That sounds like a good thing, but Scotland has so much wind it kinda doesn’t make sense to build nuclear power. I’m not poopooing nuclear, it’s a really useful tech, just with the amount of time and money to spin up a single nuclear station we’d be swimming in wind farms…

Been an issue for years.

Lol, lmfao…rofl even.

Touché

Sometimes there’s an upload error and comments/posts get put up multiple times. Likely not OP’s fault.

What’s your favourite dinosaur 🦖 🦕?

Edit: since the other person I didn’t notice ask this got some downvotes…

Why mark the post as nsfw? This isn’t a nsfw instance, or community. It isn’t a Scottish comm either 🤔 why?

Edit²: I guess I should read betterer, “ask me anything dirty or clean”

Bribery

In 2013, a Brazilian prosecutor filed charges against the company’s local division, alleging the company paid bribes to local officials, which is also a violation of U.S. federal criminal law. The bribes were allegedly used to pave the way for Brookfield to build a shopping center in São Paulo. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission also opened a formal investigation into the company about the bribery charges. The company denied the charges. The U.S. Department of Justice also opened a criminal investigation into the company regarding these allegations, and did not end up making any arrests.[63][64] According to the Stanford Law School Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Clearinghouse, which studied the case, the investigation and filing of charges was initiated by a whistleblower and anonymous tip. Later it was revealed that the whistleblower was the former CFO of a Brookfield subsidiary. She claims she was fired for refusing to participate in Brookfield’s bribery scheme.[65] The company disclosed the investigations on several 6-K forms between 2013 and 2015.[66]

Circular cash flows

A March 2024 article in the Financial Times criticized Brookfield for its complex structure and its circular flows of cash after buying and selling multiple properties to itself at high, pre-pandemic valuations. The conglomerate executed dozens of internal transactions, including a $1.4 billion sale of real estate stakes to its insurance arm, supporting its “distributable earnings” metric tied to its $90 billion market capitalization. Brookfield Property Partners, a subsidiary, reported $2 billion in losses for the first nine months of 2024, yet contributed significantly to these earnings. Critics argued these deals masked losses in its commercial real estate portfolio and lacked transparency. Brookfield replied that they were not deceiving anyone nor hiding anything and that the newspaper mischaracterized its business.[67]

¯_(ツ)_/¯ maybe sketchy dealings?

I wandered in from all…this is not financial advice, nor is it likely to be a realistic answer.

I keep expecting Dickensian high jinks and a pick-pocketing mentor with a heart of gold.

Uhhhhh…mind putting in a good word for me when they turn up?

Yeah, it’s rough. My dad’s been on extended medical leave, in and out of hospital, but is having to consider going back to work before he’s actually appreciably better because he’s not able to afford just living on the benefits he’s receiving. If I could send money his way I would but we’re struggling ourselves, so it’s not an option on a regular basis.

We moved from London to Edinburgh mid 2022. We uhhhh…have a lot of shit… Turned out cheaper to rent a small Luton van and just do multiple trips ourselves. Rental and fuel came to just under £900, hiring movers was going to be £2200 for the cheapest quote we got. I did 6 roundtrips in 5 days. It was brutal.
Sorry about your dad mate. My wife’s dad is in a slow decline, dementia, and both my parents are in quite poor health. It’s tough, especially when they’re not close by.

Yeah, the slowest part of my last camping trip back home was getting out of Vancouver, and then the bit at the end up an old logging road.

Thing is, in under 4 hours…you can’t even get out of Canada!

Kinda a bit of flight path shenanigans, Vancouver to London Heathrow is around 10 hours, but that’s over the top. Edinburgh to Toronto is around 7 hours.

London to Vancouver

Edinburgh to Toronto.

I mean, in a way it is. But sometimes 3.5hrs doesn’t even get you from London’s ring road in the east straight through to the west side of the ring road. Bit different if you’re able to do 70mph(or the Canadian limit of 110kmph, so like…68ish?) the whole time.

Yeah, if I was living in one and working in the other then I’d fly or take the train obviously. No way I’m doing that drive daily, that’s insane. But for a few days trip, no sweat.

Economy of scale is way different. The entirety of the UK fits into British Columbia almost 4 times… https://www.comparea.org/GBR+CA_BC
I’d happily leave work at noon on Friday, get to my camp site at 8 or 9pm. Do camping stuff Saturday, wake up hung over Sunday and be home for 8 or 9pm and be fine for Monday morning. Works better if you’ve got someone to switch out driving every few hours.

Places like australia and the us really cant understand what having almost all a nation within daily travel distance of a single city means.

Moving to the UK from Canada was a trip. People at work losing their mind when I say my wife and I are driving to Edinburgh from London in a oner, meanwhile the time/distance from my perspective is a reasonable expectation for a weekend camping trip.

Why could they not do this same thing with fentanyl though?

In a way they do? If I’m remembering correctly there was a wave of kids ODing in Canada because of fentanyl patches going around, and they were cutting them up and sucking on them or something. The patches are like nicotine patches, and the distribution of the fentanyl was/is uneven, so enough for a dose one time could be 5× the dose the next.
The patches are for people who have long term chronic pain. They’re meant to be absorbed over a full day for pain management.

Fuck you for reminding me what day it is… that’s enough internet for me thanks

Yeah…I wasn’t joking.

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