We come from nations where staff get paid at least the minimum wage and don't rely on tips to make it up to that.

Plenty of cheap RAM for older laptops on the used market.

Has it? Let's remind everyone what we were told in the months running up to the 2016 Referendum would happen by the then Chancellor of the Exchequer just following a vote to leave:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/...

Leaving the European Union would tip the UK into a year-long recession, with up to 820,000 jobs lost within two years, Chancellor George Osborne says.

In the best scenario where we agree a bi-lateral trade deal: sterling would fall by 12%, unemployment would rise by 520,000, average wages would fall by 2.8% and house prices would be hit by 10%.

In a worst case scenario: after two years GDP would be 6% lower, up to 820,000 jobs could go, take-home pay would fall by 4%, house prices would fall by 18% and the pound would be 15% lower.

A recession never happened. We ended up with record employment, record growth, unemployment so low we effectively had full employment, house prices continued to grow, inflation stayed below the Bank of England's target.

That's because the US Navy isn't actually in the Strait of Hormuz where it could actually manage a blockade with the amount of ships it has but is instead doing the blockade in the Gulf of Oman and the Indian Ocean which is a massive area. It's not operating in the Strait or the Persian Gulf for fear of being attacked by the Iranian missiles and boats that Trump said he'd 100% destroyed.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cp9vm5ezxz4t

The only slight problem with this is that there are no routers made in the USA.

What Trump has agreed to....

He can't declare war without Congress approval yet here we are.....

They never were. For decades the US has only been in NATO for it's own enrichment and it's own defence. The ballistic early warning radar that the US have in the UK aren't of any use to us, flight times from Russia are so short that we'd not be able to react. But they do give the US a significant amount of time to be warned of inbound nukes and to do something about it for them.

Upon updating their device software, users will be faced with a message which says: "UK law requires you to confirm you are an adult to change content restrictions."

There is no such requirement in UK law that it age checks have to be done on a device level.

Visa and MasterCard, whose systems are still rooted in plastic cards and swipe roller on paper transactions.

No that's only in the USA where you're decades behind Europe only recently having discovered Chip and PIN that we've been using for over 20 years.

. "As demand grows for certain vehicle types not commonly found in the EU, such as large pickup trucks"

There is no growth in demand. They sold 7,000, there were 13 million total car sales in 2025 in the EU. US SUV and large pickup truck sales were barely a rounding error.

So to defend the life of an unborn baby they're going to make it legal to kill the mother carrying it? What the actual fuck do they think would happen to the unborn baby in that scenario? Dumb beyond belief doesn't even come close to describing this and is a prime example why religion should be absolutely nowhere near law making.

Food is already going to go up in the future even if they opened the Straits today. Crops have sowing and harvesting seasons. Miss the sowing season because of a lack of fertiliser and you've no harvest. And those windows for sowing are fixed and known, you can't just go "oh I've got fertiliser now so I can go plant my crops." If you're out of the sowing window you can plant the seed but it's not going to germinate and grow. And for a lot of crops we're in the middle of that season right now.

AI generated crap. Lots of people posting in /r/Apple that they've uptimes many times longer than this without any issue.

Apple is taking the piss. There is no requirement in the OSA that it age checks be done at device level.

TACO Trump Tuesday strikes again. Trump makes threats, those he's threatening laugh at him, mock him and ignore the deadline, Trump chickens out and tries to make up something else to hide the fact he's failed.

A10 Warthog that was part of the search and rescue operation was also shot down, the pilot managing to eject over the Gulf and parachute to safety in Kuwait, and two Blackhawk helicopters also part of the same S&R operation also got shot up. A bit inconvenient for Trump who said that the US had destroyed all of Iran's air defence capability.

Trump already has lost. There's a Khomeni in charge of the country who is even more hardline than the last with a long queue of replacements should he get killed, they've not surrendered, they're not negotiating and they're only letting through ships they choose to. They're still firing missiles at every Arab nation with a US base in it as well as at Israel. They're still selling their oil. And now the Iran supported Houtis in Yemen have kicked off too, also lobbing missiles at Israel and threatening closing off the Bab al Mandab Strait which is the access to the Red Sea that'll cut off access to the western oil pipelines Saudi Arabia has.

It wouldn't win out. They typically didn't have any crumple zones to dissipate the forces of the impact so the full forces in the accident got transferred to the passenger cell and therefore the passengers. Also no seatbelt pre-tensioners to stop you flying forward before the seatbelt locks would engage and no airbags to protect you. Steering columns were also not collapsible so the driver's chest being impacted by the steering wheel was a common thing in a head on.

Trump is just a symptom of a country that's been sick for years, especially since Bush. The relationship you had before and the position the US enjoyed is gone thanks to Trump setting fire to whatever soft power the US had left. All the middle powers, such as the UK, EU nations, Canada, Australia, South Korea etc are pivoting away from the US, strengthening trade with themselves and China and reducing reliance on US tech, US banking especially Mastercard and VISA, and US military equipment. The end of the petro-dollar has also begun.