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SSCReader
7hr ago
Ahem. Bureaucrats are unlikely to have made this decision. Politicians probably did (or at least decided the guidelines) so that the impact of housing asylum seekers was disseminated across differing communities. (Which might also involve getting one over on financiers, or charitably ensuring that the wealthy have some skin in the game (or even more cynically "See we're not JUST putting them in poor communities")). The bureaucrats just implement largely. This is Home Office funded so the decisions will have been made at a pretty high level.
hydroacetylene
7hr ago
They were definitely younger. About half of them had worked as teachers(so better educated than a high school dropout who managed to become a master plumber, at minimum), none of them worked again after marrying him. Each got a Carribbean condo as part of the divorce. Only three had kids.
Might one of them have been a grad student who had sex with a fat old plumber for a few years for a condo in Belize and a check? Uh, maybe but they didn't strike me as the type.
self_made_human
Grippy socks, grippy box
7hr ago
You've got me sold, thank you for taking the time to review it. Despite my hard scifi fetish, I can occasionally ignore the square-cube law and enjoy a good mecha brawl!
self_made_human
Grippy socks, grippy box
7hr ago
Appreciate it. I might be doing a decently long vacation there this year, a dear friend of mine is getting married in Texas. I hope to make the most of it, and visit as much of the country as finances or time allows. I'll hit you up when I have things more set in stone!
hydroacetylene
7hr ago
OK, horse riding codes rural in America more than upper class. At least in Texas. And upper class housewives do not iron their husband's suit, they take it to the dry cleaners.
Upper class housewives pay(as in enter the credit card number) for private school, they manage IRA contributions, they maximize tax exemptions, they pay the contractors. They host dinner parties. What they don't do is, uh, housework. There's Mexicans for that, as in the Georgian era there were the lower classes for it. It has always been thus.
MaiqTheTrue
Renrijra Krin
7hr ago
I mean for little girls, I remember reading Beverly Clearly’s Ramona books as a kid, Babysitters Club, Sweet Valley High. Those aren’t woke and would probably be interesting to a girl.
hydroacetylene
8hr ago
If you get to immigrate one day, DM me, I'll take you to an off the beaten path place for brisket. And shooting.
faul_sname
Fuck around once, find out once. Do it again, now it's science.
8hr ago
Same. As is likely true for most people living in large metro areas in the US.
self_made_human
Grippy socks, grippy box
8hr ago
I've got no strong feelings about Asahi, it's alright. I only chose it because it's the only beer I had twice this trip, and thus noted the price. I think the British version is okay, nothing to write home about.
I normally drink Tennent's, or ciders, but I'm really not picky about my liquor.
hydroacetylene
8hr ago
I mean, Trump looks likely to send out 'doge rebate checks' or something similar in september of '26. Peronism, here we come.
VoxelVexillologist
Multidimensional Radical Centrist
8hr ago
I'm not sure exactly when it disappeared, but that sounds about right. I know the laws still allowed it in some cases through at least 2000, but I never saw it myself. My parents have stories of it happening.
faul_sname
Fuck around once, find out once. Do it again, now it's science.
8hr ago
Whereas if I see a mountain lion in my US neighborhood, I have something mildly unusual to post about on nextdoor. Occasionally a mountain lion even makes its way into the heart of a major city, though that makes headlines when it happens.
Family stories? The school I attended had corporal punishment into the late 80s. The teachers who practiced it are still living, and the last cohort of students to experience it are only in their 40s.
ETA: I had those same teachers in later years. They found some creative alternatives to the paddle and the rod once those were banned. I think I might have preferred a quick paddling to the more protracted punishments they used instead.
hydroacetylene
8hr ago
I'm registering my support for a 'smoke the whole pack' rule- a rule that particularly inflammatory posts by users who make a habit of it are required to respond in depth to every argument, no matter how banal or trite.
hydroacetylene
8hr ago
Well maybe when he gets back from his ban...
hydroacetylene
8hr ago
I also rarely see a mob of investment bankers torching a hotel.
hydroacetylene
8hr ago
Homeless shelters are often located at the center of the city because that is where the people who need their services mostly are.
No jokes in this post unfortunately. Around 10 years ago Asahi beer was still imported to the US for certain sizes (1L and 2L cans, interestingly enough), tasting it side by side with the US brewed licensed swill gave an insanely obvious difference. The Italy-made swill isn't like old US-licensed swill, but similarly it's not at all like Japanese Asahi.
The level of difference is like the difference between Bud Light -> Guinness - it's not even the same category of beer.
Do the inherent population and cultural differences between Canada and the US really justify that?
At a quick glance the murder rate is 2.5-3x lower in Canada compared to the US. So a lot of the force of that number is cut down immediately.
I've also seen arguments that legal systems play a role: stronger protections in some domains mean that the US must use incarceration as a relatively blunt tool rather than catching people early.
I think the more likely truth is that the US is well past the point of diminishing returns when it comes to prison capacity
Based on? The post-Floyd loosening of the justice system's grip made things notably worse. It didn't lead to a massive exodus of unfortunate bike couriers caught with a blunt from the jails, instead criminals showed themselves.
Corvos
8hr ago
Is this actually true? I thought it tasted different in the UK but I assumed it was just a vibe thing.
SkoomaDentist
8hr ago
No, really! She was carving her initials on the moose with the sharpened end of an interspace toothbrush given to her by Svenge, her brother-in-law.
Asahi
It might only be a small thing, but I have to break it to you. Asahi anywhere outside Japan is simply low-quality Italian Peroni beer made in Italy and with the Asahi logo slapped on it. It tastes absolutely nothing like Japanese Asahi beer and imo is a waste of money. I hear Britain has alot of domestic beer options but idk shrug.
Ironically "Peroni" sold in the USA is actually domestic Coors labelled as Peroni, while "Asahi" sold in the USA is actually Peroni made in Italy. So "Asahi" in USA is actually the Peroniest beer even more than the stuff that says Peroni on the label. Anyways I hate how trademarks can simply be bought and sold and slapped on whatever as long as the money grubbing conglomerates can make a quick buck. Imo trademarks should exist to protect consumers not corporations, so this should be illegal. See also: "Yashica" Y35.
self_made_human
Grippy socks, grippy box
8hr ago
I'm glad you enjoyed your weekend, and this is an excellent write-up. You have a good eye and have now possibly seen more of 2025 London than I have.
Thank you, I appreciate the timely advice given to me as I was adrift in Tottenham. Helped me get my bearings right quick.
I think a huge amount of the cost growth in central London is due to non-doms on semi-annual migration paths
I'm not sure I follow? Are they working seasonally?
For complicated reasons I am staying in a nice block of flats there temporarily and I check the parcel collection regularly for a delivery that I am expecting; I have never seen an English or even a European name on the parcels.
What's that about? Tax fraud? BTW, if you're ever free, I would love to catch up over drinks. Presuming it's not a place where the drinks are even more ludicrously priced than average, they're on me. It sounds like we can both agree on Wetherspoons haha.
I suspect also that there was a pent-up suspicion that London could tolerate higher prices and that COVID provided the excuse to let 'er rip and see the limits of what the market would tolerate. As a result locals seem to have mostly accepted that pubs and meals out are a treat and not a lifestyle, and go maybe once a week while penny-pinching the rest of the time. This may skew prices and (God I hope) they may come down as the market decides it prefers regular attendance to spiky high profits.
It does seem to be tolerated. At the end of the day, the bare minimum for human habitation is subsistence, and it takes a lot to make people truly give up and flee their homes. And there's no shortage of people hypnotized by the London Dream, not to mention a steady influx of tourists. Of course, I wouldn't have met the people who decided that London was too rich for their blood and fled. Anyone there is there by choice, or simply has none.
VoxelVexillologist
Multidimensional Radical Centrist
8hr ago
I feel like this is missing some obvious "thirteenth tribe" joke, maybe in reference to the great Mormon work of literature Battlestar Galactica.
If I had to pick high rates of infidelity by profession, I would put bartenders, tattoo artists, and taxi drivers towards the top, and male nurses solidly above average just due to gender ratios in their field.
I would agree that working class men in male dominated but lucrative(by working class standards) professions are much more likely than average to see sex workers of any description, regardless of marital status. I would also say that fucking teens is either weirdo coded or solidly working class(in the not particularly high income sense) in American culture. But bartenders and tattoo artists cheating on their wives is mostly shocking in the sense that they got married in the first place; these are (relatively)high income men surrounded by easy(relatively) women.
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