* Posts by codejunky

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Driverless cars swerve traffic tickets in California even if they break the law

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@Doctor Syntax

"What sort of excuse is that?"

The right one. The one that should be taught in school. The one that should be tattooed on every authoritarian wannabe Kim Jong Stalin. Actually it could do with a little modification-

"Life evolves rapidly and, at times, faster than legislation or regulations can adapt to the changes,".

As much as we like to think we are clever enough to make rules for everything and be in control of everything we aint and we cant. The stricter we are with the rules the further we lag behind as the world moves on without us.

US fusion energy dreams edge closer to reality, Congress permitting

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erm

"If Congress eventually manages to fund the government" ... "So keep an eye open for more breakthroughs in 2024 – provided Congress gets its act together"

Funding the government is a legitimate problem. Some governments are doing very well at blowing far more money than their tax payers can afford and considering it normal. Research including this is conducted by allocating finite resources.

Scientists mull Solar Radiation Management – a potential climate-change stop-gap

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@AC

"Citation or, Hmmm, total bollocks?"

I know your a troll but that you got 4 upvotes? Either you like to pat yourself on the back or some people really dont know! Anyway very fast and lazy search, first link- https://www.fastcompany.com/2681518/this-man-shot-40000-elephants-before-he-figured-out-that-herds-of-cows-can-save-the-planet

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Hmm

My first thought was of the ecologist who decided killing Elephants would slow deforestation. I know some people are absolute in their religious devotion, but since the religion is far from usable it would be better to fix the science and gain some understanding of if there is a problem.

"the 25,000-plus science folks in attendance pretty much all agreed on one unequivocal fact: the Earth is warming and it's warming quickly."

Is this like the 97% of scientist agree that was really far short of that number (something in the low 30% I seem to remember). Go to church and ask how many believe in god, I still wont accept it as a fact.

UK government lays out plan to divert people's broken gizmos from landfill

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@Adrian 4

"Although that sounds unfortunate, what alternative is there ?"

One that is frequently overlooked is 'do nothing'. It can sound like a problem but is it a problem? I dont have the answer but given some of the scandals around recycling because its more expensive than worth doing I wonder.

Women in IT are on a 283-year march to parity, BCS warns

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@AC

"We need to remove the acceptance that having little to zero technical knowledge is acceptable and that a basic knowledge is necessary (regardless of gender). That will balance things up a lot."

That is a nicely put together comment. I just wanted to add that years ago it was acceptable to say "I'm just not that good with math". Even had a young lad struggle to count money because he was used to everyone using cards

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Eh?

Computers being a fairly recent development, which was staffed predominantly by women, and now staffed predominantly by men. Did that change take 283 years?

And what is this 'progress' towards a gender 'norm'? Sod off. Progress is the freedom of opportunity and people sort themselves into their interests.

"The fact that 94 percent of girls and 79 percent of boys drop computing at age 14 is a huge alarm bell we must not ignore"

Why? When 90%+ of the population stood in a field to farm the crops to survive then most kids needed to understand farming. But there are so many career options there is no need to funnel everyone into IT.

Europe classifies three adult sites as worthy of its toughest internet regulations

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@Mark Exclamation

"This will be appealed to the Supreme Court, which has a majority of Republican judges.. not exactly partisan. Seems the American justice system is based on political leanings rather than law as it's written."

As the ruling is nothing more than show this is lawfare continued. The ruling means nothing as stated in the ruling, all Trump has to do is appeal to the US supreme court and the ruling has a stay on it (so he is on the ballot). However he can be selected without ballot so it still doesnt stop him in that state.

Add that the poor excuse they used doesnt stand up by law. They use the excuse that he is an insurrectionist, except he is not convicted as such and there is no way to reconcile the facts with that claim. But also the 'law' used apparently doesnt apply to the president anyway. So even if this was challenged there would be no case.

The lawfare effort is just increasingly desperate and Trump doesnt have any viable challenger in the republicans. It is increasingly looking like he doesnt have much of a challenge from the democrats either although there is still a little time for things to change.

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@CountCadaver

"*broken into CONGRESS"

Which also doesnt work as the doors were opened for them and they were given escorted tours of the place by the police.

Europe inches closer to insisting gig workers are treated as employees

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@Michael Wojcik

"Delivered monthly by the Payment Fairy on her unicorn, no doubt. What a pretty world you live in."

I am not sure how to respond to that. Do you not work? Do you not get paid? Or do you do things not worth paying so nobody pays you? Are you still in school and not learned about the outside yet? And payments aint always monthly, it depends on the type of work you do for who and the agreement you make.

Go on which bit confuses you?

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@AC

"Example of Fallacy of Relative Privation."

Care to explain? This was the analogy from Headley_Grange. The analogy basically being a starving person with pizza (a job) or nothing. To me leaving them with nothing makes their situation worse. It would be interesting to hear how making them worse off is better?

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Re: Vicious circle with high demand

@AC

"Is that an example of fickle clown economics?"

I know your playing the dumb troll act but some people really do have this serious misunderstanding. You do not improve someones situation by taking away their improvement to their situation. Are they better off with something or nothing? Forget wishful unicorn farts and fantasy but that there is the question.

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@ecofeco

"Jobs that don't pay the bills are not jobs, they are exploitation."

Yet people get paid what the job is worth (their production). So those people who cannot produce enough to pay all the bills (note that is not the only reason for people to work) are not worth anything?

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@Headley_Grange

"The demand side from the employees' point of view is pretty skewed; if you've no choice of job then delivering pizza to stay on the breadline might seem OK - just like If you're starving to death, pizza from the bin looks good."

Based on that analogy how would the person be better off if they were starving to death and there was no pizza? That would surely result in them starving to death instead? Just as banning people from jobs because of an insistence of banning their jobs?

You also mentioned a living wage, which isnt actually a real thing.

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@Headley_Grange

"but it wasn't very long ago when nobody had their fish and chips delivered from the chippy that's only 100 yards down the road. When people have to pay the full cost of personal delivery they'll get off their arses and walk to the shops and we'll all be better off for it."

Why is this a good thing? If people are for job creation then paying someone to do something for you tends to be how it is done. If someone has something better to do with their time and willing to part with the money then someone else gets some cash for doing that job.

England's village green hydrogen dream in tatters

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wow

"secretary of state for energy security and net zero"

The severe oxymoron of that title sounds like it should come from a sketch.

"Another Johnson era fantasy fails to survive its encounter with science, engineering and economics"

Net zero is a fantasy that fails to survive its encounter with science, engineering and economics. Doesnt matter which fool who fell for it is the reality still stands.

Post-Brexit tariffs on EU-UK electric vehicle imports staved off for three years

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@Androgynous Cupboard

"Free trade? Don’t tell me that as well as hating socialism you hate capitalism?"

How does that work? And I dont hate capitalism/socialism, as long as there is a free market they work in their own environments (socialist government being a problem but thats different).

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@Yet Another Anonymous coward

"Recession doesn't necessarily mean anything"

It is nice to hear that remain fears of a UK recession didnt mean anything when they panicked about the referendum. Back then it was the end of the world.

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Meh

This should make EV fans happy. And China is necessary for current EV's. Now lets consider what happens if you reduce tariffs on everything else.

Europe signs off on up to €1.2B in state aid for homegrown cloud project

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@AC

"55 Tufton street"

And the mask slips and it reveals my pet troll still following me around like a lost puppy.

"I'm done here."

If only

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@AC

"Who considered the securities to be safe?"

The SEC. The financial regulators of the US. Such extremely risky lending was packaged in a way that would be safe based on the history of the US (no housing bust over the whole country at the same time).

"What's wrong with that"

2008 crash.

"Did anyone ever tell you where most of the money swilling around our economy comes from?"

Feel free to tell me. If you say government (I expect) then you also accept the governments responsibility for pumping too much money. However since anything can be used as a means of exchange as long as both participants agree, 'currency' is a little different (I was amused to hear sea shells had been used).

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@AC

"Give them a few moment to go recheck the IEA comment piece they pulled that from"

Talking to yourself is a sign of madness

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@AC

"How was the 2008 financial crisis caused by governments?"

The global crash was caused by the sub prime mortgage lending in the US. It was a good attempt to make such loans safe by slicing them together and there was never a bust across the whole US until then. The securities were considered safe and verified safe by the regulators.

But quite simply the US government made a target of increasing mortgages to poor people (sub prime). To lend money to people who are far more risky than the market would support. The crash was a correction of an extremely large boom inflated by the US gov/central bank (the UK gov did the same, Browns famous 'no more boom and bust' line was a killer). The US lending to meet housing goals made the economy look really good but of course reality causes a correction and a lot of money was lost.

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@AC

"Are you asserting that the 2008 financial crisis was "caused by governments"?"

Fairly sure I am being clear here but just for you- yes. FYI posting as AC does make you look like you are trolling.

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@AC

"What does this mean?"

Caused by governments

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@Dan 55

"Funny how you stopped your quote there, as it immediately continues"

Assuming I read it right (I could be wrong) the follow continuation is to claim those events prove a lack of the so called invisible hand which he seems to mean as stability or equilibrium. Except 2008 and the debt crisis was government. Mexico manipulating its currency is self explanatory.

"So to resume the Mexican government wasn't up to the job of regulating the market and the market couldn't find its own equilibrium either."

And why was the currency worth so little? Markets find their natural balance, not the desired dreams and desires of the fat controllers.

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@Dan 55

From your source near the beginning!-

"The financial crisis that erupted in 2008 and the debt crises threatening Europe are just the latest evidence. Having lived in Mexico in the wake of its 1994 crisis and studied its politics, I just saw the absence of any invisible hand as a practical fact."

Using evidence of government interference causing serious harm as proof that markets dont work is amusing and stupidity. But I note that you didnt just go on a tangent but entirely avoided my response to your comment.

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@Dan 55

"Better for governments not to do anything and let the invisible hand of the market give you a good hard fisting?"

Actually yes. Considerably better. Or are you thinking a fisting by the ultimate monopoly and regulator would be better?

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@alain williams

"I believe that this might be called investment, I do not know if our government knows what that means."

I believe they would call it investment, but more likely it would be pissing money away. The gov should be reducing the difficulties of doing it here if that is what they want to promote, but throwing money at it is only actually an investment if it returns more than it costs. Investment in government terms seems more about borrowing and taking more to throw away

World's largest nuclear fusion reactor comes online in Japan

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@DJO

"Are you really that dumb or just pretending for the lols?"

I dunno about Jellied Eel but that was my first thought when I read your response. It seems to be very wrong.

"Wind is by far the cheapest power available in quantity"

What is this goalpost of quantity? Wind is expensive, and not included are the transmission costs and batteries (technology we dont have but need to make them work). Simply they were sold as free energy, then it changed to cheap energy, then it was 'save the world' because quite simply they are stupidly expensive for something that doesnt work.

"Intermittency does not matter, there is always wind blowing somewhere, especially offshore"

Nope. Intermittent really does matter. We need power when we need it, not when the conditions are favourable to generate it. In our current civilization (never mind the electric dream) we need power on demand. Also the 'always blowing somewhere' was shown wrong. However lets hypothetically pretend it is true and the wind is always blowing 'somewhere'. That requires our minimum demand of power (from wind) to be built in every place that counters the lack of wind somewhere else.

So an offshore wind farm must be replicated in that 'somewhere' else to make up for the potential lack of wind in one place. Except it might not blow in those two places so replicate the wind farm again, as many times necessary to meet the minimum required energy from wind.

Then we must also factor in the cost of the grid. If London needs the power but Scotland has the wind (or visa-versa) there must be sufficient connectivity ALL through the grid for EVERY replicated wind farm otherwise we pay power companies to not produce energy because there isnt an interconnector to pull the power to England.

"This fantasy you have of all windmills idly sitting there while everybody suffers power cuts is just that, a ridiculous fantasy"

You are assuming sufficient gas powered backup probably supported by coal and nuclear and maybe oil. Otherwise it would be a reality if we had to rely on wind for our stable energy supply. Thankfully we can rely somewhat on the French nukes.

"Once again - wind is not the only source but part of an integrated energy policy"

Except it doesnt work. Supply really is weather dependent which is not a stable energy policy. So wind requires gas backup with wet dreams of a future technology (doesnt exist yet) to store vast quantities of electricity economically and supply it when we actually need it and where we actually need it. Potentially days of energy due to the variability and unreliability of the wind blowing (and just right).

"Yes burning crop waste is not too much of an issue as it's not fossil CO₂ but reducing emitted CO₂ also has no downsides."

I assumed his banana example was stabbing the stupidity of burning wood (drax) for energy. I am not sure why you think reducing C2 emissions has no downsides as it has made us all poorer, less energy secure and relies on technologies that doesnt exist but being deployed now. It has no downsides like setting yourself on fire has no downsides.

"ever heard of the "precautionary principle"? If we cut CO₂ and it turns out you were right then no harm done. If we don't cut CO₂ and you are wrong then there is huge damage"

That would work if that was true, but it isnt. There is extensive harm in cutting CO2 which is why this is such a discussion. It is extremely harmful to cut CO2 and so should only be done if there is a damn good reason, and the so called evidence of a reason is very shaky and open to wide interpretation. If after devoting all these resources and self harm it turns out you were wrong, but we need to counter an actual threat, we would not be able to because the resources are squandered on green madness.

Compare that to MMCC co2 skeptics being wrong. First of all the idea that we are all gonna fry/drown/die is bull even in the so called 'science'. Adaptation is a real thing that we have technologies to do now, they are real and not a pipe dream. We would have the resources to actually react to a real problem assuming there is one.

"Steam replace wind and water so industry could be sited where people lived instead of where resources were available."

People suffered the hostility of the natural world and struggled to eek out a life. Human ingenuity moved power generation to where it was needed and deliver resources to where they are of use.

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@Jellied Eel

"But it's fascinating to learn more about real climate science, and frustrating at times to be called a 'denier' by the cult of CO2."

MMCC co2 theory and green madness are amusing in that you are a climate change denier if you believe in climate change but not wholly submit to the religious belief versions. Oddly you can deny natural climate change and blame humans for everything and they wont label you a climate change denier.

But they will be absolute in their opinion that they know the answers as long as they dont look at the facts. Sometimes this world seems upside down.

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@Elongated Muskrat

"Research is being done into better energy storage, which would largely mitigate the issue of peaks and troughs in production. Things like flow batteries and supercapacitors. These will undoubtedly become part of the electricity grid in time."

Unfortunately they are not looking too good. It would be great if they could be made to work but unfortunately the cost of storing such a limited amount of power is prohibitive in any real sense. They are an attempt to fix the very different generation model but for now they dont work. We are used to generating power on demand while wind/solar is about generating power when it is possible.

"As for the grid being close to collapsing, this is down to a prolonged lack of investment by successive governments."

Kind of but not entirely. Again we are used to generating energy where we want it, but wind/solar means generating it where we can and transmitting the power however far to where it is needed. That requires a huge change to the grid. Simply the vast sums of money that should have gone into producing power and maintaining our way of life has been blown on monuments to a sky god and still requires vast investment and technology that doesnt exist to make it work.

"Perhaps if we had a grown-up system of PR for our voting in this country (like they do in functioning democracies)"

Unfortunately as Germany has shown this doesnt work either. Once green madness takes hold it drives the country into the wall at high speed. They are losing manufacturing and suffering badly because they ran ahead with this dream and run smack into reality. They have a serious energy problem (as we are developing) which they need to address but struggle to because reality and the green dream are contrary and exclusive positions right now.

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@Pascal Monett

"With fusion we will finally do away with all the stupid greenie arguments against nuclear and be able to advance to a society where energy is no longer a problem."

Greenies are the problem. Being concerned about the environment is one thing but for those who rail against our civilisation they are mud hutters who will never be happy until we are back to peasant lifestyles while they dream of being the feudal lords

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@Doctor Syntax

"I'm not sure watches use tritium but maybe we'd all be obliged to have a couple of Trimphones per household."

Look up tritium watches. They are nice. I like these ones-

https://www.traser.com/en/traser-world/our-technology/

EU running in circles trying to get AI Act out the door

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Hmm

"While the EU wants to lead the world in law, other jurisdictions such as the UK and US are set to adopt a lighter touch to regulating AI."

Nice to see positives of brexit being mentioned on these pages.

Brit bendy chip firm Pragmatic scores funding to boost production

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@elsergiovolador

"We need elections like today."

And vote for who? The Judean peoples front or the peoples front of Judea?

"on one hand hammered by tax man on the other by lack of any support whatsoever."

Well said

Government and the latest tech don't mix, says UK civil servant of £11B ESN mess

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@Doctor Syntax

"I'd like a minister with sufficient background to ask "Does that even make sense or is it another Homegrown Unbeatable BRItish Solution?"."

Of course. But then I would like ministers having a background in being able to manage money, power supplies, border control or many things. I dont disagree with you, only to point out the futility of the central control even if they wernt so hopeless.

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@Disgusted Of Tunbridge Wells

Somehow you got downvotes for that. I guess the charade of difference will continue.

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@Doctor Syntax

"And where, we ask, are the ministers with the qualifications and capability to do that?"

Isnt the issue the ministers who try to? However many ministers we have they can not be qualified nor have understanding in everything people do and every subject. They are few and we are many, they have out of date information and we are doing our own things all the time. Central control restricts and slows down development

Google goes geothermal to power some bitbarns

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@elsergiovolador

"While Google's foray into geothermal energy is commendable for its renewable energy initiative, it raises several ecological concerns that seem glossed over in this "happy-clappy" narrative."

The happy clappy narrative glosses over ecological concerns. Energy generation comes with risks and tradeoffs, its the only way to do it.

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Hmm

Can anyone think why big companies are looking to build their own power generation instead of relying on the grids? They invest, we give money to the gov who would leave us in the dark.

Taxing times: UK missed out on £1.75B because of digitization delays

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@emswift

"only if you assume the economy won’t grow and your currency won’t inflate"

Our inflation issue is through too much money being printed and borrowed and spent by government. The supply of money being well beyond our growth which is why there is such inflation. The over spending being why we have such a historically high national debt and high borrowing figures.

So based on what I quoted I am right, The trick being to spend less than you take in

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"In October 2023, the government borrowed £14.9 billion, the second-highest borrowing figure for that month since records began in 1993. The national debt remains historically high, narrowly below GDP at £2.6 trillion."

The trick being to spend less than you take in

No more staff budget for UK civil service, but worry not – here's an incubator for AI

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@Roland6

"The government run the printing presses… Remember QE?"

Absolutely. That is taking from the private business/people by diluting the value of the currency they hold.

"What is perhaps surprising is that the state has (slightly) shrunk, given the massive increase required to take back control post 2016…"

The state was increasing while we were in the EU and yet it should have been taking work away from our state. Under labour Nick Robinson did a really good documentary about the damage of an over large state. And made me laugh when guessing job titles they had a guy who was (something like) a consultant to the consultant to a department of organising desk layouts.

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@abend0c4

"The biggest cost pressure to households in the UK results from the consistent failure of governments to ensure sufficient housing is built to meet the need in both the sale and rental markets."

I would agree that is a problem but it would take a lot of guts to make it easier and cut regulations on building and renting. Instead the pressure is the other way. Instead they come up with schemes to make it more expensive and difficult to build/rent.

"but a big contributor was George Osborne's obsession with cutting government expenditure and reducing taxes"

Except this was the 'austerity' which wasnt. Instead of cutting spending it was a reduction in the massive spending plans already made. He was still spending more than 2008. Spending is at an insane high which is why people start counting from 2010 when the UK had a huge blow out knocked out only by covid spending. How is that sustainable?

"(hint: reducing taxation and government expenditure does not promote private sector growth particularly in an economy like the UK which is over-reliant on retail and services)"

Do not see any evidence of that at all. The only correlation we seem to agree on is huge spending based on more debt. Private sector growth seems very much strangled by a growing and interfering state.

"There's no intrinsic reason why we can't afford high-quality public services if we fix these soon"

Fix what how? There is a lot of mismanagement to fix and it would mean facing down the cults making our lives more expensive and more difficult. The government has made public and private cost a hell of a lot more due to our energy situation which feeds into everything. To solve that means facing down the green madness.

"areas such as health, social care and education they will be always be more economical than private alternatives because they operate at scale"

Questionable. As per usual if our health model was so great others would copy it. Allowing academy's was the UK emulation of the nordic education model people like to praise. I was impressed by the healthcare I got in Europe. I paid insurance and the doctors actually wanted to see patients, spend time to understand the problem and then actually resolve the issue. And quickly.

"However, we have to stop being bamboozled by political gimmicks in the same way that politicians are apparently bamboozled by science. And, it would seem, economics."

That is a hard statement to disagree with. Have a pint ->

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@Lurko

"The state shrank as a % of GDP consistently between 2010 and 2019"

I assume you mean the public sector being 46% of GDP (2010) down to 39.5% (2019)? Putting that into context the gov can only spend what it takes from the private people/business and borrowing against the private people/business. So the current utopia come about from the current 45% of the economy and 2010 was a high point of public spending after labour spent everything and left huge bills and they ramped up to about 40% of the economy!

Also remember labours splurge was 'investment' which means a return on investment. So if the increased spending must remain so to keep the level of service it is NOT an investment, and is at best a liability. And that 'investment' came at the expense of more debt, selling gold, PFI contracts, etc.

"Nothing right or wrong about any of that, but if you want a smaller state then you want less public services."

Yes. We already have more government than we are willing to pay for and so borrowing is insane. If we maintain or grow our monster it will continue borrowing and the interest payments of course eat into spending on services we want. Our larger state hasnt really improved our situation either as it steals more to redistribute to subsidies that make us poorer. In fact it has been government policy making our lives more expensive that is part of the inflation issue and energy crisis.

And with all this money we have more diversity officers but failure to follow the existing disaster plan for covid. The horrid expense of conflicting ideas that people be alone at a funeral while they party, that we must lock down and seriously harm the economy but subsidise eating out. It is general governmental incapability that spends so much and yet makes a bad situation. Some of it because they are not very good, some of it because central management is severely limited by bad information well out of date.

"For many years the UK public spending has been a touch above the OECD average but well below comparator north western EU countries, and our tax take has been moderately below the OECD average, creating a deficit that's amongst the highest in the OECD, and net debt that's been inordinately high."

That is a fair assessment of the problem. The dream that someone else will/should pay and a demand for more spending. The small pockets of activists who in a good few cases should be arrested are instead listened to. Instead of providing for the country the government spends our money appeasing strange cults. The government making expensive solutions to very simple problems.

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Ha

"The announcement came alongside a requirement to draw up plans to reduce the state's size"

I will believe it when I see it. The state is ever growing, the idea of 'austerity' was spending like slightly less of a drunken sailor, cutting quangos involved more and tax and stupid wastes of money continue to rise.

Greenpeace calls out tech giants for carbon footprint fumble

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Ha

"Greenpeace has savaged global electronics companies, claiming they are simply not doing enough with efforts to reduce carbon dioxide emissions."

Is that a savaging? Yappy cultists making noise like a wet fart and someone is supposed to care? I guess it might matter in somebodies world but I shouldnt think anybody important.

"Greenpeace says in the report that in order to stay within the Paris Agreement target of 1.5°C, electronics suppliers need to hit 100 percent renewable energy across their supply chains by 2030."

Considering the technology doesnt work to achieve anything like that AND is severely uneconomical the cultists might as well whistle in the wind.

Japan Airlines fuels up on hydrogen hype with eye on cleaner skies

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@Snowy

"We could get energy from hype, it would solve the energy crisis overnight!"

Same goes for all of the green hype. And things just keep getting more expensive.

UK won't rush to regulate AI, says first-ever minister for digital brainboxes

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Hmm

I am actually impressed. The usual government problem is to be seen to be doing something no matter how much harm that something is. Actually restraining themselves from rushing in half baked is fairly impressive.