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Here's some other ideas that'll turbocharge this green transition:

• Get the Shetland to Scotland interconnect upgraded so they don't have to keep switching off the turbines because they're generating more power than Shetland consumes and can be transmitted back to the mainland.

• Artificial energy islands off the north coast of Scotland to connect large amounts of wind turbines.

• Approve and accelerate Viking Link to build out the future energy market with Norway.

• Co-design and co-finance huge shared north sea wind farms with Norway.

• Significantly increase taxes on capital gains with an exemption for green power investments. Stand back and watch how quickly private capital can move to fund large projects when properly incentivised.

• Work with the City (of London) to create funds for people to invest via LISAs, Investment ISAs, and Pensions that fuel a new UK citizen owned green energy company. Stand back and watch as a new generation get wealthy the same way previous ones did when British Gas was privateised. Socilise the risk, socilise the profits.

Fascinating article but that optical illusion study needs to be expanded with a larger sample size and include notes on the preferred orientation.

Political point scoring with drivers.

Bet you the next announcement they make will be something to try and please drivers by saying "we diverted this money from being wasted on HS2 to this road infrastructure".

Well yeah as it should be when applied carefully: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

I'm from the UK and from the North. Don't try and understand the stupidity of these people from these areas as economically developed as the worst parts of former soviet states now in the EU. These areas received a lot of EU development funding and still voted for Brexit AND the Tories (in 2019) that imposed austerity that made their post 2008 lives worse.

They are thick as mince and deserve the ridicule as much as the lying brexit politicians deserve jail time.

The only hope to not repeating the mistakes is the best quality education for as many people as possible. This hopefully enough of the smart ones from these areas are politically aware and active enough to offset the manipulation of the morons.

Intergalactic Tiramisu.

The implication is that if you want to find shady shit, you go looking for it with those who give off an air that they have something shady.

Usually, someone who's done or said things that have stirred up controversy or general media attention in the past.

The ones that go unnoticed are the people journalists have to spend a paragraph explaining who this person is and why they're a big deal.

Much easier to get a scandal published if the public already recognise them and think "yeah, I thought there was something off about that person".

Edit: typo.

Nope.

But journalists go looking for evidence for the most likely ones, then the stories come out.

I like it when people who do this shit are held accountable. Shame that the ones that get held accountable aren't more often shady business people and politicians.

Not yet but be honest, you wouldn't be surprised if he had.

And that's how these scandles work.

cough overhead lines cough

This week i managed to get 3/4 through tidying up my room and finding a place for things to live so it stays tidy.

I'm about to go to a casual football kick around and then after lunch I'll finish the tidying.

It's the only viable medical career path at the moment: graduate with your degree, do upto 2 years in the NHS then go into the private sector (private or NHS contracts) or abroad.