stev posted:

We're going to end up with people wanting to go into the office because the cost of the commute is significantly cheaper than the cost of being at home for an extra 10 hours each day.

Convex posted:

I feel much like Stringer Bell in his final moments. Just get on with it

stev posted:

We're going to end up with people wanting to go into the office because the cost of the commute is significantly cheaper than the cost of being at home for an extra 10 hours each day.

namesake posted:

The sequence of events will be:

1) October fuel cap drains remaining savings and income from most working class households.
1b) Recession probably declared as Q3 growth is negative meaning serious fears about future spread across country.
2) Winter covid wave kicks off in November due to low resistance from waning/low immunity in general population and poor uptake of new vaccines because covid is over.
3) Staffing issues from covid wave and long covid/lack of medical access generally and lack of customer spending cripples retail during the holiday season.
4) With the public having little else to do and no pandemic restrictions due to the impact on already failing businesses the Christmas period has large gatherings in homes and surviving public venues, worsening covid wave.
5) January is chaos month as NHS cannot handle covid wave, all services except emergency stopped or gone remote just as days of blackouts ordered, worsening public health as people are forced to gather together to limit individual heating costs and businesses close up after holiday period income not enough to allow them to keep going.
6) With literally every possible mode of existence being horrible and filled with risk - riots and public looting become commonplace.
7) February revolution. CON +8

sinky posted:

8) Starmer says strikes and rioting are unacceptable while societal collapse is ongoing being loadedcinto a cauldron along with pasta and carrots at the local soup kitchen.

Payndz posted:

namesake posted:

The sequence of events will be:

1) October fuel cap drains remaining savings and income from most working class households.
1b) Recession probably declared as Q3 growth is negative meaning serious fears about future spread across country.
2) Winter covid wave kicks off in November due to low resistance from waning/low immunity in general population and poor uptake of new vaccines because covid is over.
3) Staffing issues from covid wave and long covid/lack of medical access generally and lack of customer spending cripples retail during the holiday season.
4) With the public having little else to do and no pandemic restrictions due to the impact on already failing businesses the Christmas period has large gatherings in homes and surviving public venues, worsening covid wave.
5) January is chaos month as NHS cannot handle covid wave, all services except emergency stopped or gone remote just as days of blackouts ordered, worsening public health as people are forced to gather together to limit individual heating costs and businesses close up after holiday period income not enough to allow them to keep going.
6) With literally every possible mode of existence being horrible and filled with risk - riots and public looting become commonplace.
7) February revolution.

Amazingly most of these points can be reduced or ameliorated in advance by state action but lol.

Jaeluni Asjil posted:

https://twitter.com/RevRichardColes/status/1560176318586691587

Just Another Lurker posted:

Are the red numbers temperature or jobbies per nautical mile?

Guavanaut posted:

poos per metre (ppm)

Convex posted:

Its the average number of poos seen per person per minute

Clarence posted:

If this were Germany there would be a little shelf all along the shoreline where the poos could be inspected before being washed away.

Brendan Rodgers posted:

What if we means tested the turds on their way to the sea?

Payndz posted:

That's what the continental shelf is for!

Diet Crack posted:

Pretwave for that Je ne sais quoi

domhal posted:

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2022/aug/19/jeremy-vine-cycle-safety-london-helmet-cam

In which Jeremy Vine invents a whole new genre of video never seen before, definitely not on YouTube

and claims that the goal of making roads safe for cycling is not political.

History Comes Inside! posted:

Shell Energy relentlessly point out that they supply me only with energy from renewable sources, so what I’m getting from this is that I won’t be impacted at all by the rising cost of imported fossil fuels unless for some reason they’re either playing fast and loose with their definition of renewable or they just really like making money, or both.

crispix posted:

just a reminder that a couple of months ago he was doing a phone in on radio 2 about energy drinks (norman) and thinking about fag packets, he asked a medical expert why they can't "put a picture of a person shaking" on energy drink tins :/

i stopped what i was doing at work, unsure if i'd really heard that like

he gives peston a run for his money in the incredibly idiotic media person category

Darth Walrus posted:

https://twitter.com/flying_rodent/status/1560640427165749248?s=21&t=PFy7jpL79yzv7KZK-iOwlg

The Aditya Chakrabortty article linked here is genuinely loving terrifying.

quote:

edit: oh gently caress me
https://twitter.com/peterwalker99/status/1560630136940007427?cxt=HHwWhsCgoem1vKgrAAAA

Apraxin posted:

in the same vein:
https://twitter.com/JoannaPartridge/status/1560656133110452225?cxt=HHwWgsCq6f-eyKgrAAAA53% of small businesses expect to contract or fold outright within the next 12 months; restaurants being quoted energy bill rises of 300-500%

crispix posted:

they just need to be more entrepreneurial and start a business and make a profit, ops

they just need to invest more in their capital to produce their goods and services more efficiently, op

Guavanaut posted:

Could use some creative blurring, Jacob's Ladder or Silent Hill style.

Why go after energy drinks first though? You could do drunken violence, suicide, and liver damage on the alcohol bottles, or labor activists being murdered with chainsaws on coca cola company products, or a human arse hole on most of the papers.

RDevz posted:

There's a condition in the Generation Licence (Condition 17A, paragraph 6) that the company owning the wind farms will have that says that they're not allowed to cross-subsidise any other part of their group. Selling power at anything other than fair market price would be classed as a cross-subsidy and therefore a licence breach. So if Shell own the wind farms, they'll be forced to sell at the current, absurdly high, market prices; and if they're buying in power via PPAs with third parties, the owners of the wind farms aren't going to give a discount on their power, as that'll cause a revolt by their share holders.

Either way, Shell Energy will be paying full price for power while the companies owning the wind farms will be rolling around in a big pit of money.

crispix posted:

what even is the basis of their protest at this point?

we've been vaccinated against covid for a fair while now and nobody has turned into a zombie-vampire or w/e they were hysterical about when it was a new thing

crispix posted:

got to love liz's answers to impending economic collapse that suggest she has read several chapters of a 1990s GCSE economics textbook and comprehended some of it

Payndz posted:

There was an anti-vax protest in Bournemouth today. They might have had more chance of being taken seriously if the protesters hadn't included people in Trump/MAGA hats, placard-waving 5G/New World Order/Bill Gates putting microchips in you conspiracists, and a Karen screaming "Don't you dare spit at me!" at random bystanders (who weren't spitting at her).