That is wild! I watched the videos in the linked article, and I’m shocked how easy it is to steal vehicles!
I guess what I see in the movies/shows if hot wiring and the time that takes isn’t the norm nowadays.
IMO I feel like the Shipping Ports need to step up their game as far as inspections and stop the cars BEFORE they’ve been shipped to other countries. I would hope that the car insurance companies would be willing to help the cost of this increased inspections, considering they have to pay the value of the stolen vehicles to the owners…
Port authorities do need to do that, but first the feds have to give them more money and raise staffing levels … cause right now there is not enough people or funding to do the job right.
The physical key and a keyfob is like manual vs automatic. It doesn’t fully prevent your car from being stolen, but it does make it harder to steal said car.
I love to blame how terrible software and ux is in cars as theyre very unreliable, but yes, a lot of this is a port problem
For non-UK readers: UK councils have limited revenue-raising powers compared to local government in other countries, and rely on 3 sources of income:
Central government grants
Council tax (on residential properties)
Business rates (on commercial properties)
This amounts to c. 7% of the total UK tax base, versus c. 32% collected locally in Germany or 50% collected locally in Canada.
Central government grants were cut by 40% in real terms between 09/10 and 19/20 from £46.5bn to £28.0bn.
Council tax has gone up 30% over the same period, but it can’t go up more than 2% annually without passing a referendum (unlikely). Some councils in dire straits have recently been allowed to raise it 5%.
Local authorities have been underfunded for over a decade. Other UK councils which have already declared bankruptcy, either through running out of money, or through losing vast amounts of money in risky schemes attempting to replace missing central funding:
Equal pay is something women have had to fight for.
In this case,
the court found hundreds of mostly female employees working in roles such as teaching assistants, cleaners and catering staff missed out on bonuses which were given to staff in traditionally male-dominated roles such as refuse collectors and street cleaners.
Women in the UK only gained the right to equal pay in 1970.
I don’t think that’s a bad thing that they get equal pay, they’re blaming it on that when it sounds like the poster I was speaking to said it was corruption, risky schemes and decades of underfunding by stealing it for other things that was the problem.
You can only starve a government body of funding – making it muddle along depleting its reserves and selling off assets – for so long until a final bill tips it over the edge, so I’d argue that if it wasn’t this bill it would be another bill.
Other councils took risky approaches to replace money cut under Austerity:
Woking said that against its available core funding of £16m in the 2023-24 financial year, the council faced a deficit of £1.2bn.
Racked up to finance the building and acquisition of a vast empire of commercial assets, its investments included a complex of sky-high towers – standing as the tallest buildings outside a big city in England – including a four-star Hilton hotel, public plazas, parking facilities and shops.
Many councils piled into property and other commercial enterprises to raise money to fill gaping holes in their budgets and to undertake regeneration projects after sharp cuts to central government funding introduced under the Conservatives’ austerity drive.
Well, it sounds like if they hadn't violated the law by deciding that women didn't deserve equal pay, and hadn't underpaid what seems to be a lotof women for a long period of time (seriously, almost a billion dollars in claims they have to pay out?!), then it seems like they wouldn't be having this problem.
I'm not saying that underfunding government isn't an overall issue, but it really seems like the immediate issue is that they decided to systemically underpay people for an extended period of time. And that's on them.
Waiting for Trump to be all “When we retake what’s rightfully ours, I’ll make sure those who were wrongly imprisoned by Crooked Joe Biden are exonerated as the patriots they are!”
He’ll do it, but he’ll charge them a few mill to get a pardon, then they’ll start a pateron/GoFundMe/Kickstarter to fleece their rubes for more money, and then they’ll split the cash.
If Trump was literate, he could write a masterclass on getting fucking morons to send you money.
At least 521 U.S. towns and cities with populations of 1,000 to 200,000 disbanded policing between 1972 and 2017, according to a peer-reviewed 2022 paper by Rice University Professor of Economics Richard T. Boylan.
In the past two years, at least 12 small towns have dissolved their departments.
That works out to an average of 11 per year. I haven’t needed to think about numbers in a long time. Did I fuck that up? Cause if not, this sounds like a lot of panic over losing fewer police departments than the norm.
They already found him guilty in the 2022 defamation case. The 2019 case is for the same thing (at a different time, he did it more than once) so the judgement effectively covers both cases. He’s already been found guilty, now it’s just time to determine damages. Again.
And if he keeps repeating the same lies, they’ll keep charging him. Now it’s just a game of “will he stfu or go broke first?” My chips are on “broke”.
It’s a milder strain, but that’s no relief for the immunocompromised and elderly. It’s all over airports with people coughing, and will tear through schools now.
Women in female-dominated roles such as cleaners and caterers had complained that they were missing out on bonuses given to staff in male-dominated roles, such as refuse collectors.
In 2008 I worked in News Production for a local television station. There are two examples that come to mind to show how shallowly they train journalists.
First, there was NASA, they were doing testing of new lunar rover they planned to send back to the moon in a city a little over an hour and a half away. I brought it to the attention of our news department who quickly chided me with “isn’t that outside our coverage area?” as if we didn’t have a website that broadcasted to the whole planet, technically. Well, we only got coverage because me and another guy from Production called the NASA press corps and got an invitation for our news station. We went to the news manager and they sent someone out, but we never got any video online. For the next week, still photos from the test were the top story on WIRED’s website for over a week. We could have had that traffic, but nope. “Outside our coverage area.”
Another time was when there was a scandal with an official running for office. It was the governors race, and weeks before the vote, a new case was dropping that was showing one of the two candidates for governor getting illegal funding for his campaign. I went to the site of the prosecutor, downloaded all the relevant data, and put it on journalists desks. I got asked by the Producer “Are you sure this is true? I didn’t see anything on AP Newswire.” Jesus tittyfucking Christ I guess these people had never heard of BREAKING A FUCKING STORY before. We ended up running it after about ten different State papers ran stories about it, because apparently it’s not news unless someone else reported on it first and you just do a copy-paste job from AP Newswire.
This is disgusting. Hopefully this whole thing fails before Texas can enact the law.
As for teachers still being underpaid, that is the point. They are trying to gut public schools. All the teachers will need to make the switch to a private school, eventually, because that’s where the demand will be.
The state will continue this voucher program until the majority of people have moved their children to private schools. Public schools will be left in a state of disrepair once they loose funding for every student that makes the switch.
The private schools will gradually raise tuition so that parents are paying as much as they can afford, even with the voucher. After everyone has move thier child over, they will discontinue the voucher program.
If the parents want their child to continue in a school that does any good, they will pay out thier ears. Everyone else will end up paying a huge chunk of thier check to send their child to whatever mediocre school is within their budget, or else they will have to go back to public school, which is now a underfunded shitshow.
Don’t worry the minorities will still stay in public school. They’re already converting the libraries in Houston to detention centers for “misbehaving” kids. Next they’ll throw some bars on all the windows. Then when they graduate, they can move on to the next barred facility. Where they will provide labor for $0.30 an hour. Working just as intended.
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