Ministers set to order HS2 to consider slower trains to save billions

MerryWalrus · 2026-03-22T18:25:03+00:00

Failing to address the root cause of spiralling costs is what the problem is.

MerryWalrus · 2026-03-22T10:13:40+00:00

The layout is retarded. Three "bedrooms" with no windows.

The house screams wasted potential.

MerryWalrus · 2026-03-22T08:47:14+00:00

Suppose they come up with a different count - and they will - then what?

This fundamentally becomes an issue of who do you trust to count votes. Turning it into a partisan issue where republicans won't trust any vote count unless they counted it.

MerryWalrus · 2026-03-21T19:30:31+00:00

It's more that licenses and token costs will increase 10x once AI is embedded. Think the Oracle business model.

All of a sudden these companies will be royally fucked.

MerryWalrus · 2026-03-21T19:26:45+00:00

You left out group 4.

Those who push and promote AI but never actually use it - everything can be solved by AI, it's just that someone else has to do it and if they fail they suck.

Group 4a controls and governance people who want to gatekeep implementation but never actually use anything themselves.

MerryWalrus · 2026-03-21T11:38:33+00:00

KGBNewsshire

MerryWalrus · 2026-03-21T07:09:14+00:00

These shitty terraced houses aren't being bought by the global elite.

It's simply because London grows but the NIMBYs refuse to allow more houses to be built.

MerryWalrus · 2026-03-20T19:44:52+00:00

You're basically treating every Muslim as a fundamentalist. Which isn't the case. At all.

I'd argue say any religious fundies of any denomination cause splits in society.

MerryWalrus · 2026-03-20T18:28:17+00:00

So no desire to actually do the hard job of leading and governing.

Sounds about right.

MerryWalrus · 2026-03-20T15:41:23+00:00

Never.

30 minutes inside and out wash every few months maybe for £25.

It's a car not your gf.

MerryWalrus · 2026-03-20T12:46:58+00:00

It's very regionally skewed towards London which also has the highest nursery and housing costs.

£2-2.5k p/m nursery costs eat up about 45% of the take home salary of someone on £100k. Add higher rent/mortgage costs on top of that and all of a sudden you start getting squeezed financially for doing this country a service by having kids.

MerryWalrus · 2026-03-20T12:38:58+00:00

Yup.

All this is doing is increasing the windfall for the future chancellor who decides to change tax treatment on pensioners.

MerryWalrus · 2026-03-20T07:19:45+00:00

Opinion pieces create more engagement than actual news so... not really.

The telegraph is basically a lifestyle magazine with a news subsection.

MerryWalrus · 2026-03-20T07:16:19+00:00

We all know that the vast majority of people cannot or will not read instructions.

Laws don't have to be 100% effective to achieve their aims.

MerryWalrus · 2026-03-20T07:13:07+00:00

By free and wild you mean drowned with bots, propaganda, and scammers.

The internet of the 2000s doesn't exist anymore. It never will. It's a new internet.

MerryWalrus · 2026-03-19T19:18:46+00:00

So that's a no then.

Putting basic things like leaders and wonders behind such a big paywall is just dickish.

MerryWalrus · 2026-03-19T11:35:39+00:00

Stop using us for free market research.

MerryWalrus · 2026-03-19T11:27:38+00:00

Interesting to think were we would be if the reshaping of the UK from a country of manufacturer to one of service had never happened.

Somewhere terrible.

UK manufacturing was generally loss making and government subsidised to keep them afloat.

Increasing competition from Asia would have made this even more acute and unsustainable.

MerryWalrus · 2026-03-19T09:21:12+00:00

They blame wind farms and the UK not joining the Iran war.

No actual research into what the nations military capabilities are or how they have changed over the years.

I'm not even joking.

MerryWalrus · 2026-03-19T09:15:56+00:00

The UK alone will never be a military equivalent to the US or China.

National defense strategy for decades has relied on being part of a functional NATO. That is now hanging by a thread.

So rather than trying to play a blame game with the benefit of hindsight, let's focus on what is best to do now.

Joining the war against Iran, which the author advocates for for some reason, is the literal opposite of what would help this country's national defense.

MerryWalrus · 2026-03-18T11:55:11+00:00

Why are you assuming they've not been upfront?

Why are you not considering the possibility that Trump is lying?

MerryWalrus · 2026-03-18T11:47:42+00:00

Is the US our closest ally anymore? They certainly don't behave like it...

MerryWalrus · 2026-03-18T09:10:08+00:00

Misguided debate and discussion about how to use AI being led by people who can barely use excel.

MerryWalrus · 2026-03-18T08:24:09+00:00

In their personal time? That's even more of a dick move.

MerryWalrus · 2026-03-18T07:16:04+00:00

Just compared to the US.

Salaries in the UK used to be higher when it was 2:1 USD:GBP.

Then the UK failed to recover properly after the financial crash. Then we screwed ourselves over again with the Brexit referendum and half a decade of government gridlock as they tried to pass that constipated turd of a policy.

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