ziggysden.bsky.social
Dad, Grandad, Engineer, Guitar Player, Recovering Remainer
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There’s also Ivor the Engine 😀
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It’s like they’ve never even heard of Barbara Streisand
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No need to guess, it’s in their annual report
Property, Plant & Equipment is worth approx $35bn + $12bn of inventory, making $47bn
# shares is approx 3.5 bn
So about $13 per share if sold at going rate, half this if in a fire sale
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When what they should be pushing for is the compulsory purchase of his golf courses to turn them into houses for asylum seekers
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Influence out of all proportion to its size. The company Games Workshop generates more in revenue than the untrue UK fishing industry combined. Painting model elves is more lucrative than fishing!!
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68% of statistics are made up on the spot
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Except Trump is too fat to be able to get his club head up that high. He has the worst golf swing I’ve ever seen in someone that plays as regularly as he does.
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Come to Europe, or Australia, or Canada, or any of a whole host of other places. We will gladly take your brightest and best to let them flourish where science is still respected. Americas loss is our gain.
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Not just IT procurement, IMO this also applies to defence and infrastructure too. Decision makers too often bamboozled by shiny new things or a slick sales presentation.
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Certainly the orangeist April Fool in history
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Not exactly why I pay a quite expensive subscription, to give know-nothing numpty’s space and publicity. Nothing of value in his piece, everyone already knew the nonsense he was going to try and perpetrate.
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Well, as anyone who has ever driven one knows, the number one Europeans don’t buy American cars is because they’re shit.
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Math vs Maths. And the evergreen Aluminum abomination
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He reportedly now has to wear a nappy now (diaper for our US friends), so has no use for toilets anymore, 24 carat or otherwise. Even Fox News puts a towel down on their white sofa when he’s on. Why would they need to do that?
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Except the whole world isn’t moving to be protectionist. It’s moving to protect itself from the US. That’s a key difference. 75% of global GDP is non-US. Decoupling will hurt but it’s not necessarily existential if free trade rules continue outside of the US
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You can’t measure intelligence by how much money someone has. Your bank balance is merely an indicator of luck or who your parents are
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If this guy, as many people keep telling me, is one of the “smartest” investors around, god help the rest of them! The last few weeks has been a procession of supposedly clever people showing they’re actually dumb as rocks & probably just got lucky once.
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The most startling part IMO is the last para where the FT editorial board calls for the rest of the world to put America on the naughty step in a thinly veiled call for the rest of the world to exclude the US in future deals
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Kind of makes you grateful that they’re incompetent. Imagine the damage that would be wrought if they were actually smart.
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Thing is, entry level work is where juniors learn from their mistakes, where those mistakes are not catastrophic for the business. Without this the people making decisions will have no personal experience and everyone with such experience will have retired.
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Really Mairead? Still questioning huh?
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And likely to stay so for some time to come
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Pretty sure he has previously posted that any president that crashes the market should be impeached.
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We really need to stop referring to him as the “leader of the free world” as it’s blindingly obvious that he’s nothing of the sort.
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Doesn’t Northern Ireland have a similar opportunity? 20% EU tariffs in the Republic against 10% UK tariffs in the North and an effectively transparent border?
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Trump’s doing his best to make the Dollar worthless. So that’s kind of making a start, I guess.
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A bag of dead mice. A bag of dead, rotting mice. Not even live mice that might have exerted some sort of low-level “network effect”
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With its flagrant breaking of the rules and its non-payment of fees could the US get itself expelled from the WTO?
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Tim Stanley is clearly trying to incite civic rest rather than stop it. Anyone who understood what a civil war entails wouldn’t be trying to get one started. My guess is he wouldn’t be one of the people on the barricades but would just continue to shout on the sidelines like the coward he is.
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The FT this morning, in several articles including its editorial, making a thinly veiled call for the rest of the world to put America on the “naughty step”
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The FT editorial this morning calling for precisely this, although in somewhat more veiled terms. The f’ing FT!!! The last para in the editorial as follows
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Time for everyone, especially those of us here in the West Mids, to write to our MPs and mayors again and send the link to that research that shows how to offset the effects of tariffs.
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Even after yesterday, your pension hasn’t gone down nearly as much as Tesla. It offers something of a consolation. The overall market likely comes back eventually. The outlook for Tesla could well be very different.
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Reunion is an overseas Department of the French Republic. It’s administratively as French as Normandy. Why is it getting 73% when France is getting 20%?
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It was at 6163 on 19 Feb 25
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That chart was at 6160 in mid Feb. Close to a 700 point fall in little over a month
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His whole life has been based on fabricated numbers and he has the 34 felony convictions to prove it
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Harley Davidson are already teetering on the financial brink. Won’t take much of a drop in revenue to put the out of business. Good riddance to shit bikes. Not nicknamed Hardly Driveable’s for nothing.
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It’s the “Big Glass” conspiracy
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You can draw the conclusion that specifically Musks money can’t always buy elections but not that money in general can’t. The evidence is overwhelming that money in general definitely can buy elections, otherwise rich people wouldn’t donate.
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The rest of the world has already started the work to disentangle itself from the US. It likely takes a decade to do this. America voted for a fascist, twice, so be under no illusion, the rest of the world noticed. It does not go back to how it was before. EVER!
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Well, let’s hope it does better than their You Tube channel where they’ve posted 2 videos in 2025 and managed less than 5k views between them
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Well, until next week when he’ll be back kissing’ the orange ass.
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*Trump