@graeme_cobb people too busy using their phones or drinking their latte to deal with trivial stuff like changing gear...
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CapitulationUK
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📰 New research suggests manual cars face extinction as soon as 2030.
Does this represent a shift in your preference, and has the U.K. roads become so busy that auto makes more sense now?
notaguru.co.uk/blog/manual-ge…
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@ownsomeshares @nick_mccleery That would be fair.
But more people understand the word monopoly even if it's not used in the strictest (actual) definition.
There are many other words used similarly.
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@CapitulationUK @nick_mccleery I’m fully aware what a monopoly is, thanks.
Tesco isn’t one.
You could possibly argue it operates in an oligopolistic market - but that’s it.
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Hard to think of a more midwit position than being anti-supermarket.
Tesco is an unmitigated force for good. It supplies tens of millions of people with luxuries their grandparents couldn't imagine, employs 1 in 200 people, and runs on paper thin margins through sheer competence
Ross McCafferty@RossMcCaff
Such a scam that right wingers have suddenly switched to 'profit margins' when discussing supermarkets, because its far easier to say 'oh poor Tesco is scraping by on a 2% profit margin' rather than consider whether Tesco making £3bn a year while people starve is good
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@ownsomeshares @nick_mccleery I guess you've little experience of being a supplier to the chains
You can joke all you want, they are the ones laughing
It's possible to want reasonable choice, without price fixing and controls without also being a communist btw
Every company's goal is to become a monopoly
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@CapitulationUK @nick_mccleery Sainsbury’s.
Waitrose.
Lidl.
Aldi.
Morrisons.
Co-Op.
Ocado.
Iceland.
Is this monopoly in the room with us now?
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@financefraz hmmm, I'll look into it a bit more.
I have several cars/insurance policies.
I'd have to tell them that I have a part time delivery job, I know one would just say yeah but no.
But nugget of info saved for the future thanks.
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@CapitulationUK No just links up to the delivery apps so it knows when you’re on a job
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750k impressions later and apparently:
* I don’t pay tax
* I’m uninsured
* Amazon Flex is not worth it
All because I did a 2.5hr Amazon block, made £55, and invested the profits instead of wasting it 💀
Well today is payday 🎉🎉🎉
Frazer Grant@financefraz
Earned £49 last night as I went back to doing Amazon Flex deliveries for the first time since April 2022 🚗📦 If you’ve never heard of it, you basically deliver Amazon parcels in your own car using their app for navigation + parcel scanning. Really simple once you get going. The algorithm gods sent me miles away though, so it ended up being about a 50 mile round trip ⛽️ Still, £49 for 2.5hrs with guaranteed money isn’t bad compared to food delivery where you can sit around waiting for orders. That now puts me on £80 extra this week 💰 Probably keep £30 aside for petrol/tax and put £50 straight into investments 📈
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@financefraz Genuinely thank you.
Please tell me it's not automatically telematics tho?
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@CapitulationUK It’s with a company called Zego who provide pay as you go insurance, 88p an hour so not too bad really!
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@CapitulationUK @OrevaZSN LinkedIn is OnlyFans for middle managers. Never in my life have I seen such cringe.
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@autocar Fines proportional to income as it is in certain parts of Europe.
Flat rate 500quid is just an attack on the majority, not a way to get people to actually slow down.
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Leading safety charity calls for £500 speeding fines – to fund more cameras 📷 buff.ly/NWo05Jn
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@IamR0galD0rn I make out like I dont know how to use the app and they take pity, order for me and pay (when it's company expenses)
I work in tech
Eventually they will learn :)
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I work with 2 zoomers on my team. They show up with Culver's, order Subway from Uber Eats/Doordash, and then get a pizza from the restaurant next door on their way home.
They spend $50+ feeding THEMSELVES. On an eight hour shift. For a white-collar job. They then complain they don't make enough and can't feed their kids (yes, they both have kids and SO at home).
I have brought them meal-prep kits, including some big enough for the entire family, with instructions on how to make it from the discount grocery store (Aldi) not even a mile from our property.
They refuse to do it.
You know who does follow my cost-saving recipes? The Gen X lady 5 years older than me.
Fuck off.
🌽🌽 Erica, The White Trash Socialist 🌽🌽™️@herosnvrdie69
I refuse to do to Gen Z what Gen X and boomers did to us. Gen Z literally DOESNT eat out as much as previous generations because they literally can’t afford it because of inflation. You are making up a group of people to be mad at off of one tweet.
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@FormerlyFormer I dont run around the house turning lights off.
I automated that shit.
I've got kids.
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This is an area where many men are utterly impervious to data and logic. Despite every study showing that lights cost pennies, they seem convinced that 2 fewer lightbulbs is a monthly electric savings of hundreds of dollars.
The Babylon Bee@TheBabylonBee
Study: Average Father Spends 97% Of Time Running Around House Turning Lights Off buff.ly/Ido2NzH
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As a longtime automotive technician, I have noticed through the years that almost every time manufacturers come up with new and improved it ends up costing the car owner more money. Here is one example. A simple thermostat, which served us fine for years has now been replaced with a water control valve that is actuated by the car’s computer. So we went from a part that cost around $15 to one that now is $250 and up.
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@MatthewJDalby Cool. So you're at Euston station a bit quicker. Now what?
An arduous journey across flithy London on a crammed overheated tube train on an outdated system not designed at all to be helpful to visitors.
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The point was to build it to Manchester and Leeds, which would have reduced Manchester to London journeys from just over two hours to just over one hour.
Myles 🇯🇲🇧🇧@myles_premium_
A 1hr16 min train journey from Birmingham to London already exists. HS2 would only be 25 mins faster lmao. After billions spent over decades. What's the point?
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@nikkkireed9510 @ToonDazza @troublesome1977 @bphillipsonMP Treat the parents like children that need to be looked after because clearly they do.
But we have apologists, so we can't just shame them.
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@CapitulationUK @ToonDazza @troublesome1977 @bphillipsonMP What else should they do?
These are actual children who had the misfortune to be born to shit parents, making their lives just a little bit easier seems reasonable to me.
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With Reform UK, it's always about 'looking after our own' until it comes to feeding children.
Labour is providing over 6,400 children across Kent County Council with free breakfast clubs. Reform UK literally want to take the food from their mouths.
mirror.co.uk/news/politics/…
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@Boenau Ban probably about 70% of the people from the roads and it'll solve the problem
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@AstronoPriest @FaringForwards @kartosiewicz When travelling most Americans I meet are left leaning and apologising for Trump.
You should see their heads pop off when they learn some of us Brits fucking love him.
Most Americans come to the UK and do London then Shakespeare and maybe Oxford. Inevitable bias.
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@__cybernews @alphafox Ah, the pov spec model.
Had one of them.... and a few others.
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@seezyou Adulting is figuring out better methods to get away with it
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@salowa87 What's really going to upset you is when you realise who is responsible for all that empowerment
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It used to be that men left school at 15 and walked into a job that paid well enough to liberate a future wife from her job.
These days there is no such job that pays nearly enough to do that. Hence why I'm eventually going to have to go back to work.
Gary Donovan@Fan2013Dexter
@salowa87 @MoneyQuotesX The vast majority of men at least White western men want to provide for a wife and children like it used to be. The problem is it's nearly impossible for a man to be a breadwinner and to be a traditional or old fashioned breadwinner. This is the largely the cause of MGTOW today.
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@Littoria14 When I worked in the office I always made my lunch and took it with me
It was cheaper
What changed?
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As a man now approaching a fatherly age, I think it's sad that young people go to work every day and struggle to afford to buy lunch.
As a society, we ought to come up with a solution to this. This isn't normal, working people buy meals on the job in most countries I've been to. Unless you live in Spain where people go home for three hour lunch breaks.
I don't understand the middle aged scumbags lecturing struggling young people trying to do the right thing and make it in the world to shut up and eat a baloney sandwich.
Maybe I'm just out of touch because of lingering zombie catholicism or because I am an ethnic white. But there's no way this Jewish-Indian Dickensian miser America fully devoid of basic empathy has a future.
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