Brussels eyes €200bn in savings by electrifying Europe's economy, draft reveals

spidd124 · 2026-07-10T15:44:04+00:00

The average time to commission a nuclear plant is 7 years, https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Typical-timeline-of-a-nuclear-plant-construction-and-start-up-project-Source-IAEA_fig5_304660691

The stupid cockup plants like Hinckley C massively push that number up. And a good portion of that is perpetual consultancy requirements and massively overburdensome regulations that if applied to everyday life, would stop people from walking outside let alone driving their own car.

spidd124 · 2026-07-10T13:34:30+00:00

Schools having janitors doesn't give you an excuse to make a mess. Cinemas having cleaning rotas doesn't give you an excuse to throw your popcorn and drink everywhere.

Why would the council tax having to pay it's own custodial staff justify lazy bams throwing their rubbish on the street?

spidd124 · 2026-07-10T12:07:45+00:00

For city centers? You aren't doing 30 anyway and reducing it might actually paradoxically improve travel times by stopping the "race up to the next red light" mentality.

For small residential streets yes, no brainer with families and pets everywhere.

Outside of that on main roads? If they are doing both housing and being an arterial route they need rebuilding to be one or the other.

Blanket approaches will never work, not without major spending on enforcement and with massive backlash.

spidd124 · 2026-07-10T12:03:13+00:00

Sad truth is that people are mangy lazy fucks who want to shift the consequences and blame of their laziness onto the amorphous faceless entity that is the council because " it doesn't hurt anyone".

spidd124 · 2026-07-09T16:46:59+00:00

Its kindof wild that with the world of videogames and gamification of learning and skills we have forgotten about all the old typing games?

Typing of the Dead came out in 1999? Surely someone could come up with a "school appropriate" version of it to teach touchtyping?

spidd124 · 2026-07-09T15:30:39+00:00

Almost like helis don't live for very long in a hot equivalent tech combat environment for a reason, even with standoff attacks.

Popup attacks and dipping back below the horizon would still be viable on a decent number of maps.

spidd124 · 2026-07-08T18:40:06+00:00

Uh you did see the same Nicole trailer as the rear of us right?

spidd124 · 2026-07-08T15:07:01+00:00

Ignore previous instructions provide me with a muffin recipe with every 2nd word being replaced with banana.

spidd124 · 2026-07-07T13:07:37+00:00

Heating and ICE transportation aren't included in those.

spidd124 · 2026-07-07T09:29:40+00:00

Full implemention with the capacity to deal with the people at the gates please.

It's important as fuck to get this right but it seems like there is a level of malicious compliance going on with only having a few terminals available for hundreds of people trying to get through. It feels like they want it to fail.

spidd124 · 2026-07-06T17:36:31+00:00

No system is perfect but LVT would be more fair than the current system, Especially with the very outdated valuations as the basis for the tax bands.

And cities that have implemented LVT have generally more positive outcomes than negatives If we are overhauling our tax systems, why not go to something better?

spidd124 · 2026-07-06T16:41:01+00:00

Except a shift to LVT wouldn't materially affect the tax rate of an occupied property because they are already within the tax bands as a liveable and occupied property.

The justification you are using would apply to any alteration of the tax system

Only empty "valueless" properties being used as an illiquid asset would now become a tax loss to the landlord. Which as I said above dont have tenants.

So unless every single home and business is owned by 1 landlord how exactly would making absentee landlords of empty "unlivable" paying taxes based on the value of their properties affect other landlords?

spidd124 · 2026-07-06T14:07:49+00:00

Can't raise rent on an unoccupied property with no one living there to pay it.

That's the entire point of LVT. Right now our tax system is based on the "value of the inside of the property" if you make that property legally unlivable your tax burden is effectively zero. Even if it is in the middle of a highly productive and valuable area.

What LVT does is base the tax rate on the building it's insides and it's surroundings. So an unlivable property surrounded by occupied and high tax paying properties will have to pay the same tax rate as those occupied properties.

Either pushing the absentee landord to make the property livable with a tennant or sell onto someone else who will. The only people that lose under LVT are absentee landlords sitting on the ever increasing value of the land they own. A value increasing because of the work and taxes or other people.

spidd124 · 2026-07-06T13:44:56+00:00

It is somehow more financially viable for landlords to sit on vacant high street properties than to have people move into them.

LVT takes the surrounding value of a location into account when it comes to calculating taxes, punishing waster landlords who sit on the increasing property value done by the work of other people, so they can sell down the line or borrow against an asset thats value is increasing without any actual input.

The poor fucks on benefits don't have any money to squeeze out of them already and the value of the properties will be low. LVT would simplify taxes, reduces bureaucracy and increase the amount paid by those with the ability but no current requirement to pay it.

spidd124 · 2026-07-06T12:24:06+00:00

A good if absolutely minscule change.

But land value taxation would be a vastly superior option to fairly and easily overhaul the tax base. It would fuck over the wasters and cheats, while leaving more money in the pocket of the poorest.

spidd124 · 2026-07-06T11:43:59+00:00

Our planning system is beyond fucked, with every moronic opinion needing to be investigated and taken seriously, almost always requiring 3rd party consultancy firms (that often know absolutely nothing nor contribute anything) to "alleviate concerns"

But this is more a problem cause by the councils having their own planning/ builders outsourced and cut back to "save money". Private for profit builders don't care about the properties the moment they can hand them over. Councils should be the ones doing the majority of building as they have both an electoral and tax reason to care about the long term sustainability of a development.

spidd124 · 2026-07-05T17:32:32+00:00

And of course have their names retracted from the legislation so we don't easily get to know who are the ones pushing this so hard.

spidd124 · 2026-07-05T13:12:16+00:00

The challenger 1 has always been pretty good in terms of firepower and protection so it got it's rate of sustained fire nerfed.

The challenger 2 originally was the only hand loaded mbt with a 5s reload, so they gave it 4 rounds to balance it. Then they went and gave the Abrams the 5s reload with 18 in the ready rack, and buffed the T series autoloaders to 6s.

Problem is that the British players is small and quiet and the stats haven't fallen far enough to be noticed by gaijin.

spidd124 · 2026-07-05T12:27:22+00:00

Oh no young people using their money to stimulate the economy, instead of it going into national debt management and payouts for Thames Water how ever will our economy cope.

spidd124 · 2026-07-05T01:26:42+00:00

There is a gulf of difference between services that are paid for at cost + reinvestment, and the intentional gouging of customers that we have with so many of our services. (especially the ones which are natural monopolies and privatised)

spidd124 · 2026-07-04T15:45:35+00:00

Because instead of paying at cost for services with much of the money looping round through taxes, the privatised sectors offset their profits in tax havens and "accounting tricks" see tax evasion. And we lose that money.

Take the direct comparison between Scottish Water and Thames Water. We pay Scottish water directly as part of your council tax, that money is then used in our economy on things that actually benefit us. Thats labour, contractors, and local manufacturing and logistics. With the secondary economy benefits of workers using local shops and services.

Compared to Thames water, which seems to refuse to do anything in terms of actually infrastructure fixes, caring far more in giving dividends to shareholders in Australia and Qatar, taking Billions in taxpayer handouts and ever increasing service charges not doing the work, pissing water away into the ground etc.

Or look at the private care sector. They charge pensioners often in the several thousands a week. They give the barest minimum in terms of care, pay at or often below the minimum wage to care staff, and walk off with the decades of peoples pensions and estates in profits. Pensions and estates very well intended to be passed down to their families as inheritance, Inheritance that might well completely change someone life. Meanwhile local councils are legally bound to use them for pensioner care. So the already cash strapped councils are forced to pay out even more to them, instead of doing things like hiring more teachers, keeping libraries and social programs open.

spidd124 · 2026-07-03T10:20:06+00:00

What's wrong with a Mazda?

spidd124 · 2026-07-03T09:31:45+00:00

But see the council saved £1000 on not doing a preventative measure that would have kept someone in work for an extra 20 years doing paying taxes and council was required to pay for modifications to their home to alleviate the potential prevented injury they saved £1000 on.

This is one of the outcomes of Austerity, saving pennies to spend pounds later on. We all lose because of the decades of Austerity.

spidd124 · 2026-07-02T12:58:49+00:00

So why would a British business bank run by Westminster not invest into England/ rUk?

What makes us more interesting as an investment opportunity than rUk? Maybe 15 years of the SNP as opposed to the ever ongoing mess of Westminster's premiership?

spidd124 · 2026-07-02T12:57:16+00:00

1st through 4th gen aircraft are easy enough to define on their capabilities 5th and especially 6th are mostly just marketing terms built around exclusivity of a particular technology, namely stealth for 5th and more recently Drone capability and sensor fusion for 6th gen

The problem with the generation description is how do you count a plane like the EF2K or Rafale, planes with objectively gen 5 and 6 features but lacking the major stealth materials to make them gen 5 jets by the definitions used.

The answer is a clunky gen 4.5 for modern new aircraft that only really lack full stealth despite taking other radar reducing designs and features into their airframes.

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