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I’m not endorsing any political party here btw. But I rather like the graphics of this. It’s a good poster. Good artwork. A policy which I fear barely scratches the surface of industrial reform needed in Britain 🇬🇧
I find this stuff so fascinating. How our ancestors built things often involved some ingenious institutional structures to align private incentives to public benefit, many of which seem to have been forgotten with the move to bureaucratic planning
I find this stuff so fascinating. How our ancestors built things often involved some ingenious institutional structures to align private incentives to public benefit, many of which seem to have been forgotten with the move to bureaucratic planning
You think housing prices will keep going up because you've seen it all your life. But this is a historic anomaly that is likely to reverse soon: Prices might start shrinking in many places. This thread is the case against investing in housing:
Now imagine being a 3 year old elder spider in central Colombia who has lived in a dark cave for all its life, catching and eating bugs, looking forward to the rainy season when the crickets would come back to mate. And imagine if in a week a tree that once provided shade to the…
Now imagine being a 3 year old elder spider in central Colombia who has lived in a dark cave for all its life, catching and eating bugs, looking forward to the rainy season when the crickets would come back to mate. And imagine if in a week a tree that once provided shade to the…
See also: the rise in various kinds of mis-regulation. read.amazon.co.uk/kp/kshare?asin…
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London’s housing cost crisis is heavily linked to service charges given number of leaseholds!
@AChillGhost Listen it provides unlimited energy without carbon God gave it to us for a reason
Why were aircraft manufacturers so eager to switch from high-performance piston engines to jet engines, despite all their early drawbacks? The insane level of complexity piston engine design had reached is one reason. Compare cross-sections and number of moving parts here:
Sheep ravaged hills and commercial forestry plantations with a combined ecological diversity less than that of your average Tesco car park. Ahh, Scotland 😔
I would respect an apocalypse film which was neither post-apocalyptic nor depicting the total dissolution of society. like there are brain eating aliens but you're still on a teams call Monday 9am
Sofa is the posher word
Just watched Keir Starmer call a sofa a “settee”. Cancelled! Middle class! Tory!
Just had flashbacks of going to the doctor fairly frequently as a child and how, every time, he would ask if I had any friends yet.
@hausofdecline You can imitate him, but you'll never be him
In just SIX years we could be a net exporter of electricity. Now you see why we need a Great Grid Upgrade peeps 🇬🇧😍
@WJHWhitbread @EngineerLondon ESO FES 2023 has GB as a net exporter of electricity by 2030.
@EngineerLondon British wind will deliver wealth and prosperity for generations
I’m not endorsing any political party here btw. But I rather like the graphics of this. It’s a good poster. Good artwork. A policy which I fear barely scratches the surface of industrial reform needed in Britain 🇬🇧
This is, in a very positive sense, the most Certain Kind Of Dad coded event imaginable. Every single person attending this will have at least six well thumbed Terry Pratchett books at home.
Don't think pig intestines on a stick would ever catch on in Britain.
I find this stuff so fascinating. How our ancestors built things often involved some ingenious institutional structures to align private incentives to public benefit, many of which seem to have been forgotten with the move to bureaucratic planning
Last summer, I wrote about the historic governance practices of the long-term landowners of parts of inner London. In that publication, I argued that the practices of these landlords offer an interesting case study of concentrated land ownership by private actors.
You think housing prices will keep going up because you've seen it all your life. But this is a historic anomaly that is likely to reverse soon: Prices might start shrinking in many places. This thread is the case against investing in housing:
Really interesting long view. Not sure im so optimistic but lets see
You think housing prices will keep going up because you've seen it all your life. But this is a historic anomaly that is likely to reverse soon: Prices might start shrinking in many places. This thread is the case against investing in housing:
The total capitalization of London-listed equities fell from a high of $4.3 trillion in 2007 to about $3 trillion in February 2024. After an initial boost from 1980 to the GFC, the exceptional foreign ownership of UK equities is correlated with stagnation.
Given it is being discussed rather a lot, here's what the current and future railway organisational structure for the GB rail system should look like (useful context will come from watching this @Railnatter: youtube.com/watch?v=OBx3iT…)...
Food irradiation kills bacteria while maintaining nutrition and taste. catalog.archives.gov/id/46362
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