[-] Armand1@lemmy.world 12 points 19 hours ago

She is fine, don't worry 🙂

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It's warm and she's comfy on the pavement.

[-] Armand1@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Yeah as I said these are the plastic ones, not dissolvable. Those starch ones are fairly neat.

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In this day and age, why are we still using these horrible packing peanuts? These aren't even the dissolvable ones.

The plastic packing peanuts filling half a large box

The cherry on the cake? This is the side of the box.

Box with "I am made of 100% recycled content" on it

[-] Armand1@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

Isn't that a violation of church-state split? Or does that not apply to schools in the US?

[-] Armand1@lemmy.world 26 points 2 days ago

To save you all some time, this is the poll.

[-] Armand1@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Thanks for sharing.

Under the Marginal Pricing model, energy suppliers set prices based on the highest-cost energy source used, which in the UK is gas. Even though energy suppliers may buy cheaper renewable sources first, they must also rely on pricier fossil fuels to meet demand. Therefore, the final price paid by consumers reflects the cost of the most expensive source used.

Feels like we should abolish this system. Not sure why it even exists, as to me the price should be based on the cost. As things stand we are just giving free money to energy companies and worse petrol oligarchs.

I recognize that we will likely always need some fossil fuel energy in the UK to pick up the slack, but why are the savings of investing in renewables not making their way to the consumer?

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I assume the rest of their councillors are just smart enough to keep their mouths shut.

The post as screenshots if you dont want to go to YouTube. Appologies to any blind users as I don't have time to OCR these right now:

[-] Armand1@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

Why is it that electricity prices keep going up when the cost of generating it should be going down from renewables?

Gas prices I can maybe understand. But electricity?

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Don't care. JP Morgan can fuck off.

Also I'm pretty sure that that's an empty threat, like millionaires saying they'll leave.

[-] Armand1@lemmy.world 30 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

That's why we're cutting disability benefits

- Conservatives, (Forced) Labour

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London has seen a spate of ​antisemitic attacks ⁠in recent months, including the stabbing of two Jewish men

Hmmm... I don't like how those stabbings are being used here. Especially given what happened in context.

Still, it's good this man is behind bars.

Most of the coverage here is by all the dodgy right-wing papers. In fact, no left leaning paper is covering this story. Not too surprising given how this is being used to justify broader crackdowns on free speech. That said, not covering it at all is not great either.

[-] Armand1@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

Thank you for taking the feedback 🙂. Yeah sorry I didn't realise PIP was not explained. As others have said it's Personal Independence Payment and it's basically an extra allowance of benefits for disabled people to account for the extra costs they experience in their lives.

At the moment it's very hard to get and many mental health conditions have recently been excluded by the (Forced) Labour government to "get people back to work", even though that doesn't make any sense.

[-] Armand1@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago

While I get the joke, I think it's a little insensitive.

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While this is a high-profile case, this is pretty emblematic of Conservative and Forced Labour policy. Labour have cut back even further on what constitutes a disability, when in reality many hundreds of thousands of people who should receive PIP do not.

If a state cannot provide comfortable lives for disabled people and, even worse, stigmatises them as scroungers, it is a failed state.

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Chart of seats up for election and how many were gained and lost by party.

As the remaining council votes start slowing down, we see that the greatest growth and numbers go to Reform council members, but the Green Party have gained significant ground.

Meanwhile, Labour have lost over half of the seats up for election this May.

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Basically, they're all horrible people, to no ones surprise. And these are the ones who have not been recently arrested for being Russian shills

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5yd878ejqko

Maybe this will be the thing that finally gets your weirdo uncle to reconsider voting reform.

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Not sure if this qualifies for this community, but given Lemmy is the primary source of news for many I thought it was important enough news to share.

This is a developing story, and it's not even clear yet that Trump was the target.

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Alt text: Picture of E.T. laying back on a Sinclair C5

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To the surprise of no one at this point, Kier Starmer's Labour prepares to squeeze more money out of poor people. Anything to not tax billionaires.

The (Forced) Labour party seem to earnestly believe that disabled people are just too lazy to work, and cutting their benefits will incentivise them to do so. In reality, what will happen is that most will sink into deeper poverty and many will become homeless. Homeless people are a lot more expensive to the state than people on benefits, and their health will only deteriorate, causing them to be even less likely to work and costing more to the NHS.

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