BilboBargains

It's an unusual gift and would make most people incredibly awkward but there's nothing sinister in the act itself, absent of the context. People gift things like guns and alcohol and I would argue those do more harm.

Solid choice. Good current handling, already ubiquitous for many applications.

Name a more painful thing to tread on than the British plug. Bonus points if it's incorrectly wired to be live.

Hawt

The obfuscated nature of compiled code does an incredible amount of heavy lifting on behalf of shareholders. Imagine a world where x-ray specs suddenly revealed source code. The flight to open solutions would be irresistible. Windows is hot garbage but it clings to its market share like a limpet, through the magic of closed source, occupying space like a flabby tumour. It doesn't care if it kills the host because the top priority is growth and an unassailable market share. That's the magic of capitalism.

He told you dipshits beforehand that he was going to do this shit.

Yet another eerie parallel with a certain German political activist from the 1930s.

This is one of the best pieces of cycling propaganda I have ever seen, I love it. Personal car ownership in central London has become so diabolical even the English are putting down their car keys and picking up a bike. I cycled in London for the first 20 years of my life and watched it become completely dominated by cars. It's strange to hear them say the words, as if it's some sort of fever dream. People fundamentally enjoy and benefit from cycling in a way that they never will behind the wheel of a car. Makes me hopeful for the future.

Good to know! They should have been a little more creative and called it something familiar and snappy like Sport Utility Environment or Gas Guzzler.

In my criminal justice system we break the judge and the police's legs and give them 1k. We keep doing that until they take these crimes seriously. Then we break the legs of the town planners until they build sustainable transport solutions. Imagine how quickly people would learn the benefits. We would be living in paradise in no time.

That is at least encouraging news. I was in Oxford recently and there was a lot of cars and very little else. Oxford council wisely decided to drop the '15min city' moniker due to the campaign that was waged against it. Compared to Dutch cities, we remain very much locked in to car culture. They were doing 15min before the concept existed. It's rare to travel anywhere in Europe and find a more dominant car culture than the UK, more expensive trains or fewer sustainable travel options. Portugal is comparable, Slovakia not great. France, home of the biggest cycle race on earth, is having to do battle with the automotive lobby in Paris. Northern Europeans quietly but resolutely leading the way, as usual.

I'm thinking of the protests in Oxford. Milton Keynes has huge potential as a pedestrian and cyclist friendly city but it has never been fully utilised or inhabited.

Thankfully the pace of climate change has been slow so far because the ability of the English to change is comparable. On the other hand, if the trajectory of the temperature predictions are accurate, we may be in trouble and by we I mean my daughter's generation. I'm still giving it large it in my SUV, what, what.

Note that the large majority of “lost government receipts”, shown in yellow in the figure below, are due to fuel duty evaporating as drivers shift to electric vehicles. As the OBR notes, the government could choose to recoup these losses via other types of motoring taxes.

I don't understand how it's possible to achieve net zero carbon emissions with personal car ownership continuing at the present levels. Cars require a vast amount of energy to produce, before you put anything in the tank or battery. We don't have viable alternatives to our excellent road network and the English have rejected 15min cities.

Our housing stock is hopelessly inefficient and a huge energy sink. Anyone who frequents municipal waste facilities can get a sense of the vast amounts of waste that we create. While it should be fairly obvious to everyone that avoiding an ecological collapse is 'cheaper' (wtf does that even mean?) than blundering into one, it feels fairly inevitable that we will blow past 3C no problem. When people start dying like flies due to floods and famine is around the time we will see any meaningful change.