Bitcoin is gold stripped of all use value & made electronically transferrable at significant per transaction expense. Financially it’s a perpetual bearer bond that generates no interest. The only… (View Post)

Round here we get a rubbish collection every week that alternates between recycling & general waste. Food waste is collected every week. Generally it seems to work fine - the recyclable / non-rec… (View Post)

The Ukranians inherited a sizable chunk of the nuclear arsenal of the Soviet Union post-fall. They probably didn’t have the knowledge or resources required to maintain it though: Getting rid in retur… (View Post)

Yes, this is culture war shit stirring by a tired government that apparently has nothing else left to offer except rousing the faithful with outraged stories about asylum seekers / economic migrants … (View Post)

The new student loan regime (which I believe has been trailed but not put into action yet) extends the payment period but reduces the interest rate to the RPI, rather than the RPI+4%. (View Post)