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[RandoEFC+]

19 minutes ago, Gunnersauraus said:

I had a bit of a disagreement with someone about this. Correct me if I'm wrong but house prices have gone up faster than wages over the last 40 years or so?

Yes, I dont have up to date figures but last I read it's about 3.5 times harder now to buy a house before you turn 30 than it was a few decades ago.

[Dr. Gonzo]

44 minutes ago, Gunnersauraus said:

I had a bit of a disagreement with someone about this. Correct me if I'm wrong but house prices have gone up faster than wages over the last 40 years or so?

Yeah that's true.

[Azeem]

Being in your 20s is hardest than any point in recent history.

[Dr. Gonzo]

This shit about Chad's president dying visiting the front lines is pretty crazy. His son, a 37 year old 4 star general, has taken over and dissolved the constitution... which makes me think he probably had his dad killed.

I'm not sure whether this guy was a good leader or not, I believe I read something that said he took power through a coup and he'd just been reelected for the 5th time... so I imagine he wasn't and those elections were not very free or fair.

Either way, it's still mental. A bit like something out of a film.

[Azeem]

US and Russia are telling each others diplomats to fuck off

[Stan]

BBC News - Man on trial in Madrid, Spain, for 'killing and eating his mother'

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-5683919

Absolutely messed up. 

@Devil-Dick Willie would be proud, mind. 

[Azeem]

They deleted it later

[Dr. Gonzo]

Lol Russia just openly appealing to the QAnon living right wing populist types now

That’s a perfect example of how Twitter has dumbed down discourse and why it’s such a cesspool

[Azeem]

So it's like solo US vs world tag team

[Azeem]

 

[Tommy]

56 minutes ago, McAzeem said:

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilham_Aliyev

[Dr. Gonzo]

Yeah that's not Aliyev 

[Dr. Gonzo]

14 hours ago, McAzeem said:

So it's like solo US vs world tag team

More like US vs. China vs. Russia vs. the EU, with the rest of the world just taking hits as these dickheads fuck around with the planet.

[Azeem]

Foreign affairs secretary for Philippines 

[Dr. Gonzo]

8 hours ago, McAzeem said:

Foreign affairs secretary for Philippines 

The damage done to political discourse in the last few years is probably irreversible.

That film Idiocracy was meant to be a comedy, not a documentary about our futures. But I think we're in for a future very much like the world in that film.

[MUFC]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-56975466

[CaaC (John)+]

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Mexico City metro overpass collapse kills 23

At least 23 people have been killed and dozens injured after a metro overpass collapsed in Mexico City while a train was travelling on it, officials say.

Several train carriages plunged to the ground, crushing at least one car, which was on a busy road underneath.

FULL REPORT

 

[Azeem]

 

[6666]

Stock market is going down the toilet!!!

[Dr. Gonzo]

7 hours ago, 6666 said:

Stock market is going down the toilet!!!

It doesn't look so bad tbh: https://markets.businessinsider.com/indices

[MUFC]

7 hours ago, McAzeem said:

 

Cali Cartel.

[Azeem]

Hope it stays just little banter and poking like this 

[CaaC (John)+]

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Mystery 'fireball' UFO spooks Indians who say it's the Chinese rocket

A mystery object seen in the sky in India has left locals baffled, wondering if it was a fireball or part of the Chinese space rocket that crashed in the Indian Ocean last night.

Eyewitnesses described a sparkling object which pulsed in the sky for several seconds before vanishing.     

Some speculated the object might have been a spaceship, or even debris from the Chinese rocket, Long March 5B.  

The 18-tonne rocket reentered Earth's atmosphere near the Maldives last night, broke upon reentry and crashed into the Indian Ocean. 

Footage of the strange fireball showed the bright orange object with yellow spheres appearing to expand and contract in the sky.  

Other eyewitnesses speculated the unidentified object was a fireball, burning helium balloon, or a space ship.    

 Ali Mohammad said:  'The UFO was extremely bright like a fireball circling around night skies. It was something that I haven't witnessed my entire life it spooked me. 

In the video, a curious young onlooker can be heard asking her father, 'is it a burning helium balloon or the spacecraft?'  

A similar shiny object was found by a Pakistani pilot in January. 

He spotted the shiny unidentified object near Rahim Yar Khan while operating an Airbus A-320 from Karachi to Lahore.

In 2012, a luminous flying object was also reported flying over Ladakh in India's Himalayan border with China.  

China's Long March rocket crashed near the Maldives in the Indian Ocean early on Sunday. 

The Long March 5B - comprising one core stage and four boosters - lifted off from China's Hainan island on April 29 with the unmanned Tianhe module, which contains what will become living quarters on a permanent Chinese space station. 

Debris from Chinese rocket launches is not uncommon within China. In late April, authorities in the city of Shiyan, Hubei Province, issued a notice to people in the surrounding county to prepare for evacuation as parts were expected to land in the area. 

The empty core stage has been losing altitude since last week, but the speed of its orbital decay remained uncertain due to unpredictable atmospheric variables.

It is one of the largest pieces of space debris to return to Earth, with experts estimating its dry mass to be around 18 to 22 tons.

In 2020, debris from another Long March rocket fell on villages in the Ivory Coast, causing structural damage but no injuries or deaths.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/mystery-fireball-ufo-spooks-indians-who-say-its-the-chinese-rocket/ar-BB1gxlYd

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Chinese rocket debris crashes into Indian Ocean - state media

 

Edited May 10, 2021 by CaaC (John)
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[Azeem]

CIA also released their archives of UFO encounters.

[Dr. Gonzo]

CIA should release a series of educational videos of all of the times they've undermined democracy around the world and ended up making the planet a bit less stable and a bit more unsafe next.