merridew

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[–] merridew@feddit.uk 2 points 1 year ago

And doctors & dentists will still legally be able to use laughing gas.

[–] merridew@feddit.uk 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"Female" as an adjective isn't the problem. The problem is "female" as a noun.

You can describe a person as being female all you like, but if you start calling them "a female" & defined purely in terms of the existence of their sex organs, you're in the wrong.

[–] merridew@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago

Yes, I've seen the screenshot. Eh. It's a gross post, and apparently OP acted like twat; I won't lose sleep over it not getting attention.

[–] merridew@feddit.uk 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

All the top posts on r/askwomennocensor seem to be women complaining about how the sub is overrun with men asking for dating tips, with the mods stating in a thread 16 days ago:

We remove a thing, and suddenly we get called fascist, tyrant, "chronically online," etc., and members wildly upvote those public callouts.

Yall gotta decide if yall want "fascist tyrants" or to be plagued with inane incel questions. We remove a dating question? "Tyrants!" We let it go? "Why is this sub so trashy?"

As one redditor notes:

I know this sub was created because the other asksubs have so many rules. But this is unfortunately one of the reasons why so many rules exist.

[–] merridew@feddit.uk 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A lot of damage has already been done in terms of brain drain to the continent. I never got the impression that the Brexit gang understood it isn't just about money; it's about the ease of collaboration. As if British research, unique among the world, didn't derive benefit from collaboration.

[–] merridew@feddit.uk 17 points 1 year ago

They increase the overall cost of both buying and renting a property within that market, and are a nuisance for existing residents.

Historically -- in the UK, at least -- the market equilibrium has been that the rich own all the property and the poor pay rent until they die, aware that they can be served an eviction notice at any time.

This has not proven to be a popular policy. In 1918 all British men, regardless of whether they owned property or not, got the vote, and since then politicians have found it useful to not have the majority of voters perpetually furious about it.

[–] merridew@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I understand that. OP expressly described this basement experience as "renting out spare rooms", though, so I hope you'll understand why I'm treating this as a spare room being rented out.

I live in London and am very familiar with the issue of affordable self-contained accommodation being flipped into overpriced Airbnb units, and I would agree with you that such units should be retained as residential housing.

[–] merridew@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I don't see how that matters. A spare room is a spare room whether it's in the basement, the first floor, or the attic.

[–] merridew@feddit.uk 11 points 1 year ago

Bloody hell, what did party rings ever do to you?

Also: oreo is ranked too high on the list. I know it's at the bottom. That's too high.

[–] merridew@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago

I wouldn't be surprised if it doesn't reopen. Channel crossing passengers are down 30% since 2019. They've also canned the Disneyland Express.

[–] merridew@feddit.uk 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You can only starve a government body of funding -- making it muddle along depleting its reserves and selling off assets -- for so long until a final bill tips it over the edge, so I'd argue that if it wasn't this bill it would be another bill.

Other councils took risky approaches to replace money cut under Austerity:

Woking said that against its available core funding of £16m in the 2023-24 financial year, the council faced a deficit of £1.2bn.

Racked up to finance the building and acquisition of a vast empire of commercial assets, its investments included a complex of sky-high towers – standing as the tallest buildings outside a big city in England – including a four-star Hilton hotel, public plazas, parking facilities and shops.

Many councils piled into property and other commercial enterprises to raise money to fill gaping holes in their budgets and to undertake regeneration projects after sharp cuts to central government funding introduced under the Conservatives’ austerity drive.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/jun/07/woking-council-declares-bankruptcy-with-12bn-deficit

[–] merridew@feddit.uk 0 points 1 year ago

If Birmingham city council was taking money from Russia it probably wouldn't be bankrupt.

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