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Hey, at least it beats Micro USB.

I'd be lucky if those cables lasted more than a few months before breaking. I threw out literal bin bags full of them last time I moved, not a single one worked at all, no signs of visible damage either.

My USB-C cables have largely lasted, even the one that came with my OG Pixel still sees use, and one for my work laptop charger is literally bent 45 degrees up but still works fine anyway.

While I don't live that dongle life, I've never had one of these fail either, but I bought only one and it was fairly expensive.

Wasn't me who posted it, but the way I see it, here's how it makes sense in a sort of rough common sense way:

They dump as much as they can get away with. Roughly speaking, half the people, half the regulators, half the people bringing down the cost of labor needed to dispose of it properly, half the researchers making it easier.

While yes it would also mean half the plastics produced in the first place, it doesn't really matter, the companies dump as much as they can get away with.

Tories would absolutely be in power. The remain campaign was Cameron's and the wider establishment's camp.

No one on the left was vocally pro-remain because supporting neoliberal institutions like the EU and it's baggage of World Bank and IMF isn't exactly at the top of leftists minds. Even JC was pro-Brexit way back in the day. I'm pro-EU as a pragmatic thing but I think it would be hard to get the left excited about this. It's part of why Brexit won really, they had basically no opposition from anyone apart from the most swampiest and wooden of stooges.

their housing prices would be less like NZ and Canada and more like the European average.

I just don't see the connection. To avoid the housing issues present in the UK now, there would need to be radical nationalized housebuilding campaigns which would require both a party willing to tank house prices for the largest voting block - elderly homeowners.

They would need to fight past NIMBYism and tear up nonsensical environmental regulations (brown land, greens being anti-nuclear, skyline protections), obliterate red tape and cut out the middle-man private compliance consultancies sucking the government dry.

Then they'd need to then again radicalize the largest voting block of the population, the wealthy and the house of lords, alongaide the vast majority of MPs (who are Landlords) by taxing landlords heavily to prevent all new housing going to a few mafias of landlords who will price fix it.

By far most of this country's productive investment capital is tied up in housing and land, so this would likely create an economic crash as the sheikhs and various russian oligarchs, and other assorted abramoviches of the world pull out of expensive London real estate.

They then would need to scrap some expensive programs like triple lock, foresee that the megaprojects are a waste and do small developments and upgrades to infrastructure to cope with and supply for new housing, alongside nationalising utilities to lower prices both for themselves in getting the new builds connected, and also for the eventual tenants/owners on the bills, which would leave them with disposable income to spend in the economy.

All this would also require lower borrowing costs and either less debt or more GDP to leverage to borrow at lower interest rates, which would require a state that didn't sell off all of its money making assets in the 80s to private investors who ran with it and are now taking the piss, sometimes down our rivers.

None of those are things the UK has or would have had with or without Brexit.

Unless you can cite a source that attributes house prices increases to Brexit explicitly, or speculate on how a causal relationship would actually work, I don't see how the two relate in the slightest. I don't want to be dismissive either - if you have some idea, do tell me and I'd hear ya out.

The reason housing prices in the UK outpace Western Europe isn't something I'm aware of either, but I think a safe assumption is that demand must be a large factor, safe to assume that immigration to english-speaking countries adds additional demand the housing sector can't meet, exacerbating the existing issues.

No it won't. Learn 2 Read.

Nah you're just dense

Good riddance, those animals would only get in the way of any future, cyberpunk dystopia or venus cloud city dnb compilation thumbnail luxury space communism.

The theory understander has logged on I see.

That's just an insane anprim moron, ignore him, even amongst extremists that guy is just an idiot.

Exactly, but if you misuse Nietzsche to justify being a neet who does nothing all day then you've escaped the matrix practically

Okay fine, the LLM does not take into account in the context of its prompt that yada yada. Happy now word police, or do I need to pay a fine too? The real problem is people are replacing their brains with chatbots owned by the rich so soon their thoughts and by extension the truth will be owned by the rich, but go off pat yourself on the back because you preserved your holy sentience spook for another day.