I hope it’s effective.

For some reason, the UK’s NS&I bank app doesn’t even work if you have a non default keyboard turned on or developer options. The real kicker is that the app doesn’t even have functionality to remove money from your account! Just to view your balance

Portal 2

Can you use banking apps with this

The thing is, they’re pulling up the bridge because someone pointed out that it’s easier for refugees to bring their immediate family into the country than other legal migrants. Because they make it a headache for a british citizen with a foreign spouse or children to actually bring them in - which should just be an automatic right. Instead of making it an automatic right for everyone which would have been the good and noble thing to do, she just does this…

ITALIA sounds like a weird abbreviation

I know salvation army is often avoided. They’ve always seemed a bit odd to me. They attempt to create their own denomination or something but don’t practice the sacraments? So they don’t really have a real church but they aren’t heretical either. They’re in a weird limbo.

I’m interested to hear more about the American far right magnates. Non-churchgoers tend to have a higher chance of being far right.

Ty

I know what I’m watching the next time I’m eating

This is why I am a (constitutional) monarchist. I trust a nepobaby over someone who lied, deceived and cheated to the top.

Like all things, democracy is a game. You can cheat at that game.

Is driving a train actually harder than a car? More specialised, sure, but my impression is that you’d just need to be able to take signals, operate communications and work the throttle

Why is it always Minneapolis?

From what I gather, MI6 actually want it there because right now, the Chinese embassy is spread across London in various different buildings. The new embassy would have them all in one place

Are you a Christian? Do you have any Christian background? Did you witness Christians only helping other Christians? I and my fellow congregants have given to charity that doesn’t discriminate, such as foodbanks, foreign aid, etc. On occasions we have donated to a Church, but that was mainly for building maintenance repairs - it’s actually very pricey to maintain an old listed building. There was a parish which had roof issues and a potential risk of falling masonry. It was on a backlog to repair, not necessarily an imminent threat unless something crumbles off and falls. So to deal with it, they installed a discreet grating above all entrances into the Church for health and safety until they can actually get around to fixing the roof. Unfortunately, the council got upset that they fitted this discreet grating on a listed building, made them remove it which meant they had to last minute before the harvest service, ask for donations to fix the roof instead of their usual collection for a food bank. This church building is also open during the week and has a small little museum exhibit in one of the transepts, so it does lend it’s heritage quite well to everyone in the community whether or not they are believers.

Sounds like we’re just unproductively strawmanning here with no real proof

She thought the EU was just unnecessary bureaucracy

Northern Ireland is still in the customs union, just with zero democratic representation and annoying customs forms when trying to trade with the mainland.

Granted, I like it because it means we are strategically important. A business here can do business with both the UK and the EU. We also had the UK’s discounted tariffs for the USA. We’re kind of a funny special economic zone.

My mum voted brexit and she regrets it. She says such an issue shouldn’t have been put to a refurrendum as the average person didn’t know what the EU was, so they just had to be lied to for a few months.

Possibly. Common travel area and all that. Although I have gone through an irish-european border checkpoint before, same as in the UK when it was in the EU, it’s basically an unstaffed cubicle which scans your passport, face and just lets you through.

I think ireland also opted out of the whole “let’s get rid of daylight savings time” thing because the UK wasn’t doing it.

I think Ireland adopting the Euro (it used to use Irish pounds, was pegged to GBP) was a bad move though. It’s a hassle if you use cash and cross the border with the UK, although easier now due to contactless payments. Also changing their speed limits without the UK doing so.

Ireland has had a weird back-and-forth with aligning with the UK and aligning with the EU. Sometimes they like to be different from the UK, sometimes they like to be united.

They have even had strange signs on the border with the UK instructing drivers to “drive on the left”. But now the border is typically just “welcome to county xyz” instead of even acknowledging the change of country. And sometimes it just depends where you are on the border.

Also, Irish road signs are diabolical. They align with no-one. It’s a weird mix of USA style signs and european ones. The UK roadsigns are basically consistent with the rest of Europe using the Vienna Convention.

https://pointofview.net/viewpoints/giving/

Christian philanthropy accounted for 70% of all American philanthropy in 2022 at $300 billion total. Christians also out-gave the US Government in addressing global poverty.