ohulancutash

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (8 children)

Public opinion? Whose? Europe’s, who look down on rampant American capitalism and Trump? Africa’s, who have just been screwed by Trump and Musk? The Middle-East, who have been screwed by America for decades? Asia, who are waiting to hear what China says?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Trade waste too. Got 20 tons of rubble but don’t want to pay the processing fees? Dump it on a farm somewhere.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 days ago

Vincent Price was quite the chef. He even had a cookery show on British TV in the early 70s.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

They’re still nefarious if they are incompetent. See: Fascist Italy.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

Pity SpaceX doesn’t believe it has to obey the law, and thinks it can just buy land and dump waste on it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

And a ceasefire does not mean the war is over.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Ticket prices in Britain aren’t due to privatisation. They were a side-effect of the unexpected success of British Rail in its final years at attracting more passengers. As demand went up, the ailing infrastructure struggled to cope. Upgrades can take decades to plan and execute correctly, so the answer was to raise prices to ease off demand.

This also fulfilled the longstanding policy of both parties for rail users to carry the financial burden of rail operation and maintenance. So, under privatisation, 40% of tickets were priced directly by the Department for Transport. The rest were priced by the train operators, who often engaged in price wars that lowered prices compared to the controlled fares.

Now of course privatisation is effectively over and 100% of tickets are priced by government. Prices will still be maintained high because of the desire to make passengers pay for the system, and to keep demand manageable. Already some routes have reached saturation.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Did the title and the photo have to match up with “sniper choosing his nest” vibes?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago

When you let anyone make a “TV channel” even when they don’t have a legal team.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)
  • Netherlands - Holmes’ Bonfire, 1666, 1944
  • Belgium - Napoleonic wars — Waterloo
  • France - (as England) 1230, 1337-60, 1369-89, 1373, 1415-53, 1562, (as Britain) 1794, 1795, 1813, 1815, 1944
  • Germany - 1914-18, 1944-5
  • Spain - 1808-13
  • Italy - 1944-45
  • Austria - 1945
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Please calm down and would the outstanding 22 form an orderly queue.

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