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Rates are not going back to sub-2% for a long time

I disagree quite strongly.

Economies limping along at ~1% GDP growth per year and little or no GDP per capita growth can’t handle larger base rates for long. It’s a self-correcting cycle - if base rates remain elevated for too long discretionary spending will collapse and many, many businesses/loans/credit with it.

Rishi promised to half inflation not because he’s a financial genius with a secret trick, but because he knows two things: 1) what I said above, 2) inflation is often given as a YoY measure, so by December 2023 we’re measuring inflation above the 10% inflation of December last year, and the country can’t afford 10% inflation per year for long either.

Dear god, he can’t possibly be actually that dense

Nah he’s not. They’re not allowed to do anything but toe the party line if they want election support/funding, ministerial roles, post-MP consulting jobs etc, so they say stupid things a lot and pretend they mean it.

It is proposing a new licence condition to “ensure electricity generators don’t take advantage of existing rules to make excessive profits”

Why? If you want an energy market you shouldn’t be surprised when it does what it can to grow profits, including withholding supply to sell later at higher prices.

This is typical of the past 10-15 years. Plasters on gaping wounds. Energy providers should be competing to sell us their energy generation capabilities. Competition drives down prices in the long run, not intervention. Of course, the lack of an energy strategy or any investment into one for a decade does leave us a bit… well, fucked.

but ones that also have a special duty to take a long-term view.”

Nice of them to admit they don’t currently care about anything but the short term. Changing the name won’t change their outlook, get these utility monopolies back into government control.

I also try to dissuade people from thinking their two options are two sides of the same coin by… checks notes… doing the same as the other side.

I get this a lot. Hot posts 4 days old with no new comments. Something isn’t quite right yet.

WHERE HAS TOM GONE

No-one is suing reddit for any of this. Reddit is a private business that can charge what it likes for it’s API, can shut down 3P apps usage without warning etc.

The only power we have is leaving the platform.

There’s been a thousand predictions of house prices falling over the past decade for a hundred reasons, and every single one falls over the fact we have a drastic shortage of housing and no credible plan to increase the speed we build them.

25-30% in real terms is pure fantasy pulled from your arse and it’ll never happen, not even close. Does Lemmy have a remindme bot so I can come back in 6/12 months and point this out?

They’re gonna get crucified at GE.

Food costs creep up, you notice the cost has gone up bit by bit and maybe your butter costs 50p more, you grumble and you put it in your basket anyway. Rice has gone up 35p but you use it often so you grab a packet anyway, 35p is annoying but it’s only 35p.

Mortgage? For most people that goes up in one big bang from a 2% fix to a 5.5%. You’re now paying £200+/month more and there’s nothing you can do about it. Worse yet, you either fix and possibly fuck yourself over if rates start dropping or go variable hoping rates decrease sooner than later but stomach any increases before they do.

Yeah, Tories never deserved their “good with money and the economy” reputation, but they’re killing it themselves anyway.

Meanwhile, media doom clickbait “House prices could fall 35%!!”

Clown shows, the lot of them. If you don’t build enough houses house prices do not go down over time.

It’s clickbait for people who need to see Ukraine winning all the time. Like markets, day-to-day, week-to-week news from a warzone is just noise that’s best off ignored.

Search is garbage but it does work. If I search for another community that Feddit doesn’t have yet it first returns “No results”, then that goes away, then nothing happens, so I go to feddit.uk/c/<community>@<instance> and it’s there. Search should just show what it’s fetched.

Under 0.5 nukes used: 1/1000000000 Over 0.5 nukes used: 1000000000/1

No-one, not even Russia, is going to cross that line. This is a regional conflict with casualties in the tens of thousands. WW3 was a global conflict with casualties in the tens of millions.

Rustlings is genuinely god-tier for learning Rust.

Joke will be on us eventually. The man is probably plotting his comeback already.

It’s already started.

You misunderstand. Consultants don’t want to be experts in anything. Becoming an expert takes a lot of time and experience, which naturally limits the number of things you can be an expert in.

No, consultants just want to say they’re experts in things. No time/experience needed, just a plucky consultant and a keyboard.

With that in mind, Accenture are experts at SAP and AI now.

I’ve been using Garuda Dragonized for over a year. It’s been no problem at all, runs well and is obviously Arch behind the Garuda additions (which are few and pretty much optional to use). It’s a simple way to start using Arch.

They do provide some useful stuff - garuda-update is helpful enough and the maintainers are active, typically getting package fixes out on the day issues are identified.

But yeah, it’s basically Arch. If you like Arch you’d like this, if you don’t like Arch you won’t. If you don’t want stuff pre-installed you won’t like the dragonized edition.