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Let me just check my notes on who pays the journalists salaries…. Ah

The truth is somewhere in between both trains of thought, isn’t it?

Not all the really rich people deserve to be eaten.

You just blame the victims. You get poor(er) people to attack each other. Works a charm every time.

That’s exactly why this stuff gets written: to perpetuate that narrative.

The expected lifetime earnings of your average Brit is £606,000. The richest Brit, Jim Ratcliffe, makes that amount in 3:30 hours. The richest publically acknowledged person, Musk, makes that amount in 34 minutes.

It’s not the poor who are the problem.

Not all the really rich people deserve to be eaten.

I believe in contributing in line with your ability to. Which makes me annoyed when people 'earning' £2,200,000+ pay ~23%. Sure half a million is loads more than I even earn but my marginal rate is 40%.

I wouldn't want to eat Rishi Sunak though, looks like a scrawny bugger - wouldn't it be all chewy? Perhaps a really slow cooked casserole? It seems there is a book https://www.amazon.co.uk/Eat-Rich-Cookbook-John-Beardsley-ebook/dp/B007S3WP6O

I believe in contributing in line with your ability to. Which makes me annoyed when people 'earning' £2,200,000+ pay ~23%.

Agreed.

How much tax avoidance do we tolerate? If you max out pension contributions and get a £5k bike on C2W then that’s potentially a decent fraction of salary which you’re not being taxed on.

Never understood this attitude to staying put in your home during extreme storms, but as long as you're prepped I guess...

However, Nugent admits he does feel "apprehensive" about the storm's arrival.
"We’ve taken all the outside furniture inside."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cr753r34n3rt?post=asset%3A05ea6659-00a1-4382-9358-390b571cee35#post

Because it's expensive to leave

The IANA are unlikely to break thousands of websites just for a bit of politics. It'll move from ccTLD status to gTLD status.

Apparently IANA see what happened with .su as a problem and now have a process for removal of ex-ISO codes.

https://www.iana.org/help/cctld-retirement

https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/8/24265441/uk-treaty-end-io-domain-chagos-islands

Arguably the cost of staying is higher. More arguably, that particular couple appears to be in a gated community and don't seem short of a few dollars if their garden furniture is heavy enough to cause damage if airborne.
They could, of course, be in a trailer park and have taken the folding chairs off the lawn.

Some people have already lost things a couple of weeks ago.

I know. I suppose I just think being alive is more important than having stuff to lose or not lose. We all face category five hurricanes in different ways.

Well considering people beg other people not to call ambulances because they can't afford it in the US it all depends on your appetite for debt vs quality of life

Ooh. Interesting. Thanks for the follow up.

I heard interviews where people were concerned about being stuck on the road when the storm hit. Lots of traffic jams, vehicles breaking down, rumours of petrol stations being out of petrol, etc

Imagine the terror of a 15 foot storm sturge when the land is max 2 feet above sea level. There will be people sheltering on bridges and overpasses and office roofs.

I'm getting a bit hurricane obsessed atm. This one looks insanely big.

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Absolutely terrifying.

It is.

What's also grim is that some prisons are not being evacuated despite being in the path of the storm. I don't know how solid their buildings are, but this storm would seem to be one that can destroy even strong ones.

Prisons sound safe to me. Wouldn't they be made of reinforced concrete? The dangerous buildings are the ones made of plywood, i.e. most homes in the US. The wind gets under the eaves and the roof blows away.

I don't know any specifics, let's hope they'll be safe.

There were tornados in south Florida today even before the Milton rain started

Yeah, huge satellite supercells have been forming around Milton, reports of massive wedge waterspouts spotted on radar out at sea. Fourth biggest hurricane on record, the storm surge could be up to 15ft this time, it was 5ft when it rolled through there the other week. 😲

It's going to be a long night for a lot of people over there