They’ve been hollowing it out and privatising it for years. It doesn’t work on the railway which is why we’re looking at nationalising failing services, but for some reason when it comes to the NHS, the answer is more privatisation? If you privatise, it doesn’t matter how much funding is thrown in because there are always people skimming off the top.
IMO all private interests need to be kicked the fuck out, and their businesses nationalised. Forcefully if required.
The loss of maplins has made my Amazon boycott somewhat difficult, though not impossible, but there’s just no way to get small parts and adapters same day now, always have to wait for delivery. PC world used to have some stuff, but now it’s rolled into Currys you only get packaged stuff and peripheral cables and such. Sometimes Screwfix has what I need but it’s somewhat rare. They did have a bunch of audio a networking stuff last I looked though.
I can’t believe Americans would go for that after hearing how trump ran his businesses.
Yeah, the article doesn’t say “loads of”, just “scores of journalists”, so at least 40
Article says “scores” of journalists went on strike, I guess that’s what they mean by that. “Scores” is a bit of a loaded term imo, it sounds like loads but a score is only 20
RIP coconut milk.
Funny that before oats and soy started gaining in popularity they had no problems with coconut milk.
They see younger generations using less milk and this is their tantrum.
Meat industry does this too, but aren’t as successful most of the time.
Cool, I’d argue that alcohol and gambling are the more damaging to society, can we ban ads for those too?
Imagine how much they didn’t catch. My plug is doing import cannabis from the US right now. The risk isn’t much greater right now than operating grow houses in the UK so we’ve got some fun menus with US and UK cannabis on it, not something I’ve seen in the 18 years I’ve been smoking the stuff.
I’m up for legalisation of a few substances, but the main thing I want to see is a decent effort to bring people out of the black market when doing so.
I’m vegan, and I do honestly think that PETA get a bad rap for their animal shelter work, but their online presence is ridiculous and cringe and it doesn’t surprise me at all that they get ripped to shreds constantly.
What’s great is all the stuff I used to listen to in Uni (I’m 37 now) is also up there, like Torche and Manatees. Now I have the money to, I can chuck all these artists that I found in what.cd all those years ago a few quid. Whilst I’m sure they would have appreciated it more back in the day, I couldn’t afford it and spent most of my uni years flat broke.
I try and buy albums at shows mostly! They don’t put ridiculous markups on stuff at small shows, but some venues want a cut of merch sales too, which is why I’m assuming some venues you can’t get a band shirt at for less than 30 quid. I could be wrong about this if course, but I have seen it at bloodstock where bands were literally just chucking merch off stage because they would have had to pay hundreds of pounds to have merch up in the festival shop.
Well, bandcamp bill their cut later as far as I’m aware, but when you buy an album you are paying into the artists PayPal account, you even see a partial email address. Unless that system is somehow lying.
That’s my bet, it’s the best one right now. Not sure why OP didn’t just say it.
If you want to support artists, try bandcamp, it has streaming but it’s more of a “try before you buy service”, and money goes directly to the artists’ accounts. Mp3/flacs with no DRM or just stream as much as you like. For an old-head like me who still has an SD card and a headphone jack on my phone, it’s perfect.
Maybe look into setting up your own supply chain or paying the businesses you rely on enough money to fix their supply?
If fairphone can set up a whole new phone manufacturering supply chain to make sure they don’t have any child slaves, I’m sure this isn’t so difficult, it’s many more suppliers, but many less steps.
Alternatively, go vegan and stop contributing to this barbaric industry.
I’d say just let sex workers run brothels and hire security and much of the problem will disappear, but I fear if it were just legalised in the UK, corporations would want to run the show and would cause a whole set of other problems for sex workers.
I have similar reservations about the legalisation of cannabis too, for I fear it would just be legalised without any effort to bring people out of the black market, pushing them to deal in harder substances.
As long as it means more rights for the worker and not less I’m all for it.
Rice and beans is life
It has everything but in my experience, you’ll need to wait a few weeks while whatever it is comes in from China.