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On the contrary, I'm putting the goalposts back where they were before you misunderstood them.

From the article:

Hall concludes the companies have borrowed to pay dividends, rather than to invest in infrastructure projects. The £123bn of capital expenditure spent by the companies has all been financed by customer bills, the analysis states.

Your analogy is a little off. If I were in the slightest danger of defaulting on my mortgage, you may be assured that even my closest family would be getting handwritten free hug vouchers for christmas.

It's not about being debt free, it's about not using your debt for stupid things.

I think you're pretty much on the money as far as sources go (and on the matter of letting things grow organically while it's still a small community) - something specific about multiple posts though:

When news breaks, it’s exciting, and everyone wants to post. This can mean discussions getting fragmented.

I think @Noit@lemm.ee or @NuPNuA@lemm.ee has been in touch with you about long-running megathreads already - in the politics sphere, at least, these do tend to absorb a lot of the "oh god what's Suella done now" and "but why can't we election now boohoo" chatter. That in turn tends to mean that little things and breaking news naturally gravitate into them, which helps keeps things tidy.

As an added bonus, as a community grows, they also serve a really useful purpose in letting people form a picture of who the people on the other side of the screen are, and keep the pixels humanised, if you see what I mean - which is particularly important when discussing Serious Business like politics, of course.

So in conclusion, I think you should do megathreads in the politics space; thank you for attending my Thread Talk.

hopefully we’ll get an autumn general election

No chance. They're dug in for the duration now.

that totally normal corporate financing

The point, I think, is that it perhaps ought not to be.

It's like you summed up his worldview in two simple bullet points :D

Its an excellent scheme if you’re an amoral lizard.

Well hey, you'll never guess who built the system...

That is indeed the system.

Ah, the state of the gender paygap. It's 2023 and still a woman can't be fairly compensated for tanking an essential public service into the ground smh.

Please don’t be too principled as long as the tools and community to back up those principles aren’t in place.

I very much agree with this, @sunaurus@lemm.ee - your stance above is, I think, exactly as a stated policy should be, but please do remember that plans and reality must meet somewhere along the way. If you overthink things or cleave too religiously to the rules you've set yourself, you risk taking too long to act, and it's exactly this delay between problem and reaction that bad actors exploit.

Don't cut off your nose to spite your face, basically. Lemm.ee is a great instance, and we'd all, I think, love to see it stay that way 🙂

I can only think they must not have paid the poor chap enough. Just look at what's become of them.

I'm assuming they aren't close enough to just run some cat6 between both houses and have a single instance govern them?

I'll be honest though, although your plan sounds cool as fuck, it also sounds like a really terrifying project from a security perspective.