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youngtaff · 2026-02-05T13:29:43 1770298183

And perhaps the US should start paying for it’s own debt instead of relying on the rest of the world to support it?

wakawaka28 · 2026-02-05T14:42:44 1770302564

I agree! But I think bankruptcy is a foregone conclusion. Our financial situation over decades, facilitated by the rest of the world, has destroyed most industry in the US because nobody can afford to compete with foreigners while getting paid in "strong" fiat dollars. I expect it to end in disaster. The US needs to rebuild industry and eat its own dog food product-wise, but that will be difficult to get back to.

youngtaff · 2026-02-03T14:34:47 1770129287

So they pollute the upper atmosphere instead!

youngtaff · 2026-02-04T11:37:12 1770205032

Down voting doesn't make that statement any less true…

youngtaff · 2026-02-03T09:58:32 1770112712

Such a waste of resources

youngtaff · 2026-02-02T09:35:37 1770024937

Do you know how Compulsory Purchase Orders work?

Many people along the HS2 route have been paid double the market price of their house

ErroneousBosh · 2026-02-02T19:31:05 1770060665

Yes, because a demolished house is a brownfield site which automatically has outline planning consent and you can build just about anything you like on it. It's worth a fortune.

A farmer's field without planning consent is bought from the farmer priced as a worthless patch of mud, but taxed as though it already had a couple of dozen £500k rabbit hutch houses built on it.

youngtaff · 2026-02-03T14:42:51 1770129771

> A farmer's field without planning consent is bought from the farmer priced as a worthless patch of mud, but taxed as though it already had a couple of dozen £500k rabbit hutch houses built on it.

Farm land isn't taxed - it's exempt from business rates

whywhywhywhy · 2026-02-02T13:25:28 1770038728

Doesn’t matter what the price is if you lose your community.

Very narrow minded view that doesn’t take into account people over 60

pjc50 · 2026-02-02T13:54:05 1770040445

Everything in UK politics takes into account people over 60. What we need is some policies taking into account people under 60.

nly · 2026-02-02T23:34:03 1770075243

The over 60s in the UK are probably the most privileged demographic in the history of the nation.

Just last October the government reduced tax free savings allowances on the Cash ISA for everyone...except he over 60s.

The over 60s have iron-clad "triple locked" state pensions that are _guaranteed_ to grow unsustainably (faster than tax revenue) at the cost of the working tax payer.

We need infrastructure and productivity growth, so the over 60s can take their gold plated compulsory buyouts and go do one.

youngtaff · 2026-02-02T14:29:20 1770042560

As someone who is in their 50s I'd disagree with you

Very few people are losing their communities due to HS2

whywhywhywhy · 2026-02-05T13:13:17 1770297197

So there are some…

youngtaff · 2026-02-02T09:34:20 1770024860

Even in the South East, the UK isn’t that densely populated — apparently golf courses take up more space than housing (excluding roads)

HS2 benefits pretty my everyone along it’s route path through increases local services as capacity is released from the current lines

Midland Connect have a good overview of what it enables them to do – https://www.midlandsconnect.uk/media/1602/hs2-released-capac...

There’s also a document somewhere that covers how HS2 increases short distance services from Euston somewhere

Local rail transport should benefit hugely from HS2

youngtaff · 2026-02-01T13:21:15 1769952075

It's not just about physical goods, the rest of the world buys American services and it's debt

youngtaff · 2026-01-31T18:29:56 1769884196

The whole idea of orbital data centres just doesn’t seem to pan out… the heat management issues are immense and the bandwidth is never going to be as fast as good old fibre

BurningFrog · 2026-01-31T21:56:43 1769896603

The big advantage is 24/7 unblocked solar energy.

youngtaff · 2026-02-02T10:11:50 1770027110

It’s not 24/7 — depending on the orbit they’ll spend significant time in the earth’s shadow

BurningFrog · 2026-02-02T18:00:36 1770055236

I forget the term in the press release, but the plan really is to place them in orbits that are always out of the earth’s shadow.

I assume that means they're pretty far out, which is OK for AI training.

bigyabai · 2026-02-01T21:31:03 1769981463

Source: Just Trust Me Bro

youngtaff · 2026-01-30T12:14:39 1769775279

IMV Super Monkey Ball on the GameCube is way better than any of it's successors

youngtaff · 2026-01-30T10:08:18 1769767698

https://archive.is/M5lfE

Perverse incentives lead to perverse outcomes

youngtaff · 2026-01-30T09:38:52 1769765932

To an extent… drivers tend to accelerate when leaving roundabouts which can make crossing difficult for pedestrians

Orygin · 2026-01-30T13:51:12 1769781072

Especially bad when crossings are like 30cm from the roundabout. Some are better with at least one car's length between the two.

Otherwise you either risk getting run over by a car exiting the roundabout without seeing you; or getting run over by the car that stopped, but was rear-ended by another inside the roundabout.