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Cost of living in the UK is about 12% lower than the US, including housing costs. But the average salary is about half of the US salary. So you can see that that doesn't really cover it.

Source: https://livingcost.org/cost/united-kingdom/united-states

Just looked on that link for the UK. The average is listed as £63k, which is $85k.

So you're not exactly disproving the point that that type of high salary is a US thing.

Ask a non-protesting friend or family member to take it with them about their daily routine?

I'm sure my mum would be happy to look after my phone for a day if it meant getting one over on the authorities. And if anyone asks, I'm just a good son who likes to hang out with his mum.

Happy Father's Day, gang! Hope it's all been pleasant!

Same went for their rivals, Poundworld and 99p Stores, both of which have already long since bitten the dust.

Meanwhile their rivals that don't bother with the fixed price gimmick (B&M, Home Bargains, Poundstretcher) seem to be doing better.

Poundland is never as cheap as you think it will be, anyway, even when they do stick to under £1. They just sell smaller packages of products than other shops; it's not like they're selling anything at a loss.

Tunnocks tea cakes are ordinary biscuits with an extraordinary amount of marshmallow.

In theory it really shouldn't matter. You choose your instance, and it's up to the instance admins to make decisions about backend software choices. It's possible that we'll get to a place there it's possible for admins to migrate a server from Lemmy to Piefed or back again without loss of content, in which case all the user would see about it would be a change of default interface.

I'm on Feddit.uk, which has several different web interfaces to choose from, and I mostly browse using a mobile app (Boost). It really makes basically no difference to me whether it's running Lemmy or Piefed.

A social network needs enough users to actually function. In the early days, Lemmy/kbin/associates were too quiet to be appealing, so there was a constant push to bring in new users. As this is a Reddit clone social network, inevitably that means hoping that Reddit users will come across.

I would argue that Lemmy et al is already at a high enough number of active users that there's a basic critical mass; that there's enough activity here such that a new user would find plenty to keep them engaged. It could certainly stand to be much bigger still, but the pressure to grow is much less intense.

Yep. It's to distinguish it from other forms of homelessness, such as "sofa surfing" (where someone moves from one friend or family member to another for short periods without having a fixed address of their own), people temporarily living in homeless shelters/boarding houses, people living in places which aren't really accommodation (such as their place of work), and "statutory homelessness" (a broader legal definition which includes a few things which might not seem like homelessness, such as people who are at serious risk of violence in their homes).

Personally I am decidedly unoptimistic about their chances on this one, as it seems to be looking for a huge amount of spending for some very small communities (e.g., a new mainline station at Christian Malford, population somewhat less than 1000 people). But you've got to love the effort.

In your own home, couldn't you just use internet radio instead?

I mostly listen to BBC radio, and I default to listening over BBC Sounds rather than DAB when I've got a WiFi connection. I mostly only use DAB when I'm in the car or out in the garden.

I must have missed the golden age. Taco Bell opened in my town in 2021, and I've only eaten in there a couple of times because it's dire. Small, scraggly little wraps with barely any filling (and the filling they do have is bland and crap; they don't seem to sell a single spicy item on the menu).

We're not exactly overwhelmed with Mexican restaurants, but even if I wanted a taco I still wouldn't bother.