@HarryDIsraeli Obvs there’s ‘unseen’ income tax like employers NI contribution. But it’s an indirect tax, not direct.
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England, United Kingdom Katılım Ağustos 2015
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@HarryDIsraeli Top rate is 45%, NI at that salary is 2%. Reduce your tax contribution by paying into a salary sacrifice pension. I’m in that top bracket *today*. My effective take home is 58% of my salary after all deductions. Or said the other way 42% total deductions. Guy is a cretin.
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Man literally doesn’t understand tax brackets. No one of his age has ever paid 60%. It’d be 47% max.
Proper Memes 〓〓@Proper_Memes
@BurnsideWasTosh @ZackPolanski He doesn't understand the fundamentals of taxation.
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@MerrynSW Shows that Gary either can’t do maths, or didn’t understand his pay slip. I’m a top rate tax payer, even with NI, you’re not even close to 60%. If you have a salary sacrifice pension you can ‘save’ a bit of tax. Guy is a fraud or an idiot.
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Extraordinary thing here is only partly his total confusion about how income tax and IHT work plus utter ignorance of the trust system. Main bit that threw me is that he doesn't know how NI works. And thinks he has paid way more tax than he has. How does this happen?
Proper Memes 〓〓@Proper_Memes
Gary doesn't even understand the basics of taxation, like income tax vs inheritance tax or corporate tax vs consumption tax.
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@flapprdotnet @Amer1can_Barbie thought you’d appreciate this 😆
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@PhilipProudfoot My god, you Green Party simps are so pathetically ignorant. It’s actually hilarious how stupid you lot are. Do any of you actually function and live in the real world? Or do you live in an actual bubble? 😆
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This is going to result in a legal case against the Met for political interference during purdah.
The swiftest thing would be for Mark Rowley to apologise.
However, a big fat damages payment from the Met will certainly help the Greens rectify damage done.
Metropolitan Police@metpoliceuk
“Apprehending violent and dangerous criminals is a full contact and messy task which may appear shocking to observers with little experience of policing in the real world.” Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley writes to Zack Polanski.
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@Amer1can_Barbie Got one more for you, the lefties in the UK having a meltdown over ‘police brutality’ of 2 officers kicking the shit out of a guy going on a stabbing spree in London yesterday.
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@VerhofstadtQ Tasers are utter useless. They need to use lethal force to neutralise the threat, but are ill equipped to do so.
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Having seen a police officer give a kick to the head of a crazed attacker in Manchester airport, and another two examples today, one assumes this is no coincidence. Don't forget, officers are trained to deal with dangerous suspects. Many techniques are used.
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@JohnWight1 The guy is not incapacitated. He’s refusing to let go of the knife. You can clearly see it in the video you utter cretin.
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This is outrageous. The guy is clearly incapacitated on the ground, having rightfully and thankfully been tased, yet two police officers are repeatedly kicking him in the head.
Who do they think they are: members of the IDF?
BRITAIN IS BROKEN 🇬🇧@BROKENBRITAIN0
🚨WATCH: Footage shows Golders Green knifeman being TASED, KICKED in the head, and ARRESTED after stabbing two Jewish people 🇬🇧
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@JohnWight1 Completely unprofessional, they should be suspended pending an investigation.
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@rationalaussie I mean, having one of those cushy white collar jobs now, having worked in construction and having worked inside data centres; I’m more than happy to do that over the day to day monotony of office work 😆
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If you have a mortgage, and are in a white collar profession right now, you should take very seriously the prospect that you will be 'back to the mines' sooner than you think.
Except this time the mines are data centre buildouts.
The government will give you a job and allow you to defer mortgage payments indefinitely if you help them build out data centres.
They will likely have massive training programs in place to facilitate this, to try to appease the disgruntled, previously high status white collar workers.
I expect this to begin in 2028 and not end until we have robots building robots in the early 2030s.
If you don't want to work in the mines to survive, you need enough money to not have to work until about 2032.
After that we will be in an entirely new era.
The interim period, however, is going to be both extremely volatile and extremely dangerous for everyone.
prinz@deredleritt3r
Co-signed under every word of this excellent post. AI adoption will skyrocket to levels that are unimaginable to us today if the labs are actually able to prove that the models can discover novel science. No amount of compute will be enough, and there will be tough decisions to make regarding compute allocation.
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@Hipotelab Having owned 4 new Mercedes (SLK, E Class, GLCx2) in the last 10 years, my next car will be a Renault 5 😆
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Mientras mi coche estaba en el taller, Mercedes me dejó un S 580e nuevo de trinca, con un precio de más de 135.000 €.
Y aquí viene lo surrealista: el volante está lleno de controles táctiles de plástico que dan una sensación de Renault 5. En serio, ¿esto es un coche de más de 130.000 €?
Lo más irónico es que mi GLE 2022 tiene botones de aluminio, con ruedecillas estriadas que se sienten premium de verdad.
¿Cómo hemos pasado de mejorar los detalles a abaratar lo que más tocas cada día?
¿En qué momento decidieron que “más caro” no tenía que significar “mejor”?
Algo no cuadra.
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@Therichardralph Thanks. Maybe. 🤷♂️ Yeah I don’t know either. On one hand I can afford my remortgage increase quite comfortably. On the other hand it’s now even harder to leave a job which is slowly but surely destroying my soul.
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@random_wiffle congratulations I think.
or commiserations.
fuck I don't know it's a double edged sword.
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I shared a perspective yesterday about being done with being comfortable after reaching a point where I am financially comfortable.
I had a few comments that suggest I should just suck it up and be grateful for the lucky position I find myself in.
1st of all....it wasn't luck that got me to that place.
Secondly....What a stupid suggestion.
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@clharrington024 I’m about to start reading the series with my 8yr old (I already read the first three when they came out) looking forward to the re-read!
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My 6th grade daughter is reading Harry Potter, she finished the 6th book very late the other night so I was already asleep. I awoke to a post it on the kitchen counter:
“Mom, Dumbledore died! I’m so sad. Love, Charlotte”
This small note made my heart explode. Reading great books is magical and moving and heartbreaking.
Thanks @jk_rowling for writing this world for kids to love and live in.
Parents, too many kids today haven’t read all the Harry Potter books. Start reading this series with them. I promise it will be one of your most cherished memories.
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@FUDdaily I disagree with many of your takes, but you’re spot on with this one.
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Virtually every government intervention by the uniparty is designed to level out outcomes. There's something about the British psychology that simply cannot stand anybody doing better than themselves. Nobody is allowed to prosper by their own efforts - leading to an economy where more and more people simply opt out of the system entirely. We need flat tax and the abolition of the minimum wage.
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Every single tax milestone in the UK is designed to make sure trying harder isn't worth it. Earn £100,000? You're taxed at 62% on every extra pound until £125,140. Earn £50,270? Your tax jumps from 20% to 40%. Earn over £60K with kids? Your child benefit starts getting clawed back. The system is broken.
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@Therichardralph 150k job, no final salary pension; but on my way to a decent pot. Absolutely bored out of my mind. 15 yrs to go.
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£80k job. Solid portfolio. Final-salary pension.
On paper I’ve ‘made it’. In reality I’m bored out of my mind and watching my best years disappear into someone else’s spreadsheet.
I’m not quitting tomorrow… but I’m done staying comfortable.
Anyone else stuck in the same trap? Drop your story
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I’m 42 years old and I am yet to ever use the Pythagorean theory in a real life setting…
Another reason why financial education should be taught in schools instead of trigonometry
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@Autoweltmedia Most modern cars continue active cooling with the ignition off. This is quite frankly bollocks.
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If you know, letting your car idle after intense driving.
Lets say you drove home for about 50 km's or 30 miles.
As soon as you park up at home you shut off the engine.
All of that heat you leave trapped in the engine which will eventually cause damage.
Instead as soon as you park up, let your car idle for 1 - 3 minutes to let the coolant and oil cool turbos, engine down.
Especially important on highly complicated cars like this BMW F10 M5, twin-turbo S63 V8, their most complex engine at the time.
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@WeaponOutfitter Are you checking the rim?
I had one truck that kept losing pressure on two tires. Turned out to be some corrosion on the rim. They sanded them and it was fine.
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What causes ties to lose 20 PSI overnight?
No detectable punctures via soap spray
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