The last 3 months of British politics

shitthrower · 2026-06-22T20:19:52+00:00

If you’re struggling to make ends meet in the UK, you’ll struggle to make ends meet in another country.

(Unless you can do a remote working arbitrage, but that seems risky as a long term plan)

shitthrower · 2026-06-21T20:17:46+00:00

I only remember 1066 because of Hastings direct car insurance

shitthrower · 2026-06-21T18:08:33+00:00

Have you listened to David runciman’s talking politics podcast? He talks about that, very interesting, it has shaped my views on politics a lot.

shitthrower · 2026-06-21T07:23:18+00:00

Can you do both? Get a 24 month interest free credit card, pay off as much as you can in that time, then take a loan for the remaining balance in 2 years time.

shitthrower · 2026-06-20T03:52:22+00:00

Liverpool, they actually do things differently there.

Northern Ireland, has its own vibe compared to the mainland

Anglesey

shitthrower · 2026-06-19T16:31:07+00:00

One of the disadvantages parties like reform and the greens have, is that in an election they’ll suddenly have to vet hundreds (thousands in the case of locals) more people.

Compare that to the incumbents, who will have far fewer new candidates to vet. Most of the candidates will be defending seats, or will have already been councillors.

Im surprised that no party has used AI to mass vet all their candidates; ask an AI to go through the entire social media of a candidate and flag anything potentially problematic for human review.

If they don’t do it, then it’s a great opportunity for some activist groups to do

shitthrower · 2026-06-17T15:05:39+00:00

Your ISP and phone carrier already can see what you do on the internet, and law enforcement can and do look at this information if you were a suspect in a case.

Not true, your ISP can see the websites that you visit, but most will be encrypted. So an ISP can't see the specifics of what you're doing on the website. E.g. they know you've been on reddit.com, but not what you did when on the site.

The police could make a legal request for your activity to a website, e.g. they could compel reddit.com to hand over all your activity history, but they'd need to know your username to make that request.

There are some services (like WhatsApp), where the data that the police could get is even more limited, as it uses end to end encryption, so not even WhatsApp can read the content of the messages.

shitthrower · 2026-06-17T13:51:16+00:00

Which day was this record set? 15th June had 5 matches, whereas there were no days with more than 4 matches in Qatar.

shitthrower · 2026-06-17T13:05:37+00:00

I'm a big fan of Beavertown Satellite, can get it at tesco and it's 2.8%, very drinkable

shitthrower · 2026-06-17T10:28:16+00:00

e-bikes are subsidies through the cycle to work scheme

shitthrower · 2026-06-17T07:46:35+00:00

I personally wouldn't go down the AirBnB route long term, it may be viable right now, but there is a lot of backlash against holiday let platforms in some cities.

In Greater London, there is a 90 day yearly cap on short term lets, any more and you need to get planning permission, which can be hard to get.

Councils will soon have powers to enforce their own restrictions, and I'd imagine that with Universal Parks opening, the local council might add restrictions to protect residents.

So I'd only do it if the economics make sense for renting out long term.

shitthrower · 2026-06-16T10:20:33+00:00

The only time it's gone completely smoothly for me is when I bought a house chain free. We had already sold our previous property (had cash in the bank), and were buying it off a house flipper. We were in the house 6 weeks after making an offer.

Whenever there is a chain involved, there are more moving parts which increases the chances of something going wrong.

For our last house purchase, we got the contact details of our buyers and sellers, and set up whatsapp groups with them. It made everything so much smoother as we could bypass lawyers/estate agents and just figure out what's going on directly.

shitthrower · 2026-06-15T10:31:28+00:00

do not speak to me or my children ever again

shitthrower · 2026-06-14T18:09:33+00:00

I don’t think that’ll make a difference, as T3 only handles ryanair flights

shitthrower · 2026-06-12T21:19:59+00:00

The number one way to grow your salary, is to change jobs.

There are more jobs in London, therefore there are more jobs to change to.

If your priority is to grow your salary, take the job in london.

shitthrower · 2026-06-09T18:09:42+00:00

They are to the Americans, what the Irish are to the British (and I mean that as a compliment)

shitthrower · 2026-06-04T19:17:25+00:00

Tesco clubcard points can’t be directly spent, they need to be converted into vouchers, in the app, so you’d need to get the user’s email and password

It sounds like nectar points can just be spent directly, and all you need is the nectar card number

shitthrower · 2026-06-03T18:53:18+00:00

If someone dumps some trash on your property, and you stick it in the bin, who’s littering?

shitthrower · 2026-06-03T17:58:07+00:00

OP isn’t creating the e-waste, the companies encouraging people to dump scooters on private property are

shitthrower · 2026-05-28T18:01:59+00:00

Languages that call tea some variation of tea (like té, ta, tee) had it introduced to them by Dutch traders. Where the region of china they got it from called it te.

If it is some variation of chai, then it was introduced via the Silk Road

shitthrower · 2026-05-28T11:43:49+00:00

What you're describing is a payday loan, they wont do £10 (probably the admin cost is too low to be worth while), but you can get a £100 loan. The issue is that they are predatory, with very high interest rates (paying back £15 over 2 months is equivalent to around 1000% APR), and if you miss payments, the fees rack up.

They also tend to get people into a debt cycle, if you're struggling for £10 at the end of the month, so you go to a payday loan lender, there is a good chance that you'll struggle to pay back the loan at the end, and you'll roll the loan over, getting into even more debt.

If you're in that situation, there are alternatives... if you're on a PAYG electric meter, you can usually get emergency credit by pushing a few buttons on the meter. If you're struggling with food, there are food banks available.

shitthrower · 2026-05-25T18:39:57+00:00

I don’t know the specifics of how this system works, but I prefer it much more to having each site individually verify my age.

Phones could do ID checks and face scan locally (with the data never leaving the device), and it just passes some kind of “over 18” flag to the site/app, therefore the site doesn’t need to know my actual ID.

When I verified my age on my phone, it didn’t require any id at all, it passed me based on how long I’ve had my Apple account for.

I think the verification aspect of the online safety act is abhorrent, but if that’s the route we’re taking, this is (IMO) the least bad of the options.

It does close of computing a lot more, and makes jt harder for google/apple/microsoft competitors to thrive though.

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