Ms Crypto-Lite

@jratcliff Class of 2017, I sold some on this dip! First time I have been shaken out

@lozfitzuk @sashayanshin Landfill tax was created in 1996 at £7 per tonne Adjusted for inflation that should now be £14 per tonne In fact its currently £126 per tonne

@sashayanshin Third time in 5 mins I've seen the same rhetoric of 5p, 10p and then £1. I'm not a fan of the EV per mile, but there is lots of scare mongering going around

The UK has just introduced a per-mile tax for driving your car. To start with it’s just 3p per mile and just for electric cars. Going to visit your family who live 3 hours away will now cost you £10 extra every time. But then it will obviously become 5p and then 10p and then £1 all in the name of “saving the environment”. And then it’s won’t just be electric cars, but every car on the road. This won’t take long either. Just watch. “Yes, you do have freedom of movement, but your trip to Nottingham to see your elderly parents will cost you £300 in tax”. An entirely backward policy that stifles conversion to electric, penalises people who live in rural parts of the UK, and adds another Big Brother lens watching your every move. Rich people driving 5 miles from Mayfair to meet friends at the restaurant = negligible tax. Regular people living in north England driving 100 miles a day to do 2x school runs and get to/from work will just have to find £15 a week in extra tax from the magic money tree. Another policy that shows the Government is out of ideas.

@anondeguerre x.com/jimcramer/stat… its going to be ok

Dear great market maker in the sky, Please no statements about trade or the economy from the admin for the next 48h. Love, Everyone you know.

@kevinlvalfin @annapanart Agreed, but I want more than the 80 or so healthy years that are currently on offer. A lot more.

Aging is brutal. I really hope and pray we can conquer this.

@OldMackIsBack Honest question... do you still feel the same way?? I'm interested because you have had a view about $BTC from way back. Now that the institutions have come in does it give you more confidence? Does the price put you off?

Lol, more evidence that Bitcoin is a really bad idea. Wouldn’t matter it f it heads to 100k, if Russia and that airheaded slappper are pumping it, avoid, avoid, avoid.

Me and the boys waking up to $120k Bitcoin

@Eth_Moon_ I'm this old

Are you this old?

@Wizardtoshi Youtube premium.... it's unusable without it

@goaniniceland @jk_rowling Thanks, great read, it's a bitter sweet process xx

Lady Rowling, steady in the face of time. No man or woman past 50, possessed of a working mind and a mirror, has escaped that sinking realisation which descends one quiet day like a bolt from nowhere: that you are now on the other side, no longer the hot commodity you fancied yourself, no longer the life of any partý, but simply… dispensable. Once lowered 6 feet under or consigned to the flame, you are, to the world at large, over - save for the handful to whom you truly mattered. For many, this moment is not merely sobering but traumatic, particularly in the contemporary West, where youth is prized above all, and age rendered almost invisible. It was not always so; the Western tradition, too, once held space for reverence & ripening. But today, desperation rules: the frantic quest to look young, feel young, stay young. Lip fillers, skin touch-ups, bariatric procedures. Each a futile gesture, deepening the very dread they seek to soothe. Far wiser to embrace the inevitable and grow into it with grace. The ancient Indian rsis (sages) understood this elemental truth. They envisioned a fourfold map of life - ashramas - each stage flowing naturally into the next, like seasons turning, each with its own tasks and temperaments to nourish both body and soul. Past 50 begins the vanaprastha phase: a gentle detachment from the clamour of the world, a turning inward, a ripening of reflection. We see, more and more, the immense wisdom in this vision. Even a modern Western rsi like Bertrand Russell offered his counsel on how to age with curiosity, clarity, and inner freedom. But this subject is a longer meditation, best saved for another day.

I hate to disappoint, but you don’t turn me into a quivering heap of anguish by telling me I am, or look, old. I’ve lost too many people too young to feel anything but celebratory about still being around in my sixtieth year and if you’re lucky, you’ll feel that way one day, too.

@Eth_Moon_ put some cards in the spokes

Who’s this old?

@meathead @TheCriticalDri1 youtu.be/53GIADHxVzM?si… beautiful song xx

@TheCriticalDri1 Don’t forget, she also wrote the musical and the music for waitress

I honestly don't think you understand what is about to happen. Sara Bareilles sings Goodbye Yellow Brick Road and, man, the PIPES on her are unbelievable! She will absolutely blow you away!! Enjoy this Elton John cover classis here on #CTDDJ friends.

@kazonomics I'm so sorry for your loss, I know that feeling where you catch a glance of a familiar shape in its usual place, I hope it's a comfort in these difficult times xx

@ChiefJohnBoy @Thermobolic I listened to that book one day 14 months ago with a stinking hangover. It broke alcohols spell. Can't recommend it highly enough.

@Thermobolic I drank like you for close to 25 years. Prob 10+ drinks per day, every day. One day, I listened to “Alcohol lied to me” audio book. Drank that night and quit the next day. The first 2-3 days were rough. Once you get over that hump, it gets easier and easier

I used to be an alcoholic. Drank every day for years. Got up to the point where I was drinking half a handle of whisky every night plus a few beers. It was bad. I quit about 10 years ago (didn't mark the date or anything). What happened is finally developed enough self hatred to change / quit. I quit cold turkey. Got the shakes, sweats and then entered a horrible depression that lasted months. What kept me going wasn't AA or prayer or therapy or supplements. It was hate. I kept an open bottle of whisky when I quit. I left it by the door. Every day when I got home from work I had to walk past it. Everyday I was tempted. Everyday I was filled with rage. I projected my hate onto that bottle. I screamed FU at it. I picked it up and shook it. I told it it hated it. Really, I hated myself for being tempted. For being weak. Took about a year before I could walk by it without feeling anything. Not saying any of this is healthy or the way you should quit. Just sharing my story. Self hatred is destructive. It can also be an incredibly powerful motivator. I think you have to be the right kind of person to be able to use it to better yourself instead of letting it destroy you. Fine line.

Ross was just granted a FULL AND UNCONDITIONAL PARDON by @realDonaldTrump. Words cannot express how grateful we are. President Trump is a man of his word and he just saved Ross's life. ROSS IS A FREE MAN!!!!!

@CaseyChrist @sebjscott27 @Peston Some people hold significant digital assets their phone, sometimes backed up sometimes not. Can you give us a ball park figure? Also I'm guessing your fees are claimable against CGT

When I had a mobile phone snatched by a biker, I gave the police precise GPS details of its two UK locations, including Google maps pictures of front doors. The police refused to go to the addresses or investigate. This was maddening. The officers said they were not allowed to act on GPS locational data - and also that there are so many street crimes that they can’t cope. But they did want to visit me to take a pointless statement and offer me victim support, when what I actually wanted was my phone back. It is now in Algeria. The police are significantly under-resourced but there is also an issue about how the existing resources are being deployed. The Home Secretary says she will give the police the power to act on location data. But it is unclear when this will happen, and why the police can’t even now simply go to a property and knock on a door as a warning to the thieves that they are being watched. And as for the failure to use cctv images, don’t get me started. Of course thefts and crimes such as the one I experienced are trivial compared to many that go unsolved. Which is why what is reported below will resonate widely. PS I am not being funny but I thought the most counter-intuitive aspect of the Louise Haigh case is that a decade ago the police took an interest in where her phone might be

@guardian Finally a post I can like from @guardian

Why the Guardian is no longer posting on X theguardian.com/media/2024/nov…

@Glinner same energy

This bloke is a FUCKING COPPER.

@MegaSausageHead @DreyfusJames This is the truth of it. If you are elderly and in the NHS you need younger relatives to advocate for you at all times.

They will write him off unless they see family making a fuss. Make sure you follow up. My dad was delusional with fever in hospital when he refused further medication. Despite him obviously being unfit to make such a life-ending decision, he was out of that hospital and at home with no medication within an hour. They even withdrew his breathing medication, upon which he had been dependent for 30 years after having 1 & 1/3 lungs removed for TB. He died writhing in agony on the floor before the hospital bed had even arrived. Covid rules meant that the undertaker issued the death certificate. ❤️

Just spoke with my 82 year old father. About 12 years ago, he had an operation to the back of his throat & it’s now causing him pain again. So he went to the doctor, who had a fleeting peek, & told him to ‘take some paracetamol…’ To use my father’s words, ‘Pretty sure, after 80, they just write you off…’ Naturally, I told him to pursue it. But I resent the fact that some health professionals seem to take rather callous advantage of his generation, who’re known for their hardiness, resilience & ‘for not wishing to be a burden on others’… in fact, it makes my blood fair boil….

Are you ready for the curveball?