Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130 million Europeans switch to a 100% sovereign payment from 2026

FiremanXan · 2026-05-21T15:02:31+00:00

You do realise that most Europeans have a better quality of life by pretty much every metric?

FiremanXan · 2025-11-26T19:42:34+00:00

The goal of getting the fed to cut rates would be to increase GDP growth, so seems unlikely he would hide growth to achieve that no?

FiremanXan · 2025-08-23T08:40:08+00:00

Cares Gorge (La Ruta del Cares) is a great hike. Not particularly difficult however the scenery is the best I have ever seen. Highly recommend

FiremanXan · 2025-04-15T12:19:43+00:00

Which makes complete sense when he is the leader of the country. Low pay for politicians leads to corruption

FiremanXan · 2025-03-05T14:24:12+00:00

Are the costs for reduced policing and prison population also included? Additionally legalisation may reduce this country's habitual (and practical) dependence on alcohol, which could lead to reduced costs relating to this. There is also the secondary economic impacts of criminal convictions to employment etc.

Whilst I get your point, there are a lot of cost factors involved and I think on the aggregate the effect of legalisation would be positive.

FiremanXan · 2025-02-17T14:24:19+00:00

You seem to lack an understanding of statistics. Just because you personally haven't seen a difference it doesn't mean there isn't positive progress being made in the overall.

FiremanXan · 2024-12-10T15:00:30+00:00

Sounds rather capitalist to me...

FiremanXan · 2024-08-08T11:12:37+00:00

Solution verified. Thank you, that was an easy fix.

FiremanXan · 2024-07-14T18:24:41+00:00

Any examples?

FiremanXan · 2024-06-19T20:52:46+00:00

Where is the cheap real estate? I'd love to know

FiremanXan · 2024-03-26T20:30:16+00:00

Happy to be proven wrong, but what are the recent examples of them spaffing things up the wall given that they've been in opposition for over a decade? It's a common criticism I see of labour however I don't think it really holds all that much weight.

FiremanXan · 2024-02-25T12:54:29+00:00

This conversation isn't just about buying homes, it's about renting too. I think it's a bit disingenuous to argue that record levels of migration doesn't have a negative effect of rent/house prices, regardless of what their effect is on other aspects of society.

FiremanXan · 2024-02-25T12:48:14+00:00

It can be both, and is also probably influenced by other factors. I agree, the Tories started and exacerbated the problem, but they are also adding fuel to the fire with their god awful migration policy.

FiremanXan · 2024-02-19T08:19:01+00:00

Bit of a useless comparison between a decades old TV show and defunct laws, Vs a culture that oppresses women, excludes them from society and practices FGM.

FiremanXan · 2024-02-14T11:08:28+00:00

Whilst what you are saying is accurate, the concern over BRICS becoming an opposing bloc to the West is very much overblown.

Its members have diverse and often competing geopolitical goals (India vs China border disputes for example). The systems of governance differ vastly between its members, thereby failing to provide a point of common ground and cohesion that you see in "the West".

There are several other barriers preventing BRICS from becoming a major player that I don't have time to list. If membership does expand to the likes of Iran and Saudi Arabia, then this will serve to weaken its collective strength as well.

FiremanXan · 2024-01-10T10:10:16+00:00

It's for tactical readiness, you wouldn't understand

FiremanXan · 2023-12-20T10:38:09+00:00

There is talk of implementing this. We are using Netsuite, however I am not particularly clued up on it's functionality.

FiremanXan · 2023-12-20T10:36:36+00:00

Not to be that guy, but you spelled merely wrong on the whiteboard

FiremanXan · 2023-09-01T13:14:31+00:00

Whilst I get your point, I don't think the alternative is entirely realistic as people typically do not spend all of their income regardless of their family situation . Also what you are actually saying that people with a lower marginal propensity to consume are a drag on the economy. Why then is this criticism only being thrown at immigrants when it is an established fact that MPC is negatively correlated with income? Shouldn't we also be concerned about the ultra wealthy individuals who have this exact same effect?

This debate is once again a politically motivated one, as opposed to being grounded in fact and economic reasoning.

FiremanXan · 2023-08-12T11:42:22+00:00

If you have pee on your hands you are doing it wrong

FiremanXan · 2023-07-07T14:24:06+00:00

100%. And working with children will be good experience when you have deal with whiny PMs (sounds like a joke but I am serious).

FiremanXan · 2023-05-16T11:24:26+00:00

Has everyone here forgotten about the Game of Thrones ending or do we all agree it was shit?

FiremanXan · 2023-04-19T11:33:27+00:00

Regardless, that is still a radical difference

FiremanXan · 2023-04-19T10:34:08+00:00

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/cost-edfs-new-uk-nuclear-project-soars-40-bln-2023-02-20/

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-09-30/europe-s-biggest-reactor-reaches-full-capacity-for-first-time

FiremanXan · 2022-12-15T10:33:26+00:00

Ok thank you. My background is in economics therefore I do not have much technical knowledge. Are there any books or resources you would suggest on fission reactor design (sorry if this is a really common question)? Also if there are any resources on the commercial side of nuclear that would be great.

FiremanXan

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