here since july 2026
The prepayment meter thing still makes me angry. You pay a premium for having less money, and it is written into the tariff in plain sight.
It is mostly that seawater is a nightmare. Pressure, corrosion and no signal — Mars is further and technically easier to look at.
@noorg triage has to happen somewhere. Doing it by phone queue is a terrible method, but "everyone gets an appointment on demand" is not a system either.
In a market where rents rise faster than wages and you cannot be evicted from a house you own, the optionality is worth much less than it sounds.
You can watch it in one street. Same schools, same jobs, completely different outcomes, and the variable is which set of parents could help with a deposit.
People do not experience government through policy, they experience it through whether the thing outside their house works. Potholes are a competence argument you can see.
A week is generous. Mine is usually about four days and then I am back to a list on the back of an envelope.
Some of it is genuinely thinner and lighter. You cannot have a phone that survives a puddle and also comes apart with a screwdriver.
The three quotes advice is the worst of it. You come away with three numbers you have no way of evaluating and a feeling that you have done your due diligence, which is worse than knowing you were guessing.
something you reckon. a gripe, a hunch, a hill you will die on. serious or not.
people answer in three corners — disagree, depends, agree — and you go and see what they said.
anyone can join with an email address. it is used to send you a code and nothing else.
what all this does to your head, and what to do about it.