By reilo Go To PostThe British government is the equivalent of an old stubborn dad that decides to double down on whatever stupid shit he's about to do simply because their child told them they shouldn't do what they're about to do.
(I am projecting)
This also cuts me deep
By n8 dogg Go To PostThe only solace this gives me is it’s so fucking stupid that they’ll surely be voted out. Surely.
By Pedja Go To PostWhen I renewed my passport a few months ago it wasn't even blue lol.
By Plasma Go To PostWhen I renewed my passport a few months ago it wasn't even blue lol.
Ah. Well. Nevertheless.
By Fenderputty Go To PostTraveling to the UK is getting cheap mar by the momentBut why? Uk is one of the most basic places you could travel to
By Patriotism Go To PostBut why? Uk is one of the most basic places you could travel toThere’s some nice scenery in Wales, away from the English
By Patriotism Go To PostBut why? Uk is one of the most basic places you could travel toThe pound has cratered
Thanks m8. I've always said it'd be really good if we were a Third World Country and now we've finally arrived at these sunlit uplands the Brexiteers always used to talk about.
By Laboured Go To PostThanks m8. I've always said it'd be really good if we were a Third World Country and now we've finally arrived at these sunlit uplands the Brexiteers always used to talk about.why do you insult us friend?
what happened to being the greatest ally?
By Laboured Go To PostReally does say it all when US economic commentators are saying you’ve gone too Reaganomic.Not just any blowhard opinion writers but once for the WSJ at that
By Perfect Blue Go To PostThe pound has crateredStill not worth it
Happy that the Russians are thinking about recycling and using weapons that were last used in the 80s Afghanistan 🙏
By reilo Go To PostIran popping off hardwe heard anything in the last 24 hrs?
they turned off the internet...which is a thing I didnt know countries could do, but hey ho...
By Daz Go To Postwe heard anything in the last 24 hrs?You didn't know that telecommunication methods used for internet have to terminate somewhere (demarcation points)? A government can easily stop that as they have full authority over transmissions that enter their country.
they turned off the internet…which is a thing I didnt know countries could do, but hey ho…
By Lunatic Go To PostYou didn't know that telecommunication methods used for internet have to terminate somewhere (demarcation points)? A government can easily stop that as they have full authority over transmissions that enter their country.I do now.
By Daz Go To PostI do now.Like even low earth orbit satellite internet like Starlink needs permission from the government to send signals in the spectrums classified.
My Iranian friend tells me this happens from time to time (re Internet) but usually for no more than a few days. Think phone lines still work as they should.
The disappearance of such affordable homes is central to the American housing crisis. The nation has a deepening shortage of housing. But, more specifically, there isn’t enough of this housing: small, no-frills homes that would give a family new to the country or a young couple with student debt a foothold to build equity.
The affordable end of the market has been squeezed from every side. Land costs have risen steeply in booming parts of the country. Construction materials and government fees have become more expensive. And communities nationwide are far more prescriptive today than decades ago about what housing should look like and how big it must be. Some ban vinyl siding. Others require two-car garages. Nearly all make it difficult to build the kind of home that could sell for $200,000 today.
Nationwide, the small detached house has all but vanished from new construction. Only about 8 percent of new single-family homes today are 1,400 square feet or less. In the 1940s, according to CoreLogic, nearly 70 percent of new houses were that small.
Those starter homes came in all kinds over the years: mill worker’s cottages, shotgun homes, bungalows, ramblers, split-levels, two-bedroom tract homes. American families also found their start in brick rowhouses, cozy duplexes and triple-deckers.
But the economics of the housing market — and the local rules that shape it — have dictated today that many small homes are replaced by McMansions, or that their moderate-income residents are replaced by wealthier ones. (A little 1948 Levittown house on Long Island, the prototypical postwar suburban starter home, now goes with a few updates for $550,000.)
“When we started out 20 or so years ago, we could buy a lot for $10,000-$15,000, and we could build a home for under $100,000,” said Mary Lawler, the head of Avenue Community Development Corporation in Houston, a nonprofit developer. “It was a totally different world than we are in today.”https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/25/upshot/starter-home-prices.html
In Portland, Ore., a lot may cost $100,000. Permits add $40,000-$50,000. Removing a fir tree 36 inches in diameter costs another $16,000 in fees.
$100,000 lot in Portland!?!?!?!
By Laboured Go To PostWill this be investigated or nah?
By the time they get done for it they'll be wilfully out of their jobs innit, and that's presumably what would have otherwise been on the line
By Daz Go To PostWill this be investigated or nah?
By Daz Go To PostWill this be investigated or nah?paging sherlock holmes
By Daz Go To PostWill this be investigated or nah?Way to call out Jesalr there
By Pedja Go To PostNationalism is so hot right now
By inky Go To PostI believe Finland is up next.SwedenItaly
Who is next?
At this rate it won't be long before Putin uses a tactical nuke in Ukraine.
By inky Go To PostSwedenItaly
Who is next?
Probably not Denmark.
Cause our left/current government already went and adopted all the racist policies of the right.
Almost impossible to vote for a party here that isn't racist these days, unless you want to vote for actual communists, or people who probably wants to lower the age of consent to 12.