15400 pts ยท July 6, 2023
A debate on ancient Greece vs Rome, by Boris Johnson and Mary Beard. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2k448JqQyj8
Yep. This is a video that everyone should watch. Do not talk to the police (or senators trying to jail you) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-7o9xYp7eE&
It isn't the UK that is spending $6 billion on two new luxury planes for its head of state..... The cost of running the British Royal Family is almost certainly far less than the US spends on the President. And the President of France doesn't exactly live in a condo and fly economy.
I suspect having the elected leader, with the actual power, have to meet the royal head of state every week reminds them they are "just" the elected leader and prevents them getting carried away with power. And it is easier to criticise them and hold them to account because you are not criticising the head of state so you don't feel you are criticising the country.
Monarchies again highlighted.
In is interesting that of the countries often rated best for things like happiness, freedom, democracy etc a LOT are Constitutional Monarchies. Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Netherlands, New Zealand, Australia, Canada, the UK etc all constitutional monarchies. Maybe having a head of state totally outside politics makes it easier to hold elected leaders to account and stops them getting power crazy? Monarchies highlighted on the right.
It's swings and roundabouts. Python was commissioned by the big boss at the BBC when the team were in his office and pitched the show. But they got to his office by being Oxbridge Footlights alums, along with The Goodies, Clive James and others. But for millions of others that lacked those connections it was far harder. Today the BBC have a process that gives everyone the same chance. So maybe harder for a Python to get in, but far easier for everyone else.
And they weren't burned in England either.
#4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2kD1YUtA5o
In the UK developers usually go out of their way to make the houses look different. You'll have six semi detached houses, then two bungalows, then four detached houses, then a unit of six apartments, then two more bungalows and so on. Some red brick, some white plaster, some blue plaster, some wooden boarding etc. Some will be close to the road, some set back, some at right angles with a shared driver and so on.
It's not for brain surgery. But most plumbing or building work watching a bunch of YT videos is generally all you need.
In the UK there are apartments where you buy a leasehold and have a landlord, but at the same time you buy an equal share of that landlord. So in a block of ten apartments you own one apartment and you own 10% of the landlord company which owns the freehold. So you all agree on common work, you all pay towards that work and there's no one making a huge profit from you or putting the annual service charge up 20% because they can etc.
Having just dissed Youtube in another comment here's where I point out that you can learn to do any house maintenance by watching a few YT videos. Just search for the job, watch half a dozen videos and see the general consensus of all of them.
I use Edge and UBlock Origin still works for me, though I do occasionally get a YT video that won't play. If it doesn't play I just do without it. I can live without Youtube.
When Japan started eating the Big 3s lunch in the 70s I don't think the Americans had moved much manufacturing abroad. Ford for example had factories in Europe but only to serve the UK market. I can't recall any European manufactured models being shipped to the US. And the biggest group of stockholders are ordinary working people through their pensions, 401Ks, IRAs etc. As a group they own more stock than billionaires do. And my comment was workers employed by the City were working class.
So because the land was "not important enough" it's okay to let the people get invaded and ruled? Just abandon them? Thank god Thatcher was PM and not you.
Having said that the weather and drought we are experiencing now are arguably far worse then the 70 and yet we have not needed to be told to save bathwater, so the water system must have improved.
Again, if you knew how bad things were in the 70s you'd understand. The UK was like a patient with gangrene in their leg. They WILL die unless you amputate the leg. The alternative to what Margaret Thatcher did was not some fantasy land of hugs and puppies where everything would magically get better. It would be the sort of collapse Argentina or Zimbabwe went through. You are the gangrene patient blaming the doctor who saved your live convinced that your leg would have magically got better.
With lyrics that suggest they thought "Waterloo" was a person, and sung by two women that, at the time, couldn't speak English so they learned and sang phonetically.
The economy was turned around. The loss of manufacturing jobs to lower paid economies was inevitable and affected everyone. German and French car makers moved production to lower cost countries. Japan almost destroyed the western car industry, but was then itself hit hard by Korea and now China. The revolution in The City, the UK finance industry, was huge and created a huge number of jobs, most to working class traders not posh upper class boys.
This video is composer Howard Goodall talking about The Beatles. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQS91wVdvYc Towards the end he talks about how Harrison's interest in Eastern music and their difference scales influenced the band. Worth watching.
George Schultz on the other hand was a complete POS. He was on the board of Theranos and his own grandson worked in their lab. He called his grandfather and told him they were faking it. He turned his own grandson in to Theranos and forced him to sign a NDA.
If you read John Carreyrou's book Bad Blood about the Theranos scandal he says Murdoch was an investor in Theranos but when Holmes called him and asked him to stop his WSJ reporters from reporting on the company he told her he didn't interfere with his reporters and the WSJ carried on exposing the company.
She defended the rights of the Falkland Islanders at huge political risk. That's called doing the right thing. That's what governments are supposed to do. You might as well blame The US for going to war with Japan after Pearl Harbor. Just let Japan have the islands. Who cares?
She defended the rights of the Falkland Islanders at huge political risk. That's called doing the right thing. That's what governments are supposed to do.
In the 70s, before Thatcher, the UK was universally accepted as doomed. We had to be bailed out by the IMF. You weren't allowed to take too much money abroad on holiday, we were told to share bathwater with a friend to save water, we had rolling power cuts, state owned industries were awful and bloated. If you wanted a phone installed you had to wait months for the state owned GPO to get around to installing it.
People who criticise Thatcher forget, or don't know, just how bad things in the UK were in the seventies. She hugely improved the country from what it had been. And to this day some people hate her "for closing all the coal mines" when in reality more mines were closed, and more miners jobs lost, under Wilson's Labour government than under her government.
When she was first elected as an MP in the late sixties being gay was still a crime in the UK. She voted to legalise it. When she became PM it was still illegal in Scotland. Her government legalised it. She wasn't exactly a huge cheerleader for gay rights, but nor was she trying to have them all rounded up and shot.
The original Renault Magnum was one of the first to have a flat floor. And the entire cab/sleeper was totally separate from the engine/chassis and had its own suspension.
A debate on ancient Greece vs Rome, by Boris Johnson and Mary Beard. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2k448JqQyj8
Yep. This is a video that everyone should watch. Do not talk to the police (or senators trying to jail you) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-7o9xYp7eE&
It isn't the UK that is spending $6 billion on two new luxury planes for its head of state..... The cost of running the British Royal Family is almost certainly far less than the US spends on the President. And the President of France doesn't exactly live in a condo and fly economy.
I suspect having the elected leader, with the actual power, have to meet the royal head of state every week reminds them they are "just" the elected leader and prevents them getting carried away with power. And it is easier to criticise them and hold them to account because you are not criticising the head of state so you don't feel you are criticising the country.
Monarchies again highlighted.
In is interesting that of the countries often rated best for things like happiness, freedom, democracy etc a LOT are Constitutional Monarchies. Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Netherlands, New Zealand, Australia, Canada, the UK etc all constitutional monarchies. Maybe having a head of state totally outside politics makes it easier to hold elected leaders to account and stops them getting power crazy? Monarchies highlighted on the right.
It's swings and roundabouts. Python was commissioned by the big boss at the BBC when the team were in his office and pitched the show. But they got to his office by being Oxbridge Footlights alums, along with The Goodies, Clive James and others. But for millions of others that lacked those connections it was far harder. Today the BBC have a process that gives everyone the same chance. So maybe harder for a Python to get in, but far easier for everyone else.
And they weren't burned in England either.
#4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2kD1YUtA5o
In the UK developers usually go out of their way to make the houses look different. You'll have six semi detached houses, then two bungalows, then four detached houses, then a unit of six apartments, then two more bungalows and so on. Some red brick, some white plaster, some blue plaster, some wooden boarding etc. Some will be close to the road, some set back, some at right angles with a shared driver and so on.
It's not for brain surgery. But most plumbing or building work watching a bunch of YT videos is generally all you need.
In the UK there are apartments where you buy a leasehold and have a landlord, but at the same time you buy an equal share of that landlord. So in a block of ten apartments you own one apartment and you own 10% of the landlord company which owns the freehold. So you all agree on common work, you all pay towards that work and there's no one making a huge profit from you or putting the annual service charge up 20% because they can etc.
Having just dissed Youtube in another comment here's where I point out that you can learn to do any house maintenance by watching a few YT videos. Just search for the job, watch half a dozen videos and see the general consensus of all of them.
I use Edge and UBlock Origin still works for me, though I do occasionally get a YT video that won't play. If it doesn't play I just do without it. I can live without Youtube.
When Japan started eating the Big 3s lunch in the 70s I don't think the Americans had moved much manufacturing abroad. Ford for example had factories in Europe but only to serve the UK market. I can't recall any European manufactured models being shipped to the US. And the biggest group of stockholders are ordinary working people through their pensions, 401Ks, IRAs etc. As a group they own more stock than billionaires do. And my comment was workers employed by the City were working class.
So because the land was "not important enough" it's okay to let the people get invaded and ruled? Just abandon them? Thank god Thatcher was PM and not you.
Having said that the weather and drought we are experiencing now are arguably far worse then the 70 and yet we have not needed to be told to save bathwater, so the water system must have improved.
Again, if you knew how bad things were in the 70s you'd understand. The UK was like a patient with gangrene in their leg. They WILL die unless you amputate the leg. The alternative to what Margaret Thatcher did was not some fantasy land of hugs and puppies where everything would magically get better. It would be the sort of collapse Argentina or Zimbabwe went through. You are the gangrene patient blaming the doctor who saved your live convinced that your leg would have magically got better.
With lyrics that suggest they thought "Waterloo" was a person, and sung by two women that, at the time, couldn't speak English so they learned and sang phonetically.
The economy was turned around. The loss of manufacturing jobs to lower paid economies was inevitable and affected everyone. German and French car makers moved production to lower cost countries. Japan almost destroyed the western car industry, but was then itself hit hard by Korea and now China. The revolution in The City, the UK finance industry, was huge and created a huge number of jobs, most to working class traders not posh upper class boys.
This video is composer Howard Goodall talking about The Beatles. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQS91wVdvYc Towards the end he talks about how Harrison's interest in Eastern music and their difference scales influenced the band. Worth watching.
George Schultz on the other hand was a complete POS. He was on the board of Theranos and his own grandson worked in their lab. He called his grandfather and told him they were faking it. He turned his own grandson in to Theranos and forced him to sign a NDA.
If you read John Carreyrou's book Bad Blood about the Theranos scandal he says Murdoch was an investor in Theranos but when Holmes called him and asked him to stop his WSJ reporters from reporting on the company he told her he didn't interfere with his reporters and the WSJ carried on exposing the company.
She defended the rights of the Falkland Islanders at huge political risk. That's called doing the right thing. That's what governments are supposed to do. You might as well blame The US for going to war with Japan after Pearl Harbor. Just let Japan have the islands. Who cares?
She defended the rights of the Falkland Islanders at huge political risk. That's called doing the right thing. That's what governments are supposed to do.
In the 70s, before Thatcher, the UK was universally accepted as doomed. We had to be bailed out by the IMF. You weren't allowed to take too much money abroad on holiday, we were told to share bathwater with a friend to save water, we had rolling power cuts, state owned industries were awful and bloated. If you wanted a phone installed you had to wait months for the state owned GPO to get around to installing it.
People who criticise Thatcher forget, or don't know, just how bad things in the UK were in the seventies. She hugely improved the country from what it had been. And to this day some people hate her "for closing all the coal mines" when in reality more mines were closed, and more miners jobs lost, under Wilson's Labour government than under her government.
When she was first elected as an MP in the late sixties being gay was still a crime in the UK. She voted to legalise it. When she became PM it was still illegal in Scotland. Her government legalised it. She wasn't exactly a huge cheerleader for gay rights, but nor was she trying to have them all rounded up and shot.
The original Renault Magnum was one of the first to have a flat floor. And the entire cab/sleeper was totally separate from the engine/chassis and had its own suspension.