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Two lists we shouldn't be happy about topping: the cost of housing and the cost of beer. https://t.co/XYPYqXN6E5
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Because the state has been hollowed out so much it can’t fix anything that needs fixing. So this rubbish is all politicians have to fill their time with.
Why are Western politicians focused on shit like this that nobody fucking cares about while doing fuckall to fix things that people actually care about like access to housing?
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The year is 2065, the rate of income tax has just been increased again to 96% in another attempt to keep the triple lock in place.
My Sunday Times piece: Sacred cows like the pension triple lock and the long freeze on fuel duty help explain why other taxes are having to go up: Taxes are going up, and the pension triple lock is one of the reasons https://t.co/V85HFzIyf3
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Top insight from @FukuyamaFrancis when talking to @JosephNWalker:
plenty more of this on the way. populations dominated by old people are going to be a massive blocker to innovation and progress.
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plenty more of this on the way. populations dominated by old people are going to be a massive blocker to innovation and progress.
@JerusalemDemsas @inflectionptswk @michaelkoziol @theage @smh What does it mean that these old people don’t want a new surf club? What does it say about a society, when the old are, time and time again, gating opportunity and resources from the young?
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Tensions flare /ˈtɛnʃᵊnz fleə/ noun: Some old people signed a petition.
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ok, maybe he should get the Nobel Prize
🔥 The U.S. has been helping Ukraine carry out long-range strikes on Russian energy facilities and oil refineries for several months Washington shares intelligence and assists in mission planning, Financial Times reports. Three sources told that Ukraine chooses the targets,
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Could apply this to so many app subs now. Even My Fitness Pal is $29 a month.
Are there really that many people that pay for Strava subscription? For almost as much as a Netflix subscription I can find out how much slower and less fit I am than other people on my running route? Oh yay!
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This is exactly my problem. Tech arrives as an option and ends up as an obligation. As an option, it is mostly benign. As an obligation, it is frequently exclusionary or just plain annoying.
I have an elderly friend who is in her 80s. She lives in Cornwall. Mary is very switched on but she struggles with new technology a bit - especially parking apps. All she wants to do is put her car in a space for a couple of hours and pay. She does not want to sign up for a
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A person has died in Queensland, after taking a teddybear-shaped pill, that looked like well known MDMA/ecstasy , but contained the deadly synthetic opioid protonitazene This was an entirely avoidable tragedy born of prohibition & political hostility to drug checking 🧵1/
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Love this piece on the joy of living in London as a child but could apply to many major cities. This part particularly on point. https://t.co/iVnZaGYc1h
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'Constitutional challenge to social media ban is on the cards, and teen activists could be the key' https://t.co/RsZ4miasW8
abc.net.au
A constitutional fight is brewing over Australia's world-first social media ban, according to top legal scholars.
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Yep. Libs are considered out of touch because they used some silly language/etc for a few years, but I’ve met DOZENS of right-wing people *in real life* who think the images from the worst day of summer 2020 have been the nonstop reality of many cities since. Brains = fried.
@jwilcox79 Boomers devouring social media slop about cities are now running the joint. Plenty more years of this ahead.
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One week into my switch from a Max phone to a normal size one and am not regretting my decision. Am pretty much used to smaller screen now but the lightness of the new phone is what makes it worthwhile. Doubt I’ll go back to Max.
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Not good
Global share of people aged 65+ grown in past 25 years from 6.8% to 10.4% & projected to reach 16.3% by 2050. Number of people reaching 65 years (‘old’) projected to increase from 421.8m to 1.6 bn, and those reaching 85 (‘oldest old’) from 29.9m to 215.6m https://t.co/OY1xPwYLIV
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Kinda reflects the new reality that is no longer left v right but authoritarian v open/ liberal
UK becomes a two-party system of Reform and LibDems, finally completing their transformation into USA Jr.
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If anyone knows peace it’s these guys
Trump has secured official backing from Russia to give him the Nobel peace prize. Yuri Ushakov, Putin’s foreign policy advisor, says the Kremlin would welcome a Trump win and rubbishes Zelensky’s suggestion the US should give Ukraine Tomahawk missiles first.
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