majabl.bsky.social
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Late January 2020. Son refused to go to Beavers one night. Turns out they were celebrating Chinese New Year and he was worried about this new disease he'd heard they had in China!
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Would love to see Utopia wrapped up properly. It was criminal that Channel 4 cut it!
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... like you'd be able to rely on him coming to your aid! Totally unreliable ally.
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Will they, though? Selfish people tend to do all right for themselves ... it's everyone else that they harm in the meantime.
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Likelihood of us seeing any more today...?
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Went there last summer. It was fun 👍
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The education sector runs on GINORMOUS amounts of employee goodwill.
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Today was brilliant. Underwhelmed by most of the rest of festive week, mind, but at least there are the quizzes on BBC2 each evening.
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I had wondered if this scene may have been the last scene to be filmed! Thanks for confirming 👍
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... but do they actually taste any good?
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Scottish half and half is best.
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I thought it was very atmospheric!
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... but won't many of these be protected by the increases in NMW? Which would mean the impact has to be pushed a bit higher up the income scale?
Longer term and more macroscopically, does all this not encourage automation and moving people into higher-value roles, lifting productivity as we go?
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I spent hours manually labelling images and feeding them into an AI so it could correctly identify Brenda, a neighbourhood cat and my nemesis before she could steal all our cat food since she can bypass our fancy microchip cat flap. I hate Brenda with all my heart.
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Why is £60m gifted 7 years before I die taxed differently to £60m gifted on my death? How is that fair?
Why is £60m left to one person basically taxed the same as £60m left evenly to 60m people, if it's an INHERITANCE tax?
Should we instead be taxing wealth while people are alive?
And more.
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I would absolutely love it if we stepped back and looked at the bigger picture on IHT. Until we figure out what IHT is actually supposed to be doing for us and our society, we'll continue to fight this sort of battle.
We ought to be answering questions such as ... (1/2)
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Perfect - will give it a go! Ta very much.