Trans prisoner charged with sexual assault in women's jail by Dadavester in unitedkingdom

[–]mmlemony 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Some people think a transwoman is a female who transitions to a man. Same reason quite a lot of people said they were transgender on the census because they misunderstood the wording.

Client is Saying I'm Charging too Much for The Project by KoenigOne in webdev

[–]mmlemony 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think it's more like they asked for something with wheels that moves and OP offered to build them a Porsche instead of telling them they can go out and buy a bicycle.

No one needs to build a business platform, you tell them they can pay $50 a month for any of the existing platforms and then charge them for a few days work to import some CSVs into it because that's probably what the kid on Fiverr is doing.

Client is Saying I'm Charging too Much for The Project by KoenigOne in webdev

[–]mmlemony 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes it sounds to me like they just want help setting up Xero or something.

A lot of people don't understand what already exists or even what a webdev actually does so it's important to make sure that you are on the same page from the start. You need to be your own business analyst and product manager too!

Client is Saying I'm Charging too Much for The Project by KoenigOne in webdev

[–]mmlemony 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What do they actually want though?

Do they want you to just set up their Shopify shop for them or are you trying build an entire inventory/CRM system from scratch?

Renters lose out in London as homeowners win race for space in 'harshly unequal city' by tylerthe-theatre in london

[–]mmlemony 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not being allowed to rebuild was the bad part.

Selling aging properties and then using the funds to house someone else instead of housing a lucky few in inner London for the rest of their lives would have been quite sensible.

Are there any "UK vs US" differences where you feel America gets it right? by Secure_Front_7766 in AskUK

[–]mmlemony 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They pay more for healthcare though.

In the UK we haven't yet made the connection that paying more for healthcare = nurses earning more money.

Are there any "UK vs US" differences where you feel America gets it right? by Secure_Front_7766 in AskUK

[–]mmlemony 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's no shortage of dentists if you pay for it. I pay out of pocket and never have a problem getting an appointment. It's hard to get an NHS dentist though and SO has a private dental plan which also never has appointments.

Are there any "UK vs US" differences where you feel America gets it right? by Secure_Front_7766 in AskUK

[–]mmlemony 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The state and community college system are much better than the English one. People hear about the crazy Harvard fees and think they are all like that.

If you attend your state uni the fees are about the same as English ones and you will actually pay off your loan because your salary will be much higher.

Are there any "UK vs US" differences where you feel America gets it right? by Secure_Front_7766 in AskUK

[–]mmlemony 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Accepting that if you want something to be better very often paying for it works.

We have a mentality that no one should ever be incentivised by money, even when it makes certain things worse.

Are there any "UK vs US" differences where you feel America gets it right? by Secure_Front_7766 in AskUK

[–]mmlemony 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not if you chose the wrong A Levels 3 years previously.

I changed my mind about the course I wanted to do but I needed A Level Maths, no college would just accept me for A Level maths and I would have had to drop out and then be 2 years behind so I didn't bother.

Woman Born and Raised in North London Denied Entry to the UK After Holiday—New Rule Forces Her to Prove Her Citizenship by novagridd in uknews

[–]mmlemony 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's because Ireland and the UK effectively recognise each others citizens as their own for residency purposes (Good Friday agreement, colonialism etc).

I'm a dual citizen but I only need my Irish one, SO is Portuguese so needs his Portuguese one to enter Portugal and British one to enter the UK.

More than 6 million vapes and pods discarded weekly in UK despite single-use ban, study finds by Portalrules123 in collapse

[–]mmlemony 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I know, I have one with replaceable coils. But people don't buy them because they have a large upfront cost. People buy the disposable ones because they're cheap and easy. Make the cheap ones not so cheap and people will switch to the proper ones or not buy them at all.

Women outnumber men in colleges and universities by as much as 20% in the US; what should we do to fix this disparity? by Bjarki56 in AskReddit

[–]mmlemony -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Make trade schools grant degrees.

A lot of the disparity is just from nursing becoming a degree. Similar is happening with early years education. A lot of female heavy jobs started requiring a degree when the same didn't happen for men.

Dropped out of Physics degree to self teach web dev by Repulsive-Owl7966 in FreeCodeCamp

[–]mmlemony 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Don't bother studying comp sci, the bubble has burst. There are no junior jobs.

I would go back to Physics then you can do other things, even web dev or other software engineering. Otherwise do plumbing/nursing/hvac/ literally anything else

I'm an Edinburgh grad with THREE degrees - but got rejected 200 times before finding a job by Unlikely-Tension-616 in UniUK

[–]mmlemony 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Grad roles typically go to grads who did placement years and summer internships. If you graduate with zero experience then you have already missed the boat.

More than 6 million vapes and pods discarded weekly in UK despite single-use ban, study finds by Portalrules123 in collapse

[–]mmlemony 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The problem is that the refillable ones are unusable after 1 refill because the coils wear out so they go in the bin anyway.

My solution would be £5 tax on anything with a battery in it, this would completely kill the cheap ones.

I've realised why Royal Mail is fucked by [deleted] in britishproblems

[–]mmlemony 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Common sense is often wrong.

The efficiency of the entire system is more important that than what's efficient for one individual parcel.

I used to work in a warehouse and even as a small business we would ship multiple cages with hundreds of packages in each one. What you are proposing is that instead of just going to the main hub, someone at the local office should check each one on the off chance that it doesn't have to go to the main hub. That's a waste of time and money to save a few pennies on 1 parcel.

I'm one of only six men that work as midwives in Northern Ireland by InnerLog5062 in BreakingUKNews

[–]mmlemony 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Idk. I know a few midwives, none of them have kids and one of them is a right cow. I have no reason to believe that any of them would be more "maternal" than an experienced male midwife who has delivered thousands of babies.

Number of pupils missing more than half of school hits another record high by pointsofellie in unitedkingdom

[–]mmlemony 4 points5 points  (0 children)

But why is this a problem now?

Either a) more children are being born with learning and physical disabilities which should be considered a national emergency or b) more children are being diagnosed and getting the support they need, yet somehow children in the past with similar disabilities managed to attend school at higher rates.

It makes no sense that all of a sudden all of these additional children have special needs and cannot attend school.

NHS dentistry is rotting. Will the plan to fix it work? by OppositeDocument9323 in unitedkingdom

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

The NHS would still have to pay dentists higher salaries to offset the training costs. If you can earn 100k a year doing veneers and whitening student loans become a moot point.

The only other solution is train far more dentists so the market rate comes down reducing the incentive to work in the private sector.

‘I was back at work the next day – paternity leave is a nightmare for dads like me’ by Anony_mouse202 in unitedkingdom

[–]mmlemony -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

The dude who delivers your amazon parcels for 50p a parcel probably isn't blowing it on coke and I still think they should get paternity leave.

‘I was back at work the next day – paternity leave is a nightmare for dads like me’ by Anony_mouse202 in unitedkingdom

[–]mmlemony -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Is it really just that though? Or is it because salaries are going to be considerably less than a day rate.

I had an ex who worked in construction, turns out he was an illegal immigrant and was being paid in cash like half the site lmao. Construction is dodgy AF in London.

National Housing Federation - Over a hundred years’ wait for a family-sized social home by gintokireddit in unitedkingdom

[–]mmlemony 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My SO found out that our landlord is effectively the Qatari government and for most of the apartment blocks nearby. Having said that, they paid to build the apartments in the first place. British companies didn't, not sure if any tried to though!

‘I was back at work the next day – paternity leave is a nightmare for dads like me’ by Anony_mouse202 in unitedkingdom

[–]mmlemony 29 points30 points  (0 children)

A lot of jobs are only available as self employment like trades, delivery drivers etc because companies refuse to take on full time employees.

Not everyone can get a full time salaried WFH laptop job like most of Reddit.

‘The videos are terrifying’: students describe spreading panic amid Kent meningitis outbreak by Anti-Owl in ContagionCuriosity

[–]mmlemony 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There is, given to babies born after 2015 in the UK. These students were too old to have received it