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Gold seems to be going up again ...

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#diet #health #WholeMilk #FullFatDairy

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I don't remember the name off-hand, but the UK-based company that used to actually make DMs is known. The brand switched to some cheap foreign manufacturer years ago and the quality fell away.

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A number of other major journalism organizations have also recently moved to restrict the Wayback Machine from archiving their stories, including The New York Times. According to analysis by the artificial-intelligence-detection startup Originality AI, 23 major news sites are currently blocking ia_archiverbot, the web crawler commonly used by the Internet Archive for the Wayback project. The social platform Reddit is too. Other outlets are limiting the project in different ways: The Guardian does not block the crawler, but it excludes its content from the Internet Archive API and filters out articles from the Wayback Machine interface, which makes it harder for regular people to access archived versions of its articles.

The Internet's Most Powerful Archiving Tool Is in Peril www.wired.com/story/the-in...

The Wayback Machine web.archive.org

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"Atkins, however, said he had invested personally in private credit ..."

Clearly the guy doesn't understand his job.

Whether he is happy to invest in this stuff is completely irrelevant. He's worth 100s of millions of $, and has lots of financial knowledge and contacts. A world away.

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Petition to suspend trade between EU and Israel reaches almost one million signatures The proposal can be submitted to the European Commission for examination once it reaches one million views.

Petition to suspend trade between EU and Israel reaches almost one million signatures jrnl.ie/7011788

Well, he's right that the welfare budget is increasing, but going from 11% in 1979 to 13% last year isn't much of a rise. Doesn't seem very relevant to me.

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UK state-backed fund Nest invests £450mn in US private credit Workplace pension scheme targets 30% allocation to private markets by 2030 despite growing strains on asset class

FT: UK state-backed fund Nest invests £450mn in US private credit

[paywall] www.ft.com/content/bfe7...

Absolutely crazy. Nest should have a handful of employees and invest in public markets with a simple asset allocation.

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I have a bad back so I value the slightly taller car. tbh with hindsight I preferred the previous one which was smaller (CX-3) but what's done is done. I try not to change cars very often so I'll have this for a while. I do minimal mileage and never fly so I think I'm ok.
You may disagree ofc.

Yes, SUVs could be replaced by smaller vehicles, and there are plenty of reasons to do so. Reducing damage to roads is not one of them.

I don't consider my car as particularly large, although technically I suppose it's a small SUV (Mazda CX-30) ...

This is the key point. Damage caused by HGVs far, far exceeds that caused by SUVs. (Like thousands of times as much damage.)

Came here to say this.

I don't believe the increased damage to roads by heavy SUVs is anywhere near significant when compared to the damage from HGVs.

3 ton car, 2 axles, 1.5 ton/axle, ^4 gives ~5 DUs*
44 ton lorry, 5 axles, 9 ton/axle, ^4 gives ~6561 DUs

* made up "Damage Units"

And claiming simplification would encourage avoidance is just daft. It would make enforcement easier and the economy would gain from the money saved when calculating tax. Remove the cliff edges all over income tax for a start - surely that's a no-brainer??
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If this is true, the Chancellor should force the issue. I can see that merging NI and income tax might have downsides, but surely they could adjust the numbers so that they act as one tax, even if NI is still there in name?
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Weird to me that this is the thing everyone cites, because there's so much that's so much worse. In 1974 the first laws against marital rape were passed, but all 50 states did not classify it as a crime/remove the exemption until 1993.

Farage is like Trump, he's just in it for the money, so he can be bribed.

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So it can only get better from here ... right??

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