Shocker as initial demand is not somebody's negotiating endpoint. That was obvious from the first moment anybody mentioned 19%. (View Post)

...plus of course "inflation goes down to 4%" doesn't mean "prices go down to only 4% above their old levels circa 2021" or even "prices stop rising" -- it just mea… (View Post)

This feels to me like an idea that works in some other countries' healthcare systems (I think you can do this in Japan, for instance; the NHS system is definitely at the 'GP gatekeeper'… (View Post)

Rome clearly must have done quite a lot of its Empire-ing in Latin, because if you look at the Spanish, French, etc, languages they are descendants of Latin, not Greek. So the average provincial had … (View Post)

My employer's office doesn't have any tea trolley pushers, true, but on the other hand it does have baristas... (View Post)