GasVeteran

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by GasVeteran 2y ago
I expect you to be able to use your brain to distinguish obvious hyperbole (it was absolutely obvious) with a matter of fact statement. I am starting to suspect that this playing dumb is entirely disingenuous.
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by GasVeteran 2y ago
> Of housing and public infrastructure in the UK? Politics: Green belt and similar planning restrictions, austerity, Thatcherism, privatisation, restricting local councils' ability to own and supply council housing. So you don'
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by GasVeteran 2y ago
Never said it was a silver bullet. I said I would rather people concentrate on more important things than configuring a linter. Half the time this stuff gives you weird errors that don't make a lot of sense (especially with JavaScript&
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by GasVeteran 2y ago
Apparently you don't understand the concept of hyperbole.
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by GasVeteran 2y ago
> Supply and demand. Immigrants supply, they don't just demand. Why is there a massive shortfall then when we've had the largest amount of immigration then? Why was there a shortfall previously when we were still in the EU? &
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by GasVeteran 2y ago
It is amazing when it comes to any topic that is constantly thorny people will constantly twist your words. When I say "magically solve", I specifically mean that it wouldn't have solved the issue. The issue would still exist
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by GasVeteran 2y ago
Again, the utilities cannot be scaled as easily. There are problems with building houses right now because there just isn't enough supply in some areas of the nation grid. That isn't something being in the EU would magically fix.
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by GasVeteran 2y ago
> Despite what you might read in the news, occupancy per household is LOWER than it has been for a long time. It has nothing to do with what I read on the news. It is simply numbers. You can come up with all these crazy schemes to increa
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by GasVeteran 2y ago
Whether it is part of the "goals of brexit" or not, is kinda irrelevant. The point is that we cannot build more homes easily, even if we could that has issues with other infrastructure and utilities. The easiest way is to at least
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by GasVeteran 2y ago
> 2022 and 2023 were the highest years on record for net migration into the UK. The only reason 2024 wasn't even higher was due to the new Conservative government's policy stopping international students from bringing dependent
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by GasVeteran 2y ago
> Police searched Much’s house and removed and confiscated the posters. The public prosecutor imposed a penalty order of €6,000 for “criminal insult to politicians”. The guy had his house searched by police, a €6000 fine and had to go ch
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by GasVeteran 2y ago
It would be better if we just change the immigration policy. Last time I checked there was 400,000 leaving the country each year and somewhere between a million and 1.4 million entering. I live in the countryside (I live in a small flat btw
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by GasVeteran 2y ago
The point he is making is that a lot of stuff that you are told you need . You actually don't. Especially if you are working by yourself or in a very small team. Getting stuff working is much more important. I'd rather people con
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by GasVeteran 2y ago
Are they? It sounds hard to believe. But I haven't been to London in a very long time.
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by GasVeteran 2y ago
It is the combination of what I described is the real issue. If it was just "people are a bit rude" I personally wouldn't be that worried about it.
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by GasVeteran 2y ago
They don't have the countryside, clean air and amazing views.
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by GasVeteran 2y ago
Not at all. It is quite clear that you are doing the "lets take this to the logical extreme". That might be fine in some sort of debate club tactic but it isn't what I was suggesting should happen at all and you know it. So I
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by GasVeteran 2y ago
These are all solutions that ignore the main problem. They literally cannot build enough properties (whatever they are) to fill current demand. Even if they relax the regulations that we currently have in place. Even there were enough prope
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by GasVeteran 2y ago
Yeh I figured that. No worries.
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by GasVeteran 2y ago
> You've moved the goal posts. You said 60k if your lucky. No I didn't. I suggest you re-read the thread. I said 75K-90K max. > I just found multiple jobs that pay more than that easily. There are always certainly outliers.
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by GasVeteran 2y ago
We are comparing salaries of Software Engineers between the US and the UK. A Senior Developer position won't pay more than 90K in the UK outside of London. In the US I see well over that for a Senior Developer position. Even in your ex
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by GasVeteran 2y ago
> Trying to bring skilled labour into the UK, or trying to get residence as an apparently useful and self-sufficient person, is actually quite difficult, so I'm not sure how all the low-skilled labour ends up here, other than large
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by GasVeteran 2y ago
I used to work at bet365. They don't even offer that to the permies (65K for Senior), if you stay there a bunch of years maybe 85k is doable. 365 are probably the best playing place outside of Manchester in the NW. So I find this rathe
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by GasVeteran 2y ago
That isn't the argument being made and you know it.
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by GasVeteran 2y ago
> The plural of anecdotes is not data, nor does your select social circle represent a cogent sample group. When something isn't easily quantifiable there is no data. OK sure then, but there wouldn't be anyway. The fact is that
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by GasVeteran 2y ago
Yes lets cram everyone in like sardines in massive sky-scrapers that blots out the sky. The other alternative is that the UK doesn't allow 600,000 people (net) in every year.
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by GasVeteran 2y ago
> The challenge is that the people who live in an area use the rules in such a way as to make building new homes very expensive or outright impossible. The people who would like to live in that area have no say, and lack representation.
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by GasVeteran 2y ago
> It's conflating a bunch of things. Not really. I am talking generally about this notion that we need to keep importing people. > Menial routine work for juniors has been eliminated or automated to the margins, that much is true
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by GasVeteran 2y ago
So like I said originally these jobs are few and far between. The point is that in the UK the salaries are much lower than those in the US and this is across all experience ranges.
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by GasVeteran 2y ago
The issue is that those cities end up growing into the countryside. I like there is a big green barrier between Greater Manchester and Macclesfield.

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