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Well, yes. When the UK introduce an income tax in the early 19th century, if you had used the word “income” they would have assumed you were talking about the money a gentleman got from his estate, not the wages of a labourer.
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Anthropic is offering a 145k salary for a personal assistant in London.
Responsibilities include:
"Scheduling and managing calendars for leader(s) and their organization"
"Building and maintaining organizational systems for tracking and managing inbound requests"
"Managing the leader's inbox and communications with precise attention to detail"
"Handling travel logistics"
Somebody should really build some sort of tech tool that can handle this stuff autonomously.
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Some folks are missing @PeterSchiff’s point:
ALL government spending is paid for by citizens, through taxes, inflation, interest, AND debt (deferred tax).
The Big Beautiful Bill increased spending by $100’s of billions over the next few years, so it increased what YOU MUST PAY.
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As a reminder, this battle was shown in a mini squared box, as the TV broadcast decided it was far more important to keep showing a train of cars with no possibility of overtaking
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Moonlight reflected off the Amazon river. At the proper angles in our orbit, we aboard @Space_Station can see brief silvery flashes atop water surfaces, illuminating even the darkest places on Earth.
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Last weekend at Black Rock (BALLS 34), I flew my (near)-hypersonic homebuilt experimental 54mm rocket to Mach 4.96 (5372 fps)! To my knowledge, this is the fastest single-stage rocket ever flown and fully recovered by any amateur, among other records in student rocketry.
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As I’ve been writing about Putin for over 20 years, and as I warned Americans about Trump 10 years ago, when you realize that all their decisions are based on making money and clinging to the power needed to make more money, their actions start to make complete sense.
The Trump administration’s talks with Russia about ending the war in Ukraine have expanded to include a multibillion-dollar oil deal that would benefit Middle Eastern business executives with ties to the main U.S. negotiators. nytimes.com/2026/10/03/us/po…
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The Tory government of 2010-24 is possibly the worst thing to ever happen to this country. Everyone likes to blame Blair but at least Gordon Brown understood basic financial maths.
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Look Closely at MaxQ's image, We humans aren't used to being able to visualize the immense sound pressure levels of Starship's 33 Raptor Engines generating such Extreme Energies / Sound Waves that even the Light (Waves) emanating from the Sun are affected by Starship's song. -Here, even Sunlight is "bent" as it passes through Starship’s intense 'Sound Wake'.. xitter.cf/_MaxQ_/status/21045561…
STARSHIP FLIGHT 14 TRANSITS THE SUN!!!
Look at those shockwaves!
📸 - @NASASpaceflight
LIVE COVERAGE CONTINUES: youtube.com/live/9gDxG-pm1Zo…
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The Go/No-Go poll for orbit on Starship flight 14 felt like a movie scene, so I scored it as if it was
