Are we buying the business?

Some Ukrainians may die, but it’s a sacrifice I am willing to make.

With 20 cars + swat you’ve just created a target rich environment.

All you need to do is float in open water to know that extracting power out the water you’re floating in is basically impossible. The water and you move as one. It’s like putting a wind turbine on a balloon. Unless you’re anchored you’ve got no chance.

…but remember, everything needs to be written in memory safe languages to stop security breaches.

Gas?

Accelerator!

Nah. It would be EBS wouldn’t it. Emergency boat service.

I only ever correct mistakes like that if I think it would be something a non-native speaker might appreciate. I’m not trying to score points.

A lot of them just believe things at face value. “He said this, therefore it’s true”. It doesn’t require much attention to find the truth, but it seems to be too much to ask.

I do sometimes think a simple “I’m not a cunt” question should be on the top of ballot papers. Something like “Do you think poverty is bad?”. Something that shows the minimum amount of empathy with an unknown other.

*inherent

Greens and LDs should work together like the only adults in the room and then invite labour into the fold. Maybe then they can get over themselves.

The polls only look like that because the rest of us are factionalized. Voter share puts them on a maximum of 28%. That leaves 72% of us who are voting elsewhere, and that’s without the non voters.

We need to unify around something, but let’s face it. It’s not Starmer.

The t-shirt and suit always makes me think he’s wearing a dressing-gown.

Reform UK. The “Stop the boats” party.

Divisiveness. They’re aiming to destabilise.

There’s some interesting points in the survey:

• ex-Tory voters are feeding reform. Labour is not.
• ex-Labour voters are feeding Greens and LibDems.
• It’s the left of the Labour party leaving (obviously).
• Once people go Reform, they stay there.
• Immigration is a non issue for Labour/LD/Green. It won’t pull people back to Labour.
• The anti-Semitism accusations have stuck to the greens, but not really amongst labour voters. It’s stuck more with right wing parties who weren’t voting green anyway.
• 50% of labour “defectors” are open to returning for a GE. 50% are not.
• More people are “open” to voting Green (33%) than any other party in a GE. Ref: 29% Lab: 28% LD 28% Con: 27%
• The biggest reasons not to is that they fear it splits the vote, and they don’t believe greens can win. Then a step down to “policies are naive, can’t be done”.

A change in voting system to PR seems to be the best way to defend against Reform. If the greens can convince more people of their credibility on policy and ability to win elections, they could become very strong.

Edit: that’s all England data. I haven’t delved into Scotland and Wales yet. At a glance it looks more complicated.

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It’s not going to be steam pipes, but warm water. Maybe 60°C but lots of it. Warm enough for underfloor heating to be sure.

Biggest problem in my head is that you’d need to design buildings to take advantage of it, and I doubt data centres would be permanent enough to warrant the commitment.

They got 34% of a 60% turnout, or about 20% of the possible vote.

You joke (I think) but community heating schemes off these places would be a good byproduct. Not enough to make them worthwhile, but it would offset their impact.