hellothere
@hellothere@sh.itjust.works
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- Comment on Tory councils lead revolt over Labour's anti-Nimby housebuilding targets 1 month ago:
Tories being obstructionist cunts? Never!
- Comment on Crowds talking over the artist 1 month ago:
If you get a good one
- Comment on Crowds talking over the artist 1 month ago:
If you get a good one.
- Comment on Crowds talking over the artist 1 month ago:
Go to a hardcore show.
- Comment on Thames Water says it needs 59% bill rise to survive 2 months ago:
The system is old cos you’ve done nothing but extract money for three decades, you fucking brass necked cunt.
- Comment on UK riots: Judge hands down longest jail sentences yet 2 months ago:
Mackems. What can I say?
- Comment on Thames, Yorkshire and Northumbrian Water face £168m fines for sewage spills 3 months ago:
Is that it?
- Comment on Huw Edwards pleads guilty to making indecent images of children 3 months ago:
Yes, and yes.
It’s a very silly aspect of the law, which made sense before digital distribution (e.g making photocopies) but needs amending now.
- Comment on Stonehenge tunnel scheme scrapped by government 3 months ago:
But it has lovely cathedral, world tourist site, comrade.
- Comment on UK 'Crackdown' on Pirate IPTV Streaming Leads to Three Arrests & 40 Warnings. 3 months ago:
I have no idea what you’re talking about. You could say I’m perplexed
- Comment on UK 'Crackdown' on Pirate IPTV Streaming Leads to Three Arrests & 40 Warnings. 3 months ago:
Might as well ban Chromecast and Apple TVs then as both can also be used to stream pirated content.
I have been told.
By a stranger in a pub.
Allegedly.
- Comment on "Nuisance begging" and rough sleeping as soon to be illegal 6 months ago:
As yes, because that will solve poverty. Bring back debtors prison I say, and we’ll party like it’s 1824!
- Comment on Two charged over Sycamore gap tree 6 months ago:
Fucking Cumbrians, coming over 'ere, taking our trees!
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
Whenever I’ve had caveities I find that tooth is extremely sensitive to chocolate and registers quite a bit of pain.
So get a small chocolate bar, chew up a chunk so it’s like a paste and push it with your tongue to the tooth you think has a cavity. If you do, you’ll know.
- Comment on Thames Water has six weeks to agree survival plan with Ofwat 7 months ago:
Lenders to Thames argue that forcing them to incur losses on their debts would also drive up the cost of borrowing for all UK water companies, and potentially other utilities such as gas and electricity.
Lol, get fucked.
- Comment on The Great Sink of Thames Water 7 months ago:
Oh absolutely, Ofwat are also unbelievably shit. The point is however is that fundamental market failures like natural monopolies cannot be solved by regulatory bodies.
That’s not to give Ofwat an out, they have utterly fucked this and can be argue to have been captured, but even if they were perfect a privatised water system would still fail.
- Comment on The Great Sink of Thames Water 7 months ago:
If owners want to load their companies with debt (and they did), equity and debt holders should know they are gaining higher potential returns at the price of greater risk. These are decisions the private sector is well placed to make.
I love the FT, they are so absolutely blinded by capitalism being the only possible method. This is a crisis literally created by capitalist greed and assets stripping / debt loading, demonstrating that risk is not taken seriously because of limited liability. Get the money and get out, simple.
A natural monopoly is one of the most basic forms of market failure, and to suggest otherwise is a laughabe level of economic illiteracy.
- Comment on I have unlimited cellular data on my phone but not if I use it as a hotspot. 7 months ago:
Could you install a different OS like suggested here dubvee.org/comment/1855949 ?
- Comment on Thames Water ‘blackmailing’ customers as firm reveals £500m funding gap, GMB says 7 months ago:
This is super simple.
They either find the money from their previous dividends, or they go bust and we seize the assets as part of the bankruptcy for £0.
Refusual just speed runs to option B.
- Comment on I have unlimited cellular data on my phone but not if I use it as a hotspot. 7 months ago:
How do they know?
- Comment on Pupil behaviour 'getting worse' at schools in England, say teachers 7 months ago:
It’s almost like people’s behaviour worsens as society crumbles, funny that.
- Comment on Data centre power use 'to surge six-fold in 10 years' due to boom in artificial intelligence (AI) and quantum computing, National Grid predicts 7 months ago:
National Grid PLC own the grid infrastructure, and are a private company cos Thatcher.
- Comment on Stephen Fry wants King's Guard to ditch bear fur 10 months ago:
Besides a POV of “killing any animal is wrong”, I don’t really see an issue. It appears to be regulated and as long as they’re maintaining the bear population appropriately why is it any different than hunting deer or killing a cow for leather?
It may be because deer and cows are used for meat as well as their hide.
I’m not sure what happens to the rest of the bear.
- Comment on Conservative ‘failures’ have led to more sewage pollution, say water experts 10 months ago:
No shit.
Wait, actually…
- Comment on Gas drilling at site in Jeremy Hunt’s Surrey constituency given green light 10 months ago:
One the one hand, I’m annoyed that any new gas drilling is being allowed.
On the other, good, they get what they voted for, fuck 'em.
- Comment on Starmer warns apathy could keep Tories in power in pitch to disillusioned voters 10 months ago:
I agree, but under our stupid system it needs to be something that inspires a plurality of constituencies.
And that, unfortunately, means tory swing voters are more important for electoral success.
I live in an incredibly safe labour seat, so if they push a policy that gets 1k more votes here it’s pointless. If that same policy gets 1k here, and loses 1k in a target swing constituency, it’s actually bad.
We saw under Corbyn - who I voted for as leader twice - that in 2017 with an inspirational manifesto it will inspire people, but unfortunately those people literally lived in the wrong places. His support was too concentrated. In 2019, in a glorified brexit proxy vote, we saw that the public believed that Johnson could promise the earth, and that Corbyn couldn’t. Labour still had that, false, association with economic mismanagement.
Another way of framing this is that yes, some voter cohorts need to be inspired. But tory swing voters don’t need inspiration, they need to be reassured. They need to not be scared to vote Labour for possibly the first time in 20+ years. They need to know that their mortgage isn’t going to yet even higher, that Labour won’t “max out the country’s credit card”, and every other lie they’ve been fed by the Tories.
- Comment on Starmer warns apathy could keep Tories in power in pitch to disillusioned voters 10 months ago:
Look, I’m not exactly inspired by playing it safe either, but to suggest no one is going to vote Labour is wrong.
www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/prediction_main.html
93% probability of a Labour majority, with the current prediction being a Labour majority of 184.
And this article is exactly what Labour should be pushing, they shouldn’t be presuming that the above projection is a sure thing. Voter apathy is a real problem, and getting the vote out is critically important.
Politics in the UK has been sufficiently fractured in recent years that a lot of people are going to have to hold their noses to get the Tories out.
- Comment on ‘They’ve knocked down hundreds of trees’: concerns over Cornwall’s new anti-gridlock road 10 months ago:
Just one more lane!
- Comment on Pint of wine anyone? UK looks to bring back ‘silly measure’ 10 months ago:
Because liquids are harder to judge just from looking, compared to solids, and the UK has a history - pre weights and measures act - of fuckery.
- Comment on Pint of wine anyone? UK looks to bring back ‘silly measure’ 10 months ago:
Yeah, exactly, so volume stays the same and designs can vary. That makes it easier for people to compare because it’s 750ml vs 750ml, instead of both design and volume changing by small amounts.
You can’t tell the internal volume of something based on its external dimensions, other than maximum potential size.