No you do not.

The idea that any marriage meets some pre difiend rules about spending. Is just a mythical unicorn.

Many men and women by cars without consulting the other party. This is very common when both parties are high income professionals.

They would involve each party arranging independent loans. Or in this case being a criminal arsehole.

Sorry to tell you this. But your understanding of marrage money management. Is a hold over from the pre 1974 period. Where women were not legally allowed to own or borrow money. Without a husbands permission.

Yes many many couple still think of money as a joint responsibility. More so with lower income couples. Because it is harder not to.

But it is far far from exclusive to all marriage’s. And many independent career women. Simply would not tolerate it.

As an old fart myself. Yep I’d find it uncomfortable living in such an environment. Even when I had a high income. I still had the ideas of someone raised working class. But me ex wife most definitely did not feel the same way. And her stepfather’s abusive history had a lot to do with that.

Bit she is an extremely example. The idea of independent financial management between 2 married career people. Is far from uncommon.

400k over 12 years. 33k a year.

Yeah seems huge to most low income families.

But 2 people earning about 150k each a year.

10+% extra annual income. Is less noticeable. I can see why the police did not laugh. Just investigate and Look for evidence she was directly informed.

I mean honestly as a left of centre voter. I’d be a bit hypocritical. Not to acknowledge.

A family on 300k a year will be way less likely to notice an extra 30k.

Then a family on 30k a year will 3k.

We on the left make this claim all the time on progressive taxation etc. it applies to this as well.

For now I’ll ignore. How much of a bigger arsehole he is. Then the low income family stealing 3k to feed children. I’m only pointing out the busy wife is not as obviously expected to notice. As one who wonders where the extra baby milk came from.

Exactly. While few of us can honestly claim we would have done better in her situation.

She was the leader of the party. And the theft literally happened under her nose.

Yes we can all understand. She was busy. Not an accountant. And in her own words they were both high earners.

400k over 12 years. 33k a year. Is likely less noticeable then lower income families would have.

But she was the head of the party. And anyone else would expect to be held at least in part responsible. Even if they understand the missing of the actions.

As dose most PC over clocking practically. It is just allowing chips to run at higher temps by removing the limitations on power designed to keep them managed.

Mobiles may be more strict. Due to battery life. But all over locking is considering the compremises and adjusting the priority.

With smart phones. The compromise is normally battery life rather then heat.

Desktops it’s adding extra cooling and shortening the design lifetime of chips in exchange for Greater CPU cycles.

As they should.

No billionaire spend huge investments on something. To increase Thier labour expenses.

Any one old enough to remember the days of early robotic automation. Where the government and billionaires claimed it would creat new higher paying jobs. And not reduce working hours.

Can also remember how much easier it made moving those jobs to lower income nations,

Same billionaires claimed the internet would create huge numbers of skilled jobs. Again moving them to cheaper nations as soon as was possible.

The only reason AI can possibly be worth those same billionaires investing. Is to remove the few jobs left in high cost nations. And to start to remove the lower cost nations employment.

It is utter fantasy to think any single billionaire. Is going to stop and worry about who earns enough to bu their shit. While competing to gather as much wealth as possible. Against only other billionaires. They will just compete against each other. Until ones get to call themselves king.

Caring about workers. Just as much as their cared about the serfs that worked their land.

You may be correct. I’m on 12 but it’s been a while since I installed.

Debian has some maintenance. But if you think windows doesn’t. Your already having issue.

But Debian is one of the most documented distros. If your having an issue. Odd are multiple people have documented how to resolve it.

Linux as a whole. Requires you to have a basic understanding, of what and why you are doing things. If not you will have a bad time.

Debians biggest issue. Is the default 0 non free firmware and software. This means some drivers etc are not going to install automatically.

So for any new install. Unless you have an entirely open system. You will need to manually edit the source files. And install extra packages.

If you have Nvidia this is a big issue. Bit well documented.

The big issue is when a new version comes out. If things change dramatically. Their is a delay in that clear documentation. This continues through their testing to stable releases.

But they are excellent at ensuring security releases continue well beyond the upgrade. Years usually.

Yep millions of us.

Most commonly due to stability.

Long term. It took effort and understanding to add newer versions of programs to it. Those of us with these skills managed. But it put off a lot of we want/need the latest without effort folks.

Over the last 10 years. Flat pack or appimage have come far enough. It is rare if ever I need to build any software I don’t want to.

Unexpected but great solution.

Now can we do it for every other waterways.

And Brexiters will still claim.

Farrrage could have convinced the EU to allow us to do the same to every member nation.

As is Russia.

It is when non state actors are doing it. IE private actors.

When done by state resources it’s just a war crime.

Depends what is meant by exposed. Most asbestos has for long while only required removal is damaged. Their is a huge amount in my council house. We were well warmned what not to damage.

And given we are in the south east. The home would not exist if the council was forced to remove it. The cost is just to high.

The money imbalance in politics is palpable

Yep as it is in the world as a whole. Compared to the 40 to 80 hugely so.

And guess what. The folks funding reform really really want it to get a fuck load worse.

If you’re in your late 70s. You have an excuse. But are not likely to think as you do. But if so. Sorry you were fooled by such arsehole Corporations lieing about their own research for decades.

If younger. Then you grew up knowing how dangerous smoking was. Even if you failed to believe the government telling you so. You have no excuse for makeing the choices you did.

And most of us who made those dumb choices do not expect others to take responsibility for them. Even if we find/found stopping hard. In nearly 60 years. Absolutely every government in my lifetime. Has reduced the excuses of the generations forward to fall for the stupidity. Including my father who gave up in his late 60s after cancer. But knew full well how dumb his smoking was when I was a toddler.

You are entitled to your opinion. But everyone else is also entitled to consider you pathetic. For thinking the government is responsible for fixing your own stupidity.

The idea is to prevent addiction forming in newer generation. Rather then banning those they have already developed addiction.

The minimum age has been rising for a couple of years.

This is actually a manifesto promises so has fairly high support. (Unlike almost everything else the gov has done).

Going bankrupt is a great way to avoid such questions.

And conveniently happens when you refuse to show customers. How you plan to ensure abuse stops.

You realise a no confidence vote. Only means an election when the party in power has a narrow or no majority.

In most cases it would mean remapping the leadership of the existing party. Definitely here. It would mean a new PM. But with Labour not only having a majority. But also having removed left of centre MPs. Actual changes would be minimal.

More concerning. Either the FO made a political decision without PM authority. Indicating the PM dose not have control or confidence of the government.

Or the PM ordered the FO not to inform him. Meaning he had suspicions. Indicating his claim of not knowing. Is a lie to parliament.

Both of these events should very much mean a call for a vote of no confidence. And am explanation to the constituency of Amy MP not calling for a vote. Or voting confidence in the PM.

Many daft ideas existed in the 14 century.

Humanity grew out of most of their shit.

If we have done it for 100s of years before the discovery of reasoned science is your best argument. Give up.