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  • Row as Starmer suggests landlords and shareholders are not ‘working people’

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  • But that is not what is happening,

    Starmer is talking about taxes, not people. Right-wing newspapers are trying to link the 2, but that is a false link.

    We saw all this in the lead up to the election. The tory press tried it then but it was ignored.

    If you remember, the Labour manifesto made promises about not raising "Working Taxes" That distinction was clear in the promise. But the Tory party and right wing press constantly interpreted it as not raising any taxes.

    Many got pissed of that Starmer refused to address it then. How did not seem to think it mattered. Likely he thought it was not worth this argument.

    He is now making exactly the same claim. Working taxes is not money earned from shares or rent. It never has been, that is why it is called capital gains tax etc.

    Just because you may also work does not mean your rent income and retirement savings should be taxed as working income.

    That is all he is saying. He is not raising working taxes because rent and share profit is not working taxes.

    The right wing press are trying to make a fight that dosent exist. Rather then try to aregue why he should not change captal gains tax.

  • Row as Starmer suggests landlords and shareholders are not ‘working people’

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  • Yes if you own rather then sublet and yes now final salary etc pensions are close to non existant.

    Dose not mean it is wrong. But just like the others doing it it is not worked for income but investment income.

    Judging from the answers here everyone has a pretty clear idea of the difference between investment and work.

  • Row as Starmer suggests landlords and shareholders are not ‘working people’

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  • And, as everyone here says. He is correct. It is an investment. Not work. Yes you are taking a risk, that is the point. If you work, you should not be taking a risk. But instead paid for your labour.

    Unfortunately, saying it here doesn't matter. Papers like the telegraph and other Tory press are not going to care about the facts. They only care about creating division.

    More importantly, Starmer et al. Are also not going to make the effort to argue this case. No effort is going to be made to push forward the true difference between working class income and actual investment income.

    Anyone watching saw this argument starting during the election. It was clear then when labour started talking about working taxes. The Tories instantly started arguing that the Tories were talking about not raising taxers at all. Anyone watching saw this discussion forming.

    And Starmer et al. intentionally ignored it rather than draw attention to the difference. They will not bother to fight the terminology now either.

  • 'Utter rubbish': Putin dismisses MI5 claims Russia trying to create mayhem in UK and Europe

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  • shhhhh

    are you mad

  • Disposable vapes to be banned in England and Wales from June

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  • Good start. Now expand to all current and future battery devices. Honestly, disposable battery devices are a bad, out of date idea. Doing nothing but long term harm to the environment.

    But nothing will change until firms are forced to do so. It's just time until the next huge disposable trend if it is not addressed now.

  • Humanity is on the verge of ‘shattering Earth’s natural limits’, say experts in biodiversity warning

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  • Nope. Nor evidence of it haveing ever existed.

    The above guess is no better then religion. Based on current evidence.

  • Harvest in England the second worst on record because of wet weather

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  • Can

    An important missed word.

    Issue is it depends on building them correctly with production of crops being the priority over production of power.

    Issue is UK farmers have been penalised due to loss of government funding. So profiting from crops has been bloody hard for a few years now.

    This means the few solar plants being built in the UK on arable land,are generally renting fields farmers have stopped using for crops.

  • I'm thinking of building a PC - any advice?

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  • High use Blender users tend to avoid AMD for the reasons you point out.

    This leads to less updates due to amd users not being to interested in the community.

    It is an issuw without any practicle solution. Because as I need a long overdue update. Again nvidia seems the only real choice.

    Everyone is sorta forced to do that unless we can convince amd users to just try out blender and submit results.

    So hi any AMD users who dont care about blender.

    Give it a try and submit performance data please.

  • Cats have more freedom than women in Afghanistan, U.S. actress Meryl Streep says in appeal to the international community to stop the Taliban's repression

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  • Seriosly the freedom of women in Afghanistan is a seriose issue. As it is in many places.

    But Cats seems to be a very very bad example. Most of the world. With the exception of a few owners that keep them indoors.

    They are the pet with the most freedom. More so then any human.

    Unless she is specifically considering the female feline mating experience.

  • Swapping out my Nvida card for AMD. Anything I should know about before hand?

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  • Yeah looks very much like nvidia is exclusive at the top even at the price I'm looking at.

    The RTX4060 looks about right price vs performance. I'll spend some time looking up how well they play with linux atm. And keep an eye out for a used RTX4070 as well.

  • Swapping out my Nvida card for AMD. Anything I should know about before hand?

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  • If no one minds my hyjacking part of this thread.

    Id also like some similar advice.

    I use blender. Not heavily but have been playing on it for 20plus years.

    My GPU is pretty old. 1050ti at the time nvidia was pretty much it for blender.

    Im looking for a sub £300 card in the next 3 to 6 months.

    Is AMD well supported by blender now. And what cards would folks recomend these days.

    PS not a gamer. 0ad is about as close as i get.

  • Facial disfigurement: 'Restaurant asked me to leave over condition'

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  • As I understand it. From a lawyer.

    Yep but you first have to win a disceimination case. Without thT they just deny the event.

    Likely he would given the claimed comment. But without witnesses it can be hard to win.

  • Facial disfigurement: 'Restaurant asked me to leave over condition'

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  • It is possible that is a lawyers recomendation.

    Due to him maybe planing to sue the shit out of the place. And naming them may harm his case.

  • Britain’s prehistoric attitude to drugs isn’t working. Why not learn from Texas? | Simon Jenkins

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  • Adding, the UK is the world's largest legal weed exporter. And many politicians are connected with that industry. Directly or via funding through other financial industry means.

    The illegality in the UK makes setting up legal grow farms more complex and outside of smaller investors / business startups. So the laws help to keep competition out of the legal export market.

  • Protection zones around abortion clinics in place by October

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  • I feel it is important to clarify evidence.

    Numbers 5.21 is evidence of the words in the bible. So that humans who wrote the bible had no compunction with the death od a unborn fetus.

    Not in anyway evidence for or against the existance of god. Or its views on any subject.

    Science is agnostic. My personal view is athiest

    Evidence and understanding its meanong is the difference between the 2.

    This is why I habe pointed out several times I am in no way critisising your religion. Just your use of religiose like ideas to proove scientific or lefal points.

    That things look the same is not evidence they are the same.

  • Protection zones around abortion clinics in place by October

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  • Numbers 5.21

  • Protection zones around abortion clinics in place by October

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  • Your acting like you have a point.

    You dont.

    And I never said anything about uour religion. It has no officialnopinion on abortion. And the bible actually gives guides to do it.

    But it is freaking clear you have no idea what evidence actully is.

    But non of your opinions give you the right to intimidate people rather then try to change parlimentary votes. And that is the subjeect of this law.

  • Mars brings Marathon name back in UK as nostalgia rises for retro sweets

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  • Haven't heard anyone caring about the name change since the 1990s. So I'd love to know where you're seeing it all.

    It sounds more like you are whingeing about a private Corporation deciding to sell a very small amount of something to a few older folks using nostalgia. (Literally in Morrisons alone)

    And the language you use suggests a desperate need to seek some mental care. While I'll agree, a large part of my generation (just old enough to remember the pre name change bars) are responsible for voting idiots who do not fund mental health care. It's been rare over the last 50 years that those parties won with anything close to 50%. So please remember we ain't all arseholes.

  • Protection zones around abortion clinics in place by October

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  • You are misinterpreting my words. And it's hard to claim not intentionally.

    1. I said the law should not be able to force you to make the donation. Nothing at all about your desire.

    This is the same as forcing a mother to donate her body and long term health to birth another being. You have no right to intimate her into dong so. And the law has decided the being has no rights until 24 weeks. Where evidence indicates it can survive without the mother.

    1. I never made any accusations about your religion or the motive of your actions. Read it again. I said your definitions of life and humanity are no better than religion. IE, they have zero evidence to back them up. Only that of your non-scientific opinion.

    Everything you provide argument wise is based on your personal definition of when a collection of cells is human. You do not have the ability to make that judgement. Nor do I and nor has science. But we do have the ability to judge when it is no longer a parasite (hard luck if you don't like the term, nor do I. But it is technically correct) depending on the will of another being to live. And our laws consider its right to out weight the mothers at that point. Is it up for debate. Of course. But that is in no way the topic of this thread.

    Your very first response to me came back with bullshit scientific reasons why my claim your definition of human was unscientific. I have attempted to point out your misapplication of those facts. They are not a scientific answer. They are facts that fail to proove the cells are as you claim an independent human life.

    And as I keep saying. While you outright choose to ignore it as you have no answer.

    Non-off them give you or anyone who thinks as you do. The right to intimidate people following the law as it is now. That is the only reason the laws announced here have been created. And the only thing those laws stop you doing.

  • Linus Torvalds muses about maintainer gray hairs and the next 'King of Linux'

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  • A valid point. But the result is that over a pretty short period of time. These C developers will find delays in how quickly their code gets accepted into stable branches etc. So will be forced to make clear documentation into how the refactoring effects other elements calling the code. Or move on altogether.

    Sorta advantageous to all and a necessary way to proceed when others are using your code.