Bring them home from 2010 going by those prices!

It's getting to the point where the only saving grace for Tesco over Aldi is the delivery vans.

Imagine if the bonus was paid in figurines. They'd get almost 2 complete sets, every year!

I like to think a list like this is highlighting that you can enjoy being british without being one of the wankers you mentioned.
The less good ones of these are more wanker-lite.

I think it's time for me to get into the soundproofing and triple glazing business.

I see no downside: If they crash and burn, it's free black pudding!

Oh damn, I'd missed that the PS5 Pro was mechless.
I guess once you get into £700 games consoles, the argument of "it's the same price as a decent bluray player" goes out the window.

And now everyone is locked into the PS store, unless they buy an external drive.

My hope is that the reform is in the form of more early intervention at a community level (which is kinda what we had before the Great Gutting over the last decade).

Though going by the mood in this thread, I should be emigrating to Sweden...

ML summary:

Jas Athwal, the Labour Party MP for Ilford South, is a landlord with properties that tenants say have poor living conditions.
In the selection process for the Ilford South seat, Athwal won a higher percentage of votes from the party's online "Anonyvoter" system compared to in-person votes, despite his opponent Sam Tarry winning more of the in-person votes.
There are concerns about a lack of transparency and potential for fraud in the Anonyvoter system, which has also been used in other Labour candidate selection processes with similar results favoring more centrist candidates.
Former Labour MPs Sam Tarry and Beth Winter have raised legal concerns about the use of Anonyvoter, and several Labour-affiliated unions have expressed doubts about the system.

That's the gist to be honest.
RTB gives people the right after a certain amount of time, but lack of funding meant that councils weren't able to replace the stock.
The discount is up to 70% too. So while each person who can exercise RTB gets an impressive leg up into the housing market, it's contributed to even longer waiting lists for council housing.

It also creates a bit of an ethical dilemma if you are in council housing.
As if you start doing better financially, and are able to afford regular accommodation, you have an incentive to hold until you can RTB instead. (Though there are apparently now re-assessments at tenancy renewal time)

Really, the answer is way, way, way more council housing. But the money just isn't available.

Anything involving Myers–Briggs.

It's a shame the shutterglasses cause issues. I can only watch so much before I need a break. Apparently the 2016 LG OLEDs were the last. Or you could set up two projectors with polarisers (I'm sure that would go down well in the living room!)

I decided against Tron the other day, as I already had a 2D copy. However, I'm hearing good things about it. Apparently it goes between 2D and 3D in the virtual world, which sounds like a very cool use of the medium.

Hobbit 2 in 3D extended edition, but missing the slip case, cost me £1.50 the other day. Not a clue why it was so cheap.

As far as I know, I'm getting frame packed output from the player (PS3), which gives a 3840x1080 output over HDMI1.4.
Then the projector alternates between each side rapidly in step with the glasses. So it should be full res.
My understanding is that BD stores one image plus difference (kinda like stereo FM), but the end result is the same.

I kinda agree though, if I could afford a decent enough headset that wasn't meta-locked, I'd probably start muxing them to watch on there! Although extra glasses is a lot cheaper than everyone having a headset.

Edit: Apparently, the PS3 isn't true HDMI1.4, but does fulfil the 3D aspects of it.

It's a shame Dolby 6P didn't become more of a home use format. It had really good colour reproduction, and was a really innovative way to achieve 3D.
Two laser projectors at home is probably a bit steep for a slightly niche market, mind!

This seems like a good first step.
Move them out of the "technically illegal, but lots of people use them anyway" area, and into the "legal to use, but you have to register and carry some form of insurance".

I'm hoping to take a peek once it's all opened.
I love seeing stuff like this.

I look at the fees charged nowadays, and I'm convinced that if I had just finished my A-levels, I'd just go and train as a paramedic.
You still get a degree, except as it's also an apprenticeship you get paid.

To me when someone says groomers, it puts my mind to tackling the child abusers, or anti-lgbt people accusing people of the same.

I have been tagged, after promising Emperor that I'd answer this several days ago 😅

Simple terms: 4 cores, 8 threads, 64GB RAM, >500GB storage.
At the moment, we use about 1/4 of that.
Which is great, because when things do spike, there is headroom before things slow down.

The reason we're over-specced, is that the our current dedicated box costs the same as a "correctly" sized non-shared cloud instance. So for the sake of a couple of euros a month, we also doubled the ram.

Asda, in my personal opinion, is a little crap.
It's not as cheap as aldi/lidl, yet somehow has a worse shopping experience.
It just feels like a knock-off Morrisons nowadays. Or a UK walmart.