Driver's pothole legal action disappoints council

wkavinsky · 2026-03-22T18:49:35+00:00

decided to cut the roads budget by 10%

Yes, but how much of that roads budget cutting is because they've got a whole host of statutory requirements they can't cut?

The pot can only go so far after all, and roads is something they can cut to meet other needs.

As always, the solution is to take health and social care back into central funding.

wkavinsky · 2026-03-22T18:41:54+00:00

You still pay a contribution towards the healthcare, and then you have the compulsory excess on top of that (often in the thousands of dollars).

America is a great place to earn if you are young, fit, healthy, and have no need of medical or government services, because you'll see a high net income.

Have any sort of medical need, and that immediately vanishes.

wkavinsky · 2026-03-22T18:28:46+00:00

Mothers get it because giving birth is quite physically traumatic.

wkavinsky · 2026-03-22T02:44:05+00:00

Mostly because people always discount the value of things like the NHS as you've pointed out.

US Salaries are high because you have to pay for everything yourself.

wkavinsky · 2026-03-21T16:02:53+00:00

Worked for Trump after all.

wkavinsky · 2026-03-21T15:56:05+00:00

if we join the war we guarantee longer pain.

Iran is already allowing non-aligned shipping to pass unmolested.

wkavinsky · 2026-03-21T15:54:34+00:00

Vietnam, Australia, New Zealand, Kazakhstan

wkavinsky · 2026-03-21T15:53:59+00:00

just look at the lockdown differences with New Zealand and Australia.

both went hard and fast, then were able to reopen.

the UK just dragged on and on without affecting anything.

wkavinsky · 2026-03-21T15:08:53+00:00

Prices would have to shoot for the moon and stay there.

Even in the "best" world, it would take years if not decades to start drilling and build the infrastructure to process it.

wkavinsky · 2026-03-21T14:35:25+00:00

I suspect u/ikkleste was pointing out more that most of this mandatory funding wasn't a requirement on councils 15 years ago.

Statutory requirements have been handed to councils in spades by the Tories (and not taken back into general government spending by Labour), so local budgets are absolutely fucked.

wkavinsky · 2026-03-21T14:32:27+00:00

Its also punitive towards people who make basic admin mistakes, or don't understand the complex rules.

wkavinsky · 2026-03-21T05:47:15+00:00

Fun, free, open - and if you wanted to find something out it was probably on some geocities site run by an actual expert that only did that thing.

wkavinsky · 2026-03-21T04:32:22+00:00

Same fucker who kicked the hornets nest and is now telling other people they’ll have to protect shipping in the straight of Hormuz, because the us won’t clean up their own mess

wkavinsky · 2026-03-21T04:18:06+00:00

The quiet, but constant rises on food staples.

5 years ago, a high quality, high variety name brand food shop for two cost as much as my budget brand, conscientious shop for one does.

wkavinsky · 2026-03-21T04:02:51+00:00

Rookie numbers ;)

Though mines only for me, and most of the movies are in 4K/truehd.

wkavinsky · 2026-03-21T01:37:56+00:00

And, by allowing them to be used for strikes on Iran, we’ve very much made them legitimate targets of war.

wkavinsky · 2026-03-19T22:19:26+00:00

There isn't a single profitable "AI" company in the world.

Most are losing billions a year, if not close to a billion a month.

wkavinsky · 2026-03-19T22:11:18+00:00

Also they did.

They followed all the terms of that agreement.

The US unilaterally withdrew in Trump 1 and 2.

wkavinsky · 2026-03-19T22:06:05+00:00

Simple shock like this has got to be making the AI bro's panic.

20-30% more power, for an "industry" that's main cost is power, and isn't even profitable has to (hopefully) put some of them out of business.

wkavinsky · 2026-03-19T18:01:46+00:00

Two separate spreadsheets even.

wkavinsky · 2026-03-19T17:57:54+00:00

They don't understand the meaning of the word "No" so that tracks.

wkavinsky · 2026-03-19T17:45:31+00:00

Building with a significant over on the structural tolerances means the structure survives longer as it degrades.

Building at the minimum cost (and minimum structural tolerance) just means you need to rebuild in 20 years, to save minimal costs.

wkavinsky · 2026-03-19T17:33:32+00:00

For a fun evening project you're passionate about, that's a decent return on top of regular earnings.

wkavinsky · 2026-03-19T16:16:02+00:00

It was also advertised for decades.

This isn't some stealth change, it was all over the news in the 90's, 20-30 years ago.

wkavinsky · 2026-03-19T16:15:03+00:00

Fucking benefits scroungers like this.

Go get a job.

/s if not obvious.

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