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Bottled water causes droughts, draining aquifers in e.g. Southern France. Plus a huge amount of plastic pollution.

Then there's Californian almonds - 12 litres per kernel apparently.

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Me too! What a waste of time that was.

They also decided to switch the intro programming course from C++ to Pascal because "our job is to teach you, not provide skills that industry requires".
Did the final project in C++ anyway....

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£900 umbrella is an excellent rate, particularly given the recent market conditions.
You could put the max £60k in your pension and still be complaining about having to pay the cliff edge 62% tax between £100-125k....

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This isn't just contracting, it's the whole UK economy. Incomes stagnating since 2008 due to our terrible productivity.
We still get paid a lot more than most people.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-64970708