merridew 12 months ago • 100%
“I anxiously await your unboxing video.”
Marvellous
merridew 12 months ago • 100%
Unless they crash the economy and start enslaving people, they've got a way to go before they hit the bottom.
merridew 12 months ago • 100%
£10.6 billion to the UK government in North Sea revenue for 22/23 v. £2.6 billion for 21/22.
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Equinor (Rosebank majority owner) revenues for 22: $75 billion
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Ithaca (Rosebank minority owner) revenues for 22: $1.9 billion
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BP (formerly state-owned; majority privatisation under Thatcher, from 1979) revenues for 22: $241 billion, for record profit of $28 billion (£23 billion)
merridew 12 months ago • 100%
Given my level of technical knowledge, I can confidently say that I am unable to offer support in any way.
But I'll second that this is a great instance -- one which I've really enjoyed seeing grow and begin to pick up steam -- and anyone able to step up has my gratitude.
merridew 12 months ago • 100%
The "bus factor" is the minimum number of team members that have to suddenly disappear from a project before the project stalls due to lack of knowledgeable or competent personnel.
I guess our bus factor is currently 1.
merridew 12 months ago • 100%
Not just any attorney. She was the Attorney General for England and Wales from 2021-2022, the chief legal advisor to the Sovereign and the Government.
And got roundly criticised by the Bar Council for her actions undertaken in the role.
merridew 12 months ago • 100%
The perfect is the enemy of the good. If people are going to use -- and some are -- harm reduction seems like a no-brainer.
Yes, it would be great if people weren't shooting up at all... but you can't quit if you're dead.
merridew 12 months ago • 100%
Well
only one in 10 council planning departments are fully staffed, with 13% operating with fewer than three-quarters of posts filled
with
80% [of local authorities] reporting they did not have enough officers to carry out their workload
because
long-term cuts to funding have had a visible impact on planning departments’ ability to retain staff... there has been a 43% fall in resources to the planning system from local authorities since 2009-10.
merridew 12 months ago • 100%
A fun game of spot the difference, but apparently there's more going on that you can't see -- eg the planned underground carpark just not being built at all, and them building a carpark over the garden instead.
merridew 12 months ago • 100%
Thanks for confirming.
merridew 12 months ago • 100%
Still writing off the losses from G+.
merridew 12 months ago • 100%
Then stop disseminating this information online. For now.
You say you're taking legal action. Hand all of this to your lawyer, and follow your lawyer's advice. I am very confident they will advise you to stop posting this in a public forum.
In the meantime, I strongly urge you to talk to a trusted family member, friend, or medical professional. It sounds like you are highly stressed. In the short term, forget any perceived public health emergency. Take care of your own health first.
merridew 12 months ago • 100%
Then sincerely hope that doesn't impact any investigation by the authorities.
merridew 12 months ago • 100%
Maybe not. Ample time to make an independent judgement whether to downvote.
OP, if you suspect financial crimes are being committed, you should not be tipping off those involved by publicising this.
merridew 12 months ago • 100%
Is anyone able to screenshot the modmail receipts? I can't actually see them, and without them OP's story seems... rather thin.
merridew 12 months ago • 100%
10 minutes is a long time on the internet.
merridew 12 months ago • 100%
"Authentic engagement"? It's been a matter of minutes since you accused people on Lemmy of being sockpuppets...
merridew 12 months ago • 100%
These accounts somehow were able to fully understand an incredibly complex story in less than 10 minutes
What is easily understandable, in far less than 10 minutes, is that a) this is incredibly hard to follow, and b) your mass-posting this everywhere does not comes across well.
If, as you allude to, you have retained legal counsel, I urge you to ask them if posting this all over the place and getting into internet bunfights is likely to impact your case... and I also urge you to follow their advice when they advise you to stop.
merridew 12 months ago • 100%
Why not? Labour are the party that introduced tuition fees in the first place.
merridew 12 months ago • 100%
Although a majority of Britons agree that adult couples sharing a home should do equal amounts of housework, two-thirds of them admitted that women ended up doing much more
Evidently yes.
merridew 12 months ago • 100%
Following the investigation by The Sunday Times, The Times and Channel 4's Dispatches programme into Brand's alleged behaviour, published earlier this month, Olivia says she tracked down a recording of the programme.
The episode, which aired on 21 June, 2008, features this exchange between Brand and Matt Morgan.
This exchange on The Russell Brand Show was recorded minutes after the incident
Morgan: It's been 25 minutes since he showed his willy to a lady.
Brand: (Laughing) Very easy to judge! Very easy to judge!
Morgan: The receptionist…
Brand: (Laughing) Look…
Morgan: Receive this!
Morgan adds: "He got told off for ringing a bell, minutes later he's showing his willy." Brand can be heard laughing in the background.
Olivia, who has never worked as a receptionist, says she felt disgusted when she heard it.
merridew 12 months ago • 100%
I'm intrigued by his Not Guilty plea for escaping custody when he was previously in custody, and then found to have escaped it. I don't know much about legal procedures, but that does seem quite bold.
merridew 1 year ago • 100%
Donner-reed kebab?
merridew 1 year ago • 100%
The right-wing government of Hungary spends around 5% of its GDP on policies to to "get Hungarian women to breed".
merridew 1 year ago • 100%
Look, organisations with unpleasant views aren't universally stupid. Turning Point states upfront that its mission is to "identify, educate, train, and organize students to promote freedom", but dig down and you find fun stuff like this: https://www.tpusa.com/live/pro-choicers-are-sick-and-twisted
I'd also like to note that praising some historically left-wing policies, and criticising some loonies, should not mean that you stop looking critically at the other things a person says.
Authoritarian policies that deny women choice aren't limited to right-wing governments. If you support women's rights to choice, Hungary is not a country you would praise.
‘Baby machines’: eastern Europe’s answer to depopulation The conference in Budapest opened with a sand animation video of migrants rushing towards Europe, and was laced with references to the “great replacement” conspiracy theory, which suggests that shadowy forces want to replace so-called “native” Europeans with outsiders. “There are political forces in Europe who want a replacement of population for ideological or other reasons,” Orbán told the conference. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/04/baby-bonuses-fit-the-nationalist-agenda-but-do-they-work
merridew 1 year ago • 100%
Tea towels for everything (drying dishes, drying hands, moving hot things), washed frequently.
merridew 1 year ago • 87%
You know, pretty much all of that website seems to be written by one guy. So I looked up some of his other work.
the myth that women primarily work for reasons other than economics or family needs distorts reality https://medium.com/@daviddemos/women-under-siege-quick-notes-on-the-rights-assault-on-women-s-work-choices-and-family-formation-c3b27c6266e6
It's hard to draw conclusions. Who knows. But what I will say is that this guy clearly spends a lot of time thinking about how certain women can be coaxed into having more babies.
Women in Europe, North America, and some countries in Asia.
merridew 1 year ago • 100%
You can increase social spending and still have contempt for women's right to bodily autonomy. The two don't go automatically hand in hand. In fact if your social spending is geared towards having more babies, it most likely won't be.
merridew 1 year ago • 100%
Not really. If your goal is to undo "retreating state support," you can do that without praising far-right regimes aiming to restrict women's rights to bodily autonomy.
The fact that they gloss over that little aspect is suspicious.
Their website is conspicuously opaque regarding its funding, and "stop population decline" is curiously close to (but notably more palatable than) the 14 Words, while still acting as an effective dog-whistle for people familiar with those words.
Look, I know the forecast was for Saturday to be the last hot day of the year, but I thought we might have a *few* days of grey before the start of all-out autumn rainstorms.
merridew 1 year ago • 100%
You don't say. But this guy has such an exemplary record of totally not making up bullshit.
In 2015, Maussan [...] revealed a body that he claimed belonged to an alien, but it was later shown to be the remains of a human child.
merridew 1 year ago • 75%
At the Market, apparently.
Angelika von Heimendahl has been grazing her animals on Midsummer Common for 15 years, she also sells the meat at Cambridge market
https://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/cambridge-news/cambridge-grazing-cows-future-under-19907904
merridew 1 year ago • 100%
The UK joining the Common Market was a Thatcher thing. Old school lefties opposed it at the time because it put limits on state aid, and weakened the positions of the unions.
merridew 1 year ago • 75%
They have a bunch of stuff about "promoting fertility", eg
the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Israel offer lessons. These countries have managed to increase fertility rates by introducing pro-natal policies — a combination of cash incentives, subsidised childcare, and housing assistance
which all sounds lovely and idyllic, but in reality the far-right government in Hungary has been throttling access to abortion with new legislation that is
an extension of the government’s anti-abortion policies, aimed at boosting the birthrate
meaning that
legal abortions [have] become increasingly difficult as the compulsory counselling sessions were becoming more aggressive and difficult to schedule
I can't definitely figure out the angle either. But they are a pro-fertility organisation praising a far-right regime that is implementing regressive "pro-life" policies at the expense of women's rights, and they are very careful not to highlight the true nature of these policies on their website.
They're also headquartered in Texas. So... draw your own conclusions.
merridew 1 year ago • 60%
Gosh, but Jeremy Corbyn said the EU were the bad guys and we should leave asap to improve things for British workers.
merridew 1 year ago • 100%
Oh, I absolutely believe that people in America can accept it's "not as big a deal as you might think".
This is a thread about things about America that make no sense. So: I don't understand why America, seemingly uniquely, accepts this as "not a big deal".
It's weird. Land of the free, home of the public toilets strangers can see inside. So odd.
merridew 1 year ago • 100%
But why.
merridew 1 year ago • 100%
Thank you for your comment. I can't speak for the entire world, but in the UK a 1 cm" gap in the door of a public toilet would be massive and unacceptable. It's not enough that someone can only see into a stall through a gap in the door if they are "right up to it"; they should not be able to see in at all. Public toilets in other countries have doors with gaps you can't leer through at all.
Re. the "gaps meaning ventilation", surely the "big gap at the bottom" and the fact that the whole top is open will be contributing more to ventilation?
You say you think this might be a regional thing in the US. Okay, could be. I have personally encountered this issue in Washington, California, North Carolina, DC, Massachusetts, Georgia, Texas, Oregon, Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Virginia, Pennsylvania and Maryland.
merridew 1 year ago • 100%
From a euphemism for being suspended on full pay pending an investigation. You aren't working, and you can't work for a competitor, so there's not much to do but potter about in the garden.
(The term originated when the paid white-collar workforce was still overwhelmingly comprised of men who weren't responsible for housework or child rearing.)
merridew 1 year ago • 100%
I don't get it either. Ignoring the inherent power imbalance between a single worker and an employer, good luck getting Gardening Leave in an at-will workplace.
Some good news for once.
> People deemed unable to work – including those with a history of self-harm or at risk of killing themselves – could have their benefits reduced and face penalties under new government plans.
> There will be exemptions for legitimate uses of nitrous oxide, for example in medical or catering industries. The gas is commonly used as a painkiller and for producing whipped cream in cooking.
> More than half of English schools that are so dilapidated they are at risk of partial closure were refused money under the government’s school rebuilding scheme, Department for Education (DfE) statistics show. > It has also emerged that under the programme, intended to rebuild 500 schools in England over a 10-year period from 2020, just four were completed in 2021. This is an additional issue on top of the RAAC problem.
Nothing says "free speech absolutism" like filing another SLAPP against an organisation whose speech you don't like. https://www.techdirt.com/2023/08/01/free-speech-absolutist-elon-musk-files-obvious-slapp-suit-against-non-profit-critic/
"The Conservatives inherited just under £10bn a year in education capital sending in 2010, and have spent £5-6bn a year since then, in real terms. Part of those savings came from scrapping the Building Schools for the Future (BSF) project in 2010, which aimed to rebuild and refurbish every secondary school in England."
"The only postcode outside of London in the top 20 was Maidenhead, still within the London commuter belt."
MPs will now have to vote on the proposed eight-week suspension. The motion must be tabled by the government and cannot be amended or debated. If the punishment is endorsed, a recall petition will be opened. Were 10% of voters in his constituency to sign it, a byelection would be called. Should Pincher choose to stand down then a byelection would automatically be triggered, though the date for it would be announced by the government. His Tamworth seat should be a comfortable hold for the Conservatives. In 2019, Pincher had a majority just shy of 20,000 votes.
"Lawsuit says network discloses user data at request of Saudi authorities at much higher rate than for US, UK and Canada"