The threat he is trying to make is around the government being on the hook for the loans and urgent improvement works at a time the government is trying to cut costs.

Should we nationalise it? Yes but it needs to be in such a way that we write off the costs of doing so as much as possible. I have no idea how we can protect ourselves in doing that without causing at least some problems downstream.

If you want to employ staff that way go for freelance with a fixed duration contract and an increase wages to reflect the temporary nature of the work. This is how it works in the rest of IT, at least anywhere sane.

this will go nowhere due to large bribes donations

Its been proven by multiple studies that trickle down does not work to benefit the majority, so considering her previous job, either Reeves is thick as fuck or she thinks you are.

Yeah Alfrid was awful, I didn’t like anything about that characterization.

I haven’t tried the Maple films edit, the M4 edit was my favorite of the ones I have tried, its super aggressive with what it cuts out and tweaks the film grading

There were still tickets available the day before, despite heavy discounts. I suspect they used seat filling services in the end to push it to capacity.They had to do so for some of the other knock out stages.

Blade Runner, Shawshank Redemption, Stand By Me?

The film is helped with amazing casting and a lot of care over the script. However there are things that were changed that do not matter and done for the right reason, such as Arwen being given more screen time (not quite a sausage fest as it was before), Glorfindels role in the Black Rides bit, but also bits that I really didn’t like, such as messing with the power levels of Gandalf and Witch-king during their confrontation.

This lead to the abomination that is the Hobbit adaptation, partly because the film studio wanted to add an Aragorn to it, despite Thorin being nothing like Aragorn, and adding the three way love triangle because people liked the expanded Arwen story from LotR.

Yeah we stole all our good food from our former colonies and improved on them, see curry.

Yeah that’s not the same thing as a bland food diet, that’s up there with the cabbage diet for how awful it is.

Mine is: Scrambled eggs made with cottage cheese + porridge for breakfast Chicken, salad (no dressing) and rice for lunch Chicken, vegetables and rice/sweet potatoes/lentils for tea

No sauces, just dry herbs/spices as a rub.

Snacks are two protein shakes, naked bar (counts as a one a day of fruit/veg allowance), banana.

Repeat for past two years. Before that it was lentils, avo, boiled egg, before than goats cheese salad for lunch.

Its boring as fuck when you do it for months at a time but it works for me. Controlling

Bozos would absolulety wet himself with the opportunity to own slaves for his warehouses. He can claim too big too fail and just tap into all that free labor in Trumps Alligator Auschwitz.

just eating potatoes for every meal?

Only a small percentage of people keep weight off long term, Ive seen figures around 20% so whatever works for you is the right answer but its unlikely to be the same solution for the rest of your life. Its a higher relapse rate than alcoholics.

Speaking from experience, if you only buy healthy food it massively reduces the attack vector of unhealthy food, and by unhealthy I mean calorie dense food that leads to relapse due to its high processed sugar content.

If I am eating clean then everybody else in the house is eating clean, its no different from an alcoholic needing no alcohol on the house. Obviously food exists outside the house as well, but its about reducing your exposure to it as much as possible, which includes avoiding majority of restaurants.

Unless you have a problem with over consumption of food its very hard for people to directly equate it to an addiction. When people who can self regulate food intake, who have never had to diet in their life, try to give diet advice its like a fish giving running advice.

One of the strategies for long term weight loss is to swap from an interesting and tasty diet (which are often high calorie density) to one as bland and uninteresting to you as possible diet (often low calorie density). Idea being you will eat less if you are only eating to survive rather eating to enjoy, you will leave more on the plate.

Personally I say fuck that, as life is hard enough as it is.

If you are into tinkering with your pour over its hard to look over the options a Switch (and similar) provides as it can do both immersion and percolation and switch between both multiple times during the same brew, offering insane flexibility.

It can also reduce the skill/effort level for simpler brews because it can provide control over flow rate through the bed so you don’t need to be super skilled with your kettle. I think one of the most powerful things I have seen suggested for it, is to lock it out, add your bloom water then add in the grounds. This massively reduces the churn that a poor kettle or clumsy barista has during that crucial phase.

Obviously more options can lead to more complexity, some of the recipes I have seen are frankly ridiculous for the average brewer to follow every day. This is where an attractive brewer like the Suiren comes in, if it look great and you want to use it because its attractive, then that’s the better brewer for you rather than struggling with some over the top recipe that wasn’t optimized for the beans you actually using.

I prefer using my Yasukiyo or my Tsubame over my Switch or Flo or Orea for this reason, despite them not being the best dripper that I own.

This is about being able to charge more for Saturday delivery like most other “premium” delivery companies as they sure as shit wont be cutting the hours that they expect the Posties to work.

Because second class has a decent service level, even now, its possible to time your parcel delivery for a Saturday reasonably accurately for a low(er) fee. Drop second class then push up the prices for 1st class parcels.

Then when they can, with a more friendly Ofcom, they will stop first class on a Saturday and switch to a proper Saturday delivery tariff.

Train Sim World. Yes Dovetail have their problems, yes its expensive if you want a lot of the latest DLC (why, its not multiplayer so doesn’t decrease in popularity like multiplayer game DLC), yes its not a well optimised graphical tour de force. But damn is it relaxing to play with multiple levels of difficulty that are entirely optional. Its possible to get hundreds of hours of replay from a single route if that’s what you enjoy.

I have had a few that were very weakly soldered in, but the fine once they reflowed

Just keep in mind that the upper limit of what you can mount onto plasterboard is the strength of the actual plasterboard itself more than it is the wall plug once you get to the correct plug for your wall type. Plasterboard gives up quite quickly, its around 30kg per square meter, something like tile backer board is like 200kg per square meter.

The most important thing is that its snug and does not wiggle. This means you have to cut a clean hole that is the correct size for the plug, any good plug is marked with the correct size. A wonky hole or one that is too big or too small will cause no end of problems and you have to start again.

If its anything heavy you should be going into the stud or adding in a baton to do it properly. Mounting something like a TV to walls in the UK I will go into the breeze block behind and use ferrules/baton to support the bolt in the gap to the plasterboard.

Good, if older video from Project Farm on different types of rawl plugs, shows both sides of the plug so you get a better idea of whats going on. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHb-Tcvkn7M

I can’t understand that gibberish, speak RFC 791 like a true patriot