The article suggests that they have not decided whether to support new models of Pixel but will support current models until EOL

I don’t think its arrogance just a reflection of the current level of understanding earth systems. We have grown in capacity and reach to be affecting the fundamental systems of life. Those systems have been self-healing but we are causing unprecedented significant and wide reaching change and there’s a non-zero chance we will hit positive feedback loops that completely disrupt the mechanisms of life on this planet.

Its a very minor point of disagreement but its just to acknowledge the scale of impact we are making. We’ve been fooled by how good earth is maintaining life that its less fragile and precious than it is

This is a common reply I see. I’d argue our impact on the very systems of life is now large enough that there’s far from a non-zero risk that we do in fact take the systems that sustain life on the planet with us.

So the planet as rock in space is indeed likely to outlive us but the planet as a host of life is less clear cut.

There has never been a species before that has pulled so heavily on the web of life and that’s why its even more important to fight with every last breath to try and fight to protect the only source of life we are aware of in the universe.

Estimating and including carbon footprint of recipes would be great though challenging

I am for free public transport from taxation there are some important caveats that would need to be worked out though:

• We currently have low capacity relative to latent deamnd capacity (mostly at peak times) and at the moment that is managed through fares. We would need a system that manages demand in another way.

• Our transport system is in large need of upfront investment to stop the current managed decline so you’d want a way of making sure that making it free doesn’t mean the government is now more limited

Its also worth noting that its unlikely to be a direct swap in of current revenues with additionally required taxes as there are projects that are very costly that could be redirected and any successful mode shift away from cars would also carry a net positive economic effect on the whole treasury.

Potentially in the short term what could help is a ‘sunk-cost’ ticket similar to the bahnpass where you still pay but do so yearly and get access to any trip anywhere. It makes it more competitive with cars which have massive sunk cost effects which make every trip seem cheaper.

Its really stood the test of time and deserves appreciation.

A prequel that manages to be interesting without severely overstepping or ruining canon. Walking the delicate line between character driven and plot.

I mean in universe it’s one of the oldest.

It will keep happening until we recognise that public transport is public good that pays for itself by existing and not something that should self fund.

London is incredibly unusual in international cities where central funding is not the dominant source of funds.

My comment was tongue in cheek. Solar and AC are a good combo.

I’d argue there’s still a energy+climate reckoning coming where energy won’t be as abundant as it has been and high energy use activities (like AC) will be more challenging. the EROEI (Energy Return on Energy Invested) of renewables/low-carbon are much lower than peak fossil fuels.

Incidentally I’m the same as you I’m so socialised on sleeping under something I do it regardless of temperature

cries in climate crisis

Take the point about causality direction but it is about the broader impact of the fact that the policy of the last decades towards the railway has been somewhere between managed decline and life support. An industrial strategy that recognised rail for its primary role in decarbonisation and the future of transport (rather than false horizons and gadgets) would have reduced the cost of maintainance and storage as well as eased the capacity issues that make it logistically and economically hard for its use (which I believe has also been an issue).

Can’t comment on support for monarchy and ERII death. I imagine that most people fail to see it as an issue that materially affects them with the governance issues being largely hidden from view.

To be replaced by helicopters. I despair

I was thinking more booting to a few from a usb and playing around.

I think the usual consensus is Linux Mint (and its a solid distro) but I think the best advice is not to be afraid of trying different ones and finding out what works best for you.

This one comes to mind https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/new-city-centre-cycle-scheme-24598715

Been a while since I looked but my understanding is that 1.5m max widths excludes best practice to allow cargo bikes and accessible bikes movement.

I’m not saying we shouldn’t consider this in urban design but I’ve seen a number of cycling schemes be ruined because of the advice that no gap greater than 1.5m can be left to prevent this sort of attack.

I can’t help but feel we shouldn’t be accept living in a fortress in order to avoid universal access to machines that can cause such damage.

I agree and its strange its not been mentioned at all. It seems odd to me given how much capacity there is unused in the tunnel itself that the warehousing wasn’t built to an equivalent spec. Its possible it was planned for depots to be on the onward HS routes that never happened (i.e. HS2 via the HS1-HS2 link).

It would be a small amount of money when compared to road building budgets but car brain dominates DfT (and Treasury) thinking.

Eurostar suddenly decides it does plan to expand after ruling outlining if they don’t they will have to provide space in the depot for a rival.

They say in the 2030s - that could 14 years away compared with the rival consortium who said by 2029

Personally, I’m planning additional physical storage of photos off site. Not yet configured but planning for a subset of photos deemed too important to lose to be automatically printed and stored on physical media (DVDs).

In general I’m hoping it to promote a more careful approach to what media really is important to keep.

Oh then I was being dense. I actually use kg because I’m of a generation that was only taught that and have no internal conception of stones :(