@KFC_UKI how come the box 'meal' requires a drink to be selected but anything apart from 'still water' is extra?
what kind of 'meal' only comes with water, unless you pay for a drink on top?
@robprogressive that's a good suggestion for how to deal with the current stupid system
but also that sucks to live with your parents until your mid thirties and let's fix the system rather than accept that as an optimum way to live into the future?
@StatisticUrban and let's put this rumour to bed that it's a good thing when politicians claim they are doing the job as a charity thing and it's a good thing they're very wealthy and don't need the salary. those are not people motivated to serve the public those are people serving themselves
@StatisticUrban it's unfair and stupid to do it this way, but it also saves/makes money doing it this way and money is in short supply, so they will say warm words about the unfairness and desire to sort out, while once again ultimately doing literally nothing to change it at all π€£
@robprogressive wow it's so easy, all I have to do is double my income for 1000 days, i wonder why everyone doesn't just decide to do that every morning
i wonder in which alternate universe 2026 had 1000 days/10 years in which to build wealth though
@MentalHealthCop@WMerciaPolice why @ the police when there's no evidence to provide them? π€£ the rule isn't just about cyclists either and they don't have to be going 'below 10mph' it's 10 or less https://t.co/RmYJfUmbN5
@MrBill314159 it's a really common way of doing local taxes because it's easy to track and find the owner of. the owner can pass it on to whoever they like or split it however they like though
it's just like 'why are owners responsible for paying the broadband bill' whoever wants to pay can
@anon_opin i mean i wouldn't be, but they can dream can't they, trying to teach us muscle memory but they're on a hiding to nothing at the moment as far as i've seen
@jonbrooks probably going to be 'an institutional investor looking to rent it out' rather than 'young family with loads of cash hanging about' that's for sure π€£
@linmeitalks after a long period of the private service being hollowed out and enshittified for monopolistic profit rather than in the honeymoon period immediately after being privatised? yes usually
@pettyITguy the default response to 'you need to download this app to do that now' should be:
no
just a festering swamp half the things they presume people will download and give their data away to, how about stop presuming?
@lovronolastname you can have power sockets and light switches in UK bathrooms they just need to be safe ones (and pull cord light switches are just a lot more inherently safe by their design and thus ended up most popular)
@Atlasranalready in the case of a creator wanting to watch their video back they aren't proposed to pay anything, the revenue youtube makes from them watching ads is split to pay for it rather than the free tier of youtube is going to become a paid for one to cover the digital content levy
@Atlasranalready staggering lack of substance to your claim as well?
this isn't equating the concept of building and of content creation in the first place, but just a further example of the universal concept of being a producer not obviating consumption taxes...
@jpward02@haymansafc some baseline of public information is very important and just leaving it up to (increasingly malicious and concentrated) private outlets is basically priming the populace to be captured by whoever buys it up and controls the messaging
not everyone gets sick but we all cover it