rockieg95.bsky.social
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Well shit, I was confident that Rachel would deliver us 4% growth all along but I honestly thought planning and dynamic alignment alone would do it.
... does that mean that if we don't turn off our steel furnaces, we get to be this decade's Celtic Tiger?
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Step 1: Stroke his ego enough to dodge first round of blanket tariffs
Step 2: Congressional GOP indiscriminately detonates clean energy contracts and subsidies
Step 3: ???
Step 4: 10% GDP growth p/a
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Like even if the law was somewhat contested on this, you'd expect a former DPP to be especially sensitive to the chance of having prosecutions be detonated by third parties anyway, given that surely that'll have happened to him plenty
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Patreon subs absolutely raging that Jon drops Pretty Goods for free in his spare time (unless of course they're paying for the jazz backing track, which, fair enough)
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One of the more underrated "features" of Trump part 2 is how many more people are willing to unreservedly show who they are. What an incredible time-save it is that a critical mass of people have lost sight of how just because you can say things, it doesn't mean you should
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"Foreign secretary correctly strokes vain, powerful man's ego in a bid to further domestic interests" doesn't sound as catchy though
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The only block of text in recorded history where every subsequent line is a jumpscare
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Turn it off and on again until it's a blowout
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But yeah I legitimately credit my life's turnaround to therapy and a very good book to my friends so hopefully you got some sales out of that 😂
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Genuinely hurt me to read your subsequent articles relitigating the ending as the book was so much help as a niche interest message board boy rather than a Tumblr girl (ice hockey in Portugal, nothing weird I promise😂)
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Younger me has a visceral reaction to this, because "young, male and unemployed in summer 2016" was exceedingly fertile ground for military recruitment on the Internet. Interesting that they're struggling despite the similar online landscape (speaking of, thanks for writing Escape as it got me out!)
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(starts at 23:39 if the skip link doesn't work)
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Also wholly dismissive of the damage a further inquiry would actually bring to victims, a point which was excellently delivered by one, uh, Keir Starmer in *2014*
youtu.be/uwW7GAWVyRc?...
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Farage's entire career to date has been made possible by him understanding that you always need to have someone to the right of you as the opposite of a palate cleanser (see also: Griffin, Nick). This denouncement of Yaxley-Lennon couldn't be more in-character and I don't get why people buy it
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Imagine taking behavioural advice from a people who religiously believe that *walking* is beneath them, I could never
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Sometimes I wonder how much worse my life would have been had I kept a copy of my save file off my laptop before it died four years ago. Absolutely dreadful time sink if you let a save get going
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Only one way to sort this out - deny the objection and automatically tack on the difference in price between those people's properties and "market rate for if they were not next to a pub" onto their mortgages, pour encourager les autres
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Also, quite something to see Tory ministers front a picket line against a government... removing a subsidy from a distorted market so it can find a new equilibrium pricepoint
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Absolutely mental to me how Starmer painting himself into a corner with the daft "no taxes on working people" thing will turn into a net gain for him because his opponents just refuse to stop simping for landlords
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Seems suboptimal to me that a sizable portion of the highest paid political journalists in the country believe their job to be half gotcha questioning and half glorified WhatsApp stenography
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Three weeks of "who's willing to sound most insane?" then, wonderful - ending just in time to move on to the American sanity check as well. God help us all
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Shame that this flies under the radar because I wonder how much of that is ideology and how much is the tech itself, or both. Feels like the actual products they own have gone from "could use better privacy and customer protection guardrails" to "should this even be allowed" in a heartbeat
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Looking forward to opening my next question at a podcast live show with "at risk of jail time...", so thanks?
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If it legit doesn't make any money then the real prize is doing it anyway while aggressively briefing that you're not going to do it. Doesn't change anything but someone might have a cry in the Telegraph about it that I can laugh at
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Big fan of how all political discourse is basically null and void until Reeves stands at the dispatch box and says some version of "to the Treasury, me taking out money to either set it on fire or build a power plant is the same thing. that's obviously stupid"