"unix for human beings. no systemd" my brother in christ most humans, unix users and all, don't know or care what systemd is. This is a distro for a tiny number of hypernerds.
You don't just convert and sleep though. You convert and prune. You slowly rework parts post-conversion to use more sensible approaches/libraries. It's not a one-and-done operation, it's an ongoing thing that they judge the cost of investing in now is less than the long term maintaining C Ubuntu.
There's some incredible double-think involved in politicians making promises they know will fail but doing it anyway because the good optics now minus the bad optics then is a net positive by just being in the media saying nice things.
Sunak knew he'd not stop the boats, but he said it anyway.
Boris Johnson knew he'd not build 40 new hospitals but he said it anyway.
Burnham knows he won't get all rough sleepers off the streets in five months, but he said it anyway.
We're perpetually governed by people who calculate that lying for good press now and being caught in that lie later is worth more than not lying in the first place.
In part because we've made employing and training people prohibitively expensive/risky, and not working increasingly worthwhile.
We have showrooms full of tractors and diggers sitting doing nothing
Private companies have showrooms full of tractors and diggers. The UK would have to borrow more money (seen the yields lately?) or tax people more to buy them and employ people to actually use them.
(As an aside, he's how to tell when ANY prime minister is going to fail a housing target: always. Why? The UK government doesn't own a housebuilding company. You don't own the asset, you don't decide how it's used without £££.)
We have supermarkets full of food and houses sitting empty.
Private companies have supermarkets full of food, and private owners have houses sitting empty. Both cost money, which as above, the UK government would have to borrow more of and/or raise taxes to pay for. To really labour the point, how to tell when ANY prime minister will fail on bringing down the cost of asylum: always. Why? The UK government doesn't own enough dwellings to house them. You don't own the asset, you don't decide how it's used without £££.
Long story short. Government broke as fuck. People who don't understand economics will now tell me that government debt is not like household debt, and as long as they don't look at rising bond yields, rising and increasingly unsustainable debt interest payments, and rising government debt as a percentage of GDP they can pretend their world view is accurate.
The weirdest thing is that we still won't create more reservoirs after this because we just genuinely do not have the money. We've reached a point that the money just isn't there to do things we need to do, but since the wheels haven't come off the bus yet we can pretend it's all fine.
Green, like Reform/Restore, have 50% batshit policies and 50% sensible. It pains me that we can't have a political party that lives in the real world without batshit crazy attached.
Same question goes to international courts frequently. Can rule all you like, it's all meaningless if you can't enforce it and those subject to your rulings don't care enough to listen.
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.
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.
"unix for human beings. no systemd" my brother in christ most humans, unix users and all, don't know or care what systemd is. This is a distro for a tiny number of hypernerds.
You don't just convert and sleep though. You convert and prune. You slowly rework parts post-conversion to use more sensible approaches/libraries. It's not a one-and-done operation, it's an ongoing thing that they judge the cost of investing in now is less than the long term maintaining C Ubuntu.
Just had a quick google, you can still sign up for the very meals containing buckwheat right now.
Yeah the company is sunk. They'll be sued and won't have the cash and assets to cover the costs and payouts.
There's some incredible double-think involved in politicians making promises they know will fail but doing it anyway because the good optics now minus the bad optics then is a net positive by just being in the media saying nice things.
Sunak knew he'd not stop the boats, but he said it anyway.
Boris Johnson knew he'd not build 40 new hospitals but he said it anyway.
Burnham knows he won't get all rough sleepers off the streets in five months, but he said it anyway.
We're perpetually governed by people who calculate that lying for good press now and being caught in that lie later is worth more than not lying in the first place.
More. We're decades behind on reservoir requirements. There's a whole bunch of planned reservoirs and one anywhere near completion.
In part because we've made employing and training people prohibitively expensive/risky, and not working increasingly worthwhile.
Private companies have showrooms full of tractors and diggers. The UK would have to borrow more money (seen the yields lately?) or tax people more to buy them and employ people to actually use them.
(As an aside, he's how to tell when ANY prime minister is going to fail a housing target: always. Why? The UK government doesn't own a housebuilding company. You don't own the asset, you don't decide how it's used without £££.)
Private companies have supermarkets full of food, and private owners have houses sitting empty. Both cost money, which as above, the UK government would have to borrow more of and/or raise taxes to pay for. To really labour the point, how to tell when ANY prime minister will fail on bringing down the cost of asylum: always. Why? The UK government doesn't own enough dwellings to house them. You don't own the asset, you don't decide how it's used without £££.
Long story short. Government broke as fuck. People who don't understand economics will now tell me that government debt is not like household debt, and as long as they don't look at rising bond yields, rising and increasingly unsustainable debt interest payments, and rising government debt as a percentage of GDP they can pretend their world view is accurate.
The weirdest thing is that we still won't create more reservoirs after this because we just genuinely do not have the money. We've reached a point that the money just isn't there to do things we need to do, but since the wheels haven't come off the bus yet we can pretend it's all fine.
Green, like Reform/Restore, have 50% batshit policies and 50% sensible. It pains me that we can't have a political party that lives in the real world without batshit crazy attached.
The Christian nationalists would absolutely crucify them, it's career suicide and they know it.
How are they to enforce it?
Same question goes to international courts frequently. Can rule all you like, it's all meaningless if you can't enforce it and those subject to your rulings don't care enough to listen.
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.
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Why would you subject yourself to Gnome voluntarily????
I use Arch btw
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.
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.
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.
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.
I also try to dissuade people from thinking their two options are two sides of the same coin by... checks notes... doing the same as the other side.
I get this a lot. Hot posts 4 days old with no new comments. Something isn't quite right yet.