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I accidentally bought some truly disgusting weed, but I can’t bring myself to just throw it away because it was pretty expensive. This is the Skunk Cost Fallacy.

Second blood donation cancelled in recent months. App says my blood type is in demand, but you wouldn't know it based on how things are run locally.

mandatory voting will require investment to pay for more polling station capacity. if queues are long people will walk away. in practice £10 fines won't be enforced by the courts. Australia convicted just 226 people one election out of a million. i'm more interested in voter ID rules repealed

I hope if England win and they put Starmer on the screen during the final the crowd boos him. Would be the perfect end to his time in downing street.

People clapping like seals because Virgin Media got fined for screwing customers while Ofcom hand-wave Royal Mail's erosion of basic service provision. Extremely weak.

I expect the social media ban to become a game of whack-a-mole. Teens move from regulated platform to unregulated platform. Government moves to bans those. Rinse, repeat until smaller platforms refuse to comply. Risk for the government is whether 18 year olds return to big tech regulated platforms.