edward

Software. (Liberal/liber)tarian. Gubberment bad. Globohomo liberal elite. Econ growth maximalist. @_ewpriv

[𝖓𝖎𝖓𝖊 🕯 @atlanticesque]

A spectre is haunting Europe. I’m really scared. This isn’t a metaphor there’s a spooky ghost

[Christopher Snowdon @cjsnowdon]

The smoking ban rewired our brains. Link below.

[max tempers @maxtempers]

Haven't seen it mentioned, but these cuts are another casualty of our mad energy regime. Particle physics is v energy intensive, and large facilities at Harwell such as ISIS and the Diamond Light Source are particularly so. All earmarked for closure if cost pressures do not ease.

[Auguste Prompt @augusteprompt]

That’s genuinely insane. My “favourite” UK-China comparison is Hinkley Point C vs the city of Shenzhen.

> 1980 Shenzhen SEZ announced
> 1981 Hinkley Point C announced

Today Hinkley Point C is still incomplete with yet more delays. Unit 1 expected to come online in 2030 (I highly doubt it).

In comparison Shenzhen went from a network of fishing villages with a GDP of $37 million to a mega city with a GDP of $557 billion. It has two operational nuclear power plants.

It is genuinely hard to describe the state of Britain if you have not visited newly developed parts of the world. Practically nothing has been built in Britain in the last 50 years, it isn’t just stagnating, it’s dying.

[Air Katakana @airkatakana]

codex building an android app, stops to check the weather in seoul for no reason

[Dan Neidle @DanNeidle]

The European Commission on Trump's tariffs, vs the European Commission on EU tariffs:

[David Shipley @ShipleyWrites]

Ah, we’ve passed the “no longer building infrastructure” stage of decline and moved on to “no longer repairing failed infrastructure”

[@levelsio @levelsio]

It all starts to makes sense when you realize degrowthers are literally opposed to life

They honestly think humans are bad and humanity has to end

It is the most dangerous mindset around right now and it's centered in Europe, but they don't realize they're in the grasp of it because their media feeds them this propaganda every single day

I know, I'm European!

[Sound Dobad @SoundDobad]

So it’s still a nonprofit after all

[edward @_ewnl]

a fascinating discussion between two intellectual equals

[Jess Brown-Fuller MP @JessBrownFuller]

Some tricky conversations this evening about the impending social media ban.
‘I don’t even know who this government guy is’
‘Keir Starmer’
‘Keir Starmer, what does that mean’

[Ben Sixsmith @BDSixsmith]

Children can't handle social media, unlike me, a 35-year-old man who has already spent this morning browsing a message board devoted to hating a marginal podcaster and watching videos of random Slavic men being attacked by drones.

[David Zagaynov @DavidZagaynov]

The sheer scale of a trillion dollars can be hard to comprehend. Let me put it in perspective. You would be able to buy 42 miles of high speed rail in California with that much money.

[litquidity @litcapital]

2X SPACEX EXPOSURE ON DAY 1 lmaoooo

[josh @bitheresy]

Thinking about this one again

[edward @_ewnl]

@BernoulliDefect i get that it's unnerving but (separately) i think there's something really elegant about the fact information can also be reduced to mass

[camilo @AscendedYield]

Politicians: “let’s not get political”

[Adam Wren @aswren]

How can we be denying that ‘two tier’ policing exists when the police themselves have published and committed to this?

[edward @_ewnl]

@mikitaposts is this an American thing or a woman thing? i don't think ive ever not split tbh

[Henry Hill @HCH_Hill]

"An entire community cannot be tarred by the horrendous actions of one person."

Labour banned handguns because of one person. It's banning crossbows because of one person. The above quote is a perfectly fine argument but Labour absolutely does not believe it.

[edward @_ewnl]

@aswren never believe anything until it's officially denied