Found this book, looks like I’m going to have to delete Twitter again as the amount of Brexit & crazy politics that pollutes my timeline is mega distracting.
@MAGABobbiNY Your tweets would probably only get delivered to half a dozen people.
I don’t think my tweets get seen by many.
I’m just here tweeting to myself.
@FrankBr05713205 I don’t know if we had that in the UK, perhaps a very very long time ago.
But it’s standard in Mexico.
It feels weird letting someone do that.
They also have valet parking, another thing I haven’t seen here.
@olivierglinec@rorysutherland In Somerset a closed railway line is now a cycle path, it was used to transport strawberries.
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This is awful. The last ever Denby Pottery going to the kiln. Why is there not uproar? Where’s the government in this?? We all have Denby in our homes, in family heirlooms, as our history and now it’s closing through lack of support, such a sad sad day. #SaveDenby@denbypottery
@FrankBr05713205 He did as he was told, but why not put it on the floor or in the trunk?
Didn’t he get told about leaking battery fluid damaging upholstery or that the seat isn’t a stable surface?
@BuyEnglishMade@Herrbitz515@yug8378 The problem is that any product that is good enough and can compete will get bought.
In some cases the overseas buyers care about the brand, history and tradition, and that will be preserved because that is where the value lies.
Made in England still involves UK supply chains
Middle lane driver goes to outside lane for no reason at all.
I don’t need anymore convincing, I need a dash cam to record when something like this happens for the insurance.
Ford calculated it was cheaper to let people burn alive in the Pinto than to fix the exploding gas tank.
Fix the defect? $137 million.
Pay out for deaths and injuries? Only $49 million.
So they left it that way.
Aaron Siri brought this up on JRE, pointing to similar cases like Vioxx, where the company knew it was causing heart attacks and strokes but downplayed the risks to protect profits.
When corporations are allowed to run cold cost-benefit analyses on human lives, people die so shareholders can earn more. Punitive damages exist precisely to make that math no longer add up.
This isn’t ancient history. It still happens whenever profit is placed above safety.