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The most annoying is when you watch a video that you would only need once (like how to fix something in the house or how to change a phone setting or whatever). Then you get dozens more videos on that topic suggested for weeks afterwards which you have zero interest in because you already fixed it.
November 10, 2025 at 9:20 PM
I got that exact same knife self defence ad a few days ago...
November 10, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Some people might be surprised that the iShares UK dividend etf (all UK shares) has outperformed the US S&P 500 over the past 5 years, 1 year and year to date. (In GBP and performance is very different over 10 years of course).
November 10, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Not necessarily, some of those markets are very small, so dominated by a few companies, others like UK FTSE 100 - recent performance dominated by gains from just 12 companies (5 big banks: Lloyds, NatWest, Barclays, Standard Chartered & HSBC + a few other stocks that made huge gains eg Rolls Royce).
November 10, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Not a recommendation - but there are for example MSCI world ex US ETFs, there are also equal weighted S&P 500 ETFs which are usually rebalanced quarterly, there are also regional ETFs (Emerging markets, EM ex China, Europe etc) as well as individual country index ETFs (UK etc).
November 10, 2025 at 8:59 PM
"If you exclude AI boom stocks from the S&P 500, since the launch of ChatGPT in 2022, the annualised rise in that index is just 5.4%, compared to 19.4% with the AI bubble stocks included."

"Since ChatGPT launched in November 2022, AI-related stocks have registered 75% of S&P 500 returns."
November 10, 2025 at 8:44 PM
There is a whole genre of YouTube channels who only post videos of people who are not white committing crimes. Obviously intended to stir up racists (as evidenced by the comments) & create a very misleading impression. They rarely/ never post videos of white people committing similar/any crimes.
November 10, 2025 at 3:35 PM
I wonder how many truckers voted for Trump?

youtu.be/-zYc5WRf_fc?...
November 9, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Martin Gilbert, Executive Chairman of River Global Asset management would say that though, wouldn't he?

www.assetco.com/investor-rel...

www.river.global/our-funds/fu...
November 8, 2025 at 12:03 PM
November 8, 2025 at 12:11 AM
There is no good evidence that the death penalty is a deterrent.

Also the message it sends is that the solution to dealing with a problem / problematic person is to kill them - which in a way, is the same logic as many of the people who commit murder have.
November 7, 2025 at 12:40 PM
1 million robotaxis? Waymo (who are far ahead of Tesla on self driving taxis) currently only have 2000 vehicles in the whole of the United States. Baidu have about 1000 globally.
November 6, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Google have added the label 'advertiser identity verified by Google' to hundreds of accounts where the identity they have 'verified' is actually an innocent UK Ltd company, overseas company or individual who have had their name hijacked/ stolen by fraudsters to run scam ads.
November 6, 2025 at 12:32 PM
I don't use Facebook, but I get dozens of scam ads in my Google news feed every day. (Examples from today in screenshots.)

Ad accounts where I have reported dozens of ads to Google are still running ads over a year after first reporting scam ads.
November 6, 2025 at 12:29 PM
FPP:

Farcical Peace Prize
Fake Peace Prize
Fascist Person Prize
November 6, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Glasgow is doing a pilot scheme next year:

www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-...
Glasgow to trial free public transport on trains, buses and subway
The pilot scheme is set to launch in early 2026
www.independent.co.uk
November 5, 2025 at 2:38 AM
He was born in Algeria, but has worked for LNER for over 20 years, according to LBC, so obviously he has lived here for more than 20 years.
November 4, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Good point. Had a look and it seems that these are recorded separately.

www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopula...

www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopula...
November 3, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Trump Media is also now going to profit from prediction markets (betting) powered by an arrangement with Crypto.com / CDNA - including bets on the outcome of political elections, interest rate changes, commodity prices and sports...
November 3, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Yes, the UK is more or less in line with other European countries and the US is about 5 times higher than the UK per capita.

ourworldindata.org/grapher/homi...
November 3, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Violent crime peaked in 1995 according to the Crime Survey for England and Wales..
November 3, 2025 at 12:01 PM
I read that something like 80% of homicides in the US involve the use of a firearm, yet per capita the US still has a higher rate of homicides involving the use of a bladed weapon than the UK does.
November 3, 2025 at 11:46 AM