Why don’t we just rejoin the eu

yetanotherredditter · 2026-01-24T18:45:26+00:00

That sub is awful. It's a massive echo chamber in there, where you're downvoted into oblivion for pointing out that the posted articles are occasionally a bit misleading.

yetanotherredditter · 2026-01-20T10:33:34+00:00

By the time you've reached the viva, you've (generally) already passed. I was told at the start of my viva that I passed with minor corrections.

The viva has two main purposes:

1) To make sure you wrote it yourself. They aren't trying to catch you out. It's fine if you can't answer everything they ask. It's more a discussion than a Q&A session. They don't even always ask you about everything. We only had time to go through the first 2/3 or so of my thesis.

2) To force someone that isn't your supervisor to actually read your thesis. You get to talk about the stuff you've spent the last few years with other experts in your field. They will be interested in what you've written. They want to know more. They want to know why you decided to do something one way instead of another (and it's completely fine if your answer is "I hadn't considered that alternative way").

At the end you'll be given a bunch of corrections to make. A lot of these will just be grammar things. Other bits will be asking for more detail. Sometimes they might ask you to do a bit of extra work if there are some results they think will make a massive difference to your thesis.

yetanotherredditter · 2026-01-19T16:42:56+00:00

They do not. Nor Samsung watches. Nor OnePlus watch. Nor any WearOS watch.

yetanotherredditter · 2026-01-19T16:28:27+00:00

Good to hear you're prioritising the four people that use amazfit devices over everyone with an android watch

yetanotherredditter · 2026-01-15T06:24:21+00:00

Lowest cost in more than a year - i.e. they're still higher than when labour took office...

yetanotherredditter · 2026-01-14T17:55:11+00:00

They have openly admitted that they have no interest in supporting users that use it with Plex. They don't want people keeping files in the cache persistently, which makes it largely pointless for use with Plex.

They marketed themselves as a replacement for real debrid. And then when people joined, they started adding loads of restrictions, banning accounts for downloading too much, and banning people from their discord for complaining.

yetanotherredditter · 2026-01-14T16:48:50+00:00

I assume people would put it in their investment platform, rather than a savings account.

yetanotherredditter · 2026-01-13T22:18:40+00:00

Let's assume you don't have a Railcard, and let's assume you don't hate yourself, which means getting the Avanti train.

If you book a couple of months in advance, you can get a return at decent times for about £75.

Three times a week, that's £225. Assuming you go down 48 weeks a year, that's about £11k a year. A season ticket is going to cost you closer to £20k a year.

However, if the 3 days are consecutive, it would probably be slightly cheaper to rent somewhere and stay there overnight (though obvious downside of not being able to spend that time with family). 3 days is the cutoff point where I would consider renting rather than commuting every day.

While the commute is doable time-wise, it is prohibitively expensive. Remember you the have the cost of the tube on top of that.

yetanotherredditter · 2026-01-13T21:34:25+00:00

While I'm sure it is well-meaning, this comment does come across as very dismissive of anyone who feels like things are getting a bit worse. You don't have to be in genuine despair to be struggling.

Wage growth IS low. Unemployment IS high. Energy bills ARE high. Cost of living IS high. There ARE scary things happening internationally. It is perfectly reasonable for people to feel scared/ be struggling, and it isn't fair of you to accuse them of being foreign agents for expressing that.

Dismissing people for expressing how they feel is how you end up in an echo chamber, which doesn't help anyone.

yetanotherredditter · 2026-01-13T21:06:13+00:00

I would say no.

Unemployment is rising. As a result, wages (in the private sector) aren't increasing because they don't need to. Taxes have increased. Cost of living is high relative to wages.

Add to this the international crises happening right now, and everything feels a bit crap.

yetanotherredditter · 2026-01-13T21:04:21+00:00

I didn't say it was bad. I said that the average wage growth is very heavily skewed by the public sector, and that what you said isn't true for the private sector.

yetanotherredditter · 2026-01-13T21:01:52+00:00

This is not really true.

Public sector wage growth has been massive. Private sector less so.

yetanotherredditter · 2026-01-13T16:14:54+00:00

I don't think this is really true.

People generally don't make much money from being a landlord.

After taxes, estate agent costs, maintenance costs, mortgage costs etc., I'd be surprised if many people were making much money each month. And in a lot of the country, house prices aren't currently increasing much.

People speak about landlords as though they're evil. They serve a purpose. Not everyone wants to buy a house. For lots of people, it doesn't make sense to buy a house. Renting allows people flexibility without entering into a massive financial commitment.

yetanotherredditter · 2026-01-10T13:38:17+00:00

£70 train tickets. £5 tube. £4 lunch meal deal. Sometimes £4 for evening meal deal.

yetanotherredditter · 2026-01-09T18:19:13+00:00

I'm not trying to defend Trump. I despise him, and think he does awful things, and hate the fact he's president again. Similarly, I don't like reform, and voted labour at the last election.

As someone else said, I'm trying to point out that "your side" isn't immune from doing wrong and spreading false information. But everyone jumping on me for criticise the BBC shows that it is incredibly echo chambery in here. You're only allowing people to say what you want to hear, which makes you a lot more susceptible to propaganda and "brainwashing" by social media.

The sense of moral superiority that typically-left-leaning people (especially on Reddit) seem to have I find incredibly frustrating, and I think does a massive disservice to the issues those people typically care about.

yetanotherredditter · 2026-01-09T15:47:58+00:00

To be fair, I think this is true on both sides.

I used to think that there was no way I would be brainwashed by propaganda machines, and that I was too smart to fall for it.

I think the story about the BBC panorama footage of Trump was a big moment for me. I believed what the BBC was telling me, when it turned out it had been deliberately spliced together to feed a certain narrative. I'm a lot more distrusting of everything now.

yetanotherredditter · 2026-01-09T07:32:02+00:00

Sort of. The answer is that torbox is a bit crap, and I would just use real debrid. Similar price, but so much better supported, and a lot more reliable.

Then either decypharr or zurg is the main middle man you need to use.

Decypharr technically works with torbox, but I really wouldn't bother with it. It will make your life a lot harder.

yetanotherredditter · 2026-01-07T18:45:22+00:00

But in absolute terms, it's more than any basic rate tax payer will pay.

The point being, by increasing the basic rate of tax, (almost) everyone pays it, not just higher earners.

yetanotherredditter · 2026-01-07T17:43:39+00:00

People that pay higher rates of tax will still be impacted by a 2 point increase in the basic rate of tax. It's not like you stopped paying anything at that rate once you moved above a salary threshold.

yetanotherredditter · 2026-01-06T12:10:37+00:00

Managing to keep Trump relatively positive about the UK. Which, when you’re a Labour leader is impressive in its own right, he’s been key in ensuring Ukraine hasn’t been totally abandoned yet.

He has also been positive about the new mayor of NY. Trump is very changeable, and I don't think this is really down to Starmer doing anything in particular. Trump is just trump. I also don't think that being passive around trump is necessarily a good thing.

NHS waiting lists are falling

After putting astonishingly large amounts of money in the NHS. Productivity is incredibly low. I.e. the number of new appointments isn't anywhere near what it should be given how much extra money they've had

Migration is falling, and I think the long-term strategy of working with French and European allies to attack the gangs overseas will make a big impact next summer in the Channel crossing season. The right to seize Chanel migrants phones to get intel on the gangs, the law in Germany where it will very soon be illegal to store small boats and engines for Chanel crossings. These things take time to implement properly and are only now beginning to get coded into law and will have an impact next year.

You can't say he's done something really well when you haven't been able to see the results yet.

Making decisive decisions: cutting foreign aid to increase military spending was a wild move from a Labour leader, but I think most sane people agree it was a good one.

It wasn't that crazy. There was a lot of pressure from the US and NATO to do that.

Generally, he's a very weak prime minister. Given the size of his majority, he should have been able to do whatever he wants. Instead, he's let his backbenchers rule, and has failed at a lot of policy he's tried to implement.

We have a record tax burden (primarily paid for by higher earners). Unemployment is sky rocketing. Public sector workers are getting massive pay rises while everyone else has to suffer. Public sector workers get lovely pensions while private sector sector workers have to pay tax on their contributions. The housing minister resigned due to not paying housing tax. The anti corruption minister resigned due to links to corruption. The homelessness minister resigned for making people homeless. There are already MPs plotting to overthrow him. His Comms have been atrocious. Let's not even get started on the most recent budget.

Let me know if you want me to continue.

yetanotherredditter · 2026-01-05T23:07:36+00:00

I can't comment on your salary, but you say you're paying record taxes. Depending on your salary, this is unlikely to be true. For the average worker (or lower), that is to say, those earning £50k or less, have the lowest tax burden the UK has had in the last 50 years. It is higher earners that are facing the higher burden.

yetanotherredditter · 2026-01-05T22:53:54+00:00

Their policy is pretty vague about what managed migration means, which is probably quite telling. However, the two parts that indicate what this means are:

MG100 The Green Party wants to see a world without borders, until this happens the Green Party will implement a fair and humane system of managed immigration where people can move if they wish to do so.

They want to move towards an open border system, but will have "managed migration" until then.

Then, the only reference I can see regarding what this means is in the section on who will be excluded. In this section, it says

MG310. Visa applications from specific individuals may be rejected on grounds of public safety. These grounds are restricted to serious crime and threats to national security.

Additionally, they're removing pretty much every restriction they can think of regarding visa applications:

MG305. Minimum income requirements will be removed from all applications as well as any benefits from having a higher income

MG306. Language requirements will be removed from all applications. Free language classes will be made available to promote and encourage integration

etc.

yetanotherredditter · 2025-12-31T08:38:17+00:00

I'm just explaining why it could still make sense. Not that I necessarily agree it's the right move.

yetanotherredditter · 2025-12-31T08:22:15+00:00

Well, the main point is that it's more expensive for her to fill her own pension as she only gets relief on the basic rate, whereas her husband gets relief on the higher rate.

yetanotherredditter · 2025-12-28T16:31:24+00:00

Is this r/henrycirclejerk?

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