frazorth
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- Comment on Why Britain is the world’s worst on homelessness 23 hours ago:
Then you should look around. It is very much a thing in the UK.
- Comment on Why Britain is the world’s worst on homelessness 23 hours ago:
We need to build more because this is about a Shelter piece on people having to live as families in a single hotel room rotating locations.
We aren’t even at the point of private landlords being the problem and preventing people from buying, as there simply aren’t enough houses for people
- Comment on Why Britain is the world’s worst on homelessness 1 day ago:
Tax the crap out of them until they build is usually easier.
- Comment on Why Britain is the world’s worst on homelessness 1 day ago:
Unfortunately the solutions are opposed by both sides, mostly because lefties are arguing points about house building not reducing costs which doesn’t stand up to scrutiny.
If we build a million McMansions, they won’t sell for £500k+ due to oversupply.
“Affordable housing” is just basically building more at this point, the reason you can sell ex-council houses for over £300k is because, as the article you didn’t read says, 1 in 200 are homeless due to insufficient housing.
- Comment on Why Britain is the world’s worst on homelessness 1 day ago:
It is unfortunate that the building companies make more money by not building, than by building.
We need a progressive land/council tax. Hording land should cost you.
My favourite suggestion should be that tax levels are based upon a heat map of urban density, but also linked to area owned. It came out of the US because they have problems with land hording in urban area, spaces that are just a car park to act as a holding for land.
It would mean that ownership of inner city, undeveloped land and also owning large estates is penalised.
- Comment on Why Britain is the world’s worst on homelessness 1 day ago:
Unsurprising that it all shot out of control after 2010, and just more evidence that we need to build more.
- Comment on Why Britain is the world’s worst on homelessness 1 day ago:
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- Comment on Anon learns that his grandfather dodged being drafted 4 days ago:
And how did he get her pregnant without being seen?
- Comment on Cutting the ‘green crap’ has added £22bn to UK energy bills since 2015 1 week ago:
Ah, but then you’ll have to put up will all the folks whining about new builds, and that a waste outlet pipe wasn’t connected properly, Vs a 60-70s that’s still standing so must be much better, as long as we ignore the black mold in the cavity that is slowly killing us.
- Comment on How much did the transition to cashless impacted inflation ? 1 month ago:
It’s also been shown that people are more likely to impulse purchase when not using cash, and moreso with contactless via a phone or watch.
Trying to tie a decline in cash purchases with tax evasion is impossible.
- Comment on Now, if it was a Pixel... 1 month ago:
Not quite sure about that. Wtf is that aspect ratio?
I’ll have to figure out of I can see it in person, because it reminds me of those 2000’s crappy ultra wide monitors that claimed a normal size but because they were extra wide it ended up being smaller.
- Comment on Now, if it was a Pixel... 1 month ago:
Ah, I thought the latest ones were going big again. I’ll have to check them out.
- Comment on Now, if it was a Pixel... 1 month ago:
I’m still on my Galaxy S10e.
The last normal sized phone with USB C and a headphone jack.
- Comment on Count Binface Celebrates beating Britain First 1 month ago:
Interesting back story.
Lord Buckethead has been three different people in different elections.
Count Binface is the second Lord Buckethead, the one who made the character famous when he stood against May in Maidenhead.
- Comment on How many floors are under an apartment on the second floor? (No basement) 2 months ago:
Not stupid in the slightest.
Basement -1 Ground 0 First floor 1 Second floor 2
It makes sense to me, but it’s also what I’m used to.
- Comment on How many floors are under an apartment on the second floor? (No basement) 2 months ago:
It’s okay to be wrong.
- Comment on Smooth brained tick taster 2 months ago:
Hang on, the description was about possums, but the title is in an opossum group, and your comment is about an opossum.
I’m going to have actually look up whether it’s opossums or possums that have a smooth brain.
- Comment on Royal Mail insists it will keep fining innocent victims of counterfeit stamps 2 months ago:
I wasn’t referring to the privatisation, you said
What an unnecessary division of labour.
The labour overlap of a parcel network and a storefront are completely different.
It didnt need to be privatised, but separating the two isnt a bad thing.
- Comment on Royal Mail insists it will keep fining innocent victims of counterfeit stamps 2 months ago:
I’m not sure I agree with this statement.
Our post office allows you to post packages with several different postal networks, including Royal Mail and Evri.
By decoupling the shop from the network, they can now do more without the conflict of interest from Royal Mail.
- Comment on Pupil behaviour 'getting worse' at schools in England, say teachers 2 months ago:
Besides, the badly-behaved students in my year generally only nasty to staff
Fucking was.
- Comment on Pupil behaviour 'getting worse' at schools in England, say teachers 2 months ago:
The bullies didn’t bully me so therefore they couldn’t be bullies
🙄
- Comment on Princess of Wales says she is undergoing cancer treatment - BBC News 3 months ago:
They could always end the monarchy if they don’t want attention.
- Comment on Brexit’s Lasting Damage Is Looking Inescapable 3 months ago:
It was also based on a spreadsheet that didn’t have all the cells selected when “averaging”.
- Comment on Horizon Forbidden West Complete Edition comes to PC on March 21 5 months ago:
I had that on Playstation.
The first half was pretty good but the grind to progress get monotonous. It’s like half a poor copy of Uncharted, and half poor Tekan.
- Comment on Electric car sales in UK flatline, prompting calls for VAT cut 5 months ago:
Nothing.
Except we keep voting for people who are giving away new oil fields rather than planning for our future.
- Comment on Electric car sales in UK flatline, prompting calls for VAT cut 5 months ago:
Considering the number of people who don’t have a driveway, public charging points are really the only option.
I’m not sure what I’ll do when they force me to buy electric and move of ICE. There are four charging points at the big Tesco’s, none at Sainsbury’s or Waitrose and none of the petrol stations have charge points. It’s just not viable for me.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
If we burn more oil, then we can be net zero!
- Comment on Depop, Vinted and other apps to share more information with HMRC 5 months ago:
and European and US and international governments that have allowed this to happen
Well, those governments have helped those countries get fucked but really we have only had about 13 years of Labour in the past 45 years. The burden of responsibility is definitely on the shoulders of Conservatives however much everyone could do better. We could prevent companies from off-shoring profits and on-shoring losses but we don’t.
- Comment on Depop, Vinted and other apps to share more information with HMRC 5 months ago:
They pay everything that they are required to.
HMRC enforces the rules, they don’t make them. The issue is not that Amazon doesn’t pay taxes, it is that successive Tory governments allow them to offshore profits because the rules that Starbucks follow are the ones set up to let MPs offshore their money.
Remember, the Queen and our PM were in the Panama Papers. It was ignored because it is by design.