JetSetWilly

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by JetSetWilly 2y ago
Renewing your passport is quick and relatively painless in the UK. Founding a company is also reasonably easy. This reads like you have some chip on your shoulder about "austerity" and are needlessly bringing it up here.
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by JetSetWilly 3y ago
Scotland is not faring any better at all. It's just that "sewage in waterways" is not measured in Scotland very much. In England they made the mistake of adding lots of sensors to lots of waterways.
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by JetSetWilly 3y ago
It doesn't increase the supply of houses. It increases the supply of houses for sale, and reduces the supply of houses for rent. I don't see why this is a better state of affairs, especially if you can't afford to buy.
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by JetSetWilly 3y ago
The narrowboaters thast stay near me don't seem to indulge in open air defecation everywhere around, they don't appear to litter and leave plastic and gas canisters in incredible quanties everywhere before buggering off, and they
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by JetSetWilly 3y ago
Although everybody keeps going on about private prosections somehow being culpable for the scandal, it doesn't seem likely. Consider that in Scotland, private prosecutions are much rarer and are only permitted in certain circumstances.
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by JetSetWilly 3y ago
Taxation in the UK is currently at the highest levels in recorded history. It is not true to say that "taxation is low". It is also not really true to say that government spending is low recently either, so it is a bit of a myth t
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by JetSetWilly 3y ago
It is only a "one off thing" in hindsight. I recall well the UK deficit was 14% of GDP each year. That is not sustainable. The point you are missing is that if the government had said "YOLO, lets just increase the deficit to
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by JetSetWilly 3y ago
I'm not the one trying to dictate who does and doesn't use it.
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by JetSetWilly 3y ago
If you don't want your image being used broadly without your control, then don't become a model for playboy. Ultimately she was paid fairly for the rights to her image and so that's that. It is completely fair use and hearing
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by JetSetWilly 3y ago
You don't need to compare to the "Bay Bridge". The Queensferry Crossing was recently completed and it sits right next to the Forth Bridge, it cost an estimated 1.35bn and it 2.7km long making it about £500 million per KM. So
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by JetSetWilly 3y ago
Isn't share price influenced by future dividends? Why would preventing dividends and hoarding cash (reducing expected future earnings of shares) drive up share price?
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by JetSetWilly 3y ago
Need to improve the chatgpt prompt in canonical's case. "Include some personalised examples such as *paste author example". Don't have perfect grammar - allow the occasional mistake but not too prominently."
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by JetSetWilly 3y ago
> A search on Google™ for ‘Saint Helena’ will bring up many sites that are in California, which has a town called ‘Saint Helena’, or South Carolina, which has an area known as ‘Saint Helena Island’. For this reason it is best when using
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by JetSetWilly 3y ago
> This is short-term thinking at its very worst It seems like the "short term thinking" was committing to banning diesel and petrol sales by 2030 anyway. It was obvious to everybody with half a brain that this was completely im
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by JetSetWilly 3y ago
This is completely false. The UK government privatised water companies in England. In Scotland the water remained nationalised. In recent years, the UK government started measuring water quality, by installing measurement devices absolutely
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by JetSetWilly 3y ago
All I am taking issue with is this belief hat "both sides are as bad as each other" and "it just happens that Germany started it but really guilt is equal". I've stated facts - that in our reality, Germany did pri
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by JetSetWilly 3y ago
Sorry, I just odn't understand how this can be morally relativist. - Germany declared war on Russia - and France. Not the other way around - Germany invaded neutral Belgium and committed atrocity after atrocity there to international
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by JetSetWilly 3y ago
It works pretty well for WWI if you ask me. The axis powers were the aggressors invading their neighbours, that in itself is hugely significant - there's a massive difference between being a french soldier (fighting to stop an invader)
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by JetSetWilly 3y ago
They don't have the same guarantees as a real rolling release distro. My experience of SID is things randomly breaking and having to be very careful whenever you update. And because it is not a "production" intended rolling r
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by JetSetWilly 3y ago
There's a reason I put the word "problem" in scare quotes.
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by JetSetWilly 3y ago
> If you're concerned about bias in hiring, then eliminate bias. Do blind interviews and redact resumes, broaden your candidate sources. You don't eliminate bias by... introducing bias. The "problem" is that when this
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by JetSetWilly 3y ago
I don't think anyone would consider rhoticity as especially American considering several dialects across the UK, ireland & canada are rhotic. It is just another way in which english varies globally.
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by JetSetWilly 4y ago
It is twinned with Dull, Scotland since 2012 it seems: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dull,_Perth_and_Kinross
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by JetSetWilly 4y ago
"objectively simpler" is just false. You might prefer it, but that doesn't mean it is simpler. The reason people mostly don't like it, in fact, is because they find it more complex. A simple infix expression - say (2 + 3
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by JetSetWilly 4y ago
This is not unusual. There's many predictions made by MOND ahead of the fact that are borne out by reality. But don't worry - dark matter will be "retrofitted" so that it fits the facts and everybody will suffer collecti
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by JetSetWilly 4y ago
Globally, countries with presidential systems are much more likely to devolve into dictatorships than those with british-inspired parliamentary systems. There's pros and cons to each system of course. The American "checks and bala
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by JetSetWilly 4y ago
> Non-grids extend the distance of a lot of trips and are thus hostile to slower non-motorized users. Driving an extra 500m is not a big deal for a car but is an additional several minutes for slower users. I don't believe this is t
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by JetSetWilly 4y ago
English is the lingua franca within Europe as well. And last I checked Europe displays a similar obsession with US politics as the UK does. How many Germans bother to learn Polish or Greek or whatever, who do not have family ties there? The
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by JetSetWilly 4y ago
> Williamson’s astonishment that a Kilmarnock edition of Burns could have made £350 in the early twentieth century would doubtless have been surpassed had he known that a copy sold for £40,000 in 2012 through the Edinburgh saleroom Lyon
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by JetSetWilly 4y ago
People with foreign accents typically escape the ladder of judgement. I think it is well observed that people with various American or Australian or European accents aren't really pigeonholed to some specific class on basis of their ac

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