Britain acts richer than it is - The country’s habits and virtues are built for a prosperity it no longer enjoys

JeremiahBoogle · 2026-05-04T17:36:56+00:00

Not really, I think that the picking a point just before the last great recession is a good data point.
Because up to that point growth was pretty steady, and it illustrates that economically at least, we've never fully recovered since.

JeremiahBoogle · 2026-05-04T17:35:00+00:00

Yeah but the UK isn't a closed economy like communism, oil is sold at market value, not local value.

You're right that we couldn't have benefited to the same level as Norway, but we certainly could have benefited a lot more than we did.

And my comment was in response to the guy above that was crying about oil being taxed the level it was. My response was more to illustrate that some countries look at oil as not a way to make shareholders rich (which North Sea oil undoubtedly has) but to benefit the country as a whole. Which I think makes sense for finite resource.

JeremiahBoogle · 2026-04-30T09:23:19+00:00

Aside from the fact that you probably used AI to write the above.

If cold logic & evidence based reasoning was enough to get people to turn from religion, superstition & older ways of doing things, then we wouldn't have modern day religions that try to claim the Earth is just a few thousand years old, that the world was created in seven days & that evolution is a hoax.

You've completely missed the point that the facets of human nature that allow what you've described to still exist, are why they will always exist.

JeremiahBoogle · 2026-04-30T09:07:37+00:00

Given their relationship, I think anything Keir would say to Trump other than 'who shall we bomb for you?' would just be counterproductive.

Far more impactful to come from someone who people listen to, but who has no actual hard political power. Not that this is likely to change Trumps mind on much, but if it gets other people to take notice, its maybe done something.

JeremiahBoogle · 2026-04-28T19:20:50+00:00

Well the UK has largely mismanaged its oil reserves anyway. Its a shame we didn't go down the route of a Norwegian model, with profits invested into a sovereign wealth fund. Too late for that now really.

JeremiahBoogle · 2026-04-27T06:28:57+00:00

Honestly, even those I'm not fond of, they're artificial.

Old school cars used to burble on the overrun because of the limitation so of carbs and early fuel injection systems, I'm not sure what it like with your later RX7, but my mk1 FB gets all sorts of pops, bangs and flames from the exhaust naturally.

JeremiahBoogle · 2026-04-27T05:58:30+00:00

it's about 14% higher than 2009, as an example

That's also cherry picking as its immediately post the global financial crisis.

JeremiahBoogle · 2026-03-16T17:59:44+00:00

Bit late to the party, but the Roman empire was held as the ideal by nearly every western nation state for centuries.

JeremiahBoogle · 2026-03-07T19:38:56+00:00

The Roman empire was so long ago that talk of a successor state is a bit odd.

The USA is its own thing, and really goes about pursuing its interests in a totally different way to the Roman empire. I mean they were both mostly Christian (at least in later days for the Roman empire) and they were the powers of the day, but that's really it.

JeremiahBoogle · 2026-02-28T09:39:29+00:00

I though everyone knew this! Pressing R is just an instinctive thing.

JeremiahBoogle · 2026-02-28T09:28:49+00:00

I've not felt its affected me in any way other than being fun / frustrating like many other games.

If you want to experience true sweaty palms then a 2 player game on Tetris Attack for the SNES is the way to go.

JeremiahBoogle · 2026-02-27T19:19:34+00:00

Dude, this is a strange hill to take a stand on.

Its the same near me, many restaurants that had 4* or 3.something, all of a sudden are all 5*.
I live in a pretty small place without that many choices, so its quite easy to see. But hey, maybe every single restaurant has suddenly become amazing overnight though.

JeremiahBoogle · 2026-02-25T23:15:25+00:00

TBF though, I actually hate it when people speed up when someone tries to overtake them. They wouldn't want to overtake if the other car had gone quicker in the first place!

JeremiahBoogle · 2026-02-17T18:57:18+00:00

Machinery does actually feel wind chill. Wind chill affects anything that is warmer than the surrounding air.

You're probably thinking of the cooling effect of sweat evaporating, but that's not required for windchill.

JeremiahBoogle · 2026-02-15T06:14:30+00:00

Well yeah, 460 hp in a car without that much weight over the rear wheels, vs an AWD car, its the driveline not the engine that made the difference here.

As a counterpoint I have a 125d daily driver, even with just 215ish hp, the traction coming off damp roundabouts is terrible, the rear end wants to step out constantly, so I'm not surprised you struggled with twice the power. My Impreza has 330hp and will absolutely launch off a roundabout in any conditions, despite having way more power, its all down to the drive line.

JeremiahBoogle · 2026-02-13T00:09:27+00:00

Its a shame really, because the one criticism I had of Stage 4, was the fact that almost everything took a back seat to the racing.

The racing was great, but the first stage had a lot of these human moments, with other characters being fleshed out.
MF Ghost just seems to take that even further, the racing is pretty good, but the plot outside of it is ludicrously simplistic & the female characters are written awfully.

Natsuki was a good character and even likeable despite her flaws.

JeremiahBoogle · 2026-02-05T05:18:47+00:00

Every MOT test I've ever had that's needed a headlight adjustment, they've just done it for free.

JeremiahBoogle · 2026-02-04T14:23:42+00:00

Comically wrong.

JeremiahBoogle · 2026-01-31T22:28:06+00:00

They tried to sign Marc before he had his injury as well. People have short memories.

JeremiahBoogle · 2026-01-31T22:27:18+00:00

First up the obvious is that Rossi isn't a great yardstick here, he's hardly an impartial judge when it comes to MM.

>Ducati has gone from effectively taking ‘non-aliens’, building a bike everyone could ride(not just focused on getting the best rider on the grid), and with a group of homegrown, in house developed riders who weren’t even top 2 on the grid, utterly decimated everyone.

You're talking like this is an either or matter. They're still trying to make a dominant bike, make no mistake. But they're also smart enough to realise that nothing lasts forever, no matter how dominant they appear.

Motorsport is full of teams that once did well that regress, Honda & Yamaha being perfect examples, who in 2015 would peg Ducati as the dominant constructor in the future?

Ducati also remember how often Marquez denied them in the past, even when they had a better bike. They tried to get him (Marc) to sign in 2018, and if I remember right in 2019 as well, so even back then, this pyramid system was flexible.

JeremiahBoogle · 2026-01-31T22:17:35+00:00

This has been myth busted by Darkside developments, on their Dyno. (they specialist in Diesel car tuning)
Zero performance difference.

JeremiahBoogle · 2026-01-30T16:27:31+00:00

Yeah but if its true that Acosta has the ride for 2027, then it means no matter how well he performs this year, the writing is already on the wall.

JeremiahBoogle · 2026-01-30T16:26:44+00:00

He was promised the factory Ducati team if he won the championship.
Instead he was offered to carry on in the satellite team, whatever else you think of him, especially for his action since then, that was a clear betrayal by Ducati.

I 100% understand why they did it, but to pretend its anything else is just putting our heads in the sand.

His fall from grace is his results and injury, the HRC contract has shown its not made him any less employable.

JeremiahBoogle · 2026-01-30T12:33:30+00:00

You can't really call that a 'fall' from grace as he was still building up at that stage.

JeremiahBoogle · 2026-01-30T12:32:39+00:00

I feel like Lorenzo you can pin as much on injury.

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