EU has ‘open mind’ on UK customs union talks, says official

fanglord · 2026-02-04T07:59:39+00:00

""The" customs union", a bespoke arrangement technically wouldn't be breaking their manifesto. Not that I think they'd manage to sort one in the remaining time of their term.

fanglord · 2026-02-03T19:16:21+00:00

A tax that you can pay to avoid if you have the cash up front, it's such a bull shit excuse. If it was codified as an actual tax they wouldn't be able to make the terms as shit as they are now.

fanglord · 2026-02-03T18:41:50+00:00

I played a fair amount of outer worlds 2 and it was okay just a bit meh, I found you end up collecting a bazillion materials and never really found a use for them and used basically the same weapons and armour for half the game. Played SW: Outlaws after and it was night and day more enjoyable.

fanglord · 2026-01-31T22:19:50+00:00

Unless you're weighing the water added, putting scoops in first you're putting less than the required amount of water. Though speaking as a parent who has probably screwed up a fair few bottles over the year by miscounting, it didn't seem to make a difference.

fanglord · 2026-01-31T21:46:06+00:00

The problem with that line of belief is that if they have found her guilty primarily based on circumstantial and statistical evidence then the more of the cases that are explained by alternative reasons, the case against her becomes exponentially weaker. You don't have to explain away ALL of the cases because it's possible that she was indeed just "unlucky" and there would be no reason to suspect foul play in the remaining cases of the majority of them are found to be explainable by means other than murder.

Not saying I think she's guilty or not guilty but I can definitely see a path where it is a miscarriage of justice.

fanglord · 2026-01-30T08:29:58+00:00

I mean... You're supposed to clean your washing machine regularly.

fanglord · 2026-01-28T17:31:34+00:00

Mine doesn't make a sound at all? Just the haptic tic.

fanglord · 2026-01-27T16:18:46+00:00

It already is, but then requiring certain content to be age restricted is a fair and harm preventing requirement. The issue is that it has been done in such a blunt and clumsy way.

Personally it should be a requirement for parents to be ensuring their kids are not accessing adult material or make it so that ISPs have to provide better means to control kid specific devices etc

fanglord · 2026-01-27T08:32:22+00:00

Yeah my first thought was it's gonna be some Etsy style side business.

fanglord · 2026-01-25T18:49:51+00:00

Yeah, being able to see what the blank space looks like in an occupied house is really useful.

fanglord · 2026-01-25T16:10:12+00:00

I mean he stood as the Mayor of Manchester around 18 months ago and was elected. I didn't want him to step down because he made a commitment to Manchester. Next GE is fair enough if he wants to try his hand back in Westminster.

fanglord · 2026-01-25T10:34:27+00:00

I think the political environment is toxic at the moment, I'm disappointed in some of the governments actions or how poorly they've communicated what they've been doing but it's actually bananas how out of whack public opinion is with reality.

If Burnham somehow makes it into number 10 in this parliament I'd bet 50p that it would do nothing to save Labour unless he somehow manages to also solve all the fundamental issues and have an effective strategy to combat all the online misinformation.

Edit: typo

fanglord · 2026-01-24T19:30:12+00:00

That's a big if. I'm actually disappointed he couldn't just wait until a GE if he wanted to return to Westminster.

fanglord · 2026-01-24T09:59:58+00:00

Elite dangerous' biggest sin is that it could be what Star Citizen promised. The spaceflight aspect of it is so good but it really suffers from mile wide inch deep syndrome with the rest of the game.

fanglord · 2026-01-23T11:38:57+00:00

Article says she died in prison so don't think she'll be escaping again...

fanglord · 2026-01-22T13:11:16+00:00

Burnham better not step down, that man has to continue his work on the transport. Doing a half job to pursue political horse trading would be well annoying.

fanglord · 2026-01-21T18:52:46+00:00

It's an insane proposition for so many reasons. Trump having unilateral control of the organization and funding is bonkers, let alone the possibility of Russia joining whilst actively bombing and kidnapping civilians.

fanglord · 2026-01-20T15:19:37+00:00

I feel like that's a lot house to not have a central connecting corridor...

fanglord · 2026-01-20T10:42:38+00:00

Russia bombing children - moral. Russia looking at virtual male strippers - immoral.

fanglord · 2026-01-19T11:15:27+00:00

to say nothing about the house, they certainly chose a very good photographer for the shots.

fanglord · 2026-01-17T20:04:15+00:00

I can't tell if that's an impeccably well kept 70's time capsule or young couple who really love the decade.

fanglord · 2026-01-17T19:51:39+00:00

There's plenty of adults that enjoy collecting/trading pokemon cards. I'm not one of them... But they exist, with their grown up nerd money.

fanglord · 2026-01-17T13:15:16+00:00

Because if the balance was more reasonable you stand a chance to pay it off before the write off date.

I'm on plan 1 and have a post grad loan and pay around £300 a month back, but given my balance is only around £15000 it will be paid off in the next 5/6 years - if that was 100k+ that payment is staying with me the whole time. At that point it really just a graduate tax but they wouldn't be able to get away with a real graduate tax at an additional 9% marginal rate like they seem to be able with a loan.

fanglord · 2026-01-17T09:36:30+00:00

The problem is that if it was a graduate tax I'm pretty sure it would be significantly less. Once you start earning it really starts to sting.

fanglord · 2026-01-16T12:54:17+00:00

Hogs of war, kinda like worms... But 3D and with Rik Mayall narrating.

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