I honestly don’t hate this policy. Keeping at least 3 days supplies with rotation is just common sense, right?
If something knocked the power/water out for a couple of days, every person with something in store is one less person the authorities have to worry about, until things either stabilise or get worse.
If they leave the country, we can assign a man with a portable bucket of sewage.
We will have no issues finding such a man: Most of Thames Water’s customers would pay for the privilege.
I’ve pondered on this a bit.
Maybe the funds that thought it was appropriate to put for-profit public utilities in a pension fund should be the responsible parties, along with the water company executives they put in position to facilitate the asset stripping.
It shouldn’t be “lump it on the tax payers” or “we can’t do anything, because innocent pension holders may lose out”.
It’s like the bad guy in the movie holding a hostage so they don’t get shot.
The haircuts should be extracted from the people responsible: The funds that felt it was appropriate to include asset stripping of public utilities in general pension funds, and the executives they put in place/votes they cast at AGMs to make it happen.
If that means that general pension funds fall, the holders should be going after the ones who mismanaged their pension, not the poor bastards having their water bills doubled, or having the cost of bailing out heaped on their government.
If you’d like to set up/help run a disability community here, I don’t think anyone would have any objections. @Blake hasn’t posted in 7 months, so I can give him a chance to respond, then add you as a Moderator for this community if you like? (Assuming Blake doesn’t have an objection/response).
I’ll ping him a message. Administrators get reports from all communities anyway, which may help. And obviously mods can appoint more mods as they appear.
I had to resist the offer of a tour of their facilities this month.
I was super curious, but I really didn’t want to deal with the “hey, you seem like you like us, want to work here?” messages afterwards.
Once the mortgage rates ease off a bit, and (potentially) stamp duty moves, they’re likely to go through a big rush again.
An average house in an average place is generally at the limit of affordability, when the rates drop a little, expect the prices to lurch to fill the gap/extra profits landlords can make from the lowered rates.
Labour will make it easier to change gender and is considering allowing a single family doctor to sign off on the decision under plans to “simplify” the process....
Necropost, but did you choose one in the end?
I’ve just had to DIY an EPDM, and honestly…It’s not horrible to work with, and if done properly shouldn’t have any issues.
Sounds good to me. If you’re getting a builder to do it, you’re almost definitely better off with whatever system they’re happy using.
Everyone will have their preference that they feel most comfortable with.
Honestly, I reckon it’s 6 of one, half a dozen of the other. Over 25 years, it’ll probably do the same job.
Buckfast gets reviewed (lemmy.world)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/15848615...
Register to vote for the General Election (www.gov.uk)
I assume most people here already are registered but just in case: here’s the link.
Government tells Britons to stockpile as part of emergency planning (www.ft.com)
Archive...
McDonald's is getting rid of self-serve drinks and some locations may charge for refills (www.cbsnews.com)
Water firms ask for bill rises of between 24% and 91% (www.bbc.co.uk)
Uk PIP Changes
I am posting this here because it is the closest to a UK specific disability community....
can' do nothin' withou' people gettin' mad these days (files.catbox.moe)
Woman killed by her two XL bully dogs at home in east London (www.theguardian.com)
38% of webpages that existed in 2013 are no longer accessible a decade later (www.pewresearch.org)
GB News could face sanction after breaking due impartiality rules (www.ofcom.org.uk)
'Stop threatening Taiwan', its new president William Lai tells China (www.bbc.com)
Taiwan’s newly inaugurated president William Lai has called on China to stop threatening the island and accept the existence of its democracy....
What happens when councils take control of buses? (www.bbc.co.uk)
Average British house price hits record high of £375,000 (www.theguardian.com)
Labour plans to simplify ‘dehumanising’ gender change process (www.thetimes.co.uk)
Labour will make it easier to change gender and is considering allowing a single family doctor to sign off on the decision under plans to “simplify” the process....
EDPM vs Fibreglass for a flat roof
Hi,...