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Also didn't have sex with that woman, presumably

The tabloids had an admittedly clever wraparound ad from Tesco today so I'm guessing it was that (even if the poll was done a week ago).

Did his comms team used to work for DFS?

I remember when I chatting to a NED prior to my consultant interview, she was discussing a shared pathway she'd been involved with years earlier.

You can be part of the same organisational and work in silos or in different ones and work together. The acronym kind of doesn't matter.

Hilariously, the reference on Wikipedia is a guy from 1897 writing about slaves in Scottish collieries.

@benstanley.eu you reposted this and then more people reposted and it's thankfully stopped now but if the Americans come, I'm sending them all to you.

This was the reference on Wikipedia (from 1897)

www.scottishmining.co.uk/429.html

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One of my favourite genres is Celts pretending they didn't have anything to do with the British Empire.

Saying "show some guts" where the risk is "being blown to pieces" seems a morbidly apposite choice of words

Screenshot from Bluesky Trending 1. Zelensky 2. Big Brother Brasil 3. Fright Club 4. Sabres 5. Glasgow Fire

It's nice that this is a global trending thing because I did not know anybody still watched Big Brother let alone in Brazil.

On balance, I think we should ban podcasts.

Totally agree. We should be focusing putting a data centre on Mars.

To be fair to the person in question, they weren't particularly proselytising but they posted pictures of their garden being dug up and I was like "not in a million years".

Like with a vocal minority of cyclists, they struggle with their passion project not being everybody else's passion project.

Gonna change my name to Claude Code and see if I can get people to subscribe to me

You underestimate the political might of, erm, er, *checks notes*, right, Blake Stephenson.

Yes him.

"The newest intake will be promoted based on their abil- ity to cut through to young audiences online...based on how well they are performing on X, Facebook and LinkedIn."

65 is the new 20.

You've been living in the Arab Gulf since 2014. This is de facto permanent residence outside the US. Any meaningful definition of "expat" also fits the definition of immigrant.

Possibly although most of my career is ICU which is basically a job about communication skills where you think about physical medicine occasionally.

I'm an actually an expert in sociodynamics of social media. What would you like to know?

Obviously, I don't think anybody means badly but when thought about logically, it's just such a dumb thing to say.

Like, "oh you've been hospitalised with pneumonia? Could be worse, you could be dying of cancer!"

Yeah but when is International Women's Day?

I was babysitting a friend's kid when I was around 15. To entertain him, I put on an old VHS of Danger Mouse from when I was younger.

The plot (which went over my head age 7) was, Baron Greenback wanted to pave over Venice to build a Barry Manilow museum.

Genuinely thought I was going mad.

"The new Supreme Leader is Ayatollah Downey Jr."

‘It’s International Women’s Day. Why aren’t you smiling?’

when you hear how healthcare professionals joke in both real life and more importantly, on the Internet.

Secondly, the butt of the joke is people moving to Dubai saying it's safe when it's the middle of an extremely volatile region of which there are legion.

Further, if you pay taxes in the UAE but not the US, there's surely a point at which the US should reasonably be able to say "it's the UAE's responsibility to protect you".

As for jokes about death, come on. If you this is a deeply offensive joke about death to you then man are you going to be sad

The right to reside on a permanent basis makes you an immigrant. All expats are immigrants.

The question isn't whether you pay tax at all, it's whether your tax bill is equivalent to the level of tax you'd pay were you residing at home (I gather the US though apologies if I'm wrong about that).

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about why I'm wrong but this doesn't feel like "good faith".

If you've got data showing I'm wrong about the affluence of UAE immigrants and their tax liability, would love to see it.

I'm not quite sure what's going on here. I've posted a lot recently with only 2 posts + 1 reply about Dubai which is hardly "full".

I don't think "people who are able to and pay more tax in a given country should have more right to its services" is super-complicated.

Very happy to engage a debate