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Abusive mods with no recourse for the users.

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FWIW, I was threatened on Reddit more than once with actual murder... people threatening to come to my house and kill me. Reddit's general response was to... delete the chat message in question as a "resolution" to my complaint. AFAIK, that was the extent of their action. I at least have the impression that abusive users will be removed, though it might take a bit given the incredible influx of new users.

This is horrible, why do people think they can say this shit? I hope you reported this to the police? I'm pretty much most places this behaviour is illegal. It's not a good look for Reddit to be complacent with illegal activity on their site.

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Canadian Grand Prix Race Weekend Thread

Decent race if you ignore P1. Good overtakes and battles all over the grid.

My first race weekend in the fediverse was pretty nice. Still lots to improve like the experience of refreshing the page and getting comments from other instances in a timely manner but it was fun.

See you next time 😊.

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‘We told you so’: Brexit to blame for soaring inflation, former Bank of England boss

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Technically it was a majority vote. It's just the arrogance of the people that set up and agreed to the referendum that thought nobody would vote for it meant that they didn't define what the majority should be. >50%, 60%, 75% etc. It was a massive failure of state craft made easier because the case to remain hinged on a "if you're not with us you're a racist" argument that didn't go down well to win people over.

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Bank of England raises interest rates by a half point to 5%

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Same here. Although I distinctly remember my mortgage provider asking us if we were comfortable if the interest rate went up. Multiple times. I'm pretty sure they "stress tested" our mortgage payments assuming 9 - 10% interest. Of course we told them it would be hard, but still within our budgets then laughed and said it would never happen.

I've got sympathy for people in this situation for sure... but how have they managed their household budgets and savings such that this is a shock to them? Or have they over stretched themselves with their mortgage?