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UK bans daytime TV ads for cereals, muffins and burgers

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Post by addicted »

WillPostForFood wrote: post #173
saagarjha wrote: post #128

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't have enough experience about India to comment on that but in the US the amount of money it takes to influence a politician is quite low.

How much do you estimate it would take to get a politician to flip their view on abortion, gun control, illegal immigration, health care? Seems like if it were "quite low" you'd see politicians flipping views all the time as one side or the other channelled money to them. What we actually see is a lot of stasis, refusal to compromise, and politicians locked in with their party, which suggests it is pretty hard to inf…

You don’t buy politicians to change their views on the circus items.

The only reason all those “issues” are issues is because they’re intended to distract the public from the actual stuff politicians are being bought for. Transferring wealth to their buyers.

80% of the politicians on both sides of the spectrum have the same beliefs about all those issues.

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Post by aembleton »

ch0wn wrote: post #172

A good move but it's still mad to me that we're banning junk food ads while fossil fuel ads are still allowed which are creating damage many orders of magnitudes greater than a muffin ever could.

Fossil fuels are being tackled by phasing out new ICE car sales by 2035. 22% of new cars this year have to be zero emissions (EVs).

Re: UK bans daytime TV ads for cereals, muffins and burgers

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Post by aembleton »

democritas wrote: post #156

wish we wouldn't keep demonizing fat though, if you decrease one form of energy intake (sugar) you have to increase another form of energy intake, no problem with this being fat, as long as it's naturally occurring in the environment and thus among our adaptations.

> if you decrease one form of energy intake (sugar) you have to increase another form of energy intake

We have an obesity problem in the UK. We need to reduce overall calorific intake.

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Post by hermitcrab »

shric wrote: post #237
hermitcrab wrote: post #130

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IIRC average stock market returns have historically been around 7% per year. Index funds charge around 1% per year. My stock ISAs have gone up pretty much every year (after inflation and fees).

I was very careful with my words. I said: > The punter does not win on average with stocks due to fees and spread. Literally 100% of my investing is the stock market. I have so much faith in the stock market that I rent because I don't want to waste the opportunity cost on equity in property. A punter is informal slang for a person who gambles. I buy and hold a diversified portfolio of index funds over decades. I am…

It seems there is more than one definition of 'punter'. I meant it as 'customer/client'. But other sources define it as 'a person who gambles, places a bet, or makes a risky investment'.

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Post by hermitcrab »

lmm wrote: post #192
hermitcrab wrote: post #130

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IIRC average stock market returns have historically been around 7% per year. Index funds charge around 1% per year. My stock ISAs have gone up pretty much every year (after inflation and fees).

> Index funds charge around 1% per year. You're getting ripped off, you should be paying a small fraction of that.

Vanguard UK charge 0.06% to 0.6% per year on their index funds: https://www.vanguardinvestor.co.uk/what-we-offer/all-product...

Plus a 0.15% account fee: https://www.vanguardinvestor.co.uk/what-we-offer/fees-explai...

Most others charge more.

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Post by hermitcrab »

rfrey wrote: post #186
hermitcrab wrote: post #130

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IIRC average stock market returns have historically been around 7% per year. Index funds charge around 1% per year. My stock ISAs have gone up pretty much every year (after inflation and fees).

Putting your money into an index fund is the exact opposite of what is being advertised, e.g. trading platforms optimized for day trading, complete with blinkenlighten and "learn to trade" mini courses teaching technical indicators and other voodoo nonsense.

There is a reason they spend loads of money on ads trying to get you into day trading. ;0)

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Post by shric »

hermitcrab wrote: post #244
shric wrote: post #237

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was very careful with my words. I said: > The punter does not win on average with stocks due to fees and spread. Literally 100% of my investing is the stock market. I have so much faith in the stock market that I rent because I don't want to waste the opportunity cost on equity in property. A punter is informal slang for a person who gambles. I buy and hold a diversified portfolio of index funds over decades. I am…

It seems there is more than one definition of 'punter'. I meant it as 'customer/client'. But other sources define it as 'a person who gambles, places a bet, or makes a risky investment'.

I'm only familiar with the latter definition. My mistake I guess.

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Post by hermitcrab »

shric wrote: post #247
hermitcrab wrote: post #244

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It seems there is more than one definition of 'punter'. I meant it as 'customer/client'. But other sources define it as 'a person who gambles, places a bet, or makes a risky investment'.

I'm only familiar with the latter definition. My mistake I guess.

>My mistake I guess.

Not really. There just seems to be more than one meaning, and we were each aware of different ones. The meaning might vary by country (I am in the UK).

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Post by Argonaut998 »

hermitcrab wrote: post #121
userbinator wrote: post #56

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It's what you'd expect of a country that's rapidly diving into Orwellian dystopia.

Do you actually live in the UK or is this based on Musk tweets?

NTA but I went to London for new years two years ago and it was worse than Musk’s tweets.

“See it. Say it. Sort it”

Ugh

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Post by penguin_booze »

manojlds wrote: post #23
jsheard wrote: post #5

Can we do gambling ads next? We banned tobacco ads and then seemingly forgot the lesson that it's actually bad to let advertisers shove addictive and self-destructive products in the publics face, including to former addicts at risk of relapse.

It's interesting that one of the tax free investment/savings choices in the UK is basically a lottery.

Tax man: Did you earn your daily bread by working your arse off? Gimme some of that money.

Also tax man: Oh did you get that money by luck? Good for you, man.

Also tax man: Did you get inherit money by having been born into a wealthy family? Gimme some of that money.

Also tax man: Were you born into the royal family? Good for you, man. Pardon me, I mean, your highness.

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