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Re: UK Proposes Even More Stupid Ideas for Directly Regulating the Internet

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Post by Lio »

LatteLazy wrote: post #46

I once again find myself apologizing for my country and trying to explain that in 20 years our (very severe) boomer infestation will be fixed and we'll be a real place again. Sorry.

I've never quite understood why saying something like this is still socially acceptable.

I know that my own Mum and Dad didn't vote for the current government nor do they support blunt, poorly thought out Tory policy. Yet I know so gen z and millennial people that do.

If you want to apologise for something why don't you take responsibility for your own ageism, it's repellent.

Re: UK Proposes Even More Stupid Ideas for Directly Regulating the Internet

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Post by notahacker »

londons_explore wrote: post #97
notahacker wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is nonsense. There is no UK "price gouging" legislation applicable to paying more to import foodstuffs

The law is against 'unfair business practices', but the Competition and Markets Authority took action when businesses raised the price of hand sanitizer when there was lots of demand in 2020. Now businesses generally can't make big price shifts due to increased demand or constrained supply. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/cma-and-trade-bod...

The CMA investigated whether firms were stockpiling hand sanitizer and making excessive profits on it by creating artificial shortages, at a time when hand sanitizer was being promoted as an essential good. As your link acknowledges, they then promptly closed all the cases without further action.

Paying more to suppliers to import a particular non-essential foodstuff in a year in which most food prices have risen is even less likely to invite action.

If fuel prices can legally double overnight and fuel vendors make larger markups as global prices stabilise without the CMA batting an eyelid, it's quite hard to pretend that the CMA is the obstacle to us having access to the same food supply chains as European supermarkets...

Re: UK Proposes Even More Stupid Ideas for Directly Regulating the Internet

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Post by favaq »

Agingcoder wrote: post #100
favaq wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"off-season tomatoes" hasn't been a thing in decades. Tomatoes are available at affordable prices all year long.

Well, I would hardly call 10$/kilo affordable. Where I live ( France), at the height of the season, and assuming you live in the south, good tomato will cost about 2-3$/kilo. In winter you can indeed buy tomatoes (for more money) which look like tomatoes but are tasteless and are therefore a different kind of product. It might be possible to get good tomatoes as well, but I assume this will incur a significant premiu…

>Well, I would hardly call 10$/kilo affordable.

They have always been affordable, now they are not

Re: UK Proposes Even More Stupid Ideas for Directly Regulating the Internet

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Post by dxbydt »

morbia wrote: post #23

This is something that comes up time and time again with our recent string of conservative governments, going back to Cameron. At this point I'm pretty convinced that it is a dead cat strategy to avoid us talking about the lack of fruit and vegetables in the supermarkets. Or maybe I'm just being hopeful.

Total agreement. As a longtime anglophile, I believe the UK governance literally conforms to Yes Minister.There exists a strong bijection between any ongoing UK crisis and a corresponding Yes Minister episode. I have discovered a wonderful proof for this theorem but the HN margins are too narrow.

Re: UK Proposes Even More Stupid Ideas for Directly Regulating the Internet

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Post by selfhoster11 »

Lio wrote: post #101
LatteLazy wrote: post #46

I once again find myself apologizing for my country and trying to explain that in 20 years our (very severe) boomer infestation will be fixed and we'll be a real place again. Sorry.

I've never quite understood why saying something like this is still socially acceptable. I know that my own Mum and Dad didn't vote for the current government nor do they support blunt, poorly thought out Tory policy. Yet I know so gen z and millennial people that do. If you want to apologise for something why don't you take responsibility for your own ageism, it's repellent.

To charitably interpret parent’s comment, boomerism is a state of mind and not exclusively an age bracket. There are plenty of young boomers and plenty of boomer-aged open minded people.

Re: UK Proposes Even More Stupid Ideas for Directly Regulating the Internet

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Post by [deleted] »

andrewstuart wrote: post #42
morbia wrote: post #23

This is something that comes up time and time again with our recent string of conservative governments, going back to Cameron. At this point I'm pretty convinced that it is a dead cat strategy to avoid us talking about the lack of fruit and vegetables in the supermarkets. Or maybe I'm just being hopeful.

How do people in UK feel about the food shortages? Do they blame brexit?

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Re: UK Proposes Even More Stupid Ideas for Directly Regulating the Internet

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Post by jen20 »

tempodox wrote: post #25
jen20 wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Given that he was a proponent of Brexit, I think he really should be forced to stay.

I understand the impulse, but punishing people for having the “wrong” opinion is despotism.

It’s not a punishment: it’s simply reaping the benefits of the promised sunlit uplands, after he removed the ability of so many others to move.

Re: UK Proposes Even More Stupid Ideas for Directly Regulating the Internet

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Post by captaincaveman »

andrewstuart wrote: post #42
morbia wrote: post #23

This is something that comes up time and time again with our recent string of conservative governments, going back to Cameron. At this point I'm pretty convinced that it is a dead cat strategy to avoid us talking about the lack of fruit and vegetables in the supermarkets. Or maybe I'm just being hopeful.

How do people in UK feel about the food shortages? Do they blame brexit?

There is a shortage in some out of season fruit/veg, I really have not been impacted at all. Importing less food staples, and eating/growing food within our climate range is no bad thing.

Re: UK Proposes Even More Stupid Ideas for Directly Regulating the Internet

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Post by captaincaveman »

favaq wrote: post #73
Agingcoder wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, it's winter now - I'd expect off season fruits and vegetables to be more expensive? Or do you mean that tomatoes are more expensive now than last winter?

"off-season tomatoes" hasn't been a thing in decades. Tomatoes are available at affordable prices all year long.

Grown in massive greenhouses require electric etc thus the cost has gone up because the cost of fuel has gone up, including transporting these things across the continent.

Re: UK Proposes Even More Stupid Ideas for Directly Regulating the Internet

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Post by captaincaveman »

MonkeyClub wrote: post #95
timeon wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I still do not get why people buy those sad pale tomatoes in winter.

Tesco tomatoes are a bright, happy red - and remain so even after six months in the fridge.

Yes can't easily use the colour to judge how tasty tomatoes are, some of the best ones I've ever had were a big green looking, but were grown in the Portuguese sun naturally.
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