In the UK, its traditional for the Secretary of State for Transport to visit Japan to learn all about how well they build and operate their transport infrastructure and then come home and do fuck all about it.
It's funny just how many things in British politics can be explained by the phrase "voters are generally in favour of the measure until you explain what it actually involves, then support drops to near zero"
are you fucking kidding me
he was talking about how the new chatcontrol vote technically is not even legal according to our own laws and they CUT OFF HIS MICROPHONE AFTER 60 SECONDS
this is INSANE
Another all time greatest UK government consultation moment. They ask me my opinion on downranking my own videos in the youtube algorithm in favour of established networks like BBC and ITV...
and they don't give me the option to disagree!!
This is not a document that the government of a free or democratic country would publish. These are the paranoid, euphemism-laced ramblings of a regime in the fag end of its days, desperately searching for somewhere it can continue to cower from reality.
https://t.co/4d8ypx5wc1
I wonder about this sometimes. I cannot think of a less sympathetic fighting force than murder robots. Anyone you deploy this against instantly becomes the good guy in the minds of any conscious observer. Just seems strange from an optics perspective
I love trains through the countryside. The mountains going into Scotland, all that Yorkshire farmland, going into Cornwall there’s a beautiful bit that curves right along the coast.
If we were building that today you wouldn’t see any of it, enjoy your concrete boomertube
It's so scary to think we have to find somewhere to store the dangerous waste like a desert or underground or something, which is a major problem unlike with fossil fuels where we safely store the waste in the atmosphere and our lungs
Around one percent of the whole UK GDP comes from a single pharma plant just south of Manchester. It is about 100 acres and employs a few thousand people.
There used to be loads of these places. They are worth saving, rather than concentrating all the wealth on London.