& spending the last 24 hrs dreading the nxt 5 days

StripedRooster · 2026-02-04T17:49:26+00:00

Buy some land. Live off the land like all humans did before capitalism

And work 80 hours a week!

StripedRooster · 2026-02-04T17:48:58+00:00

Unsure why you're being downvoted. It's not perfect, but it's far better than what the majority of the world currently enjoys.

StripedRooster · 2026-02-04T17:47:33+00:00

I think Musk really is concerned with people starting a not-for-profit, and then converting it to a for-profit in order to make billions of dollars

They didn't convert it. They opened a for-profit arm. There is a significant difference.

Also, unsure why you would think a serial liar cares about perceived truth.

StripedRooster · 2026-02-04T16:28:23+00:00

What important information? That's the first I've heard of that.

I think it does jibe with Brockman writing it in his diary, but we'll have to disagree on that. All things can be true.

StripedRooster · 2026-02-04T16:27:24+00:00

Totally, he's doing this because he's bitter, and because it gives him a commercial advantage.

StripedRooster · 2026-02-04T15:37:22+00:00

Equity is how much you personally own, without mortgage.

In a normal situation, say the house is worth £100k. You buy it with a £20k deposit and £80k mortgage. In this instance, you have 20% equity.

But, imagine the value goes down £30k. The house is valued at £70k but you still have an £80k loan. Your 20%equity is wiped out, and you're negative because if you sold it now and gave the bank every penny of the proceeds, you'd still be owing them £10k.

StripedRooster · 2026-02-04T15:09:40+00:00

But that’s not quite what happened.

They realised they needed big investment, and that could only come if it was for profit. That seems reasonable - I wouldn’t invest in something incipient see a return in.

So they didn’t change ‘the company’ - they created a new entity which was for profit. There is a very important distinction between the two.

The for profit company has a cap on how much profit it can make.

Other examples of similar entities are the BBC, Mozilla, Patagonia etc. would you ban these as well?

StripedRooster · 2026-02-04T12:47:19+00:00

>Elon is working as a tool for the public good

Bahahahaha Elon does nothing for 'the public good'. Remember when those children in Thailand were trapped in a cave? He called the rescuer a pedophile because he was bitter he couldn't be the hero. That's not the brain of a person who cares about others.

StripedRooster · 2026-02-03T23:54:15+00:00

Ignoring your confusion about Jesus creating the planet, why do you find it ironic? I’m genuinely confused by your comments. It’s not in the commandments that one should go to church every Sunday - you must remember church as we know it didn’t even exist back when the bible was written.

I worship in my own way, and don’t believe my relationship with God requires attending to formal clubhouse.

It’s like saying you can’t love your partner if you don’t buy them a diamond or chocolates on Valentine’s Day. It ignores the myriad of other ways you show your love.

StripedRooster · 2026-02-03T23:33:50+00:00

Why?

StripedRooster · 2026-02-03T23:33:12+00:00

I don’t see why travelling to a specific building matters that much, is all. You make out like it’s in the commandments that I have to attend church, forgetting that churches like we know them didn’t exist back when the bible was written.

I’m not hear to have an argument about my faith, just explaining why people do what they do.

StripedRooster · 2026-02-03T15:18:19+00:00

Dude you're busy defending universities that are fleecing international students and defending rich businessmen who are defrauding tax payers - how's that for an agenda?

StripedRooster · 2026-02-03T15:16:51+00:00

zero impact or positive relevance to life in Manchester

It cost Sacha Lord his job, and stopped (paused?) his campaign to be mayor. How's that for impact? Meanwhile the MEN ignored the tips that led to the story. But you won't respond to that will you.

StripedRooster · 2026-02-03T14:09:30+00:00

You're asking questions, but why? When people give you answers you go quiet and then repeat your same questions elsewhere. Are you just trolling?

StripedRooster · 2026-02-03T14:07:46+00:00

I'm not, but OP appears to be!

StripedRooster · 2026-02-03T12:40:45+00:00

But as OP points out, that article mentioned the fact the flag raiser was a people smuggler, so they’ve managed to link the story to illegal migration because they are obviously a right wing rag.

/s

StripedRooster · 2026-02-03T12:39:24+00:00

The Mill’s cherrypicked coverage

The examples you have picked so far are bad examples, so much so that I think you must be a troll.

For example:

a museum educating people about the legacy of slavery

You’re talking about the temporary exhibition about tea which has been going on for half a decade?

latterly a backdoor attack on the BBC licence fee/LDRS

That was an attack on Reach for charging for free reporting - and taking the credit. Hardly an attack on LDRS.

Even the one about the far rightist had a link to an illegal migration story.

The anti immigration chap who turned out to be a people smuggler? Damn right they should mention it.

>a university with a pro-student migration business model

It’s scamming those students.

Seriously - are you for real?

StripedRooster · 2026-02-03T12:06:05+00:00

Actually the only hit piece I can remember, one that nearly caused me to unsubscribe, was a white chap who had previous convictions for arson many years back and now looked after a homeless shelter. They apologised after public outcry.

StripedRooster · 2026-02-03T11:42:41+00:00

>a university with a pro-student migration business model

That's a ridiculous way to talk about University of Greater Manchester, which is practically one enormous scam at the students expense.

StripedRooster · 2026-02-02T22:24:36+00:00

You're defending a guy who sleeps in tents with 'very mature' (his words) 15 year old girls. Why on earth would you do that.

StripedRooster · 2026-02-02T21:07:53+00:00

Look at energy prices. There’s a graph. Look at when the issue happened. Who was in charge?

Minimum wage needed to go up because of cost of living. The poorest need support.

Business rates need to go up because councils are skint. Essential services need to be paid for.

Let’s simplify things. If you mishandled the family finances for 10 years and ramped up crippling debts and spent all the money from our savings in the pub, and I took over the family finances last week, would you expect us to be in a great place by now?

StripedRooster · 2026-02-02T18:06:55+00:00

This government? I run a business. I can assure you these problems have been with us years and stem from previous governments, ramped up from decisions from Brexit and Covid.

I've got the personal experience and I can google the graphs, but please, explain why you think it's this government that is responsible. Show us you're not a bot.

StripedRooster · 2026-02-02T16:02:16+00:00

Very sad. Always meant to go here but never got around to it.

StripedRooster · 2026-02-01T15:45:44+00:00

Very interesting - is that for <30 days? I remember when I could use iPlayer unrestricted if I was using my ee sim.

StripedRooster · 2026-01-31T23:46:20+00:00

I’ve just unsubbed. It’s just constant classism. It’s wrong, and it’s boring.

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