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- Comment on Thames Water picks US private equity firm KKR as preferred buyer 5 days ago:
KKR will “help it deal with its mountain of debt”. How nice of them to not expect anything in return!
- Comment on Is the pipeline true, fellas? 1 month ago:
I have one friend who got divorced. It was difficult for him since it was during COVID and their 2-year-old daughter was involved, but now he’s thriving and super well-adjusted. I think some people just refuse to come to terms with things beyond their control (namely the people in the pic).
- Comment on Wimbledon school crash: Woman rearrested over deaths of two girls 2 months ago:
Yeah it’s real - people can have a seizure despite having no prior symptoms, and a scan won’t be able to tell you they’ve had one unless they had it inside the MRI scanner. Unfortunately that’s what makes it a plausible get-out-of-jail-free card for causing death by dangerous/distracted driving.
- Comment on Pat McFadden vows to make the state "more like a start up" as he deploys reform teams across country 3 months ago:
So… run at a massive deficit in the hopes that we’ll get acquired by a bigger country?
- Comment on UK needs cyber security professionals, but won't pay up 5 months ago:
Or, if they’re a foreign agent being paid by another state, they’ll be at the front of the queue of applicants because they don’t mind the uncompetitive pay.
- Comment on Row as Starmer suggests landlords and shareholders are not ‘working people’ 5 months ago:
It certainly doesn’t make you a worker.