[-] Tweak@feddit.uk 1 points 1 month ago

Yeah you get reduced hours with a number of things, particularly buses. Shops have more incentive to stay open, though.

Classic examples being Good Friday running like a regular Saturday, Saturday running like a regular Sunday but Easter Sunday is as normal because everything is already sparse enough.

[-] Tweak@feddit.uk 2 points 1 month ago

Yeah, this article is saying they're ready to do something they're already doing.

The one thing I would say on top of your comment, however, is that North Korea have generally been less interested in attacking other state actors and more interested in monetary crimes, like when they stole millions in crypto. China and Russia generally don't devolve into that kind of "petty" crime; not sure about Iran though.

[-] Tweak@feddit.uk 3 points 1 month ago

Lol was thinking it might not have been a good idea to move back to East Anglia, but hey ho..

[-] Tweak@feddit.uk 13 points 1 month ago

I would lean towards there being chickens available, but KFC doesn't want to pay for them. They want one supplier to provide all of it, rather than a bunch of smaller suppliers.

But you're absolutely right, this is the kind of question the author of this article should have asked.

[-] Tweak@feddit.uk 13 points 1 month ago

Their chicken generally isn't that great either.

[-] Tweak@feddit.uk 9 points 4 months ago

Special relationship at risk if UK bans arms sales to Israel, if Trump wins the election.

[-] Tweak@feddit.uk 0 points 6 months ago

William Rees-Mogg wrote 3 books in the 90s, I forget the 3rd one but the other two were called "(The Best Time To Buy Is When There Is) Blood In The Streets" and "The Sovereign Individual". The latter describes a Sovereign as someone who earns more than $200k per year (90s money, so more like £500k today) and uses their wealth and influence to live above the laws of any nation. This is the kind of "sovereignty" his son Jacob Rees-Mogg campaigned for, he's literally laughing at all his supporters while he's doing it.

[-] Tweak@feddit.uk 1 points 8 months ago

Exactly. The whole "privatise the profits, socialise the losses" needs to end.

[-] Tweak@feddit.uk 1 points 11 months ago

and working toward something like a wealth cap.

I don't think a wealth cap is necessary. Rather, we should look to US pre-Reagon - there was a 95% tax for earnings over $1 million, and Reagan said "If I get taxed 95% on my earnings for my next movie, I'm not going to make that movie. Then everyone else making that movie will be out of a job!" Nevermind the fact that, if they didn't have to pay him, the movie would have had far more money and been free to make something else. The workers would have had a job, the marketing may have been less effective but the overall commercial enterprise would be by and large unaffected.

Instead, we've got backhand deals. A common scandal story in the UK is an MP being paid a few £10,000s or maybe £100,000 - small fry compared to the US and their Super PAC's. However, the way the Tories have things set up is that there are 60 or so MP's who are on the party's payroll. All you have to do to write law in your favour is engage with one of them and donate to the party. The party will write a law, the whips will follow suit (just like they collectively voted against feeding children over Christmas during a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic) and then the party will pay the MP that negotiated it a healthy bonus. Money is literally laundered through the party.

And the worst part is the Labour party have no plans on changing this. They just want their bite at the pie. The Tories stretch the standard for what MP's can get away with, Labour comes in and draws a line, then the Tories come back in and stretch it again.


Sack the fucking lot of them. We don't need "representatives" to go to Westminster and facetiously "vote on our behalf" anymore. A direct democracy, certainly once it's established, would be better than this.

[-] Tweak@feddit.uk 1 points 11 months ago

I think he needs to hurry up and catch Sonic already.

Tweak

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