@VikingNation28 @mahjongjen @C_3C_3 Yeah, stupid poor person making 14 bucks an hour. I hate the poor
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@mahjongjen @C_3C_3 Business class at best lol. Bro just telling on himself. Makes 14 bucks an hour
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@effiemoritz @MasculineM7 It shows dominance and indifference. The hiring manager will be begging her to join.
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@MasculineM7 No way you're talking to a hiring manager and end with "Whatever".
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@2147mill What does it mean to “miss the best 5 days”? Do you mean not investing when the market it at its lowest?
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£20,000 invested in the S&P 500 (1979–2022):
→ Stayed invested: £1,662,000
→ Missed best 5 days: £1,031,000
→ Missed best 10 days: £742,000
→ Missed best 20 days: £431,000
→ Missed best 30 days: £269,000
→ Missed best 60 days: £81,500
8 of the 10 worst days happened within 1 week of the best days.
The best days don’t announce themselves.
You won’t time it.
Nobody does.
Stay invested.
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@2147mill You’ve got a lot to learn, kid. I piss on such trades, I make double returns by trading on a daily basis. Follow the journey
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The best investors I know aren't the smartest. They're the most patient.
They buy index funds, reinvest dividends, ignore the noise, and check their accounts twice a year.
Boring wins.
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@_CommonTreasury @joncstone @botzarelli That is true. We need to defend the realm, with force if necessary.
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@AndyMpolitics @joncstone @botzarelli the square mile does actually seem like that to me - steeped in complicated and unique history and myths - it is a realm (or "local authority") that is governed differently to the rest of the country
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There’s no real reason for most people to go Bank on a regular basis other than for work. It doesn’t particularly need to be a landmark that people like.
Jon Stone@joncstone
removing cars from Bank has turned it from a generic horrible junction to a landmark that people actually like. so many other spots in London could do with the same treatment
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@bbcquestiontime This is effectively a bribe to come on the show. @Ofcom should investigate this
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Question Time can confirm that panellists who are not politicians are offered an appearance fee of £150.
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@joncstone @botzarelli as well as improving the realm to make the area more pleasant for workers and visitors hosting meetings outside their office, there are plenty of interesting places for tourists - it is the square mile after all - like the bank of england museum, monument, loads of churches etc
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I asked @RoryStewartUK about the prevalence of anti-Muslim bigotry in modern politics and his reply stunned me.
What I wanted to talk about was the way ignorance and hatred (recent examples: describing Muslims praying in public as “an act of domination”, political parties trying to ban the burqa) was now not just harming British Muslims, but also the national interest.
How a lack of understanding about martyrdom or Persian nationalism connects to a war that might cause a global depression. I thought he might talk about Karbala, and we did eventually, but he began with a precise and confronting statement: much of what we’re dealing with is, quite simply, racism.
And not only that, but the weaponisation of that racism, and its political uses, which he described as “profoundly disturbing.”
He talked about arguing with Tommy Robinson. Speculated about possible endpoints for a politics that don’t incorporate dignity and love. And drew a parallel to anti-Semitism in the 1930s.
If you haven’t listened to the latest episode of The Exchange yet, you really need to. Listen in bio.
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@AndyMpolitics @2147mill No. If you don't use that before the end of the financial year, you will lose it.
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The UK tax year resets on 6th April.
Your £20,000 ISA allowance?
Gone.
You can’t roll it over.
You can’t claim it back.
It disappears forever.
£20,000 of tax free investing opportunity.
Vanished. Every single year people don’t use it.
Using yours?
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@logan53025545 @2147mill It depends on when you’ll need to access the funds and what your goals are. If you won’t need to access the funds for 5+ years, an ISA is a good choice, pick a handful of long term growth stocks and leave them for many years to double/treble in value
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@ThomasCS__ @2147mill Crypto is fake internet money. Invest in something real like company stocks
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This is so so good
The New Statesman@NewStatesman
WHAT THE CIA'S "QUEEN OF TORTURE" DID NEXT, by @fayecurran99 Alfreda Bikowsky led the CIA unit that tortured suspected terrorists and caught Osama bin Laden. She helped design, defend and implement the agency’s torture program during the war on terror. She is said to have “gleefully” tortured detainees at remote prisons across the Middle East. Now she’s a women’s life coach. In her first long-form interview since she retired from the CIA in 2021, Bikowsky stands by the use of waterboarding as a form of interrogation. She has never been waterboarded. She never considered trying it. When asked about the waterboarding of KSM, and the subject of what constitutes torture, Bikowsky repeats the same line: “In all instances, the agency has never asked me to do anything that I thought was unethical or unlawful or immoral.” She has no regrets. In her coaching she encourages her clients to remember that “someone could look at Jesus Christ walking on water and come away criticising him because he wasn’t juggling at the same time”. Faye Curran spent several months talking to – and being life-coached by – the “Queen of Torture”. Read the full story below.
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@AaronBastani The Labour and Lib Dem panelists are significantly left of centre, the Conservative is slightly left of centre.
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We’re about to see energy bills go up 50% after July and I’m just going to hear some guy say ‘bosh!’ from the telly.
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Fascinating.
When they do these 4 person shows, BBCQT has one person from the right beyond parties, but not from the left.
Same happened when they had no Greens the week before the Greens won a by-election. Entirely unserious program.
BBC Question Time@bbcquestiontime
Tonight, Question Time is in Clacton-on-Sea Joining Fiona on the panel are Jake Richards, Tom Tugendhat, Layla Moran, and Tom Skinner Join #bbcqt, 9pm on @BBCiPlayer, @BBCSounds, and @BBCNews, 10:40pm on @BBCOne Apply to be in the audience here: eu.castitreach.com/ag/mentorn/que…
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@joncstone @botzarelli Your definition of “good” is thousands of wanker cyclists bombing through pedestrianised areas.
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@botzarelli yeah why should anything be good. lets just live and work in a miserable shithole for no reason
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@john_ritzema @s8mb Erm, no it’s significantly more than that. That will barely cover the cost of the cost of the Costa coffee at the station.
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It blows my mind that you can get by train from London to Newcastle in three and a half hours and Edinburgh in four. Who needs high speed rail? We’ve already got it!
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@s8mb Exactly! I commute from London to Newcastle every day so I get the best of both worlds - London city living with all the perks of working in Newcastle!
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@kivijussi @peterrhague The East India Company put a stop to the barbaric practice of burning widows on the husband’s funeral pyre, so swings and roundabouts.
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@peterrhague The East India Company made huge profits in India by turning trade into a form of corporate colonialism, and this went hand in hand with systematic abuse of power, violence, and exploitation of Indian society and resources. Their "achievement" was this: share.google/h6PchkM4uY3WSv…
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British history seems to consist in large part of us making the world objectively better for everybody, getting no credit for it, and then once our empire was exhausted the same people we helped cynically lying about our history in order to get money from us.
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As Ghana calls for reparations and the left wing media rush to reinforce the white guilt some may feel, it is notable that none use this photo of a British Sailor removing the chains from a freed slave. Great Britain ended the slave trade and paid in blood and coin. No charge.
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@2147mill @ONation20249 Money talks and bullshit walks, kid.
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The average UK mortgage is £200,000 at 5% over 25 years.
Total repayment? £350,000.
You borrow £200K and pay back £350K.
£150,000 straight to the bank.
For nothing.
Then you pay to fix up the house.
Stuff breaks.
You pay insurance monthly.
Fees when/if you sell the property.
And we act like renting is throwing money away.
There is a strong argument for renting.
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