Plus banks are a pain to get to and do deposits. Cash is risky and costly to deal with. CC charges a fee, so maybe those costs are less visible as it’s skimmed right off the top, but many retailers just pass that on,

Because you implied they were being selective in enforcement. So, comparison is applicable.

Lol for a cheese competition.

Border checks are often slow. The EU didn’t sabotage. An individual agent likely made an error as an exception means it was not normal procedure.

When you impose extra beurocracy on yourself, sometimes you get outcomes like this. It’s why some companies from the EU are reducing trade with the UK and why some UK companies are reducing trade with the EU.

Yes, because uk border checks have all been perfect. No delays, no wasted goods, no skipping checks.

I mean he wanted to nuke hurricanes ffs.

That’s corporate speak for “we didn’t want it to do that and we don’t approve”. Usually followed by a platitude about correcting it.

Lol, if only there was some way we could have some kind of agreement with close trading partners to not require customs checks.

It’s Ken from sf6 with the VI logo.

Maybe that’s the long form for Ken?

There is no penalty for inappropriate prescription of antibiotics. Or, if there is, in unaware of anyone who faced consequences.

I’ve never really used Linux as a daily driver. Back in the same Ubuntu period as you, intrialled it but got sick of software compatibility problems. So much is cloud web based these days, that it’s less of an issue.

What surprised me as a distro hopped looking for my home laptop flavourz was how different it was to install different software, such as docker. Some distros it was a hassle to run well. Some it needed workarounds, whichh surprised me.

So, I’d look at what you plan to run, then decide between opensuse, pop, mint or fedora and how easy they support what you want to do. I dipped back into Ubuntu but they have started to make some m$ style choices where you have to take back control as they try to make your PC act like they want not how you want.

All can be made to support whatever you want but not all do our of the box.

I don’t know about energy efficiency, but I’d imagine it’s pretty good, but a Japanese rice cooker is cheap and reliable with perfectly cooked rice every time.

I have a Philips but I know there are lots of Japanese brand rice cookers that are more reliable. It can also be used for steaming.

Yes, when China first started supporting Russia, much commentary noted that and made the point that Russia was desperate for allies and products and China anted to increase influence, so could use the increased relationship to their advantage to exert control over Russia, through the use of financial tools.

Yes, nobody wants tariffs, but China is already facing them from USA, so they are more at risk.bthe EU won’t want retaliation from China but they also don’t want Russia to continue to affect their economy and stability. China would have to choose and they would choose Europe as they are not natural allies with Russia anyway, and Russia won’t buy much off them. China needs huge amounts of resources, some of which Russia has, but they are moving away from fossil fuels faster than europe and USA and Russia.

Likely economically. Currently China will be wary of USA sanctions on trump and Russia having favour from trump. They won’t want to be on the outside o while their economy is already slowing down.

My dad was going grey, so my brother bought him ‘just for men’ hair dye, which he opened at the Christmas dinner table with the entire family. He was about 9. We still laugh about it.

Good job on not serving her. Unfortunately in service culture where the customer is always right, there often is no blowback from customers being rude or unreasonable. There needs to be pushback, even small victories are still a win.

It is quite odd. Also odd that they would agree to so much while still negotiating on so many other fronts. Would have made more sense for government to agree to all at the same time, benchmarked against each other.

Some of those negative stereotypes were started as a method to dehumanise and control. As one of those stereotypes that notes racism each time I’m in the UK, it’s definitely not a case of British people thinking they are not better than others.

Which goes back to the point about France and Germany being able to control the momentum with a third of the population.