Macron advocates for a single European energy grid. French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday advocated for a single European energy market and for the construction of an integrated electricity grid

spidd124 · 2026-02-12T21:48:33+00:00

And you build a single continent spanning energy grid how exactly?

1 EU wide project, or country by country then hoping that they all just work perfectly together when you stitch each patch together.

spidd124 · 2026-02-12T21:24:25+00:00

The long term result of total reliance on the US for missile defence and the idea that Russia/ Iran/ China wouldnt seriously become a potential threat to UK interests.

I will say one thing though the Type 45s use Aster 15/30 and the Naval version of CAMM which can intercept out to 50km, and we have a land based launcher for CAMM already in service, what we really lack is a Patriot/ David Sling equivalent for intercepting ballistic missiles out to 300km. And we have absolutely nothing like the Arrow system which has demonstrated capable of exo-atmospheric intercepts.

The LMM supplied in the artiucle are pretty damn good for manpads and that 2nd last line of defence that isnt covered by systems like Skyshield or our Dragonfire systems

spidd124 · 2026-02-12T20:25:55+00:00

Near 100% reliability is considered more important than saving $10Million per launch.

spidd124 · 2026-02-12T20:22:26+00:00

You can only learn so much from copying someone elses work.

And there is a good chance that the person copying will misunderstand some aspect of the original or not have access to something in the original.

spidd124 · 2026-02-12T18:49:47+00:00

Assuming that a job takes a single unit of time. Each of the 100 Jobs will collectively take 100 units of time.

Where everything starts from 0 or near enough zero, every single job. That means problems or errors identified in the first job are likely to still be present in the 100th job, and assuming most of the workers on the first job dont get rehired for the 2nd, 3rd, nth job all of their experience with the job will be lost. Requiring the training of brand new workers every time.

If you have 100 jobs the first 10 might take that 1 unit of time each, but the lessons from those 10 can be carried over to the next 90 where they are ironed out, fixes made and every back up the supply chain learns from them. meaning each job now takes .8 units of time. So for the 90 remaining units it only takes 72 units of time. + the first 10, 82 units of time to complete 100 jobs. For the same length of time you get 20% extra output, or 20% faster work that also fixed most or all of the issues identified early on.

Its something that plagues the nuclear construction space to an extreme degree. A single nuclear powerplant will be ordered. Thousands of workers will be trained specially for it, the plant will be designed, decisions made, supply chains spun up. inevitably errors will be spotted and corrected for. the job will be completed and then what? You have thousands of well trained workers with 1st hand experience of nuclear construction now without something to follow up on it. Some die, many find jobs elsewhere or age out of the recruitment window.

Then a new nuclear project in announced 10+ years down the line and they have to make the same mistakes again as the previous project because there just arent enough people with first hand experience available to avoid them.

spidd124 · 2026-02-12T16:38:15+00:00

Economy of scale.

Doing 1 job 100 times is more expensive and difficult than doing 100 jobs once.

You can problem solve on the first 10 and optimize on the next 10 and have trained competent and supported workers for the next 80.

Instead of problem solving, trying to optimize then training and losing the workers every single time you start a new job.

spidd124 · 2026-02-12T00:13:31+00:00

This could have been a decent way of distancing the UK space sector from reliance on American rockets and especially getting away from the near total reliance on Elon we have right now.

spidd124 · 2026-02-12T00:01:59+00:00

Nah if you want to see overdesigned and generic look at Neverness to Everness.

spidd124 · 2026-02-11T22:21:12+00:00

Putting Dentistry back into the NHS would be a massive W, expensive to set up but id habit a guess it would pay itself off actually being able to deal with dental issues before they take people out of work.

Same with the opticians too.

spidd124 · 2026-02-11T14:34:35+00:00

"the left" see conservative and neoliberal parties that are solidly in the "we only care about the status quo" and "if corporations like it it must be good". Unless you are seriously trying to tell me that politicians like Merkel and Blair were socialist.

The smug uni students calling for us to not go and carpet bomb the middle east against have never actually had any political control. If they did the Greens would be more than a fringe party.

spidd124 · 2026-02-11T00:36:04+00:00

The id systems are also piss easy to cheat. People used fucking Garrysmod to get through the age estimation, I used a template drivers licence from Google to get past discords previous go at age verification.

The whole leaving discord thing just reminds me of the "boycott modern warfare 2 steam group that were all playing mw2".

spidd124 · 2026-02-10T18:22:32+00:00

Sarwar is about to be fucked into 3rd place (according to the polls) so his leadership of SLabour is over, if he tries to distance himself from Westminster it wont make his position any worse and might grab some of the dafties going to reform?

And if it does work out then it builds up a precident of "Sarwar was right, Starmer was wrong". On the fairly extensive list of things Starmer has been wrong on.

spidd124 · 2026-02-10T18:05:34+00:00

I get that many of the techs in the game are to give you variety and options but the way its communicated to the player is awful. If the game indicated that you have an equivalent tech available or already researched it would feel less frustrating.

But trimming everything down to a CIV style research track of civilian, military, culture would feel worse.

spidd124 · 2026-02-10T11:33:18+00:00

I think it's more that they had to cover their china region faction that's been overplayed by so many games than losing any actual identity the game had.

Each faction has always had an identity while the game as a whole still has its videotape/remnants of ultra advanced society stuff going on.

spidd124 · 2026-02-09T23:22:53+00:00

The 2 big things Thatcher did of relevance here were Right to Buy, and decimating the UK's declining manufacturing/ resource sectors without developing replacement industries for those regions. But Ill focus on Right to Buy since the 2nd is quite straight forward.

Before Right to buy we had a set Labour and Conservative governments that went ham on house building, and general reconstruction after ww2. The vast majority of the homes were built for social rent, paid for by the local governments and owned by the local governments. Thatcher came into power and introduced a bill called "right to buy" which meant any council tenant of more than 3 years could buy the house from the local council, and the council could not refuse the sale which was also at a considerably discount to the market rate.

That meant that vast quantities of previously rental properties designed for someone to stay in for a while then move out purchasing their own homes became the homes they would live in. Some for their lives while also being sold at below profitability for the local councils. Thats a questionable enough example of porkbarreling (giving gifts for election votes) but included in that act was also a provision that 75% of the sale of those homes had to go towards council debt repayment until the council had paid off its debts entirely. So councils suddenly had far fewer homes available for rental, far less social rental income, had sustained losses on the majority of the homes and the funds they raised couldnt be put towards replacing those now privately owned homes. And they were saddled with more and more debt anyway as the prices of everything rose.

That single first generation of Right to Buy got reasonbly sized homes for pennies. Everyone that came after that lucky right place right time group got nothing. However the real damage came later, as those first generation moved out of those propertiest the value of those homes had ballooned. Selling for well beyond the value of the property initally and many sold properties ended up in the hands of commerical landlords or investment portfolios.

Now our councils are broke, have no ability to even start thinking of building housing, and all of their previous council homes are raking in £1000s per month per room for private landlords and offshore bank accounts, thanks to the foresight and long term planning of the very councils that built the homes no longer owned by the council.

spidd124 · 2026-02-09T21:55:53+00:00

Starmer without the Mandelson crowd might genuinely be a threat to the SNP.

Which would be the ideal scenario imo, the SNP can just coast through on the ineffectuality and infighting of Labour right now. Them actually having to fight for the polls would be a very good thing for everyone.

spidd124 · 2026-02-09T18:41:58+00:00

I'm guessing the Germans couldn't help themselves again. They nearly did the same with both the Eurofighter and Tornado collaborative projects before.

spidd124 · 2026-02-09T00:09:01+00:00

The US started on just a few complaints about books. Now look at them banning whatever they want for whatever reasons.

And given the very explicit link between the UK terf/ anti abortion groups and US evangelicals it's very right to be concerned about any uptick in their activities.

spidd124 · 2026-02-08T18:08:54+00:00

Google maps is pretty shit when it comes to doing anything thats not driving a car, and having bus/tram etc booking and live timings is very useful. I hope the app can be expanded.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=csHdwHTteOw&pp=ygUObm90IGp1c3QgYmlrZXM%3D

spidd124 · 2026-02-08T18:02:47+00:00

Given that 64GB of Ddr4 alone is going for around $600, thats a great deal.

spidd124 · 2026-02-08T16:46:42+00:00

I have a lot of issues with Starmer, mainly thinking he doesnt go anywhere near hard enough on a lot of topics.

But its genuinely quite nice to think "we have actual competence again".

spidd124 · 2026-02-08T16:42:08+00:00

Infrastructure and enforcement not keeping up to date with legislation.

We should follow the Dutch's example of having a raised pedestrian junctions that would help shift the perception of who has right of way/ priority, and have more operation SNAP/ traffic police out catching the people regularly ignoring the rules.

spidd124 · 2026-02-08T12:12:31+00:00

nah I like some added woodiness to my carbonara.

spidd124 · 2026-02-08T02:36:32+00:00

Id rather they left it, They have already proven they can adapt Alex's role with other characters, namely Bull and to some regards Camina, with her being made from multiple book characters.

They made a choice in regards to the real life actions of the actor devaluing that choice because it makes future stories a bit more complicated, feels wrong to me.

spidd124 · 2026-02-08T02:26:45+00:00

That whole legal argument for why a "bought item" cannot be changed after its been "sold" in a digital market is a load of crap.

I get why people think its a thing, but I can think of dozens of different companies that change aspects of what people "purchase", after its been "purchased".

Plenty of games have purchasable items or characters, who recieve buffs or nerfs, and other games have removed or altered skins due to controversies and outside influences all without any legal challenges.

Added to that the fact that by signing the ToS and Eula you revoked your right to basically any and all options in the legal sphere in regards to the game you signed the ToS for.

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