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A saloon is where you get a drink, a salon is where you get a haircut.

I'm not sure about that, I think the real issue here is that there just aren't enough train lines

On an article about employees not getting paid someone commented with the excuse that they're moving "more in line with youtube" where creators don't get paid. Since you apparently disagree with the obvious meaning, how did you interpret that?

So you believe it's okay to not pay the people you hire because Google doesn't pay people who upload videos to Youtube?

Market share isn't relevant here, if a company hires you to do something they pay you for your work. If they don't recoup their costs from the work they hired you to do that's a bad business decision on their part and not a valid reason to not pay you. This is why developed countries have employee rights laws.

Do you consider that a valid reason to hire people and not pay them? To me it just sounds like an excuse for a company to abuse a lack of employee rights to get free labour.

What you're describing there is an etymological fallacy, a surprisingly literal one at that. By that logic the word "literal" should only refer to written text since it originated from the Latin word for letter, as in alphabet characters. Words' meanings are defined by how they're used, you're complaining about how the word is being used, and you claim anyone using it doesn't understand the meaning of the word. That is prescriptivism.

Where are you getting your news? Wherever it is you should stop, you're being fed (and spreading) misinformation.

In the UK, wages and salaries are notoriously low

About 12-14th place worldwide. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_average_wage https://www.worlddata.info/average-income.php https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/country_price_rankings?itemId=105

Im a lot of cases the salary allows employers to pay less because it’s considered different to a wage.

This is untrue. Minimum wage for salaried workers is calculated by average hours worked per pay period, if after dividing your pay by your average hours you are making less than minimum wage and your employer doesn't fix this you should report them immediately.

The reason our salaries are this low is not just because of funding the NHS,

This obviously doesn't make sense on the surface since NHS is paid for through taxes and not salary deductions so you seem to be making a tax argument instead (?), but regardless while per capita spending on health services in the UK is high compared to some other countries, it is far from the highest.

but because we have a huge portion of our population unemployed and thus needing welfare support

At ~4.2% it's middling by most measures, but I'd definitely prefer lower. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_unemployment_rate https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/unemployment-by-country

which comes straight out of the money businesses have to pay people with

I don't even know how to respond to that. You are aware that this is handled by the government and not private business, right? Is this just another roundabout way to complain about being taxed?

the government spends a huge amount on processing asylum and immigration claims (of which there’s an extraordinary amount given the size of the country)

Are you aware that support for refugees in the UK comes out of the aid budget which has been reduced from 0.7% of gross national income in 2021 to 0.5%, and further decreased to 0.3% by 2027? Less of your taxes are being spent on this category now.
https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-9663/

Regardless, number of refugees is high but not extraordinarily so for the region. Speculation, but that's likely due to English being the de-facto lingua franca for international communication so asylum seekers are more likely to speak the local language.
https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SM.POP.ASYS.EA?contextual=region&end=2024&locations=GB&start=2000

The issue here is mismanagement more than number of refugees, the UK government reportedly managed to spend $26,000 per person compared to most countries spend under $10,000. As mentioned above though, this is from the aid budget which has already been reduced, this mismanagement prevents foreign aid but does not decrease your salary.
https://www.cgdev.org/blog/costs-hosting-refugees-oecd-countries-and-why-uk-outlier

Barely two paragraphs in and this is already too long, if you want the rest of your comment to be taken remotely seriously you should at least add some sources.

UK, there is no standard. I've seen last working day of the month, every second week, 28th of every month, once per week, last Friday of the month unless that Friday is also the last day of the month in which case it's the Friday before.

Hourly workers tend to be paid weekly or fortnightly and salaried workers tend to be monthly but as far as I know there's no real rules, you get whatever your employment contract says.

Why not? English is full of synonyms. It doesn't matter whether you think it "makes sense". Why waste the effort attacking word choice when you knew exactly what they were trying to communicate?

Linguistic prescriptivism is nonsense, you personally not liking how a word is used does not make that usage incorrect.

I felt the same when I first fought the new version but overall I find it a much more interesting fight than before.

I tend to build small decks so the exhaustion phase is the one that gets me, but you'll usually have some cards you don't really need in your deck. Use that phase to set up your powers and scrap any basic strikes or defends you don't need, with less junk you'll draw your better cards more often in other turns. Don't be afraid to take a hit in this phase if you need to, it's the last fight so as long as you survive you're good. Cards that affect the next turn (eg Blur to carry over block) help if you can prepare the turn before.

The second phase just stops card draw so it's never really a big deal for me, even if you built a draw deck at this point you should have a strong enough deck to play a turn without draws.

The final phase is pretty interesting imo, to me it seems it mostly just screws you if you've built around 1 cost cards. If you play a heavy hitter that's probably all you're doing that turn anyway, and if you're playing a 0 cost deck it doesn't really affect you. Just remember to play your 0 costs last that turn, they still drain your energy!

Driving dangerously is generally illegal everywhere else. As someone not in the US, the first time I heard that ridiculous law exists I thought it was a joke. Especially when I found out it was just a scheme to save fuel at the expense of every other road user and especially pedestrians. Insanity.

You're upset that people aren't risking lives to save you a few seconds. You're not exactly the good guy here.

This is validation seeking, not a legitimate question.