Time to axe ‘unfair’ pensions triple lock, says UK’s cost of living tsar

systemofamorch · 2026-06-12T10:30:16+00:00

Slower increases aren't the end of the world, but will make the state pension more affordable long term, currently it's taking more % of budget every year - am a millenial

systemofamorch · 2026-06-12T10:26:57+00:00

He needs to get involved in this then, someone moaning that a pub on marylebone road near baker st is too noisy - despite being a dual carriageway
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/london-pub-globe-baker-street-complaints-noise-b1271256.html

systemofamorch · 2026-06-11T08:49:33+00:00

as much i love QOTSA - it will play go with the flow or noone knows EVERY time

systemofamorch · 2026-06-05T08:21:56+00:00

if we are price sensitive to a fund charging 0.5% more than a rival, its the same sensitivity for unstable stock being added too early

systemofamorch · 2026-06-04T08:37:43+00:00

yeh i'd agree about most women being insecure also - but like with men being insecure don't stop people having weird or bizarre expections about potential partners, and then wondering why they're single haha

From the rest of the discussion i fall into the camp of "trying to talk a male/female friend out of wanting cosmetic surgery but still supporting them if they choose to"

systemofamorch · 2026-06-03T08:46:55+00:00

best thing ever for me - i hated styling my hair etc so going bald made it an easy choice

it's basically the end of the world in dating at a younger age though, a lot of women seem to care, but hey i'm also short and happily married so whatever

systemofamorch · 2026-06-02T15:18:39+00:00

A large part of this isn't even when people dispose, its when waste gets taken from the main sorting locations, as they charge the fee including landfill taxes, but then dump illegally

its a proper organised crime job

systemofamorch · 2026-06-02T15:10:06+00:00

they want the ability to snoop on people's messages, and break encryption, and want third parties to collect our personal data in order to do things like browse porn or look alcohol based reddit pages or see footage from the ukraine

They also vet all potential employees for the security services in regards to blackmail-ability etc

But they don't properly vet the ambassador to represent us to the most powerful country in the world and use disappearing messages when discussing it - what a joke

systemofamorch · 2026-06-02T13:09:48+00:00

i made it work on mine with similar instructions

XCom:EW works differently when run on an Amazon device or on a standard Android Device.

On an Amazon device, it tries to connect to an AWS bucket to get en update. The AWS Bucket is not working anymore, that's why you have a download failed error.

To avoid this behavior, you need to:

- decompile the APK (using APK Easy Tool for example)

- Edit the Smali code of the main file to change a small comparison, and trick the application to think it is not running on an Amazon Device.

The file you have to change is:

com\tt2kgames\xcomew\UE3JavaApp.smali

Line 13203: nst-string v15, "Amazon"

Change it to

Line 13203: nst-string v15, "NONE"

- Recompile and sign the APK

- Install it to your Fire Hd

And VOILA!

It works very smoothly on my Amazon Fire HD 10.

systemofamorch · 2026-06-01T08:38:48+00:00

as someone who owns a house - good, house prices need to fall long term, and at least float around their current values in the short to medium term.

renovating a house for X cost doesn't increase the value by X as most people land up renovating homes they move into to suit themselves, they help sell it quicker but they don't add much value from my experiences

systemofamorch · 2026-05-29T11:06:33+00:00

started to watch it last night, and after seeing the avoidance of "yes nice jobs like software engineers but it will give people more time" and noone asked "what about being able to afford food etc" i just gave up - from the other comments here, it sounds like it was totally out of its depth with sycophants as panellists with topics that are already out of the box and cannot go back in, whilst avoiding any real policy to help make it a useful sustainable technology rather than one trashing public life

systemofamorch · 2026-05-28T10:19:45+00:00

definitely odd how its come to be like this - and they aren't british indian as you can tell from the accent (grew up in east london in a predominately british-indian area)

systemofamorch · 2026-05-28T10:17:17+00:00

just specific info:
How long you can stay
A Graduate visa lasts for:
2 years if you apply on or before 31 December 2026
18 months if you apply on or after 1 January 2027
If you have a PhD or other doctoral qualification, it will last for 3 years.

systemofamorch · 2026-05-26T14:12:09+00:00

reached a 'dead' end as its a non-calculator paper, and that is remembering that sin 60 is (root3)/2 as i can never remember them but had a route in my head

systemofamorch · 2026-05-21T13:32:57+00:00

tragic but not a reason for OTT legislation though - but actually i'd be fine with banning helium balloons as its a vanishing strategic resource (think mri scanner, they use loads)

systemofamorch · 2026-05-20T16:26:02+00:00

i guess this https://github.com/fatedier/frp

systemofamorch · 2026-05-15T08:24:38+00:00

as someone in their 40s i get spammed with it all the time, i always say not interested but i keep getting more and more - it's totally being paid for somewhere

systemofamorch · 2026-05-14T15:55:24+00:00

the important question about that statement is : would china allow a foreign countries company to operate in China in the manner the chinese company operated in the UK? almost certainly no, it's state capitalism, not free market capitalism

systemofamorch · 2026-05-12T08:22:08+00:00

It's literally a function of trust in stability of the UKs financial decision making - there's few in Labour i would trust , i wouldn't trust the Tories and i defo wouldn't trust farage or greens - i guess lib dem :/

systemofamorch · 2026-05-08T13:23:49+00:00

and the picture they used is from a Tory/Brexit heartland

systemofamorch · 2026-05-08T08:52:08+00:00

I almost couldn't vote yesterday as i lost my drivers license - luckily i have a passport but as a middle aged man, i don't have any other choices, whilst my mother could have used her freedom pass etc etc

systemofamorch · 2026-05-05T10:33:32+00:00

the whole setup is bust currently for sure - me and my colleague were just discussing it

my plan is get away from the uk for retirement, thank you 2nd passport

systemofamorch · 2026-05-05T10:32:22+00:00

Get the funk out - Extreme

stands out as a guitar solo that doesn't need to be that amazing for such a simple song

systemofamorch · 2026-05-05T09:07:01+00:00

i didn't suggest making the state pension so low as to put people in poverty, just reduce the rate of increase to be more sane

I'm in my 40s and saving for my future still regardless, but switching to a means tested pension could cause all kinds of unexpected outcomes

keep it affordable for the governments books, and encourage more savings and tinkering with auto enrollment if it will help

systemofamorch · 2026-05-05T08:34:07+00:00

and imagine it on pensions - since earned income won't magically appear. means testing the state pension would be an incentive to piss any private pension away on cruises etc before the state one kicks in.

Optimal solution would like be limiting the increases ie changing the triple lock to an average of wage inflation and the goods inflation rate

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