WhyIsItGlowing

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by WhyIsItGlowing 4y ago
I've had it happen to me quite literally; I've had two pairs of cheap boots not even last a month before the soles detached. There's always a point of diminishing returns, but it doesn't really make much odds where that
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by WhyIsItGlowing 4y ago
The USPS has a bunch of highly-specific requirements that they aren't willing to change, which makes an off-the-shelf van impossible. These are things like: giant unpainted bumpers, sliding drivers door, the rear door has to be roll-up
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by WhyIsItGlowing 4y ago
Yeah, it's just the culture around it, with the US doing its pricing in $, the UK doing it in p.
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by WhyIsItGlowing 4y ago
The emissions weren't the issue; they just kept replacing the engine with newer ones - the Ford one they were using at the end had a Euro VI version so they could have kept using that. The issues were more around safety (both passenger
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by WhyIsItGlowing 4y ago
The feedback loop has got ever shorter. The approach now is to announce a non-feasible hard-right policy in the right wing tabloids, wait for The Guardian to react the next day, denounce that, then the day after forget the whole thing (like
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by WhyIsItGlowing 4y ago
It's everywhere in job listings, just largely as a nice-to-have on jobs that are primarily in something else but need the odd script putting together here and there.
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by WhyIsItGlowing 4y ago
There's a big problem where social care got moved from the department of health to local government a few years ago. Then, shortly after, the government cut local government funding massively. It used to be funded by a mix of local tax
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by WhyIsItGlowing 4y ago
> Back in 2004 when I lived in the UK, the NHS was really good. And I remember hearing at that time that it was nothing compared to the NHS in the 80s and 90s. In a lot of respects, this isn't very accurate. It got pretty bad in the
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by WhyIsItGlowing 4y ago
It's worth clarifying that the issue with the government infrastructure is with the regulatory agencies, rather than the water infrastructure itself which is privatised. There's also a good text article version; https:/&#x2F