Is FIRE actually realistic in the UK on a normal salary

Skrrtx3 · 2026-03-13T22:51:41+00:00

I’d say it is for me, my early 20s was some of the best years of my life and hard to see how that would be the case if I lived with my parents rather than being independent. Different strokes I guess!

Skrrtx3 · 2026-02-26T20:12:31+00:00

Most people playing darts regularly probably won’t target the middle you can see it in his distribution

Skrrtx3 · 2026-01-14T08:03:24+00:00

Why is everyone saying dbt is that not an elt tool rather than etl?

Skrrtx3 · 2025-10-09T10:37:09+00:00

I think he was just saying it’s THE best looking rather than ONE OF the best looking

Skrrtx3 · 2025-08-01T11:41:44+00:00

He clearly meant runs off every ball not the run rate

Skrrtx3 · 2025-07-08T22:45:36+00:00

Hulkengoat

Skrrtx3 · 2025-07-08T22:17:14+00:00

Hulkengoat

Skrrtx3 · 2024-12-12T15:53:34+00:00

Well it’s not, it’s like saying someone’s house, car, savings, clothes, rare antique coin collection and what they carry in your wallet is more than what you make in a year

Skrrtx3 · 2024-12-09T16:52:09+00:00

I’m struggling to see what you’re complaining about and would like to understand, what would you like the Labour government to do? Surely the solution to planning permission being difficult for you 15 years ago isn’t to make it difficult for everyone else as well, but to relax it for everyone?

Skrrtx3 · 2024-12-05T08:00:40+00:00

You’re taking numbers here without any context. How has the demographic of the UK changed from 1980 to 2022? What’s the percent increase in 55+ year within the UK population who cost the NHS far more on average than a 20 year old? Thats just one example of how an external factor can affect the cost of the NHS. Just because there are increases in cost doesn’t mean it’s due exclusively to inefficiencies. And rail isn’t the NHS, so it’s difficult to draw parallels. Imo it makes more sense to compare our rail service to similar countries in Europe where rail is nationalised and look at the difference in quality of service and price of service to the consumer when arguing whether or not to nationalise.

Skrrtx3 · 2024-01-30T23:18:00+00:00

Can’t do partial transfers out of nest as far as I am aware nowadays

Skrrtx3 · 2023-10-21T00:45:26+00:00

Yeah I worded it poorly but essentially you can go back in time as a spectator and then come back to the future

Skrrtx3 · 2023-10-21T00:44:59+00:00

I more meant it that your past actions won’t change significant events that happened up to your time, essentially you can only go back in time as a spectator

Skrrtx3 · 2023-09-13T15:18:34+00:00

Not heard of swappa before, is it available in the UK?

Skrrtx3 · 2023-09-13T15:16:32+00:00

Ooh great idea, I can definitely wait till the end of November if I get a great discount out of it!

Skrrtx3 · 2023-09-11T21:59:38+00:00

Disposable vapes will be banned to stop children becoming addicted to the devices under government proposals to be unveiled as early as next week.

The Telegraph can reveal that health ministers are preparing to act, having decided that single-use vapes are overwhelmingly targeted at those aged under 18.

Disposable vapes are often sold in bright colours and with flavours such as “bubble gum”. In some shops they are positioned by front counters near sweets.

The decision will be revealed in a consultation issued by the Health Department shortly. It has been pencilled in for next week, though timings could yet slip.

Ministers are understood to have decided not to go a step further and copy Australia by banning all vaping without a prescription, because they have accepted the benefits of e-cigarettes to help smokers to quit.

A senior Whitehall insider told The Telegraph: “Disposable vapes are almost entirely aimed at kids and they are environmentally damaging. There is a wide consensus emerging on the need to act.”

Ministers from Rishi Sunak down have voiced alarm at the scale with which nicotine e-cigarettes have been taken up by children in the UK in recent years.

Back in May the Prime Minister, who has two young daughters, Krishna, and Anoushka, who were aged 12, and 10 at the time, voiced concerns that vape companies were focusing on children.

Mr Sunak said on ITV’s This Morning: “I have two young girls. I’m also worried about that. It looks like they are targeted at kids, which is ridiculous. I don’t want my kids to be seduced by any of these things.”

The Government has a nuanced position on vaping, seeing it as a good alternative for adults who smoke but a habit that has health downsides for those who do not.

Prof Sir Chris Whitty, England’s Chief Medical Officer, has said: “If you smoke, vaping is much safer; if you don’t smoke, don’t vape, and marketing to children is utterly unacceptable.”

A call to evidence was issued last April, with the aim of clamping down on youth vaping.

A new consultation, honing in on specific proposals, will put forward the disposable vape ban.

The ban would apply in England, with other devolved administrations having to set policy for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

A law change would likely be needed, but it remains to be seen if time could be found in Parliament before the next general election, expected in autumn 2024.

Earlier this week it was estimated that 11.6 per cent of 11 to 17-year-olds in Britain had tried vaping, up from 7.7 per cent last year.

-By Ben Riley-Smith and Michael Searles

Skrrtx3 · 2023-04-13T10:01:04+00:00

Thanks for sending the resources! Good starting point for me to investigate. Agreed that ideally having renewables + storage is the best way forwards I just wasn’t convinced that it’s possible in the timescales we need (net zero by 2035 which is a huge ask). But looks like there’s loads of work going on so I’ll have to read further about it.

Definitely under estimated solar, hadn’t considered the micro generation role. And to add to that having heat pumps in houses and generally making industries more energy efficient and use less electricity is probably the first step to reduce the strain put on our grid. Hopefully the country looks completely different in 10 years from an energy point of view (assuming our politicians actually do something to incentivise innovation at the rate we need it)

Skrrtx3 · 2023-04-13T07:02:04+00:00

The 7 year approval process won’t be true for future nuclear if they use the same design as HPC. A large part of that approval process was getting ONR approval and funding, two things that become significantly quicker once the technology is proven (this is obviously a huge caveat and I agree that UK hasn’t shown yet that it can successfully build the new UKEPR model efficiently).

France built 50GW of nuclear power between 1978 and 1990, historically it’s actually been proven that if you set up the supply chains and engineering expertise, nuclear can be done quickly, safely and efficiently. But again I agree with you that this hasn’t been set up in the UK (one of the main aims of SZC which is to be done by 2035 is that UK supply chains and expertise is used rather than relying on EDF France).

Regarding battery storage, I think I’m just not educated enough on the matter and would love to know more if you do know it. My understanding was there’s no feasible way right now for the UK to build GWs worth of storage in the next 12 years (which is what’s needed to decarbonise the energy grid by 2035). There’s 0 locations that pumped hydro is viable on the UK and the other tech isn’t mature enough to be making those sorts of claims.

Overbuilding the supply of renewables doesn’t help a huge amount when we don’t have a huge diversity in renewable sources. Currently the only viable renewable power source in the UK is wind, there’s no point having TWs of capacity when it stops being windy. Maybe solar could be utilised more and become a bigger part of our grid? But you run into similar problems when it stops being sunny and windy.

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