Blackbeardsghost

you know, im just really shocked that the high tech solution of adding a few more cushions didnt work. Mind you I'm not an engineer or anything so

Is it wrong to say that an unhealthy proportion of these GWOT veteran Operators, just like having the power to kill people?

Do they realise MOTs are not annual? Or are they now suggesting specific annual mileage checks, which no doubt will absolutely overwhelm the system. These are not serious people. I lease an EV and I will hand it back before it even has an MOT - do I get to swerve the tax?

You have to be grateful that theyre largely incompetent - if they were actually capable people they could inflict far more damage

Is that the actual plan? I've been wondering how they were planning on doing it... That's utterly bonkers We've also got HMRC taxing the life out of any tiny amount of cash that sit in people's S&S ISA too... A sure fire way to encourage first time investment.. well done geniuses

no shame in not nailing the landing first time

I'm just in awe of the fact he seems to think the fog of war is literal fog

How much will be reusable? Very interesting

love a good mangrove walk. Sadly one of my favourites in Tamsui, Taipei is being blighted by an expressway construction project

The speed with which the military have gone under the bus here is quite remarkable. I don't see this panning as well for Pete

Hmm. I feel like this is something that's been tried before? I've also had a great idea though, digging holes is hard, moving loads of dirt and rock and stuff is hard, and it takes fcking ages... Has anyone thought, maybe we could just use a bunch of nukes for this? I'm onto something here right?

Well precious little thing blocked me, assume you too?

Not really doing a lot for your credibility here.

To quote you "the debt is part of trade" that's not the case. Which means you're apparently not understanding something fundamental

It looks very much like you're the one who doesn't understand the government bond market. I think you're also confusing a budget deficit with a trade deficit. Two very different things

Not really. Arrow 3 is still heavily US dependent, and makes very little sense in the German context. I'm still absolutely baffled as to why they bought it at all

The comments under that are truly depressing

I dunno aren't you about to replace Constellation with the gizmo Golden Fleet? Surfboards with laser beams and shit

look maybe Mary and Joseph were going to Bethlehem for a city break?

i wish people would bother to understand that the briefings to the media come from the treasury. The dont leak from the post room, it's deliberately briefed from authorised people within number 11

people placing their faith in self driving cars as a solution to pretty much anything major in terms of urban transit are fcking certifiable - they are still cars. worst thing is tech bros are going to use it to suck money away from mass transit project, which are superior in every way

I thought Josep Fritzl made her reject god anyway?

Yeah but at least at the end of the gilded age we had Railroads...

Also sharing of knowledge, processes, coordination of supply chains etc. lots of people realising that we also need lower cost mass producible systems. As you say, a lot of potential to coordinate in some, if not all, areas

While this is great, there are A LOT of fairly duplicative long range fires projects going on in Europe right now. Surely there are opportunities to coordinate

Not that they will care, but the 'island or strangers' speech was the straw that pushed me and my (visibly foreign) wife, to opt to pursue our lives elsewhere. She's been offered an extremely good role in Switzerland and I can work remotely from anywhere. I doubt we're the only ones

China is making trade impossible Europe has nothing to offer and difficult decisions to make

“It is now increasingly hard to see how Europe, in particular, can avoid large-scale protection if it is to retain any industry at all.”

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The strategy (as I think you've mentioned previously) seems to be 1. Survive for now 2. Magic Beans 3. Win. That's all it can possibly be

oh sorry poorly explained - on the income tax burden, the UK places a high percentage of the total on higher income earners, in comparison to similar countries. so in the UK the top 10% pays about 60% of the total - which is higher than most

it comes back to the earlier point that the system as a whole is too complex, has too many anomalies and needs some radical overhauls. abolishing NI to replace with Income tax would be a good (progressive and fair) one, but there is a huge amount that can be done