wanwizard.bsky.social
IT Entrepreneur. DC architect. PHP developer. Fuel PHP Framework project lead. Open Source lover. Asperger brain.
Old Dutch. New Scot. Always European.
Also on @[email protected].
429 posts
37 followers
60 following
Discussion Master
comment in response to
post
Aspiration is between the ears. We've all grown up with the fact we MUST buy and own a house. But it is seen as an easy investment with good return. Problem is that that is one of the factors that is pushing up the prices.
comment in response to
post
That is the bronze statue of little Mozart in Brno, Czech Republic.
comment in response to
post
True. I'm saying building more alone will not fix the problem.
Especially not at these prices, I live in quite a deprived part of Scotland, I see new houses going up here for 350-400k +, and these are not very big. Who can afford those? If I could, I wouldn't live here...
comment in response to
post
It's a neo-liberal thing. People see homeownership as THE mechanism to lower housing costs and building wealth, but that is only because renting somewhere is even more unaffordable.
Other countries also have housing associations that built to rent, instead of relying on private landlords.
comment in response to
post
Exactly. Building more won't fix the problem, especially not if no social housing is built, undoing Thatchers right-to-buy disaster.
comment in response to
post
Wannneer ik tijd heb, zal ik medelijden met je krijgen... 😂
comment in response to
post
One persons terrorist is another persons freedom fighter.
It all depends on which side of the fence you're on.
comment in response to
post
I have never understood the UK's resistance to ID cards. The government knows who you are anyway, and not having it only leads to additional costs (like the police taking time to find out who you are) or to all kinds of fraud.
comment in response to
post
What would a digital ID prove what a physical ID (like a passport or ID card) doesn't?
Talk to EU citizens with a digital UKVI account, and see what they think about the UK and its ability to handle digital ID's (spoiler: that are useless at it).
comment in response to
post
It that happens, after the evidence of a few years of Trump administration in the US, the people deserve to be ruled by facist grifters.
comment in response to
post
When I see things like this, I always think about that old TV ad, where some guys in lab coats tell us "We from Toilet Duck advise you to use Toilet Duck".
comment in response to
post
Commissioned by Dr (in History) Lawrence Newport, contributor to the Telegraph and Spectator. Says it all really...
comment in response to
post
Given the fact it's less than 0.5% of the votes, I'd be careful jumping to conclusions.
Also, as I posted earlier, the fact that someone can afford it NOW, doesn't mean the money is surplus, it might be being saved for a future event (in my case, my savings are my pension).
comment in response to
post
Hitler needed 100 days after his election to cancel democracy, Trump is speeding towards it, and everyone is keeping stumm about it. History is repeating itself.
comment in response to
post
Appearently so do a lot of his followers, otherwise he wouldn't have been elected in the first place.
comment in response to
post
Is he? I think you're giving him an awful lot of credit, given the fact he has the intellect of an 11-year old. I think the question is, who is pulling the strings here?
comment in response to
post
Semantics. For me, personal allowance is still taxed. It is just that the first tax band is 0%, and the UK has given that band a name.
Imho, everything you need to fill in on your self assesment is taxed (some at 0%), everything you don't is free of tax.
comment in response to
post
Careful interpreting this. The fact someone has savings over that amount and thus can answer 1 or 2 doesn't mean these savings are surplus and can easily be missed.
Being on forced early retirement due to poor health, I rely on savings to get me to state pension age. £1,000 is 20 weeks of food shop
comment in response to
post
This has nothing to do with support for a person and/or the opinions of this person.
This is about a state, who has kidnapped a member of the european parliament, from a ship, in international waters.
Who the person is, and what state done it, is not relevant.
comment in response to
post
That may be the case, but that is not an excuse for Israels actions, nor for condoning the action.
comment in response to
post
Easily fixed: tax the rich more.
comment in response to
post
The problem is inequality (which could be people's own fault btw, you know a UK state pension is tiny), which is an individual issue, which in turn can not be addressed by a blanket rule.
This is a deeply rooted problem, I got a compulsary workplace pension when I started working, over 40 year ago.
comment in response to
post
I am on a pension much below that threshold, but am not going to claim, as I don't need it.
This is the general problem with arbitrary thresholds, a part goes to people who don't need it. Which was the reason for the cut in the first place.
comment in response to
post
That is the case with facists and populists anywhere. Trump, Farage, Weidel, etc, none of them is not even in the slightest interested in the country or the people. For them, it is a means to an end, the end here being power and wealth.
comment in response to
post
I saw their candidate on TV promising to bring "the high street back". As usual, without any explaining how, just a populist sound bite.
Also, "the highstreet" is gone because none of them shopped there anymore, they are to blame for its demise.
comment in response to
post
That is totally and utterly depressing...
comment in response to
post
Doesn't it do that automatically when a known wifi network is not in range?
comment in response to
post
The problem is this does nothing to deal with the cause (abject poverty), it just sticks a plaster over one of its effects.
comment in response to
post
Also, GPS and navigation systems are useless if you don't want the shortest / quickest route from A to B, but prefer a scenic route. Or you are rambling. I've assembled quite a stack of OS maps over the years. "old fashioned" maps for the win!
comment in response to
post
Na de Ierse opstand zijn tijdens de politieke onderhandelingen de Noord-ierse ieren onder de bus gegooid, en aan de "engelse" kans van de grens terecht gekomen, op in hun ogen Ierse grond. En voor de Unionisten (de Engeland supporters) zijn ze nog steeds tweederangs volk.
comment in response to
post
De protestanten zijn afstamelingen van de Engelsen die de woningen en bedrijven van de verdreven Ieren hebben overgenomen.
Het is een koloniaal conflict, tussen onderdrukkers en onderdrukten.
comment in response to
post
Dat geeft precies het probleem aan. Het wordt continue beschreven als een "katholiek" vs "protestants" verhaal, maar dat is het niet.
Katholieken zijn de van oorspong Ierse bevolking, verdreven, vernederd en vermoord door de Engelsen.
comment in response to
post
For me, that falls in the category "tax more".
comment in response to
post
So as usual they produce a sound-bite with a lie, and hope people accept it art face-value, and don't look any further. And they have achieved their goal of wide media coverage of the "alleged" statement, and that will enforce the lie in people's minds.
comment in response to
post
There were plenty of speeches. Politiians speech all the time.
The problem here is Farage doesn't provide any proof as to what exactly he is referring to, making his statement difficult to verify.
Local Reform has confimed the statement was made up by them: news.stv.tv/politics/sar...
comment in response to
post
No, because the speech does not exist.
comment in response to
post
You can't be a member of a Ltd Company?
comment in response to
post
Facists fear the educated.
Uneducated people are easily manipulated. The educational level of the average American is that of an 11-year old. And that includes Trump himself.
comment in response to
post
To add to this:
the fact that the vast majority who arrive this way are granted asylum shows that providing legal routes would address the problem.
For comparison: every day about 2500 migrants arrive on visa's thanks to the post-Brexit system, much, much more than before Brexit.
comment in response to
post
I don't understand this. Not every manufacured car is produced to order, and if you go to some ports, there are gigantic parking lots with imported cars waiting. Most cars spend their entire life being outside. And it is even cheaper to insure if I park it in front of my garage, instead of in it.
comment in response to
post
Just a normal day of Scottish weather. Basking in the sun here (a bit north of you), albeit a bit blowy.
comment in response to
post
The bottle is slightly coloured, so that might contribute to the darker colour.
comment in response to
post
The box says "Double matured on Pedro Ximénez Cask Wood".
comment in response to
post
My favorite:
comment in response to
post
It is the case with most products, the price isn't based on the cost, but on what people are willing to pay for it.
comment in response to
post
Due to this policy, there are over 1 million EV's in NL now.
This clearly tells you what the green / EV policies of the UK government are.
comment in response to
post
Car retail prices per country have always been related to the relative wealth of that country, that isn't new.
Forever, cars in NL used to be much more expensive than in the UK, mainly due to a massive luxury tax slapped on it. But for EV's, that tax is wavered, this model is sold for £39,460.
comment in response to
post
And not without reason. It is a lot easlier to control and manipulate uneducated people. Something they've been doing to the black population ever since slavery was abolished.
comment in response to
post
Reminds me of Farage in front of a poster...
comment in response to
post
Also, no ruling on trans women will prevent cis male predators from entering those spaces, if they want to.