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Does Trump even drive? I
Does Trump even drive? I suspect he doesn’t have the hand-eye coordination to do anything more complex than eating a burger and there was that awkward moment where he needed two hands to drink from a glass.
Which is the tail and which is the dog? (If only it was a dog with two tails…)Seems more like a dog chasing its own tail
Hirsute wrote:
Article on PCPs and their dangers. I was told I was being extreme when I mentioned this before.
The financialisation of car consumption
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13563467.2023.2254727
“Car manufacturers have promoted PCPs to solve long-running problems in their business model related to the need to maintain a certain level of ongoing new car consumption to conform with path-dependent patterns of production. In doing so, they have partly exported their own financial risk onto consumers, leveraging what is widely construed as consumers’ material dependency on their vehicles for transport to do so.”
Thanks – I found the Abstract interesting and I’ll have a read through it later.
On a less ranty note, I do love one of the comments below the piece: “” It became apparent he was under the influence of alcohol. Officers could smell alcohol on his breath and he had been using his indicators“…. School boy error that for any BMW driver. I am surprised he knew where they were…. it took me years to find them on my car!Well I never – I always thought they were merely decorative on BMWs and Audis
…and not just the oceans,
…and not just the oceans, but our rivers too
Also, linked to in that article is some analysis of how tyre pollution dwarfs exhaust pollution
The majority of drivers do
The majority of drivers do want to be safe and considerate, but too many of them don’t realise the problems with not leaving enough space around vulnerable traffic.
Thanks for adding those links. That’s some scary evidence that we’re indiscriminately poisoning the oceans.
Obviously bike tyres aren’t subject to the same kinds of forces, but I’m now starting to think whether we’ve got some of the same chemicals used in bicycle tyres and whether there’s “cleaner” manufacturers that we can purchase from to at least vote with our money. From the first link, Continental has experimented with some dandelion based tyres, but I don’t know if they for sale.
Fixthebloodysite AKA
Is it expertise or £££ needed?Usually both. You can just throw modern hardware at an issue and not need so much expertise, or you can hire an expert to identify the actual bottleneck, but that also costs £££
I think it’s time to call in
I think it’s time to call in some experts to sort out the issue. I’m assuming that it’s the backend that’s struggling and judging by the size of the site, it’d be cheap enough to run an in-memory database to handle it all.
Sorry, this is a CCIB matter. And I have reported you this time to Police Scotland.My legal counsel insisted that it was “wedged” or “stuck” and not crashed.
My legal counsel also insisted that Police Scotland can go huff a bag of squirrel scat.
It doesn’t take a NASA robot
It doesn’t take a NASA robot engineer to figure it out, does it?
The cost is pretty much
The cost is pretty much irrelevant compared to the estimated savings. Paying £33m once for saving £92m every year is beyond a good deal.
I can understand complaints about how it’s being done and obviously motorists generally aren’t going to like being made to slow down, but the cost if the exercise is hardly worth discussing if it brings about that level of saving.
There’s plenty of other places with 20mph limits and so far, they seem to work really well without evidence of the down-sides that opponents predicted. I hope it ends up working out well for Wales.
60kg lean keen climbing
It has cost £33 millon pounds! Spend that on NHS cancer screening, childrens early years stuff, the list goes on. Now how many lives will you save?? Wales is small in pop, so that is a big amount of money. They should have spent less and rolled out – expanded 20MPH zones as they have been doing so historicaly.It looks like the return on the £33 million is pretty good though (https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/sep/15/wales-is-bringing-in-a-20mph-speed-limit-why-and-what-will-happen):
Opponents say the scheme will cost the Welsh economy £4.5bn. Is that true?The figure comes from a Welsh government report, which makes it awkward for Labour. The cost is for a 30-year period and the government now says it may not be accurate as it takes into account the impact of every single journey – even if it is just a trip to, say, the local park. It prefers to highlight the cost of introducing 20mph – £32m. It says the policy could save the NHS £92m every year so the initial outlay will swiftly be covered.
Financially, that makes it look like a no-brainer.
60kg lean keen climbing
Wow, 2.9mph drop in average speed, I hope it was worth it? As now Wesh labour has handed the keys to the Senedd to whoever can make political headway on this “wedge issue”, it’s a gift to both Plaid, the Conservatives and the Lib Dems. This is a vanity project that will morph into a poison chalice, and it isn’t just Welsh Labour who will pay the price for this, but all who live in Wales. Partially if the party led by RT Davies gain the most traction on this issue.2.9mph drop seems quite effective to me. As I live in England, I don’t have a strong opinion on this change, though anything that reins in out-of-control drivers generally gets a thumbs up from me. The crucial point though, apart from the so-called political wedging is how many lives will it save? Let’s not forget one of the main reasons that this has been seen as necessary.
