n0_pudding
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I go on Facebook once a year to check who still wishes me happy birthday. A few years ago I read a fascinating book on the Congolese Civil War, started looking up militia commanders who’d been interviewed, realised they all had Facebook accounts and started sending them friend requests so for a couple of years now I’ve received more happy birthday wishes from Congolese warlords than university friends.
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@thomasknox The genocide museum is a tough place to visit, but gives a sense of why Rwandan people are the way they are. Don't plan on leaving happy.
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The largest mass grave of the Rwandan genocide - in central Kigali
250,000 people are buried here
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@maxtempers What a relief that notorious harassment account @ThePIPDevil has been suspended for the safety of the most vulnerable of all amongst us. Three cheers for safety!
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Incredible. Apparently everyone can claim UC discounts since they’re not verified against a DWP database.
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@johndotwills Yeah hang on a sec here. You'll need some elaboration. Transferring an asset - call it £250k on average - in exchange for paying 10 years of rental payments to an individual is a huge bung. Is the rent ~£27k a year? What does this do to pressure for these properties?
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And that is what nobody has tried in 25 years of missed housing targets:
It gives RSLs a reason to build that isn't a government grant.
Asset transfer after 10 years of good tenancy means every transfer creates an existential choice for the landlord: build to replace or watch their balance sheet shrink.
None of this is a target, but it is that missing incentive that has been holding progress towards targets back.
It's also key to mobility and wealth for those in the homes.
(12/12)
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YIMBY's are getting it at least as wrong as the NIMBY's when it comes to housing. Planning reform is not the answer, and the current system of incentives is preventing a lot of really good ideas and efforts from having any real impact on a problem that impacts every single prson in the UK.
But how to fix? (1/12)
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@DefenceOps @HMS_Spey @DefenceHQ @RoyalNavy @CSOC_MOD Please stop letting LLMs proofread your posts. It makes them come across as cheap and insincere.
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🔥 Locked. Loaded. Ready.
🚢 @HMS_Spey firing on all cylinders with HMG & Glock live-fire training at sea
🌊 New crew, sharp skills, zero hesitation
⚓️ Mission: Full operational readiness for the Pacific
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@SO3_Clausewitz When you pick up a bottle, ask yourself if you could imagine drinking this whole sat in your pants at home, curtains drawn during the day. Does this bottle fit the scenario? How about in the toilets at work? Or in your car on a wet Monday morning before work, sat in the carpark.
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Anyone got any recommendations for some good alcohols for someone thinking of taking up alcoholism?
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@thinkdefence More Type 31s (like, eight more). Money for RFA. More auxiliaries. 31s can be built here, RFA is necessary to sustain RN, auxiliaries give sustainment for the sharp end. Figure out what else to do with a spare billion but that'll get soaked up along the way
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You have been given an extra ten billion quid a year for defence, what you buying?
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@Red67_ @rosie_eats @lindapeter41408 Maybe she just wants a union focused on its members and not Palestine?
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@rosie_eats @lindapeter41408 You’ll never get anything by staying on your knees and being a scab
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@Lovepuff2000 @rosie_eats @lindapeter41408 Wild. Woman says she wants enough of a sense of security to start a family. Somehow you think this is unrealistic. What is unrealistic is a system that gates productive human beings from having families and raising more productive little humans.
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@TheCriticalDri2 Took a while for this to propagate? Looks like the source post on Reddit is like two years old.
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Lol, that's interesting since he was VERY excited to work with me and claimed to be a big fan when it benefitted him. Now that he's trying to break into TV, suddenly he's filled with "regret". Good luck sucking all that Hollywood dick, buddy. Hope it's worth it.
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Matt Dinniman, author of Dungeon Crawler Carl, has choice words for The Critical Drinker: "I regret that my books have any association whatsoever with him. I hope one day to have his part in book three removed all together. It's a distraction, and the only edgelord douchebag I want people to think of when they read my books is the AI itself." Why did he feel the need to do this?
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@thinkdefence Contrarian, I know, but the golden age of direct fire weapons like this is in the past. If you can mission kill a tank with a drone from 10 miles away for a 10th the cost and a 10th the risk, who needs NLAWs?
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Read more about the history and capabilities of NLAW at the link
thinkdefence.co.uk/2022/11/nlaw/
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Image;
A Lance Corporal from the 1st Battalion of the Royal Duke of Lancaster Regiment, with the training version of the NLAW (Next-Generation Light Anti-Tank Weapon)
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I’m going to get off X for awhile, truly a toxic environment in the current conditions. Good luck everyone
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@CNviolations Put some respect on the name of @iruletheworldmo for creating this.
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@mjarbo Your bio notes that you say incredibly dumb things. I see that now.
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This tweet has obviously blown up which is fantastic, so thank you very much for visiting my Twitter account.
Here is the video version of this tweet in case you need to get mad at something else
Please understand that you should really not be listening to anyone who has never picked up a wrench about fixing your plumbing. And if that metaphor goes over your head we'll....
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Sorry @philiplord and @chrizmillr
I cannot, in good conscious, support #projecthailmary after Andy Weir went on a stream with noted chud Critical Drinker.
For years this man has tried to destroy everything that you guys stand for, and to give him a pass like that is a bridge too far.
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@TBrit90 Yeah that was pretty retarded. What was the term that was used? A fleet of herbivores?
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@n0_pudding Whoever decided to put 12 VLS on a frigate in this century should have been slapped and then slapped again and again.
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Because of how retarded our procurement people are. The first 2 T-31s will have 12 CAMM cells and then be modified with 32 MK41 later during capability insertion.
Ships 3-5 will have 32 MK41 from build.
Air & Sea Intel@air_intel
12 VLS cells
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@BootsUK Your Torpoint pharmacy made a mistake last year with a prescription for my wife. Can you drop me a DM so that we can discuss this?
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@pegobry_en The French mind cannot understand the Anglo. Sympathy and common humanity are alien to French ontology. Also, no, it certainly wasn't about price competition.
api.parliament.uk/historic-hansa…
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It’s nice that the Brits abolished slavery in their own lands but the reason why they sent the Royal Navy to do it was to stop price competition from other countries, it was not humanitarian
Templarpilled@Templarpilled
>be British Empire >decide that you want to end slavery >no, not just in your own lands, that would be nothing special >slavery is so evil it needs to go worldwide >unleash the Royal Navy >show everyone who rules the waves >countless brave sailors now won't return home >but it's worth it >the future generations will be thankful for their sacrifice, right? >right?
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@thinkdefence A build order for another 5 Type 31s. With VLS fitted.
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If you could 'action this day' for the British Armed Forces, what would it be.
Two rules
1. No infinity money
2. No technology pipe dreams
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@BasilTheGreat Dog licensing stopped in the United Kingdom in what? 1987? After being around for over a hundred years?
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🚨GREEN PARTY WILL TAKE DOGS FROM OWNERS TO APPEASE MUSLIM BLOC
They will make it LAW that you must have a license to keep a Dog as a pet or face PROSECUTION
This ban could see THOUSANDS of pets REMOVED from people and likely put down
Who are you choosing
Greens or Dogs?
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