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Pre-2020 I thought the left were the kind ones. Covid changed that and it’s been increasingly obvious which side are the most hateful, intolerant and controlling #CharlieKirk

Male or female I will never understand the compulsion to hang bits of metal from your face

@TheCinesthetic It's fucking brilliant

Ready Player One (2018) got buried under the IP overload talk, but Spielberg’s fingerprints are all over it, the staging is clean, the geography always clear, and the set pieces move with that old-school snap he never lost.

The left never come for the likes of the Beckhams, it's always a nebulous theoretical fatcat (usually white) billionaire

@100kDiary If you like driving a new car under warranty leasing is the cheapest way - you're paying the depreciation monthly, that's all. Which frees capital up to be invested at a higher rate

Unpopular opinion: Leasing a brand new car is the most financially illiterate thing normalised in the UK. You're paying £500/month for something that loses 40% of its value by the time you hand it back. Then you sign up for another one. A £5,000 used car does the exact same job. Gets you from A to B. Doesn't care about your ego. The difference over 10 years? Roughly £60k. Your car isn't a flex. It's a monthly donation to a dealership. Agree or disagree? 👇

@SamaHoole Drip bread, was a treat for me when I was kid - rarely had it but loved it when I did

Dry dripping on bread, with a pinch of salt, was, for approximately four hundred years, one of the most common things a British child ate when he came in from school. The dripping was what was left in the pan after the Sunday roast. Beef fat, mostly, sometimes with a dark jelly at the bottom where the juices had settled. Your mother spooned it into a white enamel bowl, covered it with a plate, and kept it on the cold shelf in the pantry. It lasted a week. Sometimes two. It fried the Monday bubble and squeak, the Tuesday eggs, the Wednesday onions. On Thursday afternoon, before it ran out, you got a slice of bread spread with the stuff, a pinch of salt cracked on top, and that was tea. It was a treat. It was also just food. A child in 1930 would have looked at you blankly if you had suggested that beef dripping on bread was in any way remarkable. It was what was in the bowl. It was free. It tasted of Sunday lunch three days later. Beef dripping is approximately 50% monounsaturated fat, 40% saturated fat, and carries the fat-soluble vitamins A, D, E, and K from the pasture the cow grazed on. The cow ate grass. The grass had been growing on British soil since the end of the last Ice Age. The fat was the end product of ten thousand years of continuous ruminant grazing. A slice of bread and dripping delivered, for roughly the price of the bread, a dose of fat-soluble vitamins and usable calories that the rest of the British afternoon was going to need. Nobody got heart disease from bread and dripping. The British cardiovascular mortality rate of 1930, when almost every family ate dripping several times a week, was a fraction of what it is now. The British obesity rate of 1930 was essentially zero. The British type 2 diabetes rate was so low that the Royal College of Physicians considered the condition a medical curiosity. Then the dripping was quietly removed. First by margarine, invented in 1869 by a French chemist trying to feed the army, mass-marketed in Britain after the First World War as a modern, clean, scientific alternative to animal fat. Then by Crisco-style vegetable shortenings in the 1930s. Then, decisively, from the 1960s onwards, by the dietary advice that saturated animal fat caused heart disease. The advice was wrong. The research behind it was flawed, selectively published, and in some cases deliberately manipulated. The corrections have been appearing in the peer-reviewed literature for thirty years. The public-health guidelines have not been updated. Bread and dripping was replaced, in the British kitchen, by margarine on bread. Then by low-fat spread on bread. Then by skimmed-milk spread on industrially processed bread from the Chorleywood process. Then by a plastic tub of something labelled "I Can't Believe It's Not Butter," made from a blend of palm oil, rapeseed oil, emulsifiers, and flavouring, spread on a slice of Kingsmill so pale and so soft it could be balled up in one hand. The cardiovascular disease rates climbed through the same decades. The obesity rates climbed through the same decades. The type 2 diabetes rates went from medical curiosity to national crisis through the same decades. The fat your great-grandmother scraped out of the Sunday roast pan and spread on her child's tea was never the problem. The problem was what replaced it. Industrial seed oil, chemically extracted from seeds using hexane solvent, deodorised, bleached, and sold in a plastic bottle as a health food. A substance no human population had consumed in meaningful quantities before 1910, and which now makes up roughly 20% of the total calories in the average British diet. The dripping bowl on the cold shelf was a complete piece of nutritional engineering, evolved over centuries, running on the natural waste stream of the Sunday roast, costing nothing, delivering real nutrients, and causing none of the conditions it was eventually blamed for. It was thrown out of the British kitchen on the basis of a mistake. The mistake has never been corrected. The bowl is still at your grandmother's house, probably, at the back of a cupboard, unused since about 1985. The cow that built Britain is still in the field.

@Admalez It will just create a blackmarket

The UK is an authoriation laughing stock. This policy is not only laughably impractical but is tyrannical and unjustly discriminatory. It has no place in a free democratic society. Shame on everyone who supports it.

@mariana057 They did that in the UK I believe

You know what I’d love to see??? A reality show where millionaire CEOs are required to live off their lowest paid employees salary for 1 month.

@vulpine2020 @GarethNotGarth Don't think so, company car tax is insane at the minute. 13% even on big hybrids, so on a £90k car you'll be paying £400 in tax alone

@Boba_Ball_ @GarethNotGarth Getting them thru employers I guess?

60k for a 2yo Peugeot SIXTY GRAND FOR A SECOND HAND PEUGEOT!!

@ranareef wow

ill cut it off for u, hope that helps

@vulpine2020 @GarethNotGarth No. But even leasing them is upwards of £600 a month. How many Range Rover sports do you see. They are over £900 to lease

@Boba_Ball_ @GarethNotGarth Nobody is actually buying them though surely. They’re also leased

@quesadaaa_ Men have junk which makes sitting with legs together uncomfortable. Hope this helps

LETS NORMALIZE THIS YALL NEED TO STOP SITTING LIKE JERKS

@MetamateDaz Silly opinion, not unpopular People are paid based on the number of people capable of doing the job. Pro footballers earn millions Fast food workers don’t

UNPOPULAR OPINION: Buying and selling is NOT capitalism. That’s trade. Capitalism is an employee generating $1,000 of value an hour but being paid $16.

What is the refugees are fascists?

@yvessirae @grok how many people are homeless in Finland

FINLAND HAS REDUCED HOMELESSNESS CLOSE TO ZERO BY GIVING PEOPLE HOUSING FIRST INSTEAD OF TEMPORARY SHELTERS

@Strandjunker So childish class war bullshit

Just a thought: How about we stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential?

@RmSalih Performative social media bullshit

Imagine having so little of importance in your life that you cry like a baby over a football match. Grown adults with meaningless lives. Britain is full of these people.

@OrevaZSN Because creativity comes from collaboration not isolation

We had an incredible opportunity to make remote work the global standard, and we blew it. Seriously: What happened? Why did so many companies go back to the office?

@redrumlisa Never happened

Brilliant just recieved a letter from my landlord putting the rent up another £520 a year thats my holiday gone. I know people who go to work aren't entitled to holidays or to live on their own or to have the heating on. What wont we be entitled to next year? At what point does this end? I know families eating from foodbanks to service the rent. I actually feel sick because I know next year when the rent goes up again I wont have much more to cut back on. I'm getting closer to the HMO. This is why people aren't saving towards pensions.

@DraperOr Yeah I know what you mean. My m135i is too fast for normal roads. I’ve already got 3 points in 8 months of ownership. 0-60 in 4.5 seconds in a hatch is silly

@Boba_Ball_ Number of times I’ve got my foot to the floor in my old 911 in recent years? Very few. It’s probably better to have a car you can actually wring out. I cannot see how something like a Turbo S is even driveable.

Why are MX5s so slow?