Dryddion 𐇵

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Dryddion 𐇵

Dryddion 𐇵

@Druddion

Katılım Mart 2022
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Dryddion 𐇵@Druddion·
@DrewPavlou I think policies like this or the supposed 55mph speed limit may be some sort of throwaway for leverage as part of a left wing coalition (god help us if that happens). It could even be a weird strategy to make labour / lib Dems look less insane by comparison.
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Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼
Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼@DrewPavlou·
The British Green Party want to cap British CEO pay to like $100 an hour lol. My highest ever Twitter payment was like $4000 over 14 days, which would have worked out to nearly $100 an hour just to post. So British CEOs would be paid less than random Twitter shitposters under the British Green Party
Politics UK@PolitlcsUK

🚨 NEW: Green leader Zack Polanski will call for policies to end the "affordability crisis" tomorrow - The introduction of a 10:1 pay ratio, whereby the highest-paid employee earns no more than ten times the lowest-paid - Free school meals for all primary and secondary pupils - Universal energy bill support for households and stronger rent controls - A customs union with the EU to cut business costs

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Dryddion 𐇵@Druddion·
@Satnaai @7Kiwi Because at these windy/sunny points, fossil fuels are being taxed into oblivion, but maintenance and staff still have to be paid for. In low wind and sun, there is no choice but to use dispatchable generations (fossil fuels and hydro) hence their price is distorted.
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satnaai@Satnaai·
@7Kiwi Funny how when there is lots of renewables and little gas making our electricity, the price is low. And vice versa.
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David Turver@7Kiwi·
Net zero advocates love to claim renewables are cheaper than gas by waving around Levelised Cost of Energy (LCOE) models from Lazard, IRENA, and the UK Government’s Generation Cost 2025 report. But these models are junk. Here’s why. (1/19)
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Dryddion 𐇵@Druddion·
@andrew_lilico I don't think people on UC should be rewarded with cheap zoo visits; they should be applying for jobs and volunteering. We have to stop thinking of pensioners as being low income; the vast majority have a massive untaxed income and live comfortable lives compared to workers.
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Andrew Lilico
Andrew Lilico@andrew_lilico·
But the thing is: concession pricing would normally be assumed to *increase* revenues not decrease them. Discounted prices for low-income groups should make "the system" *more* sustainable not less sustainable, if the discounts are set correctly.
Dryddion 𐇵@Druddion

@andrew_lilico The dependency ratio is increasing while we're simultaneously running a large deficit. Questions over the sustainability of all of the free lunches and triple locks can only be a good thing. A bit of moderation now could save an unsustainable system from collapse.

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Dryddion 𐇵@Druddion·
@andrew_lilico The dependency ratio is increasing while we're simultaneously running a large deficit. Questions over the sustainability of all of the free lunches and triple locks can only be a good thing. A bit of moderation now could save an unsustainable system from collapse.
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Andrew Lilico
Andrew Lilico@andrew_lilico·
It's always been the case that students, pensioners & those on benefits got discounted ticket prices for various things. That's never been particularly controversial before now.
tyro@DoubleEph

@andrew_lilico I think the question people are asking is why being on benefits should entitle you to this? Kids can’t work so we can understand that

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Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼@Noahpinion·
OK the missile is cool, but I want to know how that acronym is pronounced
Taiwan Security Monitor (台灣安全觀測站)@TaiwanMonitor

NEW: Taiwan's NCSIST has developed a new long-range anti-ship cruise missile, per Liberty Times. The system, which currently does not have a name, is estimated to have a range of around 900-1,000km and is similar to the United States' AGM-158 missile. Our visualization shows the estimated range of the new missile.

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Dryddion 𐇵@Druddion·
@TiceRichard Both labour and the Tories did. It's sad to see reform embrace the tory-era triple lock pension, which is unsustainable and makes working people ever poorer.
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Richard Tice MP 🇬🇧
Richard Tice MP 🇬🇧@TiceRichard·
Kemi has forgotten that it was the Tories that ruined our economy with Net Stupid Zero and so damaged our energy independence with extra green taxes and levies Tories made us all poorer Never forgive never forget
Kemi Badenoch@KemiBadenoch

The ceasefire in Iran is welcome, and we support it. But it also brings a clear lesson. Energy security matters, and it needs clear-eyed, rational policy that protects our national interest. If stable oil and gas flows matter globally, they matter at home too. Most of the gas used domestically comes from the North Sea, but Ed Miliband is working to shut down the North Sea. Labour would rather leave billions of barrels of oil and gas under the sea bed, than compromise on their Net Zero ideology. Drilling the North Sea boosts our exports, supports British production and sustains jobs. It would bring in new revenue that Conservatives would use to bring down bills - saving a family £200. The lesson is obvious. Back our own energy and support new North Sea licences. Scrap the Energy Profits Levy and get Britain drilling. That is the Conservative plan to get Britain working again.

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Dryddion 𐇵@Druddion·
@aziz0nomics @Noahpinion Can isn't the same as will. One of the fundamental issues is the vested interest of an intrenched military industrial complex, which wants to sell their big/expensive/few "solutions" and will thus undermine and downplay business threats. Similar to Armin Pepperger recently
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John Aziz
John Aziz@aziz0nomics·
@Noahpinion Nah. The U.S. can scale up drone production ridiculously fast.
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Dryddion 𐇵@Druddion·
@ELCAPITAINXBT1 @ZynxBTC You won't find honest politicians here either (nor most places tbh, maybe some of Scandinavia). The NHS has deteriorated and is full of staff with fake 3rd world certificates.
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ElCapitan@ELCAPITAINXBT1·
@ZynxBTC Comparing with the costs of houses, bills and food a middle class person I think is better in Romania. What lacks in Romania is the quality of services like good hospitals and honest politicians.
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Zynx
Zynx@ZynxBTC·
The UK is slowly becoming like Communist Cuba. Wage compression is a serious issue in the UK. For many decades, Cuba operated under a strictly egalitarian wage system where most government employees earned roughly the same amount regardless of their profession or performance. Full time minimum wage for a 40-hour week is now £26,400 a year. For comparison, a band 5 hospital nurse earns £32,073 and a newly qualified teacher earns £32,916. The effects of this wage compression is further exacerbated by punitive taxes imposed by the state, where anything earned after £50,270 is taxed at almost 50% when you take into account NI and Student Loan. You have a bizarre scenario where someone earning minimum wage in Carlisle or Aberdeen has similar levels of disposable income to someone earning a top 20% salary in London. We are starting to see the cracks of this broken system with NHS Doctors striking over pay. In real-terms their pay and standard of living has been decimated. I do wonder whether many are starting to question whether it's still worth becoming a professional in the UK, given how warped the incentive structures have become. I'll end this by leaving you with a rather telling image.
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Dryddion 𐇵@Druddion·
@aziz0nomics Same story with Peter zeihan and George Friedman. At least they didn't pretend to be professors though
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Dryddion 𐇵@Druddion·
@Noahpinion Even with the solar panels of a decade ago, the argument was weak. "Solar panels degrade" sure, but 80% efficiency after a quarter of a century is still quite remarkable.
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Kamil Galeev
Kamil Galeev@kamilkazani·
The army is not optimized to win, the army has been optimized to not be able to overthrow the political leadership That means that an officer who demonstrates too much intelligence, or initiative, or, worst of all, independence, will be selected out
Poke Gato 🇧🇷@PokeCater

@kamilkazani I don't understand, why? Why do they offer so much money to hire a Russian soldier and then send a suicide attack?

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Dryddion 𐇵@Druddion·
@kamilkazani What's the out-selection method? Prior to the war, would they just be dismissed / given pointless bureaucratic tasks?
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Dryddion 𐇵@Druddion·
@JeremiahDJohns @Noahpinion I don't think it's impossible to change. Farage has clearly hinted at the need to drop it several times, but it's not going to be a manifesto pledge.
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Jeremiah Johnson 🌐
Jeremiah Johnson 🌐@JeremiahDJohns·
It's very funny to me that this policy is pretty much a mathematical guarantee that pensions will take up an increasing share of British GDP, every single year, forever, and it's politically impossible to change.
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Bojan Tunguz
Bojan Tunguz@tunguz·
Do you guys remember when we had actual humans on social media? What was that all about???
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Dryddion 𐇵@Druddion·
@PokeCater @kamilkazani It's really uncool to use WW2 analogies though. People immediately assume that you've never read any history at all & are just regurgitating high school history lessons
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Poke Gato 🇧🇷@PokeCater·
@kamilkazani I think this reference is difficult to understand, although it's good... If you used a reference to Germany with Poland, I think it would be more "relatable", even if perhaps less precise :p
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Kamil Galeev
Kamil Galeev@kamilkazani·
Will never not rankle when people discuss this situation as if the British troops just decided to assault Delhi one autumn day out of the blue for no reason
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Dryddion 𐇵@Druddion·
@kunley_drukpa There are some contentious figures on both sides, but Alex Karp and Lisa from blackpink make the decision a no-brainer.
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Dryddion 𐇵@Druddion·
@bighealer_sarah @jeffreytucker Did you change the streaming quality in Spotify? By default, it's a low bitrate. I write and produce music. It's funny how people often like how "vintage" a track sounds when you add a vinyl crackle track.
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Sarah the Homeopath
Sarah the Homeopath@bighealer_sarah·
@jeffreytucker I have the world’s catalog of streamed music in a box the size of a calculator and it all sounds like crap. I’d trade it for a stack of LPs and a room silent enough to hear them in. I can’t even listen to a lot of my favorite music because only 1/3 of the sound is even there.
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Jeffrey A Tucker
Jeffrey A Tucker@jeffreytucker·
What I've done here is estimate the 50-year trend in effective pay per hour of work for the household as a unit. I find it has fallen by 40 to 50 percent. Check my math. Has Life Really Improved in Half a Century? theepochtimes.com/opinion/has-li… via @epochtimes
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Dryddion 𐇵@Druddion·
@SuperSillyUs6 @Noahpinion Yeah, I'm well aware and presumably anyone reading this is too. Mediterranean encompasses Spanish, Italian, greek + more e.g. Maltese or Albanian (but let's face it, nobody who says it means this). My general point was that greek and Spanish food is often underappreciated
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@DrewPavlou @urgentintel @Blundering @WarMonitor3 @Satnaai @7Kiwi @andrew_lilico @Noahpinion