Find Nigel Farage in the field after he survived his 2014 plane crash and… change that.

Possibly saving the country from Brexit even getting to referendum status, and if it did, possibly changing the result. And then maybe preventing the revolving door Tory governments that fucked up the initial Covid response, since most of what they’ve done over the last decade has been to try and swing voters away from UKIP/Reform rather then actually do things that are good fit the country as a whole.

Prediction: the next amendment they try is getting rid of the term limits amendment…

Amazon spent billions to buy the company and millions more to get the legacy producers out of the way. I’m sure they want a return on that.

So if they are going to make more, we as consumers want then to be good, don’t we?

If they’re full of US military personnel, does it matter who legally owns the land? 😉

But also to not have multiple US military bases already on British soil.

I’m not a military person, but I feel that could be seen as tactically unwise…

Something completely realistic, right?

Buddy, the world is a dumpster fire right now and it’s only getting worse.

I don’t watch films for realism. I want the billionaires to get fed into their drug crushing machine*, or sucked out of the window of their private jet, or get minced by their giant drill or blown up in their yachts.

I want the good guys to win for a change.

*yes, I know this was a henchman. Don’t @ me

I don’t know about the US, but in the UK, rebuilding would be covered by the homeowner’s buildings insurance.

Although insurance companies would probably try to claim it as an Act Of God to get out of it. Don’t know how that would go legally…

Funny, I’d have said we’re closer to the new Star Wars cinematic trilogy than the EU.

You think you’ve won, then a few years later, oh look, fascism is back and it’s killing people in job lots again.

Shakespeare invented literature, so clearly there’s no value in teaching anything from before him…

But at least he’d have tried… history remembers that too.

The greed of a relatively small number of people and misery for an almost unimaginably large number of others.

I could try and get into a semantic argument about the difference between “more complicated” and “more complex”, but I won’t 😉

Full disclosure: I play Pathfinder. I haven’t touched D&D in years…

Pathfinder. For people that play D&D and think “I wish this had more complicated rules…”

But yes, that’s how crits work in Pathfinder - if you beat the target number by 10, that’s a crit success. Conversely, if you miss the target number by 10, that’s a crit fail.

Do it. We’ll adjust and hopefully take it as a kick up the arse to increase speed on the transition from gas.

Whereas they’ve just stood up in front of the world and said “we can only operate by violating human rights, which we are absolutely doing”

To adapt the Mitchell and Webb sketch… yes, you’re the baddies.

We knew about the environment and recycling 20 years ago…

Honestly, vapes are so new, disposable ones should never have been legalised.

What’s the long term plan there?

Buy for cash, rent until the next natural disaster destroys the building and… then what?

Doesn’t the landbastard have to pay for the tenants to be in alternate accommodation until the original one is returned to a liveable state?

I can’t see how that’s profitable either…

There are many reasons why renting is better for some people and buying is better for others.

Renting gives you the flexibility to just up sticks and leave at a known notice period. You don’t have to worry about the boiler breaking, or mould/damp, or the roof coming off (or like I’m about to have to deal with, a fence panel getting blown away in a storm) because your contact with the landlord says they’ll fix that for you.

There should absolutely be that choice available.

The problem, at least in the UK and probably elsewhere, is that renting is just SO expensive that it’s not possible to rent and save money, meaning that if your goal is to buy, you can’t because you can’t raise the deposit, even if paying a mortgage on a similar sized property would actually be cheaper on a monthly basis.

Sure, you read stories about people who are wonderful landlords, they don’t raise rents, or at least, by less than market rates, they’re quick to fix any problems the tenants have, all that good stuff.

Equally, you read stories about people who are basically renting from Satan and all the things I mentioned above take months or years to get fixed, if ever. (Slumlords are definitely people who should be put up against the wall and shot come the revolution)

I’m assuming the vast majority are somewhere in the middle.

But the fact that you’ll probably rent for at least some of your life shouldn’t drain all your money into someone else’s mortgage. As I said in that other post, housing of some form should be a basic human right. And the fact that individuals or companies can buy many houses and leave them empty because they can afford to have rents set so high that most people can’t afford them? That’s just wrong.

Hah. I meant socially, not that it happened by accident!

To be clear, I wasn’t trying to say ALL rental housing should be subsidised, just that there should be a healthy supply available for local councils to make available to people who need it based on whatever criteria they set for that.

Even when I was renting, I’d earn too much to qualify. People with young children would take priory over single people. That sort of thing.

It’s not a perfect system, but it’s better than companies gaming the system to maximise profits at the expense of the most vulnerable.