@league_cathy @tristroiten @Nexuist @StatisticUrban I guess you're using a definition of "rescue" that's more along the lines of rescuing a dog from an animal shelter rather than saving someone from a burning building. He didn't do anything particularly heroic. >100 divers were involved and 2 died. The ones who went in were heroes

@wordsbyliam @ManuelSConde @StatisticUrban I specifically don't know about the politics. The rest is pretty straightforward. Brexit was bad, but it was also a decade ago. The pandemic affected every country. See the tiny blip at 2020 on the chart below? And the UK is much further from Ukraine than other European countries

@nikicaga No

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@d_feldman Well they're certainly trying. When the dust settles, I expect the cuts to be a lot smaller than elon and journalists claim. Maybe I'm biased because at least where I live (California) the federal gov't is not that involved in health care

@wordsbyliam @ManuelSConde @StatisticUrban I don't know enough about UK politics to have opinions on that, but I know that gov't spending+investment is not the majority of GDP even in the UK. Austerity policy right after a financial crisis is stupid, but that doesn't cause flatlining for two (!) decades. Culture problem.

@tweetellington Yes, several times

Nothing ever happens

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@league_cathy @tristroiten @Nexuist @StatisticUrban Link? The guy's name is Vernon Unsworth and AFAIK he was not one of the rescue divers. The heroes were the people who went in and found the boys. Too much negative polarization on this site with "the enemy of my enemy must be a hero"

@fugosushi @Nexuist @StatisticUrban Is any of that real? The source is the same author who wrote "The GameStop Short Squeeze and the Ragtag Group of Amateur Traders That Brought Wall Street to Its Knees". Sensationalist is an understatement

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@Authw8 I just like pretty pictures. Not much slop on tag based image boards

@tweetellington Apologies if that came off more rude than intended. I was replying in the context of this post. That guy's never heard of unemployment insurance, credit cards, investments, etc

@NeverTr74704466 @stuartbuck1 Yeah, probably. I'd love to see side by side comparisons. Who knows, maybe the recipient of this contract (TRSS Thomson Reuters Special Services) *is* the efficient private sector that you're talking about. Their home page screams waste, but the careers page is normal:

@DanielDayJewish @theRealDanVCFA @Duderichy Machine filtering has been the norm for over a decade

@rippyvanwinky @Duderichy If it doesn't work out, move to another team/company

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