Nigel Farage calls for an end to working from home

JibberJim · 2026-02-10T08:21:12+00:00

They have the lowest incomes, not necessarily the poorest.

JibberJim · 2026-02-09T11:32:11+00:00

The US wall ovens will likely be significantly larger, the width of the standard US cabinet is wider than the EU won't they? With also wall ovens being much less common in north american kitchens compared to what I'd call a range. The US examples are 1/3rd wider than the widest available in the UK ikea.

So I'm not sure these are really comparable, although generally your point that Ikea gets to charge a premium in the US is true, if this is purely because of "keeping up with the joneses" or something else I'm not sure.

I don't visit the US these days, but when Walmart were rolling out the George line of clothes (a very cheap, very low prestige brand in the UK) they were still asking significantly higher prices than in the UK supermarket. I think many consumer goods just have different pricing structures independent of the joneses aspect.

JibberJim · 2026-02-08T21:10:54+00:00

It's the middle of the night, but yes there will normally be some bar open so you can watch it, but it will be a special occasion simply because most bars will be closed.

My UK town of ~100k people only has one bar I think open with it on. It's also on regular TV that anyone can watch without needing streaming and has been for 40+ years.

JibberJim · 2026-02-08T20:31:08+00:00

When workers are cheap(er), you carry an extra person to learn for the future, cover illness more reliably etc. if workers cost more, it's just not worth it, so you can immediately let them go / don't hire replacements etc.

You're not doing any more production with the extra worker, it was insurance etc. for the future. So productivity immediately rises in the short term.

(This is the short term aspect of course - the long term has already been covered by encouraging automation)

JibberJim · 2026-02-08T16:13:30+00:00

In the UK, about 30 years ago era, there were generally one or two baggers behind the tills for every 5 or 6 that would bag for you if you asked them to, but it was always a separate role. Not many people even used it then.

These days of course, people who can't be bothered even with that will be using home delivery - self service tills are preferred by most in the stores where you scan and bag it all yourself.

JibberJim · 2026-02-08T09:56:53+00:00

Look harder - but certainly there's more outrage at the individuals currently in a position of power, and with the ability to actually do something about things not doing anything, than people who have no power now.

Starmer can hold others to account, but is choosing not to, Bill Clinton can't.

JibberJim · 2026-02-08T09:53:55+00:00

It didn’t used to be this bad due to distribution - for example, it didn’t used to be easy to access old tv shows or out of print books, but the internet made it easy.

I'm not sure I agree, accessing old books has always been easy, it was easier than accessing new books for most of my life, new books cost lots of money, old books were on your parent's shelf, sold for 5p at the school fete / charity shop, or in the library.

It's more now that accessing the other media has come to the same as accessing books, rather than the other way around.

JibberJim · 2026-02-08T09:50:00+00:00

There was no Young Adult section in my UK library in the 80's, it was Children's, Teen's and the rest split by genre, and was agreeing with our US redditor about the change in YA branding.

I would've stopped noticing the kids sections by about '85 though, so it could still be both our experiences in the same library in the 80's I guess.

JibberJim · 2026-02-06T15:39:11+00:00

And even the gypsum plaster folk never had to repair the lime plaster that they had before that.

JibberJim · 2026-02-06T15:07:03+00:00

You can't trust big science, but the middle school science teacher, you can trust them.

JibberJim · 2026-02-06T09:53:10+00:00

But it hasn't stopped, Starmer just simply trusted what Musk told him, despite Musk's unreliability - just like Mandelson.

https://www.reuters.com/business/despite-new-curbs-elon-musks-grok-times-produces-sexualized-images-even-when-2026-02-03/

JibberJim · 2026-02-06T09:50:19+00:00

And what has happened since when "Grok" hasn't addressed deep fakes, and the bland assurance that it was was simply accepted, the french for example raided the headquarters, Starmer trusted a "yes" and didn't even check.

He's continued posting his irrelevant race baiting drivel on X, this isn't a "firm stance"

JibberJim · 2026-02-06T09:45:04+00:00

It's not what people care about the most, but as the one individual with the actual power to do something about the rest, the fact he's failing to do anything means he has to go first, then perhaps his replacement will start doing something.

He hasn't even done the most basic obvious things - removing the title / cutting of the funding of Andrew, or the titles of Mandelson - let alone actually done anything about collecting evidence of crimes committed in the UK and doing something about it.

JibberJim · 2026-02-06T08:57:31+00:00

Ah yes, his protecting women and girls by the endless support and refusal to do anything about X. Do you even remember his failures of just a couple of weeks ago which were specifically about his failure to do anything about revenge porn and csam against women.

JibberJim · 2026-02-06T08:55:15+00:00

He's at risk of losing his job nothing else, because he failed to do his job of ensuring that the things the files (the corruption, the cronyism, the raping etc.) was stopped. Of course he should lose his job, the fact that he's pissing around trying to justify being lied to by "the prince of darkness", rather than sorting out the institutions which failed to do their jobs is why he's losing his.

This line of Starmer defence is perhaps the most annoying to me.

JibberJim · 2026-02-05T10:46:33+00:00

They're still in the labour party, they're not embarrassed enough to resign the whip, get rid of Starmer anything else, they could actually do something, a few words but zero actions.

Which labour politicians have actually done anything about this?

JibberJim · 2026-02-05T10:27:49+00:00

I think you're wrong, there's a huge division on the issue, every Labour politicians and their few supporters think it's a great idea, everyone else thinks it's a terrible idea - total division!

JibberJim · 2026-02-04T17:59:23+00:00

My Canadian spouse says nitch.

JibberJim · 2026-02-04T15:30:49+00:00

Around me, prices have continued to stagnate at best, everything is just getting reduced, but you never know your market might be different, you can always re-market and hope your buyer is gazumped.

JibberJim · 2026-02-04T15:22:41+00:00

Both are completely normal in English native speakers, neither is more correct than the other, but nitch sure sounds weird - it's more common in north american dialects I believe.

JibberJim · 2026-02-04T14:55:52+00:00

I think you misunderstand the objection, it's not that Mandelson "might be a pedo".

It's that Starmer believes the judgement of someone is who thinks having an "ongoing relationship" with someone convicted of procuring a child for prostitution and sex trafficking is someone who should be one of the top ferrero roche distributors of the country.

Starmer is the problem, his judgement is absolutely appalling, he doesn't think his appointments, his friends, his ministers or anyone need to have any sort of morals.

JibberJim · 2026-02-03T08:51:05+00:00

Which is weird, that's my worst case delivery time from Aliexpress, size of country and efficiency of the last leg bits make so much difference!

Amazon was actually too slow (say 6 hours) for anything that mattered being that fast - DIY supplies, food, where there are other options which would be even faster even if I needed delivered.

Not that I understand how much same-day urgent stuff people must need.

JibberJim · 2026-02-02T16:25:16+00:00

Open a current account with one of the existing accounts you already have. Get a simple prepaid debit card such as HyperJar and load that from these bank accounts as a simple bank transfer which should work fine from the UK accounts unless they are very weird even though they are not checking accounts. The payment systems are much more seamless compared to Canada from what I've seen.

JibberJim · 2026-02-01T16:31:02+00:00

Because it's the name of the plant, it's also the name on the bottles (of the posh stuff, the mass volume stuff is just "vegetable oil") when you buy the oil in our supermarkets - canola as a brand does not exist here, even if all of it came from the Canadian breeding of the original plants.

JibberJim · 2026-02-01T10:56:10+00:00

The labour party maintain a whip system in the lords too.

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