Grumpy optimist

South London, England
Joined August 2021
Putting this here for me.
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Just read about Miki Gorman who starting marathon running in her mid 30s to GAIN weight went on to run a half marathon world record and win a bunch world marathon majors. #beastmode
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So basically you get some guys in who aren’t totally climate retarded and they approve the two things 4? Governments couldn’t do within 6months. Turns out there is a fix everything button.
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Back to the OBR forecasting bad growth before the winter energy spike then in Q1 revising everything back up after we didn’t all die.
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Talks to how much recent administrations have eroded trust with their allies.
Jamie Dimon to a country that pulled its gold out of New York: you have three armies within 400 miles, while gold in America is protected by two oceans and the US military “If we have the strongest military in the world and the strongest economy in the world, we will be the preeminent reserve currency. It is those two things.” “I was in a country somewhere in the Middle East, and also in Europe, and the people said, we took our gold out of the vaults in New York City and moved it to our country. You know what I said to him? I said, you have three armies within 400 miles who can come take your gold.” “That’s the real world. You’re not thinking clearly about safety. That gold is protected by the Atlantic, the Pacific, the United States military, the rule of law.” “But if we are not the preeminent military and economy, you will see our reserve status come down.”
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Pretty serious news it’s not that common to get a section 166 when you have not done anything wrong.
Bank of England orders review of Revolut’s product approval processes The Bank of England’s PRA has ordered a Section 166 review of Revolut’s product approval processes, according to the Financial Times. The order came earlier this year, around the time Revolut finally secured its full UK banking licence in March. The aim is to examine the risks around rapid launches of new financial products and better understand the robustness of the group’s internal systems. A Section 166 forces a firm to appoint external experts—accountants or lawyers—to examine its controls and produce a report with recommendations. It is an evidence-gathering tool. If failures are found, regulators can then impose penalties or take other action. This follows earlier action by the European Central Bank. Last year the ECB found “deficiencies” in Revolut’s new product approval processes and ordered a third-party review of its risk, compliance and legal functions governing new product launches in Europe. The move came after CEO Nik Storonsky said he likes employees to act like “self-guided missiles” with little oversight when developing products. Revolut’s wait for a full UK licence was already the longest of any bank in the country. With the licence now granted, the Section 166 shows regulators still want extra safeguards in place before Revolut pushes further into core banking products. The practical question is how far this slows product velocity. Whoever leaked the detail has also made visible a level of supervisory attention we normally don't know about.
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For some reason it really fucks me up that people who are born blind can’t visual anything. I guess if you could never do it, you don’t know what you’re missing, but if you lost that ability that’s tough.
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The foods not that bad
london is a city that dares to ask the question: what if there was a world-class capital with bad weather, high cost of living, mediocre food and miserable people? nevertheless, it persists
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Chinese people be like can you swap the meat for extra chilli’s?
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Mbappe learning today that the great firewall keeps the Chinese in and not us out. Would be a brutal day to be on Chinese social media.
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Spanish fans racism ⬆️⬆️⬆️
🚨💣 CONFIRMED: China State TV SUSPENDS La Liga coverage after Kylian Mbappé’s comments on Mao Zedong. @EFEnoticias ❌
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I went to batting cages with my mate who played county juniors a few times in Japan. Being able to see the animation of the bowler helped a lot, it seemed like you are swinging based on the release of the ball not the flight because it’s going way too fast.
average cricketer seeing the 105mph four seam fastball from the miz
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Fuel duty is a pay per mile tax, doesn’t make any sense.
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This is not the tax cuts we need
🚨 NEW: John Healey will announce pensioners will be protected from paying income tax in the Budget The state pension will rise by £489 to £13,036 with the tax-free allowance rising to match
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I really hope this somewhere along the way involved telling Ed Miliband to get fucked
🚨 NEW: Andy Burnham and John Healey are set to force the approval of Rosebank despite the Energy Secretary's reluctance Minister: "Both Andy and John have decided Rosebank needs to go ahead. The economic and energy security case is so strong" [@DPJHodges]
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Lawyers saying we can take Thames water into public ownership for 0 - except the massive legal fees and the money they will get paid to sue the government afterwards ofc.
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Something tells me El Salvador is going to fuck these guys up.
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They’ve got wind waker on switch 2, big day
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People blow so much smoke up Edinburgh’s and KCLs ass it’s ridiculous
米国以外のエリート大学top50 日本からは東大と京大がランクイン 東大11位は結構すごいな
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Olympic marathon champ been banned for 6 years, well she rather 65mins for a half in 2017 and she’s 33 what’s the point in catching her after her career is almost over? Should fine her £500k-2m and redistribute to the people she spent a decade scamming. Wada are useless
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