Yet they plan a massive shareholder payout https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/04/23/thames-water-plots-2bn-shareholders-despite-collapse-threat/

And paid over £7bn in dividends in the past https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/jun/30/in-charts-how-privatisation-drained-thames-waters-coffers

what can a ten year old do(besides mass murder & accidents) that messes up their life so badly that it is unrecoverable?

kill their own parents (it’s not technically mass murder until you’ve killed three people).

As someone who’s used android literally since the first android phone was released, it’s a massive disappointment how locked down and enshittified it’s become.

Literally just focus on making firefox better. Which isn’t even an option on the survey.

On the actually change - if moving I to bugger funds allows for them to actually own companies etc, then I think this is a good idea.

Aren’t pension funds supposed to spread their risks?

But if they are forced to invest for economic growth instead of pension fund growth, then that’s bad.

That appears to be the concern, that it will be used to invest in what the government wants to invest in, as a substitute for the government investing directly as they should be doing.

The GMB expert also rubbished Treasury arguments that pooled assets can be used to invest into a wider range of riskier and long-term assets.

“We are not speculators — we are not going to put it on the 4:30 at Haydock,” he said.

He said Treasury plans to have each administering authority set targets for investment in their local economies was also wrong-headed.

“We invest to get a return, we don’t invest in the local economy for the sake of it,” said Mr Georgiou.

Maybe

I’ve been looking for the same thing, everything usually points to frigate being the answer, but it seems like a bit of work to get everything set up.

People have to choose a server with mastodon, and you can’t just pick any server because of the mess of defederations.

I loathe that.

Someone does this in a group chat I’m in, it drives me crazy.

Soup served in a bowl.

Who would want to consume a warm smoothie slowly with a spoon?

Usually yeah. Unless it’s something like trying to break a server or posting CP. People can do stupid things if they’re having a bad day, mental health issues, etc.

Old forums usually had a system where you only got banned if you got a certain number of warnings within a certain time period. That usually worked well.

People are incredibly ban happy on Reddit, I got banned from the JimmyDore sub Reddit despite never visiting it, I don’t even know who Jimmy Dore is.

I’ve volunteered for a few charity shops (UK version of a thrift store) in the past, the weirdest thing was the trash people would “donate”, like used diapers.

Self hosted instances are artificially limited to 10 accounts, however https://docs.bsky.app/blog/self-host-federation

And that’s only the frontend “server” that can be self hosted, the “relay”, that’s more equivalent to a mastodon instance, doesn’t seem to be self hostable.

Well now I’m going to have to use it even more.

The government that engineered his escape from standing trial for genocide, then indicted him for “kidnapping” only to dismiss the case.

Thank you.

The guardian article is also the second result for “Jonathan Powell pinochet” on google.

The article I linked says they’re unrelated.

The Pauli effect is not related to the Pauli exclusion principle, which is a bona fide physical phenomenon named after Pauli. However the Pauli effect was humorously tagged as a second Pauli exclusion principle, according to which a functioning device and Wolfgang Pauli may not occupy the same room.

Even if they have the ability to build one, and do so without Russia turning the facility where they’re building it into rubble with hypersonic missiles, they would need dozens to have full MAD type protection.

Does Ukraine even have a missile system capable of carrying that kind of payload as far as Moscow?

“don’t worry about it being perfect” and “stop being so self critical”