The funny thing is for a moment my brain switched France and Morocco (or Britain and Spain) because in my mind, only with that kind of proximity would such a project ever have made sense.

When I read your post, I had a short reboot and my mind went "How crazy do you have to be to even consider this?"

Frankly, I think the most important thing we all want first and foremost is a grid that does not suck. And since that is a much tougher proposition than the question of where we get our power from to begin with... I think everyone and their donkey having solar with battery buffer is the way to go.

Even if we plop down ten nukes tomorrow and generate ten times the solar too, the lines are still crap and the renewables will still have the potential to bugger the grid.

Usually the UK likes having its balls rudely and roughly handled by people from foreign lands. I would have thought that such a project would be right up their fetish.

And just as an FYI, I will carry any "Flamebait" or "Troll" on this one like a crown. :D

You mean like I get to contest border fees since I didn't ask for them to inspect my packes?

So reducing the cost to post a job to near zero, and reduce the cost to scrape that job from a company's web site is near zero, and reduce the cost to have LinkeIn scrape your profile and auto-apply for the job is near zero,....

The downside for companies is that they have to keep each and every job application, application related email, resume, etc. for anyone who sends one in. That is for federal labor law for 50+ person employers.

It's a no win situation for employers when every job listed has 1000s of applicants, many have no match to the job requirements and are spamming resumes.

So reducing the cost all around results in just more idle chatter both ways.

Microsoft is intent on scooping out parts of the OS and kernel related features outside of the kernel so that they can retire the Win32 API into a system call translation layer. The underlying OS would be linux.and frees Microsoft ot maintaining 50 million lines of legacy C code.

Sometime, if we are lucky, we will get a small programming language that does not collect new features every year just for the sake of progress, where that language comes with a very broad set of built in and supported by the vendor libraries.

Avoiding the pyramid of 500 third-party packages for a mid-sized application is a good thing.

Buy one less package per month, get one less box shipped from Amazon per month, keep your cell phone one extra month, buy one less bag of junk food per month, .....

And buy one less fast-fashion synthetic material clothing item per month to help kick the "shopping is entertainment and recreation" habit

https://www.nature.com/article...

Kounina, A., Daystar, J., Chalumeau, S. et al. The global apparel industry is a significant yet overlooked source of plastic leakage. Nat Commun 15, 5022 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467...

his study is a comprehensive assessment of the global apparel industry’s contribution to plastic pollution. It includes plastic leakage of packaging and end-of-life apparel waste in addition to fiber emissions during apparel production and use. We estimate that the apparel industry generated 8.3 [4.8–12.3] million tons (Mt) of plastic pollution in 2019, corresponding to 14% [5.5%–30%] of the estimated 60 Mt from all sectors.

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https://www.uniformmarket.com/...
Environmental Impact of Fast Fashion Statistics (2025) - Published in:Statistics May 28th, 2025

  "Nowadays, clothing is worn only 7 to 10 times before being thrown away — a decline of more than 35% in just 15 years."
"About 41% of young women feel pressured not to wear the same outfit twice when they go out."

High risk parts of businesses such as a manufacturer who also transports their own product will

1. Have a parent company
2. Form an offshore company for the risky part of the business, such as the trucking part of the business
3. The risky part of the business leases all its equipment from another company

If the risky part gets into legal trouble, they essentially have no assets to go after since they have minimal working capital and own nothing.

A legal action against the parent company or another part of the business could not get anything since the risky part of the business is a different company completely.

It is like how an illegal gambling business will lease office space from some other company, and that other company leases the office space from a different company. If the gambling business is shut down, the building cannot be confiscated.since the owner leases it to what they think is a legitimate business.

They turned me into a newt.

....I got better....

I also know that I would personally prefer someone in government making the call in regards to whether I get treatment or not rather than a for profit company which has every reason to refuse me coverage.

I've never run into my insurance refusing my care/tests/procedures my Dr's have said I needed....

I'd definitely NOT want the govt deciding what I can and cannot have done.....I mean, I don't want the same type entities that run the local SS office or DMV, or anything having a deciding hand in my medical needs....

So is that a non-urgent treatment, or urgent? Because there's different wait lists for different categories, just like in the USA. Also if a GP in most countries says you need a scan then you get one, in the USA a HMO might just say that you don't get a scan. While charging everyone for the HMO's time

I've never had my insurance say I could not get an exam or test my Dr said I needed....

We are near a tidal wave of job market entrants who are functionally illiterate and occupationally illiterate (if you can call it that).

15 years from now, everyone 40 and under will have gone to high school or college using GPT. GDP will be under downward pressure.

Simply stated:

- Women can charm their way into the situations they want.
- Women can charm their way out of the situations they do not want.

Equal treatment is nowhere to be found and that's the problem.

Consider that truck loading robots are in use and have a 2 year payback period versus paying men to load trucks. That's about 1 million men jobs to be lost in the next few years due to automation.

https://www.wsj.com/business/l...

Wall Street Journal - June 23, 2025

The Holy Grail of Automation: Now a Robot Can Unload a Truck
Technology breakthroughs are allowing DHL and other companies to automate the laborious, injury-prone work of loading and unloading

> And the 80 percent of men they summarily reject have started to lose interest

So you are 30 as a man, and, lets be generous assuming you had 20 dates a year for 10 years without finding a wife material woman.

You hit 30, having paid for nearly all of 200 dates over the last 10 years at (let's lowball) $50 per date; or $10,000. After $10,000 spent with repeated failure to find a wife material woman and having to put up with increasing level of drama and hoops to jump through just to get a first date, many men will opt-out and be even more selective of possible dates or stop dating altogether.

Hundreds of failures, and the bad culture of putting each and every "need to improve" burden on the man lead men to opt out of dating.

The "single == loser" shaming won't work at that point.