This is an explicit call to jail political opponents.

Why do you think the person you're whinging about for a forum post is a Trump supporter?

I don't really understand the right wing's deep need to completely make shit up. If you are strong in your belief of your worldview, then surely reality should justify it.

No one wants to see you jailed for differences of political opinion. Do get over yourself and your persecution complex.

The generation we've nicknamed the Tide-Pod generation because they were eating tidepods as a TikTok challenge? Is that the Gen-Z you're talking about?

Yeah well my generation voted for Brexit in the UK and Trump in the US. Doesn't matter what generation you are, you're in a fuck off massive glass house.

Man, I need to lay off The Untouchables after midnight.

Also the mushrooms you were eating before the late night film session.

Unleashed dog runs into street and get hit: not the driver's fault.

Driver completely ignores that and fails to stop: very much the driver's fault.

So yeah Waymo weren't the only problem here but they definitely a problem.

Somehow it's always "both sides...so I voted for the fascist", never "both sides... so I voted for the objectively less bad of a pair of undesirable options".

In other words, people saying "both sides" know one side is worse: you don't have to justify voting for something you think is genuinely a better choice.

I wonder how the UK got into their mess? Could it have been giving the keys to dumbass Tories and folks like Boris Johnson for 15 years? They let a huckster like Farage dupe them into Brexit? You're one the ones pushing us there.

The rot started earlier. The architect of the mess was David Cameron and his minion George Osbourne started dismantling the state to enrich their buddies, and also as an act of sheer performative nastiness. This created the fertile ground for all those weeds to grow. He then couldn't bare to have less power and decided to gamble the future of he country in order to get it. He, and ultimately us all lost.

And when I say lost: don't forget that the court ruled that (a) the election irregularities in the referendum were bad enough that it would warrant a rerun except that (b) it was non binding and advisory and reruns only apply to binding referenda. Fundamentally, Brexit was a travesty of democracy too.

Their model seems to be people who don't use a car enough to warrant owning one, but want the convenience of having access to one and are willing to pay a premium for it.

Premium? As a (former I suppose) member, it was very much the not premium option, rather the cheap option. For occasional use, way cheaper than owning a car, way cheaper for odd jobs than hiring one too. Also hiring cars is an obnoxious pain in the arse on the whole.

... that it "falls victim to a cost of living crisis", then maybe something was severely wrong with the business model to begin with. Sharing cars should be substantially cheaper than "owning one's own" - if it is not, then why would anyone want to "share" it with strangers?

OK, not being an Angry Individualist American On The Internet(tm) I'm not pathologically allergic to "strangers". With that aside, it is a lot cheaper. The alternative to zipcar is generally speaking not using a car at all. The alternative is therefore largely speaking free. I have had good use out of a cargo bike hire, which is also much much cheaper.

Before you argue about the necessity of a car, just remember that fully one third of Americans do not have a license, and in the UK that number is one half. In the area of London, where I am, over 65% of households don't have regular access to a car.

Yeah probably. I'm on Firefox with ublock, no script and privacy badger. I never see obnoxious ads.

I don't really understand the nerd rage against Firefox. Sure they've made some missteps, and I don't really like where the management of Mozilla is heading these days, but literally every alternative is objectively worse.

Works fine for me... Try noscript?

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.