Because that’s not how people think. They could have done a graph of average rent price and shown it going up, and up, and up. But instead, they obfuscate the statistics so the layman casual reader can’t understand it, that’s better, isn’t it?
There’s a reason they’ve got a section titled Landlord’s Concerns and not one titled Tenants’ Concerns.
What a disingenuous graph for showing how rent has risen.
This graph shows the percentage increase, not the money increase, so it’s harder for people to comprehend exactly how much it’s gone up. That plummet in 2020 makes it look like rents went down below 2014-2019 levels, but it just stopped rising, briefly.
The European Union on Friday finalized a blockbuster free trade agreement with Brazil, Argentina and three other South American nations in the Mercosur trade alliance
Are they a secret or something? The amount of words used to say “and three other South American nations” could’ve just been used to say the names of those nations. Wtf kinda journalism is this.
For the curious, the other nations are Bolivia, Paraguay, and Uruguay.
A top Romanian court has annulled the first round of the country’s presidential election, days after declassified intelligence alleged Russia ran a coordinated online campaign to promote the far-right outsider who won the first round.
The constitutional court’s decision – which is final – came on Friday after President Klaus Iohannis declassified intelligence two days earlier that alleged Russia ran a sprawling campaign comprising thousands of social media accounts to promote Calin Georgescu across platforms like TikTok and Telegram.
Despite being a huge outsider who declared zero campaign spending, Georgescu emerged as the frontrunner on 24 November. He was due to face the reformist Elena Lasconi, of the Save Romania Union party, in a runoff on Sunday.
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Like Felix said, most EU countries have burgundy passports. The UK had burgundy passports while still in the EU.
Parts of the UK right wing press and politics stirred up drama about the colour of UK passports during the Brexit debate bemoaning that the dirty, unelected, bureaucratic EU had forced the beautiful, strong, innocent UK to switch from our nationally loved blue passports to their disgusting red ones when we joined the EU.
What really happened is the EU agreed (with UK input) on a standardised layout and design for passports. They did this to make movement around the EU easier and simpler. These agreed standards were guidelines. Each EU member was free to ignore them if they wished. Most use the standard because it makes their life easier. The UK chose to follow the standard, partially because it was one of the designers of the standard.
Because there was a standard colour (burgundy), this meant there was a higher demand for this colour. Higher demand means passport manufacturers prioritise their production for these demands. Prioritised manufacturing meant this colour and style became cheaper. It’s not bespoke, it’s the standard.
Because the Conservatives and Reform, etc. (the Brexiters) made such a big deal about the colour of UK passports, when Brexit happened they of course had to follow through on changing the passport colours. The result is that UK passports cost more to manufacture now than they did before, and last I checked were manufactured by a company in France! But the Brexiteers believe they’ve won against the EU by having blue instead of red passports.
It’s so embarrassing.
The main tub this year weighs 600kg and features 11 different flavours - retailing at around £6.
I better hire a forklift and get myself down the shops! £6 for all that chocolate!
Keyboard shortcuts mean memorising. Some people have issues with memory. On-screen buttons mean no memorising.
That’s the cool thing about Linux. You can customise it to your own needs and desires. Everybody is different.
Because the Swiss have famously never been fans of Nazis…
The easiest way to survive Kristal Nacht 2: Electric Boogaloo is to get outta there before it happens. Stockpiling some food and “hunkering down” isn’t gonna keep you safe. Get outta there.
What does America offer that you can’t get in Europe, Canada, Australia, etc?
Brain drain the fascist state to a standstill.
The earlier you do it, the higher your chances of being accepted into other countries. They may block American refugees if there becomes an exodus. It also means you have time to sell unnecessary items instead of possibly having to abandon them.
Good luck, whatever path you choose.
We don’t fight back, though.
We trade with China.
We trade with Israel.
Until there was a full-scale invasion we traded with Russia despite 2014 - 2022.
Where there’s money to be made, ethics and morals are ignored. Just because we’re moderately better than them with regards to rights doesn’t mean we’re good. We’re just not as bad.
We are aligned with America, creating another giant power block. Another country that’s a cunt to people.
Human rights abuses are being documented all over Europe from Italian farms to UK detention and deportation of refugees.
The state of the world is depressing and appears to be on a downhill trajectory. There’s so many parallels to the rise of the Nazi party going on in multiple countries and so many people are oblivious to it. In their echo chambers of consumerism and “I’ve got mine”.
I think I’ve had enough Internet for the day
I’m so tired.
Why do we always descend into war?
Why do we have to group into 2 or 3 global power blocks repeatedly?
Why are people constantly cunts to each other?
Is there an easy way to purge a Lemmy account or do you have to edit/ delete each comment and post first?
I’ve had issues with deleting posts previously and just resorted to editing them to be useless instead.
And risk burning yourself when the rubber wears out in 3 years and bursts?
Nah, get yourself one of those oat-filled microwavable teddies. Does the same job but with less risk of severe burns and doesn’t need replaced every few years.
Hahahaha most certainly not!
I’m not saying I don’t work, I’m saying it’s unnecessarily forced upon us for the enrichment of the capitalist class and not required to the extent that it is for society to function in the modern age.
A lot of business is just business for the sake of business. Pushing people to consume regardless of whether they want or need to, or not. If people truly wanted half the shit they buy the advertising and marketing industry wouldn’t be so big.
If you’re on benefits for whatever reason, health issues (mental or physical), bereavement, disenfranchised, whatever, our society is so rich that you should be able to eat and have somewhere warm to sleep at night without being forced to perform labour against your will.
To make matters worse, this is coming from the Labour party…
I’m not saying nobody should work. I’m not saying there’s no benefit to work. I’m saying it shouldn’t be forced upon us just to exist. That’s just slavery with extra steps.
You’re missing the forest for the trees. Read the first paragraph again
P.S. my food generally comes from my garden…
Why? Why should we all have to work just to survive? Productivity is so immensely high with computers and machines that work is not a requirement for life or society like it once was. A smaller percentage of the population can work than before for the same overall output.
Work should improve your life. You put something in, you get something out (pay). Now you can go and improve your life somehow by buying goods and/or services. But needing to work just for the bare basics of food and shelter is ridiculous in the modern age. We’re a rich country, we should be able to afford to feed and home our population with ease and yet constantly in political discourse there’s talk of benefits “scroungers” “stealing” money they “don’t deserve”, usually for pitifully small amounts of money as well.
No. His lineage traces back to Elrond’s brother. Elrond and his brother (whose name I’ve forgotten) were both half elf and half human, with the ability to essentially choose which side to embrace. Elrond chose to be an elf, his brother chose human.
He then founded the kingdom of Numenor, which was an island nation off the west coast of Middle Earth. It eventually (a few hundred years later) got destroyed by the sea/God and the surviving Numenorians set up the kingdoms of Gondor and Arnor in Middle Earth.
That was many, many years before Aragorn. So there’s a tiny, tiny, tiny percentage of elf in there, which is why Numenorians live a bit longer than normal humans and are usually taller, but it’s not enough to say he’s Elven.