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19 hours ago, Satoshi said:
And regarding these companies posting huge profits, this is not a good sector to be in - look at how many of these companies have gone out of business recently. The sector has a low ROE and everyone hates you, not a great business to be in.
I remember being told a few years back that it's in the generation of electricity that they make most of their money and there's very little to be made in the domestic energy supply market, profits margins are pretty small, and that explains why so many have gone out of business really. That doesn't explain why so many companies try it though?
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On 25/02/2022 at 18:10, dundeefc1783 said:
I am with Octupus Energy and have just gone onto the variable rate. Had a look at fixing with them for 12 months and it's more than double the variable rate.....
Remember those variable rate prices shown in your quote will change from April 1st, from 20p & 4p to 28p & 7p (and electric standing charge doubling from 25 to 50p). So you need to base your options for fixing with that, not the price you are currently paying for another month.
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On 25/02/2022 at 15:39, beesher said:
I'm sure there's a fairly obvious answer to this, but if you plan on staying in your current property for the rest of your days and don't answer the door to meter readers, what's to stop you under-reporting your energy usage until such time as the price has come back down to a reasonable level?
If you try to submit readings that are outside the expected range (no idea if its 5 or 10% above/below), it won't accept the readings and they'll just estimate your bill. And since its so fucking expensive, 5-10% won't save you very much.
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The price cap only applies to the variable/standard tariff. There is nothing to stop suppliers offering you a fixed deal at a higher price, and currently, there are no fixed tariffs available that are any cheaper than the current price cap, they are all a bit more expensive.
Also worth noting, that as per the OFGEM website, the prices given by them for the price cap are "averages and will vary by region, payment method and meter type"
https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/check-if-energy-price-cap-affects-youThe current price cap will last until October 2022. No one knows how long the current very high gas prices will last (and what's happening in Ukraine won't help it in any way), but it's already thought that the next price cap rise in October will add another 20% increase. I think even Martin Lewis is a bit lost with what to advise people right now.
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Whereas I didn't get a single letter in my first two attempts
Wordle 245 5/6
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2 hours ago, LondonHMFC said:
General response is that most would be happy to see him go. Are GSB going to release a £30 million asset, whilst having to pay off his contract? Absolutely no chance. He won't play tonight, but I imagine will be in the team on Sunday to face Leicester.
The Met have confirmed they won't be taking action, but I believe the RSPCA can look to do something.
He has said it was a one off incident, but that cat looks distressed when held up, it knows what is coming. Horrendous.
A one-off incident, what when he drop kicked it or when his kid dropped it in the counter for him to whack it? I hope the RSPCA can prosecute him and at least ban him from owning any pets.
West Ham have only just signed him, so agree with you, can't see them doing anything other than publicly condemn him for his actions.
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2 hours ago, Detournement said:
Joni Mitchell as well now.
The strange thing with Young is he felt strongly about the Iraq War but never decided to remove his music from any of the media companies promoting that.
Seen some comments about him & Joni Mitchell both having polio as kids, and that's the reason for their stance on anti-vaccine stuff. Will either of them miss much cash from not having their music on Spotify?
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20 minutes ago, Empty It said:
Woman on radio shortbread 5 minutes ago saying children under 12 are being hospitalized up and down the country due to covid. Anyone got the figures on this?
The stats on overall admissions don't show anything, but I think that's probably just because so few children have been admitted prior to Omicron, and even though they are rising, they're still tiny compared to other admissions.
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On 09/01/2022 at 18:39, Left Back said:
I have a lab (not overfed). He’s the most chilled lazy dog I’ve ever had.
Half hour walk or 20 minutes with the frisbee and he’s done.
I think mine is defective right enough.
Isn't there two kinds of labs, the show dog that tend to be larger with a wider head, and the working dogs that are much leaner. Or maybe that's not what makes the difference and its just your luck whether you get a chilled, lazy lab or a crazy, energetic one?
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I went from a lucky punt with my first guess yesterday (after reading something about dry January), to swearing at it today. Got 3 yellow after second attempt, and still failed.
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2 hours ago, Scotty Tunbridge said:
What does Xhaka even bring to Arsenal other than being a complete liability?
Entertainment value for everyone else. Why does he look so much better when playing for Switzerland?
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1 hour ago, Honest_Man#1 said:
An aggressive defensive response to a completely bland question. Maybe just be clearer in future and type out the words you actually mean.
Not to mention of course that your evidence didn’t actually agree with your point anyway
Hey if your comprehension is a bit ropey, don't try to blame me
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14 hours ago, Honest_Man#1 said:
Ah right, you meant 70% of Covid hospital admissions. Your initial post said “70% of hospital admissions are in for Covid” which was what I thought was impossible, so you’d just missed a word out of your post. Thanks for clarifying.
Aye in a thread about covid, about Yousaf's hopeless response to questions about Covid patients in hospital, I suddenly started talking about all hospital admissions. What are you a politician?
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16 minutes ago, SoapMactavish said:
You can’t treat folk with what is essentially a complex multi-system disease process in folk actually ill with it in a dedicated ‘Covid Hospital’.
You need access to all the specialism’s on site if there is a problem.
Confused and falls and breaks hip - Needs Orthopaedics.
Has a stroke secondary to Covid -Needs Stroke team input.
etc etc
It was one of the major issues we highlighted at the Louisa Jordan was folk would have to be transferred back to another hospital if they developed any weird complications.
If it was purely a respiratory illness that didn’t cause any other problems it would be great. But its sadly not.
Exactly. In theory it makes some sense, keep all covid patients in one hospital and all other patients in another, no problem with infecting all the non-Covid patients then. But what country in the world has either the spare hospitals or the additional staff that it would need. In the UK we don't even have the staff for the hospitals we've got.
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6 minutes ago, Todd_is_God said:
This perhaps shows what I mean better than words
I'm sure I read that they'd managed to catch up on a bit of the backlog with the figures on the 27/28th too. Think it'll probably be the end of next week or even the week after before the figures are less skewed.
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12 minutes ago, MP_MFC said:
BBC reporting only 20 more people in England’s hospitals today compared with more than 2000 admitted on Wednesday. They didn’t think it might be worthwhile to point out that Wednesday was probably the first proper report in about 5 days.
Nearly 1000 more in hospital today compared to yesterday, at least according to the governments own coronavirus dashboard?
31-12-2021 12,395
30-12-2021 11,452In the last two days England has recorded over 2000 admissions (up to the 29th). London has gone from just over 100 admissions per day at the start of the month to 450-500. Scotland's last date for admissions was the 27th and it had a bit of a jump to 111. It's really England that's seeing the biggest rise in hospital numbers so far.
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2 hours ago, oaksoft said:
An excellent reason why covid patients should never have been receiving treatment in a general hospital.
Another failing by respective governments.
In theory yes, but in reality, where could they have been treated? If it's really a failing, its by every government, except maybe China, and who knows what they did to deal with the problem.
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On 30/12/2021 at 12:37, Monkey Tennis said:
I don't think anyone's advocating blindly following what others are doing (except those who want us to mimic Westminster of course).
These other countries are being cited as a response to the suggestion that the Scottish decisions are only being made due to our particular political circumstances.
That's it exactly.
I think the Scottish Government may end up following England and cutting the isolation time from 10 to 7, but not just because England has, and if they don't it's not just because Germany for example haven't. That's just bizarre, what about those wanting to cut it from 7 to 5, should we do it just because someone else is? Everyone is weighing it up between the risks of how infectious people after 7 days and how many staff are off for those extra three days, that's all. Are Isn't Germany still 14 days?
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23 hours ago, oaksoft said:
Humza said it was perfectly reasonable to ask about the 50% figure.
He was asked if that sort of figure was in line with what was happening in Scotland.
Humza could very simply have told him what the real number was.
But didn't.
And you need to come to your own conclusions about whether that was because he couldn't or wouldn't provide that clarity. What cannot be credibly argued against here is that he should personally know these numbers inside out.
Your last sentence, yep can't disagree with that. He sounded clueless and that was a bit of a disaster of an interview for him and the Scottish Government.
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21 hours ago, Honest_Man#1 said:
Really? I would find that absolutely incredible if true, particularly given there was an article very recently stating half of London’s Covid hospital admissions didn’t even realise they had Covid prior to going in, so would have to be a fairly huge number of those then suddenly becoming ill with it and requiring treatment. Genuinely if you can find the source for this I’d be keen to read it as that would be concerning.
Omicron is making it worse in terms of people getting it after being admitted, which makes sense considering how transmissible it is. So data just released today is making it more like 60%.
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Yousaf comes across as an idiot in that interview, but why is Geissler using a made up 50% figure (did it not come from the Daily Mail/Telegraph, hardly a reliable source) when the most recent general consensus is that 70% of people admitted to hospitals in England are being treated for Covid?
For crowds, I do think they underestimate the impact is has on many people not being able to go to games. And I don't get the 500 limit, they should have set it at a % of capacity. Even with the argument about people travelling to games and mixing in pubs beforehand, the 500 limit seems incredibly arbitrary.
But the whole reducing isolation time, use of vaccine passports, limiting crowds at games as if it's a clear argument that the Scot Gov are the only one's not following clear evidence that these are all right/wrong is nonsense. Clearly there are plenty of other countries doing similar to Scotland (the rest of the UK apart from England for one thing), Germany's restrictions still exist from the spike they had in Nov/early Dec, their cases have been on a downward trend for much of December but they know Omicron will drive them up and are continuing with & bringing in even more restrictions. Yet here we've got so many people wailing about how England is doing it right and we aren't just because people are unhappy with any restrictions.
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5 hours ago, shahid khan said:
Wordle 193 5/6
Tough one. Looking above though, seems I'm in the minority.
5/6 for me too, thought it was a really tough one. Even when I had three letters (one in the wrong place) it still took me an age to come up with the correct word.
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12 hours ago, itzdrk said:
So is the general think that Omicron is spreading about but actually doing less than the others?
There's been early lab results that show while it is more transmissible it has less impact on the lungs. Which is good, but it is better at infecting and a higher viral load might mean less of an immune response, so it's not completely clear cut.
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47 minutes ago, djchapsticks said:
If this imposition of restrictions is so desperately needed, why are idiots like Drakeford waiting two weeks to implement anything when we're being told the 'tsunami' is here now?
Drakeford is saying fairly similar stuff to Sturgeon, but Wales have by far the least Omicron cases in the UK. Like the rest of us their cases have been high for a while but still flat for now whereas the numbers are going up for the rest of us. Maybe they're just delaying it to the 27th to get past Christmas.
25 minutes ago, TheScarf said:Not sure you need to take advice on how to read a graph or table that shows the number of people in hospital because of covid is dropping and so the NHS is under less and less stress as the days pass.
Got to wait a week or two before hospital numbers will go up, if indeed they do go up. There is some hope in the data from South Africa but at the same time, Norway appears a bit ahead of us with Omicron and their hospital numbers are beginning to climb higher than in their last big wave. I think the likes of Sturgeon and Drakeford are just terrified of getting it wrong and would rather be cautious when their advisors are telling them even if it's milder, the possibility of there being so many cases will still lead to lots of hospitalisations.
If they're right, I'm hoping it will be a short, sharp, spike because that's what its beginning to look like in South Africa. Because I've got to say, I was utterly convinced we'd never see another lockdown, but France shutting the UK out, Netherlands in lockdown, I think a short spike is the best we can hope for.
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Energy Prices
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It's not misleading, the energy cap is an average price, and overall, the price is rising by 54%. It's the same as the typical usage they give for gas & electric (12000 & 3000kWh) it's based on an average sized house that has both gas and electric. All of these figures are pointless for anyone that stays in a house heated by electricity.
The increase is mainly being driven by the spike in gas prices, but additionally the doubling of the standing charge for electricity - which is in part being used to pay for all the costs of the 'supplier of last resort' taking on the customers of all the suppliers that have went bust. And no doubt it'll increase next year when the Government claw back the £200 loan they're giving us.