Additionally - That asset stripping and profiteering are “efficient”. It’s a bit of a euphemism at this point I think.

Most companies I’ve worked for have cut their resources to the bone in search of efficiencies which are more accurately described as shareholder profit maximisations, but are pitched as “just in time” operation. Why hire two people when one can do a good enough job at half the pay. Why fabricate something locally when we can get a third party in SE Asia to make the same thing for peanuts and then charge EU pricing in our market.

Neither maximise efficient operations, just the efficient extraction of profit.

In-group suoremacy isn’t restricted to conservatism though, sadly.

They’re not banned. I live in the country and there’s a lot of Dodge Rams, Ford Rangers (and the odd Fx50 imports round here.

UK is also the spiritual home of the Land Rover, and those fuckers are insanely big now. The ionos grenadier is a beast also…

The argument is almost always “I need it to tow”/drive it over field a hill but it’s typically some farm lad running it on red diesel and claiming it’s for farm purposes (on his way to or from the pub)…

I’m talking about the UK - retail workers don’t count when it comes to back holidays here, on the whole.

May Day isn’t a global observance though. The first Monday of May is a hangover from religious observance; having spent a large part of my working life in retail environments bank holidays were always a bit of a mixed blessing - I feel like if it was May Day as a workers’ holiday then the workers should get a day off!

Fat L for the Anglosphere

Not in the UK!

The suit is claiming that she has faced loss of employment opportunity as she is white, and discrimination under the basis of the Equality Act.

said she had been “exploring a legal career” and therefore applied to the £14.80-an-hour internship scheme run by the 10,000 Interns Foundation programme and the Bar Council, but was rejected.

She appears to simply be a bile-spewing “journalist” who is clearly not hurting for employment. A cursory Google search has her pegged as a social media and communications graduate too - it doesn’t suggest a keen desire to enter the legal profession, but perhaps someone not telling you you’re special and suggesting you might have a default advantage turns you into a racist, dogwhistling P.O.S.

I’m glad Polanski has made a point of separating anti-zionism and anti-semitism, but there are some actual vocal anti semites in the Greens, which doesn’t do anyone any favours.

I’m sure it’s all in the interest of “balanced reporting” /s

In many ways. I remember reading an argument against the monarchy on the grounds that it’s cruel to the people who are born into it, and the environment lends itself to creating absolute arseholes who then perpetuate the whole thing.

If you have a functioning example of democracy I have a bridge to sell you.

There’s a lot of worse options out there but western democracy on the whole doesn’t really represent the “demos” in any real sense - that’s both good and bad of course, but it’s also not democracy.

13 days, not that I’m counting…

I genuinely don’t get this stance - are you as okay with far right marches as pro-worker strikes and pickets?

Pretty good. I’m working a notice period so I’m trying hard not to phone in everything and leave a total shot show for the colleagues I’m leaving behind who actually work hard and don’t suck.

Got to sit in the sun on my weekend too which was nice.

Cashiers are rarely permitted to do anything about shoplifting for what it’s worth. When they do (and why you would I don’t know) they often get disciplined or fired. And the labelled as jobsworths by the gutter press when they follow “company procedure”.

It’s basically the breakdown of the social contract, as engineered by a small group of people and then blamed on the rest of us.

It doesn’t serve ads if you pay for it - I used it for Reddit and moved over during the API debacle and I haven’t had any issues with it personally.

How’s that going in the US?

I suppose it’s not solely for gaming which turns me off the deck option; it would also be serving as the entry point for some self hosted stuff I’m running on the clunky old unit that’s still chugging along.

So possibly a false economy then?

I guess the scale of the unit is appealing - even a micro HPX doesn’t come close; but that’s the trade off I suppose.