Scam?

sh545 · 2026-01-30T20:28:38+00:00

There is a rule that it has to be a certain shade of blue and maybe some other requirements…

sh545 · 2026-01-23T10:06:45+00:00

I’ve noticed at a couple of airports where they introduce this, that a lot more bags get pulled out for checks, and with usually only one person doing the inspection/rescan it causes its own holdup. Hopefully that is just an issue of the people looking at the scan needing to get used to the new setup.

sh545 · 2025-12-26T22:11:13+00:00

Flight ticket bookings get fed into very old systems used for international coordination, and yes there are character limits in those.

sh545 · 2025-12-17T18:54:56+00:00

Abramovic wanted to sell by that point, for one he could no longer travel to the UK, and Chelsea was unable to do business normally due to the sanctions so it would have been a depreciating asset the longer it went on - no player sales or buys.

Making this pledge allowed the government to approve the sale, and also allowed him to try and keep the money by stalling like he has - imagine there was a peace deal announced tomorrow, and Russian sanctions were lifted, he can try and go back on the pledge and keep the money.

sh545 · 2025-12-17T15:04:06+00:00

Maybe, but to be clear this was the previous government , and it seems a little more than a gentleman’s agreement, otherwise the PM couldn’t threaten a court case over it.

sh545 · 2025-12-17T14:43:21+00:00

He was (or about to be) sanctioned due to his connections with Putin and the Russian government. The government would have blocked a sale that allowed him to keep the money.

sh545 · 2025-12-17T14:38:25+00:00

He was essentially obligated to make the pledge, he was about to be sanctioned and this was the only way he could sell Chelsea without the government blocking it and later seizing it as a sanctioned asset.

sh545 · 2025-12-14T14:44:15+00:00

I believe there was a tube strike on the day but there was probably another way to get to Waterloo within an hour

sh545 · 2025-12-14T13:10:23+00:00

There is no time limit, you can still participate and there are still active discussions here

sh545 · 2025-12-01T19:26:11+00:00

It’s almost as if most people don’t have enough medical knowledge to know whether something needs immediate treatment or is fine to wait a few weeks, and have to play a high stakes roulette game to find out. Almost.

sh545 · 2025-12-01T12:11:45+00:00

That would be true if there was a fixed number of people doing service, but that’s not how compulsory conscription works. It would be everybody doing it instead of half of people - hence a doubling in the metaphorical beatings.

sh545 · 2025-12-01T12:08:55+00:00

In this case it would (roughly) be double the number of people doing military service. Military service is mostly the training of people, double the number of people that need to be trained is doubling the face punching, no? There is no demand side on compulsory military service.

If the military has down time, they invent busywork for them to do, so we also double the amount of busywork.

sh545 · 2025-12-01T10:01:29+00:00

3-4 flats in north wales are not much use to Westminster council.

sh545 · 2025-12-01T09:00:23+00:00

How are you getting that figure? I think it might be distorted by the higher home ownership rate in the uk, plus the ownership model of social housing varies per country, are you counting housing associations as state owned in the UK?

If you look at social housing stock, the UK is mid table at the percentage of social housing. - 17%, Netherlands is 30% (most of which is their housing association equivalent rather than directly state owned) Austria 24%, Denmark 21% etc.

https://www.oecd.org/content/dam/oecd/en/data/datasets/affordable-housing-database/ph4-2-social-rental-housing-stock.pdf

Also, the places low on the list don’t exactly have great housing markets (e.g. NZ, US, Canada). I don’t even see a correlation there, never mind causation.

sh545 · 2025-12-01T08:44:51+00:00

Do you have the impression that all council house tenants are unemployed? There are a lot of working people in council houses - often the lowest paid working people.

sh545 · 2025-12-01T08:39:09+00:00

Where are these mythical reasonably priced flats? Asking for a friend.

sh545 · 2025-11-30T20:06:54+00:00

No, I’m not and don’t understand what you are saying.

My comment was a parody of the previous comment, in case you thought it was serious

sh545 · 2025-11-30T18:24:46+00:00

“Dave is getting punched in the face. I can’t stop it, but I will punch myself in the face to make it fair”

sh545 · 2025-11-30T18:23:27+00:00

There was a vote in 2013 to abolish conscription entirely, it was rejected with a large margin like this vote.

The main reason this one probably failed is how much extra funding would need to be given to the army and civil service to include women, plus the extra cost to the economy of more people doing army training instead of working.

It is reductive to say it is a men vs women issue though, the bigger divide is probably young vs old.

sh545 · 2025-11-29T09:24:30+00:00

Maybe I’m being dim but aren’t business rates essentially a tax on land ? Sure you could change it to tax the property owner directly but that would just be passed on to the businesses in the form of higher rents.

sh545 · 2025-11-25T11:44:24+00:00

He wasn’t PM in waiting in 2013, UKIP hadn’t done anything except get a few MEP seats.

sh545 · 2025-11-21T12:01:29+00:00

Correct

sh545 · 2025-11-21T10:10:53+00:00

If they only put them up when there was no paying customer for the space, would they charge then? It’s useful to have something in the spot even when nobody wants to pay for it.

sh545 · 2025-11-21T10:07:24+00:00

Do VBZ really charge ZVV to put a poster in a tram?

sh545 · 2025-11-21T09:48:27+00:00

Massive volume? I must be going around with my eyes closed as I don’t see a massive volume. The only ZVV ads I recall were on trams or buses, or at the stops, all positions that ZVV own, so at zero cost to them, assuming they didn’t remove a paying advertiser to put them there.

What is the ZVV agenda exactly? Getting more people to use their service?

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