Proprietary service drops support for proprietary protocol..

Purely from a technology perspective, they're probably feasible in that physically if we really really wanted to build them, we could. From an everything else perspective, they're worse than pointless (it's used to try and discredit feasible projects).

China (and also the UK lolololololol) is installing 220mph rated conventional high speed rail tracks. Sure, not under an hour, but still under 2. That's still about an hour and a half (e.g. London to Dublin) gate to gate plane with all the faffing around, never mind the airport faff.

And yet somehow people make 300mile trips by plane and train all the time.

The issue is the noise, and you don't need a vacuum tube to solve it.

You'll need a lot of power to do that, but there's no theoretical reason why it's impossible. Not sure I'd want to design a tunnel in a compressible flow regime though!

The UK is one of the halfway countries that still uses miles and gallons for vehicles

Only for fuel consumption, but not fuel. Which his funny because we dispense fuel (and just about everything else) in liters, so MPG is an entertainingly irritating figure. We should use MPL obviously.

Pandering to Reform voters is pointless, they are not going to vote Labour unless they go full fascist.

Probably not even then. If you're going to vote for a racist, why not go for the real deal instead of a half arsed knockoff where you're not even sure if they're really committed or just doing it to try and impress.

Here it is every single year. Varies by State, of course. Some States it is 2 years, some have no inspections at all. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

In NM it's yearly: they ensure your tire treads aren't too deep and that you have one emergency spare in place of a regular wheel. They'll also put some chips in your windscreen if you ask nicely.

it augers the beginning of the end of total immunity for social media conglomerates.

You've drilled down to heart of the matter.

or a paper in Nature

That's not a paper in Nature, it's a paper in Scientific Reports, a much lower tier journal published by the same company.

Hells bells that is godawful though, and inexcusable from a publishing point of view.

SciRep is a very mixed bag. It's where you go when you've exhausted the higher impact factor journals. There are some really good papers in there, but also bad ones and with the vast deluge (even pre AI slop) of papers, getting good peer reviewers for mid to lower tier journals has been more or less impossible for years.

Yes it will keep being LLMs are LLMs week until the outside world moves on from hammering "LLMs are magic" week every week.

LLMs are of course LLMs.

and the ratio of cars to artics is a bit lower than that.

That is true, but it's also not uniform: some roads are 50% artics, and many others get almost none.

Your calculations are a bit off: it's the fourth power of axle weight not vehicle weight. Artics have many more axles so you've overestimated the relative damage. It's still a lot, hundreds of times more, but there are hundreds of times more cars. So car damage matters.

You're ascribing an awful lot of thought and direction to a party which has shown very few signs of either of those.

Seriously your claiming Starmer believes all that shit? Prove it for the love of god please because no one else had figured out what that guy actually believes in.

Only when little are against right wing policies.

When people are attacking from the right, e.g. immigrant haters and farmers opposed to tax, the government is very very light touch.

Farage is busy inciting race riots where convicted domestic abusers attack the police and they're are hardly any arrests. But against hold up the wrong cardboard sign...

They've kind of got to get around to building them first...

Which is measured how and actually means what in real world terms?

I already told you how it was measured.

And now you're moving the goalposts. You said Mackay's numbers were old and wildly off. Mackay's numbers match modern wind farms.

He may well have had reasonable numbers for some things, but he fudged numbers for a lot of other things

Aaaaaaahahahahah pull the other one, mate, it's got bells on.

You picked two things he "fudged the numbers" on. Both of them were fine. So now it's other, nonspecific numbers that are fudged. Cool.