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I wonder if he’d think differently if a great wodge of his pension was tied up in it.

This is the problem isn't it?

There is built in an assumption that the market penalises failure. But when everything is interlinked it becomes tricky to responsibly let things collapse.

However, at the very least I'd like to see a wave of litigation opened against TW - every regulatory aspect, investigations into all officers over the last 35yrs under the company's act. It may prove to be fruitless, but even if it sucks up their money and energy in litigation it will be worth it.

Strange goings on in the countryside:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/mar/28/man-arrested-after-50-dead-hares-found-outside-village-shop-in-hampshire

Yes, this is the problem.

It may prove to be fruitless

Good money after bad. Even when people die this kind of stuff seems to go nowhere. Or we find out it was some feckless minister and their civil servants who struck the deals that enabled all this. The kind of people we are trusting to not screw up some form of renationalisation.

Sorted for eels on whizz

The kind of people we are trusting to not screw up some form of renationalisation.

A point also often missed.

And I've got to say for a lot of this stuff, I'm pretty sure the senior civil servants who'll bounce on to another post are equally feckless.

Problem in NI is that we don't have a government half the time, the place has barely been maintained for decades and maintenance isn't a thing here, things get fixed when broken. (I'm painting a broad stroke here of course) and our council rates were supposed to pay for water upkeep...

Privatised or public, water assets need upgrading and upkeep, like housing.

On top others happily dump shit in the water, and more and more chemicals need to be cleaned out. More costs. The agricultural department has been ultra lax enforcing shit dumps by farmers / enforcing proper fertilizer use.

So people expecting prices to stay low because water is necessary conflicts with the real costs. See also social housing.

Well that's my conclusion I might be wrong too :)

I still think profit making just adds to costs, but with government you can also get lack of maintenance (hello NHS) as "sorry it really has to cost more" is never a popular message :)

At 23

At 45

Looks like acting is a job that makes you look to be beyond your years, even when you start from a very youthful aspect. Probably nothing to do with recreational proclivities.

Very strong Westerly winds evident in that photo!

Years ago I left dead rabbits outside a shop, in exchange for cash, on a regular basis.

But killing animals, humanly and not for food is wrong imo.

You should be banned for not using spoiler tags for that scum bag. ;) Sorry talentless scum bag.
Anyone that slags off there ex wife whom they have children with....they took illegal drugs...living with someone like you they needed drugs.
The slagging off of Nike was the pinnacle of Lozs funking ineptitude while wearing their product.
I have no Nike shoes...cos I can't afford them.

Sorted for eels on whizz

Jeez, they are annoying enough without it

Sorted for eels on whizz

On eel related news. The wife watched a heron catch an eel in the river Wandle opposite Colliers Wood bus garage last weekend (which is not a particularly pleasant stretch of SW London). She said it was not the sort of thing she ever expected to see around there.

Some sort of Dorian Gray/rotting from the inside going on there

We can't afford the old, so how about logans run as the solution?
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/7ac1f4c5-63b2-4df7-b504-74b1e30f0fc2?shareToken=3e8d37fa00d5adca1f67a7d83f70657b

All that crap at the beginning about acknowledging the strongest form of an argument, and then going all in on a slippery slope.

Bizarre article!

Hah!

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https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/30/upshot/florida-2000-gore-ballot.html

In a report that shocks no one, it seems that Al Gore would have won the 2000 US election and defeated Bush, if not for the very bizarre incident with illogical voting machines in the state where Bush’s brother was governor at the time.

In a nutshell:
Ballot reads-
George Bush
Al Gore
Pat Buchanan

Button 1 on the voting machine punches a hole over George Bush.
Button 2 on the machine punches a hole over Buchanan.
Button 3 punches a hole over Al Gore.

Stupid or diabolical, it gave Bush the razor-thin margin needed to clinch the presidency, with the help of a friendly Supreme Court who refused to allow a correction/local recount.

What a different world this could have been if only those machines weren’t messed up like that.

Hanging chads: what a time to have been alive!

Crazy to think 500 votes might of meant no Iraq war and climate change taken seriously 20 years ago

How much profits has gone to shareholders? That should have been on maintenance and upgrades to the system?

That doesn't make sense to me....

A report that - 24 years later - confirms everything we already knew 24 years ago