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@Hardymatt0 @maxtempers Just double the cost of food and point to the judge of this case as responsible.
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@maxtempers I hope they win the case, then Tesco just burns all their stores to the ground and leaves the UK. It's what we deserve.
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The largest supermarket in Britain, that operates on razor-thin margins, is about to be crushed for the crime of paying different jobs different salaries, while our legislature shrugs.
How dare they suggest that “so-called market rates” can exist in Soviet Britain.
Financial Times@FT
Tesco argues equal pay claim disregards ‘economic reality’ ft.trib.al/k5n8n5E
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@catmomo1498286 @Kingbingo_ @firasmodad My issue with it is the omission of rationality. You can be ‘sure’ of something purely using your gut feeling rather than any evidence. On the flip side most evidence presented to court cant ever be fully clear of doubt. ‘What if a witness is lying’, ‘What if there was a mistake’
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@Colossus_of_ @Kingbingo_ @firasmodad I think he is wrong. apologies for using AI but here it is for what it's worth
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I don't think they're going to understand jury trials.
African Hub@AfricanHub_
African court for catching a thief
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@catmomo1498286 @Kingbingo_ @firasmodad Dan is definitely being pedantic but he isn’t wrong. Probably why the Judge is annoyed. They have to adjust their instructions so everyone can understand.
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@Colossus_of_ @Kingbingo_ @firasmodad there is no higher bar than "beyond reasonable doubt" so it still looks like the same thing in ordinary day-to-day language, it wouldn't have confused me in that position
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@catmomo1498286 @Kingbingo_ @firasmodad ‘You’re sure’ implies you have no doubt. Quite a high bar for a trial to obtain.
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@Kingbingo_ @firasmodad "if you're sure" is in case people don't understand "beyond reasonable doubt", but they look the same to me what am I missing? anyone?
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@TheBlackHorse65 ‘God is just one of many demons’ says the demon follower.
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I've had this conversation with Hindu's and Sikh's before. They think they are being respectful of Christians when they speak this way; very few of them can inhabit the psychology of the other side.
Lysander@UnderCoercion
Vivek: Jesus is A son of god but Jesus is not THE son of god. Jesus is A way to heaven but not THE way to heaven.
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Trump has invited New Zealand to participate in a mission to open the Strait of Hormuz. Should we join?
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@TheZeitgeistNZ If you think your kiwi saver is going to survive future socialist governments then you have another thing coming. All you are creating is a giant bag of money to raid.
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We should gradually increase the KiwiSaver contribution rate over coming decades until most people can fund their retirement through it, then means test superannuation so that it becomes a top up for those whose KiwiSaver balances are too low.
Winston Peters@winstonpeters
Chris Hipkins has said that Labour is willing to means test superannuation that would affect hundreds of thousands of kiwi seniors - just like they did in the 1980s. ‘Means testing’ is another way of saying the government will be able to refuse to give you your retirement super income if they decide you don’t deserve it. As the saying goes, when the going gets tough they always go after the young and the old first. Our Kiwi Super is not a benefit, it is a long standing Kiwi entitlement. Kiwis who are 65 or above have worked 30,40, sometimes 50 years paying taxes and building this country. We have an obligation as a government to look after our seniors in their retirement and protect their super. We demanded in our coalition agreement that super won’t be touched - this will never change while NZFirst has a say. NZFirst is the only party that will never allow the hard-fought Kiwi super to be hacked away from our seniors for any short term gain - the rest want to attack it and take it away.
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@triffic_stuff_ As the manager he can refuse to serve whoever he wants.
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WHAT THE ACTUAL F*CK IS GOING ON IN BRITAIN?! 😡
A Wetherspoons manager in Braintree has just been caught on camera openly refusing to serve customers who support Reform UK. “I’m deciding that”, he smugly tells punters.
Refusing service over politics?! In a bloody pub?!
Reform UK is currently the biggest party in the country, leading the polls at 25-28%, favourites to win the next election.
These aren’t some fringe weirdos, they’re ordinary, hard-working Brits. The exact salt-of-the-earth customers who pack out Wetherspoons every week, keep the pints flowing and the lights on.
Without them, half these pubs would be broke. And some snotty little bar manager thinks he can play political gatekeeper? F*ck off!
That’s not how Britain works. You don’t get to ban paying customers because of who they vote for.
If you can’t handle serving people with different views, don’t work with the public. Simple as.
Tim Martin, sort this out and fire him immediately. This is a disgrace.
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UK 30 year gilt yield approaching 6%. That is not a good thing. @trussliz only managed a brief 5%
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@NJSussexGuy @Landeur People like you are pathetic and are an embarrassment to your follow countryman. Real Americans condemn this retarded war for Israel.
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@Landeur Trust me on this one issue which may not be clear from Britain: 100% of American conservatives, including those who hate Trump, are aligned on this very issue: in our eyes PM’s “no” meant betrayal from our ally in the time of need. This will not be easily forgotten.
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Trump trying to use the Falkland Islands as a pressure point is not sensible.
The lefties in the UK already hate America and Trump. This won’t change that.
But on your current trajectory nationalist / patriotic Brits will start to hate you too.
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@AD90346705 @NoticerNews Australia isn’t his country, he even says it himself. He has no right to it and should be deported.
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@NoticerNews The British diaspora will never come to terms with reality. If I steal something my children legally own it apparently..
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Fed-up Aussies boo loudly during a "welcome to country" at the Anzac Day Dawn Service in Sydney.
Follow: @NoticerNews
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@Dominic2306 So when u r banging your head against the door either get a headache or start helping Reform
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Yep. I quoted AGM’s arguments to Commission officials 2019-20 on why they were actually strengthening the companies they wanted to attack.
They just smirked and said you’ll see.
The Commission learned nothing and instead took a chainsaw to their own tech/talent ecosystem with mad AI regulation etc. Which has driven amazing European talent and risk capital to America.
So it’s v logical that SW1 NPCs now want to *join disastrous EU tech regulation* we can swerve thanks to Leave winning in 2016…
All systems working as intended…
Antonio García Martínez (agm.eth)@antoniogm
Amazing? Utterly predictable. I was writing in 2017 how GDPR would only entrench the Google/FB duopoly even further, and mostly hurt startup competitors. Journalists and regulators are complete dimwits with no working conception of how tech and markets work.
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@bigalias @policytensor I’m guessing it means you will have more money but less in real terms.
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One thing that most people may not realize is that taking off 10% of the energy from the world economy does not mean a 10% shock to GDP. Because energy is required for all economic processes, from upstream to final demand, the shock is much larger. Stagflation will mask this shock. The shock to real living standards will be much more painful than people realize bc of the inflation illusion. Most people might even get a raise in nominal terms!
Jake Prince@ancientjake1
@c_ntkickers_utd @policytensor If the SoH are pertinently closed or if oil infrastructure is destroyed many economists predict a global Great Depression
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If we colonized the kilometers- tall Ice towers of Saturn's rings, the entire population of the Earth would only fill 1% of the ring Circumference.
Saturn's rings alone could support over 700 billion souls.
Curiosity@CuriosityonX
Saturn’s rings, captured by Voyager 2 in 1981.
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@FromKulak The problem with that is disease did all the heavy lifting.
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Whites should have done to Africa and India what America did to te plains indians, and you cannot convince me otherwise.
We could have had 8 more europes. Instead we have farm murders and phone scam centers
Real Ass Wigger@RAWigger
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@CovfefeAnon The payoff for voting red is killing off the people stupid enough to vote blue. The payoff for voting blue is save the people stupid enough to vote blue.
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This twitter classic "red button / blue button" [everyone who picks blue dies unless more than 50% do; everyone who picks red lives] question is cursed but we've learned a lot about people since it went around on the timeline the last time
First to get this out of the way - there is zero actual reason to push blue - none - there is no "payoff to cooperation" being modeled since the payoff on offer - not dying - is the same for both choices. The only rational reason to pick blue is that you *hope* less than 50% of people pick blue so you can end your life and escape the person who is putting you in contrived hypotheticals for his own amusement
With that out of the way - what we've learned in the 2 years since this hit the timeline the first time is that many, many people are simply next token predictors and when they see this example they say they will pick the "cooperative" choice (which isn't actually that!)
We have also learned that when confronted with the stupidity of this position, they will simply costlessly double down and "argue" about it forever rather than admit error
Really, the question is extremely revealing
vittorio@IterIntellectus
why would anyone even press blue?!?
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@_kruptos We need to rethink the way in which big cities and smaller towns are structured. Maybe have just a few gigantic cities, connected by fast rail and a few smaller towns, each specialized in some industry, with vast tracts of empty countryside? Something to promote extended families
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Women have always worked. The problem is that because of the downstream effects of industrialization, they all work outside the house, whereas they used to play a vital role in the “household” whether small shop, business or farm. Additionally, most have to move away from their place of birth and family support as well.
Charlotte Lee@cljack
let us acknowledge that 1) women work now and that bell isn't going to be unrung, but also 2) being a dual working parent family with small kids is an extremely stressful and unpleasant lifestyle, and a major barrier to people having >2 kids. I don't know what the solution is. Surely it has to involve normalizing women taking extended breaks from the workforce during the small kid years. I would have loved to do that but was frankly terrified of never getting another job, and I simply don't have the temperament to be a long term SAHM.
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@ChristianHeiens @HelmerVA Here’s a thought why don’t we advocate together and ban gerrymandering across the country? I’ll gladly have Illinois, Virginia, California ect redraw their districts to make them fair as long as Texas and the rest of the red states to the same!
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Democrat Delegate @HelmerVA drew this new 7th District explicitly so he can run for it himself. His house is located at the very edge of the district in Fairfax County.
A good first use of this tactic would be to vote in the August 4th primary for whichever Democrat has the BEST chance of defeating Helmer.
Dan fucked over rural Virginia to further his own political ambitions. It would only be fitting for us to fuck him back.
Christian Heiens 🏛@ChristianHeiens
I will 100% be voting in the Democratic primary for the 7th District lobstermander, and I encourage all Right-wing Virginians to do the same. There are two strategies when doing this, depending on the environment and the district in question: 1) Vote for the most idiotic candidate who can win to ensure that Dems have lightning rods in Congress that the Right can fundraise and organize against. 2) Vote for the most Right-wing candidate who can win and subvert the Democratic Party from within. Either works for different reasons.
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