Andrew Tate update: he’s still sitting in federal custody in Miami, bail denied, while the US court moves toward scheduling his final extradition hearings. The UK has now handed over the detailed case material, and somehow every new procedural update manages to make the situation look even worse. Obviously: allegations are allegations until proven. But mate. This is not what “escaping the matrix” was supposed to look like.

Rachel Reeves has been named the worst chancellor in recent history in an AJ Bell poll of 2,000 people. This is not surprising given that she lied her way into office and continued lying thereafter. “There is nothing in our plans that requires any further increases in taxes, I have confidence in that. Voters can have confidence,” she told Sky News before the election. “We put out the limited tax increases that a Labour government will introduce and people can be confident that we will not be going further than that … that there are no further increases in tax that we are planning nor that we need to fill any black holes.” Hilariously she said that "I want to lead the most pro-growth, the most pro- business Treasury that our country has ever seen." That was just before she slammed business with the largest tax hikes seen in decades.

The UK: running a real time Laffer Curve experiment. Super useful for everyone else. Bit of a disaster for us.

Token Jesus and Bathrobe Boomer back on mute. i’m open to opinions but the psychosis just ruins the feed.

I fully support a ban on the advertising of gambling, not because I have anything against gambling but the gambling company adverts are the most banal, infantile, moronic shit ever thought up by a committee of morons

When I say "low-quality manager." - Had no experience beyond VBA and maybe a little SQL, so she had nothing to contribute. - I send her an email proposing a way to help customers, and she responds asking why I don't want to help customers. - Says the metrics show I didn't want to help because I didn't close support tickets. The numbers show me closing more than anyone else. On her way out, the last review, she trashed me by describing an outage that had happened over two years earlier. When I pointed that out, she insisted that it happened again. I asked how that could happen with absolutely no documentation, not a trace. She said she knows it happened because she saw me standing behind another co-worker's chair. I am not making this up. I reminder her that he and I sat back-to-back in a cubicle, so her evidence of an outage is me standing at my own desk. Her response: "We'll have to agree to disagree." This was in the presence of my new manager, who went on to do the exact same things until we ended up in her boss's office with a stack of printed emails, and she left the company shortly thereafter. (She returned years later as a director. You can't keep these people down.) I stayed through those years because I'd worked at the company so long. I felt a sense of belonging. I shouldn't leave. They should. And one after another, they did. I was also too insecure to think I could get a better job, largely because of the influence of one openly hostile manager after another. I realize now that they were trying their hardest to get rid of me, and don't understand how they didn't succeed when so many were laid off. In retrospect, I shouldn't have stayed, but I didn't know that, and I have no regrets anyway. I don't look at life that way. First, I got on good terms, then I did some great work, got promoted, and then I left, and everything since has been generally upward. Places worth working at tolerate less of that. Sometimes I wonder if those people ever learned anything.

I wouldn’t stay at a job that wouldn’t let me take off for my grandmothers funeral

This is nuts

Its been absorbed tho, i reckon £2.50-3 is where the uk melts down

Fears that Labour will hike CGT in the budget are causing art collectors to move their masterpieces out of Britain, leading dealers are warning. Philip Hoffman, chief executive of the Fine Art Group — responsible for more than $1.4bn of deals in artworks and jewellery — warned of “a rush among collectors to move their art out of London”. He said: “A huge number of art collectors in the UK have already got their fingers poised to move on October 29 if the wrong conclusion comes out of the budget.” He noted that the market was already “much smaller than it used to be and diminished”. Johnny van Haeften, an Old Master dealer specialising in 16th and 17th-century Dutch and Flemish art, said: “All the entrepreneurs have left, all the non-doms have left.” He accused Labour policies of “leaving a void” in the art market, deterring both buyers and sellers. “The awful thing is I can’t think of any really, really good picture that has remained in this country,” he said. “There have been a lot of excellent pictures. I can think of some very good Bruegel paintings we’ve sold in this country, but we’ve sold six Rembrandts, only one of which stayed in this country, and has subsequently been exported.” Art, like wealthy individuals, is highly mobile. It's all part of the impoverishment of Britain caused by high-tax policies.

Is money even worth anything anymore?

I've been a janitor for years cleaning up people's mess this is no different

Trainee journos - watch this masterclass

Hope this bus driver is ok. Fuckin idiot rats 🐀

One of the greatest problems in software, going back decades, is that companies don't know the difference. They don't know their code is a mess. They think that bugs and unmaintainable code are inevitable. Will that change now that developers use AI? I don't know. I remember trying to explain to a director that his top developer wasn't very good at his job. The evidence was there. Everything broke all the time. It took a minute to submit an order on our website for an incredibly stupid reason that had nothing to do with placing an order. It was easy to fix. It was easy not to create the problem in the first place. He thought about it, looked puzzled, and said, "I can't believe that." (He was completely non-technical.) To him, the developer had to be good because of his job title. But who gave him that title? The non-technical director himself, along with a senior manager whose experience stopped at VBA and VB .NET and didn't know what it meant to turn on strict compilation or why it mattered. (The superstar developer didn't know that, either, in 2016.)

90% of farmers have paused investments to avoid building up farm value to a level where they have to pay inheritance tax, according to a poll of 700 farmers by the Country Land & Business Association (CLA). The polling found more than a third of the cancelled investments were worth more than £150,000, with the rest involving plans worth at least £50,000. Some farmers put on hold purchases of machinery such as tractors or investing in reservoirs to mitigate drought. Others said they had been forced to let buildings deteriorate. Labour's family farm and family firm tax is designed to prevent investment. It's an ideological tax designed by political extremists in the far-left group Centax. 1/2

what are we going to call the process of undoing messes created by vibe coding? best one i've come up with so far is "slopping out" - a term used in old UK prisons for emptying a chamber pot.

I just heard that Starliner's next manned mission to the ISS is scheduled for 2028. The other astronauts on the ISS to the ones that just arrived on Starliner.

The most beautiful fanless PC, ever