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Rapid population growth without infrastructure being built to keep up causes its own problems for people living there. Lack of access to schools, transport and roads too busy, doctors surgery busy, long hospital waiting lists, strains on public services. However the biggest factor is being made to feel like a stranger in your own neighborhood. When nobody around you speaks your native language anymore, all the shops are gone, it feels like you no longer live in your own country. Is it really surprising that nobody wants that to happen to them? Telling people they should allow all of this because of some GDP growth is extremely short sighted. And any growth is never felt by the native population anyway since GDP per capita does not grow.

i don’t understand why immigration of any sort is universally unpopular. almost every country on earth heavily restricts it this is a recent thing too! before world war 1, you could just take a steamship from Brazil to Paris for $20 and decide you lived in France now what changed? are people bad now? is that the reason more people are even more bad? back then income wasn’t taxed in most jurisdictions either. now we tax our own people’s income & we don’t allow others to immigrate and earn income. i ask again, are people bad? is working bad? where did this zero sum attitude come from? what if we could also start deporting our own citizens, to have as few people as possible. would that be even better? is 0 the best amount of people? what is the point of all this?

@JrMolonLabe @MustacheBob2 Yes it is equivalent to something as large and fragile as a plane landing upright and then falling over. Obviously it would break. This is just testing as is not the planned method of recovery… It will either be caught by the tower or will have landing legs.

@FullFridge2 @MustacheBob2 So the plane is upright? Or maybe the I’m just alluding to the fact they haven’t tried to recover this yet is an issue.

They all exploded. The heat shield still doesn't work. By this same time the Apollo program had put a human on the moon.

@JrMolonLabe @MustacheBob2 How is a rocket supposed to not explode when it lands upright in the sea and falls over? Would you expect a plane to survive that?

@MustacheBob2 It’s crazy 🤪 that people are like yeah it was an “controlled” explosion. That shit isn’t working. You don’t waste money to blow the vehicle up. It’s common sense

@DobbyClub06 @KiddsL47940 Do you use a lock on your front door of your house?

@KiddsL47940 Do you really think Jesus would want you to spend your worthless existence telling fellow children of god which invisible borders they’re allowed to cross or not

Reform voters when they realise less immigration doesn’t in fact improve their lives

So? I am the person providing your house in which you wouldn’t be living in if I hadn’t put the money in and taken the risk and rented it out. Rented accommodation being available is a useful thing to have if you want flexibility and cannot afford to buy somewhere. I don’t understand where this sense of entitlement comes from when you are paying a tiny fraction of what the property cost to buy. A landlord might invest 6 figures and has huge risk where a tenant has a 12 month lease and can leave basically whenever they like with no down payment required.

@FullFridge2 @twittawoopoog @Number10cat The person paying your mortgage, that’s who I am. When renting out a property you do not automatically qualify for a dictatorship. As for damages the tenant has ALWAYS and still is liable.

Just because someone rents, shouldn't deny them the joy of having a pet in their life. Well done housemate.

That is not what margins are. Profit margins are what % of business revenue are actually profit, and for supermarkets it’s around 2-3%. It is very hard to run a business with such small margins. They basically have to sell £1000 of shopping to make £20 profit. If the cost of that £1000 of stuff goes up by £20 in total and they can’t put prices up that profit is gone entirely

@maxtempers Razor thin margins?: Major UK supermarket CEO pay packages typically range from £5 million to over £10 million, with the vast majority of their earnings derived from performance-related bonuses and share awards rather than base salary.

British supermarkets are a genuine example of a world-leading sector, both in the breadth of their offering to consumers and in the razor-thin margins they operate on. So, of course, it’s been incumbent on every govt to wage war on them.

@_Just_Tina__ @twittawoopoog @Number10cat Because if you don’t own it who are you to decide how it gets to be used? If you want to rent something you own to someone else, you the owner gets to dictate how it is used. Since you the owner paid for the entire thing and have to deal with whatever damages are done to it.

@twittawoopoog @Number10cat Not everyone is fortunate enough to own property. And those who unfortunately need to rent can now decide whether they have a family pet or not. This is a great move. You say you’re not a landlord then why are you protecting the rights of LL’s above the rights of tenants?

What about the truck driver who delivered all of the food? You couldn’t sell it if they hadn’t delivered it. Or the shelf stacker. Or the company that made the food. Or the people who worked at the company who supplied the raw ingredients to the factory that makes the food. Or the metal foundry that made the metal in the machines in which the food was made. Or the miners who extracted the ores to make the metals. Or the people who work at the electricity company. You couldn’t sell the dog food without any of these thousands of people involved.

@Koookiiing Grocery and Pet stores get about a 25% profit margin per bag of food so I'd say from 2%-5% so about a dollar per bag * around 2000 bags sold a year so an extra 81k split between cashiers by time worked

Being an expert yourself, please don't leave me hanging in suspense. What portion of the $45 retail price bag of dogfood rightfully belongs to the cashier?

I remember when Open AI was founded and Elon talking about it. He had numerous meetings with gov officials to discuss the importance of safe AI development to ensure it is good for humanity. He frequently tweeted about it. A year or so later he announced Open AI, a company he helped found for the exact goal of open and safe AI development. The name is literally Open AI to mean open source. He came up with that name. He is not lying about Open AI's origins and its change to a closed source for profit business.

Elon Musk loses high-profile legal battle against OpenAI boss Sam Altman bbc.in/3RitKLV

@5Pillarsuk Genuinely can’t tell if this is satire or you are serious

Roshan Muhammed Salih went undercover at the Tommy Robinson "Unite The Kingdom" hate march in London today. He saw fewer white nationalists than he expected, but lots of Islamophobia, support for Israel, fake Christianity, drunkeness and dogs.

@MTruck600058523 @ByDonkeys So do people who are not racist…

@FullFridge2 @ByDonkeys Racist people really hate being called racist

Immigration makes Britain brilliant.

@MrAndyNgo @SamaramGill The same people that say the right are the ones marching with hate are the ones doing this. Haven’t seen any clips from unite the kingdom of crowds saying things like this…. But sure they are the side of peace and love.

“Shoot him in the neck like Charlie Kirk. Shoot him in the neck like Charlie Kirk.” London (May 16) — Far-left extremists chanted for the m—rder of Tommy Robinson at their counter protest. Video by @SamaramGill:

@NiohBerg @elonmusk Yeah, so much love there…

Dear @elonmusk, Please make a change to X so that grey checkmark government accounts aren't allowed to close their replies. Sadiq Khan should NOT be allowed to close his comments like a coward while being an elected official. 🙏🏻

@rushicrypto How does this even work when you own a company? How can you produce something valuable that is taken out of your control once it exceeds $999m…

No more billionaires. None. Once you hit $999 million, every extra cent goes to schools and health care. You get a trophy that says: “I won capitalism.” And we name a dog park after you.

The irony how this side claims the unite the kingdom march attendees are peddling hate, division etc. While you are literally telling people to fuck off over a megaphone and wearing t-shirts and flags saying how you hate certain people/calling them "fucking losers". Yet still you think you are the good side here...

Amazing atmosphere here on the opposition march

@MarioNawfal Funny how they will close down all the roads for the Palestine marches down major routes in London, but not for this.

🇬🇧 MASSIVE crowds are already forming for Tommy Robinson's Unite the Kingdom rally in London. Starmer banned speakers and an EU politician from entering the UK "for the public good." Nothing is going to stop the public from having their voices heard

@akafaceUS Being blind doesn’t give you the right to walk around unobstructed everywhere you go. Just say excuse me like any normal person. Most people have no clue what these are for and rarely encounter blind people.

It seems like people have forgotten what this line is used for these days.

@MI62819 @Keyser_Soze76 @EssexPR What is the relevance of this question?

@FullFridge2 @Keyser_Soze76 @EssexPR If I call myself a dog, am I one?

Explain this lefties… explain this ⬇️

@MI62819 @Keyser_Soze76 @EssexPR The “far right” as you call them tend not to call themselves far right. They are just conservative. Pretty sure they do not consider islamists to be on their side. It’s not a video game…

@Keyser_Soze76 @EssexPR You understand Islamists are by definition far right, yeah? They're on your side.