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She (similar to Reagan in the US) enacted a massive shift in government/society from a more social-democratic focus to a more (economocally) liberal one. Her big goals were to privatize and financialize as much as possible.

This ended up leading to (as it always does) massive increases in inequality, with particularly rural/industrial regions suffering heavily while the services/financial sector in London boomed.

So she is EXTREMELY polarizing. Many conservatives or big-business types worship her, while for many/most others she's seen as the worst thing to happen to the UK.

Cars in cities.

You don't realize how insane they are until you spend time somewhere without them.

I had this too! I think my high frequency hearing is just really good.

I recently was at a wedding and only the little kids and myself (in my 30s) were really annoyed by this device the venue had which used high frequency beeps to scare away rodents and things.

Well, we're comparing them with (electric) cars here, which are much more expensive.

I'm Großbritannien ist es schon normal, dass man beim Wochenmarkt oder bei Straßenhändler mit Karte zählt.

The value of the stock (which is outrageously overvalued) is solely down to musk's personality cult. So now that it's been announced that he should be "leaving government and going back to his companies" it led to a stock jump, since his presence is the only reason that the stock is worth a lot in the first place.

The issue is that Musk often sounds convincing when he talks about things you don't really know much about, and there are a LOT of investors who have a lot of money but don't really know much about anything.

I'm not sure if it's a big reason, but one thing I noticed when living in the UK is that it seemed to be much easier for local landowners to block things from being built compared to other countries I've lived in.

I feel like the Thames path through London was kind of representative of that. I feel like anywhere else it would be a normal walking path along the river, but instead it has big gaps, sections that are private, or even some which are closed certain days.

Just the fact that they wanted to make HS2 go UNDERGROUND through large parts of the countryside was a wild idea.

Both were really intense for me, but Jurassic Bark can't be topped (personally)

The physical design was somewhat similar but if you look at old footage from cities you'll see that walking on the street was completely normal.

There didn't yet exist this idea that we have to leave 80% of the street exclusively for cars.

I'm well aware, but I prefer more light in the afternoon than in the early morning.

Having the middle of the day at 1 PM is nicer year-round

I'm genuinely confused how you think that these two examples of internal uprisings are at all connected to someone saying effectively "don't count on international law to mean anything since there isn't any body to enforce it"

The feed/social network bit is useless, but it's (sadly) by far the best job-search tool for my industry (tech).

I always try to use other platforms, but my last 3 jobs have all been found through linkedin. This across various European countries, if that helps as a reference point.