deHaga
@deHaga@feddit.uk
- Comment on Record number of people in UK live in ‘very deep poverty’, analysis shows 4 days ago:
I think competitive advantage is better than comparative in areas of innovation. The EU’s precautionary principle is safe, but timid. Roman civil law is restrictive and slow to adapt because judges cannot set precedent at lower levels and must apply the law as it is written.
The trend in the UK is of devolving power to the nations. I’m not sure how far that could go. Will we see a return to regions like Wessex and Mercia? We only have representative democracy as a hangover of having to choose someone to travel to London on a horse. We have the technology now to communicate at light speed, and will soon have enough compute power to make the civil service 90% smaller.
- Comment on Your GF has always wanted to know the answer 5 days ago:
Cock blot
- Comment on Record number of people in UK live in ‘very deep poverty’, analysis shows 6 days ago:
Yeah, the bets were in on the £ already as it was way overvalued.
The seeds of Brexit were sown when we didn’t get a referendum on Maastricht. That changed the game considerably and even further with Nice and Lisbon. It meant that regulating with common law would be replaced with Roman civil law, which is much more prescriptive and is unable to be changed by precedent.
I’m just in favour of decentralisation, every time power has been centralised in Europe it has ended badly.
- Comment on Record number of people in UK live in ‘very deep poverty’, analysis shows 6 days ago:
Unfortunately that’s the only date the source provides on a constant dollar basis.
Using today’s dollar shows the same thing, the UK is not performing any worse than its near peers.
data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.CD?locat…
To be clear, I’m not suggesting Brexit has been an economic success, it wasn’t an economic decision, it was a political one.
- Comment on Record number of people in UK live in ‘very deep poverty’, analysis shows 6 days ago:
I didn’t choose the measure, the OBR did.
- Comment on Record number of people in UK live in ‘very deep poverty’, analysis shows 6 days ago:
- Comment on Record number of people in UK live in ‘very deep poverty’, analysis shows 6 days ago:
Retarded Brexit comment of the week 🎖️
- Comment on Bo'le of wa'er 1 week ago:
Crack head Geri
- Comment on Bo'le of wa'er 1 week ago:
Grockles do tho
- Comment on Bo'le of wa'er 1 week ago:
We get nosebleeds, we give bloody noses
- Comment on Article by article, how Big Tech shaped the EU’s roll-back of digital rights 1 week ago:
TLDR - €
- Comment on Bluesky just verified ICE 2 weeks ago:
And miss out on all the juicy trolling opportunities?
- Comment on Bounce 2 weeks ago:
Whilst ironically behaving a piece of shit
- Comment on I spent a year on Linux and forgot to miss Windows 2 weeks ago:
Enlightening
- Comment on Musk says Tesla is moving Full Self-Driving to a monthly subscription 2 weeks ago:
I buy very cheap, very long dated puts and am happy to pay the premium
- Comment on Musk says Tesla is moving Full Self-Driving to a monthly subscription 2 weeks ago:
I do like shorting Tesla, it’s expensive, but it just feels good
- Comment on Windows users keep losing files to OneDrive, and many don't know why 2 weeks ago:
OneDrive is shit though.
- Comment on [Video] A good cameraman says more than a thousand words 3 weeks ago:
En Retard
- Comment on Zack Polanski open to Labour pact — but only if Starmer goes 3 weeks ago:
They couldn’t even agree on a name before splintering, it was a joke
- Comment on Zack Polanski open to Labour pact — but only if Starmer goes 3 weeks ago:
At which point you might as well setup a proper left party
Come on, the Your Party debacle showed exactly what happens whenever a ‘proper’ left party is tried. Always infighting and purism abound.
- Comment on I can still smell them 3 weeks ago:
Yep. We used to wrap the whole roll around a coin, then cover that up in sellotape and lob them over the fence at school, makes a good bang!
- Comment on Can't stop won't stop 3 weeks ago:
Get some nitrous and ammonia in there, then wed have a party
- Comment on Help is needed 3 weeks ago:
The Stereo PCs
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Nonsense. The microbiome can be repaired, it just needs the right foods, right sleep, right amount of time.
- Comment on Insider trading, but make it worse 4 weeks ago:
Corrupt politicians are corrupt. More at 11.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
No, the economy. The country. Everyone but a few arms dealers.
The opportunity cost is massive.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
How’s Russia and Ukraine’s economies going?
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Read what I wrote
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
I know. But war is net bad. It may be good for a few arms makers, but overall it’s net bad for capitalist economies.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Not really. War is bad for economies, reduces demand.