@JamesDeroest @JasonKelleyUK @albieamankona Politicians being economical with the truth? Say it ain't so!
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Dan Sherwood
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Dan Sherwood
@thursday_dan
software engineer, eternal complainer, likes a cheeky board game 🎲💻
United Kingdom Katılım Aralık 2012
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@thursday_dan @JasonKelleyUK @albieamankona Then don’t promise a pension. Yet it was promised as a pension.
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@JamesDeroest @JasonKelleyUK @albieamankona Yes but the money you paid in 1986 will have been spent in 1986 and not just put in a little pension pot waiting for you.
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@JasonKelleyUK @albieamankona It’s true, but doesn’t take into account inflation/interest and compounding.
If someone paid £100 in 1986, today that’s worth £300. When you work the numbers properly, pensioners paid more than enough in.
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@richdevon2017 @AlwaysAgnew @overlook61 @BenedictSpence Yeah, i agree you’ve been lied to! As to where the money went i could only speculate but i’d start with The Falklands War, our armed forces, NHS etc.
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@thursday_dan @AlwaysAgnew @overlook61 @BenedictSpence I know you are a troll but on your basis of argument, that’s fine but how do you justify the 45 years of 8-11% of national insurance you have taken from me and where did it go if the state shouldn’t give a pension, so I’ve been lied to. Can I have my £900k back please?
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Hell hath no fury like a Boomer who’s been asked to pay for something.
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@ChristAtheism @lukerobertblack Correct. But they do poll well overall and that's what matters.
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“My life was difficult so yours should be too”
Reform has nothing to offer people under 65. This is so uninspiring and unambitious. It’s also just spiteful.
Jen k 🇬🇧🏴@Jenny_1884
When I married in 1981 we both worked & most of our salary went on paying the mortgage as the interest rate was 15% at the time. Everything we owned was 2nd hand & we never went out for meals as we couldn’t afford to. We rented our TV Went to the launderette every weekend as had no washing machine. Only had new clothes at Xmas & birthdays as presents. We went without until we could save enough to pay for something. It’s always been hard whether you are young or old. So those out there that think we had it easy we didn’t. Our governments are to blame, not the old.
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@richdevon2017 @AlwaysAgnew @overlook61 @BenedictSpence The state shouldn’t be giving most people a pension really. It should be something done by yourself much in the same way car insurance is for example.
If you didn’t plan and make sensible decisions then that’s on you i’m afraid. We need to rebuild the Navy!
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@thursday_dan @AlwaysAgnew @overlook61 @BenedictSpence Err that’s exactly what private pension people assumed but you seem to want to penalise them extra but say nothing about non private pension holders?
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@functional_rqmt @MiechRose1 @DraperOr Point being there are many ways to realise those assets, and so those that can ought to. Have you seen the state of the Navy recently?
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@MiechRose1 @DraperOr Yes. But you are being deliberately obtuse. Most people do not leverage the house they live in.
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The richest generation in history (and that there will ever be) is telling us how poor they are again.
Sandy Tregent@SandyofSuffolk
Younger generation to pensioners: "Why didn't you save more into a private pension?" Because most women stayed at home to look after your mums and dads and so didn't earn anything, let alone save anything. And your granddads were struggling to pay the 14% mortgage rates. And any 'pin' money your nans earned from little part time jobs was spent spoiling you on days out at the seaside, birthdays and Christmas and slipping your mum and dad a few quid on the sly when they were a bit hard up. Just so you know.
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@richdevon2017 @AlwaysAgnew @overlook61 @BenedictSpence I believe people who assumed they could rollick about on the state pension for 20 odd years without the gumption to plan ahead shouldn’t be bailed out by the taxpayer.
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@thursday_dan @AlwaysAgnew @overlook61 @BenedictSpence Pensions are already means tested by taxing income on anything over £12,570. the pension is £12547. So we are taxed on already taxed money we saved, to not be a burden on society in old age but you think we don’t deserve it. You are a special sort of cunt.
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@AndrewJ01360402 @BenedictSpence Save for retirement whilst working? Don’t have to be megamind to figure that one out.
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@BenedictSpence Paying for your children is easy, we’ve all done it - work! Funding retirement not so easy for many as they cannot work
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Pensioners will call you heartless for not wanting to fund the retirement they failed to prepare for, and then shrug when you ask them how we should pay for children.
GIF
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@richdevon2017 @AlwaysAgnew @overlook61 @BenedictSpence Private pensions are private, the state should be under no obligation to provide a pension, especially for those who made door decisions in life.
And yeah, the pension should at the very least be means tested.
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@AlwaysAgnew @overlook61 @BenedictSpence So you save for retirement but if you do better than average, some commie cunt decides you don’t “NEED” your money back that you saved? But some feckless twat had 2 holidays a year and didn’t save, should get your surplus you don’t “NEED”. Go fuck yourself moron.
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@JackWhitlock @TBadassgamer @cdoy043 @Red_Ender666 @ironcrakka Ok, that all makes sense. The pedant in me wants to say, in its current state, it can't achieve LEO, but it has the potential (that being once the proper systems in place to prevent fuel evaporation). Is that a fair summation?
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Not needed for flights that are less than 2 hours, but for flights 12+ long (for orbits to align for a tower catch), propellant conditioning is definitely needed. The evaporation rate for cryogenics is pretty significant. That's why long duration Falcon 9/Heavy flights often have dark paint around the kerosene tank, although this is used to stop it from freeing.
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Can someone explain why the Artemis launch video feeds didn’t look like this?
Elias Makos@eliasmakos
Can someone explain why the Artemis launch video feeds didn’t look as good as this?
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@BoeingRespecter @TheNativist_ @ZoomerHistorian Can we have an update on the mighty hegemon at the moment? Vitals are looking... interesting.
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@TheNativist_ @ZoomerHistorian Lmfao shut up feg. You squandered your fucking empire. Our turn now. Get the fuck over it. Go piss on Churchill’s grave if you’re that mad about it.
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People surely cannot believe that the US just has troops in Europe to 'protect' Europeans.
It isn't 'anti-American' or some nonsense to point out the obvious fact that these troops arrived during World War II and never left because the Americans emerged as the victor and new world hegemon. They became the new masters of Europe.
The European nations, as people like catturd will openly admit, are vassals of the United States.
Obviously Europeans would want US forces to leave. It's a national stain that there are foreign troops with bases in our countries, can you imagine offering that up to any politician pre-1945?
It's just the reality and can be readily admitted. Europe has its faults, and we openly admit to them and hate all of our own governments. I don't know any European happy with the way they're governed, but we're all ultimately under the thumb of the US (less so over time and clearly, as we've seen with recent events, some kind of change is coming)
Not even giving a take here, but can we stop pretending to have it both ways where we'll called vassals whilst pretending it would be some kind of punishment to stop that vassalage. The US isn't in Europe out of the kindness of her heart, it's there to protect her interests.
Again, almost every European nationalist loves Americans, truly, we view them as one of us, fellow-Europeans on another continent like Australians or anyone else, but we just dislike the American government and big business (basically one and the same) which have dominated us since the last world war.
Catturd ™@catturd2
- Pull out of NATO. - Close all bases and remove all military personal from the UK, Germany, Spain, and France. - Never protect these countries again. - Stop all trade with these countries. ZERO. - Refuse to share any military technologies and don't allow to them to buy any military equipment. Ever. - Don't share any intelligence with them. NONE. - Tell them they have to provide 100% of weapons and money to Ukraine. - Cut them off completely.
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@david_mullens @_Plac3_hold3r @Ross___Mack @Juve38Wa98021 @PolitlcsUK Wow, that's insane. Shudder to think about the fact that people who voted for this utter madness live among us!
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@_Plac3_hold3r @Ross___Mack @Juve38Wa98021 @PolitlcsUK No,
1 example: Pre-Brexit 95% of vets doing checks in abattoirs were from the EU.
They all went home, no British vets wanted the jobs, meaning meat couldn't be certified healthy, so impossible to export.
Also impossible to certify meat for UK consumption so we import instead.
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🚨 NEW: Marmalade will have to be sold as "citrus marmalade" under the upcoming UK-EU food deal
This is because EU rules from June will broaden the definition of "marmalade" to include non-citrus spreads
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@JackWhitlock @TBadassgamer @cdoy043 @Red_Ender666 @ironcrakka Makes sense. So if I understand correctly, you're saying the propellant conditioning systems are not in place? Is this an optional nice-to-have feature, or a must-have?
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It's to make sure the largest upper stage ever launched comes back to Earth in a safe manner if the deorbit burn fails. On the last two flights, the vehicle had a positive perigee, so was technically orbital. There's no advantage to going fully orbital until the proper propellant conditioning systems have been implemented.
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@TBadassgamer @cdoy043 @JackWhitlock @Red_Ender666 @ironcrakka That's fair enough and whatnot, but why not just get into orbit and get the box ticked, then you can also test re-entry and landing still? Is there a technical reason, or is it purely bureaucracy?
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@thursday_dan @cdoy043 @JackWhitlock @Red_Ender666 @ironcrakka To put it in perspective spacex operate the falcon 9 the most reliable rocket ever which has made orbit over 600 times spacex knows what they are doing. Starship is attempting full reusabilty, never done before so they prioritise testing reentry and landing of the second stage
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@TBadassgamer @cdoy043 @JackWhitlock @Red_Ender666 @ironcrakka Look, I don't really know much about this, but if achieving LEO is as trivial as you suggest, why did they choose not to do it?
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@cdoy043 @JackWhitlock @Red_Ender666 @ironcrakka What makes you say it cant make it to leo. All they had to do was literally burn the engines for a few seconds longer. They purposfully chose not to do that
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@bobclark56 @RepairBritain @KeepTexasGreat @ZiaYusufUK I personally don’t think any money saved there will even touch the sides to be honest.
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@RepairBritain @KeepTexasGreat @ZiaYusufUK Not sure how you do that but , agree something has to happen , I would definitely start with the Work Shy & explosion in mental health also the farcical illegal immigration , I would like to see compulsory national service which would include migrants with settled status ,
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@KimleviKim @RepairBritain @AJ78292 @ZiaYusufUK I’m stunned by your level of entitlement quite honestly. If you can pay your way then you should really.
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@HomelessVets24 @ZoomerHistorian @catturd2 The best time to plant a tree was yesterday, the second best time it today. we need to have better paneuropean procurment and collaboration to share the risks/rewards and the costs/benefits.
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@ZoomerHistorian @catturd2 Totally agree, however that can't be done overnight, we no longer have any defence capabilities, it would take around 2 decades to uncouple all our defence from the US.
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- Pull out of NATO.
- Close all bases and remove all military personal from the UK, Germany, Spain, and France.
- Never protect these countries again.
- Stop all trade with these countries. ZERO.
- Refuse to share any military technologies and don't allow to them to buy any military equipment. Ever.
- Don't share any intelligence with them. NONE.
- Tell them they have to provide 100% of weapons and money to Ukraine.
- Cut them off completely.
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@rob_goldie @benfromsuffolk @BennyBongoP3fan @PolitlcsUK @thetimes I find it incredible that people rely on the state pension for retirement. You absolutely should be working on a private pension in working age and not simply assuming the Government will provide for you, esp considering they are a net drain on GDP.
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@benfromsuffolk @BennyBongoP3fan @PolitlcsUK @thetimes I think those receiving standard state pension need it. UK pension is already poor 11th across Europe. Not a case of deserve it but more a case of they've paid into a system and deserve an amount to afford to get by. £1000 a month isn't alot
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🚨 NEW: Nigel Farage is set to announce Reform UK will keep the state pension triple lock
[@thetimes]
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