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Milk Fiend
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Milk Fiend
@DownAndOut__
no such thing as a labour shortage, only low wages
London, England Katılım Şubat 2024
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@RepealTCPA1947 @STLD98 @BenedictSpence Thank them for their service in the Crusades. If they hadn't clobbered the Saracen, we'd all be Mahometans
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@STLD98 @BenedictSpence We'd all be seeing a guillotine in Piccadilly, calling that raggedy-ass Napoleon our king, and our children would be singing "La Marseillaise" if it wasn't for our brave boomers serving in the Royal Navy
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What makes a pensioner more deserving of protection from market forces than, say, a young family?
Sophie Corcoran@sophielouisecc
No. I don’t think pensioners should have to sell their houses to retire
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@selentelechia I need that video of that beaver compulsively dragging around plushies to build a "dam"
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was trying to get the kids to tidy up the attic before 5yo's friend comes over
toddler became increasingly distressed as we walked around carrying objects that he suddenly realized he absolutely had to be holding right this instant
when we were finishing up he paced around the empty floors whimpering "me...me...me..."
went to a corner where the toys were stacked and pulled several of them down onto the floor, asserting "me, me, me"
is currently putting blocks in different places in the room and when he sets a new one down he declares "me!"
...this is going to be a struggle for us the entire time we're raising him, isn't it
🌾🍁🍂 bosco 🍂🍁🌾@selentelechia
baby took a long nap today while my husband took the older kids out to the store I had time to tidy up the house it was glorious and as soon as he walked in the door, the toddler walked over to a shelf, dumped a bunch of things on the floor, and just walked away
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@ungorditoalegre @CreationsOz @lordvictor Current lamps are also interchangeable - it's actually much easier and cheaper to have varied ornament than it is to create varied lamps without ornament, if you highly value variety
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@CreationsOz @lordvictor Yeah but a mold is still more expensive than current lamps and (under the examples you gave) it would still have that repetitiveness that makes every place interchangeable. I don't mind making nicer looking lamps but any argument of it being cheap doesn't work. Besides, it is +
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They don't even cost significantly more to make. You can stamp or mold them wholesale. Modern ones are ugly on purpose to mentally distance you from your environment, and make you view everywhere as interchangeable.
Mark de Nijs@mark_mijdus
Can we bring back beautiful street lamp posts please?
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@RokoMijic Not written down here but if he's 5 foot 3 and built like a potato that would also explain it
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Transgender (F2M) passes as a male and is disappointed by the user experience
Reddit Lies@reddit_lies
lol
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@ChappellJe13586 Supply and demand doesn't change. There are more buyers than there are houses in this country - if everyone saves and starves themselves to afford a mortgage, that doesn't make more homes available, or reduce the number of buyers, it just makes prices rise
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I'm tired of young people blaming pensioners for their own life choices.
I skipped university and started working straight after school. Took an apprenticeship at an accountancy firm, they paid for my training. Wages were low, so I worked weekends and evenings as a babysitter for the first 5 years.
No holidays, no credit card, no impulse buys. I saved every penny and lived at home with my parents (who weren't rich and didn't bankroll me).
Today I'm a fully qualified accountant and bought my first home at 28. I'm still far from retirement age but have achieved what I wanted.
Everyone has choices. I chose to grind, delay gratification, and take responsibility for my future, and it worked.
Your life, your decisions but don’t blame people that have different choices to yours .
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@SCHIZO_FREQ @hotiiofficial There's also something about the assist machine that guides your body into a particular path which can help you focus on a particular muscle
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@hotiiofficial They're doing assisted pullups because it's the end of their back day and they've already mostly exhausted the muscle group
If you think these guys can't do standard pullups you may have legitimately never entered a gym
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They are doing assisted pull-ups because they are too big and find it difficult to lift their own body weight not because it’s better than normal pull-ups
Dean Turner@DeanTTraining
All the biggest dudes are doing assisted pull-ups This means they are more beneficial for muscle development than regular pull-ups Very simple, folks Doesn’t take an expert to figure this out
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@andrastimot That's not 100% true, most cities have temp labour agencies that can get you onto a jobsite in <1 week. And there are still day labourers around doing cash in hand work
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@UsingLyft Manumission is fascinating because it really touches on the chance for a peaceful end to slavery, something the left doesn't even like to think about
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I’m reading the journal of a black man who bought his freedom and the way he describes life at the time is just nothing like the way anyone today at all depicts life back then. By making it sound like it was all always bad I think the left has actually diminished the role black Americans have played in society.
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@Edwina_Currie You could burn it down to feel warm one last time
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I live in the Peak District. In a 3bed 400 year old cottage.
And the only people who’ll benefit from any growth in its value are HMRC via
Inheritance Tax, and (perhaps, if anything is left) my family.
Not me.
OJ@OJLonTweets
Sell the home you bought for £15k for £1.5m despite having done nothing for that windfall, and then we’ll listen to you.
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Throwing a hot take out here, but monastic dissolution was a common desire of many European and especially Catholic monarchies from the medieval period onwards.
Vintage Maps@vintagemapstore
Monasteries destroyed by Henry VIII during the Dissolution of the Monasteries
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@SCHIZO_FREQ Some people think the purpose of a diet is "character building" or about like, discipline or self control or something. Actually it's about getting hot
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Had a bizarre interaction yesterday. Somebody accused me of “supporting fat people” because I thought weight loss peptides were good
This is like accusing a guy of “liking Jews” because he supports a holocaust
It’s literally a thing that makes them go away
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@BernoulliDefect @ScottGoetz_ The reduction in hours worked is mostly not a matter of choice for workers. Nearly every person I know would work more hours if offered them. Instead most employers at the lower end want to keep extra workers on with fewer hours each
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They do this as a sublimated form of their other possibly more valid gripes. Off the top of my head:
- Disposable income has (slowly) grown: £4815 in 2000 to £6353 now. The inflation adjustment includes housing costs, so they objectively did have it 'harder' accounting for everything
- Older generations in many ways worked harder. Objectively longer at 38.0 hours/week in 2000 compared to 36.6 now. Subjectively, many workplaces are less serious now and WFH is a wheeze.
- Diets have got more 'bougie', with the ONS representative goods basket adding: parmesan cheese, rosé wine, sparkling wine, charcuterie, speciality beer/ale, coffee pods, croissants, & smoked salmon since 2000.
- Young people do waste money on some stupid things. As an example, the baffling growth of Deliveroo: the food delivery market has boomed from £7.6B/year in 2019 to £14.3B/year in 2025.
- Many goods are objectively better than they were in the past: cars, kitchen appliances, anything with a screen, lightbulbs, audio equipment.
I *think* the most valid angle is that if a modern day person lived like older people did: more hours worked, low electronics usage, crap car, simple and homemade food, crap holidays, and housing costs shared with their spouse, then they would save a lot more and be able to come out on top, despite. the higher housing prices (especially outside London and the SE, which is only ~30% of the UK's population).
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Never will understand why old people get so viciously angry when it is explained to them they bought houses at a good time and it would be nice if similar conditions existed now. I suppose it is just insecurity at the idea owning a home really wasn’t a grand achievement for them.
Sandy Tregent@SandyofSuffolk
Read the comments under my original post. You show them houses they can afford and they come up with spurious excuse after spurious excuse why they can't. Good God, these people. No wonder the country is doomed. Hardly anyone under about 40 wants to get off their bums and actually do anything to make their lives better. But they'll moan at pensioners. 🙄
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Something quite revealing about how the implausibly cheap houses American Boomers bring up turn out to be cheap because they were meth labs or traphouses or the site of a notorious family annihilation - the product of Men of Action doing deeds of great import - while their British equivalents suggest that you buy a house in a dying hamlet in the middle of nowhere and die along with it.
Sandy Tregent@SandyofSuffolk
You can buy a nice little house like this in Suffolk with a 5% deposit of £6,000. Nationwide, Barclays and others are offering good deals for first time buyers with only a 5% deposit. But then you'd have to forego your gap year in the Far East and Antipodes or your fancy wedding. Poor you. Boo hoo. 🤣
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@maxtempers I'm against triple lock but it's like in the bottom half of our ten biggest problems
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The Triple Lock Theory of Everything is probably the worst of the Theory of Everythings. Discourse around it is bordering insane at this point. It's not why Britain is at all in the doldrums.
David Algonquin@surplustakes
Yeah sure whatever
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@CptHastings1916 @JP46251093 Like a third of the population in London lives in social housing, immense resources go into letting people live there, just not young middle class people
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@JP46251093 London & the SE are the beating heart of the productive and skilled economy & are home to in excess of 20m people so it is in fact a big problem if housing costs are insane. You say "want the London experience" like it's some kind of absurd self-indulgence!
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One reason Boomers & older Gen Xers get so indignant when younger people point out their good housing fortune is that over the last half century many "luxuries" have become way more affordable, so they feel that it's somehow ungrateful for us to note huge housing cost inflation.
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@CptHastings1916 Houses have x10ed in price and flights to the Med x0.1ed, but boomers expect younger generations to live like monks to bid up the price of their Zone 6 shoebox
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@Duderichy SpaceX has advanced technology that nobody else in the world can imitate and Amazon has a bunch of warehouses
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this doesn’t make any goddamn sense
Zoomer 🧢@Doomerzoomer
SpaceX IPO valuation: 2T. Amazon valuation: $2.2T. SpaceX revenue: $15b. Amazon revenue: $720b.
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@user84829272 People offering me food triggers my fight or flight reflex
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Why would I want calorie dense slop. This would be a biblical level punishment for me.
littlebillie@littlebillie
Stop acting like you would hate it if someone brought you a crockpot of chili and a pan of cinnamon rolls!
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@residentadviser There's plenty of electoral support for "fund the NHS by deporting immigrants" triangulation, even though I don't like it. It's not necessarily Christian in character, so much as it is opportunist to promise that we can fund the state entirely on the backs of the rich
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The problem is - and I’m increasingly of this view - the Orbanite stuff has no appeal in this country. The Kruger/Cates stuff has little purchase in modern Britain. There’s an electorate for the immigration stuff. Flag? Yes. Faith and family? Not so much (or in Kruger’s terms).
Despotic Inroad@DespoticInroad
This is the kind of politics I thought REFORM might be tentatively edging towards — a kind of syncretic, Big Tent national populism, as comfortable attacking “big capital” as it is attacking mass migration/liberal Eurocrats. (OFC with a side order of Orban-style cronyism/Russophilia.) Farage had signalled he would: 👉Nationalise utilities/steel 👉Remove 2-child cap for working British families 👉Take on BoE over QT/ commercial bank interest % 👉Implement industrial strategy focused on reviving manufacturing (inc. public equity stakes in strategically essential domestic companies) After the wave of defections this year, that trajectory seems to be going into reverse: they’ve reneged on public ownership, and committed to orthodox Tory boomer welfarism via their 3-lock promise (politically expedient but fiscally imprudent). At the next election, notwithstanding the “communitarian” and “post-liberal” influence of Danny Kruger, the economic nationalist Orbanite option (remember Roger Scruton was a Fidesz fanboy) will likely give way to the Meloni model: trad centre-Right political economy + anti-woke/anti-migrant rhetoric… The Conservative Party 2.0.
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