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If you were to count out a million seconds, it would take you 11 and a half days.
A billion seconds would take you 31.7 years.
But a trillion seconds would take 31,700 years — to reach that point today, you would have needed to start counting around the time that neanderthals went extinct.
I spent uni savings on getting my teeth fixed -the real cost of NHS dentist shortage.
14m people pushed into private sector.
Initial consultation fee up 23% in 2 yrs, tooth extraction fee up 32%.
Private equity profiteering. Profit margins, 20%-30%.
People avoid dentists, pull their own teeth.
We need as many people as possible to agree with putting in place more ways to increase funding rather than making cuts and essentially punishing those who are already suffering. Tax the Rich – Wealth Tax Now www.oxfam.org.uk/get-involved...
It’s beyond sickening that Elon Musk – the world’s first trillionaire – pays a lower effective tax rate than truck drivers, firefighters, or nurses.
It’s not complicated – we need to actually TAX THE RICH.
If you damage the weapons being used to commit a genocide you can be sentenced as a terrorist, despite not having been charged or convicted as such, while those actually committing the genocide face no accountability. The world is completely upside down.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Tavistock today. Wide range of age and demographic. All think Brexit was bad for the UK. Including former leave voters
Can you help? Are you, or do you know, a farmer whose business has been harmed by Brexit?
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When a person has this kind of money, they can buy up towns, most of a Hawaiian island, they can commit crimes with only financial penalties because a 2 million dollar fine is not a deterrent for a trillionaire. Billionaires are already buying up Hawaii with shell corps. and pricing out natives.
