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  • It is. The meme has four glottel stops, this has three. The meme has the "el" removed, this doesn't. Weirdly, the meme has the "o" sound removed for for "of" as well.

    It's an entirely fictitious way of pronouncing something, it equates a very, very small subset of the country with "Britain" and is a great example of "fake American British accent" becoming the "norm" to the extent where British voice actors are training to put on voices to sound "more British" (such as Tracer in Overwatch).

    The meme might as well say "burdle der wurder" and claim it's how American's say it - kinda close, but also really far 🤷

  • THAT'S how Americans think British people pronounce it? I was looking at the image for ages trying to sound it out.

    Please tell me no one seriously thinks this?

    "Worst" case I can think of is "Bo'el o' wa'er" and even that is incredibly limited to like...four boroughs of London.

  • Or, hear me out, restoring native ecosystem is in itself anti-colonial. This is the weirdest whataboutism I've seen in a bit.

  • AbeBooks was bought by Amazon in 2008.

  • I knew someone would say this, which is why I also used Spain where the houses are as expensive, the pay is worse, and the tax is higher!

    It doesn't matter where you go in the West, the dream of liberalism is dead

  • To add to this, the rule of thumb in the UK is your maximum loan is 4.5x your salary.

    The average worker could borrow about £157,000.

  • It's not just America though.

    Where I'm from:

    UK average income before tax) £34,963 - £27,911 after tax (assuming NO student loan and NO pension) (for context: a band 3 nurse with 3 years experience makes £24,336 before tax or £20,631.51 after with no pension)

    England average house price: £375,131

    Approx ratio after tax: 13:1

    Minimum deposit: 5% - £18,756.55

    Tax: 0% on first time buyers

    Fees: about £1,000 - £5,000

    Total cost to get going: Approx £21,750 - nearly a years wage.

    Now let's look where I live: Spain!

    Turns out Spain really is a load of countries wearing a hat so getting unified stats is not easy. Let's try Barcelona:

    Average income before tax: €33,837 - €25,470 after tax

    Average house price: €376,399

    Approx ratio after tax: 15:1

    Minimum deposit: 10% - €37,639.90

    Purchase tax: 10% - €37,639.90 (plus 1.5% for new builds)

    Fees: 2 - 5% - 7,527.98 - 18,819.95

    Total cost to get going: €82,807.78 - €94,099.75

    Turns out treating housing as a market to speculate on might just be the problem all along.

  • "We invented a new kind of calculator. It usually returns the correct value for the mathematics you asked it to evaluate! But sometimes it makes up wrong answers for reasons we don't understand. So if it's important to you that you know the actual answer, you should always use a second, better calculator to check our work."

    Then what is the point of this new calculator?

    Fantastic comment, from the article.

  • Lol it's a lyric from dead prez, wouldn't get bent out of shape about it. Literally written in 2000 - I can't even find stats that old 🤷

  • Kinda like the Imperial measurement system, if you are being compared to Myanmar then perhaps stop?

  • There's a reason the average black male spends 1/3 of their life in prison in America.

    And then has the right to vote taken away when they get out....

  • Same thing that happens when other slaves are hurt or killed on the job.

    Not a hell of a lot.

  • Fascist and populist are not mutually exclusive.

  • You don't have to give either money and there is the option to give both money.

  • You literally sent that from a FOSS platform...

  • Unless there's an emergency.

    The way I read it, this is ensuring everyone has the most effective analogue radio in their car because that's how emergency broadcasts would go out. Seems sensible to me.

  • Work laptops in particular suck, I find. My first one was lagging, freezing, and crashing within months. The second one is three times as expensive but the same brand and is still not happy.

    I also use Windows at home and haven't had the same experience. I think it's really manufacturer dependent

  • But surely having a list of what media is captured is a good first step to stop either the pro-US or pro-Russian propaganda machines?