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Smoking, like cash, will soon be obsolete for younger generations – politicalbetting.com
Smoking, like cash, will soon be obsolete for younger generations – politicalbetting.com
MPs have voted to ban smoking for those born after 2008 – our survey last year found that Britons supported such a move by 71% to 17%https://t.co/bE7A5hYPEw pic.twitter.com/SUGmxMTUAt
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Nothing about Russia's 40% of GDP on war production is sustainable.
The Russian economy is heading for a cliff edge. Putin is Wile E Coyote, having strapped himself to a rocket that ploughs straight over that cliff.
Then lands on him.
Today - 27th November $1 = 113.14 Roubles
Half a month...
Maybe Trump will buy roubles?
Note; I haven't smoked for 60 years.
https://x.com/g4ryc33/status/1861755149984674187
JOKE
Shocking treatment (again) of vulnerable kids
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2024/nov/27/watchdog-appalled-restraint-autistic-children-london-school
Thought we'd got past the "isolation room" stage.
We will be the only country in the world now, I think, trying this (NZ backed out). Maybe it is worth a shot but let's hope they review it if it has the absolute opposite effect as you note.
In short, having a lot of cash is not only going to attract the attention of undesirables but the authorities as well.
The knock on effect means anybody going to Edinburgh or Glasgow with be delayed in their journey by over an hour.
Which means they get their ticket fully refunded. Huge cost to the rail network for that one sad event.
The habit of exhaling a huge amount of smoke in the direction of any passerby is obnoxious.
The sight of a car in front filling up with smoke at traffic lights deeply disturbing.
I hope any ban on "smoking" includes vapes.
Cocktails at £15 or so a shot and pricey lagers aren't really my thing.
Trump needs "epistemic humility, as Hayek called it". The US economy is incredible complex.
Washington Post columnist George Will on the Bulwark video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMcyzYCUg4s
Terrible for the drivers and those dealing with the aftermath
NOTES
Actually watching it
They also have specialist cleaning teams who deal with the aftermath. However it was not unknown for them to miss stuff. When I worked in depot maintenance on the Underground heard more than once about a body part being found on the train in depot.
(narrator: viewcode is a statistician who works in an office and has never committed a crime that would be tried in Crown Court or higher)
https://youtu.be/3RzOdb7AKvM?si=7xDHJabdz398Zdyu
What we do have is plenty of investigations and ample evidence that Christian conversion is beinf widely abused to bolster asylum claims: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13036735/Acid-attacker-Abdul-Ezedi-clapham-asylum-seeker-christianity.html
If such legal cases are winning asylum claims (and they are) it is surely obtuse to suggest that others are not doing so. Oh the cash, cash travelling life, the travelling life for me...
source: https://patterico.com/2024/11/22/weekend-open-thread-253/#comment-2828331
I used to dread commuting in January because that was always the month when someone would take a life-ending course of action on the railway. South Western Railway put in "suicide gates" (basically preventing anyone accessing the platforms used only by fast trains) on a lot of the stations but they can't put them on all such as Woking or Surbiton and the occasional incident still happens.
The train companies have protocols which are meant to minimise delays (and do to be honest) but dealing with something like that isn't something I'd wish on anyone.
On a tangent, Mrs Stodge had an unfortunate incident at Westfield Stratford today and I was left incandescent (she's fine by the way). I'm tired of companies cutting corners just to save money, I'm tired of profit being the only acceptable motive in human affairs. I discovered basic medical attention to be absent at a venue used by thousands of people on a daily basis.
There's security and I get that but sometimes incidents can be more than missing children or stolen phones and to have not even the basic infrastructure to cope with falls, cardiac issues and basic accidents is just unforgiveable in this day and age but the company who runs Westfield clearly only care about their bottom line, their profit, how much money they can make.
I also discovered there are plenty of decent people out there who will help in a time of crisis and that gives me a lot of optimism for the future.
A war on wars on stuff?
https://x.com/austen/status/1861638586573169043
Cashless establishments are still in the minority. And if you're prepared to pay by card you can always jump the queue in Sainsburys and Tesco because the number of cars only tills always outweighs the number of customers in the queue willing to use them.
https://x.com/ElectionMapsUK/status/1861843155974291767?t=nq2aywwVrVszzQ0dzL-IiQ&s=19
Tahir Ali MP: "will the Prime Minister commit to introducing measures to prohibit the desecration of all religious texts and the prophets of the Abrahamic religions"
Alarmingly Keir Starmer's response is not a flat out refusal. Blasphemy laws have no place in the UK.
https://nitter.poast.org/lara_e_brown/status/1861755453287370780#m
(Notably he says the UN human rights council adopted a resolution 'condemning' desecretion of texts, which sounds very different to his proposal of 'prohibiting' desecretion. Condemning rather than criminalising it)
It's a weird week for prioritising or ignoring personal choice on different matters.
https://x.com/hellothisisivan/status/1861532506698248551?s=61
(And, in any case, isn't that an argument against cash?)
Cash is, after all, pointless.
Conversely, my 20s and very early 30s in retrospect felt like I was treading water without any obvious route forward. Plenty of present, which was not unpleasant, but no obvious route to a future. Life didn't really get going for me until I met my now wife when I was 31.
I'd have loved to find some way to marry (and breed) earlier, but as I didn't actually find the woman of my dreams until I was 31 I havr no regrets about waiting. We got on with it as quickly as we could...
Labour List has:
For 83
Against 52
Election Maps has:
For 103 (+ 11 likely For)
Against 85 (+13 likely Against)
NEWS: Two unnamed Nissan executives said the company has "12 to 14 months to survive."
Nissan cut more than 9,000 jobs earlier this month, while simultaneously slashing production by nearly 20%. Nissan's operating profit dropped 85% in Q3.
Most people have a more nuanced attitude to cash
See John Healey's contribution here:
https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2024-10-14/debates/136147B8-B022-4143-BEA0-270BB4B089DD/RussiaArmedForces
For comparison, during the Korean War, we were spending about 11% of our GDP on defence, falling to 7%, about Russia's level today, in 1959, and the 1950s were a time of growing prosperity here and in the US, which spent similar amounts. These levels are eminently affordable in the short and medium term, even if the usual caveats about Russian statistics apply. To get up to 40-50% you need to go back to the Second World War.
https://www.ukpublicspending.co.uk/uk_national_defence_analysis
He may find it difficult to maintain the standard of living for the Russian masses, i.e. to have both guns and butter, but even there, the evidence is ambiguous, since working class Russians are benefiting hugely from high salaries in the military - if they survive - and booming wages due to a shortage of labour.
It won't be economic pressure, or sanctions, that break Putin's will - it will be Ukrainian men smashing his armies with Western weapons on the fields of Donetsk, Luhansk and Zaporizhe. Which is why we need to supply as many powerful weapons as possible as soon as possible, or reconcile ourselves to a Russian victory, with all the consequent disasters for the free world.
Of these three only the first is any good.