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It is charitable to call it childish. It is unprofessional. And it indicates a culture of "the rules don't apply to us because we are so cool".

No, that is not what open banking is about at all. It just means that your financial data is not held in a prison by your banking provider. It means you have control over who you s…

Well, this is a crock of shit. These guys want to discredit the regulator so that future money grabbers such as these will find it easier. I hope they get roasted over coals by the…

Here is another example of what happens to people's lives when they are trapped in a bureaucracy they cannot control. https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-58259497

Yes of course. If the actions of a collective group are causing harm to others, I expect members of the collective to feel responsible. This is how we build a caring society. If my…

A lot of comments are suggesting workarounds. This behaviour by Google is atrocious. They are causing massive inconvenience to some people (albeit a very small number) just because…

As a vegetarian, I always have a moral dilemma when choosing dietary supplements. Perhaps I don't have to face these dilemmas if I can include lab grown meat in my diet therefore o…

> For news you can watch international news stations from India. Very realistic and refreshing. Did you mean "if you are in India you can watch international news channels to get a…

It is a bit like "don't let the truth get in the way of a good story". I have felt the urge to respond with something witty and scathing to a story online, only to realise after a …

This has probably something to do with big tech companies putting out highly polished products for "free" while making money in no-so-obvious ways. People have been conditioned to …

Instead of expecting corporate users to pay (which can be difficult, corporate finance depts are good at spending large sums of money, but suck at small expenses), or acknowledge u…