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Who are you? Are you the story you tell yourself? Are you the one who tells the story? Or the one who listens? Are you even sure it's your story?
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Junk
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Yes, that's what the "if" in my sentence structure stood for - conditional and not known, though reported, so raised.
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Indeed. In 2024 those who took out a mortgage in 2022 paid double the percentage of income than those who took one out in 2020. That was increased asset price + interest rates, rather than wages failing ~50%.
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It seems strange she didn't call it in, but if male officers routinely behave that way, why would she?
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I hate this meme. It's misleading. A 90% tax would not affect how they live their lives at all.
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Yes, and the asset price inflation.
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Not having a leak of customer credentials would be a nice game.
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Mortgage repayments aren't linked to income (beyond being able to pay). They are a function of sum borrowed and interest rates.
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Dialed 111. They called an ambulance. Waited 3hrs. Another 3 to see doc. Being admitted. Now waiting for a bed. That's likely to take all night.
At every step delay. Ambulance staff mostly wait outside the hospital.
I have been trying to see GP for 2 months but hospital care was always needed.
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Yeah, he was bankrupt within eighteen months of that. Served him right - he voted for the Tories all his life.
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I don't live in the US or have TV so I don't consume enough to know.
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No choice here, except to remortgage/strike a new fix every 3 or 5 years. My father got financially wiped buying a business in 79 ten months before Thatcher's govt raised rates to 17%.
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True, yet the people I would want to know won't fail to get it.
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Ethno-nationalist pseudo-religious state. R/wing folk there who go on TV have no clue what Christianity is really about - it has become a memetic carrier of social superiority signals with no meaningful content in terms of behaviour for them. It's why so many abusers come from this demographic.
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Often so.
Your mortgage market works so differently to that in the UK - a 30y fix here would be stunning. We have nothing close. Usually five year max fix, then variable, so if bank rates rise, so do your payments. Lots of people lose their homes to it.
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Yup. Printed rescue money all went to the rich and the rich bought assets.
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Thanks Josh. How about if you had to buy the house at today's price on 7.5%? That's the real comparison. Out of reach?
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Have you analysed how much of the difference is down to rates, and how much down to asset inflation fueled by COVID bailouts?
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Hear hear.
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It's so important who you see. I'm glad you found the help you needed. 🙏
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Not a real doctor*
*Her PhD is from a theological college.
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Hahaha. I'd googled her but then I clicked through to her SubStack.
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She's a God-botherer. If I were you I'd detach the quoted post - she clearly doesn't want to engage in discussion, and she's "highly educated" yet still bothers God ... that is quite deluded. A dangerous person given she has qualifications in psychology.
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Always have been. Doesn't have to remain so.
Most of that 18% is likely aristocracy also: "Just 0.3% of the population – 160,000 families – own two thirds of the country."
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Usually the washing machine is the culprit. Or the dog.
Though sometimes the couch may have had a hand in it.
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She's a God-bothering Christian whacko.
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Sorry to hear you went through that. Did it heal with time or treatment?
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It may be quietly dawning on many who lent their vote that was unwise. The true believers, the 15% or so who swear black is white, are still laughing at "owning the libs".
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There are examples where violence was not needed, where the end of it marked the transition. Build capacity because it's a marathon not a sprint. Know what you want - that's essential. It can't simply be "not him". There's always another one waiting to fill those shoes.
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Use zero and find ways to capture more carbon is more likely where we have to aim for. Reduction in land use for farming by reducing red meat consumption, and actively rewilding released land to forest seems to be the best route open if we exclude magic bullet tech solutions.
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All scientists say we need to decarbonise first and faster than we are now. Experiments with CCS should be limited and driven by science, not the corporations who knowingly chose to put us here.
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Rising star 🙏
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Glad to read you are feeling some better, and recognising your resilience.
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However, Carney is much more intelligent, capable, and internationally experienced than Starmer.
You got real technocratic expertise in Carney.
We got "Wish" style technocratic adequacy in Starmer.
On top of Brexit 🤷♂️
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He's a dangerous idiot narcissist fuckwit with the psychological makeup of a toddler. And I don't do hate - that's simply a description.
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Technocratic adequacy is not a replacement for progressive politics. It will defend the carbon/neoliberal status quo, tinkering around the edges with social and climate policies, and fail to rise to the moment. It will not offend corporations in dinosaur industries, and that will be it's downfall.
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Totally normal.
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He is commander in chief of the military, so that's normal. The bit they made me laugh was:
I [state your name] ...
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You don't need an account to read his stuff there. I just went to look, and no, but this video he posted from the start of the parade is funny for the second and third words he says reading off his script 🤣
truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...
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It's not rocket surgery.