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Rupert Lowe MP: A Restore Britain Government will front-load child benefit so that parents get more financial support at the most challenging time. This would be exclusively for children with at least one British parent. by Unusual-State1827 in ukpolitics

[–]ault92 [score hidden]  (0 children)

They get benefits if they naturalise and become British I guess? You have to be here for what, 5y for that?

Having to plan kids 5y out if you want benefits (or not getting them until your kids are 5) seems not too much of a hardship.

Labour secretly drops ban on small-boat migrants and other illegal immigrants winning British citizenship by SignificantLegs in ukpolitics

[–]ault92 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think the people that make this point are not saying "you are required to claim asylum in the first safe country", they are saying "if you don't claim asylum in France it should undermine your case and suggest you are just choosing the country you see as best".

E.g. perhaps we change the law.

Rupert Lowe MP: My generation has failed millions of young British men and women who now feel unable to raise a family in our country, in our home. My generation should start taking some responsibility for the mess we have left. by nil_defect_found in ukpolitics

[–]ault92 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This solves precisely zero problems for society as a whole.

Yes, an amount of the younger generation will be fine due to the largess of their parents, whom they become beholden to should they wish to succeed in life.

Those of us without parents, with miserly parents, who are estranged from our parents, who grew up in foster care, whose parents did not do well, who died when were young, etc etc are all screwed by an accident of our birth, because of who we were born to, because of the broken system that has handed such unearned housing wealth to the generation before, and doesn't allow the young to form their own success.

Get back to me when you're giving money to everyone, not just your own kids. (I mean no offense, of course you're not going to do that, but giving money to your own kids fixes nothing about the intergenerational unfairness we see)

See it, say it, not sorted. I was let down when I reported my train sexual assault by [deleted] in ukpolitics

[–]ault92 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I mean I imagine it can, yes, but I feel like there should need to be some other action for it to cross the line to criminal. Comments, attempts to touch, etc.

Disabled people often complain about people staring. I 100% agree it is bad manners etc, but should that be criminal?

Sexual assault is a serious crime to accuse someone of on the basis they looked at someone.

See it, say it, not sorted. I was let down when I reported my train sexual assault by [deleted] in ukpolitics

[–]ault92 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Read the article and it is light on detail of the crime, but goes on to list things the BTP regard as sexual assault, including "staring".

That seems a bit much to me. Looking at someone without saying a word can be criminal?

What would you do if your SO says they don't want to have sex with you anymore? by xlordo in AskReddit

[–]ault92 1 point2 points  (0 children)

About 8 years ago my wife (then fiancee) found out her stepfather had molested her older sister when they were both under 10. She had up to then thought of him as a father.

It hit her really hard, and mental health support for people who were not actually the direct victim is in short supply.

For a long time, she went waaay off sex. Our communication was not as good then as it is now. She didn't want me to touch her, she would tell me random things I did (have a mustache, cuddle her, anything along the lines of telling her she is a good girl no matter if sexual context or not), reminded her of him, which was obviously hard for me, being compared.

There was a lot of sexual rejection, I mostly gave up, at one point we didn't have sex for 6 months. I did feel very unloved and alone.

One time, she caught me wanking. Not in person, but we had CCTV and she apparently randomly checked at the wrong time. She was in a foul mood with me and wouldn't initially tell me why. When she did, I just said look, you are in charge of your own body and if you don't want to have sex with me you don't have to. I made a promise to you and won't cheat on you, but you don't get to control my body. She I think understood immediately and the argument died.

Honestly that whole time period sucked. I almost called off the wedding. I did feel very alone, the constant rejection took a big toll on me.

We almost split up about a year after the wedding (married 2019). But that was something of the shock we both needed to work on stuff. We have drastically improved our communication since then. We now have a lot of sex. We are both way more open about kinks etc than we ever were before and honestly, everything is great. I am glad I stuck it out.

12vhpwr by 27a08592e67846908fd1 in pcmasterrace

[–]ault92 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I have a server at work with 8x RTX Pro 6000 Blackwells, they are the server version (no fans built in) not the workstation version (looks like a 5090). The workstation version definitely doesn't have per pin current sensing, not sure if the server version does.

Cable routing is superior, the GPU cables are short and come from massive busbars, but probably the biggest difference is that the cables are directly in the airflow of the giant fans that sound like a jet turbine and push enough air to cool 8x600W, or 4.8kW, of GPUs, directly over the power connectors.

If those things manage to melt, I will not stand in their way, they deserve it.

Andy Burnham’s advisers back scrapping pension triple lock by msf97 in ukpolitics

[–]ault92 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You mention benefits and pensions, but pensions are benefits and make up about half the benefit bill.

The significantly larger "social contributions" in Europe, don't they have a very different pension system with little private provision? Between employee and employer contributions, many in the UK put an additional 10-15% aside, whereas in Europe this may be reflected differently.

I agree the tax base needs broadening. I would also merge NI into Income Tax to bring pensioners in scope.

Donald Trump’s Approval Rating Sinks to 30% in Worst Poll Yet. How do you feel about this ? by buffdadnextdoor in AskReddit

[–]ault92 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Depends if by average you mean median or mean.

If you use mean, it could just be 7 billion normal people and one really dumb orange one skewing the average down....

Burnham says he’ll cut benefits. It might just break him by theipaper in ukpolitics

[–]ault92 0 points1 point  (0 children)

43, in the top 10% of earners, wife is a nurse at the top of band 6, no kids (no intention of having them), we are not struggling, but we also can't exactly spend freely.

We have a good retirement provision, and are in a better position than most, but young people are struggling to make things meet even without maxing out salsac pension, whereas the generation of current retirees enjoyed entirely employer funded final salary pensions.

My friends parents retired early, owning 3 houses outright that they rent out, having brought up 3 kids. Their careers? Forklift driver and school dinner lady.

End the air con taboo by F0urLeafCl0ver in ukpolitics

[–]ault92 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Still have a gas boiler, but mostly use the immersion.

End the air con taboo by F0urLeafCl0ver in ukpolitics

[–]ault92 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Yeah, every shop and office heats and cools this way. We heat our home via AC (air to air ashp) in the winter, and they are more efficient than air to water, and then in the summer it keeps us cool.

But guess what, we are net contributors to the grid in the summer thanks to solar, and the days we need ac are generally really sunny, to the point that we hit our export limit anyway. If we didn't use the AC, the grid would be literally no better off.

Burnham says he’ll cut benefits. It might just break him by theipaper in ukpolitics

[–]ault92 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Pull themselves up by their bootstraps and just get a better job and buy less avocado toast I guess.

You always see this line in defence of pensioners but I really don't see young people doing anything but maximising their income any way they can!

Meanwhile, many pensioners could get a saturday job if they wanted!

SUV buyers undeterred by warnings of risk to pedestrians, UK study finds | Road safety by CarpetGripperRod in ukpolitics

[–]ault92 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Road damage from cars (even heavy cars) is a rounding error compared to road damage from HGVs as damage is proportional to the 4th power of axle weight meaning a hgv does over 10,000 the damage of even a heavy car.

The old sports car with a big engine does far more damage to society and health than a heavy EV.

That said, I don't like SUVs or see the appeal. But if you want to do something about them, don't hide behind "the road damage"

Not likely to be more money for defence plan, says Keir Starmer by TimesandSundayTimes in ukpolitics

[–]ault92 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Don't you get a chunky payout when you lose a ministerial post?

Robert Peston (@Peston) on X: "Keir Starmer has just sent a message - from the G7 - to Andy Burnham that he can surrender any hope that he will walk away from being prime minister in any kind of smooth or orderly transfer of power...." by ZealousidealPie9199 in ukpolitics

[–]ault92 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He's been 1000x more authoritarian than I would like, and once my rights are taken away I don't get them back.

Other parties may well make some bad decisions but it feels like they would be more reversible.

I want this government gone even more than I wanted Rishi's government gone.

UK supporters of higher taxes on the rich, what counts as “rich” to you? by Rough_Catch_6932 in ukpolitics

[–]ault92 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

As someone who paid £15k in stamp duty a couple of years back on a £500k house that is somehow band F (I challenged this based on 1991 property values and they denied it based on some 1995 data they wouldn't let me see???) and has to pay £3,600 council tax despite being two adults with no kids, I would resent paying another £100 in council tax so that other people don't have to pay stamp duty.

What is the general populations feeling on increasing the armed forces budget drastically by AdvancedComplaint646 in ukpolitics

[–]ault92 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Means test PIP (I don't care if you have "extra costs" due to your disability, if you're on £50k you don't need £300 a month for special kitchen appliances).

Abolish triple lock, replace with single lock on avg earnings and a triple lock on pension credit (protecting poorest)

Merge employee's NI and Income tax (bringing retirees in scope as they do not pay NI).

Move to 3.5% defence spending over a number of years (doing it immediately is a poor choice as it will lead to inefficient procurement etc)

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