GreatAlbatross

This would be great news. Imho, council run buses are a great public good.
When you have a large town/city, it's really important to have a way to get around that's not expensive.
You only have to visit somewhere with a properly run network to see the difference.

Reading for example:

As a municipally owned bus service, the council says Reading Buses can invest an additional £3m a year in the bus network, around 12-15% of its annual turnover, because it does not pay out dividends to private shareholders.

Money from commuter services also subsidises smaller less well-used routes.

Edit: Another place it helps councils: Old people bus passes.

In June 2023 the LGA said there was a £452 million gap in the funding councils receive from government compared to the actual number of ENCTS journeys made in 2022. This meant that councils were having to plug the financial gap from their “own stretched budgets”, which was “completely unsustainable

So a LA owned bus company with lower fares means the council doesn't end up making up the shortfall between what the government pays for free journeys and what the bus company decides to charge.

I think he might have watched The Emperor's New Groove.

Thank you for putting me on to where goes :)

Probability that this person is over 30?

It's worth noting that most places without a "signature" style just use espresso as the base nowadays. Because espresso is a much easier way to start (as it's a small amount of coffee syrup, without the water).
And outside of speciality (pour-over/cold-brew), it's the preferred extraction method.

Because there won't be any more after you state-own it all, right?

Right?

There is a good chance this is just a fake letter.
This guy was making them for fun a while back, and they surface from time to time.
I'm pretty sure the dashcam submission system is called Operation Snap, not Capture, too.

It's a multi-part problem.

You've got people unsure which bits they should be proud of.
And you've got wankers with no other redeeming qualities focussing on just how proud they are.

I think we're hopefully going through a bit of a reconciliation period, and will eventually come out the other side proud of some of the good and/or interesting things the country has been up to for the past few millenia.

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.

"All customer installs need to have firewalls disabled, and the widget needs to run as domain admin"

Continues until a big enough customer puts their foot down, at which point all the installation engineers get upset because they need to do something new.

Anything involving Myers–Briggs.