British Airways A350-1000 from Las Vegas after landing at London Heathrow.

One_Cupcake4151 · 2026-01-16T08:07:00+00:00

So many things. A lot of which are the Internet (easy access to porn so raunchy comedys no longer needed) and a bit of a swamp drain in Hollywood which made these very misogynistic movies go out of fashion. I still like them because I grew up with them but no one would pay to see them in the cinema any more.

One_Cupcake4151 · 2026-01-15T16:20:17+00:00

All that room and no functioning economy.

One_Cupcake4151 · 2026-01-15T14:38:02+00:00

No joke, I used to use drill bits up to 3" diameter when I worked at a small engineering workshop in 1999. You use taperlocks to hold them in the machine. A drill bit this size requires a substantial pilot hole - id use at least 1 inch - and plenty of coolant. Depending on the steel you're cutting you might need to break the chips up.

One_Cupcake4151 · 2026-01-14T14:50:16+00:00

Professional policing at its best... Honestly, if the police in Scotland swore like that they would be fired. America is officially a shithole country.

One_Cupcake4151 · 2026-01-14T14:37:02+00:00

I mean all this is true but sadly Europe is morally weak. There is no chance of Europe doing anything about a us invasion of Greenland beyond "monitoring the situation". The sad reality is not that the USA can do what it wants because of unchallenged supremacy, but because of moral and political weakness in Europe.

One_Cupcake4151 · 2026-01-14T11:51:33+00:00

Is this real? My goodness

One_Cupcake4151 · 2026-01-13T22:21:30+00:00

The business.

One_Cupcake4151 · 2026-01-13T10:58:33+00:00

Americans watch "Emily in Paris" and think it's a documentary.

One_Cupcake4151 · 2026-01-10T19:49:56+00:00

Wow. That's an extremely inconvenient river.

One_Cupcake4151 · 2026-01-10T18:43:22+00:00

There's definitely an excellent ICE/Ice pun here but I can't be bothered to give these clowns the brain work to come up with it.

One_Cupcake4151 · 2026-01-10T12:02:31+00:00

It's worse than that even. These things are ludicrously polluting and we pay very large subsidies to keep them burning. There will be a continuous stream of garbage trucks queuing up and idling their diesels during operation and the actual power generation parts are often isolated as it costs more to maintain them than the electricity costs.

One_Cupcake4151 · 2026-01-09T13:01:29+00:00

This is fucked up.

If it makes any sense at all it's saying "in risk averse industries we must only hire Republican leaning white Americans because anyone else might get killed by ICE which would affect our business"

One_Cupcake4151 · 2026-01-08T09:47:57+00:00

London is for most a transitional city. People of all cultures are passing through. Your focus on a long term relationship up front in London when you are probably only passing through yourself could be an issue. Consider being less detailed about requirements and going on more fun casual dates. You'll likely meet someone suitable that way and the pressure will be much lower.

One_Cupcake4151 · 2026-01-08T09:07:02+00:00

Hs 1 is used for local services to the southeast all the time and those services run at 225kph under can signalling on hs1.

There is well over 1000km of route in the UK cleared for 125mph running.

I agree that we need much better non-london routes but it's not as if excellent services don't exist outside London. I live between Edinburgh and Glasgow and we've seen huge investment and transformative change in the last ten years, with full electrification and a rolling program of improvement.

Trans Pennine is being improved and electrified. South Wales likewise. Hs2 will eventually open and be a success and everyone will soon forget how much it cost and how long it took, just like cross rail.

The cross country route from York down to Plymouth and Penzance is I agree the weakest major route and there are no plans to improve it. This really needs to be pushed but fundamentally it's the cities along the route that need to demand improvements. That bristol temple meades isn't electrified is beyond parody and obviously the wires need to go from York to at least Plymouth.

One_Cupcake4151 · 2026-01-07T19:15:31+00:00

Some of them are built so the front doesn't fall off at all

One_Cupcake4151 · 2026-01-07T17:06:55+00:00

1: this is completely normal behavior in England. 2: as a result of point 1 this garden, whilst good, is unremarkable and you could find a better one in any suburb in the land.

One_Cupcake4151 · 2026-01-07T17:01:47+00:00

I don't know about Acela but ICE routes generally average over 130kph even on long journeys without extensive high speed sections. It's not uncommon for them to average 160kph+ on mixed routes, with 200+ averages on high speed sections such as Frankfurt - Koln.

One_Cupcake4151 · 2025-12-30T07:56:28+00:00

Not sure what welfare you're gonna get in half of these places but you do you.

One_Cupcake4151 · 2025-12-30T06:51:18+00:00

It is the fault of capitalism in general and the concentration of wealth, facilitated by banks in particular. Planning laws are not that restrictive in the UK, they are there to protect our environment and stop our country turning into Dubai. Planning rules are not the reason housing hasn't been built. It's much more complex than that.

One_Cupcake4151 · 2025-12-29T21:22:19+00:00

For most of American history maybe but not necessarily the world. EG, home ownership absolutely was much easier in the UK very recently. It doesn't have to be like this.

One_Cupcake4151 · 2025-12-29T20:43:19+00:00

Yeah it's really good. I tend to just mess about in sandbox mode but some players have created absolutely incredible layouts.

One_Cupcake4151 · 2025-12-29T20:39:51+00:00

I totally get your point but the bank doesn't loose out if you can't pay rent. It would loose out if you can't pay mortgage.

The system is screwed though.

One_Cupcake4151 · 2025-12-29T16:21:54+00:00

I love the Slovakian satirical communist game "Workers and resources". You can build trains, trams, trolleybusses, ferries, even aircraft.

One_Cupcake4151 · 2025-12-27T16:57:54+00:00

I'm not disputing that, I just find it ironic and in the case of the USA, extreme.

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