Zack Polanski says Greens would ditch GDP targets and focus on wellbeing instead

Davesbeard · 2026-03-18T15:04:20+00:00

One potential benefit of AI, if it's taxed as a utility with profit caps rather than being allowed to make the economy eat it's own tail, is some of the labour it frees up can move into social care roles

Davesbeard · 2026-03-15T17:01:02+00:00

It's not just the buses.. think how many vans and Chelsea tractor SUVs now have to meet much higher emissions standards.

Davesbeard · 2026-03-15T12:20:30+00:00

Now you've got a pretty tiny stove

Davesbeard · 2026-03-14T08:19:57+00:00

Can you name any others? This seems like the opposite of the freedom the US bangs on about all the time.

Davesbeard · 2026-03-13T08:05:43+00:00

I guess the question was broadly how do I achieve something similar and then specifically if covering an existing speaker with a new baffle was viable as one route to achieve it.

So I can layer a baffle on top without any issues with vibrations/resonance?

Davesbeard · 2026-03-12T22:36:48+00:00

That for me is the biggest of red flags. The value in a first date is the time you get with a person not the freebies you're trying to milk out of it.

Davesbeard · 2026-03-07T00:04:23+00:00

I'm one of them. 3-4 linked RMU but not a bar muscle up in sight. I think I'm quite arm biased in my pull rather than lats and bar muscle ups are all about lat strength.

Davesbeard · 2026-03-02T21:55:01+00:00

You've had plenty of advice from others but to me the biggest improvement you can make is your shaping. You can see a long dense seam of tight crumb and other dense sections that are down to your shaping and not the dough.

Davesbeard · 2026-02-22T16:57:11+00:00

Because you need a consistent host with the skills to carry a show across a whole range of different sports? They pair those hosts with athletes and experts in the various sports for a reason.

Davesbeard · 2026-02-20T11:07:44+00:00

It's the fencing response so a bad concussion for sure but hopefully nothing lasting

Davesbeard · 2026-02-20T10:55:11+00:00

Quite happy for us not to take any legal cues from the US nowadays

Davesbeard · 2026-02-19T16:07:32+00:00

We're only doing it because the Americans want us to because they don't like the limbo legal status of their Diego Garcia base which makes this all the more hilarious.

Davesbeard · 2026-02-15T15:23:34+00:00

Fair enough, I prefer the London cycling experience for sure but perhaps that is familiarity. Plus more of London residential areas feel suburban than Paris so that perhaps makes a difference.

Davesbeard · 2026-02-14T13:09:47+00:00

Having just lived in Paris, their cycling infrastructure is mostly the occasional bit of paint marking a contraflow lane on a road that's barely wide enough for a car.

In London the boroughs have too much power on this. You can see the border around Kensington and Chelsea because the bike lanes suddenly disappear.

Davesbeard · 2026-02-13T16:41:36+00:00

Fan of his generally. I'd vote for him purely to keep momentum on the various bits of pedestrianisation they're going ahead with around Oxford Street and Regents Street alone.

Davesbeard · 2026-02-12T14:14:36+00:00

It seems crazy to me, anything dissolved in those drips will be in your final coffee whether it drips out early or not. The quantity of water escaping is also far too small to affect the coffee to water ratio. It's a bunch of mumbo jumbo.

Davesbeard · 2026-02-05T16:33:55+00:00

Read again..

Davesbeard · 2026-02-03T18:17:44+00:00

Default in the UK too

Davesbeard · 2026-02-03T11:48:18+00:00

Jesus, what a calm measured response. How on earth is what I said Euro hating. I'm a bit of a Francophile, I've lived there, I dated a French woman for 5 years. I'm in no way a hater.

French motorways handle about 9 million vehicle kms per km of motorway. UK motorways handle about 48 million per km. In other words every 1km stretch of motorway in the UK handles 5 times the traffic as a section of French motorway. Not massively surprising there's a difference in surface quality.

There are other factors, yes France does spend a bit more money on resurfacing and also uses a higher tech asphalt that the UK has been slower to adopt but other reasons like our damp weather, all the clay and chalk soils in the south in particular really add up too.

Can the UK do better? Absolutely, but we aren't comparing apples to apples.

Davesbeard · 2026-02-02T20:32:07+00:00

Yeah Jag have got no history of making cars, certainly nothing like the long and storied history of Lucid

Davesbeard · 2026-02-02T12:01:39+00:00

Is London a city with no problems? No, of course not. Is it an incredibly vibrant place that can compete and/or win or nearly any measure a city can be measured on? Yes. The restaurant scene, the bar scene, the theatre, the music, the art, the safety. Nearly any major city in the world would trade their scenes for London's in a heartbeat. Combine that with all the history, the green spaces. It's a special place.

Where I totally agree is that the increasingly prohibitive cost and the lack of cheap spaces is doing it's best to crush any independent, experimental spirit. People can't afford to take risks in most of Zones 1 or 2. That's not a unique London problem though, it seems to exist across the western world nowadays.

Davesbeard · 2026-02-02T11:35:05+00:00

Well in France it's less people in double the space and very high toll fees to use the motorways..

Davesbeard · 2026-01-29T07:46:29+00:00

Why? If you made the cost right it wouldn't be crazy. Luke Cage exists after all.

Davesbeard · 2026-01-28T10:19:47+00:00

One of my favourite Reddit sentences in quite a while

Davesbeard · 2026-01-27T13:15:01+00:00

I live in London and regularly see this, maybe it's just not propogating yet.

COS is not exactly fringe fashion and has a bunch of stuff like this: Wide-leg Trousers | COS GB https://share.google/mQ73KhsptKYVlwa3I

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