This is more likely the agent running interference as they don't want to pay for anything (as do most of their customers). They would have kept doing it if they had of phoned the agent. Few tenants in a property managed by an agent get a direct line to the landlord, doubly so for one who'll make a decision, especially a decision to spend money on a rental property when they don't have to.

Also 3000 words isn't hard to do, especially if you're an experienced typist or writer. However when dealing with issues that might end up in court, someone with half a brain usually looks for a template and for renters there's usually a couple of good sources. You also want as much as you can get in writing as you really dont want a court date to devolve into he said/she said, you need records.

Personally I hate calling people, I'd much rather do it via an official ticketing system, if that's not available, email. Calls can get so ambiguous, especially if you start dealing with people in other countries that not only have difficult to follow accents but zero understanding of context of culture. It was hard enough dealing with a Iberia recently (despite both parties speaking both Spanish and English) and they had their call centre in Spain. I refuse to fly Lufthansa in no small part because their Indian call centre is designed to be as unhelpful as possible.

If Musk in involved I don't think anyone has anything to worry about, it'll never work and he'll forget about it before it first gets hacked (which is will).

And here we come to the crux of the matter, hate speech is anti free-speech.

By asking me to defend the rights of hateful people, you're effectively asking me to support the stripping of rights from the people they hate. So in effect, you're asking me to select which group of people I would rather deny rights to... the right of a few hateful people to spread their bile without question or criticism (which freedom of expression does not protect you from) or the more fundamental rights to an entire group of people based on things they can't control like the colour of their skin, what's betwixt their legs or with whom they lie. Dunno about you but the choice seems obvious if you really want to force it.

Opens first X file...

Race: Kiddifidlarians
Planet: Epstienius 7

Distinguishing features: Orange skin, small hands, mouth shaped into an O.

Erm.. its exactly the same with undocumented workers.

There's no shortage of them no matter how many get deported because there are rich locals willing to hire them... Considering that it's impossible to punish a rich white man in the US, it won't ever stop.

Walking into?

Awaken from your dreamy state and smell the ashes... We're already there.

What you describe is exactly how Visa, Mastercard, AMEX and the like operate... literally taking money for doing nothing beyond being a middle man. Yep, they take a cut of every transaction that goes over their networks and they've been working diligently to make sure every single transaction goes over their network. They've been quite aggressive in getting rid of non-card based payment methods (apple/google pay are OK as they're just wrappers for a card), killing direct bank transfers and demonising cash.

If that hasn't blown your tiny mind... wait until you learn about how modern debt is basically modern indenturing. Keeping people using the credit whilst keeping people too scared not to pay.

Except for the construction industry... and the tech industry (which that area of the home counties tends to have a lot of), there's a reason they're not building it out in Bumfuckinghamshire where land is cheap.

Well you did rent a crossover... what were you expecting.

Mazda make or at least used to make quite good cars. I had a Mazda 6 estate as a loan car a few months back and it drove well for a large wagon with a smallish engine, never tried the "infotainment" system. However I harken back to Mazdas of yore, MX-5, RX-7/8, even the venerable Mazda 3 MPS was a very good warm hatch... The problem is that cars have just become whitegoods on wheels, people don't care about how a car drives so they all drive abysmally. Especially when people get SUVs. So naturally they've married the stereo into the car instead of doing what they used to in the olden days and just use an off the shelf unit the end user could replace because the "infotainment" system is the only real selling point.

And you've only got yourselves to blame for this by rejecting drivers cars and going for cheap gimmicks.

Oh, I didn't notice you over there,

Signed,
Coffee Snob.

And I say that as a coffee aficionado myself.

Can you blame them... they have the Boomers telling them not to spend money like they did when they were young so that they might be able to save up for a house deposit by the time they're 45 (to get a 35 year loan on an LTV of 10% for a property the boomers want to keep overpriced).

Out of the other side of their mouths, the Boomers are also complaining that the pubs are shutting down.

But beyond this, it's more the sky high rents that are causing this problem. But no one wants to challenge that (say... with a tax on empty commercial properties).

And the 'Spoons are largely responsible for the death of the local pub.

Pretty much this.

NIMBYs: We want jobs and infrastructure.
Also NIMBYs: Not like that, we don't want you building places to provide jobs and infrastructure.

I read an article on the BBC about a deprived town in County Durham, people complaining that they get no support from the government and quickly read on to see that they overwhelmingly voted Brexit... now are voting Reform... And still don't even have an inkling of an idea that they're the architects of their own misery. Vote for things that make the country poorer, it's the poorest that suffer first.

To be fair, they're also saying "fuck the large enterprise and MSP market" as well.

It's just a lot harder to move several thousand VMs. Especially with the price of RAM.

Overpriced branded shirt?
Skinny jeans?
Rashford style fade haircut?

COMPLETE THE LOOK
/whispers: complete the look

With a pair overpriced Apple AI powered glasses. Let everyone know you're the king of the douchebags with a set of $1000 plastic glasses that require a $1000 phone to work and make Dame Edna Everidge's glasses look positively subtle.

Never seeing past the current quarter.

By the time developing countries start enforcing laws that make companies responsible for the products they sell, the current board will have collected their bonuses and retired away to their private islands protected from anyone who might possibly seek revenge (or government looking for justice).