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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Dŵr Cymru isn't quite publicly owned. It is structured as a not for profit, public benefit company, but still is privately owned.

I believe this is far better than the structure of the English companies, but definately had some failings, probably partly due to having such a large area to cover, but with comparatively fewer people to serve (meaning less revenue).

They are then put in a situation where the UK government expects investment to come in privately, but then the shareholders are more likely to invest in the English companies with returns.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I am not all that knowledgeable on the US egg industry, but wouldn't this mainly just the small scale farmers that would be struggling?

As it mentioned in the article, the large companies will have the leverage to raise the prices (article describes it as cartelization). And are then encouraged to keep the scale with compensation and I guess subsidies.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

There are two pits, but just one rosh. He commutes between each pit on the day/night cycle and tosses anyone in his way, getting angrier the more heroes he tosses.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Ended up queuing oblivious to the patch yesterday, and the whole squad got quite confused that the dire side felt slightly different. Seems they are trying to compensate for the win rate diff.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Been listening to Jamie xx's newish album In Waves. Got some pretty catchy beats.

Your song by HappyHappy reminds me of an American version of Crywank. Ironic having very contrasting names, but a similar kinda theme.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

I have personally found that roads are nicer to walk along with people going slower, but I haven't necessarily noticed more people walking. I think part of the issue is the way that new housing has been built where it is still a significant distance away from the places you need to get to is still keeping people in cars.

I have not noticed any differences in the lighting, but the Welsh Gov did postpone all road building projects at a similar time, and for any smaller residential road building I would've thought the builders would want it to be low speed anyway.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

Always followed by "${currentChancellor} (under pressure|glad) as the economy...", in the first sentence or somehow incorporated into the headline depending on the bias of the publication.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago

The problem is money. The amount of opposition the government got for allocating the spending for just changing the signs was huge.

Instead, any effort and capital should be going towards public transport and alternatives to car infrastructure, but there never seems to be enough money about.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Tulsi Gabbard, US director of national intelligence, said tapping Americans’ data would be an “egregious violation” of privacy that risked breaching the two countries’ data agreement.

A bit rich coming from America after what we found out after the Snowden whistleblowing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

The news is that it is a new change. The reason why it is being opposed is that it is needlessly restrictive on refugees which we already make as hard as possible to allow to apply already.

For example, imagine you are someone from the DR Congo and need to flee the conflict. You have family in the UK so you attempt to make your way here using refugee routes. You can only make it as far as France before having to take a boat over and get into the country illegally even before you can apply for asylum. Now even if this application is accepted, you can never become a citizen, even though you are legally living in the country.

The unfair bit of it is that you cannot apply for asylum without being in the country (except in certain circumstances) which you cannot enter without entering illegally. This is at least my novice knowledge of the way the system works at the moment.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Over in the UK, this got picked up by the mainstream papers. Maybe he is more well known over here. He is the type to often gets headlines for his outrageous comments.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago

The documentary is a good watch. It is scary to see how the PA members think their views are normal. e.g. saying something along the lines of "everyone thinks this..." after saying something abhorrent.

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