I've stayed here far, far too long, but it's time to make the jump, I think.
From now on, I won't be posting much to this account. You can find me on the place everyone else has been going @gwvillager.bsky.social
Goodbye!
@Lecture_25 The 180s are gorgeous when well looked after. It’s just that Arriva doesn’t maintain visuals well at all - they were absolute stunners with FGW.
The collective meltdown over the suggestion that power can sit anywhere other than SW1 is something to behold.
"How will he travel between London and Manchester."
Good grief.
@RobMartin1989@AaronBastani This specific ship is gas, but regardless, a lot. Very low CO2e per person - 19g/passenger KM, compared to 246g by plane or 170g by car. Ships are incredibly efficient.
@neilalexanderw1@AnonymousLeftie No, but this is much more a case of the urban rich and rural poor - a cosmopolitan German is almost certainly further from a poorly educated Belgian farmer than a Miami suburbanite is from an Appalachian hillbilly. And, population proportion wise, that is an apt comparison.
Ruling out coalitions feels really unacceptable - although Westminster often regards this stuff as ‘clever politics’. You need to govern in the public interest with the council the public has chosen.
@questionableway I expect it is because the pothole ‘blitz’ repairs are rough and temporary - it is so much quicker to just pour asphalt into a hole than it is to resurface an entire section of road, which is the usual method.
Of course, whether or not this shift is wise is debatable.
@eurochallenges Yes. It's fine. A really nice country, even, and London in particular is one of the most competent cities on earth.
We just have a self-loathing culture and excessive optimism is shunned. The political/economic situation isn't great, but it's starting from a very high bar.