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Depends. Is there a Nobel Prize in it?
17.08.2025 12:15 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I see India's sponsorship of Putin's war crimes is increasing .... www.thehindu.com/business/Eco...
17.08.2025 08:22 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Writing to a murderer who literally abducts children. Everything is just a performance designed to feed the media for the Trump regime.
16.08.2025 21:26 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Good to see JOC get a run. Can’t help but things would have been different if he’d started the first Lions test.
16.08.2025 21:23 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0That was a remarkable win. Hats off to Schmidt.
16.08.2025 21:13 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0We’re seeing some context to Farrell’s Lions streaky series victory against sixth-placed Aus.
16.08.2025 15:32 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0Very true
16.08.2025 08:25 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Bronx vs Fins
16.08.2025 07:25 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0How about a democratically elected second chamber?
15.08.2025 11:49 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Good job they had that gap in their salary cap.
14.08.2025 22:04 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Storm vs Panthers .... What a game! One of the best eva. Amazing quality and intensity. Golden point victory for the Storm.
14.08.2025 11:45 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Oh boy ... someone needs to watch The Office. za.bebee.com/bee/simon-ko...
14.08.2025 09:34 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0TBF, they're on the wrong side of everything.
14.08.2025 09:25 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0UK coup made us corporate slaves.
Post Office scandal, no one charged for false convictions.
Grenfell fire, 72 died, no one charged
Water companies, 1,137 criminal convictions, still operating.
Energy companies, £514bn operating profit. No curbs.
Corporate lawlessness is the new norm
Cosplay
14.08.2025 08:37 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Looks like no one is interested in representative democracy in the US any more. All they want is power.
abcnews.go.com/Politics/new...
A lie by omission is still a lie.
www.amnestyusa.org/press-releas...
Big shout out to Maria, who's certainly brightened up my day.
13.08.2025 21:40 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0My favourite one is climate change. "Do you *believe* in climate change?" ..... like belief has got anything to do with it!
13.08.2025 21:36 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Come on Rob! Get with the program! It’s all about opinions and beliefs, not about data and facts!
13.08.2025 21:19 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Talk about failing to learn from your mistakes ...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
… and are also useful when traveling to the US, as it will be more difficult to discover your opinions of the Dear Leader.
12.08.2025 21:49 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The US is irreparably broken. Fealty is now more important than competency so even in a post-Trump world, every appointee is going to be seen as political. The only way it can be rescued is through proper employment laws that protect employees from random sacking. Yeh. Imagine that!
12.08.2025 08:03 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Lordy. I need to go and have a lie down. My ability to count to ten has disappeared!
12.08.2025 05:14 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Businesses think in decades, not news cycles. If tariffs last only until the next press release, they’re not an investment strategy—they’re just a tax on shoppers.
11.08.2025 16:46 — 👍 531 🔁 174 💬 17 📌 11The English Premiership has 12 teams. Super Rugby Pacific has 11 teams. Can't see a problem.
11.08.2025 21:41 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0But Gregg, we need change.
11.08.2025 20:29 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1Academics should be fighting fearlessly with facts, but instead far too many are cowering in the corner and can't communicate correctly.
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