Pay taxes to a church? That's fucky!
I never heard of it till recently, I knew some people paid tithes to churches they attended.
Chancel Tax I believe its called, that if you live in X distance to the church you pay to it, how enforceable it is under law is another question, but apparently people get the bill applied to their home or somesuch.
Sounds like something that needs review tbh.
They never ask us why we stopped going to Church.
I will give it you Americans, your take on Christianity is a good one.
I never agreed with sectioning off communities, schools and general areas based on the flavour of Christ.
Not to mention there are still places in the UK that if you live near a church you have to pay taxes to it, how do you image that goes down well for Johnny Smith who was raised to consider Y sect blasphemers.
Maybe Gen Z will fix things.
"Yes we, we are building new nukes and more advanced delivery systems"
"No not like that!"
Jeez, you cannot make some people happy.
We are also building like 20 new Warships and such to be fair.
Once again.
This is embarrassing guys.
Have you considered one of these?
A top speed of 28mph and a range of 46 WHOLE MILES!
I rag on it, but it actually can charge off some solar panels in a few hours so if you have an existing setup you could just charge it off that.
This is embrassing guys
The buses in my City are amazing, the tickets cover the cost of the service, so its not run to a profit but rather run to keep going, with local goverment oversight.
There is no central bus station, but rather everything goes to the city centre, by chance, long before the invention of the motorcar, the city centre was built with two large roads running down its length (more impressive and more room for horse and cart), that happen to be big enough for two lanes of modern traffic on each.
The large road running down "main street", if you will, past the castle has been limited to cars, trams and taxis. It is to this place almost every bus goes too, and goes out from.
So wherever you are in the city, you just hop on a bus, available on most main roads or busy smaller roads and it takes you to the city centre, and from there you can get anywhere else.
Because UK, the main rail station is also on main street, as are the buses and trams to the airport (airport buses can also be found all over the city).
As buses run all day and night, you can stumble out of your buddys house on the city outskirts at 2AM, get on the next bus going to the city centre, and then get your bus home from there, or catch your train home....or if you have really planned your time poorly, catch your flight.
I live on the outskirts and I have a bus to the city centre every 5-8 minutes or so, a bus to the Airport every 20-30 mins or so, that goes right past my place of work, and a bus to the hospital and further on to one of the retail parks every 20-30 minutes.
It is fortunate, as the roads are somewhat limited in their traffic handling by being older than America.
I'm surprised we are the only country that do it.
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Ha! The one near where I used to live at Seaford was a Thirsty Camel for at time, but it seems to have changed hands many times over the last almost two decades.
I used to work in an engineering supplies that worked just like that. New staff always had to do their time on the front counter.
I miss the Aussie bottle shops, drive in, beer in the boot, pay and off you go.
In 1935, A British expeditionary force team explores a largely abandoned Washington DC in order to recover the Deceleration of Independence to take it back to the government in exile in Hawaii, only to discover one of the many other groups calling themselves the United States successor has already taken it.
What follows is a roller-coaster ride across the continental Americas, dodging hostile forces, survivalist groups and foreign forces attempting to stake claim to areas. Cumulating in a dramatic showdown in Cheyenne Mountain and a race against time to recover the document before the self destruct nukes the place into dust.
Only by producing the document, will the foreign forces that have staged a surprise attack on the remaining US forces at Hawaii agree to pull back recognise the government.
If you perform a task which can be replaced by either AI, automation or Mexicans, eventually it will be, thanks to MBA's
AI its a bust, oversold, the bubble will burst and hold the industry back a decade.
Apparently "Typing documents from home for £18 an hour" was not the response they wanted to hear.
Market forces motherfucker.
The moment cubicle jobs realised they could save millions a year in commercial rent by getting some kid on zoom to do admin, hospitality was fucked.
What happens when some peaked in high school ICE guy shoots a national guardsman, cop or state sheriff?
The hell is going on over there.
That person doesn't exist.
Oh trust me, they do, they like to post sov cit stuff and bodycam footage on Facebook all day.
I guess retirement/unemployment does not gel with everyone.
Me: "So you support ICE and what they do?"
Them: "Yes, absolutely."
Me: "Oh so if ICE stopped you and wanted to see your documents you would do it"
Them: "Oh no, I don't submit to searches and I don't answer questions, folk round me know if you push me like that we are going to have a problem"
I am not sure you can hold both views and be mentally all there.
As a qualified Geologist, peak oil was not about how much was down there, it was how much was PROFITABLE to get.
Much of the modern mining tech was science fiction not long ago, we can do things that sound like bullshit unless you see it, and the price of oil is high enough to do the things that were "never going to happen" before.
The real wonder was that there were people brave enough to put the money down to develop the above, a great many others, were not.
As far as climate change, well nobody cares enough about pollution anymore.
Its why you have microplastics in your balls.
On the plus side, Europe is building lots of nuclear power-plants, a few small reactors here in the UK and lots of big ones across Europe.
Display MoreSold these today for $450. I was $100 in and the drivers were trashed. My rationalization was that I probably couldn't build the cabinets (Birch ply and real Walnut veneer) for $100. Got $150 into new drivers and crossover components. Yeah... I coulda got more maybe. They sat for two weeks. A guy drove down from TC to demo them. TC is where I need to be. I picked up a set of Ohm C+s up there a couple of weeks ago for $20. The woofers needed new surrounds. I'll refresh the cabinets and sell them (to someone in TC) for $400 - $500.
Nice to see America is not exempt form the trend of car brands manufacturing cars that look like complete ass.
Congratulations!
Thanks, its easy when you love what you do.
