56 here, I’m in the UK. I have 4 separate ‘private pensions’, from the four different companies I’ve worked for, adding up to fuck all. Basically I’m going to have to work until I’m 67 in order to collect my state pension of £1,049.22 a month. This will allow me to survive on cold baked beans out of a tin, before I freeze to death because I can’t afford to turn on the heating.
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My tech brothers, how easy is it to install graphene on my pixel 7? Will my banking app (Barclays, UK) still work? Tia
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Games@lemmy.world•What game do you personally have the most hours played in?English
1·12 days agoDayZ 2750 hours. I’m still rubbish.
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pics@lemmy.world•Frog blown into the air by the launch of NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) spacecraft. 2013.English
9·12 days agoIt’s one giant leap
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Technology@lemmy.world•Labour and Lib Dem MPs demand ‘shameful’ Palantir contract be scrappedEnglish
7·21 days agoTechnofashists
Christ, what a loser.
Had to look up the derivation ‘for fun’. - 1920, “muscular low-IQ male,” originally appearing in boxing slang (compare bimbo).
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News@lemmy.world•Grandmother Faces Trial in Alabama for Wearing Penis Costume to No Kings ProtestEnglish
5·1 month agoLand of the free…
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World News@lemmy.world•China to ban storing remains of dead in ‘bone ash apartments’English
1·1 month agoMy mother is in my loft.
I guess I’ll have to keep working then…
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Meshtastic@mander.xyz•Diagnosing unexpectedly bad tx/rx performanceEnglish
2·2 months agoJust to confirm it’s connected directly to the RAK antenna? I tried a short cable with mine one time, it was terrible (unfortunately).
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Fuck AI@lemmy.world•Amazon is reportedly developing an AI-centric smartphoneEnglish
4·2 months agoFire Phone 2
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Astronomy@mander.xyz•Astronomers discover long-period radio transient of unknown originEnglish
5·2 months agoWow!
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United Kingdom@feddit.uk•Human Rights and Health Groups(including Amnesty) Urge Hospitals Not to Use Palantir Software and Demand That NHS England Cancels the Contract EntirelyEnglish
9·2 months agoI just signed a petition calling on the Government to scrap all its contracts with Palantir - including its huge NHS database deal, can you sign too? https://38d.gs/hso1
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Technology@lemmy.world•AIs can’t stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulationsEnglish
1·2 months agoBack when I was a single man, and lived on my own, I had a HD projector. I filled most of my living room wall with this game. Good times








I didn’t get the benefit of a final salary pension. I have also not worked long enough at any particular company to really benefit from a big pot. The longest I’ve worked for one company is ten years, I think the company was paying in as little as possible. When I looked at a forecast for the pay out from that one, it was about £100 a month.