A major local problem in America is freezing property taxes for elderly suburbanites, who then live in their homes forever. This both deprives schools of funding and denies homes to young families. Empty nesters should really pay extra tax, to encourage them to downsize & move.

The new hate crime bill is a gift, it's generated absolute gold like this woman who won't come here for a pizza incase she accidentally hate crimes during dessert. I need more.

OMG the telegraph has 'woke' as a discreet topic and heat pumps are in it. That's actually hilarious.

Fun fact: 6.8 TeV protons in the Large Hadron Collider are going about 7 mph slower than the speed of light.

Okay, but if you are scrolling fast, you might assume this was Stop Podcasting Yourself.

The truest tweet

This is exactly what we didn't want to happen.
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Two adults, two children, next week.

Manchester to St Ives, Cornwall: 8-9 hours, multiple changes, £710.

Manchester to Málaga: 3 hours, £433.

Please help my domestic tourism industry is dying.

Goodness me, the apologists for UK rail responding to this. 'Ackshually you just need to book 87 years in advance and travel via Chad and Murmansk when it's Mega-Super-Sunday-Offpeak - why's that so hard?' It's like some particularly bizarre Privatisation Stockholm Syndrome

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Was there ever a man who looked more like he should be called Walton Goggins than Walton Goggins?

Something We've Never Noticed in 'The Abyss'
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1) what
2) hell yeah

“Congratulations, Ender. The new interstate highway system you designed in SimCity will allow for free movement of goods, services, and people throughout the nation like never before.”

“Wait… what about all the low-income neighborhoods I bulldozed? They were real???”

When the team lets the Engineering Manager submit a PR

449 new homes ✅
Brownfield site ✅
50% affordable ✅
25% social rent ✅
London borough with 0.1% vacancy rate ✅
Got planning permission? ❌
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Congratulations, Multi Academy Lads. And I do mean lads:

'Of the worst-performing 100 public bodies with the largest gender pay gap, all but three were academy trusts.'

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