wewbull
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- Comment on Lessons for Britain from Milton Keynes 2 days ago:
I don’t understand why LAs don’t understand that you pay for the parking space by having a thriving town centre. Making wandering around the shops an expensive expedition means people only come when they have a specific reason to.
Low footfall kills shops, and kills towns, so don’t make parking a money making scheme. Size it appropriately for the town, make it free, and maintain it. That’s it.
- Comment on UK economy grows by 0.1% in unexpected boost for Rachel Reeves 1 week ago:
Surely that’s within error margins.
We’re flat and stagnant.
- Comment on what if another country staged a coup in the US and deposed trump? 1 week ago:
Ownership should revert to the UK. The founders experiment failed, so just re-establish the previous situation.
- Comment on TerminEATOR 1 week ago:
Termiteater
Not Termineater
- Comment on As Labour touts more brutal cuts to benefits, how is this different from life under the Tories? | Frances Ryan 2 weeks ago:
No. Welcome to people thinking that their vote doesn’t matter unless they’re “on the winning team”. The system allows anyone to win. The psychology of the electorate is locked into two party politics.
- Comment on As Labour touts more brutal cuts to benefits, how is this different from life under the Tories? | Frances Ryan 2 weeks ago:
The thing that really grinds my gears is that at the next election people still won’t consider parties like the lib dems or greens that actually want to bring in social policies.
- Comment on UK would need forest ‘twice size of London’ to offset new airport expansion. 3 weeks ago:
Ok, I see where you’re coming from and agree.
- Comment on UK would need forest ‘twice size of London’ to offset new airport expansion. 3 weeks ago:
An electric plane will expend similar levels of energy to a jet plane.
- Comment on UK would need forest ‘twice size of London’ to offset new airport expansion. 3 weeks ago:
Increasing airport size as a way to stimulate economic growth seems like dated thinking to me. Flights are increasingly not used for business travel as communications technology has advanced. All you’re really doing is trying to maintain hub status for London which doesn’t drive economic activity outside of the airport industry.
Heathrow needs a third runway as much as it needs a rollercoaster. A huge construction project, with all the emissions that brings, that paves over houses, green spaces and the M25 (on a bridge).
Finally, I guess we can see why Labour whipped against the environment bill last week.
- Comment on Costs to thee, but none for me! 3 weeks ago:
Having someone review things because it’s “expected” is a great way to get people rubber stamping stuff.
- Comment on Costs to thee, but none for me! 3 weeks ago:
Robert Maxwell was a known sleeze bag in his own right.
- Comment on UK ‘one of world’s least work-oriented countries’ claims BrewDog founder - as he slams obsession with 'work-life balance' 5 weeks ago:
As a shareholder he has no say in that. The company directors say how much dividend is paid, and he is no longer one of them.
- Comment on UK ‘one of world’s least work-oriented countries’ claims BrewDog founder - as he slams obsession with 'work-life balance' 5 weeks ago:
Only in the form of dividends, if brewdog pays them.
- Comment on Norwich restaurant charges £100 for a pineapple pizza 5 weeks ago:
Seems like it really should be down at number 8.
- Comment on S̵̢̡̠̣̜͍̘͍̈́̿͒̈̎̉͌͂̎̾̓Ḩ̶̡̛̯̰̤̻͖̹̝̼͍͔̰̃̅̋̍̈̆̋̋́̔͝Ǫ̴̺͔̫͈͉͎̤͎͗͂̅͒̀͒W̶̛͖̺̰̠̙̲̓͆̋̉̌̆̂͛̀̒̕͘ ̷̨̦̤̇̀̓̉́̅͒̄͝M̶͓̗͚̩̬͈͎͗̓̈́́͜͜Ẹ̵̢̢̺̞͓͓̤͙̙͖̈́̈̉͝ ̶̧̡̲̺͓̮̰̘̮͚͉̝͈̝̀͒́̎̾̓͜͝͝͠T̷̡̟̘̫͋͋̑͊̓͐̊̐̎H̸̪̋͛̓̀̍̂̐̂͐̾̈́̒̃É̵̛̾̅̀͛̃̄̏ 5 weeks ago:
This is particularly applicable around downed power cables. Do NOT approach.
For example: in LA right now
- Comment on Firms to raise prices due to tax and wage increases 1 month ago:
“Firms” here is very non specific. How many of those surveyed are consumer facing?
- Comment on "It seems likely Elon Musk has lost over half of the UK twitter daily audience by now" 1 month ago:
If you want a good example of the damage echo chambers can do, look at the democrat performance in last year’s election. To get people to vote for you you have to listen and respond to their concerns.
You may not agree with their proposed solutions, but you can’t ignore whole segments of society.
- Comment on Elon Musk makes 23 posts urging King Charles III to overthrow UK government 1 month ago:
I think he’s more a K man.
- Comment on IEEE 754 1 month ago:
No exponent, or at least a common fixed exponent. The technique is called “fixed point” as opposed to “floating point”. The rationale is always to have a known level of precision.
- Comment on IEEE 754 1 month ago:
Knowing not to use floating point with money is good use of that knowledge.
- Comment on Wallace & Gromit fans appalled by the AI upscaling on new 4K UHD release 1 month ago:
Looking at the output quality and critically assessing it to be bad is not reactionary.
Saying the output is bad for no other reason that it’s generated by AI is reactionary.
- Comment on I predict that this post will get approximately 01000011100101100000000000000000 1 month ago:
1 is always 1. It’s $1 × b^0$ where b is the base.
10 is the base. $1 × b^1 + 0 × b^0$
- Comment on nuclear 2 months ago:
Yes, as I live in neither.
- Comment on nuclear 2 months ago:
I think you misunderstood what was written:
The Katsurao village official said about 337 square kilometers of land in seven Fukushima municipalities are deemed “difficult-to-return” zones. Of those, just 27 square kilometers in six of the same municipalities are specified reconstruction zones.
27 km² are the worst areas. The other 310km² are still “difficult-to-return”.
- Comment on nuclear 2 months ago:
At what point am I supporting coal? Totally irrelevant
I’m saying Fukushima was an ecological disaster. Thankfully very few people died, but to only focus on that minimises the impact of the event. If you’re going to say Fukushima wasn’t that bad, you can’t just cherry pick at the impacts.
Is nuclear better than fossil fuels? Yes. But that was an argument for the 80s. The time for nuclear was 50 years ago. It didn’t happen.
- Comment on nuclear 2 months ago:
They need cooling water, so “on the coast” is a reasonable location. Or do you mean “not in Japan”? A country without many great options for clean energy generation. Frankly Japan is one of the places nuclear makes sense to me. There’s not many options.
It doesn’t make sense to me in the US where there’s a sunshine belt across the country 5 timezones long, large windswept plains and shallow coastlines. The US is rich in options and nuclear falls down the list.
- Comment on nuclear 2 months ago:
There was still 164,000 people who needed to evacuate 230 square miles. The land is contaminated and cleanup is proving difficult. Japan will be dealing with the environmental impact for a century I’d wager.
- Comment on NatWest to hike chief's pay as bank returns to full private ownership 2 months ago:
If true then something is fishy.
The company was in trouble, so the initial investment should have been at a good price. The company has now recovered, and the states investment should have grown with it.
How do you make a 20% loss on that?
- Comment on NatWest to hike chief's pay as bank returns to full private ownership 2 months ago:
So my question is, how much did the state invest and what was the return on that investment (index linked)?
I’m sure NatWest are very happy not to be partly owned by the state.
- Comment on British Army successfully tests new drone-destroying laser 2 months ago:
Unlike conventional munitions, laser weapons are virtually limitless in terms of ammunition supply,
We have trucks with limitless energy!
