:only-throw: No treats! Only work!
:only-throw: Op Ed: Millennials are ruining treats by not buying them.
Real mask-off decade thus far. You must die for the line and you should be happy for the opportunity.
Real mask-off decade thus far. You must die for the line and you should be happy for the opportunity.
Liberals are willing to kill percentages of the population, maybe even double digits, have double digits have not enough food, heating, healthcare but instead stress and no joy.
Communist takeovers have much fewer casualties than that.
That's why libs are increasingly adopting futurist thought in particular about automation. Of course this prole sacrifice can't go on forever, so they're banking on replacing us with silicone slaves that are infinitely abusable with their immortality and mass-producibility.
Of course, the surviving proles can have
the table scrapsuniversal income as long as webehaveobey the rule of law.yeah but it is worth noting that their ideas about automation are actually quite unrealistic
excuse me but I saw a prototype Tesla robot do the dougie on stage and it was flawless
Reminds me of how in Papers Please, the bad commie country your character lives in paid you so little that you have to choose between paying for food, heating, or medicine everyday.
yeah imagine living in a state with harsh and zenophobic border policy could never be me
papers please is literally just ellis island but we're framing it as bad to a general audience using red scare shit
I knew a guy who claimed that papers please accurately showed Stalinist dystopia while also advocating that imigrants all be deported. For added irony he was also an immigrant but was from an anglo/white country
Damn near every single house built here was built with the assumption that there'd be a relatively cheap source of heating. They're all leaky as fuck, poorly designed etc.
Isn't part of the assumption also that the weather rarely gets too cold or too hot (which was the case for Britain... before climate change).
If there's one thing they teach you in Engineer School, its that you want to design your large-scale durable constructions to the narrowest tolerances possible and just assume nothing will ever meaningfully change over the next three lifetimes.
Design your infrastructure around the concept of it lasting 20 years and not a femtosecond more, and also only rebuild or maintain your infrastructure every 60 years.
10 years. Seriously, there used to be some law where geologists had to ensure that the ground houses were built on would be OK for a few decades. That guaruntee was reduced to merely a decade back in the 90's.
I think that came into it yeah, though as you said climate change is gonna see to that sharpish.
Luckily this will have no averse political consequences. The far right will see how the liberal democratic order inspires people to endure hardship in defense of western values and admit that it has been defeated in the marketplace of ideas.
let them eat chickpeas
(i actually really like chickpeas but you get the idea)
lentils and beans are thing to pitch at the level of the British
The way prices go, it'll be "cheaper" expensive food - then even more expensive breadcrumbs till he tells us to learn to catch rats. Hey, nobody said it'll be fun! :gui:
Tories should just own it. They should blame people struggling for not doing well enough out of stupidity, laziness and being too gay. People in England love finger wagging at each other
At this point they're just playing a game of jenga with peoples decreasing material conditions. Wonder what happens when the tower falls :thinkin-lenin:
full article, seeing as it's paywalled:
Boris Johnson has made an extraordinary admission that many UK households will be forced to make difficult choices as the cost of living crisis takes hold.
With war raging in Ukraine, the economy still reeling from the impact of the pandemic, rising inflation and soaring energy bills UK households are facing an unprecedented squeeze on finances.
Disposable incomes are expected to be squeezed more heavily than at any time in 30 years, with the Bank of England predicting inflation will rise above eight per cent this spring and energy bills are set to rise to an annual average of £3,000 from October.
Asked whether families should eat cheaper food, not replace clothes, turn down the thermostat or turn heating off entirely, the Prime Minister said: “People obviously are going to face choices that they are going to have to make.
“We in the Government will do everything that we can to help and that is what we are doing.”
He went on to detail the measures already unveiled by Chancellor Rishi Sunak, including the 5p fuel duty cut and help towards soaring energy bills such as through the Council Tax rebate.
The Prime Minister said the Government would help families “in any way that we can”, including the £22 billion package of measures announced to support households “through what are unquestionably tough times caused by the end of the pandemic, the global inflation problem, the energy price spike”. Boris Johnson, Sajid Javid Rishi Sunak during their visit to the New Queen Elizabeth II Hospital in Welwyn Garden City (Photo: AFP)
Mr Johnson added that “most important thing” that could be done was to have a “strong, robust economy in which you have a high level of security in your employment”.
It comes as the UK hits its highest tax burden for 70 years, with the 1.25 percentage point rise in National Insurance Contributions (NIC) coming into effect today.
The Government has promised to invest £39 billion in health and social care over the next three years as a result of the tax increase, which came into effect on Wednesday.
But, in a sign of concerns about the effect on household finances, Chancellor Rishi Sunak raised the threshold at which people start paying national insurance from July, which will limit the impact of the new levy.
Speaking in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, on Wednesday, Mr Johnson said he had “absolutely no problem” with hiking National Insurance to help fund the NHS.
“I’ve got absolutely no problem with it. We’ve got to do the difficult things,” he said. “We’ve got to take the big decisions, the right decisions for this country.”
The word "Brexit" seems to be missing from that article :thinkin-lenin:
My mind is made: as soon as it's practical to do so, I'm leaving this brainworm-ridden, rain-soaked, miserable, hopeless country. It won't get better in my lifetime, and at this point even the free healthcare is getting run into the ground. Where's a good place for a musician (lol) to move to? I have a degree, if that makes any difference.
LA is a Satanic ritual site where artists go to follow their dreams and either end up insane, a paedophile, or homeless.
Awful idea.
This true don't go to la for any reason, thank the gods climate change will render this city dead. :inshallah: :inshallah:
when you want to leave "this brainworm-ridden, rain-soaked, miserable, hopeless country" so you move to a brainworm-ridden, sun-soaked, miserable, hopeless country
Trust me. Stay where you are.
It's bad, but anywhere else is gonna be worse.
Especially if you're English-speaking only
Yeah, you're probably right. I am learning another language atm, but it's Hungarian, and Hungary just seems to be Britain but further on the road to fascism, albeit with better food.
If you can scrape together the cash, you could get a CELTA or TEFL certificate. Make sure it's legit and everything. It's about a month long intensive course or longer for the non intensive one and basically gives you the option to teach English abroad.
Do do your research, both when it comes to the place you get your certificate and where u apply for a job. The last I heard you can get a decent salary in Japan as there's real prestige attached to being taught English by an actual brit.
you likely wont be able to move anywhere as a musician countries have pretty strict laws and they want highly educated / rich people usually. even in small countries like czechia being fluent in the language isnt even enough
you can always try to hook up with someone foreign and get citizenship that way
"Choose" is an awfully funny way to say "forced into by a fascist state."
