it’s impossible to understand why photos of normal looking European streets keep going crazy viral on here until you appreciate that a really big number of american *town centres* look something like this
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- One reason people insist that you use the proper channels to change things is because they have control of the proper channels and they’re confident it won’t work
- Brussels has lit up its main square in Union Jack colours to say goodbye to the Brits 😭
- wages haven’t gone up in a decade, inflation is 10%, you can’t get an ambulance, GP, or dentist, energy bills have doubled, interest rates are heading to 6%, the rental market has gone mad, rail fares up, childcare is bonkers, and a pound is now worth one dollar. what did I miss
- can you imagine the hysterical reaction if someone had suggested the creation of public libraries today. ‘for free? how are you going to pay for that, STALIN?'
- You don’t hear much about Eat Out To Help Out these days do you
- Imagine you're Kwasi Kwarteng: you've got strident views about economic policy and you even wrote a book about it. you finally get the job as chancellor, the peak of your game, and get to test out your ideas! turns out they are garbage and the economy explodes
- yeah that civil service tweet is good, but it’s even better when it’s being read out slowly on BBC News
00:00 - this is an important thing to remember when US urbanist YouTubers say a city is ‘walkable’ they don’t mean it’s pedestrianised or whatever, they mean it’s actually possible to walk placeswalking five minutes through bend, oregon, to get a coffee, just to be told that the dutch bros is drive-thru only
- It’s perfectly legal to sail across the channel in a rubber dinghy, and perfectly legal to claim asylum in the UK once you get there
- close more streets and put pub tables on them (before vs after)
- when money was free and interest rates were basically zero, the UK destroyed its public services in the pursuit of balanced budgets. Now money is expensive the UK going to borrow lots of it to spend on cutting taxes for rich people 😸
