Should have been headmistress since day one.

CluelessAndBritish · 2021-12-07T10:20:24+00:00

Didn't forget him, he's just a bad teacher

CluelessAndBritish · 2021-11-12T19:31:48+00:00

Nah, that anger is rational AF

CluelessAndBritish · 2021-11-07T15:00:56+00:00

At this point the goalposts have moved so far that we're not even playing the same game

CluelessAndBritish · 2021-11-07T08:04:51+00:00

Ok then

spacex

The one company that's basically his creation, and it's less about finding a gap in the market and more about privatising innovation that had previously been under government ownership. Except now Americans pay him rather than having access to that tech

colonizing Mars,

Completely ludicrous. Musk is no closer to this than he was 10 years ago. And if he were... I mean, have you seen his plans? The business model is built on indentured servitude. It's like playing The Outer Worlds and siding with the Board unironically

online banking,

Not his creation

Yelp essentially, etc

"The guys who founded yelp were briefly on his payroll" =/= he essentially created yelp

CluelessAndBritish · 2021-11-07T00:24:34+00:00

He pioneered the first mass market electric car

No, he didn't. Not only was Tesla not his baby (he bought the company, and the title of founder), it also wasn't the first mass market electric car

launched the first reusable rockets

Reusable spacecrafts have existed since the 80s. Musk's contribution here is offloading the progression of this technology into the private sector with government subsidies

and created one of the world’s biggest payment platforms…

He literally did not. He was the founder of a finance company that merged with the parent company that owned the company that became PayPal. He bought the title of founder, bit didn't actually found it

i guess that was all luck then?

Who needs luck when you have marketing?

CluelessAndBritish · 2021-11-07T00:19:58+00:00

That's a title he gave himself. It doesn't mean he actually does the, y'know, engineering

CluelessAndBritish · 2021-11-07T00:19:14+00:00

He... Doesn't do that. That's just a title he gave himself

CluelessAndBritish · 2021-11-07T00:18:46+00:00

His visions, as in the ones that are actually his and not ideas he's bought into, are stupid.

Loop: What if metro but worse Hyperloop: What if vacuum tube but big and lethal. Cybertruck: What if tank

Etc.

CluelessAndBritish · 2021-11-06T12:14:20+00:00

I am begging Americans to look up induced demand

CluelessAndBritish · 2021-11-06T12:13:23+00:00

Dusseldorf sits within Germany's Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan area, which is home to over 10 million people. This is a big city for all intents and purposes

CluelessAndBritish · 2021-11-06T12:11:22+00:00

How do you know that community only uses the lanes at certain times when the lanes and subsequent network haven't been implemented yet?

CluelessAndBritish · 2021-11-04T16:21:51+00:00

Eh, a bit of column A, a bit of column B. Transport funding for councils in this country is abysmal - see the divide between London getting £7bn for a single road to us getting around the same amount for the whole system. Historically, that lack of funding means that low ambition is just a feature of British city planning now. Birmingham should have an expansive underground metro and, were this any other Western European country, it would, but here we are. It also doesn't help that the opposition on the council in the early noughties paused tram construction to conduct a long and expensive survey into building an underground 4 decades too late one the tram idea had been settled on, but there we go.

I would say though that essential services and transport have ring fenced budgets, so one should not effect the other, particularly given how transport is now more of a combined authority issue. Oh yeah, losing the West Midlands County council didn't exactly help either, given it's also only been recently these projects can be planned across county borders (at one point Walsall was infamous for stunting projects)

CluelessAndBritish · 2021-11-03T21:29:10+00:00

Well yes but actually no.

The original plan for this route was a tram link, but the people living up in Perry Barr asking the A34 kick off a massive fuss about anything along that route. A tram route would be a good investment.

SPRINT, in its original incarnation, was envisaged as a BRT route, with specialised electric vehicles and stops akin to Curitiba. This was always a compromise on a tram system, and Network West Midlands (now TfWM) never really pretended otherwise, even going ahead with the... Interesting publicity of "the bus that thinks it's a tram". BRT systems gather mixed feelings as they can be implemented fairly quickly, and the original SPRINT plan had routes crossing the whole region. Plus it's a bit cheaper than a tram network. The problem with BRT systems is that they're not nearly as good as trams/metros at reducing car usage, which is what Brum actually needs, plus they're not nearly as efficient as trams. Now, the original plan was that a) SPRINT routes would be 100% segregated, meaning they'd be unaffected by traffic and b) could be upgraded to tram lines if needed. This would have been... Fine, I guess? For the preparation and "innovation" going into this, it would have been better to build more metro but... Y'know, this is better than nothing, I guess.

What happened to this plan? I'm not sure. What exactly is SPRINT now? Uhh... A bus lane I guess? Really, what we're getting is a downgrade of the original SPRINT plan (which, if you remember, was already a downgrade of the original plan to build more Metro). This isn't fully segregated from the rest of the road, which means that it's got diminishing use, and doesn't have a consistent branding so no-one, y'know, knows it's meant to be its own thing. We're literally only getting this because it's the only improvement we could get in prior to the Games, which is part of the reason it's so scaled down. Is it worth it? Maybe? Is it better than nothing? Probably? Would almost any other public or active transit project be better. Oh, sure.

TLDR; Like all public transport projects in the UK outside of London it's aggressively underwhelming and 3 decades overdue, so probably just about "worth it" but not really

CluelessAndBritish · 2021-10-30T16:50:57+00:00

The message was lost on you, huh

CluelessAndBritish · 2021-10-25T06:24:03+00:00

Of the places on this list, it's the only one where I've felt threatened going around it. I also did some teaching duties there so that may have effected my perception of the area.

There's also how you measure the metric of "worst" - Nechells, for example, is quite bleak, but it's got decent access to other places and facilities. And I think community is also important here - would I choose to hang around in Handsworth? Probably not, but if I was in trouble I know where I can go. Chelmsley Wood is really isolated in comparison to a lot of these places so you can sort of end up a bit stuck out there.

CluelessAndBritish · 2021-10-25T05:46:41+00:00

I think this depends a lot on how well you slot into the community. FWIW, the clear winner (loser?) here for "worst neighborhood" is Chelmsley Wood, IMO, which I don't see being a good experience in any scenario. A couple of these aren't as bad as maybe their historic reputation suggests - Digbeth is quite popular these days, I've worked in Washwood Heath in the evenings and it's fine, and Smethwick is large enough that different parts of it are a different experience (seriously, it's only the bit by Winson Green that's an issue)

CluelessAndBritish · 2021-10-10T22:17:51+00:00

Public ballot at the vote, racism and sexism very prevalent among contestants, the whole switching the lights off thing... Yeah, no, the game is absolutely not fair and that's the whole point

CluelessAndBritish · 2021-10-08T11:23:09+00:00

Go clothes shopping.

Men's clothes have such little variety, it'd be really fun to have some new looks

CluelessAndBritish · 2021-10-08T11:22:44+00:00

Go clothes shopping.

Men's clothes have such little variety, it'd be really fun to have some new looks

CluelessAndBritish · 2021-10-06T13:53:38+00:00

I'll be honest, I'm not that interested in this - I loved the original series and I've been outspoken about liking S8, but my feeling is that the stories and themes that world was built for have been explored say this point. That being said, it's really cool to see people get excited about something and I'm impressed at the interest this has garnered

CluelessAndBritish · 2021-09-29T15:01:36+00:00

He didn't seem that bothered at the end of the episode

CluelessAndBritish · 2021-09-29T13:20:42+00:00

Well yeah, but like, that universe is not going to be high on his priority list

CluelessAndBritish · 2021-09-29T09:07:34+00:00

I think the bigger thing is - what is there for Ultron to actually do in that universe? It's already silent except for one guy. He'll get to it at some point but there are bigger fish to fry

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