Stefano
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🚨 NEW: Tory leader Kemi Badenoch says she is going to look at 'means testing' the triple lock
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@kivijussi @jdpoc Oh man, you so did! It's an intense rivalry, we take it very seriously 😂
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@flotron84 @jdpoc As a Finn, this isn't actually "my cup of tea". I just wanted to post about something that wouldn't arouse the same kind of aggression as politics or religion, but apparently I was stirring up a hornet's nest....🤷🏻♂️
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THAT'S IT. THE UK HAS COLLAPSED. WE'RE DOOMED.
Unilever has just sold the 124-year-old brand #Marmite ... to an American company.
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@flotron84 @kivijussi @jdpoc Nah, sorry mate, it doesn't.
I acknowledge that Marmite is not bad for a sweet spread but you can't beat Vegemite for its saltiness.
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@kivijussi @jdpoc Good thing AI is to blame for that horrible effort of a piece of toast and not you, but more importantly Vegemite sucks compared with the mighty Marmite
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@RoryStewartUK @elonmusk Would you get in a plane without a human pilot? Auto pilot does it all already, but we have shortages of pilots
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Who thinks we should all listen to @elonmusk and stop training surgeons?
Dustin@r0ck3t23
Elon Musk just told the world to stop training surgeons. Not slow down. Stop. Musk: “There’ll probably be more Optimus robots that are great surgeons than there are all surgeons on Earth.” The entire global surgical workforce. Redundant. Before a current med student finishes residency. “Don’t go to medical school?” Musk: “Yes. Pointless.” Twelve years. Half a million dollars. One word. Optimus does not shake. Does not fatigue. Does not flinch at hour eleven of a twelve-hour operation. It improves every night while the surgeon sleeps. By year four, Musk says he’d stake everything on it. By year five, it is not close. Then came the line that rewrites who medicine has ever belonged to. Musk: “Everyone will have access to medical care that is better than what the president receives right now.” Medicine has always been rationed by wealth. The best surgeons on Earth have always belonged to the powerful. That ends. Completely. Within five years. The machine does not calibrate its precision to your net worth. It does not save its best work for the wealthy. Full capacity, every time, for everyone. One day, choosing a human surgeon over a robot will feel like refusing the anesthesia. Human hands are no longer medicine’s highest standard. The ones who doubted this will understand it the day they need surgery, not a surgeon.
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A whole generation of Azzurri fans has never seen their nation at football's biggest competition: @ginkers seeks the bitter truths from another night of defeat in Bosnia.
football-italia.net/5-painful-thin…
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I'm confused. Shamima Begum is not allowed back into the UK because she was groomed into becoming an ISIS bride when she was just a child, but Al Golani, the man who was a literal leader of ISIS and Al Qaida is allowed to visit Downing Street? How does that work?
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@davepl1968 I'm not supporting the idea, but do you think Musk works for the money at this point?
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@ennui365 Now imagine someone with less money than you set the cap at $19,999.
How hard are you working?
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@BruceBeck238319 @MichaelAArouet Way more no gozones in the past, lots of pickpockets now but don't feel in danger for my life
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@flotron84 @MichaelAArouet there were far fewer Arabs and Africans 20 years ago. How was it better? Today, the food and restaurant scene is much better. Felt far safer 20 years ago though
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This is interesting. Poland, Hungary, and Czechia are considered very safe, while exercising increased caution is recommended for France, Sweden, Germany, Italy, Spain, Belgium, and the UK.
What do you think, folks? What is different there compared to Central Europe?
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A federal judge just ruled that videos of DOGE staffers must stay up — and they are devastating.
Under oath, they couldn't define DEI. They admitted they never reduced the deficit. And they wiped out $100 million in humanities grants — including a Holocaust documentary — using ChatGPT.
The regime tried to bury this. It didn't work.
dworkinsubstack.com/p/shut-it-down…
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@BruceBeck238319 @MichaelAArouet You should have gone 20 years ago, it was way worse imo. I guess expectations change
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@MichaelAArouet Only been to the UK, and, in London at least, while it was beautiful, man it just felt dangerous. My wife was pickpocketed the third day and had to struggle with the assailant to get her wallet back. More Arabs and Africans than Whites for sure. Didn't feel like London.
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@thomasforth I'm a bit confused by the community note on this, it says there are rent controls in London because social housing rents are typically set at 50% of market rates, but if it's based against market rates then it's not really rent control is it?
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Let's be clear:
London: no rent control -> 5k housing starts (-30%).
Paris: rent control -> 50k housing starts (+14%).
"Rent control is a better way to destroy cities than dropping bombs on them." > is brainrot and I don't even support rent control.
Crémieux@cremieuxrecueil
Let's be clear: Spain: enacts rent control -> no more homes Argentina: ends rent control -> tons of new homes Rent control is a better way to destroy cities than dropping bombs on them.
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@robprogressive The average person doesn't have a mortgage, only about 7.4 million people do.
64% of people own their home outright!
Do you understand?
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日本語で会話するコミュニティの中では日本人はマジョリティだったのだが、言語障壁がなくなれば日本人なんて「中国の東の島に住んでる見かけは中国人なのに中国語を話せないマイノリティ」なんだよな。マジョリティの立場にいることで無自覚に享受していたメリットが失われるわけなんだ。
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@financial_shaw Sure, but the value would remain in the property rather than getting stripped out by way of tax
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If you cut stamp duty without reforming the rest of the tax system those savings will simply be capitalised into house prices exacerbating an already dire situation.
Why can some not see this?
James Cowling@JamesRCowling
We have a money problem as much as a housing problem. Too much UK capital is locked up in housing - it kills growth. Businesses are starved of growth capital and savers don’t get gains. That’s why cutting stamp duty and getting people moving is such a priority 💵
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@Conservatives I agree, we should allow north sea oil & gas production. If it is economically viable then this will generate resilience, jobs and tax revenues a which could be used to reduce gas prices. We should however continue on the path to Net Zero in an economically sustainable way
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The Conservatives will extract every drop of Oil and Gas from the North Sea and cut your energy bills.
Let’s Get Britain Drilling. 🇬🇧
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