I was gonna say it’s so out of character I’d almost half assume he actually believes there to be grass there

Always used to pick Razer

The damage wasn’t really reversed, rather overcome.

If the world (not just the UK) didn’t see the massive increase in bond yields over the years following the mini budget, we would still very much be in the hole. The Bank of England had to intervene to buy an unprecedented number of bonds at not great prices, if they weren’t able to sell them for profit, we would still be directly facing the consequences.

If the bank didn’t have to intervene, we would be better off today because we’d have that growth without the hit. Most other developed countries got that, so in comparative terms we’re still behind.

I feel for you guys that didn’t get to live in the world pre-9/11 and pre-2008 financial crash. The world was just significantly worse in many ways after each, and never got to recover.

Though I will say the rate of these perma-shittening events does seem to be getting worse. Here’s what I consider to be the big ones with related shit in sub bullets (caveat I’m British so a couple of things are more specific to my country):

• 2001: 9/11 and all the pointless war and islamophobia that followed
• 2008: subprime mortgage crash
  • 2010: Murdoch successfully blames the above on Labour causing the Tories to get in on an austerity manifesto
• 2016: Trump & Brexit, leading up to this:
  • 2011: Alternative vote campaign fails thanks to the propaganda directed by the guy who does the same for the Brexit campaign. We didn’t realise at the time but this was the trial run.
  • 2014: Putin tests the water in Georgia
  • 2015: David Cameron changes the BBC charter to allow government appointments to the board. What follows is a defanging of the news department and the installation of a load of right wing editors. This is a big contributor to Brexit happening and everything else that follows.
• 2020: COVID
• 2021: failed Coup in the US
• 2022: Putin invades Ukraine
• 2022: Liz Truss gets in and delivers an actual real-deal right-libertarian budget and policy platform, despite everyone with a brain telling her it would tank the economy. She does it anyway and instantly wipes £30bn of our country’s wealth out of existence in a day.
• 2023: the current Israel-Gaza conflict kicks off, quickly turns into a genocide with the support of the western world leaders
• 2025: Trump gets in again and goes mask-off fascist
• 2026: Trump starts invading other countries in an effort to distract everyone from the mounting evidence he is a disgusting human trafficking pedo

The non-can-only-be-used-to-refill-a-bottle kind of water fountains being as ubiquitous as they seem to be, seems to be a uniquely American thing.

I don’t think I’ve ever seen one in the UK since I was in school

Could be the other way, our brains nerfing the incredible flavour so we don’t all die of hyperhydration

I’ve never seen something so pointless that I’ve wanted more

Oh yeah for PCM it’s CD quality on everything and capable of 24bit/96khz on most hardware made in the past decade (I think there’s some high end stuff that does 24bit/192khz, but funnily enough I imagine you need a somewhat higher grade than typical cable for that, since most are made of super cheap plastic fibre, which is usually fine)

You can also send bitstream over it for most pre Blu-ray multichannel formats if you have a compatible receiver

FWIW toslink supports up to 125mbps theoretically

Much lower in practice of course, but it’s a bit better than 128k

Those are some heavy links