It’s important to know that the social media ban for under 16s is not a ban for under 16s.
It is a ban on *selected* social media for EVERYONE. Until you identify yourself.
Poor math...
Who is getting richer?
Who is getting poorer?
Largely, the top 10 - 20% of the wealthiest in the country will be fine - wealthy via assets.
If you do not get yourself into this group, you are going to continue to get materially poorer.
The math is very simple - inflation will continue, not the CPI number, that is bullshit. If your wage growth is not 7-12% a year, you are going to get poorer every year.
It will be slow and hard to notice at times, but dinner out, holidays etc... you'll be cutting back.
Inflation will continue as none of the leading parties have the knowledge or desire to fix it - also none of you will vote for what fixes it.
“Modern man is in a terrible predicament. He is helplessly enamored with the beauty of what the old world built, yet despises the beliefs that inspired them to build it.”
—Jeremey Wayne Tate
If you work hard at school, you can go to university, where if you study hard, you’ll get a degree which will get you a good job. Work long hours and you’ll be able to afford a little place an hour and a half’s commute from work in London. You’ll struggle to pay your bills of course, but you can bask in the warm glow of satisfaction of knowing that your taxes are supporting a family who’ve just arrived from Pakistan who can now live without working, in a flat right in the centre of London.
I’m turning 41, but I don’t feel like celebrating.
Our generation is running out of time to save the free Internet built for us by our fathers.
What was once the promise of the free exchange of information is being turned into the ultimate tool of control.
Once-free countries are introducing dystopian measures such as digital IDs (UK), online age checks (Australia), and mass scanning of private messages (EU).
Germany is persecuting anyone who dares to criticize officials on the Internet. The UK is imprisoning thousands for their tweets. France is criminally investigating tech leaders who defend freedom and privacy.
A dark, dystopian world is approaching fast — while we’re asleep. Our generation risks going down in history as the last one that had freedoms — and allowed them to be taken away.
We’ve been fed a lie.
We’ve been made to believe that the greatest fight of our generation is to destroy everything our forefathers left us: tradition, privacy, sovereignty, the free market, and free speech.
By betraying the legacy of our ancestors, we’ve set ourselves on a path toward self-destruction — moral, intellectual, economic, and ultimately biological.
So no, I’m not going to celebrate today. I’m running out of time. WE are running out of time.
You’re telling me that 60 million buffalo and tens of millions of other wild ruminants roaming America 300 years ago had no effect on the climate, but grass-fed cattle are destroying the world?
This 1 ton rock contains between 0.6 and 1 per cent of copper. One ton of ore generates a maximum 6 to 10 kilograms of copper. Depending on the size of battery, an electric bus can use between 224 and 369 kg of copper. How do we get the copper out of the rock? Mining 🧵
If I was prime minister I would answer each question with "your mum" then shove the despatch box off the desk and offer the opposition's top boy out for a straightener in parliament Square. No weapons.
Neil Oliver: 'We are no longer being treated as individuals entitled to try and make the most of our lives – but as a barn full of battery hens, just another product to be bought and sold – sold down the river.'
In the coming months western nations are going to find out just how undemocratic their countries really are. For many it will be a reality too painful to bear.