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Last Notes npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR as always assuming other things being equal. So all government actions should be linked by default. So income tax rate thresholds, benefits such as pensions and universal credit and fuel duty should all adjust with inflation unless there is a good reason not to. npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR and noting that for all levels "They assume you own your own home with no mortgage". npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR surely not. In 1953 Arthur C Clarke wrote that they could be printed out in 100 days, with a rented computer of the time. npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR quite possibly they tried somebody else's doorstep and they weren't in either - in the past when they've failed to deliver I've been sent photos of lots of other doorsteps and have had to puzzle out how they got to go to that one. This happens even when we give them written instruction as to how to find us and a phone number to ring if they still can't. npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR " Ed Miliband told MPs he was looking at de-coupling the UK energy markets from the price of gas". npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR " The thing is we're actually an A-Religious country. 30% say they have no religion when asked. " npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR FWIW when I worked in DTI and later DECC the oil npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR "Some think the windfall tax on oil production should be suspended/ended to encourage more investment...." npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR I have a "reader viewer" icon (eg visible on my Mastodon website) but it doesn't appear on the FT site. No doubt they have patched that loophole so I don't have an ethical dilemma as to whether I breach the paywall or not. npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR Article is behind a paywall so have to ask, isn't this "corruption in public office" and when is he going to be dismissed or at least suspended from his current posts and prosecuted? npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR of course the big drop in coal use to generate electricity occured earlier, in the 1990s, with the 'dash for gas', based on bulding new gas power stations. Which also coincided with the run down of UK coal production. npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR my guess that it could mean prioritising the actually or potentially employable on the waiting lists for treatment over those who are severely disabled or simply retired. npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR my own observation from when I worked in a university some 20 years ago is that because of financialisation of HE universities have been incentivised to make available place on courses which are popular with prospective students (who are not always well educated of job opportunities in their preferred subject) even when the unversities should know better. Back then Computer Games had suddenly become popular but the games industry didn't employ that many graduates and in fact lots of universities jumped on the same bandwagon and offered courses. npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR more evidence on use of weight control drugs following money not need: npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR seems to me that "buy" is another ChrisMay malaproprism too. npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR and possibly a budget effect - from what I've seen of the current monthly costs of the new weight loss drugs, unless you are getting them on the NHS, the cost will far outweigth what you save on food so less money to spend on other, hopefully unnecessary, goods or services. npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR add to that he's also been getting UK government subsidies for his INEOS chemicals company, while investing that money abroad and closing Grangemouth refinery in Scotland. npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR UK refinery capacity has shrunk significantly over recent years, down from 18 in the 1970s to 4 today. The most recent casualties were Grangemouth and Lindley. Seemingly it's not economic to refine here anymore. npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR though somehow much what is currently growing in the economy, such as AI data centres and arms manufacture, at the expense of other useful things such as jobs and living wages for people, is not exactly what most of us would have in mind as something we want even more of. But this is their, and Starmer and and Rachel Reeves', wet dream of unsustainable growth. npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR and of course weight loss drugs are even more expensive than gym subscriptions (£169 for 4 weeks Wegovy [1] vs. £40/month for my local LA gym membership [2]) so maybe hard to pay for both, albeit less effort to buy a drug. Even though you probably need to do exercise and make other lifestyle changes in addition to taking the drug to make it stick. npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR wondering what happened to the cancellation rate for 'elective' operations? Asking as a friend's husband had his scheduled hip operation put back to March. npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR nevertheless the majority of the local councils asking for a postponement are run by the Labour party. npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR noting also the use of the 'One of ours, all of yours' Nazi slogan on Noem's DHS podium, even if she didn't actually say it. npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR The UK's National Coal Board applied similarly complex but also somewhat naive LP models to decisions about which coal mines to close in the 1960s, when the industry was being run down - over 500 closed between 1953 and 1976 when there were still some 300+ mines working. npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR not to mention trying to find finding an exact item (including perhaps a part number) on Amazon. And it is isn't just their 'sponsored' results that pack out the results. npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR canals and rail for commerical use coexisted for a long time. And some canals were actually converted to use for railway lines. Commerical use in the UK almost stopped after the WW2, but some of that was because we were the first to build canals and initially only built narrow canals, on the continent they started later and build wide canals that are still in use . npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR I doubt that data centres built for AI and full of GPU with very limited lifetimes and mostly powered by polluting gas turbines will have any consequential use. npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR well I'm sure he had his reasons - clearly the extent of his actual involvement in Epstein's crimes must be enormous and he thinks politically unsurvivable for a President. npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR I had a new hip (having fallen off my bike) about two years ago at RDE and they were excellent. Of course mine wasn't elective so no waiting. Exeter developed the Exeter Hip about 50 years ago. The ward I was on - Robin Ling - was named after one of the inventors. npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR surely the "underlying policy logic" of the MPC is a consequence of "The Government sets us a 2% inflation target" and that the current inflation figure is 3.8% (and a Bank Rate of 4%)? npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR as a (retired) Operational Researcher while I agree with the inapplicability of JIT to hospital bed and staff provision, JIT was intended as a way of managing production process without having to hold large buffer stocks of inventory between processes. npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR to be honest I didn't think there is much wrong with how eye testing works in the UK. npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR Also noting that this source gives the current Microsoft p/e as 34, somewhat different from the F/T chart. Perhaps a bit more digging is required? npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR wondering why they've included Oracle from 2000, but not Oracle today. It's current p/e is 44. So now higher than all the other big players except Tesla. npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR Paying generators, such as gas fired, for the cost of just sitting there not generating is what the Governments Capacity Market is for. npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR maybe it's time to stop chasing unsustainable GDP growth, particularly when it seems to involve investment in stranded assets such as AI data centres, oil and gas exploration, nuclear power generation, grey hydrogen and CCS? npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR at present we already pay gas, and previously coal, generators to be there to run idle, it's called the Capacity mechanism. npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR confusingly mortgage interest costs are not included in the inflation measure (CPI) that the BoE is targeting. npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR meanwhile the Bank of England seems to have other concerns. npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR surely the OBR forecasts include government policies? npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR and as is spelt out in the article it's very clear that privatising some services lead to crap services for patients and is eye wateringly expensive at the same time. npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR on the other hand, many people are missing out on benefits they are entitled too, clearly at odds with this idea that poor and disabled all know how to game the system. npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR "Now the key issue is why the change, and what impact that will (and perhaps was intended to) have on the conduct of the review & the conclusions reached." npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR I remain amazed that PFI can even be considered. npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR they are still green lighting expansion at the regional airports too. We don't need more airport capacity, full stop. For environmental reasons we should be taking positive action to discourage air travel whichever airport is uses. npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR also, although not a target for the revue, still no action to remove the cliff-edge design of the carers allowance, where a small overpayment leads to the whole payment being withdrawn, rather than just the amount overpaid. npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR And £12k per person is also £24k if you are a couple. npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR and, on the other side of the ledger, by the amount of unclaimed benefits. npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR so under this plan presumably all migrants will also get income tax and national insurance exemptions too? npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR surely it's ideological? npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR puzzled by the rows with blank country names in the chart, even though they have life expectancies shown. npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR so, relative to other countries, the UK is not doing well for either sex. npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR dose have a chart showing the difference in life expectancy between the UK and other countries for males? npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR it's not clear to me how simply putting more of the ONS's bodies to work on it is going to help with the Labour Force Survey. npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR if the purpose of the inflation measure used in these negotiations is to include housing costs and to be reasonably accurate both the government are using the wrong measure. npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR good interview, though at the end he rather sidetracked around the issue of 'pregnant people' rather than pregnant women in the BBC guidelines by just criticising a journalist for eye-rolling. npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR surely the biggest threat to the Labour party is the authoritarian right wing faction that's its current excuse for leadership. npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR John Deere tractors aren't cheap, to buy or to repair. npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR that's old news, membership is now over 150,000. npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR public services make up 20% of GDP, and measuring their productivity remains a challenge. npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR a lot of us have old (mine's 10), but still serviceable, cars doing little mileage (we don 5,000 miles/yr) and it's hard to justify investing in a large expensive lump of metal with a battery we might have difficulty charging. My 10 year old car also has physical controls and an actual handbrake and is not connected not the internet. This doesn't mean that I don't think all new cars should be full EV for those that can justify a new car. npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR and, of course at least in respect of Trumps support for fellow ultra right winger Milei in Argentina, it doesn't seems to be working out very well. npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR well goes to show how unrepresentative your #Fediverse readers are. According to Mt Altman most people just love their ChatGPT girlfriends. npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR further investigation finds: npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR I'm guessing that's not the rate for all even moderately wealthy foreign residents, most of whom I expect earn less than the current €200,000 pa. surcharge. npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR taking you to be talking about LLMs (Chatbots) when you say "AI" they are actually worse than a distraction from the climate crisis - hyper-investment in data centres to run the awful things is actively bringing it on. npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR and then there's now CIA ops (widely reported): npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR you should have used a Samsung! npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR private ('Public') schools and grammar schools were there when I went to school in the '50s and '60s. More so in some areas than others and I'm not sure this has changed that much. npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR short of police manpower today? Maybe we could have cancelled a few football matches instead? Very disrespectful playing football on such a day. npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR McSweeny and Blair getting Starmer to come out in favour of something is clearly the kiss of death for a policy. npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR so, given that (I understand) we already attribute notional rent paid to themselves by owner occupiers and include that in GDP can I also assume that we include the value of both paid (whether notional by Carers Allowance or when a carer is employed) and unpaid care in GDP as well? npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR surely if Scotland were to be able to take a more civilised and sensible approach to asylum seekers any greater security on the England/Scotland border would be to stop people, whether immigrant or not, fleeing this benighted country not coming here? npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR is the gender gap really men doing the same job getting paid more or that men are better represented in the better paid jobs? npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR what it doesn't say is what they have 'saved' by reducing the number of Georgians who would otherwise be entitled to receive Medicaid. npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR is that wealth net or gross of debt (e.g. mortgages), particularly in housing. Appeciating that a good proportion of pensioners who were buying their homes have actually paid off their mortgages. npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR I'm sure what he simply wants is no more updates (showing everything is tanking) before the US midterm elections. npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR there's a new article by Richard Murphy covering Phoenixing in more depth, with some suggested ways of tackling it here: npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR (fellow former NCB employee here). npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR the Independant bring us details of the ONS's surprising take on air fares prices July 2025 compared to July 2024. npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR rather than remove the words, since he says he was the one who included the words "take account of" perhaps he can come up with an explanation as to why UK counrt shoudn't 'follow' ECHR decisions. Surely following case law is very much way UK law works and the existing words also imply the UK courts do have discretion to deviate from ECHR decisions when this was justified? Maybe they follow because the ECHR was right. npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR presumably they are also asking to be renationalised? npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR Starmer's total failure to represent Labour Party members is also shown by the fall in membership. It's dropped from a high of 534,046 in 2019 to a new low of 333, 235 now. A drop of over 200,000 or 38%. npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR our plum tree (we live in South Devon) is several years old now but this was the first season we have had a useable crop. And it was a good crop: several kilos pitted. npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR eek. Can a Waymo change nappies? npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR the ONS claim that the rise is air fares and that might be due to changes in where uropean summer holidays fall, so essentially a measurement error (not comparing like with like). npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR this is what the ONS says about transport prices. npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR there is an explanation (not sure I fully understand it myself and I doubt it makes sense in MMT) by the OBR, here: npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR I think the sums for the TPS are done by the government's actuaries. npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR the majority of both current and former staff at the post-92 universities (which includes me) are in the Teachers Pension Scheme (TPS), that also covers school teachers. The TPS is not a funded scheme. Are there parallel proposals to change future pensions of those currently working in Education? npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR currently there are 7.6m - not all unique - on a NHS England waiting list. Many more are taking prescriptions medicines. npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR surely Capital Gains Tax ia, as it says, a tax on the Capital gain not on the original investment, npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR my thinking is that in no sense are inheritance taxes double taxed at the moment, any more than pensions are (an equally spurious claim). npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR the (marginal) inheritance tax rate is 40%, same as the higher rate from income tax. The average rate is much less (just as it is for income tax) because of the size of the various allowances, with most estates not paying anything. unlike income tax, where most people pay standard rate. However the average income tax rate is still quite low even for most higher rate tax payers. npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR we'll probably lose the ozone layer first. npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR I fail to see the logic in her intervening given her stated priorities. npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR "but yes, very odd we have no documentation of an #orca killing a human in the wild" npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR possible. I found that switching to a different DNS provider has, for now at least, restored the connection. npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR No, no IPv6. Apart from anything else I don't think my ISP (Zen) support it and it's not configured in my router. npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR Can anyone help me with a strange 'social.linux.pizza' issue I have or has anyone else the same problem?
