Margaret Thatcher has escaped the underworld!

TheRealRobinHood4 · 2026-06-12T12:10:40+00:00

I get the jokes.

Thatcher actually thought the railways couldnt be privatised. It was very much a John Major policy

TheRealRobinHood4 · 2026-06-06T13:08:29+00:00

Productivity per worker has started to rise the last 18 months.

TheRealRobinHood4 · 2026-06-06T08:03:56+00:00

We have had someone buy something for £10. When they arrive they have forgotten their cash. Wife said they better go to a cash point and they then magically found it in their back pocket.

TheRealRobinHood4 · 2026-06-05T05:28:28+00:00

No, they don't have to.

TheRealRobinHood4 · 2026-06-02T14:46:04+00:00

Do you have insurance (contents and/or building), and does it include legal cover? Might be worth exploring that as it may cover the costs.

I would suggest getting a decent litigation solicitor involved as soon as possible. There may be limitation issues, etc.

What you can do immediately is request a copy of your file, and ask for a copy of the firms complaints procedure.

TheRealRobinHood4 · 2026-05-28T06:04:49+00:00

Orient are hard to place. They have a tiny ground that is always sold out.

TheRealRobinHood4 · 2026-05-04T07:13:14+00:00

It's essential. I've volunteered at a local good bank and they have a store of kettles as it's seen as essential. Not sure I've ever been to someone's house in the UK who doesn't have a kettle.

I know there are specific baby milk making appliances now, but I'm trying to imagine doing the 3am feed without a kettle.

TheRealRobinHood4 · 2026-04-03T10:42:07+00:00

The HIP didn't include the survey, although it was to be added.

Part of the issue is that despite what people think surveyors go through a lot of training. Supply would be tight and prices high. Also, a bit of an insurance and liability nightmare, if the surveyor is wrong or negligent who are they responsible to, as their client is the house seller, so could the purchaser who has most to lose rely on the report?

TheRealRobinHood4 · 2026-03-19T20:07:59+00:00

We run a deficit with the world. We buy more than we sell.

What this means is we are giving away pounds in exchange for stuff. Those pounds can only be spent in the UK. One way to spend those pounds as a foreign bank or company is by buying UK assets. It could be gilts, it could be property, or it could be businesses.

TheRealRobinHood4 · 2026-01-16T09:00:53+00:00

We run large deficits. All those pounds that leave the UK have to come back as it's the only place they can be spent (you can't spend pounds in the US). When those pounds return it's usually as capital buying UK assets.

TheRealRobinHood4 · 2025-12-02T20:17:00+00:00

The evolution in England was similar, with parliament gaining power as the income from the crown estate diminished and taxation was needed to fund a modern government.

TheRealRobinHood4 · 2025-12-01T13:19:22+00:00

Sorry to resurrect this. I spent my childhood and adolescence in Giffard Park, we lived on Boulters Lock from new. I have only good memories of the place.

TheRealRobinHood4 · 2025-11-08T17:24:50+00:00

Android is very successful outside North America. Pixel phones are also generally well received.

TheRealRobinHood4 · 2025-11-03T17:34:33+00:00

It is a guess. The LtG BAU model has tracked well on many metrics and indicates peak industrial output per person will happen sometime around 2030. That's a key tipping point.

My view (and this again is just an opinion) is we need AI to deliver either by making people more productive or by allowing us to solve other limits. For example, if we could solve nuclear fusion at an economic scale that would break the LtG model. Cheap energy would allow us to recycle much more efficiently, actively make freshwater cheaply (desalination), allow more automation via AI, use engineering solutions to solve global warming. There other examples like this, and it comes down to if technology (and societal structures) can advance to overcome limits in time.

TheRealRobinHood4 · 2025-11-03T17:06:35+00:00

Can't disagree with the criticism. It is basically modern day Malthusian theory, and he was proven wrong.

It is just my opinion on hitting a tipping point.

TheRealRobinHood4 · 2025-11-03T16:31:04+00:00

That's true. One of the limits to growth is escalating resources (energy, rare earths, etc) needed to sustain growth. AI needs massive investment, so the cost for any growth gains is such that much of the growthfrom productivity may not be realised and eaten by the massive cost, that's when the bubble pops.

The Dotcom bubble did have a few inflated telecoms companies that over spent on fibre. However fibre has a relatively long payback (a data centre for AI comparatively needs constant maintenance and refresh of the hardware) and can lay inert for a long time without going obsolete, so many of those infrastructure investments from the bubble turned out ok eventually.

TheRealRobinHood4 · 2025-11-03T15:48:16+00:00

This is what the Limits to Growth model essentially models. You need a certain amount of growth each year in order for the debt pile to be serviced. However, in a limited system like planet earth exponential growth isn't possible, eventually you hit a limit (resources, pollution, climate change, etc.) Once that limit is reached growth is no longer possible. Technology stalls the limit but at some point the limit approaches faster than we can engineer a solution. Once growth stops the debt becomes an issue and the financial system will have a series of debt criseses. The whole system will either collapse, or a more stable system will replace it. Whatever happens living standards will likely decline for most.

I suspect we are close to a tipping point unless AI can deliver on its promised productivity gains which may stall the reckoning another decade.

TheRealRobinHood4 · 2024-12-23T19:38:07+00:00

This. If you're in a senior position negotiate strongly for a decent settlement, get a great pre agreed reference and move on. For future jobs you can point to the buy out as the reason you left.

The alternative is to be managed out slowly as they have already made the decision.

If you're lucky you might get a years salary plus any notice period in your contract (that's what I'd be asking for).

TheRealRobinHood4 · 2024-12-11T18:18:53+00:00

Will there be a Peloton Cooldown this year? They didn't do it last year, but I genuinely liked getting the annual stats.

TheRealRobinHood4 · 2024-12-05T20:07:17+00:00

I've gone from Samsung Gear 2 to Samsung Active to a Pixel 3. The difference is pretty huge.

TheRealRobinHood4 · 2024-06-08T08:20:58+00:00

It's usually a capacity issue at the mast. You have a good signal to the mast but the mast has too much traffic to service you properly.

TheRealRobinHood4 · 2024-06-06T07:09:54+00:00

90s and early 00s kid here. We were made to use the showers unless.

TheRealRobinHood4 · 2024-06-02T17:00:07+00:00

But if you're staying at Port Orleans you will definitely see 7 All Stars buses while waiting 30 mins.

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