The level of language ability you need to successfully negotiate dealing with a bad medical problem, or getting into difficulties with the police, is actually pretty high -- I would expect that for s… (View Post)

The numbers here clearly are not going to work, but I note that the SF proposal reported by the Guardian is not "reparations for slavery" but "for decades of racist treatment by the ci… (View Post)

Well, yeah, but it always felt more like a genius for getting elected than a genius for the actual job. It's an unfortunate failure mode for democracy that it tends to select more for those who … (View Post)

I get the impression that China has been doing more than the West in the way of making preparations so it isn't completely screwed in the event of a sudden wideranging economic disengagement[*],… (View Post)

Temporary high deposits due to a house purchase/sale are explicitly covered by the UK scheme already. (View Post)