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Mjb
joined 2 years ago
Why would you subject yourself to Gnome voluntarily????
I use Arch btw
Rates are not going back to sub-2% for a long time
I disagree quite strongly.
Economies limping along at ~1% GDP growth per year and little or no GDP per capita growth can't handle larger base rates for long. It's a self-correcting cycle - if base rates remain elevated for too long discretionary spending will collapse and many, many businesses/loans/credit with it.
Rishi promised to half inflation not because he's a financial genius with a secret trick, but because he knows two things: 1) what I said above, 2) inflation is often given as a YoY measure, so by December 2023 we're measuring inflation above the 10% inflation of December last year, and the country can't afford 10% inflation per year for long either.
Dear god, he can’t possibly be actually that dense
Nah he's not. They're not allowed to do anything but toe the party line if they want election support/funding, ministerial roles, post-MP consulting jobs etc, so they say stupid things a lot and pretend they mean it.
It is proposing a new licence condition to “ensure electricity generators don’t take advantage of existing rules to make excessive profits”
Why? If you want an energy market you shouldn't be surprised when it does what it can to grow profits, including withholding supply to sell later at higher prices.
This is typical of the past 10-15 years. Plasters on gaping wounds. Energy providers should be competing to sell us their energy generation capabilities. Competition drives down prices in the long run, not intervention. Of course, the lack of an energy strategy or any investment into one for a decade does leave us a bit... well, fucked.
but ones that also have a special duty to take a long-term view.”
Nice of them to admit they don't currently care about anything but the short term. Changing the name won't change their outlook, get these utility monopolies back into government control.
No-one is suing reddit for any of this. Reddit is a private business that can charge what it likes for it's API, can shut down 3P apps usage without warning etc.
The only power we have is leaving the platform.
It's clickbait for people who need to see Ukraine winning all the time. Like markets, day-to-day, week-to-week news from a warzone is just noise that's best off ignored.
Under 0.5 nukes used: 1/1000000000 Over 0.5 nukes used: 1000000000/1
No-one, not even Russia, is going to cross that line. This is a regional conflict with casualties in the tens of thousands. WW3 was a global conflict with casualties in the tens of millions.
Rustlings is genuinely god-tier for learning Rust.
It's already started.
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The petition system exists to make the people think they have a voice. Much like parish councils etc. Keep the busybodies busy with nothing so they don't stick their nose in something.