Michael Francis

@mitrebarnet Yes to smoking no to eating out.

I’ve given up smoking after 40 years. Health is a factor, but cost is the main issue. £15 a day, £5,500 a year. 80% of this is tax. Is this the Laffer curve? I’ve also stopped eating out at restaurants because of cost. Is this what Govt want to happen?

@dubsndoo Salary to house ratio was 1:2 - now it is 1:8.6 - and this is the average house price.

Boomers were making $1.92 an hour when these prices existed. Do the math dipshit.

@human_frozen_ @DerbyChrisW State capture is often a term used - often to explain oligarchs influence on politics but also state to state influence.

@mdf_michael @DerbyChrisW It's a form of #occupation.

I've just received an email from the House of Commons confirming that on 22 June MPs will debate the calls for a public inquiry into pro-Israel influence on politics & democracy. The MPs owned by Israel will oppose it, but how many will be brave enough to back a public inquiry?

@AmoaHamlet You seem to be suggesting that life under the Tsar was better - it was a brutal feudal system, with regular famines, political repression and regular violence against the peasants.

☭ FACTOS SOBRE LA REVOLUCIÓN RUSA ☭ 1. No fue una revolución, fue un GOLPE DE ESTADO. 2. Los bolcheviques nunca fueron mayoría, solo fueron una minoría de matones. 3. El terror no empezó con Stalin, ya existía bajo el mando de Lenin. 4. Lenin nunca entregó el poder a los trabajadores, sino que lo concentró en la estructura del partido bolchevique. 5. Nunca tuvieron el apoyo de los campesinos, por eso los reprimieron con brutalidad. 6. La represión no fue una desviación del proyecto original, siempre hubo continuidad entre las etapas tempranas y el sistema posterior. 7. La Nueva Política Económica (NEP) de Lenin fue un reconocimiento implícito de que el Socialismo es un sistema fallido.

@dubsndoo In 1960, the house-to-salary ratio was approximately 2.1. So if you earned £6000 your house was about £12000.

Boomers didn’t buy RVs that they couldn’t afford, we tented it. Boomers didn’t buy new cars, we bought used ones. Boomers didn’t spend six bucks for a cup of coffee at Starbucks. Boomers could hang all their clothes in a four foot closet. Boomers didn’t cry how tough their lives were, we fought through the tough times. Boomers have everything they have because they managed their money, didn’t squander it on frivolous things, and invested it in proven technologies and long term successful businesses. Boomers have zero fucks to give for whiners, fools, and couch potatoes.

@Kanthan2030 @TousiTVOfficial Why? Do you think the next American president would get rid of their nuclear weapons?

@TousiTVOfficial Regime change is the ONLY way to stop nuclear weapons.

🚨 BREAKING: Nuclear talks called off The Islamic Republic has decided it will not negotiate over its nuclear program with the United States. Iran’s Foreign Ministry’s spokesman Baghaei says “it is not the right time to discuss the nuclear issue with the enemy.”

@ZubyMusic GDP is not the best measure and any single measure doe snot work that well - need a combination - Unemployment Rate, Inflation Rate, Government Debt-to-GDP, together give a better indicator.

If GDP per capita is the best single measure to approximate the economic health of country, what is the best single measure of its social or cultural health?

The entire north sea reserve does not produce or even hold enough to move the global price of oil. The world actually relies on many sources - the Straight of Hormuz is roughly 20% of world oil supply. Enough to drive the price up, but not enough to stop the world. Net zero is not driving this and in fact if we got our energy from renewables this world crisis would not matter to domestic energy.

@mdf_michael @JamesMelville Supply and demand; increasing supply to meet demand lowers prices. The only reason oil is high at the moment is because the most of the world relies on 1 source! The cost of net zero is the number one reason prices for everything is through the roof !

North Sea oil and gas: 🇳🇴 Norway: $2 trillion sovereign wealth fund 🇬🇧 UK: $0 sovereign wealth fund And the UK is buying £billions of oil and gas from Norway while the UK government bans new oil and gas licenses in the North Sea.

@lembitopik Siestas - we will need to implement afternoon naps to function.

If 30 Celsius in UK needs a “Red Heat Alert,” why hasn’t everyone in Spain left or suffered health problems?

@Yisraphat @DerbyChrisW Interesting to call someone a name when you are clearly wrong - there is and never has been such a group.

@mdf_michael @DerbyChrisW There is you dolt.

@Dissidentismus @engineers_feed 29.9792458N, 118.7882912E Might have some significance to the locals and as much cosmic significance as the Pyramid's location.

@mdf_michael @engineers_feed Do these places have the same significance?

Speed of light is 299,792,458 meters per second. The exact latitude of the Great Pyramid of Giza is 29.9792458°N. Coincidence? I don’t think so!

@Conchadmipadre @Jenny_1884 We all equally die from Ebola - so save the racist nonsense.

@mdf_michael @Jenny_1884 The behavior is extremely different between groups

No pension for me until 67yrs because apparently this government can’t afford it but manages to find £20 million just like that to send to Africa. We are being taken for mugs in the UK. Work hard, get nothing.

@Gizzerwiz @gazcon Mainly during construction as a temporary event. Oil spills are far worse for aquatic life.

@mdf_michael @gazcon There is also evidence that offshore turbines are disrupting aquatic creatures, massively. But that is Ok as we can't see that.

By "climate change" they mean "unprecedented and catastrophic changes in the Earth's climate caused entirely by mankind's CO2 emissions." If you can show me any scientist that agrees with that statement I'll show you a paid activist posing as a scientist.

@Gizzerwiz @gazcon She was given that post because she is a world leading scientist!

@mdf_michael @gazcon Blurb from UKRI, she is co-director 'offshore wind has become a cornerstone of our energy supply, generating enough clean electricity to power the equivalent of over 18 million UK homes. This success story, which helps secure our future energy and creates new livelihoods'

@Gizzerwiz @gazcon Here is one geosci.uchicago.edu/people/david-k…

@mdf_michael @gazcon So I up that previous offer...show me a scientist with an engineering background who understands geology & botany who says it is a good idea... Shall I wait? Just a link will do😊

@thinkingshivers Your version is as good and highlights she was born into privilege and did not get it some other undefined way. The Claude version omits that point leaving readers to guess that she may have married well, won it, etc

I submitted a draft of my short story to Claude for copy editing. Sometimes he’ll suggest a re-write of a particular sentence. My version: “She was just a rich girl, with a carelessness about her that could only come from being born into privilege.” Claude’s suggestion: “She was just a rich girl, careless in the way only privilege allows.” It's a matter of taste, but I personally think Claude's version is better. It's saying the same thing but more deftly. But when I swap his sentence in then plug the paragraph into Pangram, it goes from being high confidence that it's human to low confidence that it's human. If I keep doing this, will it start to read like AI slop? If I keep doing this, is it even my writing anymore? So I'm keeping my version, the one I think is worse, and I'm disquieted by the fact that there could be a better version of this story that I now need to specifically avoid.

@BillTheKid1603 You hope, or we will all die on Monday.

Coworker just told me it will be 90 degrees on Monday, we are British and live in the UK and they told me the temperature in fahrenheit