MonsterMonster @ MonsterMonster @lemmy.world

Posts

78

Comments

261

Joined

2 yr. ago

The US contribution is 0.33% of GDP, UK 0.37%. Estonia meanwhile tops the contribution at 1.26% of GDP, not surprising when they have Russia on their doorstep..... as does the US with Alaska.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1303450/bilateral-aid-to-ukraine-in-a-percent-of-donor-gdp/

Yeah right. We've had next to no wage increases over the last 15 years but workers still carry the can. Totally ignore the energy companies raising their prices significantly based on costs yet still make huge record profits. Ditto supermarkets.

There are many of the opinion that voter ID is a solution for a problem that barely exists. This article is an interesting insight.

Voter ID has been described as a poisoned cure.

A not uncommon sight in the UK. Councils spend huge sums of tax payers money to regenerate urban areas including stone/concrete paved pedestrianised areas. A few weeks later gas, telecom or electricity companies do this.

The worst is when they dig up stone cobbled streets that are hundreds of years old and refill with tarmac.

To be fair, when it comes to snow the majority of us Brits are pretty embarrassingly crap in dealing with it.

Workers wages have barely risen in over a decade (at least). When taking increased cost of living in to account workers income has gone backwards. Yet company owners, directors and shareholders (and the companies themselves) have in the main done very well out of it.

Banking crisis Credit crunch Recession Covid Ukraine war Red sea Middle east

They've all done very well out of these events.

Now here's how you suck an egg.....

Yes and no. Virtually all dentists surgeries are run by self-employed dentists. At one time most would have mainly provided treatment that is subsidised by the NHS and also provided an amount of private patient treatment. These subsidies have not been increased over time making provision of NHS dentistry a loss. The dentists have dropped out of the NHS funded scheme to focus on private work.

Consequently, the cost of, private, dental treatment is now prohibitively expensive.

This has been going on for decades and we are starting to see it in the general NHS medical care. The conservertives hate the NHS and they want to get rid of it and introduce a privatised health care system, all to make money.

This picture sums up the conservertives.

Here's a summary insight.

54.6% voted for the increase.... turnout was 5.7%. So just over 3% of the eligible Parisian population voted for this.

Source

Not for those who can afford 100k+ to buy it in the first place. There will be some who see this as a further requirement to show the world that they are rich enough to belong to an exclusive club.

I bet the designers of the Armata tank platform are getting worried.

Most of those on YouTube. I find the latest Apple ad is graphically confusing to the eye with too much going on.

What's that you say? The Chinese economy is collapsing?

70s 80s

There was a time when all this would have been hush hush and we'd find out about it in the following day or so newspaper. Now we and they get a heads up before the event. Are they selling tickets?

Let's not forget the Bullingdon Club shenanigans.

For those not aware of the notoriety of the Bullingdon Club take a look here .

Don't forget austerity, that in itself had a huge impact.

Pretty much any other food outlet, that way you'll not be disappointed. I've no idea about your country but Taco Bell in the UK is expensive and poor quality.

Of course not, that's where most of the fibre is found. I'd avoid the beak though.

Millions of Lithium batteries sat underground in a landfill site on top of the untold health issues in the near future.