fox2263
@fox2263@lemmy.world
- Comment on Students in England now graduate with average debt of £53,000, data shows 18 hours ago:
Eventually yeah I think written off in your 50s perhaps.
Which doesn’t make sense to me either from the debt giver point of view. Not had enough time to pay it off even with a high paying job.
Would love to know the thinking and rationale behind it all and the figures. I know some people that went back and did a masters or two and have student debt almost as £80k. They figure they’re never paying it off so why not 🤷
- Comment on Students in England now graduate with average debt of £53,000, data shows 18 hours ago:
Once upon a time university fees were fairly ok. Most people would leave uni with under 10k of debt and have it paid off within 10 to 15 years or so depending on wage.
Then the liar that is Nick Clegg came along and instead of scrapping fees, tripled them along with his lord boss David Cameron.
And for some reason I decided to go to university that year, 10 years after I should have (I skipped it in favour of a job when I was that age but decided to retrain).
Left with £40k, paid off 2k due to a redundancy grant from my work, and now owe £42k. I don’t see the point of it coming out of my pay packet to be honest.
The university got a load of new buildings though
- Comment on Students in England now graduate with average debt of £53,000, data shows 22 hours ago:
I graduated 10 years ago. I now owe more than when I left despite paying it off for 9 of those years.
- Comment on Anon is investigated 1 day ago:
And they’ve spent hundreds of thousands looking into the person doing nothing wrong
- Comment on Oranges? In this economy? 1 day ago:
I’d advise against it. I’d rather CAR DRIVER
- Comment on no way right 2 days ago:
That’s why right wing social media is going had on making Iran the bad guys and evil.
So even though they don’t want war and are currently complaining about the thought of it, they’ll bend over for it in short time.
The mental gymnastics will be amazing.
Gotta save money. Government needs to cut everything including any social care. But also needs to spend more on deporting babies with cancer.
And you know moving an expeditionary force around the world isn’t cheap either.
- Comment on 20 years later, still holds up pretty well! 2 days ago:
I have this on CD. Played it to death back in the day and the multiplayer was fantastic.
Spanner’s forever
- Comment on Add it to the pile of reasons to hate 'em 2 days ago:
You could be right.
However. It’s the internet and I can’t read
- Comment on 🤯🤯🤯 2 weeks ago:
Also, did you know, that the main character is a sponge 🧽
- Comment on Where does technology come from in Star Wars? 3 weeks ago:
Their delicately weaved ships
- Comment on Where does technology come from in Star Wars? 4 weeks ago:
They were mentioned in Andor.
The rakatan that is, not the rattan furniture empire.
- Comment on New Posters for ‘Superman’ 4 weeks ago:
Still miss Cavill.
- Comment on Great! 4 weeks ago:
I can contribute a bit more if you like 🤭
Just a bit though
- Comment on Apartments and metros 4 weeks ago:
I’m not even American and I know there are nice train/metros in existence. Grand Central looks pretty nice.
- Comment on Apple TV+ is painful as fuck 4 weeks ago:
Watching it on Apple TV hardware was always simplicity. Very high quality on my OLED.
- Comment on Don't ask for more pixels 5 weeks ago:
Since lity is a trum
- Comment on Anon gets a call from his past 5 weeks ago:
👀
- Comment on Anon gets a call from his past 5 weeks ago:
Maybe got drunk and forgot. Imagine not being a virgin but believing you are
- Comment on Marvel Officially Retitles Thunderbolts as The New Avengers 1 month ago:
Thunderbolts*
*name temporary
- Comment on You could get anything you wanted and it was FREE 1 month ago:
Am I right in thinking that limewire and kazaa were like proto-BitTorrent ? P2P file sharing
Was Napster the original too?
- Comment on TRUTH of Kilmar Abrego Garcia... now linked to a human trafficker 1 month ago:
Next he’ll have stolen a nuclear device and threatened orphans!
- Comment on Labour MPs urge Starmer to ‘get out there’ with Trump-style media strategy 2 months ago:
Iron Bro would probably go down well with the kids haha
- Comment on Labour MPs urge Starmer to ‘get out there’ with Trump-style media strategy 2 months ago:
Definitely, I agree wholeheartedly. But it is unfortunately a model that is working. The whole Simpson thing…was it “if poochie is not in an episode, people should ask where’s poochie”. Trump dominates every square inch of world wide media. Starmer in this instance would do right by emulating that.
And yes, be strong. We need at this moment in time an “Iron Sir” (in reference to thatchers Iron Lady) for all the reasons you said. He needs to be strong, give actual two fingers to trump and solidly lead Britain into the future. There’s a golden opportunity here to spearhead a new collation and get us back in with the EU on favourable terms with the populace by getting ahead of the right wing and pushing the narratives back left. Facts over Fiction needs to prevail and win the hearts and minds of the nation who so easily lap up misinformation.
- Comment on Labour MPs urge Starmer to ‘get out there’ with Trump-style media strategy 2 months ago:
Agreed however you very much run the risk then of the other parties claiming that this public figurehead is the real PM and getting all that dumb rhetoric around it.
- Comment on Labour MPs urge Starmer to ‘get out there’ with Trump-style media strategy 2 months ago:
It would be a good move. Labour need to win hearts and minds, and this is where they fall behind. When you have Farage gaining support every day by running on a populist agenda you need someone to counter him.
Gone are the days of our leaders leading behind closed doors. As much as I’d prefer to not hear from government and just have them do what they’re supposed to do, unfortunately in this day and age if you aren’t “seen” you are perceived as doing nothing by the vocal minority.
As much as I hate Trump and his clown car of a cabinet, this is something they excel at. And it is high time that the good guys use their tactics against them for the greater good. The good thing is you don’t even have to feel itchy about it as it’s just being seen and heard.
The one thing they do need to do is drown out the voices of our dumb right from Farages clown car.
- Comment on Bet 2 months ago:
It’s like when you keep pressing the predicted word on the phone keyboard.
Example
It’s a bit like the old keyboard but it is still the best thing ever in existence for me to use and it has been so far in my opinion that it has a nice little feature for the way it works for my computer so far so I can just type in my notes on the computer keyboard to see what the words mean in my head so that it doesn’t have any kind a weird sound or anything that makes me sound weird and weird but it works for you I just have a lot more to use the keyboard to do the best to do that and it doesn’t make me sound like it works so it’s just like the way I use the word.
- Comment on Starmer told to accept Trump ‘free speech’ agenda to win trade deal 2 months ago:
Free speech for them to say what they want without question or reproach.
- Comment on What's the worst example of a TV series or character within that series being flanderised as the seasons went on? 2 months ago:
What you’ve wrote reminds me of Dharma from Lost. I’ve yet to watch Severance (only 3 episodes in).
- Comment on The CVE program for tracking security flaws is about to lose federal funding 2 months ago:
If they don’t uncover exploits that Russia can use to target America….
- Comment on You are not in a good position 2 months ago:
Brilliant 🤣