Adam Stones
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Adam Stones
@ModerateSauce
Polymath poster. Free thinker, truth seeker. Anglo twitter enjoyer.
Antarctica Inscrit le Aralık 2017
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I literally wouldn’t know what to do with £35K
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£35K salary sounds alright until you work out what it actually costs you. You're not getting paid for 8 hours. You're selling your entire day. The commute. The lunch hour you can't use. The 2 hours on the couch recovering when you get home. Add it all up and your real hourly rate drops to about £10.58. The person who made your coffee this morning earned more per hour than you did. They just didn't have to sit through a team meeting first.
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@nasscrave @ryan_c414 You wouldn't know what to do with an extra £500 a month??
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@AlecStapp UK VAT registration income threshold. Hard drop at £80k.
UK marginal tax rates. Drops at £100k quite noticeably.
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What are your other favorite charts in this genre? Thinking of stuff like this:
Alec Stapp@AlecStapp
Government regulation in France: Above a certain size, building new homes requires a licensed architect. Outcome:
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@ClarkeMicah Because Iran are Jihadists.
They welcome their own deaths.
Also, the gulf states are probably in the firing line and would be first to be targeted with nuclear blackmail.
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Is anyone else struck by the way in which Israel's nuclear weapons, which we all know to exist, are implictly deemed not to be capable of deterring Iran, should Iran obtain nuclear weapons of its own? So, er.......
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@VonVladimierV @LadyVelvet_HFQ Lol she answered it like a bad AI bot.
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@LadyVelvet_HFQ And what does that have to do with your original post (child death rates in Ukraine, Lebanon and Gaza), or my response, birth rates per woman in each country?
What has Jewish birth rates have to do with child casualties in other countries?
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@captgouda24 The market can adjust for black patients demanding black doctors. No need for government-mandated affirmative action.
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Black patients do better with Black doctors. The reason might surprise you:
nicholasdecker.substack.com/p/black-patien…
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@TypeForVictory The teachers got worse. Nobody wants to talk about that.
Teaching used to be a high status profession.
Now it's mostly just women who want to work with children whilst the men who would have been teachers have gone into business etc
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Consistently shocked at how low peoples' expectations are on this site. Pick up a school exam paper from the 1950s and this would all be totally normal.
When and why did we start treating children like idiots? Perhaps it's not a shock we're in a productivity crisis.
James 🇬🇧 👑@TypeForVictory
Every British child should leave school with a working knowledge of the KJV bible, Shakespeare, Homer, the Book of Common Prayer, Beowulf, Milton, Chaucer, at least one victorian novelist, and core political texts (Magna Carta, Hobbes, Smith). They're core to everything else.
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It’s an ingenious question.
All of Israel’s cheerleaders should be made to answer it.
Zachary Foster@_ZachFoster
define a “Jewish State”. What a brilliant question.
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@RichardHannay17 No it doesn't.
Enforcement of a right is not the same as right to someone's labour.
Simple concept, just the left pretending to not understand.
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The word "right" the implies protection of said right against violation.
No rights exit without the labour of others.
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What is your favorite human right that doesn't require the labour of others?
edelnougat 🐿️@edelnougat
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@albieamankona Yes actually, we would. If British Greeks want to see us looted by a hostile foreign actor, they are not integrated into Britain. They are putting a foreign country before us.
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I don’t support reparations for the slave trade, but saying people back them because of a “failure of integration” is just stupid. It doesn’t hold up.
Most mixed race people in this country are born to black Caribbean men and white women. On almost every measurable metric, black Caribbeans are among the most integrated groups in the UK. Their outcomes are broadly similar to the white British majority, and in many cases other groups outperform them. So the idea that support for reparations reflects a lack of integration just doesn’t stack.
Views on reparations follow history. If you’re of Caribbean heritage, even if your family’s been here for generations, the legacy of slavery and colonialism is baked into your identity. You’re reminded of it every time you read your own name. Of course that shapes how people see the issue.
Where I take a different view is on how responsibility gets framed. The transatlantic slave trade involved multiple actors, including African intermediaries as well as European powers. If the argument is about accountability, it should at least be applied consistently rather than selectively.
If you’re from a former colonial power, you’re far less likely to feel that same weight. That’s not about integration, it’s about perspective.
Would Daniel Hannan say British Greeks who support returning the Elgin Marbles “haven’t integrated”? Obviously not. It’s a completely daft standard.
I’m sorry to say it, because usually we sing from the same hymn sheet, but what Daniel Hannan has said here is just stupid. This is basic stuff.
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Does anyone know a Pakistani - Black
couple? Have you met a single one?
Nina Kai@theninakai
Schrödingers NHS: functions only because of immigrant staff but is also a systemically racist organisation
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@andrew_lilico Natural consequences of a multi racial society. Come on Andrew. You didn't expect this to go differently did you?
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How have we raised up a group of people who have been taught to hate their own country so much?
YouGov@YouGov
With Reform UK pledging to deny new visas to people from countries seeking slavery reparations from Britain, our study found the public are opposed to paying reparations - although ethnic minority adults are not Black adults: 71% support Ethnic minority adults: 50% All adults: 24% White adults: 19% Results link in replies
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@andrew_lilico We need more immigration so we have more people like this, right?
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Has any other British politician highlighted the cybersecurity risks from new AI models like this? I am surprised (but pleased!) to see this from Reform before anyone else.
Danny Kruger@danny__kruger
I've written to Cabinet Office Minister Darren Jones to urge the Government to engage with AI firm Anthropic whose new frontier model Claude Mythos could present catastrophic cybersecurity risks to the UK
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@DuncanStott Why don't they charge less for everyone then?
Or do dynamic pricing?
No reason why cheap tickets have to go to UC claimants.
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Attractions like these are high fixed-cost, low marginal-cost operations. That means you want as many people through the gate at a price they can afford. Targeted low-cost tickets for low income households makes sense. They'd be wise to offer cheap student tickets too.
Michael Simmons@Simmons__
Is this fair?
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@Dizc0rz @goatfucker81 @ElGranSenglar How are you not understanding this? It is an extremely simple concept to be honest.
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@ModerateSauce @goatfucker81 @ElGranSenglar Eh, if the original post isn't talking about enforcement then it's only dealing with rights in a theoretical sense and ignoring how they function in practice.
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@goatfucker81 @ElGranSenglar The procurement of the thing that I have a right to (free speech) requires no labour so it is a human right.
Of course the enforcement of anything requires a legal system, but that is not what we are talking about.
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@goatfucker81 @ElGranSenglar Example:
I do not have a human right to a back massage, because it requires resources from someone else.
I have a human right to free speech, because it requires nothing from anyone. If someone violates my right then the law should protect me.
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