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Cake day: February 17th, 2024

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  • "We” as in consumers don’t use enough to hurt companies by divesting.

    I think you’re confused by what divesting is. That’s us as business owners, not as customers (obviously we as customers can hit them simultaneously from the other side too).

    Yes, individually it doesn’t hurt them much, but it becomes the death of a thousand cuts.

    If you can put pressure on your pension provider, local government, church, favourite charity or any other organisation you care about to drop funds with them in entirely then all the better.

    By all means do anything you can to reduce your individual carbon footprint

    Divesting is not to do with that, it’s about hitting these companies right in the share price.












  • I don’t get it. If you’re an immigrant who’s already made it to the EU, why would you want to go to England in the first place?

    As a Brit, that’s better.

    Jokes aside, here’s a couple of reasons I can think off the top of my head.

    1. English is really common for people to speak as a second language. More likely to be drawn to a country where they have some chance of being able to communicate.

    2. they may have friends or family already here (maybe who’ve chosen the UK due to point 1). People are far more likely to go somewhere where they already know people.



  • UK. But it’s actually a German company. Everywhere I’ve worked has been pushy about you using your holiday though (managers obviously don’t want it to hit the end of the year and suddenly everyone wants to use it instead of loosing it) but the 75% almost as soon as it renews is the most extreme example I’ve come across.