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by smcl 2y ago
Well "the gov" does run the system in Scotland. Scottish Water, which didn't suffer privatisation, ticks over nicely - providing high quality service at low cost and reinvesting any profits. You're inventing a hypothetic
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by smcl 2y ago
With 1) you're comparing apples to oranges and you're still wrong. The turnaround in rail use in the UK began in the 1980s before the private train operating companies got involved. And if you're referring to the network it
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by smcl 2y ago
Yeah I just saw now, that's good.
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by smcl 2y ago
You'd hope so but Starmer's a bit weird - seems to want to look like he's in charge (suspending the seven who voted against the government on the 2 child cap) so it wouldn't surprise me if he tries to brush it off and do
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by smcl 2y ago
> plans to build a too small terminus in London for HS1 You're talking about HS2 and Old Oak Common, right? Yeah that's a peculiar choice of terminus
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by smcl 2y ago
> while not having an official mandate to speak in public Gareth Dennis has been a public figure for a while, appearing on BBC News a few times. So there was apparently a provision for this in his contract with Systra: https:/&#x2F
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by smcl 2y ago
Platforms != distinct rail lines. Now, if only there were plans to run a new national, let's say high speed , rail link from the North of England into Euston which would improve this capacity ...
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by smcl 2y ago
This occurred before Labour took office - Hendy was the chair of Network Rail at the time. However as Starmer appointed him Transport Minister it'll be interesting to see what he does. I think it'll just be swept aside and ignored
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by smcl 2y ago
In this case it's a little more than just an employer/employee relationship. It's the head of a non-departmental government body (at the time Hendy lead Network Rail, he's now Minister for Transport) threatening to not a
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by smcl 2y ago
There were plans to expand Euston, then the Tories cancelled those plans and sold off the land that was acquired to accommodate said plans to make sure it wouldn't ever happen in the future (by this point they were already collapsing i
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by smcl 2y ago
You are correct, he's also been a guest on "Well There's Your Problem" (an engineering disasters podcast/channel) and TRASHFUTURE (UK tech/politics podcast) a few times.
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by smcl 2y ago
Hope that doesn't come back to bite him, I'm sure if he mentioned it in one of his streams any one of us in the community would've happily updated the page.
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by smcl 2y ago
Don't worry, I think it's only a matter of time before you'll be able to do this. Either through an official PS5 remaster, an official PC release (less likely) or via some funky unofficial emulation. Even though it's onl
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by smcl 2y ago
If your take is “gosh, I don’t quite know what you mean about the racism (and more) problem on the free speech site X fka Twitter” you’re either very sheltered or you’re one of the people comfortable with the whole thing and it’s an act. I’
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by smcl 2y ago
I’m having quite a nice weekend - cleaned my apartment, watching a shite TV show now, playing football tomorrow, gonna watch my pal in her iron man after. However when it comes to things like “should you be able to say the n-word on twitter
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by smcl 2y ago
Oh no however will I cope
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by smcl 2y ago
Well you bin the biggest shitheads on the site and make it hard for them to make new accounts. It’s probably impossible to fix but he’s clearly not trying to fix it at all It’s 2024 and we’re all quite “online” people who are aware how El
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by smcl 2y ago
He’s made “cisgender” a banned word, c’mon
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by smcl 2y ago
He can afford it as long as the stock market remains convinced Tesla deserve to be the most valuable car company in the world while being outside the top ten in sales ...
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by smcl 2y ago
Dinna ken fit yir spickin aboot
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by smcl 2y ago
Funny, “Bril” was also the name of the IL used by ADI’s C compiler when I worked in their DSP tools team.
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by smcl 2y ago
What's wild is that how persistent they were with it. Like it wasn't just an idea or a policy someone threw out there once. They pushed it through, fought for it in court and stuck with it for years. Utterly insane.
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by smcl 2y ago
I think describing Starmer's Labour as centre-left is a bit of a stretch. They want to crack down on immigration and suspended seven MPs who voted in favour of a pretty minor amendment to scrap the 2-child benefit cap (that overwhelmin
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by smcl 2y ago
So what do you do in times like this? Do you continue austerity and cutbacks - something that has worsened the UK economy over the last 14 years - or do you invest in public infrastructure - something which is near universally accepted as i
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by smcl 2y ago
How on earth did Sunak have “sort of a correct aim” on HS2? He’s taken an infrastructure project which would have increased capacity north-to-south once all of it was delivered, which was heavily criticised for being “only a way to get to
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by smcl 2y ago
Oof turning that around a bit - when you are gonna be snarky , try to be correct. Outside of Scotland and Ireland it's not that black & white. There are also Canadian whiskeys (Benjamin Chapman, Masterton's) and there are U
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by smcl 2y ago
Honestly I’d still like to visit both (particularly Iran) and I know people who have. But there is definitely advice you need to heed in both places (tbh in all places…)
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by smcl 2y ago
I am sorry but if you travel somewhere like Iran or North Korea you are doing so explicitly against the advice of most governments. Every single person visiting these places is told that they need to keep their shit together, otherwise the
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by smcl 2y ago
Sounds like they loved their whisky
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by smcl 2y ago
Petee has simply said that we should respect someone’s pretty reasonable preferences. You’ve popped up out of nowhere utterly furious for seemingly very little reason. If this is how you behave I think most of us would far prefer to have Pe

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