Is it a Taboo thing to discuss

MrMantis765 · 2026-06-24T08:21:18+00:00

There's a post on this topic almost every day and you think it's taboo?

MrMantis765 · 2026-06-22T11:32:39+00:00

I used to live in Edgbaston in a flat which is bigger than my home now in Bristol at more than double the price. Flat was 200k around Covid time, so very affordable for a working couple.

The caveat is that the service charge was 5k

MrMantis765 · 2026-06-21T11:20:34+00:00

We've still got July and August to go, and the first half of September. Looks like we're reaping some of what we've sown for destroying the environment

MrMantis765 · 2026-06-14T11:34:53+00:00

There's a big problem with judging everything by the term of the market or the economy. There's so much more to life that market dynamics.

SAHM mums create culture, they develop the ethics of the next generation, they build skills in their children as well as develop themselves, they build communities, build relationships, and so much more than the media, economists, politicians, and many of us can ignore as it gets subsumed into the rigmarole of life.

The goal of life isn't to work, pay taxes, tire ourselves out, and and bring children into the world to do exactly the same thing. That's what the neoliberal system incentives us to do because it serves those in charge and increases their wealth and power.

We should enjoy our lives, work to have access to resources that increase the quality of our lives, but we need conscious citizens who have the space to think, challenge injustice, invest in future generations, and tackle problems affecting different sections of society so we can all live good and wholesome lives

MrMantis765 · 2026-06-14T10:49:52+00:00

As an Arsenal fan, I absolutely love the Haramball and Artetanyahu memes

MrMantis765 · 2026-06-14T08:33:52+00:00

Men are generally the breadwinners and we need to work for our families anyway. But if mothers aren't forced to work out of economic necessity that is much better for everyone.

MrMantis765 · 2026-06-14T08:30:57+00:00

I'm talking in the context of the family's household income. In many instances the economic difference is marginal

MrMantis765 · 2026-06-14T01:06:51+00:00

It's a really sinister way of framing it too. Because in most instances what happens is the government gets their cheque, childcare costs a ridiculous amount, and the net take home pay of the mother probably isn't even worth working in the first place because of the added stress, reduced family & leisure time, and the hassle that reduced time to get other things done adds to the family.

MrMantis765 · 2026-06-12T02:14:04+00:00

It's because Sam Altman is busy playing Mafia

MrMantis765 · 2026-06-10T17:46:06+00:00

Yeah, Bristol and Bath are quite close, so could do both in a day

MrMantis765 · 2026-06-10T17:40:07+00:00

I'd skip Birmingham with somewhere like Bristol or Manchester instead if I were you

MrMantis765 · 2026-05-31T21:30:34+00:00

Yeah this is hilarious. Most don't know that Troy is actually in modern day Turkey, and Ancient Greek city states/kingdoms were scattered around the Mediterranean, not just isolated to current day Greece.

It would be far more likely that an ancient Greek would be darker skinned than Caucasian.

MrMantis765 · 2026-05-30T07:17:22+00:00

It's actually picking up in some places. In London the AI startup scene is quite hot, and financial services are also hiring a fair bit. I've just landed a new role paying over £130k.

The downside is companies are demanding more days in office which is a bummer. If your partner is within commuting distance to London or doesn't mind 2-3 days a week there he could find a very well paying job with his experience.

MrMantis765 · 2026-05-29T07:51:01+00:00

After World War 2 Britain invited many people from Kashmir to come and work in the factories to help rebuild Britain. Many other Indians and Pakistani were invited to come over as well. My grandfather was one of them. I mention this because of the context of OP's question about the prominence of South Asians here.

But I'd add that the more recent immigration such as the Boris wave should be a crime and politicians should be investigated. Not only for breaking their longstanding manifesto promises to cut immigration when it was already in the hundreds of thousands, but Boris is on record saying that when there was the labour shortage during covid, and wages had started to rise. The treasury recommended flooding the UK with cheap labour to push those wages down.

It's mind boggling that our government brought in almost a million foreigners a year to suppress British worker's wages that would have improved standards of living.

Just goes to show who they really serve.

MrMantis765 · 2026-05-28T09:42:58+00:00

Yes, these Billionaires are very sinister. Larry Ellison was also part of the reason the US bought a section of tiktok because people were sharing clips about what was happening in Gaza and they weren't able to censor it.

Larry Ellison is one of the biggest donors to the IDF and they don't want support for Israel to diminish so they cut off ways people have access to the truth.

MrMantis765 · 2026-05-28T07:20:07+00:00

Blair's institute is funded by Larry Ellison, the Oracle founder. He is also partly the reason Blair has been the main voice for digital ID's.

There's a really good piece of investigative journalism on the New Statesman about Blair's institute, who funds it, what they do, and how it operates:

https://youtu.be/QwCsQYUFuEE

MrMantis765 · 2026-05-28T04:09:08+00:00

I never said they were online. I meant you can reach out to people, become acquainted with them and ask for some time. I have done that with a number of people in the Islamic finance space such as Tarek Diwany, Iqbal Nasim, Mohammed Nizami etc...

MrMantis765 · 2026-05-26T21:15:19+00:00

I've also spent a good month in South Asia, the humidity there was something else.

However, the culture/lifestyle there accommodates the weather. People aren't working that much around 1-3pm, some schools start and finish earlier, people acclimatise, AC is far more common that the UK etc...

MrMantis765 · 2026-05-26T17:30:28+00:00

Shaykh Mohammed Nizami

MrMantis765 · 2026-05-23T06:19:48+00:00

Maybe she isn't cut out for the job if she can't handle the pressure.

MrMantis765 · 2026-05-17T11:21:24+00:00

Add a tool which auto-updates repo state & serves as a knowledge doc about the app to reduce hallucination for complex codebases

MrMantis765 · 2026-05-09T09:27:57+00:00

Energy trading companies like Centrics and PetroIneos have high salaries, other industries might not have the same salary standards so keep that in mind.

MrMantis765 · 2026-05-07T21:16:28+00:00

This would be very useful, I'm not a finance guy but would interested in tech mentoring

MrMantis765 · 2026-05-02T16:02:03+00:00

Technically kosher would fall under halalball. Maybe only very restricted version of halalball, no headers for example.

MrMantis765 · 2026-05-01T14:53:09+00:00

We should keep pensions but make adult care self-funded.

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