stu432

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by stu432 3y ago
Well done you've just figured out why less than 1% of the population own most of the land.
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by stu432 3y ago
Who would I be arguing with exactly? I think you may be reading tone where none was given. Are you under the impression people are buying land (land being rural land, not an acre in central London) in the UK for the sake of it? It's no
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by stu432 3y ago
Feudalism didn't end in violent land reform, it largely ended after a pandemic that killed off a significant number of the workforce and it became a sellers market for the serfs. Turns out we just crippled the world economy for decades
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by stu432 3y ago
Yes, bring back Clippy!!!
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by stu432 3y ago
A four year old would be able to run rings around the current government, yet Starmers Labour can't. I truly despair. Then again, the absolute trainwreck that next year's election in the UK will be, is going to be nothing compared
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by stu432 3y ago
How ironic.
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by stu432 3y ago
And yet somehow the reality is a "mistery" to you. Language isn't culture. If it was you wouldn't have the sort of Chinese-gate tik-tok nonsense happening right now. Also English people do not make up the United Kingdom.
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by stu432 4y ago
Who'd have thought those in charge were a bunch of hypocrites?
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by stu432 4y ago
It absolutely is not. It's about risk of absconding. Secondly, no, cash bail is not a thing in the UK. Someone being arrested in the UK for extradition is not part of the UK justice system, they are merely passing through at the reques
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by stu432 4y ago
It doesn't sound like you're familiar with the UK system either. Bail in the UK means adherence to specific conditions, i.e. live somewhere the police can find you, stay away from the victim and don't leave the country. It do
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by stu432 4y ago
Even Ryan Reynolds is using it to write advertising copy, https://youtu.be/_eHjifELI-k , I would say it's pretty well known. Not to mention all the get rich quick with ChatGPT nonsense that's popping up, that'
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by stu432 4y ago
So add those sites to the standard blocklists most ISPs already put in place for new customers and let parents decide if they want to remove them, just as they have to for porn and gambling. This is just a gimme for the security services un
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by stu432 4y ago
People died because of the last set of protests. That's not a reasonable consequence of a public protest.
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by stu432 4y ago
We already have those, https://youtu.be/FS5FT-4Kx7E
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by stu432 4y ago
You miss the point. Universal payer is not the utopia you think it is. People at the bottom may pay less, but people at the top pay more, "distributing and diluting these costs". That results in relatively well earning professions
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by stu432 4y ago
But universal healthcare is paid for by taxes on people who earn good money, which these people do. The costs being thrown around in this thread are about on par with the UK anyway.
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by stu432 4y ago
He's going to ask him to travel all the way around the world to a country that's not one he's in control of?
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by stu432 4y ago
How do you get that? In the UK our nuclear weapons are US bought so we don't use any fissile materials we make, and my understanding was submarine reactors are very different to traditional utility scale reactors, to the point that dif
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by stu432 4y ago
If you're subject to an investigation they'll put retention policies on them to stop that. If you're not, sure you can delete them and wait for them to disappear out of the backup windows, but then you'll need everyone w
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by stu432 4y ago
Defund the police, reparations, affirmative action.... Yeah totally super right wing talking points in Europe.
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by stu432 4y ago
That disengenuiously misrepresents the problem of cancel culture. Cancel culture is the propagation of a vocal minority conspiring to stop certain topics being discussed, i.e. deplatforming. What cancel culture should be is that some shill
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by stu432 4y ago
That's not what the person I'm responding to said, nor what the article says. The person I'm responding to clearly didn't read the article, it actually says due to a tight labour market unemployment will rise only slight
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by stu432 4y ago
Pretty comprehensive list here, https://www.gov.uk/guidance/rates-of-vat-on-different-goods-...
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by stu432 4y ago
Looks lower than ever, https://www.statista.com/statistics/279898/unemployment-rate...
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by stu432 4y ago
We do already, there's several VAT values, necessities are supposed to be VAT free for instance. Has some quirks in it, so you end up with the Jaffa Cake Vs Biscuit debacle - https://www.astonshaw.co.uk/news/jaffa-
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by stu432 4y ago
Because they effectively pay 85% tax on the income already. Look up the Crown Estate. The UK government taking it over would result in it being sold off at bargain basement prices to fund a voter winning 5 min fix and there'd be nothin
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by stu432 4y ago
I have several Blink camera's, can attest they do indeed last more than a year. Front of house that gets more than usual traffic has lasted around 2 years between battery changes, back of house around 3 years so far. Using Duracell bat
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by stu432 4y ago
It probably would be an absolute hell-scape as you imagine, but for someone looking to make a name for themselves, it's an incredible opportunity to jump in, carve out a solid niche and then use that leverage to push your career forwar
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by stu432 4y ago
You mean West Germany paid a fraction of what they received under the Marshall plan to Israel, and Israel alone. Doesn't really seem to put right the slaughtering they did all across Europe including the slaughtering they did to their
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by stu432 4y ago
And the renewables get the highest price, which will always be higher than their production costs... It's designed to repay investment into non fossil fuel power supply that don't have those variable input costs.

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