Shoplifting was rife in the 90s and 2000s, and it was an acceptable business loss that most small business and retailers alike just shrugged off.

This new narrative that shoplifting is the reason that security measures and prices have to go up is just the latest strategy in corporations once more fobbing off blame on the end-consumer (a la “carbon footprint”) for why they need to jack up prices again.

It’s greed, plain and simple. We used to have high trust soceities and rampant shoplifting not too long ago, but we’re being distracted once again

That’s what’s going to happen if they replace Starmer. A series of nothing candidates that will sink Labour further in the polls

I’ve gotten three of these letters. Why three? Who knows.

I’m voting green and have yet to get any leaflets or door knockers. The money imbalance in politics is palpable

What Labour needs right now is their own Liz Truss

You they let computers set the flight paths now too right?

you shut your damn mouth. Those songs are epitome early 2000 optimism, when the world still sparkled with magic

“Her CD changer’s full of singers that are mad at their dads”

I missed out on the hype train behind that song somehow, and heard it for the first time years later and was pretty impressed by it.

Though the “room without a roof” line irks me, because having experienced it, nothing could make me less happy

Doesn’t have to be…

I hated it because south park mocked it and I was young and impressionable. It was also overplayed a lot on the radio.

Listening to it years later though, in the context of her losing Sonny, I don’t know it’s a pretty powerful song

Sounds like a bit like post-apartheid South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission, where white farmers were invited to talk about all the horrific things they had done, in exchange for a pardon with no repercussions.

In theory, “healing” the country by exposing the crimes and extending the olive branch of forgiveness, but in reality…

I got my grub on, but didn’t pig out

I dont want to mohn, but there’s enough poppyseed in that cake to get illegally high

Damn I’m sorry, swift recovery to you – there’ll be other marathons

fumble

what happened?

Welcome topside stranger! I’m surprised you find UK food better than Australian (tastewise, not pricewise), but always happy to hear it

London’s pretty well connected, and there’s a few places in the south (Croydon) that might have some decent lodgings if that helps

Thanks! I think she might be a keeper, she satisfies the holy trifector of: stunningly beautiful, independent and driven, and can teach me so much and is happy to learn in return

I’m in cloud cuckoo land, but keeping my adoration in check so as not to frighten her

Corporate greed was always the case, AI has shrunk the employee space specifically for juniors

We… we’re not worthy of this.

Along with Arthur Brown’s Fire: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzHtePuz13U