#2P Capitals

[softnasty]

see this dinluke art and immediately think omg i hope the artist has a shop i want to buy this SO BAD

see the artist is attending dokomi

remember i missed out on it last year at the height of my genshin impact hyperfixation

realize it's happening this weekend and there's only tickets left for friday BUT i can definitely go with some creative thinking re: work

buy ticket

book train

book hotel

... PROFIT??

[merpmonde]

Sangaku Saturday #8

Having established that sangaku were, in part, a form of advertisement for the local mathematicians, we can look at the target demographic. Who were the mathematicians of the Edo period? What did they work on and how?

The obvious answer is that the people in the Edo period who used mathematics were the ones who needed mathematics. As far back as the time when the capital was in Kashihara, in the early 8th century, evidence of mathematical references has been uncovered (link to a Mainichi Shinbun article, with thanks to @todayintokyo for the hat tip). All kinds of government jobs - accounting, such as determining taxes, customs, or engineering... - needed some form of mathematics. Examples above: 8th-century luggage labels and coins at the Heijô-kyô Museum in Nara, and an Edo-period ruler used for surveying shown at Matsue's local history museum.

As such, reference books for practical mathematics have existed for a long time, and continued to be published to pass on knowledge to the next generation. But sangaku are different: they are problems, not handbooks.

More on that soon. Below the cut is the solution to our latest puzzle.

Recall that SON is a right triangle with SO = 1 and ON = b. These are set values, and our unknowns are the radii p, q and r of the circles with centres A, B and C. While these are unknown, we assume that this configuration is possible to get equations, which we can then solve.

1: The two circles with centres B and C are tangent to a same line, so we can just re-use the very first result from this series, so

2: Also recalling what we said in that first problem about tangent circles, we know that

Moreover, PA = AO - OP = AO - CQ = (p+2*q) - r. Thus, using Pythagoras's theorem in the right triangle APC, we get a new expression for PC:

since 2(p+q)=1 (the first relation). Equating the two expressions we now have of PC², we solve the equation for r:

again using the first relation to write 2q-1 = -2p.

It only remains to find a third equation for p to solve the problem.

[ithazbingreat8d]

I absolutly live ur 2p au !!!

Can we know what things are like in this au? Have Al and Vox partnered up to make a broadcast, like an overlord duo? Do the Vees still exist too?

I'm not really great at explaining things but I'll deliver to it anyways!! I won't much go more into deeper details yet since I have to know more about Vox and Alastor's relationship on season 2 but Ill play things out in the near future. To answer your question, yeah! they pretty much get along, even outside broadcasting work, they pretty much close and hang out a lot. My concept where like, "What if they are close friends or they work together". Boom this AU existed!

They started off small, probably some few collaborative broadcast until they got a big hit you know? I'd like to think that they have their own fair share controlling all over the city. Some think they do this by power but technically yeah however its for their own benefit to protect themselves, they wanted a place that they can freely roam on. They are very cautious of handling things because of it. Little fact: Not only they be spreading news, they have a special segment every weekends where they talk about their opinions, interviews. Just like a talk show or podcast somehow. They are known to be annoying for some overlords but they rather let them be, since they can be more advantage for spreading and promoting. They may be the sweetest and realest mfs you know but they can be manipulative and won't hesitate to destroy someone's life in private and just shove it off under the rug, acting like nothing happened. Their enemies will be ended up be killed off or be spared yet still scared of them, either they are working under their wings or just hide.

As for the rest of the Vees, I haven't design them or build them up (I will in the future if I have some time) but in my concept yeah, they existed. Val and Vel eventually join these two willingly. If I were to describe their relationship in an analogy, it was like a symbiotic relationship between sharks and remora fishes. Now they become the capital of entertainment in hell, just vibing and spreading their influence lol

[dark-and-kinky-hetalia-scenarios]

Random headcanons/Zil's version canon

Countries and reproduction

Countries are fully able to have children, but due to past events it is highly unlikely for them to reproduce and it will more likely be a capital than a country. For them to effectively reproduce they need a certain kind of magic present, they all possess a bit of it but it requires more than what they naturally possess to create a new country. Aka capitals are more likely to happen. This magic disappeared a long time ago and therefore most new countries weren't born but created from "thin air".

Reproduction with another country or other magical being is very difficult compared to with a normal human

1ps and 2ps

1p and 2p are mirror reflections, they all have at least one trait where they are completely opposite. It's not exactly good/evil, but 2ps are likelier to be murderous/evil.

It is not completely for certain that Ivan is 1p Russia and Viktor is 2p Russia. There may be rumours of a switch, a rumour both do their hardest to destroy, for very different reasons ofc

[popatochisssp]

tell us more about underfell fruition? :)

tw for confinement and medical abuse and abuse in general

Underfell Fruition

A young Sans’ attempt to escape his creator, the Royal Scientist, is a failure.

No one hears anything about it.

Life continues as normal for everyone Underground, with few exceptions.

A handful of shop owners around the Capital and the researchers working in the Royal Labs may notice that Dr. Gaster is sending a lot of new interns around on his errands instead of the young skeleton he had doing it, but nobody is especially surprised—the only surprising thing about it is that the guy had lasted so long.

The Royal Scientist gets bored of his interns easily, and everyone knows that.

Gaster is and continues to be a force to be reckoned with, a fearsome reputation and easily the power and ruthlessness to back it up.

They say he’s loyal only to Emperor Asgore himself, and he considers anyone less as utterly beneath him, minions to do his bidding and stepping stones along his path.

(Fodder for his experiments, the rumors say too, but there’s no evidence of that.)

(He’s far too careful for there to be evidence.)

Asgore allows the Royal Scientist the freedom to operate as he pleases, in spite of the doctor’s somewhat ill repute, for all the impressive work he does with the carte blanche he’s given, resulting in significant military advancements for monsterkind.

As the years go by, Gaster happily proves his worth, producing many innovations that will be invaluable when the time comes to seize the final human soul, shatter the Barrier, and take back the Surface by force.

His most famed creation is a device which produces magic limitlessly, boundless energy for its user to draw upon as if it were their own, infinite bullets and fighting potential without tiring or running dry—no one knows what it looks like save the Emperor and the Captain of the Royal Guard, but they vouch that it does exactly as advertised.

Gaster is still working on expanding the use of the device to more than one monster at a time, but its potential is clear.

In the meantime, while he gets the math to work on that, he hasn’t been idle.

His latest feat of engineering, painstakingly perfected, is a living war-machine that he calls 2P.

2P, while not truly sentient, is capable of comprehending orders given to it and employing basic problem-solving skills and intensive physical training to obey those orders with swift, devastating precision.

An army of monster-shaped weapons of its kind is a tantalizing prospect—soldiers for the upcoming war that won’t think or feel or do anything but drive forward, with unrelenting force…

But first, it needs a field test, to see if it’s viable.

Gaster lends 2P to the services of the Royal Guard, with instructions on how to command it and to report back when—not if—it satisfies all conditions of whatever tests and trials they put it through.

Captain Undyne is…far from satisfied.

Not with 2P’s performance, of course, for its strength and speed and obedience are everything the Royal Scientist advertised it would be.

But…

There are signs she’s seeing, things she’s noticing as she works with 2P that she…really wishes she wasn’t.

2P isn’t supposed to feel pain, but she’s caught it wincing or favoring something after a heavy blow.

It isn’t supposed to think for itself, but she’s seen it in Waterfall, gazing out over the glowing pools and sparkling crystals with an expression she can only describe as ‘thoughtful.’

It’s not supposed to be sentient…but she saw it, smiling when she told her soldiers a stupid joke during training—and she saw fear in its eye-sockets when it realized she was looking, before it went coolly, irreproachably blank again.

It’s only a suspicion, a gut feeling pushing insistently through the denial, but…

Undyne doesn’t think 2P is an ‘it.’

And if ‘it’ isn’t, that’s a very, very big problem.

She can’t report this to Gaster.

If 2P is more than a living construct meant only for battle, then telling its creator, the man with complete power over it, in charge of whether it lives or dies, is the absolute last thing she should ever do.

Emperor Asgore…

Well, she trusts Asgore, but…he’s a busy monster, weighed down by duty and grief as much as he’s always been and he trusts Gaster—as questionable a choice as that is. If it came down to the Royal Scientist’s word against her ‘gut feeling’…

She needs proof.

Something solid to open an investigation over, to really do it by the book.

Luckily, she may have an in.

One of Gaster’s assistants, a former intern, with rumors flying that she could even be his successor, if she lasts long enough.

Alphys is close to the Royal Scientist, and has clearly honed the ability to keep her mouth shut—which will be very useful for Undyne if it turns out that she’s trying to open up Pandora’s Box with her digging.

The young doctor is thankfully very willing to assist with the very very hot Captain’s covert investigation and freely shares all she knows.

Definitely only in the interest of cooperating with the law.

Yes.

But well, she is suspicious of Gaster herself and has been for some time—not because of 2P, but because of his ‘magic-creating’ device.

Alphys is a scientist and its never sat right with her, the idea of magic being created from nothing. It’s not possible, it should be coming from somewhere! But her boss always brushed off her questions, and when he started giving her looks, the same kind of looks he gave people who lost their jobs and were never seen again…she stopped asking questions.

Gaster is almost certainly up to something shady, and if the Guard is getting involved, maybe now they have a chance to figure out what.

Unfortunately, Alphys wasn’t brought in until well after 2P’s completion. She was never allowed to be involved in any of his training and refinement, so she isn’t much help there…

She does make an attempt to pull up its documentation, but what she can access is heavily redacted, and the rest is locked behind Gaster’s credentials.

The most she can find is a mention of an earlier iteration, a 1S, but nothing about it beyond it being put into storage, and nothing at all after that point.

It’s most likely just a failed prototype, but it could be a place to start, if they can track it down to wherever it’s been stored.

It takes a lot more digging, some risky exploration and a bit of hacking into systems she definitely should not have access to, but Alphys manages to find what she thinks is the ‘storage’ mentioned in the notes—an extremely deep basement level of the Royal Labs, far below the other floors and not shown on any blueprints, locked up tight.

She can’t investigate further…but Undyne can.

A gut feeling isn’t cause for a search, but a secret unsanctioned dungeon beneath the labs that no one knows about with such high security…?

That’s something that warrants the Emperor’s notice.

Asgore is not best pleased to hear that his Royal Scientist has kept such a secret from him.

He orders that Gaster be detained pending further investigation, and is quite unpleasantly surprised when—even at his order—Gaster refuses to cooperate and allow access to the elevator down.

Undyne takes Alphys and 2P with her to investigate anyway. If Alphys can’t hack the door, then 2P should be able to brute-force it.

Besides, whatever’s down there… 2P’s probably seen it before and can help handle it.

What they find…is not pretty.

There’s evidence there, the dust of monsters Gaster ‘disappeared’ because they got in his way, or simply because he could.

Shambling amorphous creatures that once were monsters, Fallen Down and resurrected with DT, only to melt into each other, amalgamated beings. ‘Impervious to damage,’ the Royal Scientist had written of the poor souls he kept locked away, ‘possibly useful, further testing needed.’

And…far back, in the very last room—barely the size of a broom-closet—a skeleton.

Another skeleton, strapped down to a chair and hooked up to more monitoring equipment than even Alphys has seen at one time before.

This one is nothing at all compared to 2P, short where 2P is tall, frail where 2P is sturdy, sickly-looking and seemingly half-dead where 2P is strong and healthy and alive.

“Th-this…must be 1S—”

“SANS.”

The captain and the doctor both jump to realize that 2P was the one who said it.

It doesn’t speak again though, for all that it’s staring very intently at the other skeleton in room, utterly frozen and immovable in the face of this sick and terrible discovery.

Because…the thing is…

………

He was just…gone, one day.

Their creator never spoke his name again.

He wouldn’t acknowledge him, that he’d ever existed.

And 2P…

He��forgot.

He tried to forget, because Sans wasn’t real.

Sans was never real, Sans was something he made up to pretend he wasn’t alone in a horrible place with a horrible man who said he wasn’t a ‘he,’ he was an ‘it’—and he had to forget any stupid ideas he had that he was anything but an object, a tool meant to take orders and obey and don’t think, never think, never want, never be anything but 2P.

Never be…

Papyrus.

He is…Papyrus.

And his brother is real.

Alive, though just barely.

1S—or, Sans, apparently, takes some time to come around from his heavily-sedated, comatose state, but all too eager to cooperate with the strange monsters hovering over him when he sees his brother is among their number.

The story as he tells it is this.

He and Papyrus were creations of the Royal Scientist, created from his body—his kids, if the man had been any less of a maniac, but since Gaster is indeed a maniac, he planned to keep them under his thumb for the rest of their lives and use them (but especially Papyrus) in all kinds of fucked up, illegal experiments, to mold them into whatever he saw as their greatest utility.

Sans tried to snatch his little brother up and run, but he got caught, and Gaster got to have his way.

Papyrus became the living war-machine dear old dad had always wanted, and Sans—who had fucked up by proving he was a stubborn, uncooperative jackass who no threat against him or his brother could seem to control—was repurposed.

See, he’d always generated magic at a pretty high rate, but after what Gaster did, he became a battery, a constantly replenishing source of energy to be drawn on at any time, an impressive little toy to win some brownie points with the Emperor and earn even freer reign to do whatever the hell he wanted, whenever he wanted.

Alphys has to double and triple-check the readings on the monitoring equipment around him to believe it, but he really is the source of Gaster’s impossible device, producing massive quantities of magic with such incredible range that (if she’s reading it right) Gaster or anyone else using it would be able to siphon his magic from miles away.

But that’s not the only thing Sans can tell them.

He also knows, and is more than happy to provide, several passwords and access codes that the Royal Scientist was too lazy or too cocky to change in the years since he put Sans under and locked him away.

Which is, of course, access to more than enough detailed and meticulously recorded evidence of Gaster’s crimes against monsterkind to shut him down.

Permanently.

The Royal Scientist is unceremoniously fired, convicted, and eventually, executed.

Alphys, who played a large role in bringing him to justice and is a brilliant and respectable scientist in her own right is ushered in as his replacement, and Undyne is given several honors for her dedication to uncovering and bringing down corruption at the highest level.

The skeleton brothers receive support—both official and unofficial—from the crown in order to integrate into society without undue hardship, after the significant hardship they already faced.

Life continues as normal, but maybe a little bit better now.

Carmine (Underfell Fruition Sans)

In poor physical condition at first due to how long he spent unconscious and immobile, but recovering mobility and independence as fast as monsterly possible (fuck the wheelchair, fuck the crutches, fuck soup, he is gonna walk his ass to a damn burger and nobody is gonna stop him)

Only vaguely aware of time having passed while comatose, but as his magic grew stronger and his range stretched, he developed an ability to poke into peoples’ heads. It’s very surface-level, mostly just skimming thoughts off the top, but he’s found himself drifting through enough monsters’ subconscious that these days, most people Underground might not recognize him but still get the feeling that he’s hauntingly familiar

Still overproducing magic at an extreme rate due to modifications made to his body, magic which he actually needs to use in large amounts regularly. If he doesn’t, he starts to physically overheat and things around him start to fritz a bit from the outpouring of excess magic, which is naturally something he’d rather avoid if possible

Eager to make up for lost time, open-minded to all kinds of new stuff he never got around to doing before he got locked up

A little bit cocky, loud and arrogant, but with just enough boyish charm and joie de vivre to pull it off…most of the time

Tank (Underfell Fruition Papyrus)

Extremely physically powerful due to biomodifications over the years as he was growing up, very tall, wide, and strong. His soul was also…adjusted, and he no longer takes damage from even the most vicious and lethal intent, only physical or magical attacks that land can harm him

Struggles significantly with free will and independent thought—largely due to how heavily punished and very not allowed any signs of choice or independence were. Slowly getting comfortable with being a person, and being allowed to be a person again, supported heavily by his brother and Undyne

Went a very long time under the impression that his brother was a figment of his imagination, and there’s some…complex feelings there, that he was real and alive and trapped the whole time and he didn’t do anything about it. Said brother doesn’t blame him in the slightest, but it may be awhile before the two of them aren’t a package deal everywhere they go

Likes things that are slow and with obvious correct ways of doing them—or at least no wrong way of doing them, so he can take it at his own pace and not be afraid of making a mistake

A little stoic and a lot intimidating, but (with a bit of patience beyond that first impression) curious and gentle and just starting to learn what it means to be himself

[typefacetournament]

ROUND 2 - BLUE GROUP

Propaganda under the cut.

Courier: "The kerning, the round letters are oh so round and the hard edge ones have great lines. It’s also a serif font which makes it immediately gorgeous in my eyes. Also, it has the best capital Q and E in my opinion. And one last piece of propaganda. Is that its my specialest little guy so. Please."

Press Start 2P: "A regular ol' 8-bit font for the average working class joe who can't exactly load up an NES and copy the text pixel for pixel."

[qiqi-guai-guai]

ep 25&26 thoughts

Alright I'll say it - the sexual tension between Fan Xian and Li Yunrui is so thick you should cut it with a knife. When he was trembling with anger after she asked him whether he should call her Mother I was like - idk how to articulate it but oof.

Fan Ruoruo. Martial arts. Can't wait! 2/3 of the Fan siblings going to Northern Qi now tho.

Stop talking about the Imperial Treasury!!!!!!!!! It's literally his wedding banquet!!!! Y'all are exhausting.

Wang Juan is PLAYING with us every time a prince calls FX his brother

PLS WHY WAS 2P SMILING AT YE LING'ER WHILE FX & WAN'ER WERE BOWING TO EACH OTHER SDSKDKFJSKFKS THE WAY THEIR SMILES FADED AND THEY LOOKED AWAY FROM EACH OTHER LIKE "EUGH" BAHAHAHA

Now when I see S1!FX I realise he was just a baby - five years makes a huge difference

She'll never be alone again 😭😭

FX and Wan'er presenting a mutual front for the First Bureau 💖💓💞 she's already integrating so well to into her husband's circle and lightening his burdens - power couple of the capital!!

[asktheotherfrance]

Actually,

If I make Francis Paris, the current french capital, and I make my nyo France Marseille the current second biggest city in France

And then I make Fred Lyon, ancient capital of Gaul.

Then my 2p nyo France is going to be 2nd biggest city of Gaul, Rouen.

I kind of dig this idea

[himbo-kronk-stan]

I don’t go here anymore but I kills me that no one ever took advantage the fact that 2p or normal Molossia has to be at least partially a cringy and cartoonishly powerful internet movie reviewer. That would have been so fucking funny why did we never capitalize on that???

-Signed, my 14 year old self

[rottingzodiac]

The code I came up with if any of you are interested! If you think someone is looking through anything of yours you can use this code, you can also use it just for fun. It can be written and typed. Hope my notes make sense! I'll add more tomorrow.

Level 1:

Letters:

A: <

B: /

C: =

D: q

E: m

F: 77

G: !

H: QQ

I: e

J: ÷

K: -

L: i

M: p

N: P

O: 2

P: #Q

Q: D

R: f

S: E

T: %

U: [

V: ]

W: d

X: M2

Y: o-

Z: >

Punctuation:

•Same

Grammar:

•There are technically no capital or lower case letters.

•Double space the words.

Pronunciation:

•Same

Definitions:

•Same

Example(s):

QQmii2 po- P<pm eE f2%!

Hello my name is Rot!

dQQ<% eE o-2[f P<pm?

What is your name?

Level 2:

Letters:

A: <

B: /

C: =

D: q

E: m

F: 77

G: !

H: QQ

I: e

J: ÷

K: -

L: i

M: p

N: P

O: 2

P:  #Q

Q: D

R: f

S: E

T: %

U: [

V: ]

W: d

X: M2

Y: o-

Z: >

Punctuation:

•If it is the end of a sentence you put a period plus whatever you were going to use. Which means you may insert some forms of punctuation where ever you wish.

•Punctuation to continue a sentence is replaced with 0.

Grammar:

•There are technically no capital or lowercase letters.

•Double space the words.

Pronunciation:

•Same

Definitions:

•

Example(s):

%2q<o- e <%m e=m-=fm<p! <Pq e dmP %2 < #Q<f-.. e% d<E ]mfo- mM2=e%eP!.! e E<d < q[=-0 [P772f%[P<%mio-0 e% qeq P2% /e%m pm.. e Pmmq %2 #Qe=- [#Q0 %2p<%2mE0 /f2==2ie0 < /[=-m%0 <Pq < -m%%im..

Today I ate ice-cream and I went to a park. It was very exciting! I saw a duck, unfortunately, it did not bite me. I need to pick up: tomatoes, broccoli, a bucket, and a kettle.

[megirinni]

2p nyo Italy :0 In the form of a Pony..

I believe that 2p nyo northern italy - Turin(the capital of the Piemont region). Therefore, his coat of arms is on the cutie mark. And the name Alessa - derived from the name of Alexander - means "defender". Bravery, perseverance, determination, in fact - everything that can have the embodiment of a strong and cool Piemont region ;)

[words-words-worlds]

Hetalia Capital OC: Washington D.C.

Song I Associate With This OC: I'm Born To Run - American Authors

Questions For This OC: Open!

A/N: Typically, I use she/her pronouns for D.C. uwu

~Name~ -Jamie J. Price [Capital Representative of Washington D.C.]

~Age~ -18

~Gender/Pronouns~ -Genderfluid, literally any pronouns

~Sexuality~ -Poly Bisexual

~Appearance~ -5'6 -Left eye is green and right eye is blue (due to some 2p stuff), bleached blonde hair pulled into a ponytail -Wears a light orange NASA jacket with a black striped sleeveless shirt, a jean skirt, and hiking boots -Slightly chubby, burn marks going up her left arm, stretch marks on her stomach and thighs

~Personality~ -My GOD there is no one personality to describe D.C. -Like, her personality is wild and rebellious -Never wants to follow orders -But most of them she's perky and upbeat -Makes the wildest and stupidest decisions known to the other capitals

~Extra Not Mentioned~ -Dating Aušra (Vilnius), Arina (Moscow), and Robin (Tallinn) -Technically, she and Tallinn are in an FWB relationship so like??? -Autistic -Good at cooking, bad at baking -Has 3 golden retrievers named Splinter, Ghost, and Nasa -Always one of the first to hear about new trends -Loves spending time with the Ancients in the nursing home

[bbg100]

HAPPY 2013

In honor of it being a fucking decade since I was 13 years of age and fully ���‘cringe’‘, here are some of the greatest hits of 2013 according to myself in that time.  Note: I’m not going to double check when they came out, i’m going fully from playlist here

1. Great to be Different by BronyDanceParty

2. Break you open (airplay edit)

3. {APH} Uptown Girl ~ Germany x Italy

5.  Daddy Discord - [PMV] 

7.  The Shim Sham Sisters Super Speedy Cider Squeezy 6000!.wmv 

8.  Starships - Nicki Minaj (cover) Megan Nicole and Lindsey Stirling

10.  Lorde - Royals (US Version)

11.  Avicii - Wake Me Up (Official Video)

12.  Pandora Hearts - OST 2 Lacie - Melody 2

13.  Skylar Grey - Coming home part 2 - Lyrics

14.  The Lion King Just can't wait to be king HD 

17.  Katrina & The Waves - Walking On Sunshine (Official Music Video)

19.  Shakira - Waka Waka (This Time for Africa) (The Official 2010 FIFA World Cup™ Song)

20.  【手描き】ワールドイズマイン【PV】~ Hatsune Miku - World is Mine

22.  2p!Hetalia} Runaway Baby - MEP

23.  【APH】 Canadian, please!

24.  Green Day - American Idiot [Official Music Video]

25.  Caramella Girls - Caramelldansen (Official English Version)

26.  Silent Falls (Gravity Falls Theme Song - Silent Hill Version)

27.  Owl City - Strawberry Avalanche High Quality

30.  Capital Cities - Safe And Sound (Official Video)

31. The Top 5 Scariest Supernatural Clips

32. Ke$ha - Die Young (lyrics in description)(HD)

34.  Owl City - When Can I See You Again? (From Wreck it Ralph)

35.  Owl City & Yuna - Shine Your Way

36.  Capital Cities - Safe And Sound (Official Video)

37.  Welcome To Gravity Falls /The Darkness (Meme, original)

39.  -USUK FLASH- Iggy's "london bridge"

40.  Chris Brown - Don't Wake Me Up (Official Music Video)

42.  Anime Munters [ORIGINAL] by go devil dante

43.  J. Geils Band - Centerfold (Official Music Video)

44.  Lou Bega - Mambo No. 5 (A Little Bit of...)

45.  Train - Hey, Soul Sister (Official Video)

Note: I totally cut the full list to shreds.  You may be like- why?  Well, plain and simple- some shit should stay in 2013.  Like, I was really into those parody things of like taylor swift being evil or whatever.  I thought they were SO cool and subversive.  Now i’m like, an adult, and I know that those were actually men being shitty at popular women for no reason.  That sort of thing.  Also- mambo no. 5 was on there like five times? Not even the same video?  I guess i was REALLY having a mambo 2013.

Also I had to include the scary ghosts thing.  It is so fucking funny i put that on a music playlist with the same importance of a grandmother passing down prized heirlooms.  We are loving our past selves in 2023.

[fuckecheeses]

As a childcare worker myself, you are wrong. Someone can do a morning shift and someone can do an evening shift. 8am-6pm are pretty normal childcare hours, so the shifts could be 8a-2p and 12p-6p with two hours of overlap. Easy Peasy.

Don’t let capitalism tell you what is and isn’t possible

6 hour workday maximum i’m not kidding, if it can’t be done in that timeframe it doesn’t need doing.

[shop-korea]

$799 - Sit on Luggage

Motor - Airports - and

Las Vegas - $3,000

Add Tax Excuse me?

Temu - China really?

Amazon - Prime

20 mph - 10 miles

1 charge

Going 2 Wendy's

2 Late 4 Storage

Blk Stalker Found me

Library - Cash - $2.50

Chocolates - Orange

Soda - Me - 'No need?'

Wendy's - then - Cash

Deposit - Capital One

Cafe after - CVS - Free

WiFi - So So - when its

Windy - Hate that

Before 2P - Late today

Wendy's - $5

Publix 😊 - $10 - for

Thanksgiving

Jesus is Lord

[sa7abnews]

Budget ‘black hole’ is same size as Rishi Sunak’s pre-election tax cuts, says IFS chief

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Budget ‘black hole’ is same size as Rishi Sunak’s pre-election tax cuts, says IFS chief

The boss of a leading economic think tank has said that the “black hole” in the UK’s public finances is equivalent to the Conservative Party’s pre-election National Insurance cuts. Former chancellor Jeremy Hunt cut National Insurance by 2p in the last spring budget before the election, after making the exact same cut in the autumn statement last year.  The combined cuts were expected to save the average earner £900 a year. At the time, Hunt argued that it would make the tax system fairer and help revive the economy. In order to pay for the tax reductions, the former government insisted it was looking at further public spending cuts, to be introduced if the Conservatives had won the recent election.  ***Politics.co.uk is the UK’s leading digital-only political website. Subscribe to our daily newsletter for all the latest election news and analysis.*** Paul Johnson, director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, said on Monday that it was “striking” that £20 billion “black hole” is of the same scale as Hunt’s NI cuts. Johnson told BBC Breakfast: “It is very striking that if this problem is about £20 billion big that is exactly the scale of the National Insurance cuts implemented by Jeremy Hunt just before the election. “Now, if those cuts were implemented in the knowledge that there was this kind of hole that is not good policy to put it mildly.” The comments precede a commons statement from Rachel Reeves on Monday, which is expected to lay the ground for cuts to public spending, tax rises and delays to some infrastructure projects in order to fill the £20 billion “hole” in the nation’s finances.  Reeves will also announce an “office of value for money”, a body that will use civil service resources to identify and recommend savings for the current financial year. Labour’s manifesto committed not to raise taxes on working people, relying instead on economic growth to improve government funds.  Labour has ruled out increases in income tax, VAT, national insurance and corporation tax, leaving changes to capital gains tax, inheritance tax and pensions relief on the table. Speaking on Monday, Reeves will accuse the previous Conservative government of having “covered up” the state of public finances. The chancellor will also reveal the date of this year’s budget, amid speculation Labour is considering raising taxes in that fiscal event. Reeves is expected to say: “It is time to level with the public and tell them the truth. “The previous government refused to take the difficult decisions. They covered up the true state of the public finances. And then they ran away. I will never do that. “The British people voted for change and we will deliver that change. I will restore economic stability. I will never stand by and let this happen again.” Responding, shadow exchequer secretary to the Treasury Gareth Davies accused Labour of “trying to con the British public into accepting … tax rises”. Josh Self is Editor of Politics.co.uk, follow him on X/Twitter here. Politics.co.uk is the UK’s leading digital-only political website. Subscribe to our daily newsletter for all the latest election news and analysis. The post Budget ‘black hole’ is same size as Rishi Sunak’s pre-election tax cuts, says IFS chief .