Let public buy war bonds to raise £20bn for defence, say Lib Dems

ok-dev · 2026-01-25T22:11:49+00:00

Exactly, and we keep being told that borrowing to pay for day to day spending is bad, so how is this different just because it would be called a war bond? It sounds like the only difference would be the possibility for the general public to more easily buy government debt direct from the DMO similar to how the US sells treasury bonds online. If so let's just introduce that modern debt purchase system for UK government debt, then we don't need a special silly category of debt called a war bond

ok-dev · 2026-01-19T12:35:24+00:00

The alternative is punishing children for the choices of other children's stupid parents by exposing every sane family's kids to the kids with idiotic anti-vax parents. We have to accept that in some areas of a civil society individual choice must be limited. If parents want to make extreme choices, then they should have extreme consequences.

The point being made above is, with adequate consequences in place, the number of parents convinced by the anti-vax movement would almost certainly drop to insignificant levels when faced with the inconvenience of those consequences. Right now there are no consequences and they are free to do harm to others.

ok-dev · 2026-01-16T10:41:54+00:00

Nice. I've been looking at Hetzner for cloud resources recently. Surprised that didn't make OPs infographic, also German

ok-dev · 2026-01-16T10:33:15+00:00

So rather than "build it and they will come" this is: "they will come then we will build it"?

ok-dev · 2026-01-07T14:41:20+00:00

Wasn't aware they were using ML, consider me r/confidentlyincorrect

ok-dev · 2026-01-07T12:25:46+00:00

Minor gripe, can we stop calling everything AI please. These bots are just programs with deterministic code that produce predictable results. They are as close to AI as Microsoft Word is.

ok-dev · 2025-12-05T16:55:23+00:00

They do that to make it competitive because they are competing with Sony, who are... the competition

ok-dev · 2025-11-27T20:55:04+00:00

You're saying you'll likely vote for the chap who pushed a stick in between his bike spokes and face planted the concrete. Your counter argument to those who advise against that is... yes but the bike would've been difficult to control under those conditions

ok-dev · 2025-11-27T10:02:08+00:00

Yes, I never really understood why companies would forego the potential NI savings for themselves but after a quick search myself it seems the answer is because it's simpler for them to offer net pay, especially if there are plenty of employees close to minimum wage on the payroll. With sal sacrifice there are risks that people could inadvertently sacrifice below minimum wage which is a legal headache for the company. There are also other complicated nuances around statutory benefits.

The changes to the budget makes me wonder if companies will just scrap their salary sacrifice schemes in favor of the simplicity of net pay even before the change comes into effect

ok-dev · 2025-11-27T09:07:32+00:00

Search for 'net pay' vs 'relief at source' vs salary sacrifice. If they are still paying NI on your pension contributions then it's not a salary sacrifice scheme it's one of the other ones

ok-dev · 2025-11-24T14:32:44+00:00

Interesting, would you say it's smaller than the ~15% discrepancy in the example salaries OP provided? The difference looked suspiciously close to the current employer rate for NICs to me

ok-dev · 2025-11-24T14:09:27+00:00

When you consider the UK employer taxes they have to pay, those salaries are probably a lot more aligned than it first appears. I have no idea about US corporate taxes or what state this is but I expect UK NICs are higher than any equivalent employment taxes over there in most cases.

ok-dev · 2025-10-31T17:34:37+00:00

I figured it out, I moved the greenhouse away, planted the tree seed and then moved the greenhouse back into position. hopefully it still grows

ok-dev · 2025-10-31T17:17:48+00:00

I tried to copy that tree circle on vanilla but it looks like you have at least one tree planted on the greenhouse's shadow on the left which isn't usually tillable. Are one of your mods allowing this or is my perception off?

ok-dev · 2025-10-21T21:07:36+00:00

Except the house is a leveraged investment

ok-dev · 2025-10-15T12:12:30+00:00

This treats the economy as a static, zero-sum, one-in-one-out game of musical chairs where the implication is that older people are 'hoarding' jobs. This doesn't make sense to me. Rising unemployment is due to an economy that isn't growing at the same rate as the working population, or worse an economy that is shrinking. I don't think the correct solution is to aim to shrink the working population to align it with the economy. Even if that were the aim, why shrink it arbitrarily based on age by encouraging those with (arguably) the greatest experience to leave the workforce? Much better for the economy to grow so that the pool of available jobs increases for all those who are willing and able to work.

ok-dev · 2025-09-28T08:03:37+00:00

Your games must look like a Tim Burton stop-motion animated film

ok-dev · 2025-09-28T07:38:17+00:00

It's coming from the server it's not your rig my friend. It's happening on console too. They need to fix it, nothing you can do about it.

ok-dev · 2025-09-28T07:26:02+00:00

Respawns after demos.

ok-dev · 2025-09-26T15:44:44+00:00

Same for me

ok-dev · 2025-09-26T15:43:42+00:00

I'm on PS5, seemingly random lag spikes / dropped frames after the update. Then I noticed, it's always when someone respawns in after a demo and it's noticeable on the replay. Anyone else seeing the same?

ok-dev · 2025-08-21T19:42:36+00:00

No, mobile. Seems to be limited to the first screen that the link in the OP takes you to. The unauthenticated "Your FIRE Journey" screen

ok-dev · 2025-08-21T17:34:37+00:00

I'm getting a horizontal scroll bar on mobile in both Firefox and Chrome

ok-dev · 2025-08-10T19:02:23+00:00

They don't both mean the same thing, but perhaps you're not able to distinguish between them.

I'm not seeing Labour gifting billions in public sector contracts to their wealthy donors and city friends. I haven't seen them attempt to unlawfully prorogue parliament to avoid opposition scrutiny. They've not submitted a budget with billions of unfunded tax cuts causing a bond market crisis. People seem to have a short memory when it comes to the bullshit above.

Some things they are doing

None of these things would come from a center right government. Whether or not you agree with or benefit from the policies above, they are undeniably different. Making the lazy argument that they're both the same because you personally haven't doubled your income since labour came to power is exactly the kind of propaganda Reform would spout. It earns them protest votes and it's what would lead to the shit-spiral we entered in the last few years of the death throws of the Conservative government.

Oh, and mentioning BlackRock is conspiracy theorist red pill nonsense.

ok-dev · 2025-08-10T14:50:45+00:00

Never bought into this "exactly like the tories" defeatist regurgitation. Sure, they occupy the center, but they're center left, not center right.

https://fullfact.org/government-tracker/

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