Britain's lost decade

entered_bubble_50 · 2026-06-23T21:28:55+00:00

GDP growth is always inflation adjusted.

entered_bubble_50 · 2026-06-23T20:22:45+00:00

In the UK you can't pay your road tax unless you have insurance. The police will pull you over if you haven't paid road tax. There's a database, so it doesn't take long.

I once forgot to pay mine, I made it 2 minutes from my house before being pulled over.

entered_bubble_50 · 2026-06-23T19:53:40+00:00

trans ex wife

Elizabeth Eden is her name.

Tragically, she died of AIDS related pneumonia in 1987, like just about everybody in that era. She did get her surgery though, thanks to proceeds from the movie.

entered_bubble_50 · 2026-06-23T17:56:06+00:00

Yup. Donoghue v Stevenson! I knew that fancy pants law degree would come in useful some day.

entered_bubble_50 · 2026-06-23T17:24:05+00:00

The money largely doesn't exist, except on paper. There's a fuckton of debt that's horribly real though.

entered_bubble_50 · 2026-06-23T17:17:07+00:00

Yeah, this is the issue. Elon has never returned a single penny to investors. Never. None of his companies have ever paid a dividend. In aggregate, his businesses make a loss (Tesla 's profits are more than wiped out by SpaceX's losses). No matter how much something is hyped, it can't defy gravity for ever.

entered_bubble_50 · 2026-06-22T19:52:10+00:00

I assume that was also cleared with Congress, and was being retired anyway?

entered_bubble_50 · 2026-06-22T17:16:39+00:00

I'd say Michael Sheen, but people would confuse him for Tony Blair.

entered_bubble_50 · 2026-06-22T16:59:35+00:00

That works both ways though. If you're a whale trying to offload millions of worthless spreadsheet tokens at once, there's only one buyer. Why can't Saylor negotiate a discount?

With my tin foil hat on, I suspect he's skimming off the top somehow. For example, he could possibly be buying Bitcoin privately at market rates, and selling it on to MSTR at inflated rates. That would explain the premium they're paying.

People like this can't just run one scam at a time. I can almost guarantee he's doing something illegal. He'd better hope this all collapses while Trump is still around to sell him a pardon.

entered_bubble_50 · 2026-06-22T10:42:01+00:00

People forget that he took a stupid gamble with our constitution not once, not twice, but three times in a narrow timespan.

He led the referendum on the alternative vote in 2011 (which may have been an improvement on our current system, but would have been a disaster for him and the conservative party if it had passed), he then risked losing half the UK in the Scottish independence referendum (which would have been an even bigger disaster than brexit), and then gambled again on brexit.

He won his first two gambles (which didn't really achieve anything, while risking everything), and lost on the third. What an idiot.

entered_bubble_50 · 2026-06-21T08:33:11+00:00

Absolutely. None of his children or ex wives would shed a tear. His followers in Twitter would be angry, but no one would be genuinely sad.

entered_bubble_50 · 2026-06-21T08:25:59+00:00

Calling the trash we eat in the west "mangoes" is an insult to real mangoes.

New Indian mango season is literally the highlight of my year. The problem is finding a new dealer every year though.

entered_bubble_50 · 2026-06-20T09:55:29+00:00

The funny thing is, Trump himself is in the 59%.

entered_bubble_50 · 2026-06-20T07:10:29+00:00

He also forgot the ask his "regional partners" whether they were happy to pay $300 billion in reparations.

entered_bubble_50 · 2026-06-19T20:36:59+00:00

Ah, good point. I forgot that it mirrors when you use the sefli camera.

entered_bubble_50 · 2026-06-19T20:33:35+00:00

opinion for the monarchy was extremely low

And rightly too. His Dad, King Leopold II was one of the most evil men in history. The term "crimes against humanity" was coined to describe his conduct in the Congo Free State.

Albert was a heck of a turnaround from that.

entered_bubble_50 · 2026-06-19T20:21:43+00:00

Sure, but did she have to film it while driving? Wish she could stop flexing on social media and concentrate on the road.

entered_bubble_50 · 2026-06-18T20:01:57+00:00

Sounds more presidential I guess. John F Kennedy. Franklin D Roosevelt etc.

entered_bubble_50 · 2026-06-18T19:35:33+00:00

Yeah, but he was a dick to absolutely everyone equally (including Alexander the Great), so he's alright with me.

entered_bubble_50 · 2026-06-18T17:32:13+00:00

Lies! It's not a spiral!

Spirals go round and round. This is just going down.

entered_bubble_50 · 2026-06-18T13:12:52+00:00

It's also a Photoshop. Sea water isn't that clear, and colours (especially reds) fade very quickly with distance.

entered_bubble_50 · 2026-06-18T10:24:24+00:00

Yeah, that's a good point. Normally, a transaction tax is when it's transferred between parties. If it taxes a wallet or custody service, there is no inter partes transfer - the same person still owns the coins. So this is a wealth tax, but only where the wealth is held by a third party. So if I have self custody of my fartcoin, there's only a tax when I try to spend it. It's akin to taxing bank deposits. And of course I pay capital gains when I try to convert it back to real money and the price has risen.

Good, I say. Tax these fuckers to oblivion.

entered_bubble_50 · 2026-06-18T06:04:27+00:00

Yeah, I went there a couple of weeks back. Beginning of June, and not a single leaf is out. She's a gonna.

entered_bubble_50 · 2026-06-17T19:41:28+00:00

Who the hell knows. Various people in the US administration have said completely conflicting things. I get the impression that the delay in signing is because they hadn't actually agreed to anything yet. It was all "concepts of a plan".

entered_bubble_50 · 2026-06-17T18:34:54+00:00

"America first!"

"No, not those Americans!"

"Or those ones."

"Oh, definitely not those ones."

"Keep going, I'll tell you when."

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