@DisneyPlus Can't watch your shitty service. Why won't your emails come through? More to the point, why do I need to declare my TV as being in my household? Who gives a flying fuck?
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Ben Wilkinson
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@b_vd4pnc8brv @salingergregor How come the Land of the free invented a crime like jaywalking?
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@salingergregor Its illegal to walk to the stadium. NJ statute 394-34
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if they keep this bs up there will be 50k intl fans each game day who just take a regular train to Rutherford and WALK the 1h to the MetLife Stadium. I know walking is an unfamiliar concept for most Americans, but it is a thing in the rest of the world.
The New York Times@nytimes
From @TheAthleticFC: New Jersey Transit confirmed on Friday that World Cup match goers will be charged $150 for a return rail trip from New York's Penn Station to MetLife Stadium in New Jersey this summer. Tickets are ordinarily priced at $12.90. nyti.ms/4sHcLzR
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Trump, MAGA, Farage, Reform and GB News hate the UK and want us to believe the UK is a failing state compared to the USA.
The facts disagree.
On practically every measure of quality of life, health, safety, education, environment, the UK would rank as the best state in America.
The land of the "free " (where people get yanked off the street by masked men) is also the land of half a million medical bankruptcies a year and the world’s largest prison population.
This is the reality.
Dominic McGregor@DominicMcGregor
If the UK joined the US as the 51st state. We would be the poorest state in the entire union. Mississippi which is portrayed at swamp dwelling hillbillies in majority of international media is above us. I don’t think people grasp how far we’ve fallen in real terms when it comes to GDP per capita. We’ve seen no growth for almost an entire generations. We’ve seen our productivity decrease and our tax increases. The average person on the UK, on £50,000 is less well off than your average Mississippi swamp dweller.
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As we say in Mississippi,
“Bless Your Heart.”
Or as you say in the UK,
“As-Salamu Alaykum.”
Dominic McGregor@DominicMcGregor
If the UK joined the US as the 51st state. We would be the poorest state in the entire union. Mississippi which is portrayed at swamp dwelling hillbillies in majority of international media is above us. I don’t think people grasp how far we’ve fallen in real terms when it comes to GDP per capita. We’ve seen no growth for almost an entire generations. We’ve seen our productivity decrease and our tax increases. The average person on the UK, on £50,000 is less well off than your average Mississippi swamp dweller.
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@GabeItch12625 @Polymarket I heard they don't even have internet
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@Polymarket No response from the British by the way. That means it’s true and they, the British, are in shambles. Lol.
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JUST IN: New analysis reveals Brits thought the UK ranked 7th against US states in income per person — it actually ranked 51st.
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@DominicMcGregor Why is their life expectancy so shit then?
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If the UK joined the US as the 51st state.
We would be the poorest state in the entire union.
Mississippi which is portrayed at swamp dwelling hillbillies in majority of international media is above us.
I don’t think people grasp how far we’ve fallen in real terms when it comes to GDP per capita.
We’ve seen no growth for almost an entire generations.
We’ve seen our productivity decrease and our tax increases.
The average person on the UK, on £50,000 is less well off than your average Mississippi swamp dweller.
Polymarket@Polymarket
JUST IN: New analysis reveals Brits thought the UK ranked 7th against US states in income per person — it actually ranked 51st.
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Keir Starmer jetted off for a four-day luxury family Easter break at a £200-a-night four-star boutique hotel in Valencia, complete with rooftop bar and pool.
While lounging in the sun and sipping café con leche in a public square, Trump was issuing ultimatums to “obliterate” Iran’s power plants and warning Tehran they’d be “living in Hell.”
Starmer stayed put despite the escalating crisis, five years after he slammed Boris Johnson for holidaying as Kabul fell, declaring: “You cannot coordinate an international response from the beach.”
Macron spent the weekend on emergency calls with Trump and Iran’s president. Starmer? Not so much.
Priorities
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@elormkdaniel Bollocks. Apple just wanted to overtake the Samsung S9
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When Microsoft released Windows 10, they skipped Windows 9 entirely. One widely discussed explanation among developers relates to compatibility with older software. For years, some legacy programs checked the Windows version using simple code that looked for strings like “Windows 95” or “Windows 98.” If Microsoft had released “Windows 9,” those programs might have mistakenly assumed the system was an older Windows 9x version, causing compatibility issues. By jumping straight to Windows 10, Microsoft avoided that confusion. Microsoft also framed it as a symbolic jump representing a major step forward rather than just another incremental upgrade.
The story behind Apple skipping iPhone 9 is different and mostly about branding. In 2017, Apple released the iPhone X (pronounced “iPhone ten”) to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the iPhone. Since the company was marking a decade of the device, it made more marketing sense to jump directly from iPhone 8 to iPhone X rather than release an iPhone 9 right before the anniversary model.
The missing “9” isn’t a shared conspiracy or secret tech superstition.
Microsoft skipped it largely for technical and compatibility reasons, while Apple skipped it mainly for marketing and anniversary branding.
Different reasons… same missing number.
WALKER🪂@maxl1am
just realized there was no windows 9 and there was also no iPhone 9 and i'm here wondering why no. 9 was skipped?
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@StuttySteve @AndyGJBurge That's 25 cents difference from the person literally below you, also talking about Stuttgart
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@AndyGJBurge I’m fairly sure that diesel is around 2,30 Euro / £2.00 per litre, around Stuttgart.
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@DualtaDuane @RT_com People from GB started settling the island of Ireland centuries before Columbus 'discovered' the Americas... Americans out of America?
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@RT_com Wise words from a wise people.
And real courage to stand up there in front of that vainglorious wretch of a man and say what needs to be said.
🇺🇸🇺🇸Israel out of the USA 🇺🇸🇺🇸
🇮🇪 🇮🇪Brits out of Ireland 🇮🇪🇮🇪
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‘Too many people are dying as a result of conflict across the world’ — Irish PM slams war, and tariffs, while standing next to Trump
RT@RT_com
‘I spent my whole day with the Irish AND I SHOULD’VE BEEN SPENDING IT WITH THE IRANIANS‘ — Trump
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@DanNeidle @grok Grok gave me a 87% probability that you’re not being fully transparent and are purposefully manipulating the narrative. Interestingly it only gave me a 7% probability that Samuel Leeds is misled on his knowledge of tax. Interesting.
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More tax nonsense from "influencer" Samuel Leeds.
"I just sold my castle. On paper, I lost about £3.5m. But here is the part most people will not understand. It is also a tax write-off... the loss can be set-off against profits"
No it isn't, and no you can't.
Oh dear.
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@Broseph464 @TheOmniLiberal Do you think that that money just disappears Broseph? Or do you think it gets spent in the economy and then taxed again?
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@TheOmniLiberal The total net worth of the American Forbes list is about $6.5T. The annual federal budget is about the same amount. We could eat the rich and all it would get us is an extra year of government spending power. Or enough money to pay off 15% of our debt.
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this is what I mean when I say all of the stupid populist talking points have rotted our ability to talk about taxes and how to reasonably apply them
I honestly think 50% of Twitter thinks we could fund basically every program in the US if we just had like a 50% wealth tax on the top 1000 billionaires or something.
Katie Porter@katieporterca
0% state income tax for California families making under $100,000. That’s thousands of dollars back in your pocket where it belongs. As Governor, I’ll work the issue at both ends—lowering taxes for those who are struggling and raising them on the biggest corporations that can afford to pay.
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@RachelPAV @Mo7m98 This road is one of the most beautiful highways. From the border all the way to Muscat, it’s smooth, fast, and comfortable - a truly enjoyable drive.
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This is hilarious. The road from Dubai to Muscat is one of the best freeways in the world. The Oman side is brand new and probably the nicest freeway in the world. The UAE and Oman have phenomenal roads even in the mountains.
They are acting like evacuating Dubai looks like Mad Max. It's taking a taxi
Krysia McKechnie@KrysiaJ
Absolute sensationalist rubbish here from @thetimes. It does not cost 5-10k to drive to Oman unless you’re an idiot. Why would you need ex-military drivers? Where do they think Oman is? Afghanistan?
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@IsabelOakeshott @modgovae That would imply they intentionally let the ones through to explode in populated areas and at the airport?
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Remarkable fact. The @modgovae is widely reported to have intercepted 92-95pc of all missiles/drones fired at UAE. The only reason that figure isn’t 💯 is because some aren’t worth bothering with. They just fall into the sea/desert. So it’s 💯 of all attempted. Bravo.
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@kindaveryfurry @DonP5_ @SweeperPod Since when do you define a country's geography based on population distribution
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@TheBenWilkinson @DonP5_ @SweeperPod I mean, this is, in a way, western China? Most of China lives east of the place I circled, the population density is not exactly equal
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🇨🇳 The 2026 Chinese Super League kicks off today - and it looks firmly set to be one of the strangest seasons across the entire football world this year.
More than half (9/16) teams are starting the campaign with minus points due to historic offences related to match-fixing, gambling & corruption.
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@kindaveryfurry @DonP5_ @SweeperPod This is exactly like when Americans point out where their Midwest is. You could've tried to answer the question
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@jamieamartin1 @an0n_Nic Looks like you're an ex-Tory advisor trying to imply this is the current government's fault?
Book your flight to Dubai please.
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I rally don't think most Americans realise how - materially - miserable things are in the UK
London is a great city & the UK is a great country.
But to those of us who graduated in the 2000s, we weep for those graduating now. You don't know how far it's fallen @an0n_Nic
Owen Winter@OwenWntr
Since 2007, real median postgrad salaries have declined by 17% and 12% for undergrads (*before* accounting for student loans!). The narrative of the 2010s was dominated by the status-loss of industrial workers, the 2020s might be the decade of disappointed grads
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I never believe white people when they say they like spicy food. *I* love spicy food. I remember when I was in Thailand and I was staying with my Thai friend's family in Bangkok. I told them I loved spicy food and they laughed. I insisted it was true and so they said they would take me to the hottest restaurant they knew. I just remember them watching me intently, like a science experiment, as I ate my food and... was fine. I actually *do* like spicy food! And it is really frustrating trying to order in restaurants and not be believed! The Vietnamese restaurant owner in my town knows my spice preference so well now, he puts together a special concoction for me to spice up my dish to the way I like it.
EB (Derogatory, Respectfully)@EllliotttB
I have several questions
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@stuartfanning1 @Peston You have no issue with giving us your thoughts though
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@Peston I wonder if Mandelson Could sue Hoyle for defamation. That would embarrass Hoyle, who really should stay out of something like this.
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Mandelson’s solicitors, Mishcons, wrote to the Met last night asking why the police said in Mandelson’s arrest interview - twice apparently, and noted by Mishcons - that the Lord Speaker warned them that Mandelson was planning to flee to the British Virgin Islands. The Lord Speaker has said he passed no such information.
The Times is now reporting that it was the Commons speaker Hoyle who warned Mandelson was a flight risk - which Mandelson denies - following his visit to the British Virgin Islands. Hoyle has just told MPs: "I'd like to confirm upon receipt of information that I passed it on to the Met in good faith.”
But a source close to Mandelson says “police were emphatic it was the Lords’ speaker” and his “lawyers checked specifically”.
Presumably the arresting officers were told the tip-off came from “the speaker” and assumed it must be the Lords because Mandelson was a lord.
Mystery solved, I guess.
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@wil_da_beast630 Why did it take you an hour to google his name?
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Bro could literally just go back to Ireland, a nation at least as civilized as this one, fight the case.
Except he can't.
I took an hour to look this up. He's a wanted drug dealer there. Left-wing lawyers I spar with, vet this.
But come on with these angel doctors who are also babies. Hamas media stuff.
New York Post@nypost
Irishman stuck in ICE custody 2K miles from his Boston home for overstaying visa 16 years ago: ‘It’s just torture’ #Echobox=1770826139" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">nypost.com/2026/02/11/us-…
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