www.telegraph.co.uk Rachel Reeves just doesn’t get it. None of us should pay tax on savings
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We awoke to finally find ourselves entering a little light. Then just as we were starting to celebrate. We forgot the folks in the back.
And suddenly those folks shouted, grabbed our ankles and dragged us back into the dark brambles of bigotry.
The fear was more than they could handle. And our lack of far was more than they were willing to tolerate.
Thanks for sharing
slackware followed by red hat mothers day 2.0 also used LMDE for several years
Agreed. As I say blender is less fast on amd. Atm
I don't play games much. 0ad being the main exception.
But yeah I'd never advise a non blender user to go Nvidia.
Yeah. Unfortunately blender is still noticably faster on Nvidia cards. Due to cuda and optic support.
I only have a 4060 though. Next time I upgrade, give. How bad the 50s release is. I will look again and compare higher end amd stuff. Likely a few years away though.
i been linux only for over 30 years now.
I tend to use Debian stable. At least for the last 15 or so.
The reason is simple. I use it as my main PC and the stability is my main priority.
The only negative is software in the repos is often out of date.
But honestly while that was a pain in the past. Now for the vast majority of things I use. I find flat pack or appimage downloads work perfect ally.
The only exception is ham radio software. Here I tend to compile later versions if I need/want them.
Other negatives
I'm really not hugely into gaming. But use blender a lot. Due to this I use Nvidia cards as they are far better supported by blender.
Installing the proprietary Nvidia drivers is a bit of a pain on Debian for newbies. But once you know the process its simple enough. Just not obvious for beginners. The community drivers are still very limited thanks to Nvidia s weird ideas.
The protest need to be aimed at parliament.
While laws are prown to interpretation. Interpreting the laws parliament passes is all the power the court has. Parliament is responsible for wording laws that force their planned interpretation.
To prevent this requires the sovereign parliament, to word the law in a non questionable way.
The only way this gets fixed. Is to convince parliament to change the GRC law ro clearly state that sutch operations make the recipient legally the sex chosen. And to address the intersex issue by stating such people are the sex they identify with as an adult.
The actual science only matters if parliament chooses to make it so. Even then the law tends to apply to the science at the time of passing.
That inflated panic started.
When a Chinese company refused to work with the UK gov to keep a plant they own running. Even when the UK offered to cover the costs of doing so. They demanded much higher payments and still refused to guarantee to keep[ the plant running and not destroying the plant by refusing to feed the furnaces. .
While we have critical infrastructure owned by multiple nations.
We have never had a situation where that infer structure risks being destroyed and the companies have refused to work to keep it effective. Or by some (rational) interpretations attempting to destroy it.
Such a situation will naurally cincentrate initial anger on the nation acting.
Yeah, we are at fault for-ever allowing it. But the panic about china, perceived intent, is far from invalid.
While i agree.
This whole article is based on nothing but gueaes and suspicion.
China has no duty or moral obligation to run british steel infrastructure at a loss. And if the UK wants to keep the plants running (at £700k a day while not being able to sell that ateel. Its rather presumptuous to expect chinese companies to do it when UK ones were nott able to do so profitably.
Nationalise and accept that is the cost of keepinflg a steel inferstructure when most of the developed world is also so and selling steel cheap.
Anything else is expecting china to fund our steel at a loss to their own.
It was a dumb choice to start with. We pay now.
Canada had a trade deal. Trump signed it.
Same for Australia and any other nations just attacked with tarrifs.
Under trump no trade deal is to be trusted as he will invalidate it any time he farts.
Honestly even when trump is gone. We can no longer trust any deal with the US. As a nation they will just vote in another nutcase.
No deal of any forearm with the US is worth the paper it is written on. And the sooner all nations start To make that opinion clear.. The sooner the world can get past its dependence.
Don't give up so easy. Pretty sure it can be expanded to fit you on the bed.
The lose of the UK steel making skills and resources. Is considered way more serious.
It would take a few years to get back, up and running. Way longer if it is closed long enough for the skills to need retraining.
With international trade in flux atm. It is more important not to lose our own abilities.
Adding the potential for war with Russia. Placing ourselves in a situation where we cannot make steel is a very high risk. Both economic and military wise
Its worth keeping even if it is basically used as a operational museum just to make expensive steel at a loss.
Also worth considering (with no evidence) this may be exactly why China cares more about home production now steel prices make it harder. They have 0 motive to support our nations steel capacity in the current climate.
Agreed.
But the issue is with both the words extremists and religious. No extremists thinks they are. Heck I can assure you most think our rejection is extream. And religiose people rarely admit their restrictions are religion. Even when using the Bible to justify shit. They will argue it is science or common sense.
Their is a need to term unacceptable laws in a way that forces them to openly argue their restrictions do not apply. Or actually are religious extremism. The latter is close to impossible.
Be honest with ourselves. I agree trans equality laws should exist. But only 20 or 30 years ago society as a majority society considered them extream. Some off us remember it even if we disagreed.
Gay marriage was def extream when I was in my teens. Gary rights at all in my parents teens. (They also disagreed)
And a very small % of any of those considered their religious ideals as a significant element.
Unfortunately it requires our government to take a strong position. To actually stand up publicly and tell the people of the UK. We will not tollerarate this return to the fascist playback used before ww2.
Without that librarians and soon store keepers etc will constantly face the threats and attacks of extremists groups. Claiming the same anti DEI and equality shit happening in doge.
Much like anti abortion protesters try to intimidated those that disagree with them protesting clinics etc.
That is exactly what is being attempted here. Racism prejudice and fear for the future is being weaponised by the right. If our gov dose not stand up to the actions now. The attempts in the US to override the legal system etc will follow. Reform or a reunigghting of the people who support it will turn into a trump like administration.
We saw the start of this when Boris tried to shut down parliment illegally. The attacks on the echr are the UK equiv of the claim we saw leading up to trump 1. IE the supreme Court has become political. Gaining the power to take control. Our right is doing the same by trying to eject us from the courts mandate.
Again my memory may be flawed.
But I think Kenny everate had some issues. I remember him moving from the BBC to itv and back because he pissed of staff at the BBC. But can't remember the details.
Yeah. Chinas attempt to close the plant. Even while the gov was offering to provide the fuel costs etc.
Makes it clear nationalisation os the only why we can ensure the plant is kept able to produce steel.
The chinese owners know full well shutting it down is akin to disabling it. And wanted to walk out doing that.
The workers who kept it running while the gov got this bill running. Deserve some seriose credit here.
Mainly because they are unprofitable edit: typo reversed my meaning.
The gov is considering nationalisation but to keep the active ability in the UK not for prifit. It was announced this morning that the plant would likely have to run at a loss.
I agree we should nationalize it. And if we are losing money anyway. Use the steel for most gov projects etc.
But parliment is not considering it practicle for us to sell steel at a compeitive rate to china amd other cheap labour nations.
And as of now. Even the quality is not likely to be a huge selling point. As china etc are very able to make quality steel now.
When was he cancelled. Maybe my memory is flawed.
I remember it as his him stopping recording due to health. And his humor just not appealing to the 90s generation.
Heck even those of us who grew up in the 70s found the same basic joke a bit cringed as we grew up.
I remember most of his negative press being well after he had retired.
After 2 180s you are pointing the right way or never were.
Given at some point trump was not in charge. Seems another angle is needed for them all to be idiotic.
They are idiotic just not 180s
Nope if you look up using rated is a modern term adapted from US English. It is common in younger Internet raised populations. But those of us in our 50s never use razed.
My opinion:
Telegraph just dosent get it. No one pays tax on savings.
Yeah they get it they just intentionally mislead in the title. Tax is paid on the income savings earn. Not your savings.
But the Telegraph has no interest in arguing why those who can afford to save should get that extra income tax free. When they know full well it helps the economy more when it is spent or invested in other ways.
Putting money into savings only helps the bank. It is safer for the saver. But only to a very limited point the best investment for them.
This is why ISA have always had limited maximums and often encourage investment with some risk. Rather then supporting a tax free passive income alone.
Any form of passive income can only be beneficial to a society as a whole. If the recipient is encouraging growth in the form of income for the rest of society iE jobs/inferstructure/or risk based investments. (At least assuming we stick to fiat based currency. )
Access denied: rights versus reality in disabled people's access to transport
Access denied: rights versus reality in disabled people's access to transport
The government says it must cut benefits for the disabled They are completely wrong - Professor Richard Murphy
The government says it must cut benefits for the disabled They are completely wrong - Professor Richard Murphy
Presenting A Unified Response
Opinion:
Please bear with, this may get long. I tend to post then tidy when I have had a few option to reread. It's just how my mind works best. I am also visually impaired so miss errors. Please feel free to point any out.
The DWP currently estimates there are 16.1 million people in the UK considered disabled in some way. 24% of the population.
However accurate that number may be. When you add friends. family and supporters. It is more than enough people to be an electoral force.
So the big question I feel the need to ask. Why the hell do the 2 main parties suddenly feel so free to attack this community. Because to be clear here, the last 14 years have definitely been an attack on the disabled community. While despite a number of Labour MPs complaining. Labours leadership seems happy to blame all the economic woes of the UK on our community.
I am not going to get too politically biased here. But for info I am more left wing then current labour leadership, Like
New Disability UK Community
feddit.uk Disability UK - Feddit UK
A community for UK disabled lemmy members, to share news, support, ideas and friendship. Related directly to UK based issues and support.
cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/25880686
If a federated community like this already exists, please point me to it. I'd rather not divide the effort any more than necessary.
I think it is clear to anyone in the UK. The disabled community is now under attack.
This community is an attempt to help pull people together and consider ideas for support and to enhance our voice.
I like many others in our community over the last 14 years. Have enough mental health issues. That I'd be grateful for other mod volunteers who will share the time managing the group. In the hope, we can keep the workload of off to few people.
New Disability UK Community
feddit.uk Disability UK - Feddit UK
A community for UK disabled lemmy members, to share news, support, ideas and friendship. Related directly to UK based issues and support.
cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/25880686
If a federated community like this already exists, please point me to it. I'd rather not divide the effort any more than necessary.
I think it is clear to anyone in the UK. The disabled community is now under attack.
This community is an attempt to help pull people together and consider ideas for support and to enhance our voice.
I like many others in our community over the last 14 years. Have enough mental health issues. That I'd be grateful for other mod volunteers who will share the time managing the group. In the hope, we can keep the workload of off to few people.
New Disability UK Community
feddit.uk Disability UK - Feddit UK
A community for UK disabled lemmy members, to share news, support, ideas and friendship. Related directly to UK based issues and support.
cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/25880686
If a federated community like this already exists, please point me to it. I'd rather not divide the effort any more than necessary.
I think it is clear to anyone in the UK. The disabled community is now under attack.
This community is an attempt to help pull people together and consider ideas for support and to enhance our voice.
I like many others in our community over the last 14 years. Have enough mental health issues. That I'd be grateful for other mod volunteers who will share the time managing the group. In the hope, we can keep the workload of off to few people.
New Disability UK Community
feddit.uk Disability UK - Feddit UK
A community for UK disabled lemmy members, to share news, support, ideas and friendship. Related directly to UK based issues and support.
If a federated community like this already exists, please point me to it. I'd rather not divide the effort any more than necessary.
I think it is clear to anyone in the UK. The disabled community is now under attack.
This community is an attempt to help pull people together and consider ideas for support and to enhance our voice.
I like many others in our community over the last 14 years. Have enough mental health issues. That I'd be grateful for other mod volunteers who will share the time managing the group. In the hope, we can keep the workload of off to few people.
www.theguardian.com Allison Pearson’s ‘racist’ tweet is at centre of Telegraph’s row with police
Exclusive: Person who complained tells Guardian that columnist’s ‘Jew haters’ post was inflammatory
Boat work update.
EDIT: Update and pic in comments:
Hey folks. I posted a while back asking for some advice on a future purchase.
To sum up. My brother and I are visually impaired and retired through that.
We have purchased a tiny 25ft narrowboat between us we use to travel around the UK.
And as our vision is getting worse (we will likely lose it eventually). I have some major electrical work planed this year to make thing easy for us to maintain.
So I was looking for advice on nylon printing. Yep it has to be nylon. Because some of this stuff needs to sit over the tiny hot engine plus alternator and survive diesel splashes amd bilge water etc while supporting electronics.
But some here also pointed out petg will work when. The heat is less high. So thanks.
This is just an update that i have just had the printer etc delivered.
I have a Neptune 4 pro with a tent and vent system to keep temprature and fumes safe stable.
I have a 70c filament dryer and plan to print Descicant hokder to be
3D Scanning advice for noob
Sorry, this is not really 3d printing related. But as we have some cool folks here OS wise. I hopped you could help or point me the correct way.
As I have mentioned before my brother and I own a tiny narrow boat we are doing up.
The engine room is a nightmare. 4ft high with no top access. We are disabled (visual and flexibility basically old can't bend and classed as blind but some vision. ) So we have difficulty measuring exact space in a room we have to crawl through. Well it's very like Star Trek Jeffries tubes but greasy. ;)
We need to plan and mount electronics in there to support our use. (I sought advice on printing to help with this a while back and got fantastic help)
I am now starting to think having a 3d model of the engine room would make working out the layout much easier. So here is where advice is needed.
We are skint (poor for the US) so spending 1000s ain't an option. And likely not worth it anyway.
I have heard of android apps that use photographs. And tha
Newbe advice
I have never used a 3d printer. But have done a little research.
Be great if someone could confirm my intention is sane.
I have loads of Linux experience so my plans relate to open source all the way.
First off I am brassic(poor). So looking cheap all the way. My brother and I have a tiny narrowboat we are refitting. And plan to use the printer for stuff within the boat.
Due to this printing PA6 to go in the bilge is important. (Diesel and water bad for most other plastics)
As we are both vision impaired and old. The idea is most of the electrical mountings etc will be self designed and painted to make future access quick and easy with our rapidly worsening vision.
So my plan. I am looking at a elegoo Neptune 4 pro.
Because it is cheap but great value. Uses kipper. And seems easy to modify as I grow in use. Also supports temps needed for PA6 etc.
But I will need an enclosure to work with PA 6 and a dryer.
Dryer is cheap not an issue.
But I'm thinking of a tent enclosu
BBC opening of parliament. Tories still seem able to lie and distort.
Was watching the kings' speech on BBC. While the interviewed members of the 3 leading parties.
Amazing that the Tory member can make claims with no challenge. Specifically.
We will ensure labour stick to their promise not to raise taxes. (paraphrased)
They have claimed this throughout the election. Without labour or the media questioning it.
The actual promise.
Labour will not increase income tax, national insurance or VAT. (cut and paste from labour.org.uk)
This is not a promise to not raise taxes. It is about very specific taxes that generally affect the poorest more. Corp taxes capital gains etc are still free. But It seems intentional that Tories choose to ignore that.
Also, intentional that labour do not choose to publicly disagree.
Some claim about the nationalisation of rail costing a fortune.
While he included GB energy and others that do have some cost. He very openly attacked rail as the main cost.
This really needs challenging. Since privatisation, the g
Some windows help please
Hi. I've not really used Windows since the early 2000. Even then not much.
I have a single mini PC with windows on. And use it only for device firmware updates. As a ham radio nerd. You get many devices that can only be modified via windows.
Anyway it was set up with dual boot the normal way. Windows first as it came with it. Then make a real Linux partition to use the PC on my boat while travelling.
Now the issue is I am upgrading the Mini PC. Basically replacing memory and the tiny 128gb ssd. So need to install it all from scratch.
I have order a copy of windows 11 from ebay. (At a price I consider acceptable for the crap)
But its going to take several days to arrive. And I would like to be more efficient.
So I am hoping folks can advice me on the best way to set up the PC with Linux first then install Windows 11 later. Knowing windows has a habit of messing up grub etc.
Do not under estimate the Tories
This is opinion. So read it as such. But consider it please.
Obviously if you read this based on the title. I assume you oppose the Tories.
But if you are wondering why labour are so keen to manage expectations. There is a reason.
Campaign funding wise the Tories are estimated to be 19m ahead of labour. But honestly at the moment they are not spending a huge amount more.
We know the Tories are skilled at election manipulation. So there is genuine fear that the Tories plan to launch a campaign within the last few days.
I.E. when there is less time and funding to ensure fact checking is effective.
They know Starmer is more publicity aware then Corbyn was. He is able to play it in a way that dose not scare traditional Conservative voters.
They also know thanks to Boris, that the courts are unable to punish them for outright lies during any political campaign. And that Rishi is prepared to lie about and accuse civil servants of lying when challenged.
As huge as polling is a
Tories trying to order journalists to ask questions the wish to answer.
I cannot really see any other way to interpret this interview.
Remember this when looking at their attitude to protest etc.
Starmer can end campaign lies if he wins.
TLDR at the end I just post how I propose to convince the new parliament.
If polling is anything near to close. Starmer will enter parlimemt on the 5th with a landslide majority.
Time for us to remember the court case PM Johnson won for the 350m lie on a bus. The high Court simply stated.
Parliment has made no law banning lies during a campaign.
Well we really do have an opportunity to convince Starmer to change that. With Sunak and Co clearly following the last elections lead. Lieing about the civil service backing up their cost estimates.
It is time parliment tried to build confidence in election claims. This would only be practical when it comes to provable falsehoods of fact. Such as the claims made about Starmers campaign. After they have been informed the civil service did not analyse the data they used.
Unfortunately forcing a party to follow its manifesto is not really doable. And if parliment made the law. The next parliment would cancel it.
How to convince Star
seems real bad when the civil service calls out tories Lies
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Seriosly. When you lie in a way that make the civil service look biased. You have losf all respect for the position you are trying to win.
Can any history geeks think of a time when a UK pilitician has been publically accused of falsely represeting the civil service.