I saw yesterday that there's a strong protection from the vaccine against Long Covid. Perhaps that would give him more time to contemplate his foolishness.

Unmiscegenated - I'd bet there's plenty misogyny flying about in those voids.

Why does there even need to be a COP every year? They know what to do, they know what will be enough and they have the authority in their home nations to do it. COP is just theatre.

Scares the beejesus out of me.

US once again threatening jihadis with a good time. Anyone else read the news story about how the Taliban fighters are all depressed to find themselves as civil servants? That's how to deter people.

This is what people not from the UK (and a fair few who are) always fail to recognise: the Upper Class are engaged in economic war against everyone else, their goal is to maintain a local hegemony and they have been doing this continuously since at least the 11th Century.

There's the small matter of his Dad, a former editor of The Times, having written a book about how to profit from disaster capitalism.

Always. If inflation runs away, the poor suffer. If we get stuck in a deflationary cycle the poor suffer. Apparently it is impossible to construct an equitable system that works without gross inequality (spoiler: it isn't but some people love inequality and will do anything to prevent things being distributed more equally.)

Yes, this is true but you also have to factor in the marginal propensity to consume, or in plain English, the poorer you are the more of your income you have to spend on necessities like rent or groceries.

There are always high interest investments available to people with a large amounts of spare cash floating about even when inflation is low.

If your rent + utilities + food = your income then you ain't hoarding money even in a deflationary spiral.

This is because inflation isn't a bug it's a feature.

Anything that transfers wealth up the chain, from working class to middle class and from middle class to upper class, is a feature of the western economic system.

For example, in England and Wales the Bank of England is charged with keeping inflation at a target of around two per cent. This means that the pound in a workers pocket is supposed to devalue. The advantage is that the government borrows money in its own currency so inflation means that its debt goes down (in real terms) when inflation goes up.

Spotify pays pennies to all but the most popular artists

That's what the strike is about, getting paid a fair wage from streaming. The streamers can afford it, leastways they could when there were essentially two large streamers. The biggest driver behind this whole thing is Disney, which has always been a cuntish entity, and the fact that with their acquisitions from Murdoch, another cuntish entity, have decided they can push everyone around and digitally recreate their voices and likenesses in perpetuity and pay them fuck all for the privilege.

Film production is continuing in the UK as it is cleared through Equity the UK actors union. Could be that the top tier of US actors will still be able to work.

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