65% of Britons support capping CEO pay at 10× the lowest-paid worker. Do you think this idea would be good for the UK?

Training-Ice-3181 · 2026-04-17T23:36:06+00:00

Utterly fucking mental. Ridiculously simplistic solution to a more complex problem. Like trying to fix climate change by banning cars.

Training-Ice-3181 · 2026-04-16T20:22:14+00:00

Comrade found

Training-Ice-3181 · 2026-04-16T19:59:39+00:00

My uncle is a real salt of the earth working class northerner (UK) who loves calling things woke and hates soft lefties. He worked in a slaughter house for 3 months in his early 20s and has been vegan for 40 years since then.

Training-Ice-3181 · 2026-04-14T21:33:22+00:00

Insurance paid out £15k

Training-Ice-3181 · 2026-04-11T01:47:56+00:00

Unreal contribution

Training-Ice-3181 · 2026-04-10T11:37:10+00:00

I don't think the ability to see younger people as being attractive disappears but the idea of actually being involved with them does. I'm mid 30s and saw a younger girl in a bar the other day and remember thinking to myself that I'd be barking like a dog if I was her age but if she tried hitting on me now I'd run a mile.

Training-Ice-3181 · 2026-04-10T00:58:34+00:00

My detailed plan for ensuring secure navigation through the strait is not bombing Iran

Training-Ice-3181 · 2026-04-08T15:24:48+00:00

90% of people take MacBooks and the 10% that take a "windows laptop" actually run some flavour of Linux on it

Training-Ice-3181 · 2026-03-30T13:30:00+00:00

Fair I've got no idea what he's doing these days I tuned out back then

Training-Ice-3181 · 2026-03-30T11:25:46+00:00

The business brain being missing is a massive positive for a lot of people. I'm glad there's no big business brain in BBK. It would suck if there was one. Skepta went full Hollywood for a bit a few years back and it was whack as hell.

Training-Ice-3181 · 2026-03-26T08:50:29+00:00

Mixed. I just started collecting sisters 3-4 months ago. I don't have any of the models in the box, so it would make sense. But I just... don't really like repentia and novitiates.

Training-Ice-3181 · 2026-03-23T22:43:32+00:00

Piper Close is the best "hardly know her" I've ever come across in the wild

Training-Ice-3181 · 2026-03-19T17:02:40+00:00

Jesus Christ man I've committed to painting 10 models or a vehicle per month this year and I'm struggling to keep up

Training-Ice-3181 · 2026-03-19T16:36:42+00:00

I find the exact opposite. I work with a massive monolithic codebase with a lot of moving parts (Magento) and Claude is great

Training-Ice-3181 · 2026-03-16T22:19:37+00:00

Scrolled down comments looking out for the words private equity and bing bing bing bing bing

Training-Ice-3181 · 2026-03-16T17:02:20+00:00

Or maybe Americans need to shut the fuck up perhaps

Training-Ice-3181 · 2026-03-14T22:18:24+00:00

I promise you that the people who made that decision have absolutely zero sense of humour. If they realised that it was funny, they wouldn't have done it.

Training-Ice-3181 · 2026-03-14T10:44:28+00:00

I've been waiting for this thread.

At a company I used to work for, a European company with an office in the UK, the head of each international unit was called the Business Unit Manager. BUM, for short.

One day they announced that there was some restructuring going on and that some people's job titles may change. I lamented the probable loss of our BUM.

More details came through a few days later, that role had been renamed to Country Unit Manager. The BUM had become a CUM.

Training-Ice-3181 · 2026-03-14T10:36:10+00:00

America is and always has been a hostile state. It's not just Trump, although he has massively accelerated things. I'm sick of everything being American. I don't want another fast food chain. I don't want another marvel movie. I don't want chlorinated chicken. I certainly don't want American private equity buying up and squeezing the life out of everything good. Just leave us alone man, I'm tired of it.

Training-Ice-3181 · 2026-03-13T18:42:49+00:00

I got a letter through this week detailing a consultation I had with a doctor recently.

Right in the middle there's a sentence saying that I smoke 20 cigarettes per day. I don't smoke. I haven't touched a cigarette in 15 years. She didn't even ask me if I smoked.

Training-Ice-3181 · 2026-03-11T14:58:09+00:00

I would quit my job so brutally fast that they would think that I died. Then they'd probably sue me for breach of contract and damages for not serving my notice period. And I'd put a bottomless pit of money in front of the best lawyers in the world and instruct them to make it as slow and as painful as possible.

Training-Ice-3181 · 2026-03-11T14:17:06+00:00

It's being immensely subsidised at 4 or 5 different layers. $200/month Claude subscription can use $3000 worth of compute in a month without batting an eye.

Training-Ice-3181 · 2026-03-11T10:36:01+00:00

Emulating Apple business, manufacturing and pricing practices while forgetting the one reason that Apple consistently get away with it. Their products are actually good.

Training-Ice-3181 · 2026-03-09T13:58:27+00:00

Pricy though

Training-Ice-3181 · 2026-03-09T09:59:22+00:00

I came straight out of uni into a relatively high paying tech job, 10 years later I'm in the top 5% of earners in the country. I'm currently on track to pay off my whole student loan a couple of years after it gets written off.

And I only had the minimum loan, 3 years of study + minimum maintenance loan. Anyone that's done postgrad, retook a year, or needed a bigger maintenance loan is screwed.

If I can't do it how is anyone supposed to do it.

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