Ugh - the Royal Marsden helped to save my wife’s life, and they’re trying to do so for many, many more people. And NIMBYs are trying to stop it because the lifesaving building is taller than they’d like?? Give me strength. (Via Looking For Growth)
Relates to a thing I remember seeing a few years ago that basically gerrymandering is often self-defeating because you create a very fragile edifice that can swiftly flip against you if the tide changes
I think this is right and I also just think 'UK-wide MRPs three years before an election' are just an unalloyed bad. They preoccupy MPs and they provide an entirely false level of precision.
fascinated by the weirdly many people going full DIDN'T HAPPEN at this, surely any Londoner who takes the tube regularly has noticed that there are quite a lot more people jumping the barriers these days, and that they're never stopped by staff? you can choose not to care but it obviously is A Thing
If you like infrastructure and bureaucracy with a dash of British humour and some woodworking, you’ll enjoy Martin’s latest video.
Oh this is very good, give it a watch.
Yeah, when I first watched that footage from the thumbnail it was like something out of Andor/Star Wars, and it's pretty surreal when you encounter it up close. I was walking along for a while thinking it was the sky until I looked more closely.
Another banger from Martin
Good evening! Check out this month’s film featuring actual woodwork, stunt driving, human clones, batman, mild gore and a possible vampire.
...or is it Martin 1? 🤷♂️
ICYMI...
I don't think anything can prepare you for the scale of the bat tunnel. Like a structure off the cover of an issue of Weird Fantasy.
My friend @mjrobbins.com is becoming an annoyingly brilliant & creative YouTuber. His latest short film covers the gamut inc. bats, infrastructure, woodwork, forest-based body horror etc. Many jokes, including one so subtle and so brilliant that a friend had to point it out to me (a compliment).
unusually high joke density for a video about infrastructure and bureaucracy
Baroque Tom Scott is fast becoming my favourite YouTuber.
Reviews coming in:
100%, it’s weirdly defensive, like the best way you can spend £100m is to stop 300 bats from dying, rather than create, say, 30,000 new ones.
Good morning! Behold my latest adventure in film!
You may have heard of the multimillion pound HS2 bat tunnel, but you probably have no idea how insane it actually is. An incredible short film from @mjrobbins.com youtu.be/CUetUfeEZZY?...
All the best to you and your family.
A lot of that's due to poor demand though, because you've got a glut of ex-fleet cars, the range isn't comparable with new models/ICE equivalents, or consumers worry the batteries will expensively conk out. It would help if the technology stabilises and you have better battery life reporting
Seems to be a toss up between a massive growth in required safety features and electric drive chains, both of which have made cars absolutely massive and resource hungry.
Hell, get two Fiestas! A weekday runabout and a pimped-out weekend cruiser...
Or instead of spending £26k on a bulky electric SUV you could get a compact petrol-engined 2023 Fiesta for £10k and bank sixteen grand to spend on as much fuel/coke/holidays as you want. Which is what a lot of consumers will sensibly conclude faced with astronomical prices for new cars.
People going ‘who does this’ and I regret to inform you that apparently the government surveyed this and bsky.app/profile/iron...
This is such incredible abject nonsense. If the straight stays closed ordinary people will have to use less oil and gas. Price is the fairest rationing mechanism that incentivises people who can to switch and to reduce consumption.
Genuinely fascinated by the idea that supermarkets, famously profligate businesses, are paying over-the-odds for Spanish crops when they could get cheaper produce around the corner. Still, explains why farm shops are notoriously cheap.
Yeah, I didn't watch the Tik-Tok so I assume he's a young man who talks about solar panels a lot.
lol, no, I was using a hip new term for solar panels
I think a good test is that I’ve never been surprised or interested by a position she holds, except by virtue of it being the opposite of the position she held last week.