ck that waste of time. I entered the workforce at 16. Learnt proper skills. Six figures now, 10 years from retirement.
Thats the drive.
University is the lie.
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