wewbull
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- Comment on Making public transport fully accessible ‘could boost UK economy by £176bn’ 1 day ago:
To be fair, increasing GDP isn’t the same as extracting money out of people. I think the point is that removing barriers to people getting to workplaces allows the workforce to grow and economic activity to grow as a result.
That said, I doubt the numbers. There might be 2.8m disabled people, but they’re not all not working because of the one issue. I suspect many are already working. Some will be home workers like myself and some will get to work by other means. Some won’t be able to work for other reasons.
- Comment on Tony Blair think tank warns Burnham’s tax plans send ‘wrong signal’ 1 day ago:
Best endorsement Burnham could get.
- Comment on Political rivals vow to boycott byelection after Farage quits as MP 2 days ago:
I remember the man in the white suit.
- Comment on Political rivals vow to boycott byelection after Farage quits as MP 2 days ago:
I want to know if Count Binface would actually take his seat if he won.
- Comment on Sony 5 days ago:
They should have moved to USB keys a long time ago. Make them big and call them cartridges if you want, but optical discs are far too slow.
- Comment on Before the revolution 1 week ago:
- Comment on Floating Roof Tank 2 weeks ago:
Who’d have predicted that heatseekers go towards fire.
- Comment on To cosmic shreds, I say! 3 weeks ago:
That’s your wish? It’s really negative.
- Comment on MP called up the goonsquad to terrorize his own constituent at 4AM for criticizing Israel 3 weeks ago:
The government and media predominantly, with a small section of the people too.
- Comment on Growth 3 weeks ago:
I just thought pansexuals didn’t exclude furries.
- Comment on UK poised to water down 2030 EV sales targets after industry and union pressure 3 weeks ago:
They are basically as ubiquitous with 7,000 sites in the UK having Rapid or Ultra-Rapid chargers, compared to about 9,000 petrol stations. There’s 46,000 public charger locations if you include all types. They average 4 chargers per location.
In terms of speed, it all depends what you need. It’s rare you need to have a full charge when on a journey. You just need a bit to get you there, or get you home.
Sure if you stop for 100% every time it takes a long time, but that’s a dumb way to do it.
- Comment on UK poised to water down 2030 EV sales targets after industry and union pressure 3 weeks ago:
What infrastructure are you waiting for?
- Comment on Tommy Robinson meets Elon Musk’s father in Moscow 4 weeks ago:
Wetherspoons was closed for a refurb.
- Comment on Tommy Robinson meets Elon Musk’s father in Moscow 4 weeks ago:
It’s just a coincidence. They both happened to be there and just ran into each other. You’re on your holiday, seeing the sights of Moscow, and boom there’s old Tommy Robinson and there’s old Daddy Musk.
I mean, what are the chances of that happening?
- Comment on stony tony 5 weeks ago:
Come to daddy
- Comment on UK experiences ‘tropical night’ after hottest ever May day 1 month ago:
If you have multiple levels (e.g. a house) open a window downstairs and one upstairs. The rising hot air inside will draw in cooler air from outside, but the hot air needs to be able to escape. If you power that with a fan, that’s good too.
- Comment on Vibe management 1 month ago:
NEWMAN!
- Comment on An 82-year-old YouTuber grandma was raided by police and SWATs during her live stream last night where she plays Minecraft to raise money for her grandsons cancer. Authorities brought 20 police cars 1 month ago:
With 20 cars + swat you’ve just created a target rich environment.
- Comment on Tommy Robinson tells tens of thousands at London rally to prepare for ‘battle of Britain’ 1 month ago:
The polls only look like that because the rest of us are factionalized. Voter share puts them on a maximum of 28%. That leaves 72% of us who are voting elsewhere, and that’s without the non voters.
We need to unify around something, but let’s face it. It’s not Starmer.
- Comment on Overseas fakers using AI videos to push a narrative of UK decline, BBC finds. 1 month ago:
Divisiveness. They’re aiming to destabilise.
- Comment on References: [1] out of his ass 1 month ago:
Quick! Get the Flexseal.
- Comment on Rights of at least one in seven UK workers illegally violated at their job 1 month ago:
Don’t give them ideas.
- Comment on British Steel to Be Nationalised, Saving Thousands of Jobs 1 month ago:
So we’ve just bought a failing company? That doesn’t sound good.
So I get that steel making might be a strategic national capability that we need to maintain, but is the government going to put the necessary investment into it? They seem incapable of investing in anything.
- Comment on Downing Street rally asks ‘silent majority’ to fight antisemitism 1 month ago:
…but that’s the point. They don’t want to have to turn on Bebe because reasons they don’t want to talk about. So the I fallible strategy if to accuse anyone wanting to hold him accountable for his actions of anti-Semitism.
We all know this. They all know this. Anybody pulling this “trick” is not debating in good faith.
- Comment on Rip lol 2 months ago:
That’s 34atm or about 350m. Nobody is diving that deep. [The world record is 330m].(www.advanceddivermagazine.com/pascal.html)
- Comment on Wonder why? 2 months ago:
You don’t need much from a government, but it doesn’t work with a bunch of thieving criminals.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
No, but it’s good to have hard data to back it up.
- Comment on Keir Starmer faces ‘judgment day’ as Mandelson vetting debacle grows 2 months ago:
Civil servants have a lot of control not over policy but over outcomes.
That’s a difference that matters only if the people at the top of the civil service have no opinions on what constitutes a desirable outcome. I would say that’s effectively impossible.
- Comment on Keir Starmer faces ‘judgment day’ as Mandelson vetting debacle grows 2 months ago:
Ciaran Martin, a former senior civil servant with past involvement in vetting work, who is a close friend of Robbins, told the BBC that the sacked official appeared to have been made a scapegoat.
He said vetting had been wrongly presented as a simple pass or fail, when it was instead a “risk assessment”, and that it was entirely standard for officials to decide whether the balance of risk was acceptable.
“There is no abuse of process, there is no failure of process. Not only is there no duty to disclose the details of a vetting case, there is a duty not to disclose them. The one thing you never do is tell ministers of any kind, because otherwise the vetting system would collapse,” he said.
I’m sorry…WHAT!!! How can civil servants hold that level of judgement. I’ve long thought that the civil service has too much power over policy, resulting in the Home Office and Foreign Office having minimal change in policy no matter who is Home/Foreign secretary.
If this is really the case then hopefully this is a catalyst for a change in how the civil service operates and where decision making really lies.
- Comment on Teenis 2 months ago:
Armstrong and Miller, for those that were wondering.
