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It's absolutely hilarious to watch a Prime Minister, who has previously given £100k in Tech funding to his mistress, now establishing an even bigger tech fund w

It's absolutely hilarious to watch a Prime Minister, who has previously given £100k in Tech funding to his mistress, now establishing an even bigger tech fund without the FOIA requirements so that he can... get away with giving £100k in Tech funding to his mistresses in the future I guess?

hkt 6y ago
And people say he can't plan!
arethuza 6y ago
Maybe it will be used to fund new tunnelling and/or bridge technologies - the current government seems surprisingly keen on connecting NI to Scotland....
- dominotw 6y ago
  > fund new tunnelling is this supposed to be a double entendre ? I don't see how this follows from the parent comment.
  - emptyfile 6y ago
    The comment is making fun of a proposal Boris Johnson once made about building a bridge from Scotland to Northern Ireland, which is considered borderline physically impossible as far as I understand.
    - DaiPlusPlus 6y ago
      Bridge, yes. Tunnel, no. It’s very feasible and practical from a civil-engineering perspective, but the economic value of a road connection between NI and Scotland has not been demonstrated to outweigh the economic cost of its construction.
      - Chris2048 6y ago
        Infact: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/feb/14/rail-bosses-revive-plan-to-build-tunnel-from-scotland-to-northern-ireland https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/feb/14/rail-bosses-...
        arethuza 6y ago
        Even more fun: the relevant area of sea has had one million tons of explosives dumped there as well as chemical weapons and even some radioactive waste: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaufort%27s_Dyke https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaufort%27s_Dyke
      - rusk 6y ago
        What’s feesible? The tunnel or the bridge? I’d heard the tunnel wasn’t possible due to the particular geography of the channel. But a bridge? Now that I’d be interesting I seeing. There used to be a giants causeway across there in mythical times ...
        onei 6y ago
        The bridge is unfeasible because the channel is around 200m deep in places which makes it crazy expensive. I also found a couple of references to nuclear waste in the trench, but that might have been for another site.
        rusk 6y ago
        Both of which I was aware of but I heard that some kind of suspension design would work. The tunnel is infeasible because there’s a very deep trench there, and that as you mentioned is filled with all sorts of nasty stuff.
        anonymousDan 6y ago
        I believe the latest proposal would swerve to avoid the trench.
    - rjsw 6y ago
      There was a suggestion that he was trying to do a bit of SEO to distract attention from another bridge [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_Bridge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_Bridge
      - bacheaul 6y ago
        I hadn't heard of this one. That and the brexit bus/cardboard box bus SEO hacking suggestion makes something of a pattern.
    - mattlondon 6y ago
      There is talk of floating tunnels. I believe they have done similar things in Norway when they need to go across fjords which are about 1km deep on places.
- DaiPlusPlus 6y ago
  That’s a very different kind of bridge-or-tunnel tho.

hkt 6y ago

And people say he can't plan!

arethuza 6y ago

Maybe it will be used to fund new tunnelling and/or bridge technologies - the current government seems surprisingly keen on connecting NI to Scotland....

dominotw 6y ago
> fund new tunnelling is this supposed to be a double entendre ? I don't see how this follows from the parent comment.
- emptyfile 6y ago
  The comment is making fun of a proposal Boris Johnson once made about building a bridge from Scotland to Northern Ireland, which is considered borderline physically impossible as far as I understand.
  - DaiPlusPlus 6y ago
    Bridge, yes. Tunnel, no. It’s very feasible and practical from a civil-engineering perspective, but the economic value of a road connection between NI and Scotland has not been demonstrated to outweigh the economic cost of its construction.
    - Chris2048 6y ago
      Infact: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/feb/14/rail-bosses-revive-plan-to-build-tunnel-from-scotland-to-northern-ireland https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/feb/14/rail-bosses-...
      - arethuza 6y ago
        Even more fun: the relevant area of sea has had one million tons of explosives dumped there as well as chemical weapons and even some radioactive waste: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaufort%27s_Dyke https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaufort%27s_Dyke
    - rusk 6y ago
      What’s feesible? The tunnel or the bridge? I’d heard the tunnel wasn’t possible due to the particular geography of the channel. But a bridge? Now that I’d be interesting I seeing. There used to be a giants causeway across there in mythical times ...
      - onei 6y ago
        The bridge is unfeasible because the channel is around 200m deep in places which makes it crazy expensive. I also found a couple of references to nuclear waste in the trench, but that might have been for another site.
        rusk 6y ago
        Both of which I was aware of but I heard that some kind of suspension design would work. The tunnel is infeasible because there’s a very deep trench there, and that as you mentioned is filled with all sorts of nasty stuff.
        anonymousDan 6y ago
        I believe the latest proposal would swerve to avoid the trench.
  - rjsw 6y ago
    There was a suggestion that he was trying to do a bit of SEO to distract attention from another bridge [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_Bridge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_Bridge
    - bacheaul 6y ago
      I hadn't heard of this one. That and the brexit bus/cardboard box bus SEO hacking suggestion makes something of a pattern.
  - mattlondon 6y ago
    There is talk of floating tunnels. I believe they have done similar things in Norway when they need to go across fjords which are about 1km deep on places.
DaiPlusPlus 6y ago
That’s a very different kind of bridge-or-tunnel tho.