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Comment Re:Like His Fat Ass Can Fit In One (Score 1) 198

You guys have absolutely deranged yourself on trans stuff. You think it was important in your political success, but you will find out that it was absolutely unimportant to most people, who care much more about the economy. Lots of them believed that their economic woes could be blamed on the Democrats and that Trump would fix them. And now a substantial proportion is finding that the grass turns out to be shittier on the other side, and are moving away from Trump and the Republicans.

Comment Re:Like His Fat Ass Can Fit In One (Score 1) 198

No worries!

My MIL had Alzheimer’s, so I had to find out about it quickly. I happen to have a pal who is an incredibly senior dementia physician in the NHS, and he was helpfully blunt with me in managing expectations. She ended up dying of oral cancer, and probably the AD was helpful in that it took the edge of what was happening for her.

Comment Re:Huh? (Score 3) 198

I think you’re limited here in that your frame of reference is only what was offered on the US market. Lots of the rest of the world has always had access to fantastic smaller cars, and still does. In the UK, for example, just this last year we’ve had launches of the R5, the Inster, the eC3, the Epiq, with plenty more to come, like the Twingo.

Comment Re:Like His Fat Ass Can Fit In One (Score 0) 198

I’d argue that this has less to do with unsuccessful messaging from Biden and more to do with horrendously successful messaging from an unholy alliance of anti-vaxxers, MAGA types, right wing media, etc. Amoral people decided to sow doubt, and it’s a lot easier to break than it is to fix

Comment Re:Like His Fat Ass Can Fit In One (Score 4, Interesting) 198

There is absolutely *no* Alzheimer's medication that can halt a patient's progression in a clinically meaningful way. I love the idea of him clinging to false hope, though, as his mind erodes.

(The best drugs for Alzheimer's are capable of slowing the progression of a single symptom, memory loss, by six months. So if he started on them at 78, then by age 83, he'll have the memory he would otherwise have had at age 82.5. The effect is so small it can only be detected in population studies. There's lots of trials, but there's also lots of grandiose claims that never go anywhere)

Comment Re:My honda does that now (Score 1) 254

It’s crazy! Here in London, UK, there’s a massive jumble of cars, everything from a Citroen Ami (very rare) or Smart car (pretty common) through to superminis (ten-a-penny), saloons and a bunch of SUVs of varying sizes. But the largest we have is something like a Range Rover, and the smallest SUVs are things like my own car, a Mercedes EQA, which is only 4.4m long. Pickup trucks are super-rare.

Comment This ought to be an opportunity (Score 1) 58

It boggles my mind that no policy maker seems able to turn the AI demand for energy into an opportunity. Historically, where there's a surge in demand from wealthy industrial customers for a service, governments have been able to extract additional value. The obvious thing to do is to turn to the data centres owners and say "we are happy to give you grid connections, but we're going to charge you at twice the current market rate to fund infrastructure and lower bills for householders". It's such an obvious populist move, I don't understand why it's not being pursued, at least in the UK where we don't have the complete batshittery of US politics.

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