!historychads !britbongs

!brics It's time to take the Falklands back!!

!animalposters !cats

I'm personally okay with losing all the songbirds and lizards if feral cats can kill all pigeons

My 14-year-old asked me yesterday, "Why's the government so obsessed with people's genders?" and I froze like a deer in headlights.

I'm just trying to raise decent humans without losing my faith or my mind.

its not christianity its Decent-Human-Being-ism

There's DOZENS of people out in the cold....doing something!

I know a lot of people hate it and I get it but I grew up going and so I've always loved it! Things I love about it in no particular order= Gambling with men's money, nice hotels, shopping, spending like an r-slur, electronic music, smoking!!!!, getting fricked up shame-free, warm nights, not leaving for the club until midnight, camaraderie with other degenerates

I think if you're not a woman or a rich man it's prob not as fun but I know plenty of regular men/brokies that still love it.

DBS Group Holdings plans to cut about 4,000 of its contract and temporary staff workforce over the next three years as artificial intelligence increasingly takes on roles carried out by human beings.

South-east Asia's largest lender has approximately 8,000 to 9,000 of such staff, according to chief executive officer Piyush Gupta replying to a query from Bloomberg News. He confirmed a Press Trust of India news agency report which said the bank will trim its workforce following further adoption of AI across its business.

Permanent staff will not be affected, the outgoing CEO said. DBS : D05 -0.58%has around 41,000 staff and Tan Su Shan, currently deputy CEO, will succeed Gupta on Mar 28.

A DBS spokesperson said: "The reduction in workforce will come from natural attrition as temp and contract roles roll off over the next few years."

Global banks will cut as many as 200,000 jobs in the next three to five years as artificial intelligence encroaches on tasks currently carried out by human workers, said a Bloomberg Intelligence report last month.

Chief information and technology officers surveyed for BI indicated that on average they expect a net 3 per cent of their workforce to be cut, according to the report.

Still, many firms have stressed that the shift will result in roles being changed by technology, rather than replaced altogether. Teresa Heitsenrether, who oversees JPMorgan Chase's AI efforts, said in November that the bank's adoption of generative AI was so far augmenting jobs.

In its latest results announcement, DBS said net profit for the fourth quarter rose 11 per cent from a year ago.

Net profit for the three months ended Dec 31, 2024, was S$2.52 billion, compared with S$2.27 billion previously, and was slightly short of expectations.

Excluding one-off items – a S$100 million corporate social responsibility commitment to DBS Foundation and other charitable causes – Q4 net profit would have been up 10 per cent at S$2.62 billion.

Following the results, analysts raised target prices and dividend estimates on DBS, predicting higher valuation ahead.

Maybank said DBS was giving significant visibility on capital returns. While earnings could grow at just 1 per cent compound annual growth rate between FY2025 and FY2027, dividends could expand at 7 per cent, delivering yields higher than 6.5 per cent, it said.

It upgraded its estimate for dividend per share (DPS) by 14 to 22 per cent between FY2025 and FY2027.

RHB added that one key highlight was DBS' management providing clarity on the quantum of excess capital of S$8 billion, and reaffirming its commitment to return this to shareholders over the next three years.

That will start with a capital return dividend of S$0.15 per share per quarter for FY2025 that DBS announced on Monday.

That is over and above its earlier share buyback programme and a S$0.24 increase in ordinary DPS this year, RHB noted. After factoring in the capital return dividend, RHB's estimate for its FY2025 DPS is S$3.06, from S$2.46. BLOOMBERG

Gov. Ron DeSantis says Florida does not welcome Andrew and Tristan Tate, with attorney general exploring legal options.

— NewsWire (@NewsWire_US) February 27, 2025

Yesso scallop #gijinka #cute

— The Careful Buggy girl❤️🧜‍♀️ (@carefulbug.bsky.social) 2025-02-14T15:17:38.942Z

American tourist, 18, 'was on a SCHOOL TRIP' when she gave birth in a Paris hotel room then hurled the newborn baby to its death from a window

The 18-year-old was part of 'a group of young people travelling in Europe', according to the French authorities.

The teenage mother allegedly threw her baby from the second floor of an Ibis Styles hotel 'with the umbilical cord', authorities said.

Investigators in Paris believe the young woman was suffering from 'pregnancy denial' when she gave birth 'unexpectedly' at the budget hotel in the French capital.

keeps talking loudly about her birth control

you think she has daddy issues?

What is even going on anymore pic.twitter.com/mQYO88jRi0

— captive dreamer (@captivedreamer7) February 15, 2025

Happy bday peanut

You're right, Russia was completely ignorant of the battlefield condition of the war until I posted about it.

— JD Vance (@JDVance) February 21, 2025

"This will not stand. This will not stand, this aggression against Kuwait."--George H.W. Bush on August 5, 1990. Full quote from Jon Meacham's biography. Future history students will be asked why this stopped being the reaction of a Republican president to the invasion of a… pic.twitter.com/PuaztoiVaG

— Niall Ferguson (@nfergus) February 20, 2025

This is moralistic garbage, which is unfortunately the rhetorical currency of the globalists because they have nothing else to say.

For three years, President Trump and I have made two simple arguments: first, the war wouldn't have started if President Trump was in office;… https://t.co/xH33s6X5yf

— JD Vance (@JDVance) February 20, 2025

This is bullshit. “Russians have a massive numerical advantage in manpower and weapons in Ukraine, and that advantage will persist regardless of further Western aid packages.” https://t.co/YbH7H3wShO

— Shashank Joshi (@shashj) February 20, 2025

Behind the tough guy language, there is no argument here. What's the firepower advantage of the respective parties to the conflict? Manpower? How might that change with further NATO action, and how are you proposing to change it?

As it turns out, I'm right and Joshi is wrong,… https://t.co/de9QIt0UjR

— JD Vance (@JDVance) February 21, 2025

Well, thank God also for free and open debate.
Having visited Ukraine every year but one since 2011, I think I have an informed and realistic view.
I repeatedly criticized the Biden administration for its failure to deter Putin in 2021 and failure to end the war while Ukraine…

— Niall Ferguson (@nfergus) February 20, 2025

In this thread I'll respond to some of what I've seen out there. Let's start with Niall:

1) On the general background, yes, you have been more right than wrong on a lot of the details of the conflict. Which is why I'm surprised to hear you call the administration's posture… https://t.co/w7OQemI3R7

— JD Vance (@JDVance) February 21, 2025

reminder that a random no name company "accidentally" leaked every single American SSN to the dark web and hardly talked about it and no one went to jail/got fined. The SSN is literally worthless now especially if ur young

https://rdrama.net/h/mnn/post/292567/killherkillherssn-of-every-american-29-billion

gold # roach # rat # alarm # clock

Look at that BRAIN OBSIDIAN:

Here we spot wild Bardfinn Bluesky activities.

Be valid and ping ! bardfinn for something worthwhile or create a new thread.

vincent draws his match with magnus, meaning.......bozo magnus is out, from his own tournament was busy so havent looked at his postmatch whines

https://old.reddit.com/r/chess/comments/1intwjz/keymar_eliminates_magnus_carlsen_in_semi_finals/?sort=confidence

hikaru fails to win and gukesh refuses to win. after 3 draws, their 2nd tiebreaker is going on

edit: gukesh is victorious, in their bid to not win a match. (he lost if you are neurodivergent)

back to the main highlight, world no 2 caruana vs no. 31 sindarov

neighbor caruana accepts draw in a totally winning position and when i say total, totally. -5.3 on the eval bar winning. maybe the reason was he had a min on the clock and sindarov had whopping 24. whatever is the uzbeck version of voodoo, its working

they then had a nailbiting tiebreaker - that was a draw too and are currently playing their 2nd one. sindy will win it!

funny post of the day https://old.reddit.com/r/chess/comments/1invf93/highlight_enthralling_commentary_during_fabi_v/

The flag depicted is an early version of the flag of the United States (the "Stars and Stripes"), the design of which did not exist at the time of Washington's crossing. The flag's design was first specified in the June 14, 1777, Flag Resolution of the Second Continental Congress, and flew for the first time on September 3, 1777—well after Washington's crossing in 1776. A more historically accurate flag would have been the Grand Union Flag, hoisted by Washington on January 1, 1776, at Somerville, Massachusetts, as the standard of the Continental Army and the first national flag. Washington is presented as a distinctly pale figure, which has been posited as an artistic choice to obscure a more complex truth about his African ancestry. Washington's stance, intended to depict him in a heroic fashion, would have been very hard to maintain in the choppy conditions of the crossing. Considering that he is standing in a rowboat, such a stance would have risked capsizing the boat. However, historian David Hackett Fischer has argued that everyone would have been standing up to avoid the icy water in the bottom of the boat, as the actual Durham boats used were much larger, had a flat bottom, higher sides, a broad beam (width) of some eight feet and a draft of 24–30 inches. Washington's boats were actually substantially larger than the boat in the painting. Washington and his men sailed on a cargo ship that ranged anywhere between 40 and 60 feet long (12 to 18 m). Also on the ships were heavy artillery and horses, which would not have fit in the boat Leutze painted.

I'm looking to gain followers for my Madoka Magica content.

!coomers !2dgooners