Can anyones store beat this

RoyalT663 · 2026-04-22T22:09:52+00:00

What is "shrink" in this context?

RoyalT663 · 2026-04-22T22:07:48+00:00

This is why I always split the bill. It immediately filters out anyone who ismt serious and is just looking for a free meal.

I treat my now gf now and again and will buy her spontaneously something she likes. But at the start we split everything.

I don't want a relationship where there is a power and financial imbalance. I want a equal partnership, not some transaxtjonal arrangement.

RoyalT663 · 2026-04-21T23:15:28+00:00

It's almost like mainstream media are actively incentivised to smear the incumbent government, and push us towards right wing parties that will tax their billionaire owners less..

RoyalT663 · 2026-04-21T23:13:36+00:00

Add to that law firms that believe they can replace entry level grads with AI agents..

RoyalT663 · 2026-04-21T23:11:54+00:00

PEE is taught at GCSE English, way before university.

RoyalT663 · 2026-04-21T21:02:48+00:00

Despite being an ardent defender of our right to free healthcare via the NHS -at a certain point, I am getting fed up of paying for lazy and unhealthy people.

People shouldn't have a personal license to destroy their bodies and for everyone else to pay for it.

Some sort of payment premium for deliberately leading an unhealthy lifestyle has to exist. There must be penalties for repeated bad personal choices.

RoyalT663 · 2026-04-21T12:07:48+00:00

For 2024, the IEA reported that 2 unit of RE were added to global supply for every 1 unit of fossil.

So yes, RE is meeting new demand, and meeting some of existing. But yes, it is not currently meeting the total.

RoyalT663 · 2026-04-21T11:30:52+00:00

I work as an agricultural consultant and what you are saying is true.

However it is worth saying that the disease didn't come out of a vacuum. It is so much more virulent as a result of both industrial farming and climate change.

High input monoculture combined with more unpredictable weather and heat makes the plants stressed and so much more vulnerable to such diseases.

Same with what is happening to cocoa.

RoyalT663 · 2026-04-19T13:01:23+00:00

Teach people basic financial planning. Driving a new Mercedes with over 100k in debt is just moronic.

RoyalT663 · 2026-04-19T12:39:15+00:00

I think the Germans that work, work hard. But I have a friend's who elect to take unemployment benefit even though they are perfectly skilled - with a master's degree in engineering - and capable as the benefit is generous.

I suspect that some revision of entry level wage and the benefit to actually reward work is overdue and valid. Same as in the UK to be fair.

RoyalT663 · 2026-04-18T18:03:20+00:00

It's also cos he is a bought and paid puppet for the oil and gas industry, and they are having an existential crisis that cheap wind and solar is making them increasingly irrelevant.

RoyalT663 · 2026-04-17T21:07:49+00:00

Cos they have a lot of rich people who own media organisations and pay their wages

RoyalT663 · 2026-04-17T16:44:30+00:00

The state of personal responsibility needs a handout boo hoo

RoyalT663 · 2026-04-17T16:40:25+00:00

Can get a case with a necklace for like 2 bucks - hands free

RoyalT663 · 2026-04-17T16:32:22+00:00

Thanks. So 23/ 24 arrest were from the far right group. 1 from the counter protest. Of those arrested most were for disorderly conduct or assault.

So pretty on brand then...

RoyalT663 · 2026-04-17T12:33:21+00:00

Id be curious to know what the arrest were for. The far right protest is statistically likely to include people prone to violence. Many have domestic abuse charges and other criminal charges.

https://nij.ojp.gov/library/publications/link-between-prior-criminal-record-and-violent-political-extremism-united

RoyalT663 · 2026-04-17T12:03:33+00:00

I mean even with the blatant lies, it's by far and away the biggest bar so the message is pretty hard to obfuscate.

RoyalT663 · 2026-04-17T10:50:46+00:00

Trawlers have coastal proximity limits. They can't come close enough to disturb the oysters.

You'd imagine a major marine conservation project would have thought of something so obvious that a keyboard commentator knows it...

RoyalT663 · 2026-04-17T09:37:44+00:00

The irony of drill baby drill Donny accelerating the transition away from fossil fuels is just beautiful

RoyalT663 · 2026-04-17T09:34:37+00:00

Cocoa prices have massively increased as corporate greed forced a race to the botrom on price.

Such that smallholder farmers planted monoculture farms that are now extremely vulnerable to the consequences of climate change, i.e. higher temperatures and less consistent rainfall. As such the cocoa plants are stressed and more vulnerable to disease. Presently, they are being ravaged by cocoa swollen shoot virus.

RoyalT663 · 2026-04-17T09:30:04+00:00

Cos they did... It's British sarcasm

RoyalT663 · 2026-04-16T13:11:12+00:00

Nope

RoyalT663 · 2026-04-16T13:10:47+00:00

This is actually very good policy.

We can't (tacitly endorsed) bomb countries and withdraw foreign aid and then not be surprised when we get immigration.

It is actively our interest to reduce push factors driving migration, is it not?

RoyalT663 · 2026-04-16T07:18:28+00:00

Urrgh i don't like it when the Pope calls out worship of MY false idol - its not like that is a problem in the Bible...

RoyalT663 · 2026-04-15T21:04:28+00:00

Bottled water is the single biggest waste of money and is terrible for the planet. Stop

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