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Savings Graph Pointer for a small bank. Exeter and Southern Mississippi PPE. Fiscally Irresponsible Socially Liberal

[Omar Elayat @oelayat]

Just Eat's rollout of AI menu photos is going flawlessly

[RB @braddders72]

@RedRiverCries '23 should have been Engand by 4-0 or at least 3-1 without stoooopid cricket - Edgbaston declaration was absolutely criminal and then the procession to short balls at Lords.

I'm not sure England win in 25/26 but it's a lot closer if they had played like competent professionals

[John Wills @johndotwills]

Interesting factoid that dropped out of the analysis- On average the Zone 2 tenant gains about £4.7k per child and the Zone 6 renter loses about £3.6k, so the gap in earnings closes by about £8.3k per child. The effect accelerates, so it isn't linear, but we are disincentivising kids in high income households but massively encouraging them in low/no income homes.

[DAISY CUTTER @daisycutterzine]

what if we all decided to exclusively call it the Taliban Premier League, would that generate enough shame

[RB @braddders72]

stamp duty - a terrible way to collect tax on property as it clearly reduces transactions and therefore distorts the distribution of housing space. whatever the tax level on land/housing that the politician thinks is right, collect it through annual levies not a transaction tax

[RB @braddders72]

Triple Lock & Stamp Duty are shining examples that quality of politician is a vital factor in the political system + we need ours to step up. both are rubbish policy and a decent leader should be able to take enough of the public with that *nearly any* change is an improvement

[RB @braddders72]

3🔒- public pension should *either* provide a set standard of living so link it to prices or be linked to wages and provide replacement income based on what someone in work would earn. Pick one and make the case for it. Not a weird erratic escalator with no end point

[RB @braddders72]

@WulfrunianChris The amount of train they have is based of what was ordered and based on passenger numbers in the late 1990s (!) and because our railway is hilariously inefficient as feck the company operates at a loss (!?!) so paying for more yards of train for them isn't a government priority.

[HSBC UK @HSBC_UK]

@ajarrodkimber Hi Jarrod, I'm sorry to hear you have lost your cricket ground. So we can investigate this further can you please DM us by clicking the 'Send a private message'. Thank you. -Meg https://t.co/OCvB5tjRBZ

[RB @braddders72]

@admcollingwood if they are correct about the mechanism - "we are too good at keeping very sick children alive" is, at best, uncomfortable ground i'd suggest.

[RB @braddders72]

@admcollingwood because they require a lot of support to be 'out n about' - even at a specialist school - and it pushes the next neediest cohort out into mainstream education which chaos havoc when the mainstream systems aren't expecting to need to such a level of support their neediest cohort

[RB @braddders72]

@BernoulliDefect Cricket trying the same with the Hundred franchises

[Dial Square @ConceptArsenal]

@JDtalking1 In my experience, cricket fans always worry the game is dying and are thrilled to see new fans. I'm working class scum and never felt out of place at the Oval.

If you honestly think it's an age/class/gender thing, imagine this in the Premier League:

[RB @braddders72]

To be more than 20k/50k/100k miles behind on your tax.

Ultimately if someone is determined not to pay car related taxes they will need court enforcement at somepoint which would (a) be no different to now and (b) you always have the option of impound the car

[RB @braddders72]

I really don't understand the kerfuffle about the taxing EVs per mile being unworkable.

For a starters it's a simple IT project to add the miles of tax paid up on a car to the existing publicly available MOT/Tax checker website.

[RB @braddders72]

Past 3yrs you make it an MOT requirement to settle to the MOT mileage and inside 3yrs any liability would be less than the notional value of the car in all but a tiny number of edge cases so will be paid. 3p a mile 250k miles is £7,500. But you could also make it an offence

[RB @braddders72]

Are we interested in fixing this? Absolutely not.

<Our problems are bad but the causes are very good meme>

[RB @braddders72]

Im not quite as far radicalised as OP, yet, but: to the extent *a* shift in the young:old ratio in society is understood as ongoing and to continue -but people are bad at maths and haven't a clue just how far it's going to swing and OP's vibe will get worse before it gets better

[Bowtied German || 🐓 @bowtiedgerman]

After traveling with young kids a lot recently and experiencing airports in a whole new way, it’s clear our society staunchly prioritizes “seniors” over families with young children and I have become a single issue voter on reversing this hierarchy

[RB @braddders72]

Chart is for the UK - we've had ~30years where the share O65 and U15 has been trending O65 but been vibes of 1:1.
The next two decades is when O65 dominating gets baked and we exit vibes of 1:1