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$675 doesn't strike me as especially outrageous for a high-end lawyer. Especially if millions are at stake.
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For an encore, did you give the name for the next cup as "Let us give thanks to the Lord our God"?
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Never mind those who work late, like in bars or supermarkets, and need to somehow get home? Which is presumably why they got a car in the first place?
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Quite. For a big case you don't quibble too much over the fee.
Top-end lawyers can apparently get up to $2000 per hour anyway.
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And all this over a scammer wanting to sell his own vaccines instead of the standard one!
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I think they think “15 minute cities” implies some sort of cordon. They think it means “you have to live in a 15 minute circle” not “you don’t have to leave your 15 minute circle but you can if you want”.
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Yep. Normally Chloe is brilliant. But I just don't get her point here. The EU didn't defeat Hitler. It was created to prevent a repeat.
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Cynics have suggested that if it's not compulsory then government doesn't have to pay compensation
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At least one lawyer was caught out by that when the cases said lawyer cited didn't exist! abajournal.com/news/article/…
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BREAKING: Haitian commuter buys wrong ticket, is issued with penalty fare
BREAKING: Haitian beachgoer has invalid beach tag, is fined
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As handsome as you are, and notwithstanding the undoubted natural beauty, the USA is currently incapable of love.
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Isn't that literally communism, and the opposite of what the USA is about, but instead what the USSR was about?
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So you want doctors to risk their licences and liberty on maybes? They don’t, as we have seen in Ireland and Malta.
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He wants car tunnels in lieu of actual public transport, so sorry I can't take him seriously.
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I am not entirely sure why we bothered to host #COP26, only to freeze fuel duty, halve domestic air passenger duty, raise rail fares and cut HS2, NPR, rail electrification and other rail investment.
Does this government care about the environment at all, or only lip service?
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At minimum, such failures came after refusal to actually pay his bills! That, in itself, should be unacceptable!
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If we want to give Hong Kongers or Hawaiians or Hondurans or Hungarians the right of abode, that's our business and no-one else's.
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Except the EU are offering us a free trade deal, Daniel. You might not like the terms, but the offer stands.
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Americans - how routine is a two hour journey?
I have booked to London for December, which is a 95-105 minute train journey plus a 5-10 minute cab ride and a wait in between.
Is such a journey length normal or exceptional?
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I think they think that the EU is the same sort of empire that Russia aspires to become again.
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If Rishi Sunak does scrap HS2 north of Birmingham, the Tories have lost any chance of getting my vote for years. This would mean most of the costs are incurred without the benefits.
theguardian.com/uk-news/2023…
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I think rural Africa, like everywhere else in the world, would benefit from proper electricity. Not least because mobile phones are very popular in developing countries.
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So you want Russia to take over Ukraine? How far are you willing to go? Poland? Croatia? Germany? France? Piccadilly? The Reform Club?
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Another brilliant @JasonJHunter thread - even if "Britannia waives the rules" the EU won't.
Morning my fine followers, fancy a 'Trade tariffs in laymans terms' thread for breakfast? alright then, here ya go...
“But Germany, France and Italy won’t stop buying things from the UK if we leave” say the Brexiteers, they NEED us, and they won’t put us into a tariff regime".
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Yep. It's like the calls for MPs to not be paid or to only get a nominal wage. It just means only people with alternative income can do the job. And, worse, incentivises corruption.
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Also, surely the FAA takes revenue from ATC fees? And Amtrak was set up to fail from the start.
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How are they possibly going to justify this? Surgeons don’t arbitrarily prolong surgery but complications happen.
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What would he rather do with it? It will never be an actual coin operated phone. Far better for it to be a defibrillator than to be on the "any old iron" scrapper's truck. cc @tc1415 @flowerpotweller
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Does "threats to our way of life" mean "we might see the odd shop with signs in a different language"?
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San Francisco is a big city. It has things called "trains", "trams", "cable cars" and "buses". It should be able to cope.
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And certainly Brexit wasn't sold before the referendum as "leave at all costs". So why is it now?
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We didn’t want Russia to invade Ukraine but they did, and it’s either war or surrender. We had surrender already over the Crimea, a stand must now be taken.
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Ahem. There are PLURAL vertebrates in the GOP congressional delegation. @BenSasse and @justinamash.
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You are aware of the actual case in 2012 in Ireland? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_…
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I think FoM has been very badly sold, and conflated with other immigration issues that are really quite separate. (Notwithstanding what seems to me a far-fetched link that refugees will live in Germany just long enough to get a German passport then come here - why would they?)
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Which is hardly in keeping with BBC impartiality guidelines. And which would encourage the government to accelerate the plans to scrap the BBC or at least the licence.
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How is this a bad thing? Unless you’re whingeing for the sake of it?
HS2 needs to go to Euston. It also needs to go (at least) to Manchester and Leeds (personally I’d run the west to Inverness via Glasgow and the east to Aberdeen via Edinburgh).
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Communication lecturers can't handle free speech? 😆 @TomlinsonCJ
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Nah, @DonaldJTrumpJr was just teaching her about civil asset forfeiture.
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Both should be allowed to refuse to make custom cakes, neither should be allowed to refuse to make standard cakes.
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It would also have massively blighted a large residential area with 24/7 glowing adverts. That was sufficient reason to reject it.
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Why should it be? Things are functioning even if farmers are affected by an inheritance tax rise that won't apply to most, and will apply to none while alive.
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It's also crude and unbecoming. And risks retaliation in kind or worse. Violence, even throwing food, has no place in politics.
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They'll just change the plug and socket to be like the ones in blocks of flats which accept their vacuum cleaner but not tenants' plugs.
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So the fake news site is real and the real news sites are fake? @TheBabylonBee @chrisantenucci
Organization That Murders 200,000 People Of Color Each Year Takes Stand Against Racism babylonbee.com/news/organiza…
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Being only “70% better at driving than people” would, for any other product, get it banned and/or sued out of existence. This would definitely not be good enough in the railway or aviation industries.
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@justinjm1 Is this normal? Why would a sitting President need to advertise unless an election is due?
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It seems NYC and London are the two places in the world which whinge the most about anything reducing access to cars, whey should be two of the places where driving shouldn't be needed.
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I don't remember them being like this before Corbyn. How's he managed to make Labour so nasty?
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