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GasVeteran

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    I expect you to be able to use your brain to distinguish obvious hyperbole (it was absolutely obvious) with a matter of fact statement. I am starting to suspect that this playing d…

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    Comment #42792813

    > Of housing and public infrastructure in the UK? Politics: Green belt and similar planning restrictions, austerity, Thatcherism, privatisation, restricting local councils' ability…

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    Comment #42786370

    Never said it was a silver bullet. I said I would rather people concentrate on more important things than configuring a linter. Half the time this stuff gives you weird errors that…

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    Comment #42786325

    Apparently you don't understand the concept of hyperbole.

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    Comment #42786263

    > Supply and demand. Immigrants supply, they don't just demand. Why is there a massive shortfall then when we've had the largest amount of immigration then? Why was there a shortfa…

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    Comment #42783266

    It is amazing when it comes to any topic that is constantly thorny people will constantly twist your words. When I say "magically solve", I specifically mean that it wouldn't have …

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    Comment #42781181

    Again, the utilities cannot be scaled as easily. There are problems with building houses right now because there just isn't enough supply in some areas of the nation grid. That isn…

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    Comment #42778964

    > Despite what you might read in the news, occupancy per household is LOWER than it has been for a long time. It has nothing to do with what I read on the news. It is simply number…

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    Comment #42778936

    Whether it is part of the "goals of brexit" or not, is kinda irrelevant. The point is that we cannot build more homes easily, even if we could that has issues with other infrastruc…

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    Comment #42778666

    > 2022 and 2023 were the highest years on record for net migration into the UK. The only reason 2024 wasn't even higher was due to the new Conservative government's policy stopping…

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    Comment #42778290

    > Police searched Much’s house and removed and confiscated the posters. The public prosecutor imposed a penalty order of €6,000 for “criminal insult to politicians”. The guy had hi…

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    Comment #42778148

    It would be better if we just change the immigration policy. Last time I checked there was 400,000 leaving the country each year and somewhere between a million and 1.4 million ent…

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    Comment #42777941

    The point he is making is that a lot of stuff that you are told you need . You actually don't. Especially if you are working by yourself or in a very small team. Getting stuff work…

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    Comment #42773812

    Are they? It sounds hard to believe. But I haven't been to London in a very long time.

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    Comment #42772809

    It is the combination of what I described is the real issue. If it was just "people are a bit rude" I personally wouldn't be that worried about it.

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    Comment #42772797

    They don't have the countryside, clean air and amazing views.

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    Comment #42772775

    Not at all. It is quite clear that you are doing the "lets take this to the logical extreme". That might be fine in some sort of debate club tactic but it isn't what I was suggesti…

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    Comment #42772685

    These are all solutions that ignore the main problem. They literally cannot build enough properties (whatever they are) to fill current demand. Even if they relax the regulations t…

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    Comment #42770596

    Yeh I figured that. No worries.

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    Comment #42770220

    > You've moved the goal posts. You said 60k if your lucky. No I didn't. I suggest you re-read the thread. I said 75K-90K max. > I just found multiple jobs that pay more than that e…