tankplanker

@tankplanker@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rich People Are Becoming Less Willing to Help With the World’s Problems⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  So they don’t pay a penny towards those costs? For the median? As thats a lot of people.

  As its entirely wrapped in the tax already accounted for in that net income with the UK tax payer.

  I wasn’t expecting it to be the whole difference but I do know those that have to pay in the US pay a significant chunk of change.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hackers Replace 'm' with 'rn' in Microsoft(.)com to Steal Users' Login Credentials⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You would think it would be an easy up-sell by the domain registrars to offer sound and look a like domains when you registering and renewing your domain

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rich People Are Becoming Less Willing to Help With the World’s Problems⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Are you accounting for everything that’s included in UK taxation such as health care and state pension?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gambling does not cause any ‘social ills’, lobbyist tells incredulous MPs⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The fact that’s its pre-watershed for sporting events that are popular with kids makes it even worse

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scientists have been studying remote work for four years and have reached a very clear conclusion: “Working from home makes us thrive”⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have WfH for about twenty five years now and I will say the same thing I always say when this type of comment pops up, if people do not want to talk to you for some reason they will not respond as its a lot easier to hide on email/IM than an office situation. If you finding that people are hiding from you, then that’s as much a you problem as anything else for not directly addressing it.

  I actually find it considerably easier to get hold of someone via IM than any other method short of direct dialing them as I can reach them in meetings or away from their desk or even in another country entirely, its only if they are intentionally ignoring you it does not work. If the person is presenting in a meeting or otherwise legitimately incommunicado then they aren’t going to respond F2F or IM anyway.

  Not measuring output volume or quality consistently is a widespread problem for businesses, regardless of location of the employee. Consistent and accurate measurement is the only way to be sure you are getting the results you are expecting, for coding that means code reviews not commit counts, 360 feedback, and so on. If you are feeding back, and someones ignoring that, guess what, its also a you problem for not building in consequences and follow ups. It also applies just as much in an office situation as it does remote.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sheffield Wednesday file for administration with 12-point deduction imminent⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The reason the Premier League was created was for the teams in the Premier League to keep more of the money by sharing less with the lower leagues.

  The Premier League earns so much more money than the lower leagues its impossible to get into and stay in without a rich sugar daddy.

  Even if you do get up with money to spend as Forest found when they got promoted, the cap on your spending is greatly reduced for that first year so you struggle to compete without a points reduction for overspending.

  The rules exist to pull up the ladder as much as possible. One of the main goals for any European super league is to remove relegation and promotion. Its about locking in that revenue stream.

  Having said all that, the punishment is there to stop the club being pillaged or mismanaged as in this case. The threat of a points deduction stops anybody sensible from just borrowing their way up the league without being able to pay for it. We had clubs getting in all sorts of messes and far more often as they tried to buy titles.

  This owner is far from rational, best case was his plan was to sell it to a friend for a pound and wipe off the debt, and thats me being very generous to his ability to plan ahead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Progress⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I did Samsung dex for a while, its ok as long as you don’t want low level access to what you connecting to.

  Now I switched to a gpd micropc 2 and its built in ethernet, sd card, usb a and c sockets and native linux make it so much more useful. No longer do i need dongles or other rubbish.

  Plus it will do multiple monitor support, something dex struggles with. The keyboard is a little small for touch typing but the former factor is worth the trade of for me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sad but true⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Dumbest person I know also happens to be a super nice, always happy, and also very attractive. She’s never struggled to get work ever, even for her dream job as a teacher when she had to take her foundational English and Math exams three times.

  I would say she has a better life than the majority of people, never had a day of stress ever as everything has always worked out for her.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK ministers met fossil fuel lobbyists 500 times in first year of power, analysis shows⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Would they not also be lobbying for ICE cars/trucks? Or would that be counted differently? At the moment we have had the big positive step of moving the date back to 2030, at the expense of more flexibility around hybrids (which are shit for the environment) and reducing the tapering of ICE sales.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Boris Johnson hosted Tory peer who funded a lavish refurbishment of his flat for dinner the day after the national coronavirus lockdown came into force, leaked documents show⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I am sure this compromat leaking is completely unrelated to the news linking Boris with a comeback at Reform.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nigel Farage says Boris Johnson is not welcome in Reform UK⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Farage scared of allowing his supporters a free vote between him and Boris shocker.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK’s richest set to produce 13 times more transport emissions than poorest by 2035⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Richest 4%? Show us the gap between the richest 1% and the richest 0.1% vs the bottom rather than dragging down the multiplier by deliberate widening the boundaries to imply its not even more lopsided when you look at the rich as people who travel by private jet and super yacht.

  Do the wealthy need to cut their emissions? Of course, but stop pretending that they emit anywhere near the amount of the actual rich.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Parents in England skipping meals to afford school uniforms, survey finds⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The issue is the branded tat that schools insist upon such as blazers, jumpers, skirts, etc. Its almost always overpriced compared to the basics from Asda and Tesco.

  Ban the branded shit and you fix at least half the problem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop children using VPNs to watch porn, ministers told⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Till they come after you for doing so.

  The way it will work is a public crackdown on a couple of the big providers, then a few high profile cases where unlicensed VPN usage will be a tacked on offense with additional penalties for those getting investigated.

  Its the same with the identity checks now, big porn sites and the like have them or will have them very soon, some small scale stuff does not and might get away with not implementing it. Using such small scale sites then becomes grounds for further investigation if you get swept up with it later.

  These things are never about 100% compliance, there will always be those who can work around it. However working around it will in itself become an offense and grounds for further investigation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop children using VPNs to watch porn, ministers told⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yup, do you have a license to use that VPN bruv?

  I have been saying this is the long term aim of this style of legislation for years.

  They knew when they implemented IPA back in 2016 that VPNs would be an ongoing problem and have been chipping away at the perception of them since then.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to reform income tax: end the high marginal rate scandal⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It gets worse if you compare Jane with Janet and John who both earn say 50k each, as they still get that child benefit despite their combined net income being about double what she earns.

  They simply refuse to look at household income, and treat even married couples as singletons living separately for this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Help.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This with the right controls and rules could actually be a positive thing for people who don’t want or aren’t ready for a relationship with a real person. However as the people who are running things are Elon, Sam, and Mark, there is fuck all chance of that and whatever this ends up as it will be exploitative and will result in deaths.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK inheritance tax clampdown will not spark mass sale of family farms, study shows⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Those who purchased farms to avoid paying IHT such as Clarkson can usually afford to pay for a good accountant to help them plan avoiding as much IHT under the new rules as possible as its quite generous if you have at least seven years (and money for a good accountant) before your kids will inherit.

  Those who are actual multi generational farmers, even if that’s just the parents and the children they want to inherit the farm, there aren’t that many who are over the threshold for a married couple plus the various exceptions if they can go the seven years.

  Its those who lack the time or lack the quality advise that will struggle, its not a huge number, less than 500 farms a year should be dragged into paying more without proper planning at the seven years to implement it due to allowances. I think thats the only bit I do not like, as once again we have allowed a loop hole for those who can and should be paying more tax and the expense of everybody else.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Experts discuss plans to save water as dry conditions worsen across England⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Two decades ago we needed the water companies to fix their leaks rather than paying bonuses, dividends, and loan repayments to help the former.

  At least that long ago we needed more reservoirs rather than allowing the cost and nimbies to stop them.

  But right now we need to be cutting back on new data centres and other new projects that can’t afford their water debt. Stop making the problem worse without an actual plan or funding to fix it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cyclist injuries dropped by half after “hated” cycle lane installed, but mayor still claims scrapped lane largely used as “bike run” for drug dealers to “get through traffic"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Its possible that the local businesses have lost business because terminally lazy people can no longer park directly outside their shops and will not walk a short distance to them, this should be extremely easy for the business to prove if its actually true, I have my doubts its a significant amount. I suspect the people most inconvenienced by not being able to park outside the businesses are those that actually work there. This is the only remotely serious suggestion I see from the anti bike lane crowd in this instance.

  My local village center is meant to be no parking on the high street, has had times its been enforced properly and times its been ignored due to pressure by local businesses. Recently they started enforcing it, directing people to the free (under two hours) car parks on the edge of the high street. Car parks were full with people who own and work in the shops, so they prevented them from parking in the car parks all day, so now they park on the residential streets off the high street enforcement area.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨State pension age could rise again after cost of triple lock soars⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The completely made up and arbitrary fiscal rules? The ones we could change at any moment, for say, defense spending?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨State pension age could rise again after cost of triple lock soars⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sick of them refusing to address the actual problem. Triple lock costing too much money right now? I know let’s fix it by reducing the amount of people claiming it for an extra year, years from now. Punishing the very people actually contributing the tax revenue to pay for the pension and the triple lock today.

  If you are spending too much money now you either need to reduce the money being spent now by binning the triple lock or increase taxation this year and be hones thats what its (part) paying for. Except you too chicken shit to do that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We face nationalisation if we’re not let off fines, Thames Water warns⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The threat he is trying to make is around the government being on the hook for the loans and urgent improvement works at a time the government is trying to cut costs.

  Should we nationalise it? Yes but it needs to be in such a way that we write off the costs of doing so as much as possible. I have no idea how we can protect ourselves in doing that without causing at least some problems downstream.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Labour backbench MPs push for tough, wholesale changes to gambling regulation⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  this will go nowhere due to large bribes donations

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Royal Mail given go-ahead to scrap second-class post on Saturdays⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is about being able to charge more for Saturday delivery like most other “premium” delivery companies as they sure as shit wont be cutting the hours that they expect the Posties to work.

  Because second class has a decent service level, even now, its possible to time your parcel delivery for a Saturday reasonably accurately for a low(er) fee. Drop second class then push up the prices for 1st class parcels.

  Then when they can, with a more friendly Ofcom, they will stop first class on a Saturday and switch to a proper Saturday delivery tariff.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tough new driving rules could land Brits with a ban for ‘minor’ mistakes⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Phone use is meant to be detectable by the latest automated cameras, along with seat belt use that are on trial last I heard. If it works as good as they say they do then I suspect a lot of people will be facing a ban.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Members of public to be selected for ‘honest conversation’ about MPs’ pay⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Any conversation around salary has to include their generous pension scheme (better than civil servants), significant expenses that they are allowed to claim for their lifetime in parliament, expensive freebies such as Taylor Swift or access to an Arsenal box, subsidised food and drink, and the opportunities offered for additional salary from outside jobs and lobbying. Oh and if they lose their seat the get a decent pay out, significantly more than statutory redundancy. And for the small number who might have a baby in office, six months full pay, far more than statutory again.

  Just focusing on salary when its only part of their actual net income makes it appear meaner than it actually is. They should be forced to stick to statutory requirements as that would incentivize them to improve it quicker rather than yet another exception.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Summer Sale 2025 has begun!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Classic is a little different from modern tsw, it could have been retired when it became Classic but they kept it on. How long on total was that dlc available for? And I don’t believe its been turned off just not available to buy or officially supported?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Summer Sale 2025 has begun!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I purchased a bunch of dlc for Train Sim World (tsw). I only buy dlc for tsw when its on sale, save a small fortune that way.

  Bonus savings if you can get one of the bundles on sale for double discount. I got £150 of dlc for about £55. Yeah dlc is super expensive for tsw but it doesn’t go out of date and nor is it needed for a multiplayer mode so why rush?

  Been after the expansion pack for Germany and the Preston Route for ages.

  Train Sim World® 5: West Coast Main Line: Preston - Carlisle Route Add-On Train Sim World® 5: Schnellfahrstrecke Kassel - Würzburg Route Add-On Train Sim World® 5: DB BR 101 Loco Add-On Train Sim World® 5: Maintalbahn: Aschaffenburg - Miltenberg Route Add-On Train Sim World® 5: Hauptstrecke Rhein-Ruhr: Duisburg - Bochum Route Add-On Train Sim World® 5: Ruhr-Sieg Nord: Hagen - Finnentrop Route Add-On Train Sim World® 5: DB BR 363 Loco Add-On

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Students in England now graduate with average debt of £53,000, data shows⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  People will blame Nick Cleggs Lib Dems for this and yeah they play a big part in this, but the root cause is further back.

  Tony Blair removed the cap on the number of students who could go to university which lead to introducing tuition fees. Before then you used to get a grant, I got three grand a year, to go to university.

  Suddenly universities could massively increase the number places so they did. This lead to spiralling costs, which lead to fees going up and loans had to go up to cover this. They also borrowed heavily to expand.

  David Cameron removed the cap on fees while increasing the money students could borrow with Cleggs backing (against a key Lib Dem manifesto pledge fucking the Lib Dems for years after) and Universities started getting properly greedy.

  Inflation kicked in but the loans available to students didn’t because the government couldn’t afford to, majority of students never pay back the full amount before its written off. Student loan book is set to be a trillion pounds in about 20 years.

  The whole situation is fucked because Blair said anyone could go, rather than being honest about what we could afford to pay for. Now we have a ticking timebomb that someone’s going to have to pay.