Lars

Engineering, Infrastructure and Aviation geek. Infrastructure engineer. Will rant about almost anything.

[Lars @rantylars]

Getting off socials for a while. I think the right-wing algorithm is breaking me and partner mentally and we're getting at each other's throats just because we're close together when it happens.

[Lars @rantylars]

@MikePea73444529 Bevan and Attlee and maybe even Wilson are rolling in their grave so often they've augured a new Channel Tunnel.

[Lars @rantylars]

@PerfectPigott @MikePea73444529 You can't just listen to every opinion you get, especially from people who have skin in the game. Which cuts down the number of sources you can actually rely on.

[Lars @rantylars]

@MikePea73444529 I recieved personal assurances on disabled rights before the election. I chose to believe in something else there is nothing else left - I was mistaken. And foreign and domestic policy can't really be compared - traditionally Labour is the party of helping the weak+vulnerable.

[Lars @rantylars]

@David__Osland Can you tell me how much sewage in m3/day went through primary and even secondary treatment before privatisation, vs say 10-20-30-40 years afterwards? Do you have any data at all?

[Lars @rantylars]

@sib313 @David__Osland This whole claim is based off the notion that the EDM data - which only became valid this year when ~99% installation was reached - is gospel. Ie, spills have gone up by infinity% and before privatisation they were zero. It's bananas. The whole thing based on spin and lies.

[Lars @rantylars]

@David__Osland Imagine posting this the year the Thames Tideway interceptor is coming online. There are many cogent points to be made about the failure of Thames Water - this isn't one of them.

[Lars @rantylars]

@echetus She's a weathercock who has no actual loyalty to any policies. A young Lib Dem, a DEI advocate Prime Minister and now a Trumpian. Perhaps she's onto something - sucking up to whoever seems to have the best chance of ruling the narrative at the time.

[Lars @rantylars]

@OxonJames They won't meet with disabled people or charities either while cutting benefits. There's a running theme here - they don't actually represent us.

[Lars @rantylars]

@RexKram55112378 A few weeks ago Trainline told me I had 10 minutes to make my connection even though my first train was 30 minutes late. Turned out the connection left as planned, quite a while ago. Was the last train of the night. Eck.

[Lars @rantylars]

Nye Bevan and Clement Attlee are rolling in their graves so fast they've augured their way to France. This is not Labour and I won't vote for them again. Our party has fallen and there's no viable replacement right now - reform is inevitable. :(

[Dr Jay Watts @Shrink_at_Large]

TW DWP +++

So Labour’s position on benefits is now…. that the Tories weren’t tough enough.

[Lars @rantylars]

@unojen_wood *a water company, thanks

[David__Osland @David__Osland]

'Crackdowns on benefit cheats' were announced by Peter Lilley in 1992. And Tony Blair in 1997. And James Purnell in 2009. And Iain Duncan Smith in 2013. And Jeremy Hunt in 2023. And Rachel Reeves in 2024. The soundbite never gets old.

[Lars @rantylars]

@labourlewis *some of.

[Lars @rantylars]

@aniemyer @OnDisasters I also remember reading about the pioneers of mail flights in DC-3s all over the US and Canada, and the horrendous conditions they encountered flying through storms with massive up and down drafts, before we really understood met and 'don't fly there' or had weather radars!

[Lars @rantylars]

@renewablesmiffy @leepfwd @colinwalker79 I hate to quote Rees-Mogg but he did make one good point. Ask an economist a question and you get the answer you want. So someone probably asked them to make the project look cheap. Was it CGN, EDF or UK govt? Who knows.

[Lars @rantylars]

@renewablesmiffy @leepfwd @colinwalker79 Quite right. How HPC ended up costing as much as it did is either a shocking indictment of the engineers and project managers, or of the people who produced the cost estimate. Someone was kidding themselves.

[Dr Jay Watts @Shrink_at_Large]

I can’t stop thinking about the contempt in Liz Kendall’s gaze when she said there would be no such thing as ‘a life on benefits.’

Facial expressions like that wound deeper than words. They radiate shame, internalised by those already struggling. This is how systems dehumanise.