louthy

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by louthy 2mo ago
> I mean you could certainly argue that was all theater It was all theatre.
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by louthy 2mo ago
> And what they have got instead is gross migration running at 1 million per year. LEGAL migration of 1 million per year. For one year only during Boris Johnson's term. Mostly it's in the 100,000s. Most migration is legal. Peop
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by louthy 2mo ago
* Right - Conservatives * Hard right - Reform * Far right - Restore Restore are a far right party. Luckily they get about the same number of votes as the old far right parties, like the BNP.
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by louthy 2mo ago
It started with the Global Financial Crisis. The cost of that is still ongoing.
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by louthy 2mo ago
> If you were unlucky with your starting point in life, didn’t get an education in an in demand area, or did but really struggle to communicate, or got hit by some bad luck then life could feel very stalled at the moment and frustrating.
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by louthy 2mo ago
"most"
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by louthy 2mo ago
> "It rightly caused friction with our 5 eyes partners" That is such a weird take. "It rightly caused friction with Privacy International" might be a better position to take ;)
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by louthy 2mo ago
And what are you reading and listening to? It's the fifth-largest economy on Earth. Considering the ridiculous self-harm incident that was Brexit, that's not exactly a bad position to be in. The rest is governance (and debt paymen
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by louthy 2mo ago
The UK is fine, honestly. The Tory saga was mostly caused by Brexit and poor handling of Covid. Theresa May was ousted by Boris Johnson over Brexit, Johnson was ousted for hosting parties at number 10, whilst Covid lockdowns were in-place,
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by louthy 2mo ago
> you'd have expected the whole opposition to converge on him This is such a ridiculous take. In his last by-election result he got 95 votes, which up until last night's result was this highest he'd ever achieved. So gett
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by louthy 2mo ago
That’s just cynical nonsense and a blatant framing of the argument because you want to pay less tax: “I pay tax to the government. The government doesn’t represent or serve its constituents (me). Therefore I should pay less (or no) tax” T
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by louthy 2mo ago
You are part of a society. You exist and thrive because of that society. Otherwise you’d have had to fend for yourself: no healthcare, no education, no roads, no refuse collection, no security, etc. etc. People who think they have no obliga
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by louthy 2mo ago
Exactly, a house in the middle of nowhere, with no infrastructure, quickly becomes worthless. If anything, property taxes could be considered ‘maintenance’, which is an inevitable part of ownership. Nobody likes paying for the maintenance w
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by louthy 2mo ago
I don’t have that information, but I’m also not claiming I do. The GP is claiming “1990 -> 2020 was an okay 30 year period, 2026 -> 2056 sure won't be.” The fact that there was Black Wednesday, 9/11, the dot com crash, the I
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by louthy 2mo ago
> 2026 -> 2056 sure won't be. You have evidence from the future?
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by louthy 2mo ago
> Number cannot always go up. Yeah, I thought that when I was young too. The housing market can keep going up for much longer than you can hold out. Then, if there ever is a correction, it probably won't drop lower than this point
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by louthy 3mo ago
Presumably, you've never taken the Heathrow Express? That is a train journey that is always better than a car. The Gatwick Express, not so much.
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by louthy 3mo ago
I don’t think it’s fascist? More of a kleptocratic dictatorship. I agree with the general sentiment though!
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by louthy 3mo ago
The Supreme Court has already said that blanket tariffs aren't allowed, so it's all bluster, as per usual.
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by louthy 3mo ago
Oh jeez
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by louthy 3mo ago
As a Brit, I concur.
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by louthy 4mo ago
> Did the espresso drinks have milk in them? I felt a great disturbance in Italy, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. Espresso does not have milk. Macchiato , is an espresso based drink wi
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by louthy 4mo ago
> Why are you jumping to the worst possible interpretation? Who would you kill? The person you didn’t see because you weren’t paying attention to the road. Regardless of how busy or not it is.
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by louthy 4mo ago
> take meetings while driving as well, though I stopped because it was perceived poorly by others. The lack of self awareness here is astounding. You’re in control of a two ton bullet, please concentrate on the road. Killing somebody bec
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by louthy 5mo ago
Which is foot ball. Not foot egg.
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by louthy 5mo ago
I think everybody in Britain of a certain age knows Helen Sharman. Her name popped into my head the moment I read the title of this post. It was certainly a big deal at the time. I know we don’t fawn over astronauts here, but I’m not sure w
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by louthy 5mo ago
The leave-no-trace aspect of Burning Man is one of my favourite parts of the event. I've been 10 times in my life, I haven't been for a few years, the trek from the UK is a bit much sometimes! But each time I go to a UK festival
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by louthy 6mo ago
Indeed, I wouldn’t give up hyperfocus for anything. When it kicks in, it genuinely feels like a super power. It’s pretty much given me a career; but also just pure enjoyment from creating and making.
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by louthy 6mo ago
> It's not about attention deficit per se I've always considered it Too Much Attention Disorder . The way I like to think about it is that neurotypical people have a beam of light shining out in front of them, wherever they tu
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by louthy 6mo ago
I’m in Europe. I use it as part of Apple CarPlay for all my navigation and I think it’s much better than Google Maps (for car navigation, at least)

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