merridew

“I anxiously await your unboxing video.”

Marvellous

Unless they crash the economy and start enslaving people, they've got a way to go before they hit the bottom.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Sea_Company

£10.6 billion to the UK government in North Sea revenue for 22/23 v. £2.6 billion for 21/22.

• Equinor (Rosebank majority owner) revenues for 22: $75 billion

• Ithaca (Rosebank minority owner) revenues for 22: $1.9 billion

• BP (formerly state-owned; majority privatisation under Thatcher, from 1979) revenues for 22: $241 billion, for record profit of $28 billion (£23 billion)

Given my level of technical knowledge, I can confidently say that I am unable to offer support in any way.

But I'll second that this is a great instance -- one which I've really enjoyed seeing grow and begin to pick up steam -- and anyone able to step up has my gratitude.

The "bus factor" is the minimum number of team members that have to suddenly disappear from a project before the project stalls due to lack of knowledgeable or competent personnel.

I guess our bus factor is currently 1.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_factor

Not just any attorney. She was the Attorney General for England and Wales from 2021-2022, the chief legal advisor to the Sovereign and the Government.

And got roundly criticised by the Bar Council for her actions undertaken in the role.

The perfect is the enemy of the good. If people are going to use -- and some are -- harm reduction seems like a no-brainer.

Yes, it would be great if people weren't shooting up at all... but you can't quit if you're dead.

Well

only one in 10 council planning departments are fully staffed, with 13% operating with fewer than three-quarters of posts filled

with

80% [of local authorities] reporting they did not have enough officers to carry out their workload

because

long-term cuts to funding have had a visible impact on planning departments’ ability to retain staff... there has been a 43% fall in resources to the planning system from local authorities since 2009-10.

https://www.lgcplus.com/services/regeneration-and-planning/planning-people-go-from-council-to-council-chasing-the-money-17-05-2023/

A fun game of spot the difference, but apparently there's more going on that you can't see -- eg the planned underground carpark just not being built at all, and them building a carpark over the garden instead.

Thanks for confirming.

Still writing off the losses from G+.

Instances blocked by lemmy.world include:

• skinheads.[x]
• breastmilk.[x]
• cum.[x]
• kiwifarms.[x]
• pedo.[x]
• hexbear

and now

• feddit.uk

Well... hmm.

I know some people don't care for the British but still.