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All I can see there before "Este contenido es exclusivo para suscriptores" is conjecture that (translating and emphasizing) "a torpedo may have pierced the hull of the vessel". Is there any evidence?


The hull is bent inward in a manner characteristic of a torpedo.


Or of hitting a rock. What's the seabed around the ship like?

A famous example which gave rise to similar hypotheses:

https://news.err.ee/1142424/foreign-ministry-adviser-ms-esto...


Maybe someone here knows the creators of li.st and we can get the missing lists back online?


You’ve used a poll from the height of the misinformation about the ULEZ, this was when vox pops were decrying it from ULEZ compliant cars!

In reality the expansion always had broad support, and normalised earlier this year in advance of the mayoral election: https://redfieldandwiltonstrategies.com/support-for-ulez-has...

Would love to know more about this low emission zone that your dad is suffering with. What’s the new route he has to take?

Though there is only one low emission zone that’s been in place “for two years” — London’s. Maybe you mean a clean air zone? Or Glasgow’s that was implemented last year?


What’s your source for beer consumption being way down? Apart from the pandemic, growth looks strong: https://www.statista.com/forecasts/1232738/beer-revenue-by-s...


You linked a revenue forecast.

> In terms of domestic sales, about 64.2 billion U.S. dollars were registered in off-premise retail sales. Only 43.8 billion dollars in on-premise sales were recorded in 2021. While this is an increase from the large decline in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it is still below pre-pandemic levels.

> Craft rebounded in 2021 and saw its largest share of the beer market ever even though dollar sales of craft beer remained below their peak. This indicates that although Americans are drinking less beer overall, they are more often opting for craft brews.

https://www.statista.com/topics/1654/beer-industry-in-the-un...

I just looked this up now, but it's been a recurring topic to read reports about since the start of the pandemic.


Uh? What are people drinking instead?


Hard seltzers (bleh) seem to be one thing that's increased considerably in popularity.


I tried those and I was unimpressed. It's like a watered down, sugary, fizzling cocktail.


I mean, what did you expect from a product category that was basically born of the question "how can we use modern food science to create a product that appeals to vodka-soda drinkers, but falls under the tax regime of a beer?"


This has been tested! In moths at least:

> Manduca sexta caterpillars received an electrical shock associatively paired with a specific odor in order to create a conditioned odor aversion, and were assayed for learning in a Y choice apparatus as larvae and again as adult moths. We show that larvae learned to avoid the training odor, and that this aversion was still present in the adults.

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...


Are you sure your tax rate is 55%? You’d have to be earning £500k+ and paying off a Plan 4 student loan for that to be the case.


Part higher, part additional rate + 9% student loan repayment + national insurance contributions

I'm nuking the student loan as fast as possible, especially with the interest rates being near extortion, so hopefully that will mean I get more take home in the future


Ah so you’re choosing to repay a loan faster and calling that tax. Be honest please


I'm not counting my voluntary repayments in that figure.

45% Income Tax + 9% Student Loan Repayment (mandatory) + 3.25% National Insurance Contributions

Gives 57.25%, but this is off because:

- Student loan repayments start somewhere above 20k, which decreases it

- National insurance runs at 10.25% before going down above a certain income, which increases it

- Higher rate and basic rate apply to some income (but no tax free allowance), which decreases it

Hence to a round(ish) number roughly 55%


This is highly misleading. The 45% rate only applies to the portion of salary over £150k. Someone earning £200k will pay 75k in income tax. That’s 37.5% overall.


Honestly I think these kinds of calculations should also include all the VAT you pay out over the course of a year, which I imagine is also reasonably substantial.

Also, you're not paying 45% income tax on the total amount right (that's the highest bracket in the UK).


Impressive you can earn >200k and yet be unable to do basic maths.


You haven’t included VAT in your effective tax rate.


What phone company is that?


Yes, all those cheap servers and VPS with “unlimited” bandwidth have fair use policies and qos metering that will likely be very similar to vimeo’s. They certainly don’t mean TB of high quality video streaming every month when they say unlimited bandwidth


I'm sure fly by night, cheap providers do that, but there are long-term reputable providers such as OVH offering unmetered bandwidth on pretty much all their services. Are those also problematic?


I’m not sure if this is the best source to read about the situation? The “Facts” listed are backed up by links to Russia Today videos on YouTube, or nothing at all.


Executive assistant I think in this case, though I’ve seen enterprise architect too!


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