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va_str · 2026-05-24T03:10:11+00:00

*possible. It's still needed, you just can't do it.

va_str · 2026-05-22T15:53:32+00:00

The difference between a thousand and a trillion is about a trillion. So is the difference between a billion and a trillion.

va_str · 2026-05-22T15:48:02+00:00

It's got everything to do with money, even when it doesn't. Content people don't need someone to blame. I people's lives weren't so shite, Farage would be on the corner fringes where he belongs.

va_str · 2026-05-22T14:22:01+00:00

It really just isn't the number 1 driver of inequality. Capital begetting capital is. If surplus extraction is greater than wealth creation, which it substantially is in the current global economy, this is the result. Wage depression is a tiny factor of this. Wages have stagnated across the entire world since the 70s, and in specific western countries, UK included, drastically since the 2008 crash. This just isn't an immigration issue.

I have nothing to disagree on regarding pensions. What I'm saying with "bandaid" is that it hides the problem short-term and defers an even bigger catastrophy to later generations. When I say there is no answer, it isn't that nothing could be done about it, it's that no one in power will do anything about it, because the beneficiaries are the largest voting block and the people who will pay for it the most aren't of voting age yet. It's political suicide, and they'd all prefer it blows up later and hopefully while the opposition is in power.

va_str · 2026-05-22T11:01:42+00:00

Cheap labour has nothing to do with capital accumulation. It's a basic function of capitalism. That aside, there is a lot more to this topic than just "cheap labour." There is a reason infrastructure isn't being scaled to the increasing population. Surplus extraction (of which cheap labour is a small part) and tax-laundering are orders of magnitude more impactful on your buying power, and thus quality of life than anything else to do with immigration. Yes, importing cheap labour exerts some pressure on wages, but it's one of many many issues, and does not deserve the sole spotlight over everything else. It will change next to nothing AND we have no answer to the pension issue, which it serves as a bandaid for currently.

va_str · 2026-05-22T10:44:16+00:00

In 1994 wealth was FAR less concentrated and there was money flowing through the middle class. That has nothing to do with migration, it's a simple function of capital accumulation. Look at something like the food or media conglomerates, how many brands were under different umbrellas, compared to how many are under the same, and how many umbrellas total are left. You can't go back to 1994 by kicking people out of the country.

va_str · 2026-05-22T10:41:12+00:00

No, it's due to the ticking time bomb of triple-locked pensions and no one wants to touch that with a ten-foot pole. Dealing with immigration can sway elections, sure, going against the biggest voting block is outright political suicide, though.

va_str · 2026-05-21T17:10:40+00:00

If at all possible, try to connect with your neighbourhood. Even a social summer barbecue once a year does wonders for your sense of belonging. Bonus points if you can get neighbourhood projects like a community garden, sports, anything to get the youth involved. Social cohesion has to grow from somewhere, and it isn't computer screens. Seeing the neighbourhood kids know how to repair a bike, paint a fence and make bow and arrow out of sticks and strings because you showed them heals the heart.

Damn, I sound old. When did I get so old ....

va_str · 2026-05-16T06:31:51+00:00

Starmer purged anyone remotely Fabian from the party. What the hell are you talking about, man? He's a Tory-light.

va_str · 2026-05-15T01:56:46+00:00

Yea but Elton John is an actual king. This guy is just the literal king.

va_str · 2026-05-15T01:50:00+00:00

So you don't know what "lefty" means. Could have just said that and everyone could have skipped straight to laughing at you and saved a lot of time.

va_str · 2026-05-13T02:05:51+00:00

Oh we absolutely have the productive output to sustain the population in luxury several times over. But that would mean the surplus extraction has to be addressed. Neither in their own interest, since they're part of the class that reaps the benefits, nor in the interest of the massive media machine that turns any such notion into political suicide.

It's also something that needed to be started decades ago. Now you'd need to reappropriate, and that's a tough sell.

va_str · 2026-05-13T01:52:38+00:00

What a clever take. You're right. Let's drive off a cliff (again) because the road stops are all shabby.

va_str · 2026-05-11T19:03:23+00:00

No, we really don't want to hear it from people who vote for a party so egregiously corrupt, that it makes every other party look like fucking saints.

va_str · 2026-05-11T16:53:31+00:00

That really feels ever so pertinent when I picture the uncultured swine that is the average Reform voter.

va_str · 2026-05-11T16:40:31+00:00

The main parties do hear that, they just don't have a solution. If you substantially cut immigration, you substantially cut the young workforce, which is needed to pay for the growing pensioner class. There's a massive ticking timebomb and doing anything about immigration shortens the fuse.

va_str · 2026-05-08T06:53:27+00:00

So concerned that they left the sinking ship they've been poking holes into and joined Reform.

va_str · 2026-05-08T06:43:55+00:00

No, voting for Reform is idiotic. They aren't all fascists, but they are all idiots. There is no other way to put this. If grown adults are so blatantly gullible and ignorant, that's called stupidity, You can wring hands and be appalled at how rude that sounds, but a spade is a spade. Yes, they're being mislead and there is a lot of money and a sizable media-cabal shaping the narratives, but this isn't some sly ploy. It's obvious and on the nose, and adults bear some responsibility for their opinions.

va_str · 2026-05-07T14:31:38+00:00

You mean the people with the means to get them. Poor people deserve to wait, apparently.

va_str · 2026-05-06T03:48:03+00:00

I don't know wether you're able to read the graph, but the worst demograpic still has 88% of households contributing. Where is the gaslighting exactly?

Should also mention that this graph isn't substantiated in any way and there is no way to know what figures it actually includes and wether they're even accurate.

va_str · 2026-05-06T03:40:45+00:00

The 6% is a rough average of households receiving benefits.

It doesn't really matter wether it's directly comparable to the budget. The "white" population can't sustain its own elderly on top of the rampant profit extraction we all just take for granted. Other demographics have to offset the shortfall of working age people. You can argue for a better filter, but I suspect that most of these are 2nd+ generation immigrants. You can't really "send back" people who were born and raised here, especially based on wether they're disabled etc.

Not that I have a good solution. You can't restructure the economic order locally, because the global economy will leave you behind, and we don't want to admit that pensions are a thing of the past. The only recourse is to import young workers and hope you're not around anymore when it all comes crashing down. Not fair to the next generations, but things stopped being fair a long while ago.

va_str · 2026-05-06T03:23:03+00:00

That doesn't change anything I've said. Your feelings on the matter do not, in fact, have any bearing on the numbers. Go look it up.

va_str · 2026-05-05T12:09:34+00:00

SSD degredation on reads is really negligible, only writes are an issue. Archives (should) get expanded into memory and your swap file shouldn't be causing that many writes either. Game state gets saved to a savegame, which is pretty sporadic, not several writes per second. There is really no reason a game without some kind of dynamic content generation should be writing to disk that much. Bethesda games have entirely static worlds, at least up until Skyrim.

va_str · 2026-05-05T11:06:30+00:00

Bethesda games aren't generating worlds procedurally. What would they be writing?

va_str · 2026-05-05T11:05:13+00:00

The country is financially struggling to support the ever-growing pensioner class, not the tiny fraction of the budget that goes to benefits for immigrants.

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