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masseratti:
am not a trump supporter,but sometimes a wrong clock can be right twice on a day..the Europeans western Europe have been maybe due to lack of strong leaders complacent,we all should thank China for manufacturing cheap alternative products and getting better with them over the years.. intellectual property right or not...the USA did same to European inventors too to get to where they arr today.. patent laws were in existence in Europe since 1700..USA didn't have one till late 1800.

My point is the USA can also have a lil bit of socialist model.. create economic free zone..where healthcare, housing, education,food is already cheap in the USA..will be heavily subsidized like it is in China...that will bring down the labor cost .. create a supply chain to feed those industries in the economic zones ...labor cost is the main issue why companies are manufacturing in China..the only thing that is making the labor cost cheap there are those needs of an average Joe.this tariffs is just archaic.

Chukwuka16:
We all become fintechs in time

I used to be in the world
But now I'm a changed man (Praise the Lord) yeah
I used to have five side chicks
But right now I only have one (Hallelujah) yeah
I used to drink Fanta with vodka but now it's just Fanta (ah Bleep martini!)
Me I used to fantasize about Amber Rose and Blac Chyna
But right now it's just BamBam
Right now I'm law abiding tax paying tongue praying soul winning uh
Bleep
Until I take you to church
I go love you too much 'til you beg me to stop baby
I'm a born again no fornicate again
I don't play no games never sin again

We needed to vary our authorisation and that meant going back to our consultants to discuss the costs and process. They came back with a proposal which put the entire process at £31k + VAT (including their fee of about £26k + VAT and licence fee of around £5k). On our end, manpower over 5 months to work on preparing our application was going to be £35k. I decided to stew over this for a few days, tinker with our finance sheet and ultimately agree. £13k + VAT needed to be paid once I agreed with the proposal (which I was going to).

From an operations POV, this was straightforward. We needed to have the licence if our marketplace was going to function (so we thought). This additional expense meant a further decimation of margins. I needed some headroom as times are getting interesting every day. This was going to be a 1-year process. While this was being pursued, I needed to start romancing companies with the senior licence (API) to make me an agent so we could kick off operations. If only I knew.

I am on my computer setting up Stripe for one of our businesses with the CEO and I stumble on some products offered by Stripe that not only allow me to operate a marketplace effectively but even do more. For months, we have struggled on operationalising the unrestricted monetised benefits consumers were going to earn on the platform (mostly from flexibility participation). The alternative was to allow a withdrawal from the marketplace to their bank accounts. I put a pause on this as I was not ready to go crazy. I already had too much compliance and risk reporting to do and didn’t need to top it up just yet. Now imagine my consternation to discover that Stripe allows for the creation of Virtual Cards for users. O Lord, O Lord, O Lord!

I have briefed the dev team, and we are game. We are doing research to know how it works and how it changes the UX on our platform. I have saved myself £66k + VAT (on £26k). I can now issue virtual cards to customers allowing them to be able to transfer their unrestricted monetised benefits to these cards and spend outside the platform, receive revenue from customers, deduct our charges/fees before making payments to merchants all using Stripe. I can broker finance with lenders for our customers as we are authorised, and life has never been beautiful.

I am now reminiscing about this finding and the effects are grim.

First, most of my partners and their businesses are dead. I am in partnership with a lender and their minimum capital requirement to act as a lender for our customers is £300k. For this, I’ll have countless meetings, we will deliberate fees, interest rates and RoI and safeguards and loss management. I will expend time and resources just to lend my money to consumers. Now here’s the kicker. Klarna offers their service without me needing to know them or make any capital available. Infact, Klarna will pay me upfront up to £4k for a single product, can offer my customers access to payments up to 24 months or the usual BNPL or pay in 3 instalments at 0% APR (ahem, there’s some transaction fees involved). In a short while, Klarna will be able to offer finance cheaper than my partner and kick them out of business. They do not appreciate how much disruption is coming. Ignorance is bliss they say, well, not in today’s world.

Second, agility is key. We started out as a software business, pivoted to hardware (with the software meant to operationalise the hardware), and now we are a fintech business (building business models on them all). We are in the energy space and will be the biggest flexibility marketplace globally. This is not a flex. Our target is 25MW/125MWh flexibility capacity by year end rising to 1GW/10GWh globally next year without building a single plant. We hope to achieve 10GW/2TWh by 2030 by God’s Grace. We are however realising that we are simply a financial technology business. We are creating business models to monetise demand response (DR). Having customers who can be flexible in energy consumption is what we are achieving through the hardware and the reward scheme. However, what drives this behaviour is the financial incentive. Our ability to create money from offering cheaper alternative to grid balancing or generation expansion is simply a financial problem – the engineering aspect is a boundary condition. If we didn’t have agility built in ensuring we could pivot as quickly as possible, adapt and adopt innovation, we would have built a failed product.

Thirdly, talented community matters. I am back to my usual whining again. We have suffered this long because we do not have a community of talented people in this field. I am not a finance person originally. We didn’t have community members to consult. Everyone we know in finance is just interested in their jobs that are now being deleted by innovation and AI. There are days I am going mental simply because I am burdened and have no one to talk to about the problems I am confronting. I take long walks talking to myself like a mad man just to let off steam. I write hundreds of pages literally just to depressurise my head. I would have been better off having talented folks to talk to. Mentors to learn from. Shoulders to climb. Damn, we are a lost cause as immigrants. I try not to sound like a broken record or mental nutjob to my missus – she has enough problems to deal with. Someone will say what of your CFO and COO? Well, it is hard to convey your thoughts especially when you are still struggling to understand them. Unfortunately, this has been the case. They catch up when I am clear. Navigating the cobwebs of confusion to clarity has been the struggle. Inside life.

Let me clear, what we offer isn’t pure rocket science but does not exist practically yet anywhere. Think about your flex programme but not via smart meters – our own smart devices – plugs, sockets, finger bots (for operating your washing machines and dish washers and tumble dryers in your absence) and our own app. We procure your fridge and freezers and washing machines and dish washers and electric kettles and electric heaters (EV chargers and heat pumps coming along) as assets for either dynamic or fixed compensation over a timeline (month, quarter year, half year, full year) and can sell these to NESO and DSOs facing demand and capacity constraints in real-time. This means we must become a VLP and get a host of other certifications and qualifications and 3rd party software integration. I have researched this since 2012. In fact, this formed the crux of my bachelors (virtual power plants), master’s and doctorate. The pool of folks I can discuss this at length with is quite limited globally within our community. I deliberately don’t want to work with non-Nigerians on this – I can use them as consultants but want to have that knowledge marinated within a community of people with my skin colour and from Nigeria. What we offer covers finance (we are authorised to broker credit for customers to buy our smart devices), hardware (we design, manufacture and certify our devices), software (crazy as we have to build patches between our own system using flutter and the firmware owner in CHINA built on Java, cloud services, and AI), and the electricity market (continuous research to ensure we can mitigate risks). The biggest concern has been ensuring that we are building something that can scale.

Fourth, ongoing consolidation will destroy us because we have no stakes in them. I will go for the licences still. We would go commercial (late April or early May), make sales and carve out the cost for getting the needed licence and go for it. We will build the services we hope to deploy from Stripe ourselves and get it setup. It will cost us a lot, but we MUST do it and keep on ice. Yes, humanity is back to its senses for a while with Trump coming on board. However, it is going to be worse soon as censorship will run wild while free speech gets attacked and controlled. Companies like Stripe will evolve into DEI run businesses using useless metrics to determine who gets to remain on their platform. We will also do the same for our servers. We will build and operate our own servers to handle at least 50% of our services. It will cost us a lot of money, but we MUST do it. Whatever we can get now, we MUST get it. Yes, we are becoming almost a vertically integrated business. It is a safer bet than having too many dependencies. I have learnt from Trump’s ordeal (a former US president – let that sink in) and how useless Twitter (now X), Facebook, Instagram and other businesses can become (even banks!) when they want to control the narrative to be better safe than sorry.

Fifth, contemporary education is useless. I am handling a consulting gig now with the folks I consult for stateside. The problem we are providing solutions to do not yet exist for another 18 months. To show how funny the problem is, I am forced to generate unconventional models to represent the system and mirror the Fault-Tolerant Flight Control System (FTFCS) in aviation to simulate redundancy. This is not transferred learning. My background of electrical engineering (BSc and MSc) and Computer Science (PhD) are mostly useless here. Of course it is heavy on stochastic modelling, Monte Carlo, Hidden Markov Models for probabilistic dependencies, Fault Tree Analysis, Bayesian Networks, etc. The problem formulation is first principles and that’s what worries me. Contemporary education seems lost or unable to develop our creative minds. Education as a process MUST stimulate the creativity of the student. That is the sole purpose of education. However, when it is focused on silos, it prevents us from understanding that events that occur in life are microcosms of themselves.

Sixth, career is dead and gone. Unless job prostitution, it is insane to expect to remain 30 years in a company. Well after the full transition to the dystopic world that is gradually evolving, people can be sure to remain long-term in a company – more as serfs (you know technofeudalism). This implies that as businesses are transforming, we cannot expect to continue to transform to stay relevant – it will wear us out. We need to build an ecosystem that can allow us maintain stability in an ever-changing world. No one says you should remain stagnant, but can that be more of a process-driven learning to improve on what we can do rather than outright ejection or a rat-race for the next certification which does not guarantee stability? Can we continue to add value as we upskill in a more nuanced and paced format than compete for employment/daily bread? We can only be afforded this luxury in an ecosystem we build. People get to have stability based on how eager they are to learn and upskill without the fear of being ejected. We can promote those most competent and updated but everyone gets to be taken care of. We need to think ecosystem. It is one of the wonders of life. Literally, immigrants from Asia (India, China, Pakistan, etc.) and Jews are leveraging this in driving wealth and prosperity for themselves.

Lastly, the UK is dead and gone. I cannot comprehend how a country can be sliding into uselessness and not know. I am grateful for the privilege of citizenship the UK has afforded me and the access that has brought. I am however disappointed with the distaste for ambition that is prevalent in the UK. It seems suffering and laborious work and conservative lifestyle is more virtuous in the UK. Folks will sneer at ambitious thinking forgetting that lack of such is inhibiting the UK’s ability to carve out a niche for itself in the evolving new world. You will hear of allocation for projects and wonder if the government is made up of peasants. The sixth biggest economy in the world and it sets aside peanuts for so-called ambitious projects. £12m disagreement and it is happy to lose £500m worth of inward investments from AstraZeneca (we need to start deducting from the so-called record breaking £60+ billion it claims it raised recently). In the midst of all these struggles, young and ambitious folks are unable to have the needed support to innovate. There is no doubt I would have been sorting out mails or working in a factory had we not secured non-diluting funding for our idea – I was never going to be a lecturer in the UK. Research was enough. What irks me is that there are folks with more brilliant ideas than me that will contribute immensely and positively to humanity but will never get funded because the UK government is unambitious. The “denseness” of the UK political class is creating a third world country in the UK. Forget the façade of London – the UK as a whole is done. What future does exist for young and ambitious people who want to try out new things? It is the availability of opportunities that has turned the US and China into wonder nations. Cheap loans, high risk appetite, tolerance for innovation, etc. is catalysing so much wealth in these countries. How come China with its style of governance is generating so much innovation and yet the UK with its so-called free speech is still wondering what LLMs are?

Well, it seems everything is ending in finance. At the end of the day, what matters most is that consumers get value, and we get paid. If it means us becoming a fintech then, so, be it.

I cannot wrap my head around the lyrics of this song by Blaqbonez ft BOJ and CKay – Good Boy. I can always find comfort in the comical and very relaxing lyrics from this song. The essence of this song is its misplaced usefulness at a time like this. It just eases in without ruffling feathers but is well suited to strike that balance between chill and reflection.

I'm a very different kind of somebody
I'm not someone that is into all those kinds of sweet boys
All those kind of nonsense things
I like a God fearing man a man that fear God
Now this is me this is the kind of person I am
I am not interest in that I don't have interest on that

Hey no I'm not regular ay (Bang)
You swear you on my cellular ay (Da dang)
I see a lot of boys want a snap of me of me
I no dey smoke marijuana oh baby
I no dey do fornicator oh baby
I no dey go kalakuta oh baby
I don't don't no ayy
As you are looking at a good boy
We no too many we no too many
Say we no too many
'Cause you're looking at a good boy
We no too many we no too many baby oh

I'm a good boy on a very good day
Me I no dey lie on a very good day
I'm still a virgin on a very good day
And I dey go church every other Sunday ay ay

The way I dey move e dey make her confuse
Dey with some girl whey dey tell me bonjour
Say I look so bad but I'm so good
Say I look so bad but I'm so good
Tryna get close to ya know say me I no dey smoke cigar
We told you we no dey smoke bana
We don't even smoke marijuana yeah yeah yeah
I no dey chance person for hold up I let them pass
As a good boy I gotta show example
You dey waste time if you try to fight me
Turn the next cheek if popo slap me
Oya jeje I dey give them jeje
Angelina sempe everything popping
We dey give them yenke
Oh

As you are looking at a good boy
We no too many we no too many
Say we no too many
'Cause you're looking at a good boy
We no too many we no too many baby oh

I used to be in the world
But now I'm a changed man (Praise the Lord) yeah
I used to have five side chicks
But right now I only have one (Hallelujah) yeah
I used to drink Fanta with vodka but now it's just Fanta
Me I used to fantasize about Amber Rose and Blac Chyna
But right now it's just BamBam
Right now I'm law abiding tax paying tongue praying soul winning uh
Bleep
Until I take you to church
I go love you too much 'til you beg me to stop baby
I'm a born again no fornicate again
I don't play no games never sin again

As you are looking at a good boy
We no too many we no too many
Say we no too many
'Cause you're looking at a good boy
We no too many, we no too many baby oh

No I'm not regular ayy
But for real I'm not regular
Look at what I do you can help me check the cellular yeah
All my music praise and worship promise you no secular woah
I no fit even tell you say I don do woman before
All my life yo I never ever drink alcohol
Gold chain gold chain gold chain
But I dey with rosary every second saying prayer to God
Thank God it's Friday it's time for night vigil
I no dey gyrate I'm more into soul winning
Dem boys dey for 57 but I dey the prayer level
Life is really spiritual, somebody gats to cast the devil
So tell me what you want oh baby shey you wanna go Santorini
How you wanna go renegade (Bleep with me baby)

That's what I like

Me I no dey lie on a very good day
I'm still a virgin on a very good day
And I dey go church every other Sunday ay ay
(Focus)

lavida001:
This is the solution.
https://youtube.com/shorts/0d4HtPFowaE?si=fGbx18EXz6sorRzC

wallg123:
While the stock market is dancing awillo una dey here dey argue migrant this migrant that. Its getting boring now. Its friday night you guys should go and have fun or relax biko

Treadway:
lol. I've consistently picked up on your advice(s) to Africa and Africans.

Sadly, you're flying solo here. There is no interest by Africans to fight for and build Africa. Not entirely their fault tho, cos the system is just stacked against you, but I do know that the whites were able to do it. Fought with blood and sweat to build working and functional societies......one of the reason I beef them, cos I don't accept they are better than me in any way, but the reality is the reality. They are different and better, which makes me beef them even more...na raging conflict 🤣🤣🤣

jedisco:
You capture this succinctly.

1-2 years ago, when the PSW and student visa changes were made, it became clear that many would end up being shafted. Remember having that discussion here.

Imagine a masters student who arrived earlier with family- had to cough up > £20k as Uni and PSW fees now facing removal 3 yrs in. How would they handle it? Many are frantically seeking a care visa now.
Compare that to someone who arrived via Care at same time. That person has 2 years left to ILR and may have got a desired role in or outside care. It's these disparities that drive crazy desperation

Goke7:
Unfortunately this is true especially when I also remember the pastor Tobi issue.

The complicated thing again is that both the giver and taker are liable. At worst the Dr could just be struck off from the medical profession. The true antidote is just for people to stop paying for COS but will people listen?

Arap:
This is the unpleasant reality for corporate roles nowadays.

I had my share of this unpleasant situation today. I have been with the NHS for 20 months; started as a B5, progressed to B6 and recently secured a B7. I received the sad news today that the new Trust would not be able to sponsor for a finance role because there is no funding.

It is really unreasonable to deny a qualified candidate visa sponsorship because of £2k when the pay for that role is 25x the Immigration skills charge. Applicants should be the one complaining about the £4k visa and IHS fee, not the employer.

The only hope I have now is for my current employer to make good their promise of 1 year ago to sponsor my visa, otherwise, my friends who have been advising me to leave career and pursue care visa would say "We told you"

dentalux:
Today, I just want to share with you what happens in the UK job market. People here should stop blaming people who decide to go for care visa without trying professional jobs.. The truth is the spirit of labour market test is still in place. My flatmate mate got a job within the civil service and resumed. When it came to the issue of sponsorship the Labour market test was applied on him. He was told he could not be sponsored and that the role is not a hard to fill role and could be sourced from the UK labour market. He showed me the letter which i read.. This is just to tell someone looking for sponsorship. Pray for direction what works for A may not work for B. even if the company has a license. .

Goke7:
The uk is a conservative society if one is not content and is too greedy ending up as a scammer is so easy

jedisco:
That's the reason you pay your tax and vote so someone whose role it is can worry about that. The way I see it, I'm hardly paid enough for the job I do, why take on someone's role?

In same vein-
If you're a border officer and you encounter a stranded migrant boat at sea, you don't let them drown because the country is broke as you'd rightly go to jail. You rescue them do what you're paid for.
If you work at Tesco and see folks stealing- you don't go fight them cos you'd get sacked, you do your job.
If you work on a paediatric ward and see that young girl spending weeks on the ward cos she has refused to eat or being admitted multiple times cos she keeps taking paracetamol, you don't go scolding her, you do your job.
If you work as a paramedic and are dispatched to that persons house who have threatened to kill themselves for the umpteenth time, you dont cancel the case because you rightly know they are wasting money which we don't have. You follow relevant processes.
If you wirk in a school and see a child having temper tantrums, throwing sand your way, you don't go teaching him or her African discipline and get sacked, you do your job.
If you work as a social worker and decline people care 'because your council is broke', you'd get into serious issues and your council will sack you.

There was a case of late where someone who attended A&E with back pain and certain worrying features and didn't have a scan. Coincidentally, he heard someone mention that an MRI was expensive (wasn't the reason he didn't have one). Turned out the chap had a rare medical issue (which should have been picked on a scan) that is regarded as an emergency as it should be fixed in a few hours once detected. He went on to lose some control of his bladder and subsequently sued the hospital and got a payout of £1 million. I listened to the Trust's Director narrate this- one of the issues that came up in court was narration that someone mentioned the scan was expensive- guess how much the scan would cost the hospital? £350. That staff must have been repeating discussions they heard in house. p.s this doesn't mean everyone with back pain needs a scan- very few actually do.

When you talk about depression, you first need to understand the system you are in. Look at the care pathway many hustle for and give testimony after securing a visa. Put an average Brit through that and they'd return depressed and rightly so. Even I would.
When I issue sick (fit) notes, I make a conscious effort to ensure the prevailing media narrative has no influence on what I issue or not. I pay enough taxes for someone else to worry about that. It would interest you to know that a recent ocuurence has been the DWP calling people's doctors late in the day cos during an assessment, someone mentioned they had self-harm thoughts. You ask them why they are in a hurry to tell you, and they start mumbling. Of course, its to share the blame should something go wrong..

I can go on and on but can't stress this enough. Understand the country you're in and do your job.

Lexusgs430:
Anyone seen the list of properties, the UK government are about to inherit....... 57 Nigerian's with no known NOK, are about to lose their assets to the crown........ 😁😂👑👑👑

Goke7:
I will report you to them you’re one of those people always complaining about benefits make dem find you come your house to carry you 😂

Goke7:
on top Benefits matter abi

Lexusgs430:
That girl from account department, is about to unleash her dragon...... 😂🐲🐉🤔

jedisco:
Hehe.. I knew this would come up.

For starters, I can guess what you're thinking, no be 9ja be dis. The first thing you do when you come into the UK is understand the system you work in. First, what is your understanding of someone not being fit for work. Then secondly, what is your understanding of the benefit system?
As a medic, you soon learn your job is not to be a fit note police -been there, done that, na you go tire that is if you no enter wahala.

Look widely, there are children wards where not uncommonly upto 1 in 5 kids admitted on an average day are not there because they have a physical health issues but because of mental health related issues i.e they are not eating, took paracetamol overdose, self-harming e.t.c. What would you do if you encounter such kids who would ultimately grow to become adults? You support them. In this country, hospitals would pay 4 people to sit all day and only be brought into action if a child refuses to eat. Abi is it the one of a hospital building a house for someone so the person could get off the ward. Or those that have called out an ambulance visit them over 200 times in a few months cos they keep threatening to kill themselves. Outside health, what happens when you see folks looting a store- do you start boxing them? Even the grocery chains sack their staff who accost thieves. If you have not worked in public facing roles, then there's the part of British life that'd take a while to understand.


It has nothing to do with inate strength. Some of the things you see as work, others see as suffer. If you have the system you have here anywhere, it would get abused overtime. The govt knows what to do to make it sustainable but again, this is Britain.
A colleague of mine completed a work assessment for someone in Canada, chap had lost part of a limb in a freak work accident. Their DWP equivalent callen the chap in for an assessment and afterwards told him to go and be a motivational speaker - him self weak for the guy. Here, outcome would be different. If you want a free for all, you get a free for all. Benefits are there as an essential safetynet. It maintains human dignity in a society but everything has a cost.

Goke7:
Rather I just see a Guinea pig scenario where once you’re thinking of revenue increase you turn on immigrants and when you want to rant on society ills you also turn on immigrants. So they are both your problem and revenue tap. phew!

jedisco:
The kinda things one sees sef. More should be done to support many young minds back into work which we all know they'd find beneficial.

Why should we be bringing in tens of thousands of farm workers when we have almost a million young NEETs? Same also applies to care which is only slowly being adressed.


Holly, 17, had to drop out of college for having too much time off and explained she has a long-term condition that makes her sick, as well as autism and ADHD. "I'm still living with my parents but I'm also on PIP," she says.

"I'm working on getting a fit note at the moment," she says, referring to a note from her doctor that could lead to her being signed off. It would mean she'd get more money in benefits - around double the amount a jobseeker receives with no condition to look for work - but she'd then risk losing it if she got a job, a situation she believes is perverse.
https://archive.is/t21X6

Zahra29:
Important changes to the skilled worker route, effective April 9:

- Recruitment of care and senior care workers from overseas, or other immigration routes, will be banned in effect (applies to England only):

Employers will be required to prioritise care workers who have lost their sponsorship and/or are looking for new employment before they can consider overseas applicants or those on other immigration routes (doesn't apply to applicants already in a sponsored role).

- Minimum salary for sponsorship is to rise from £23,200 to £25,000, which means that Band 3 entry level roles will no longer meet the salary threshold for sponsorship

- Where an applicant is claiming a ‘new
entrant’ salary reduction based on training towards a recognised professional
qualification, this must be a UK qualification.

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/immigration-rules/updates

OgbeniOptional:
I have a feeling this will put more strain on mental health services, people are so predictable in this country.

Goke7:
The tax system needs reforms, you can’t be collecting too much from people and asking them to work their ass out. That maths is not adding up any longer.

jedisco:
But wait o... is it not easier, safer and faster to use any of the available apps?

jedisco:
All this talk about benefit claimants is beginning to sound like that against migration- if Labour wants to act, they should get on and act.

But seriously... 1 in 8

Why do we need care worker or seasonal farmer visas where almost a huge chunk could be put to use in the care or farming sector? With this, anyone who pays tax without claimimg benefits is an asset already


"A wasted generation, one-in-eight young people not in education, employment or training, and the people who really need that safety net still not always getting the dignity they deserve...
As of January, 9.3 million people aged 16 to 64 in the UK were economically inactive - a rise of 713,000 since the pandemic....
Last year, the government spent £65bn on sickness benefits and that figure is forecast to increase by tens of billions before the next general election.

justwise:
Who else is regreting not selling his/her Tesla share? I went from green to red and its not looking better anytime soon.

Not sure buying now is a wise move

Santa2:
Its incredible how Tesla can go from one of the best companies to invest in to the state it is now in just a few weeks. Elon's actions and timing is very bad because even in his own words before his recent alignment, he was already facing fierce competition from the Chinese EV car makers (BYD, Li autos, Zeekr, Changan etc) that he dismissed a few years before. Have you seen the state of the EVs from China, they are extremely innovative, with loaded features for half the cost of EVs from the west. China's gone from a copy cat manufacturing state 20 years ago to making and leading innovative strides in AI, robotics and EV. Its amazing how D Trump is just making the case for China's rise, alienating America's goodwill with its allies (Canada, EU) and pushing them East. The next four years are going to be very interesting.

Zahra29:
Coke head? Wow, says it all really.

Kenn55:
I believed in non proliferation of nukes so I was against the likes of Iran, NK or others from obtaining nukes. But given the Ukraine hopelessness, I now support nukes for everyone. Iran should have it and other countries who want it should get it.