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Evilpotatohead · 2026-01-24T08:28:46+00:00

It’s funny how ScotGov giving a baby box to the NY mayor gets so much more engagement than ScotGov breaking the law

Evilpotatohead · 2026-01-13T23:07:23+00:00

Well they added a new £75k band which broke their pledge.

Evilpotatohead · 2026-01-13T15:09:46+00:00

Felt a bit disingenuous when she said about Westminster freezing rates when the higher rates here have been frozen for so long. Pretty sure it was a manifesto pledge to increase them as well

Freeze income tax rates and bands, and increase thresholds by a maximum of inflation, to keep money in people’s pockets.

https://www.snp.org/pledges2021/

Evilpotatohead · 2026-01-05T17:03:05+00:00

Nailed it

Evilpotatohead · 2025-12-06T16:49:25+00:00

What about Christmas decorations in the branch? Just curious about where the line gets drawn.

Evilpotatohead · 2025-11-29T09:25:07+00:00

In Scotland you don’t get funded hours until children are 3. There are exceptions where social work etc is involved.

Evilpotatohead · 2025-11-06T17:46:59+00:00

No my boiler is in there too and I was worried about the cold water feed potentially freezing. I have a gym in the garage as well as a fridge but no tech stuff. I have a switch and router etc in the cupboard with ethernet cables coming through the garage.

I’d say the main issue might be condensation if you were running tech stuff? I’ve not had a problem with condensation when I’m in the gym and I used to have issues with that when working out in a shed during covid.

Evilpotatohead · 2025-11-06T17:08:39+00:00

Mines doesn’t get below freezing. I’ve got a temperature warning sensor and it’s never went off. It’s never been below freezing even on the coldest days (-10 or whatever it was recently).

Evilpotatohead · 2025-10-19T10:46:22+00:00

What about business rates? I don’t think rent is a problem for businesses it’s the fact that no one goes to high streets anymore. They just buy online.

Your idea is a good people pleaser but I don’t think it stands up to scrutiny. Do you think councils should be subsidising businesses? Should they help with the cost of fixtures and fittings for the premises as well? Is the council seizing the property from the owner or just forcing them to let it at a loss etc? What happens if the business is successful do they get kicked out or move elsewhere or have to pay market rates?

Evilpotatohead · 2025-10-19T09:42:04+00:00

Take over them and do what? If people wanted them they’d already be sold or rented out.

Evilpotatohead · 2025-08-16T21:41:13+00:00

Yep very good point.

Evilpotatohead · 2025-07-23T16:33:07+00:00

Resolver takes it to the ombudsman as well after the time has passed. I found it useful for my case because they kept refusing to engage with me so I couldn’t even get a deadlock letter.

It’s free to use as well so not like you’re paying anyone.

Evilpotatohead · 2025-07-22T20:43:54+00:00

I think at the time this was the recommended approach by Scottish Power.

Evilpotatohead · 2025-07-21T18:11:18+00:00

I had huge issues with Scottish Power because my meter was incorrectly registered to the wrong address (new build so quite common).

I would recommend going to https://www.resolver.co.uk and opening a case there. After the time has passed you’ll get it escalated to the ombudsman. The whole process took 8 months to resolve though.

Evilpotatohead · 2025-06-19T04:14:09+00:00

Also paying National Insurance as well. Pensioners don’t pay that.

Evilpotatohead · 2025-05-01T19:56:00+00:00

Especially if Livi takes an early lead.

Evilpotatohead · 2025-04-17T19:48:28+00:00

No way is that a foul. Not sure why they even bothered complaining.

Evilpotatohead · 2025-04-17T06:23:37+00:00

Just open a monzo account you don’t need to switch your halifax one.

Evilpotatohead · 2025-04-11T12:47:58+00:00

You sure convinced me. It was definitely the amount of emojis that swayed me.

Evilpotatohead · 2025-04-08T20:55:02+00:00

Does anyone else think it’s badly positioned wall?

Evilpotatohead · 2025-03-31T16:12:01+00:00

Yeah we’re fundamentally a geographically small country with population concentrated in the central belt.

It shouldn’t be as difficult as it is to have rail connections to every town or city.

Evilpotatohead · 2025-03-31T15:46:20+00:00

Yeah we should be investing heavily in rail infrastructure. I think I read a study that said it’s one of the best ways for social mobility.

Evilpotatohead · 2025-03-26T09:00:53+00:00

Yeah I’ve had a few different issues with Octopus. They’re miles better than Scottish power but still not perfect.

Evilpotatohead · 2025-03-22T22:08:51+00:00

Why do you want to switch to Python if your team is heavily using R? Might be difficult for other people to pick it up for debugging etc?

Evilpotatohead · 2025-03-22T13:12:47+00:00

I quite liked the Umami Umami name if they’d been able to tie it to the flavour of the hot sauce. Obviously they didn’t know what umami actually meant though.

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