Pragmatist with a bias towards Science, Technology and being environmentally responsible. Oh and I think Brexit is a bloody stupid idea.
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Well, let’s just say this is not a humanitarian act.
NO! It certainly isn’t.
Attacking ambulances is more than just a war crime.
ELON! The drone operator is NOT some poor lad forced into combat; what you’re saying is just an excuse on your part.
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A massacre in the Dnipro passenger railway station today. A guided Russian drone targeted a crowded platform, killing at least 13 people and injuring many others, as per city officials.
But diesel. But Russia wants peace. But don’t you dare hit their refineries.
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French hatred of us English is pure, decent, noble loathing!! How dare Russia try to muscle in on a relationship so special it could never understand??
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It is insane to me that a headline like this can exist and also the markets can run based entirely on the idea that “the strait of Hormuz is open” when it is quite obviously not
BREAKING: President Trump has reportedly given Iran until Tuesday to agree to fully reopen the Strait of Hormuz or face what he described as “devastating strikes,” according to Bloomberg.
The ultimatum comes as Washington continues to pressure Tehran to restore commercial shipping through the strategic waterway.
Similar deadlines and threats have been issued repeatedly in recent weeks without leading to military action, so it remains unclear whether this latest warning will result in a strike.
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A lifetime of income tax… in just four years?
Most people probably underestimate just how progressive the UK’s income tax system is.
Take someone earning the UK’s median full-time salary of around £39,000.
They’ll pay roughly £5,300 a year in income tax.
Now compare that with someone earning £150,000.
They’ll pay around £53,700.
That’s more than 10x as much income tax…
…despite earning less than 4x the salary.
Over 4 years, the £150,000 earner will have paid approximately £215,000 in income tax.
That’s roughly the same amount of income tax the median full-time worker pays across an entire working life.
A median full-time worker keeps around 86p of every £1 they earn after income tax.
Someone earning £150,000 keeps around 64p of every £1.
Many people imagine a £150,000 salary guarantees financial freedom.
In reality, many high earners are paying extraordinary amounts of tax while still facing many of the same affordability challenges as everyone else, especially if living and working in London.
Whether you think that’s fair or not is a matter of opinion.
But it illustrates just how dependent the UK’s income tax system is on higher earners.
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"So the value of golden eggs, and the value of the goose, should be seen, not only just by egg value."
I couldn't agree more. Bravo, Masayoshi Son. I'm glad somebody said this.
SoftBank’s investor presentation is one of the greatest things ever made. I’ve been thinking about it all day. These are the real slides shown in a speech where Masayoshi Son said he wouldn’t retire for at least another decade. The goose stuff is perfect.
group.softbank/media/Project…
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Hard to believe I’m even writing this.
Meteorological summer hasn’t even begun, yet Paris, France has already logged more days above 32°C (89.6°F) than its annual average.
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Before Brexit, there were about 300K net migrants a year, mostly from the EU.
After Brexit, immigration shot up to 900K, and EU migration was negative.
It’s amazing how stupid Brexit was from every possible perspective.
Populism is a low IQ movement.
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“If [Europe] decides that it will support us in a course aimed at destroying the Russian empire, it will be destroyed very quickly.
Russia has never won a war against Great Britain or against Britain’s allies. Never!”
— Denis Shtilerman, Fire Point's CEO
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Historically the UK and Japan have exchanged their native plant species, cherry blossom trees being a main one, and since 2016 Japan has gifted over 7,000 cherry trees as a sign of friendship, that's why you randomly see them all over the country, this sort of thing has been going on for over a century now, a specific species of tree called the Tai-Haku actually went completely extinct in Japan for centuries, but a British ornithologist called Collingwood Ingram discovered a dying tree in someone's garden, and he was able to send cuttings over to Japan via the Tran-Siberian Express and successfully reintroduce the species back to Japan, so every Tai-Haku in Japan is descended from the cuttings of the last dying tree in existence, which just happened to be in a random garden in Sussex
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I don’t get how people can disagree about the Falklands not being core British clay
- islands
- shitty weather
- sheep
That’s basically Great Britain 2 southern hemisphere edition
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UPDATE: Letters from Leo can now independently confirm that the meeting took place — and that the Vatican was so alarmed by the Pentagon’s tactics that Pope Leo XIV shelved plans to visit the United States later this year.
Many in the Vatican saw the Pentagon’s reference to an Avignon papacy as a threat to use military force against the Holy See.
NEW: A stunning new report claims that the Pentagon summoned Pope Leo XIV’s top American diplomat and threatened him after the U.S.-born pontiff gave his January state-of-the-world address.
Leo used the address to denounce a world ruled by “a diplomacy based on force” and “zeal for war.”
thelettersfromleo.com/p/the-…
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We warned you back in 1776 that it would end in tears.
This is on you, France.
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No serious nation in the history of warfare has spent fourteen months insulting its allies, siding with their common enemy, and then knocked on their door expecting them to rescue a catastrophe of its own making.
You abused the UK. Threatened Canada. Tried to grab Greenland. Called the EU an adversary. Praised Putin. Hosted Kremlin officials in the Capitol. Abandoned Ukraine. And did all of it loudly, proudly, and on camera.
And now you are surprised that nobody is returning your calls.
You want European boots on the ground? Start by explaining why America is more aligned with Moscow than with Brussels.
Take your time. We will wait.
Gandalv / @Microinteracti1
The Europeans are not dealing with “a man.” They are dealing with the United States of America.
The United States needed the most innocuous kind of cooperation from them. They denied the United States that cooperation.
The implied argument is that their obligations within our alliance depend on whether they like the guy we chose as our president. “Sure, we’re allies…if we approve of who you elected.”
Nope.
We are not going to forget, and we’re not going to forgive. I’m indifferent to their excuses or their rationalizations. The United States of America needed their help and not very much help. They turned us down. That changes everything. And they aren’t going to like how it changes everything.