ThePyroPython

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Oh I'll just put this trauma over here with the rest of the traumas.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I still can't get over the high-pitched voice when they turned the keys on the model Cerritos to enject the warp core.

Makes me giggle everytime.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

In b4 Musk throws a hissy-fit and is calling for the FAA to be closed down.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

I agree. The UK universities that act as major hubs for research and innovation are still around and still have a good reputation. The Brexit political forces have damaged the sector, but it's not dead and it can be fixed if talented international teams feel confident to invest their people in the UK to leverage the institutions we have.

I think that the Brexit gang had the idea that all modern UK innovation was being done by Brunel and Newton types: the myth of a single person who though sheer will bring forth technological & scientific disruption.

It's completely the wrong idea. Hopefully, when they see that showing commitment to international and Europe-wide collaboration brings back the top-talent they're so despite for, they'll swallow their misplaced pride.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Mate, you've clearly never had proper shortbread if you're putting it in C tier.

Get your sen up to Scotland and have some nice buttery crumbling shortbread.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Thank fucking god!

The UK research sector is one of the next biggest outside of the financial services sector.

Now, align standards, and get a fucking deal together with Norway over oil, offshore wind, and grid interconnectors or something that is mutually beneficial so that they don't veto entry into the EEA.

Get into the EEA, learn to take the rules that the multinational corporations and other 3rd countries do if they want to sell to the worlds 3rd largest market.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Yeah it is.

It's so bad that the Home Office is issuing quotas for "High-priority" crime which is code for solve things that make the news headlines: large scale drug busts, charging murderers, seizing large sums of cash and assets.

But they're completely deprioritising other crimes from bike theft to shoplifting to domestic violence and reducing the amount of community engagement activities.

Addressing smaller crimes and having officers engaged with the community is essential for fostering a safe environment. And here's the kicker; the more these low-level crimes go unpunished, the more high-level crimes happen are more likely to happen when fuelled by economic downturn.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

They feed on toxicity, it's the only way they know that gets the anger-produced adrenaline flowing through their veins. It's addictive. Makes them feel alive and living, rather than festering in a rubbish-filled room dying a day at a time.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

Mate, you're not you when you're hungry, eat a Snickers.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Most of my fellow countrymen are too thick to understand anything about this and couldn't care less.

It's an island of neanderthals and I hope I can get highly skilled enough to leave it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

No that was called Energiewende and Ostpolitik

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energiewende#:~:text=Russian%20fossil%20gas%20was%20perceived,through%20mutually%20beneficial%20trade%20relations.

https://dgap.org/en/research/publications/after-ostpolitik

The TL:DR was to use cheap Russian gas to fuel the energy transition and at the same time use the economical ties to bring Russia aligned politically to the western Europe. Ostpolitik worked to unify west and east Germany so why wouldn't it work to align a post-soviet Russia?

Here's why it failed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iUohhHdvoE&t=0

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago (10 children)

Mate, we're under a first past the post system, tactical voting matters to get the most damaging political force, i.e. the Tories, out of power and by a significant majority.

Anything remotely left of the Tories is better, even if it is Centre Centre Centre calling itself Left Labour.

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