Its a ponzi scheme based of pretty basic programming techniques.
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My grandma's explanation for high divorce rates was. "If these women cooked a nice tea every night for there husbands, you wouldn't have this problem". God bless her, she was a star".
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Back in the day all you had to do was have a job and you got a woman. Now you have to do annoying **** like pretending what they’re saying is interesting.
Guess it was only a matter of time before the coffee/avocado toast argument ******** arrived
But....£3 a pint
Sausage, bacon and black pudding cost more than an Avocado
I bloody love avocados on toast.
I don't concern myself with the cartels and under age kids used to grow them. They probably get paid loads.
I don't concern myself with the cartels and under age kids used to grow them. They probably get paid loads.
That's true. As far as ethical foods go, avocados are more damaging to everything than nearly every other food
Reform UK councillors obstructed by officials, Nigel Farage says
The Reform leader tells the BBC his councillors are being "hamstrung" by existing bureaucracies.
www.bbc.co.uk
Sound familiar?
Teenagers being shot by Israeli soldiers – British surgeon in Gaza
We spoke to Nick Maynard - a British gastrointestinal surgeon, who is currently in Gaza, working at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis.
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A 19 year old in charge of a council... Laughable. He would have next to no real world experience. So Reforms idea of "common sense" politics is to put a kid in charge of a council.Reform UK councillors obstructed by officials, Nigel Farage says
The Reform leader tells the BBC his councillors are being "hamstrung" by existing bureaucracies.
Sound familiar?
Probably just the person with the lowest number of racist tweets in his posting history
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You'd imagine that would be a negative to reform.
No matter what, in any organisation of you have someone half your age and with 1/10th your experience swan in and tell you how to do things, you'd tell them to go **** themselves.
Unless there on an accelerated promotion scheme or similar. Police officer to inspector in two years.
Granted uniform services is a different world.
Still a few friends and family in the NHS say some young doctors can be absolute pricks, and some senior consultants have House like God complexes.
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Except this is more like someone joining the police force straight as inspector or chief with no prior experience and still finishing up puberty.
You can have no experience and be just out of puberty and have the right to vote now. So I can't see why you can't have a role in government. Cambridgeshire has a 22yo Labour MP , Harlow have a 22yo council leader for example.
Don't get me wrong I think 19 is probably too young, but then I think 22 is as well. Yet i also think well what age is good enough, and why can't they. As I've said before experience doesn't always equal competence.
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If you're going to put an "I feel that" age on it - the human brain isn't fully developed until about 24-ish; with the last part to finish developing being the pre-frontal cortex, which is the part that assesses risk : reward, delayed gratification, and "doing the thing that's hard, but right". Out of interest (and my bias), that's all the time of skeletal maturity, when your bones finish fusing (a few odd exceptions that don't carry much load).
TBH, we see this all the time in sport. However physically fit someone may be at 20; your peak years are going to be 24-30; when your body will be as strong as it's ever going to be, and your brain is as high-functioning as it's ever going to be.
Which doesn't mean that there's no pre-frontal cortex until your mid-20s, in the same way it doesn't spontaneously degenerate at 30; that's just peak function.
We are actively programmed to risk-take and make bad decisions in adolescence; which is a supposedly safe time with adult supervision - if we throw a spear at the wrong animal in the rift valley; then we've got help to bail us out - and we learn from that experience, and both A] don't repeat it, B] accept that the next bunch of adolescents will make the same mistake, and C] know what the grown-arse adults did to save our scrawny backside.
For further reading, I'd recommend "Behave" by Robert Sapolsky (specifically, chapter 6)
ETA1: For me, personally, if a 16 year old is old enough to be a parent, old enough to join the military, and old enough to pay taxes, then they're also old enough to vote. They won't be the only ones making bad decisions at the ballot box; and most of them probably won't turn up anyway (which is no reason whatsoever to deny the right to those that will)
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Water companies to be overseen by new watchdog to 'prevent abuses of the past', government says - live updates
A review into England and Wales' water sector has issued 88 recommendations, which one campaign group criticised as "putting lipstick on a pig".
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Sounds like a damp squid that will change very little. The problem is that these private companies have a monopoly. No government or regulator will hold them fully accountable because they are too afraid the companies will just call it quits and that will lead to a bigger crisis. As soon as the government ruled out nationalisation as an option the report was always going to be a waste of time.
Here's his summary (I've read the book, watched the Sandford Lectures, but not watched this full video)
Dammit, hit "quote", not "edit"
For the record - I'd also recommend that chapter explicitly, for just about any teacher, and any parent
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Can they afford nationalism of the water industry. I'm sure I read some where it would be 50bn plus before you started tackling the problems.Water companies to be overseen by new watchdog to 'prevent abuses of the past', government says - live updates
A review into England and Wales' water sector has issued 88 recommendations, which one campaign group criticised as "putting lipstick on a pig".
Sounds like a damp squid that will change very little. The problem is that these private companies have a monopoly. No government or regulator will hold them fully accountable because they are too afraid the companies will just call it quits and that will lead to a bigger crisis. As soon as the government ruled out nationalisation as an option the report was always going to be a waste of time.
Various governments keep these companies as they basically can't afford it
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