GreatAlbatross

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Because there won't be any more after you state-own it all, right?

Right?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

ML summary:

Jas Athwal, the Labour Party MP for Ilford South, is a landlord with properties that tenants say have poor living conditions.
In the selection process for the Ilford South seat, Athwal won a higher percentage of votes from the party's online "Anonyvoter" system compared to in-person votes, despite his opponent Sam Tarry winning more of the in-person votes.
There are concerns about a lack of transparency and potential for fraud in the Anonyvoter system, which has also been used in other Labour candidate selection processes with similar results favoring more centrist candidates.
Former Labour MPs Sam Tarry and Beth Winter have raised legal concerns about the use of Anonyvoter, and several Labour-affiliated unions have expressed doubts about the system.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

That's the gist to be honest.
RTB gives people the right after a certain amount of time, but lack of funding meant that councils weren't able to replace the stock.
The discount is up to 70% too. So while each person who can exercise RTB gets an impressive leg up into the housing market, it's contributed to even longer waiting lists for council housing.

It also creates a bit of an ethical dilemma if you are in council housing.
As if you start doing better financially, and are able to afford regular accommodation, you have an incentive to hold until you can RTB instead. (Though there are apparently now re-assessments at tenancy renewal time)

Really, the answer is way, way, way more council housing. But the money just isn't available.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago

"All customer installs need to have firewalls disabled, and the widget needs to run as domain admin"

Continues until a big enough customer puts their foot down, at which point all the installation engineers get upset because they need to do something new.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago

Anything involving Myers–Briggs.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

Probably whoever managed to get the contract 10 years ago, knowing full well the effort to change contractors is too massive to ever happen.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Step- Emperor , I was fixing the feddit.uk admin panel, and got stuck.
Help!
Also, my trousers fell off. 👉 👈

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 days ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

You can block or disrupt communications with LEO.
But you'd need the blessing of the country's government to pump out that much interference continuously.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 days ago

I wouldn't lump Corbyn and Dahl together.

Dahl was a beloved children's author, but he really did make some shit takes.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Finally, a local WEEE company gets to make a few hundred bucks selling off the glorified VOC sensors at the end.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

The most expensive country on the med.

 

Anybody else on here on the 3D train?

Having recently finished setting up the projector (bin rescue), screen (£20, gumtree), and working out the glasses required (£20, eBay), I finally got my first taste of home shutterglass 3D.

We watched Pirates!, as I happened to have the disc in 3D already.
3D lends itself well to Aardman's models and physical sets.
I like 3D best when it's like looking through a window, or onto a stage.

It also turned out that my steelbook of The Hobbit contained the 3D copy too.
We're only 30 mins through it, but there are some nice shots (I particularly liked the one of Bilbo watching Gandalf through the window)

I checked with CEX, and 3D discs are now mostly quite reasonably priced. So we went and bought about 70% of the local branch's stock, for the princely sum of £20.*

While yes, it is a novelty, and a bit of a gimmick at times...It's fun.
And gives me a bonus inexpensive collectable hobby!

*(Pro-tip: If you're going to do similar, go when it's not busy, and apologise to them in advance. The 3D discs are all mixed in with the standard ones, and the poor guys spent about 20 minutes hunting)

 

Someone looted Lush.

"Don't worry darling, I got something for you"

 

And it is delicious.

After the nearest outlet shut its doors, and facing a walk of almost 800m (!) to the next closest, I decided to try Aldi's not-greggs-but-basically-is.

And honestly...They're not half bad.
We tried the rolls, chicken, and steak bakes. They're about 1/4 of the price. And live in the freezer. Ideal.

This post was not supported or sponsored by Aldi. No free snacks for this albatross.

 

Has anybody on here had an experiment with the supermarket tags?

My understanding is that you get a bunch of the tags, somehow get a base-station/transceiver working with them, and push data as images.

I'd love to hear from anyone who's had a go. I quite fancy having some little displays around the house with useful info for the room.

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