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The outlook is improving 😉 Edge of the reef into the deep dark abyss (where the manta rays patrol) It certainly is👌

We left the curtains open and just let the light wake us up naturally

I try to avoid the Bangladeshi “Indian” restaurants much preferring authentic Punjabi or Southern Indian whenever possible. This morning I had a southern Indian dosa for breakfast and it was delightful. Tomorrow morning I’m having idli. The last few days I’ve had several “Indian” curries, best ones so far being tuna, watched a tuna fishing boat filleting yellowfin on the quayside yesterday afternoon as the restaurant staff looked on. Greetings from the Gaafu Alifu Atoll, this place is paradise in my opinion.

It’s the songs on the radio that do my nut in, at least I’ll escape two weeks of it in the run up this year with a winter summer holiday.

Saved me the typing 👍

I’d be interested to know how they communicate, or maybe hand directions are all that’s needed to point towards the meat grinder. If reports are to be believed 10k troops on the Russian side are about 8 days of losses. If there really are NK troops on the ground in Ukraine then, a) it is a world war b) it reinforces the reports that Russia is running out of “cannon” fodder.

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Currently reading a national populism book co-authored by Matt Goodwin, he asserts two right wing “labels” - radical right and extreme right. I don’t know if it helps the discussions here but it helped me avoid lumping everyone on the right in the far right bucket…

Was out of Bradwell yesterday on Warrior 165 live-baiting for bass, we picked the forecast we liked best when deciding on Tuesday night 😉

The data I shared in the table, which comes from official sources, predominantly shows the complete opposite of that for the five seats that Reform won! I agree with everything else you stated.

My other half can help, do you want to PM me the details? All I know is saddles can be expensive, we paid £3k for one a couple years ago and got a 17h Dutch warmblood thrown in for free😂

I previously looked at the figures for each of the Reform seats and compared those to the national average as well as local Labour and Conservative constituencies in my home county of Essex. What you can see is that, with the exception of Basildon S & Ockenden E, the Reform constituencies have higher than average percentages for economically inactive but, with the exception of Ashfield, several points lower percentages than the national average of those not wanting to work. Economically Inactive % Don't want to work % National Average 21.2 82.4 Ashfield 33.5 82.2 Basildon S & Ockendon E 14.5 76.2 Clacton 41.5 74.7 Great Yarmouth 29.3 76.7 Boston & Skegness 27.4 68.3 Labour (Harlow) 25.6 81.4 Conservative (B&B) 23.9 74.9 What the numbers suggest to me is if >20% of working age people are economically inactive combined with an aging population, then the system is broken and the burden on the rest of us is huge and growing unsustainably. The answer is we need more people who are net contributors, the answer is not more people who are low skilled and a net drain. One of the significant issues is we do not attract enough of those in the net contributor group beyond our borders, for various reasons. Another issue, and pending risk, is what happens when a significant portion of the workforce who are skilled and at or near net contributors today are replaced by AI agents. Perhaps we'll see a positive shift in salaries of people who undertake labour intensive work but then the AI enabled robots will be along shortly afterwards to replace them too...

Potentially a more insightful way of looking at it is that the national average of working age population who are “economically inactive” is 21.2% of which 82.4% do not want to work. That 21.2% average rises to 41.5% in bastions of industry like Clacton, Essex. I’ve not looked but would be interesting to know what percentage of our population are actually contributing something. No wonder we’re such an attractive proposition to scroungers beyond our borders.

Hezbollah emerged and exists for several reasons but the only reason it's as large, and well armed, as it is today is because it acts as a deterrent to Israel launching an all out attack / war on Iran.

Indeed, there are various trials all over the globe. The second Hydrogen week in the UK in Feb saw a modified Hyundai ix35 cover 406 miles on one tank. Agreed on the pressure vessels, not my area I have to admit, but with relateddevelopment also going on in the aviation industry and the like I'm confident it's not insurmountable. Yeah, that's why I referred to user. Agreed.