Yeah - go out in the sticks in France and see houses for sale for 50K, as a normal thing. Sure, there are big expensive places - the locals giggle about the English who buy the 8 bedroom house in the… (View Post)

More that he saw the boom in finance as allowing the spending he'd always wanted to do. So it wasn't a boom. "We've abolished boom and bust". So he treated the boom as busine… (View Post)

While we are at it, can we have toilet cubicles that are big enough for humans? Rather than dwarves made out of pipe cleaners? (View Post)

More importantly, people expect pub hours - 11am to 11pm. You start “being efficient” and not opening those hours, and then people drop by and it’s closed… Opening for a couple of hours at peak times… (View Post)

Many people agree on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ur-Fascism as a reasonable attempt at defining fascism. I’ve seen quibbles about some of the 14 points and additions suggested. But it has held up t… (View Post)