Oct 2022
10:18am, 12 Oct 2022
19,960 posts
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richmac
Also from that tweet am I to presume Yamauchi is only anti Male to female ? it's ok if it's the other way?
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Oct 2022
11:03am, 12 Oct 2022
1,369 posts
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fuzzyduck79
Yamauchi always struck me as a decent, kind, reasonable person...until she started campaigning for womens' sport to ban trans women. It's not that I disagree with the arguments either, the whole area is a minefield and there are no easy answers. But the way she and Sharron Davies approach the topic repels me. In Davies' case it seems like she repels a lot of other people too, seems to have lost a lot of work recently as a result: wiltshirelive.co.uk Reading Yamauchi's recent tweets (and noting that she is clinging to JK Rowling for support...not so much Sharron Davies) I can't help but think this issue has somehow changed her as a person, she just seems so utterly polarised now and so far away from reasoned discussion. What on earth is this for example: Mara Yamauchi @mara_yamauchi 3h Eddie Izzard says Izzard is a ‘girl’ - but the minimum age to stand to be elected as an MP is 18 - how does that work? I thought definition of a ‘girl’ was a juvenile ie not yet adult female. 🤔 |
Oct 2022
11:10am, 12 Oct 2022
19,255 posts
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larkim
It is an incredibly polarising issue isn't it. Hyperbole from all angles and irrational arguments. No answer / resolution has yet achieved mass acceptance. And yet, as a man I do find it difficult to escape the fact that I'm viewing the issue from a very different perspective than as a woman. c.f. my poorly constructed comments a few weeks ago trying to articulate views on the "she was asking for it" type debate. For whatever reason it does feel "different" to be allowing birth-men to be in female only spaces, whereas allowing birth-women into men only spaces feels less challenging. And apologies in advance if I've managed to screw up articulating that sensitively too! |
Oct 2022
11:26am, 12 Oct 2022
2,561 posts
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Ally-C
Moving away from that minefield. My gast is flabbered that the economy shrunk 0.3% in August, who’d have thunk it. |
Oct 2022
11:31am, 12 Oct 2022
22,170 posts
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DeeGee
It's just because all those lazy British workers were on holiday. It'll be fine as soon as an entitlement to paid time off is abolished.
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Oct 2022
11:34am, 12 Oct 2022
2,563 posts
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Ally-C
It's just because all those lazy British workers were on holiday. It'll be fine as soon as an entitlement to paid time off is abolished. Can’t believe the lazy sods aren’t taking on multiple jobs to fill all those vacancies, particularly in hospitality. |
Oct 2022
11:35am, 12 Oct 2022
30,589 posts
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macca 53
The Economist on Truss (love the final sentence)… Liz Truss is already a historical figure. However long she now lasts in office, she is set to be remembered as the prime minister whose grip on power was the shortest in British political history. Ms Truss entered Downing Street on September 6th. She blew up her own government with a package of unfunded tax cuts and energy-price guarantees on September 23rd. Take away the ten days of mourning after the death of the queen, and she had seven days in control. That is the shelf-life of a lettuce. |
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Oct 2022
11:35am, 12 Oct 2022
3,431 posts
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JRitchie
Windfall tax on the generators (wind, biomass, solar) and the Truss U Turn. This could actually blow up in her face. There are noises of capping income to £50 - £70 MWH or even £100 - £110 softer landing expectations. This is going to slash renewables revenues and turn them into an effective fixed low margin business. (btw EU are proposing EURO180 MWH). It could cause a flight of capital out of renewable projects - basically if you get 5% Investing in Fixed Income market and government is legislating to effectively fix returns on a renewable project to, say 4% when you model it out, why bother? |
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Oct 2022
11:38am, 12 Oct 2022
1,370 posts
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fuzzyduck79
Interesting thread on the financial armageddon currently playing out with BoE's very short term market intervention and suggesting things are set to get much worse very soon, and in the medium term when Labour potentially come to power: threadreaderapp.com Pension funds collapsing sounds a bit messy, but it seems an actual possibility here? Not totally understanding every bit of what's going on, so I'm taking anything that Rees-Mogg says and assuming the opposite is probably true. Adam Bienkov @AdamBienkov 4h "Our pension funds aren't at risk," says Jacob Rees-Mogg. |
Oct 2022
11:47am, 12 Oct 2022
2,528 posts
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Mushroom
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