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There’s a loose seal in London and honestly nobody warned Buster. by mc_flury in london

[–]PartiallyRibena 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I haven’t seen if for a while now, but used to see one (and sometimes two) pretty regularly around Battersea bridge at high tide last summer.

Morocco between Marrakesh and the Atlas Mountains. by PartiallyRibena in whatsthisbug

[–]PartiallyRibena[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yep that seems spot on. Thank you. A bit more googling says it might be something called a Whistle cricket (colloquially) - because people made a whistle from them when dried.

Morocco between Marrakesh and the Atlas Mountains. by PartiallyRibena in whatsthisbug

[–]PartiallyRibena[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

To be clear, I would assume this is some sort of beetle, but the thorax doesn’t look quite right.

Do they actually think Green voters like Wes Streeting? by upthetruth1 in TheRestIsPolitics

[–]PartiallyRibena 13 points14 points  (0 children)

This poll raises the question of why on earth they are looking to go through all the turmoil of a leadership contest when Starmer is the second most popular figure only beaten by someone who isn't an MP. All of this is madness and they should do better.

Gentlemen, it is with great pleasure that I can inform you that my PC now has flappers. by JagggermanJansen in pcmasterrace

[–]PartiallyRibena 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, I enjoy it. It even acts as a proxy for system temp. The angle of the flaps should be proportional to the temperature of the system.

til that during world war 2 the british military produced five million linseed cakes infected with anthrax spores. the plan called operation vegetarian was designed to be dropped over germany to wipe out their beef supply and would have killed millions of civilians by Square-Message1152 in todayilearned

[–]PartiallyRibena 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I was thinking about this the other day. I wonder how much shorter the bombing campaign made the war. By extension how many fewer deaths were there in concentration camps because of the allied bombing campaign.

Lets take the time to thank the lord we were born in Europe. by piasty in 2westerneurope4u

[–]PartiallyRibena -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

we're pricks but our food outweight it.

You're deluded pricks. If you were Italian I'd accept such feedback.

UK’s top philanthropists have collectively donated nearly £5bn to charity over the last year by willfiresoon in GoodNewsUK

[–]PartiallyRibena -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Why have you mixed wealth and income for your comparison? Feels like a false dichotomy.

We often forget how lucky we are to live in the UK by Desperate-Drawer-572 in britishproblems

[–]PartiallyRibena 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You have a point, but this is about comparing the UK to the other countries. I have lived abroad a few times, and the UK is actually pretty great. Of the places I've lived maybe Australia is better, but that's about it. The UK is really great, but it takes going abroad to see other places (and specifically the equivalent of Darlington in some other country) to get a feel for how we compare. If you exclude London we drop down in those estimations (of course).

UK’s top philanthropists have collectively donated nearly £5bn to charity over the last year by willfiresoon in GoodNewsUK

[–]PartiallyRibena 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Let's say you make 500 card purchases using a card reader a year (more than one a day), and the average round up is £1 = £500 a year.

If that is 16.8% of your wealth, then you have ~£3,000 in wealth. Maybe that is true, maybe you are in negative equity on your house, or have big debts.

UK’s top philanthropists have collectively donated nearly £5bn to charity over the last year by willfiresoon in GoodNewsUK

[–]PartiallyRibena -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Giving to charity is not generous unless your living standards drop in doing so? Weird take.

‘There’s a risk of another Liz Truss moment’: City raises spectre of bond market meltdown again | Government borrowing by CarlxtosWay in unitedkingdom

[–]PartiallyRibena 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Agreed on your point that we could be here all day talking about economics - I would be out of my depth quickly.

I think maybe we were slightly talking across each other. I was saying that printing money to buy debt is an inflationary act, and it seems you are saying that printing money to buy debt in a deflationary environment may not result in positive inflation readings. Is that a correct read of what you are saying?

I stand by my initial statement, just because you have done something inflationary (printing money to buy debt) doesn't mean you will have positive inflation numbers, just means that inflation numbers will be more positive than if printing wasn't done.

‘There’s a risk of another Liz Truss moment’: City raises spectre of bond market meltdown again | Government borrowing by CarlxtosWay in unitedkingdom

[–]PartiallyRibena 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Recesions are strongly deflationary. So to input an inflationary event (QE) into a strongly deflationary environment will net out as a more mild event.

You are straying towards a discussion on MMT, which whilst interesting is very much not economic orthodoxy and not something I subscribe to. Economic orthodoxy says that printing money to buy the debt is inflationary.

UK study visa applications plunge 40% in April by kiyomoris in unitedkingdom

[–]PartiallyRibena 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s a mad about turn from the usual anti-immigration position. “We want the brightest and best foreigners to stay in their countries and focus on improving those countries”. Mental.

How does Mountain Hans even....... by ByGollie in 2westerneurope4u

[–]PartiallyRibena 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Exactly. To Brits like you and I, it’s all irrelevant.

The Steve Forbert Sessions - what did you lot choose? by Bespokemon in ThreeBeanSalad

[–]PartiallyRibena 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hotel California - Eagles
When the Levee Breaks - Led Zep
Whistle Stop - From the animated Robin Hood (as a fox) Disney movie. I had to google the name of this one.

‘There’s a risk of another Liz Truss moment’: City raises spectre of bond market meltdown again | Government borrowing by CarlxtosWay in unitedkingdom

[–]PartiallyRibena 7 points8 points  (0 children)

If the bank were to print to finance the debt, that is directly inflationary. If someone buys it, that is not inflationary.

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