A bit, yes, definitely, but that's been going on since 2008, and inflation is running away now because the energy generators got heavily on the iTs wArTimE bandwagon and saw that they were getting away with it. Other companies got in on the same act and corporate profits have never been so high, ever.
Quantitative Easing is why the stock market didn't crash early and often and the gap between rich and poor got much, much wider.
So the Bank of England in my view enabled crisis inflation a bit, but it was the energy generators that really pushed the economy into maximum fleece the little guy mode. Raising interest rates won't fix it because disposable income isn't the problem. It's rampant profiteering that's the problem.
Someone once told me that the Manchester tram system was one of the only ones that ran at a profit in the UK and that it was because it replaced a railway service and just upped the frequency, but that was years ago now and I see they've expanded it quite a lot since then.
"66% are only interested in finances as a way to support their other interests in life"
WTF is money for if it's not to support other interests in life?! You've got to be pretty dead inside if a big $ number in itself is your main fulfilment.
HS2 is billions and billions to shave 23 minutes off the North West-London and North East - London routes, which are already fast and frequent. Transport links to a main hub benefit the hub economically far more than they benefit the spokes, so HS2 is mainly a boost for London anyway.
A more sensible use of the money would be a fast East - West line in the North, where you could make a huge difference in travel times and reliability with additional lines.
Even more, why not invest all the money in cheaper, more frequent local/city-scale public transport?
Admittedly there's no opening ceremony on a bus route, but easy, cheap transport from less well-off areas makes job opportunities for poorer folk, which means less spending on benefits, more tax intake and more spending in their local areas. Everyone wins except people who are already well off. Oh, wait, I think I've answered my own question.
That's very plausible. I can't see any good coming of this, but I can see some political capital out of "Labour hates motorists and hates rural communities and doesn't look after our heritage."
I once offered to buy food for a woman who was looking rather rough outside a fairly upmarket supermarket like Marks and Spencer or something. She said it was a waste of money to get expensive for her and there was an Aldi or something just round the corner.
Just around the corner turned out to be a ten minute walk through parts of the city I didn't know. I hated the loss of control and the fact that I didn't know exactly where I was. It made me uncomfortable the whole time. I'm a big, fairly strong man who wasn't in real risk of being overpowered by one woman (assuming she really was alone), and even I was concerned for my safety. He could have overpowered you.
Anyway, I recognised where we were when we re-emerged from some side street, and I got her some food, then she suggested something else I wasn't happy with like giving her cash or something or buying her something else in another shop, can't remember which.
I said no and it was all fine, but I will absolutely never do that again. It was unpleasant.
I strongly recommend not following someone you just met who wants you to go to a location you don't know. Been there, done that, it ended fine, but I won't ever do it again. You chose well. He might have been honest and no danger to you, but you can't know that and your instincts told you to be cautious - don't ignore those instincts; you might be picking up on clues you simply can't put into words about his behaviour and your surroundings.
It felt wrong to you and you backed out. It's good to trust your instincts when they tell you you might be at risk. I think you did the only sensible thing you could.
There was someone at my old job who I sometimes felt like she was flirting with me, but I'm very sure she's just nice to everyone and has learned from early on that if you look at men a certain way and talk to them a certain way, they tend to hang on your words and want to help you out. She is very pretty, engaging and fun, but that was the beginning and end of it. Younger me would have been completely and utterly smitten but by the time I met her I could tell what the score was.
There was a girl at school I was friends with who I had a crush on for a few years. We did a liiiittle bit of flirting with passing notes and she was very kind but never took an interest in me romantically. I wrote her lots of poems which she was very nice about and I was in love, but it went nowhere. She ended up dating some other guy in our year group and I thought "what does he have that I don't?" but the heart wants what the heart wants. I don't regret it. It was a happy non love affair I think.
I actually ended up dating a girl in the year above me and she was awesome while it lasted but she left home and our relationship didn't survive the distance.
In the end I eventually married someone from work but it took us a while to get together because we both thought the other one was out of our league. We got together on the way back from an Ed Sheeran concert!
It's my go-to for random lemmy browsing. If I want to read interesting and/or thoughtful stuff I log in to my home instance where I'm subscribed to all my favourite content, but if I feel like mindlessly scrolling some memes and go where the internet mainstream goes, I use liftoff. Good interface, good speed.
It means "Our incompetence, intransigence, sunk cost fallacy, decision making and hiring idiocy are utterly out of control, and we think this is your problem, not ours. Sorry for the inconvenience."
Duck duck go browser with auto refuse turned on. It stops tracking cookies by default. And then I burn them all anyway when I'm done.