MouldyCat

You're probably right but there's pretty stiff competition from all the other moronic stuff they're doing in foreign affairs, like tariffs and threatening to invade allies.

They really are speed-running the death of the American Empire.

Funny the article doesn't mention that people on prepayment used to pay more per unit of energy than everyone else, which IMO was always the most offensive part of forcing poor people onto them.

At least the government/Ofgem stopped that overcharging in July 2023 (the period covered by this compensation ends in Jan 2023).

Tangentially, I do feel strongly that a more fair system of energy pricing would not have any separate standing charge, and would instead incorporate those costs into the unit cost of energy. As it is, the less power you use, the higher your effective price per unit is which seems to be the opposite of what we want given the need to encourage people to use less energy. If one household uses half the energy of another household, ideally their bills would be half as much (if not even less than that).

Farage is getting disturbingly high figures for someone who's such an obvious grifter

"We demand you voluntarily side with progress"

They have an interesting concept of voluntary to be sure

Your downvotes make me wonder if I misunderstood your post, but you seem to be saying that Spain's Airbnb regulations make it harder for people to buy flats with the intention of using them as short-term holiday lets, while not really stopping people who just want to rent a room in their own house for short periods. Which does sound good to me, given that those empty rooms in grandma's house wouldn't otherwise be on the market.

So is your point that this is "anti-tourist" in the sense that it does make things more difficult for tourists, but that should be expected given that tourists are generally indifferent to the long term negative effects of tourism on a city?

You must be able to see that giving your daughter your mother's name as a middle name is not at all the same as giving your son your own name?

Vanity isn't it? Pathetic male vanity. Never hear women doing it do you.

Three. Hundred. Million. Pounds.

Government IT spending is absolutely insane. That's 100 people on £100k a year for 30 years. How does this get through oversight? And then they deliver a shitty system and there's no comeback?

While true, why are you linking this comment in almost all the other comments?

I've been stuck repeatedly asking myself this question ever since reading your comment 😩 Please be careful about throwing infinite while true loops around! Now I need someone to Ctrl-C me.

That's interesting. I've always thought the name a little weak, so you prompted me to find its origins. According to wiki:

Taler is short for the "Taxable Anonymous Libre Economic Reserves"[7][8] and alludes to the Taler coins in Germany during the Early Modern period.

That definitely looks like a backronym! Anyway, the wiki for the Taler coins says this:

The word is shortened from Joachimsthaler, the original thaler coin minted in Joachimsthal, Bohemia, from 1520.

So the original root appears to be Thal or Tal i.e. valley (just like Neanderthal/Neandertal). The Taler wiki page goes on:

[The Holy Roman Empire's] longest-lived coin was the Reichsthaler, which contained 1⁄9 Cologne Mark of fine silver (or 25.984 g), and which was issued in various versions from 1566 to 1875.

Was Denmark part of the Holy Roman Empire? Either way, your ancestors would've presumably often traded with Germans using these early Thaler/Taler coins.

But.. but.. the children in the meme mines will go hungry tonight, you monster

Looks interesting - and ambitious. Who are you targeting this for? Non-tech people who do everything on their phones? What would attract such people to make the switch?

Anyway good luck. Do you allow people to use their own (or a third party's) email domain? A lot of people would not want to give up their established email address.

(And a small thing - it's spelt leisure not leasure! Otherwise it looks good and professional)