souptomatosoup.uk
Anything posted here are my personal views.
Anonymised UK policy generalist with far too much experience, especially economic, tax, and international.
Preferred pronouns: They/Them/Their.
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Yeah?
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I'm sorry for your loss, love and *e-hugs* to you and your family.
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Gaming thyme
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Same
but that site, and this one are a good watch www.windy.com
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A fun watch on nights like this: www.lightningmaps.org
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Future headline: The Fusion Con (fake projects)
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Robot
Storage
Foyle's
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Apparently, they have been waiting to make this strike since November, so might have just been watching closely for a while.
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I saw MAGA-crazies telling on themselves on Tiktok with false claims they had been offered money to turn up to that exact protest and be violent.
Seems a concerted effort to discredit this specific one.
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a can of soup that used to work for HMRC! (error correction on misfiled paperwork...early career stuff)
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Thats got to be worth a certain deduction...
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I was sincerely far too confused for a 28C office on a friday afternoon....
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I thought you were saying his kids divorced him...not grew up...
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I saw that video and somone claiming some competence was saying that that model doesn't always need full flaps on takeoff 🤷‍♀️
but watching it, the plane just didn't climb fast, and then stopped and stalled, no visible sign of the engines failing, so thrust cut or too hot?
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It’s a general rule, if you have to tell people you have a virtue, it’s not true.
Especially if anyone is announcing they are the best.
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Honestly, it’s not just the free speech thing. It’s the culture of exceptionalism, mostly born out of Cold War propaganda to its own populace.
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Oh they are absolutely a symptom rather than the disease. They are possibly the most harmful symptom so far though.
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Well the fascists leading the US of course support the Russian fascists
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Current front line?!
So appeasement of the aggressor...disgusting.
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We have heard predictions of Russia nearing economic collapse for a long time, I desperately hope it happens...but what makes this prediction different?
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Starmer on "island of strangers"
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Thank you for reposting this, I am very pleased to see them backing off the fascist language.
Now they need to follow through and be progressive again.
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Traditionally, yes, but the power rests in the politics these days, not the monarchy.
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Mostly I think its driven by the economic freefall we have followed over the same period, and the rise in populist narratives
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Thats different to related to royalty or hereditary peerage though.
Most of that is just a function of capitalism and politics.
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Maybe we have different interpretations of aristocrachy...I was taking it to mean "hereditary peer or royal family".
Are you taking it to mean intergenerational wealth and power? Because thats what I was classifying as the capitalist class.
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Is he?
His role and involvement is as a capitalist
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Probably, but mostly just look to the loudest voices in the leave campaigns, and their donors.
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I am mostly a monarchist because I don't trust our politicial system to replace it in a way thats better.
For as long as it exists, technically, it is an emergency option to stop a government from going too far into evil. While unlikely to work, the monarch could legally stop them.
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Not necessarily foreign, though some absolutely.
Mostly, it was brought about by the semi-libertarian right wing, and the disaster capitalists, manipulating the public into empowering them in pursuit of deregulation profiteering
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when I talk about business owners, I mean the mega wealthy investor class who life atop the capitalist pile- I used the wrong term
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Will have a read shortly, but do you account for the fact that the tory AHP was constantly underspending?
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No doubt they have some contact and engagement, these are people trying to buy influence afterall.
But in all my years as a civil servant, the monarchy has been very clear with its interactions and its desire to avoid influencing.
Look to business owners and politicans, not the crown.
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I havn't, but those are justr the typical people you get in capitalist systems who want to buy influence over those power hungry people.
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I disagree, the politicians are acting on behalf of themselves, and their own desire for power and wealth
In the UK at least, the monarchy is pretty impotent in practical terms.
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I think the driving force behind those things, and brexit, are politicians using them to manipulate voters.
Its why I go by law rather than sentiment, people are too maleable.
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exactly, hence the ability of leadership to enforce it
That is less of a factor these days for most (not all) borders.
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and instead go by international recognition of law.