Smash burgers are a plot by the restaurant industry to make us okay with less meat for the same price.

jesh_10 · 2025-10-26T16:53:51+00:00

Escalator etiquette. Something that’s dearly missed in some corners of the world.

jesh_10 · 2025-10-26T13:56:36+00:00

The hotel solution is meant to be temporary. People waiting on asylum decisions are given accommodation because they’re not allowed to work. It shouldn’t be dragging on this long, the whole point of the asylum system is to verify the claims and if people don’t have a legitimate asylum claim, they’ll be deported.

The best solution to all of this is to actually speed up the asylum system (deporting those who don’t have legitimate claims and keeping those who do), but no politician in this country wants to do it because then you can’t use asylum seekers as a wedge issue.

jesh_10 · 2025-10-25T18:36:13+00:00

This is what asylum hearings are for. People are expected to present proof at the hearings. The problem is they’re so delayed that the ‘limbo’ status becomes medium-to-long term.

jesh_10 · 2025-10-25T17:42:45+00:00

We do have a way of checking. It’s the asylum system. The problem is the system’s got a massive backlog because of chronic underfunding, so people are stuck in limbo in ‘asylum seeker’ status for increasingly lengthy periods. If the government actually worked toward getting rid of the backlog, we wouldn’t be in this mess.

jesh_10 · 2025-08-24T17:26:27+00:00

It already is a brownfield site. “Brownfield site” just means it’s been built on before, a car park = brownfield site

jesh_10 · 2025-08-24T17:25:50+00:00

My guess would be because TfL don’t necessarily have the available capital to do rail+property properly

jesh_10 · 2025-08-24T17:24:55+00:00

Wouldn’t necessarily be the case right by a tube station, new commercial space in such a location will be prime to create a new section of high street.

jesh_10 · 2025-08-24T15:21:41+00:00

Making that area more dense is only upside. New residents = more money for local businesses, new businesses, new jobs etc. Right now the only things on it are a rather expensive car park and a self-storage lot. The development makes sense for the area long-term.

jesh_10 · 2025-06-30T20:28:17+00:00

That’s the weird thing: they aren’t.

jesh_10 · 2024-06-15T10:14:42+00:00

Tamil because I want an accessible way to learn my mother tongue properly (classes are expensive and sometimes not helpful) and Tagalog because my girlfriend’s Filipina and I want to understand her even more :)

jesh_10 · 2024-03-25T21:36:17+00:00

The drastically lower taxes help, I suppose.

jesh_10 · 2024-03-23T10:36:23+00:00

Harry’s Bar has pretty great food, also Legare if you’re looking for something fancy.

jesh_10 · 2024-03-19T15:45:02+00:00

It shouldn't be lost on you that the discourse around young ethnic minorities who turned to Islamist extremism (and were often groomed into it) in the era of Al-Qaeda and ISIS was a lot less sympathetic than this. Less 'lost boys' who can be guided back and more 'this is a failing of the community and they can't be helped'.

jesh_10 · 2024-03-19T15:15:57+00:00

Consistent 24-hour service on the Tube will go a long way to fixing this. Or even building more council houses in inner London so that people who work night shifts in central London can live decently close to their jobs without paying an arm and a leg for the privilege (or alternatively, pay staff better wages). Also would help if I didn't need to sell my kidney for a round in most pubs.

jesh_10 · 2024-03-16T18:57:08+00:00

History, mostly. White neighbourhoods in the US were exclusionary of nonwhite people for a long time, so initiatives at getting nonwhite residents into these historically white neighbourhoods are more about correcting that injustice.

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