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The rules aren't there to keep everyone safe.
The rules are to keep everyone scared.
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Mark E 🌸🐿️
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Mark E 🌸🐿️
@BelfastAccount2
Auditor. Professionally sceptical. GAWA 💚🤍 Double caffeinated ☕ (Repentant) former DINK The New Normal is bonkers
Belfast, United Kingdom Katılım Ağustos 2019
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@andrew_lilico Shinzo Abe looking down on this and cracking a smile
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@AvonandsomerRob @DirkBruere Kids could probably use the inheritance rightly
Move to a bigger home
Renovate/extend their home
Have more children
Allow SAHP while children are young
Supplement their pension
Start a junior ISA for the kids
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@DirkBruere What are you going to do with the cash from your home when you're not around?
If your kids are working, they don't need a large inheritance.
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Is owning your home outright above the age of 65 just a tax liability waiting to happen?
The government want your money.
Wouldn't you be better releasing 50% of the equity for a luxury retirement?
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@JRFBoy Spouse or dependent of some bird doing a MSc probably
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@j3lqingt0n @Geopolymeric Imagine like 40 AIM-120s spilling out of that thing
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@Geopolymeric And that's before any of the other cool shit that it probably does that is probably extremely classified. It's clearly more than just a bomber, the USAF talks about it like it's more than just a bomber, and it's being procured like it's more than just a bomber.
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After seeing the 35 year old B-2s having their way with Iranian airspace, this thing is clearly a Red October tier 1st strike system and it's honestly a little insane that we want to build 200 of them.
jmh.creates@JarodMHamilton
B-21 Raider with the trailing cone attached
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@wayfarer679 @captive_dreamer It's a perfectly cromulent word
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@captive_dreamer Wtf does "emarginated" mean, sounds like they're getting turned into margerine
"first native English-speaking pope"
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DEI so bad it's even hitting the papacy - totally vapid, impersonal and artificial language, reads like communist block drivel, horrendous
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@HollyHNews @BELFASTCITY_AIR Mum walked up to entrance roundabout after a flight, to make pick up easier for me, recieved £100 fine….appealed but the signage apparently should be enough….I hadnt been since new layout, it’s not easy - you drive in & look to be driving straight back out - very confusing…..
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I’m at @BELFASTCITY_AIR A LOT. So I know how to navigate the labyrinth… but every time I’m there I see drivers struggling to follow the route to the correct carpark and inadvertently breaking the stringent rules on stopping. (£100 fine) It’s merciless. You’re set up to fail.
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The UK is missing a regional tier of govt. Draw them how you want, but multi-county regions of 3-8m people or so with powers from both below and above, assemblies, and empowered leaders *with real budgets* would be a start.
WM takes 15% VAT, region takes 5%, both can raise/lower, etc. Regions set/keep proportional property taxes. Then if the NW want a high tax, high spend system, they can have it - but they pay for it.
Central govt hands over things like local policing, NHS, schools, etc, focuses on defence, law, foreign policy, major infra, and so on. Fixed payments for each person, plus development grants for poorer regions.
Our regions often have quite different political priorities and tilts, so let's give them the chance to see if they work in practice. It may also help parliament become a serious legislature again, rather than hyperlocalised social workers.
These reforms don't go nearly far enough, at present. Give proper tax and budget setting powers.
Faisal Islam@faisalislam
NEW Blimey - devolution of some proportion of income tax to some city regions - ie to back incentives for growing cities: Chancellor announces “roadmap for future fiscal devolution to be published at this year's budget” to give “regional leaders control of a share of some national taxes which have for too long been allocated by central governments.” “They will look at income tax alongside other taxes with reforms initially targeted at those places have the greatest capacity to deliver them and the greatest potential to benefit. Now this is not about new taxes, and it's not about higher tax rates, I will not ask taxpayers to pay more. Reforms will be fiscally neutral, …these reforms will represent a permanent transfer of power and resources, not another exercise in local ambition frustrated by central government control, with taxpayers able to see what is being delivered with their money and to hold local leaders to account for the results what I am describing is a genuine break with the past, a generational opportunity for Britain's regions to make their own future”.
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@BBCNewsnight Euthanasia would be very bad news for society. But I'm willing to entertain a compromise solution: make it like divorce used to be, where it's only possible by a private Act of Parliament. Esther gets what she wants, but Parliamentary scrutiny prevents abuse by callous relatives
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"I'm just begging the House Of Lords to face the facts... please, please, let this compassionate, sensible, practical, scrutinised bill pass the way it was intended"
Dame Esther Rantzen urges the House of Lords not to block the assisted dying bill.
#Newsnight
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@adamtranter /slaps roof of multi story car park/ you could fit so many social tenants in here mate
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The city centre car park has had its day. There is now a significant opportunity to put the land previously used for car parking to much more productive use.
Land that could be used for tens of thousands of homes in city centres.
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…
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@Osint613 What did communists use before candles?
Electricity
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JUST IN 🔴
Cuba’s entire electrical grid collapses, plunging the country into blackout - CNN.
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@meIisactu Probably got nervous and flustered typing the line "it does not matter which meningitis vaccinations you had in the past" and couldn't concentrate as they feared a colleague would call them an anti-vaxxer
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Would like to meet the fun and whimsy civil servant who decided to make a public health warning look like a shitty DICE listing because it somewhat related to a club, and then proceeded to make around 5 typos
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@et_riposte @DissidentSoaps I don't know what any of those words are. Did you want the clothes washed or not?
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@DissidentSoaps She’s upset because she knows he washed her bespoke selvedge
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"I never realized the washer has a setting just for jeans. Isn't that neat, babe? ....I said isn't that neat?"
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@frogNscorpion Lmao ask anyone at a Big Four to tell you about who posts their (sometimes obviously fake AI) art and photography all over the all firm Yammer channels
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India and bots have made every facet of the internet near unusable and now that damage is bleeding into the real world
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@frozenaesthetic I mean, that first one is just straight up not true.
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Emotions that don't exist in English:
Sonder (German)
The realization that every stranger you pass has a life as vivid and complex as your own
Mono no aware (Japanese)
The gentle sadness of knowing everything beautiful is temporary and loving it more because it will not last
Merak (Serbian)
A deep sense of contentment found in small moments. Shared laughter, warm light and feeling fully present
Iktsuarpok (Inuit)
The restless anticipation that makes you keep checking the door, waiting for someone who has not arrived yet
Toska (Russian)
A quiet heavy ache with no clear cause. A sadness that settles in and refuses to explain itself
Forelsket (Norwegian)
The euphoric rush of falling in love, before reality has a chance to interrupt it
Kilig (Tagalog, Philippines)
The sudden flutter in your chest when affection catches you off guard, a warmth that arrives before logic does
Hiraeth (Welsh)
A deep longing for a home that no longer exists, or maybe never did. A homesickness for a feeling rather than a place
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@tag4UK Fake qualification staff just here for the visa may or may not remember to give granny her medication. Will possibly dislocate her shoulder helping her to the loo.
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8pm handover, a new shift has begun.
All around the country, elderly residents are being shoved into bed, some will ask if they can stay up for a bit, many will be told no.
Some will spend the night in the same clothes they have worn all day; they’ll be double padded so they don’t need to be changed through the night.
Sensor mats will be pulled out so they don’t alarm, doors will be closed.
By 11pm, more than half of the staff looking after your family member will be asleep in the lounge.
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🚨Breaking News
This is the first picture of Zahira Byjaoane 43. She is accused of throwing her 18 day old baby out of a window and has been charged with murder.
She is due to appear in the Old Bailey on Wednesday.
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@rfkenmore You can get like 8 high quality Oxford shirts for that in London
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Gitman Vintage just put out an "Ultralight" version of their classic Oxford Shirt
and it's.... $310
I don't know the internals at that brand, but I struggle to understand what they're doing
Product keeps getting more and more expensive, while there has been no meaningful newness or improvement reflected in the assortment
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