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@jam21t @JohnJCrace Or we knew that while that was how things used to be done back in the sixties, it's now no longer the case....

@JohnJCrace I see some of you didn’t read her comment or don’t know how council contracts are awarded for decades with no re-tendering process, price rises accepted with no accountability, comparison or negotiation 🤷‍♂️

Kerching. Another endorsement another donation

@Dunger71 @JavierRoques @dnwiebe @Arden_2210 No. Because you already have Y = X + X + X That doesn't stop being true just because there's an additional constraint on the value of Y.

@JavierRoques @akicif @dnwiebe @Arden_2210 This is my whole point. You can’t get 3 as an answer unless you set the Y + Y as an appropriate number.

Very tricky math question,try it carefully Only for mathematicians

@Dunger71 @dnwiebe @Arden_2210 Except you do *not* need to know the values of X and Y: You have Y = X + X + X So Y = 3X Rearranging Y / X = 3.

@dnwiebe @Arden_2210 The second line defines the numbers that apply to the formula. It’s not a separate formula, it’s a necessary piece of the one equation.

@VolodyaTretyak When someone who grew up admiring mob-run Vegas casinos sees Saddam Hussein's palaces as something to emulate....

What is the name of such interior style? 🤔

@JustEvilBrad @braxcyy Historically, the Mediterranean has been a road not a barrier....

@braxcyy Even if we ignore bulgaria and portugal, its really frustrating to distinguish between the directions like this when you dont have the different regions actually touching. How can you have spain and italy as south with france cutting them off like that

I wonder where the guy who made this map is from. Any guesses?

@Barwin1986 @braxcyy Predates it by centuries: look at a mid-19th century map of Europe. Germany and Italy not yet condensed out of their clouds of co-lingual statelets, Austria-Hungary never did digest its conquests.... (See Norman Davies' Vanished Kingdoms: the History of Half-Forgotten Europe)

@braxcyy Central Europe emerged when eastern Europeans were ashamed to be called as such, now it's cool to be an eastern European so popularity of central Europeanism is fading away.

@tales_tomorrow @braxcyy Pretty close to the butter v olive oil line....

@braxcyy I thought this was the accepted divide:

@Badingothine @Crazylegs67 @braxcyy It doesn't work in all contexts, but one expression that's used is "these islands"

@itsTWENNY @Crazylegs67 @braxcyy The UK and the British Isles are 2 different things. Thats like saying that people say USA instead of North America. Sure, some stupid people might, but they are objectively incorrect. Thats like calling Oceania Australia, only morons say that.

@itsTWENNY @braxcyy Um. You should HEAR Irish-Americans on the suggestion that Ireland is part of the British Isles. There's a reason gov.uk have deprecated the term in political / diplomatic contexts since John Major's government started the talks about talks that led to the GFA...

@alexsbotkin @braxcyy You're assuming the majority have the same level of semantics in this topic as you. You must understand, literally nobody thinks about it this much. Americans don't care about Ireland, they don't bother to differentiate. They literally just call it "The UK".

@CheekyChap6006 @P_Soisialach Eejit. And where are you from?

@P_Soisialach Nobody cares what a paddy thinks.

A genuine pet hate of mine is alt history mappers who call Great Britain “United Kingdom” despite the -United- part of the name only existing because of Ireland.

@P_Soisialach James the 1/6 (aka Jimmy 7.5p in new money) referred to his realms of Scotland and England as "the United Kingdom around a century before the 1707 Act of Union

@CliveWismayer The British Government also said the rights of Gibraltarians were paramount. >95% of them voted to stay British, and a similar number voted to stay in the EU. So by that reasoning, Brexit should never have happened....

I can see nothing wrong with transferring these worthless islands to Argentina with a 50-100 year leaseback, as was done with Hong Kong. We can agree to split any revenue arising from the discovery of anything worthwhile. I certainly do NOT agree with Starmer that the rights of the islanders are paramount.

@NeilThomasShow @thisisnothappen @mEtil5656 @Ellymutualism @Sleeping_corgi1 @PennyGongo @K3nB3n Only once he had redefined socialism to take the socialism out of it. Clue: according to Pastor Martin Niemöller's warning, who did the Nazis come for first?

@thisisnothappen @mEtil5656 @Ellymutualism @Sleeping_corgi1 @PennyGongo @K3nB3n Hitler openly admitted to being socialist.

When I say the term leftist I am NEVER referring to a Democrat.🐈‍⬛

@NeilThomasShow @TapdotWater @Ellymutualism @Sleeping_corgi1 @PennyGongo @K3nB3n For those on top / party members....

@TapdotWater @Ellymutualism @Sleeping_corgi1 @PennyGongo @K3nB3n More personal liberty. 🤣 🤣

@NeilThomasShow @MySylvii @Ellymutualism @Sleeping_corgi1 @PennyGongo @K3nB3n Sorry, but your definition is assertive rather than either prescriptive or descriptive and so simply doesn't hold up. You'll be telling me next that there are no Right Authoritarians....

@MySylvii @Ellymutualism @Sleeping_corgi1 @PennyGongo @K3nB3n It's always authoritarian by definition

@NeilThomasShow @MySylvii @Ellymutualism @Sleeping_corgi1 @PennyGongo @K3nB3n Which is why you need to look at the Political Compass: it's a 2d display with Left to Right running left to right, and centralisation displayed with Authoritarian running down the page to Libertarian....

@MySylvii @Ellymutualism @Sleeping_corgi1 @PennyGongo @K3nB3n So both are authoritarian

@BladeoftheS AND, the logo used there for Anarchy is the decent leftist sort not the selfish libertarian one....

You have to be stupid or insane to put Nazis and Monarchies on the Left.

@CarolCo06534473 @drew_carver @Robbie_Reasons @DonkinFaith You're forgetting that between Blair / Brown and Starmer the Tories had a decade and a half to screw things up again - with extra Brexit bells on. But "uni party" is the social media equivalent of a purple kool-aid stain on your tongue running down your chin....

@akicif @drew_carver @Robbie_Reasons @DonkinFaith And now the NHS is overrun with middle managers in jobs surplus to requirements yet the uni party keep throwing billions at it expecting it to improve. Our money! It won’t no matter what Streeting keeps saying.

We need to get rid of a whole host of middle managers and put professionals back in charge of wards and departments. Some of you may be too young to remember matrons but let me assure you the NHS ran much more efficiently.

@83Reklaw83 @J4m35c4mpb3ll When asked if was Irish, didn't Wellesley famously point out that "The Good Lord may have been born in a stable. This didn't make Him a horse"?

@J4m35c4mpb3ll What a guy.

More myths busted. Historians, politicians & lawyers will tell you Scotland cannot be a colony because a Scot has become Prime Minister - trying to render it an impossibility. I give you exhibit (a) Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington. Born: 1 May 1769 Dublin, Ireland.

@CarolCo06534473 @drew_carver @Robbie_Reasons @DonkinFaith Um. They had to bring more managers in because the pre-Blair "reforms" didn't include enough managers to do what was needed, so clinical staff were still losing time from their real jobs....

@drew_carver @Robbie_Reasons @DonkinFaith Tony Blair's government (1997–2007) significantly increased the number of managers in the NHS as part of a modernization and performance-driven agenda. Wasn’t talking about international market That’s a whole other topic! Re read my post and try and digest it properly. 🙄