bipolar bear

Techno-optimist, growth enthusiast, e/acc. Fan of the West. Radical centrist. Always horny. Tech consulting irl. Belarusian evacuee in London. EN/RU/BY.

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@GayTory @foxesdale Australia is too, too far away from everywhere. And it's also a crazy nanny state. The only saving grace is the weather and the beach...

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@BucketsOf_Rain I love Britain. Bunch of amazing places all around. However: trains suck and driving (between London’s congestion/rules and narrow/claustrophobic countryside roads) is a laborious chore. And yes, hotels are stupidly overpriced. We need highways and yimby housing policies

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@HuntHolman @BucketsOf_Rain What I am constantly surprised by is how many hotels there are in some middle of nowhere villages that cost £150/night…

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@DanNeidle Great app Dan. Two qqs (sorry if addressed elswhere): Will LVT incentivise tall flat blocks given the occupy less land per property unit? Will this incentive be meaningful if it's going to be blocked in 90% of the cases by planning?

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@billybinion America is blessed because states can compete on who is less stupid, and win business.

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TfL app is so nice they should be franchising it.

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@peterfranklin_ This.

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@mrtabrett Sorry but this is just being a luddite with a libertarian flavour

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@PaulSkallas Kind of like London

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@DanNeidle I would bet Labour have no balls or ability to implement any of this.

I would love to be wrong.

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@WarGit I am on ILR in the UK. I am ok if naturalised citizens have no access to benefits at all, in return to slightly lower tax. This means non-productive arrivals will self-remove and productive arrivals will pressure govt to reduce welfare for the general population, a net good.

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@Prof_Quiteamess These should have been awarded a guillotine for the architect

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@gillymocz @alexanderrX_ Deregulation of energy and housing will make life cheaper. Deregulation of the labour market to augment cheaper energy will boost economic growth — i.e. there will be more and better jobs. It’s about growing the pie, not divvying up a shrinking one.

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@thomasknox We need to shut down architecture schools until we figure out what’s going on.

(What’s going on is the western ideology of self-hate)

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@gritsfortea @alexanderrX_ If I become a cripple (hopefully not), yes welfare would be nice. However, not even every pensioner is a cripple...

More generally, your eagerness to imagine yourself incapacitated rather than full of agency is jarring. Talk to your therapist about it.

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Thinking about buying a flat in a nice newbuild in England.

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@gavinwhite76 @ManCityCouncil However, we all know that this is where environmental lunatics want people to go:

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@gavinwhite76 @ManCityCouncil To many windows. This would be much better

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@weirdfigs @alexanderrX_ I don't think you understand what at-will employment means.