I don’t think it’s unfair - the question in the headline is ambiguous and could be interpreted in two very different ways:

1. What are the circumstances leading to homes becoming vacant?
2. Why are local authorities not able to effectively intervene and get vacant properties back into use?

The article deals exclusively in the latter, without addressing what the root causes are and how they affect which solutions might be effective.

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Fortunately, no one uses Apple Maps anyway.

Given they can’t find the place to pour engine oil, they probably won’t know what this means or how to do it.

Yeah, I think I saw that it was an option in the menu and raised an eyebrow, then immediately forgot it existed. Classic EA move at the time to try and cram multiplayer into everything (see also: Dead Space 3).

Thank Goodness You’re Here is quite possibly the funniest game I’ve ever played - good suggestion.

Kind of both?

I hold the shower head in my hand almost the entire time, but when I need both hands (e.g. shampooing) I put it back in the holder and face away from it.

I can’t stand having the water running directly on my head or face - those waterfall shower heads are my nightmare scenario.

It’s important to note that the mod is built for Half-Life: Source rather than the original version.

I assume this was to allow for the more advanced NPC behaviours, but targeting a delisted and near-universally panned remake is certainly a choice.

Why is this meme sponsored by accuweather?

I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics.

If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don’t understand quantum mechanics.

Both quotes attributed to Richard Feynman.

Okay but lots of things didn’t used to exist that now do. The fact that it wasn’t always this way doesn’t mean the new nomenclature is worse.

If anything, the old naming was confusing. Drawing a line between shepherds pie and cottage pie based on the ingredients is a useful distinction, modern or not.

No, honey definitely exists

Make a pond; even just a small one!

To an M5? I doubt it.

“In Silicon Valley, wearing a full business suit marked you as unsophisticated and not ‘with it’ in terms of tech and innovation. This caused the dress code requiring a suit to be inverted and it eventually reached the point where you can’t wear a suit and be taken seriously in Silicon Valley.”

https://www.raconteur.net/talent-culture/when-wore-it-best

Well yeah - game development, a creative endeavour, benefits from continuity within the team working on it. Once you lose a certain percentage of that team, or even just a handful of key figures, the original vision and the lessons learned during its realisation are lost forever.

You’d think this was obvious, but apparently not to the c-suites, who see everyone as replaceable cogs.

If there was a backdoor in, say, the original Pentium, do you not think someone would’ve found it by now?

London to Edinburgh is a 7-8 hour drive, right? If you’re going over the weekend then surely you’d be spending most of your time driving there or back again?

Genuinely not trying to be combative, I just struggle to understand how you justify that as reasonable.

Have you looked into gardening? Healthy, rewarding, easy to get started, room to grow (if you’ll pardon the pun)…

To add another: ‘pants’ means trousers in the US, but in the UK it means underpants. Can lead to some funny misinterpretations.