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It is. I guess it shows that politics is often like supporting a football team and people can't change. Goerge Bush courted the Christian evangelical crowd, and Trump inherited them. I often see the extreme ends of political sides have many contradictory groups in them. +1 I'd agree but extend the ...

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Zelenskyy was interviewed last night on the PBS Newshour by Amna Nawaz, in Kyiv . The piece was perhaps 10 minutes long. He was pissed. Upset that he had been verbally promised things in person and in calls with Mike Johnson that have yet to materialize. He even resorted to using English to get his...

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It is no coincidence that the 2 countries that are seriously looking at a calendar year limit on sales are the NZ and UK. Both countries with a NHS. Suspect that this idea will play out like every other smoking regulation as becoming more appreciated over time. Pity the NZ dropped the proposal befo...

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Foot Up wrote: ↑Wed Apr 17, 2024 10:10 am Banning flavoured vapes would be a better move

They already are and disposable vapes as well.

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The UK already has one of the lowest smoking rates in the developed world, under 15% of people smoke, down from around 35% in 2000. That's considerably below the 20-40% range across most of the EU. The anti-smoking legislation passed during that time clearly had some effect. I would've preferred ha...

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Ban it and implement the death penalty for any smoke dealers. I will allow for camps where smokers can live outside of urban areas where they will do public works and be allocated smoking time. :twisted: But to be serious, I find smokers and vapers as a group to be the most selfish people on the pl...

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My wife is dieing in front of my eyes. She has smoked for almost 50 years now and just cannot give up. She doesn't try any more and won't even let her doctor discuss it. She refuses any tests to see what damage it has caused, she knows it has but thinks knowing the details will just cause more stre...

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My wife is dieing in front of my eyes. She has smoked for almost 50 years now and just cannot give up. She doesn't try any more and won't even let her doctor discuss it. She refuses any tests to see what damage it has caused, she knows it has but thinks knowing the details will just cause more stre...

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I am not a smoker but I wonder if such a ban will only strengthen mafia and other criminal groups in pushing these sales to the black market - similar to what Prohibition did with alcohol. U.K. plan to phase out smoking for good passes first hurdle The British government's plan for a landmark smoki...

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Christian fundies and Trump is such a weird alliance, I know why it's happened but still they should consider him antichirst like by their usual standards. It is. I guess it shows that politics is often like supporting a football team and people can't change. Goerge Bush courted the Christian evang...

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Expecting the Ukraine aid bill to be dead on arrival on the floor later this week. Much like the Israel bill looking to include IRS cuts. Anybody want to make any guesses how this plays out? Zelenskyy was interviewed last night on the PBS Newshour by Amna Nawaz, in Kyiv . The piece was perhaps 10 m...

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People (well, mostly Arsenal fans) have lost their minds over this. There’s still only 2 points covering the top 3. You’d think they lost 10 points yesterday the way they’ve seemingly given up. If you believe it’s over, explain how? It's not the points, but the relentless charge City does at the en...

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About f**king time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrrTTCYej8A

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England have the larges playing numbers and were the first union to fund. It also really encouraging girls rugby, the last three weeks i have been at tournaments with 100's of girls at each. The current scores and England dominance are not helping the game, but not sure what England can do. It up t...

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White people don't believe racism exists except when black people do something racist against whites. I never said whites don't see racism, I said their definition of racism is no n words allowed in my store. F u ck, that is me told. Thank god I have this wise c u nt to set me straight. DTs stunnin...

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Rfu is spread thinner, that's true. But that thinner spreads still covers thousands upon thousands more players which is reflected in player depth and quality athletes you can tap. That's also ingoring that a larger playing base is a massive natural benefit even with zero funding. This effect is am...

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Her refereeing may have been a distance off the standards of Davison or Cox but there's no such thing as infallibility in any referee. She's been a stalwart of pretty much my whole Women's 6N viewing, sometimes incomprehensible to non English speakers but always honest and imo competent. Good luck ...

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Rfu is spread thinner, that's true. But that thinner spreads still covers thousands upon thousands more players which is reflected in player depth and quality athletes you can tap. That's also ingoring that a larger playing base is a massive natural benefit even with zero funding. This effect is am...

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I hate to say it, Joy Neville has often been a terrible referee. Bang on. She’s awful and gets a lot wrong. Her refereeing may have been a distance off the standards of Davison or Cox but there's no such thing as infallibility in any referee. She's been a stalwart of pretty much my whole Women's 6N...

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Rfu is spread thinner, that's true. But that thinner spreads still covers thousands upon thousands more players which is reflected in player depth and quality athletes you can tap. That's also ingoring that a larger playing base is a massive natural benefit even with zero funding. This effect is am...

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See how Whites view the state of Racism https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2019/04/09/race-in-america-2019/ That doesn't at all support what you said. It shows most whites do believe there is racism DT. Likewise it doesn't support your point, as I pointed out the case of the wider public bei...

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just making the international team professional was never going to be the only answer for the celtic teams in closing the gap. its not just about training fulltime.At the moment the celtic teams simply dont have enough top class players to pick and choose from.They need to increase the player pool,...

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shereblue wrote: ↑Sun Apr 14, 2024 2:24 pm Joy Neville's last game apparently.

Congrats too to Ireland women yesterday (and Leinster!)

I hate to say it, Joy Neville has often been a terrible referee.

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so professionalism has done fudge all to improve the competition to England.... just making the international team professional was never going to be the only answer for the celtic teams in closing the gap. its not just about training fulltime.At the moment the celtic teams simply dont have enough ...

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Seriously, Wales need to ditch that coaching team. Impressive work from Bemand, on the other hand. Been saying it for a good while. It's like they have never been coached to attack and certainly not coached to think and react to situations. Their coaching team is nothing but a bunch of personal tra...

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Fuhrman was a proven racist and allowed to take the stand and he devastated the case. So too not realizing a leather glove shrinks when wet. There have been several families that deserve better and been failed by society because their loved one, the victim was the wrong color or too poor but it's a...

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I don't think this is true. I've seen interviewers with jurors in which they showed an impressive grasp of the details of the case, and appeared to have taken their job very seriously. It's probably fair to say that the jurors (all black if I remember rightly) would have looked at the case through ...

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I think it was Caitlyn Jenner who had the most apropos tweet....... "Good Riddance". I concur. And she knows how to use your privileged position and celebrity to get off with killing somebody. Wasn't it a Kardashian in-law who was one of his defense lawyers? It was Robert Kardashian - the guy who w...

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Skiaddict wrote: ↑Fri Apr 12, 2024 2:46 am I think it was Caitlyn Jenner who had the most apropos tweet....... "Good Riddance".

I concur.

And she knows how to use your privileged position and celebrity to get off with killing somebody.

Wasn't it a Kardashian in-law who was one of his defense lawyers?

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Eugenius wrote: ↑Fri Apr 12, 2024 1:52 am
eldanielfire wrote: ↑Thu Apr 11, 2024 6:52 pm
Monk Zombie wrote: ↑Thu Apr 11, 2024 5:15 pm The less about this prick the better
OJ is historic, he proved that in America not just the white and rich escape justice, but the black and rich can to. A seminal moment in US race relations.
Especially if you only hang with rich whites .

The US isn't there yet, but it was progress

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Hellraiser wrote: ↑Thu Apr 11, 2024 5:08 pm God, I wish Norm MacDonald was still alive.

https://twitter.com/airbagged/status/17 ... 6681174287

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Monk Zombie wrote: ↑Thu Apr 11, 2024 5:15 pm The less about this prick the better

OJ is historic, he proved that in America not just the white and rich escape justice, but the black and rich can to. A seminal moment in US race relations.

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Wendigo7 wrote: ↑Sat Apr 06, 2024 12:59 pm Well intercepted

England look a poor outfit compared to a well coached and hungry french side.

England's U18s and U20s always seem to get smashed by their French counterparts.

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Early Thursday morning, I had a mild heart attack, no massive pains or sweating or the like, but a general feeling of my chest being squeezed. So I drove to the ER and was shuffled straight into the operating room for a 2.5 hour op using catheter. They inserted three stents and I am able to sit up ...

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Thanks for the info. That referral rate was ridiculous. Obviously that wasn't the objective, and offshoring cashiers was also not the objective, hence why it was shut down. They essentially did offshore cashiers, though I'm sure they didn't think of it that way. Telling that their targets was to ch...

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Put it this way. This guy is about a hand-wringing lefty as they come. He's more socialist than James O'brien. If he thinks this is 1984 level then it probably is. https://twitter.com/NormanBrennan/status/1775796938551545922?s=19 Surely James O'Brien isn't a socialist? He's a typical New Labour cen...

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Its highly unlikely that the system was just a thousand people running through footage. Its much more likely they were used for when the AI wasnt 100% sure (or not sure enough) and asked for a human check, or if the customer disputed their bill. Basically a TMO system. But the rate of referral was ...

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Seems the amazing technology of the stores basically resorted to just having some cheap labour from India watching you shop on cameras. basically offshoring supermarket cashiers. But they appear to be abandoning this for most of them: https://qz.com/amazon-fresh-grocery-stores-just-walk-out-checkout...

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Caught upon the political commentators rift on The Daily Wire between Ben Shapiro and Candice Owens. Have to say Shapiro comes out looking like an utter dickhead and hypocrite over the matter. It's especially telling when his big gimmic for years was stating "facts don't respect your feeling" and be...

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Swift has a bunch of catchy pop tunes but she’s not come anywhere near the same impact that MJ had. For instance, I couldn’t name one of her albums. I might name 3 of her hits… Shake it Off Style Blank Space That’s all I got. Black an white, Billy jean, smooth criminal are the only mj songs I can n...

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