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I try to avoid caffeine in any capacity. I was quite sensitive to it as a child though, so tend to become reliant on it if I consume too much. Love dem headaches…

Yeah, all these people exhaling carbon dioxide into the air, too, they should just stop taking all my oxygen.

Hang the CEOs.

Can’t trust private enterprise to have society’s best interests at its heart, but it does allow for innovation. Infrastructure should be run by government entities - and what counts as infrastructure should be regularly evaluated - and private enterprise needs to be regulated quite a lot to discourage them from being proper dickheads to their employees and/or customers.

There are other ways to consume cannabis without smoking it.

Pretty sure his assertion was that Starlink was never on in the places that Ukraine are moving into and he’s only refusing to turn it on when they’re asking him to allow them to use it (conveniently not allowing them to use it to attack Russian assets) and also something about wanting to avoid escalating things to the point Russia might use nukes? Utter bollocks regardless since he wants Ukraine to basically accede to all of Russia’s demands for territory.

The just-in-time model also doesn’t help supply side issues. Trying to keep just enough stock to meet demand is fair enough if the shelf-life of a product can be measured in days or weeks, but it’s less sensible when it can be measured in decades. If anything happens to make supply stop, at any point in the chain from raw materials to the store shelf, it’s gone.

An example. I used to work in a store that sold canning supplies, basically glass jars, various powders and preservatives, things of that nature. Very few people actually bought these things though, because for years there was a shortage on lids for the jars, and that’s pretty much all anybody wanted.

That’s not going to change when the priority of executives across the land is to maximize share prices though.

She’s still at it.

Two choice quotes:

She is expected to say that communication "could have been better and the operation better honed" but also that she was unable to implement her plans because there was a "powerful force comprising the economic and political elite, corporatists, parts of the media and even a section of the Conservative parliamentary party" opposed to her ideas.

Maybe they were opposed to the ideas because they knew they wouldn’t work? Funny how that works eh.

Responding to her speech, the Liberal Democrat's deputy leader Daisy Cooper said: "Liz Truss giving a speech on economic growth is like an arsonist giving a talk on fire safety."

I consider her tenure to be surmised by the following hypothetical:

Aide: “okay Ms. Truss, this is your new ministerial phone,” *aide turns to pick up phone*

“You should use this for all offic-“ *aide turns back*

“Why is everything on fire?”

Ms Truss: “a combination of economic and political elites did it and ran away!”

Sometimes.