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Energy prices, what's your plan?

Discussion in 'Serious' started by ElThomsono, 30 Aug 2022.

  1. Zak33

    Zak33 Staff Lover of bit-tech Administrator

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    I know when I am being trolled. Don't feed the trolls. Over n out
     
  2. MLyons

    MLyons 70% Dev, 30% Doge. DevDoge. Software Dev @ Corsair Lover of bit-tech Administrator Super Moderator Moderator

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    I mean that's been a problem pre truss to be fair.
     
  3. sandys

    sandys Multimodder

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    Her ideas were at least something, the corporations running financial markets being a load of sketchy gits are not something you can wholly control, the ability for them to find loop holes and sketchy vehicles to maximize their profits will be their downfall, it is still imminent, with rising rates even more bank failures are looking likely, placing the whole world market into disarray, it's going to get worse, hope you preppers have got your bunker ready :D

    Certainly my mortgage rising by 500/month is not joyful, I've have had to cut back on the Coke and Hookers, no more threesomes. :p :D
     
  4. Mr_Mistoffelees

    Mr_Mistoffelees The Bit-Tech Cat. New Improved Version.

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    She got what she deserved. You can't take on the responsibility of Prime Minister, then go at the job like a bull in a china shop, with a rocket up it's arse. She comprehensively failed to properly consider the potential consequences of her actions.
     
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  5. koola

    koola Minimodder

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    She was changing the system that has been broken for a long time. The main issue was she was too quick too fast. What you have got now is even worse, with the high tax, big government and no energy security. Here in China, my tax has been cut and talent cash incentives were awarded. This is the kind of things the UK should be doing, but you are spending like 6 million a day on economic refugees.
     
  6. koola

    koola Minimodder

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    Too quick too fast, but her plans were at least conservative and forward thinking.
     
  7. koola

    koola Minimodder

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    This current government is just making the situation worse and hastening the demise of the financial sector. I'm all in Bitcoin and diversified across precious metals.
     
  8. Byron C

    Byron C I was told there would be cheesecake…?

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    Ok, now you really are trolling.

    She wasn’t moving too quick too fast, she was blindly following a half-baked plan from some right-wing think tank that was completely unsustainable. Like Tory governments that went before, and have come after, they needlessly inflicted untold economic damage to people in this country while enriching their friends and allies.

    But by all means, please enjoy your cheap energy (despite the literal cost in human lives), your low tax, your wholly sustainable crypto investments, and your authoritarian genocidal government.
     
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  9. koola

    koola Minimodder

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    Who's trolling, this is a serious talking thread right?

    We have differing points, yes.

    Change is sometimes hard to except, especially when it cuts away from the norm and that's exactly what she tried to do. Her party was ultimately responsible for not backing her 100% and every politician looking out for their own interests, not the countries.

    I sense a holier than thou attitude from you. Need I not remind you that the west outsourced their manufacturing to China and the wider SEA along with plastic rubbish so it goes hand in hand with air pollution unfortunately. No government is perfect, but my point is China has its citizens economic interests at heart and that is plain to see and feel here. I guess it's a long cold wait until the next general election where the other side will be voted in and the same old same old. I'm a bit cynical yes.
     
  10. Gareth Halfacree

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    No they weren't, they were uncosted, reactionary, populist nonsense. Which is why she's not PM any more.

    Ah, another of China's laws you're flouting. So much for respecting national laws and customs, eh?

    No wonder you need a VPN!
     
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  11. koola

    koola Minimodder

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    You are amusing. Shanghai already passed law that states it's legal to own Bitcoin. it's not legal to use as tender and I don't.
     
  12. Gareth Halfacree

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    That wasn't my understanding of the law - I understood it outlaws any cryptocurrency transactions, including buying Bitcoin - but I will defer to your local knowledge on this one. (Mostly 'cos I'm on my phone eating lunch and my desire to deep-dive in DuckDuckGo is limited!)
     
  13. Byron C

    Byron C I was told there would be cheesecake…?

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    Of course it does, you only need to ask the Uyghurs. I’m sure they’ll agree that the genocide being committed against them clearly demonstrates that the Chinese state truly does have the interests of all its citizens at heart. How much more clearly can you demonstrate that interest than committing genocide against those very citizens?

    And forgive me for not being bothered in the slightest if an apologist for a genocidal regime thinks I come off as “holier than tho”. You’re goddamn right I do.
     
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  14. koola

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    Arn't you over dramatic. There is no genocide so take your BBC mouthpiece elsewhere. The Uyghurs are in re-education camps for having religious beliefs, contary to the states and parties guidelines. If they don't like living in China, then they should move to another country where they are free to practice Islam.
     
  15. Gareth Halfacree

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    Putting my moderator hat on:

    Koola, you have already been warned about posting content suggesting, in any way, that it is fair and just to persecute a people based on race, nationality, or religion. It is not. Nor is it legal in this and most other countries.

    You may argue China's dominance in energy pricing, air-pollution-deaths-per-capita, or a host of other things (well, given the topic of the thread, mostly those two), but this is not the place - neither this thread specifically nor this forum in general - to excuse literal concentration camps.

    Repeated infractions will result in a ban. This is your second and last warning.
     
  16. koola

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    This is how it goes isn't it. When you don't like the opinions all you can do is silence.

    All I have stated is that it's against one countries laws and they are handling it accordingly.
     
  17. Byron C

    Byron C I was told there would be cheesecake…?

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    Gareth rarely puts on his moderator hat, so I’ve deleted what I was going to post. Suffice it to say that the point has been made.
     
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  18. Gareth Halfacree

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    Hate is never an opinion. Believing I'm out to silence you is an opinion, but thankfully one I couldn't give two hoots about.

    Have a week off.
     
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  19. adidan

    adidan Guesswork is still work

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    I'm employing restraint too...
     
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  20. MLyons

    MLyons 70% Dev, 30% Doge. DevDoge. Software Dev @ Corsair Lover of bit-tech Administrator Super Moderator Moderator

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    No need to talk about your friday nights.

    Back on topic after i derailed it. I should be getting my first direct debit taken out next week so it'll be interesting to see the cost vs usage when they're assuming a 4 bed house fully occupied when it's only me there 4 days a week.
     
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