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Cake day: July 26th, 2023

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  • For most airlines the biggest cost is fuel, they reliably make the money back on the planes themselves because they run them for 30 years, so it’s a long-term investment but it will pay off.

    Over the 30 years this aircraft could theoretically be in operation fuel costs are going to skyrocket. So not only is it saving some money today, it’s saving a lot of money tomorrow. We may even get to the point where aviation fuel becomes literally unavailable, an electric aircraft like this is a pretty good insurance policy. But you do have to buy a whole new aircraft, and maybe you’ve still got 20 years on your current one, so you need to make that money back, and one of the best ways to ensure that you pay off that cost is to have more customers, and the best way to have more customers is to have cheap fairs. You can afford cheap affairs because you’ll feel costs a lower.



  • As with most populists the best thing you can do to destroy them is to not beat them in the polls, but to make them look stupid in the court of public opinion. And he certainly been made to look stupid.

    Also it’s not been reported on as much because police won’t give details but there’s also at least two police investigations into him, eventually they’ll catch up with him.

    One way or the other, he’s finished.


  • It does sort of suck that he won, but it also doesn’t really matter. It’s exactly as if he’d never done the political stunt to begin with. Literally nothing has changed, he’s just as much under investigation now as he was before the whole farce began.

    Also they lost the Manchester mayoral vote because he wasted campaigning resources on this pointless by-election.


  • Oh yeah that sounds likely, a plot to embarrass him, all you have to do to embarrass him is point the cameras at him. He’s constantly claiming he’s under attack and yet he can never point to any evidence.

    He’s claimed that somebody tried to fire bomb his house, yet there is no police record of it, he claimed that someone attacked his car to the point that it had to be written off, except again no police or insurance records. It’s almost like these things didn’t happen.



  • AI has been in development for a long time, I remember learning about neural networks when I was at school in the 90s, they weren’t very sophisticated by all accounts but the research was there. What’s happened lately is that scientists have been replaced by tech bros and all the research is now happening out in public, and it is on sale, rather than in the labs where it can be regulated by people who are not purely profit motivated.

    The internet didn’t vanish when the dot com bubble burst, all that happened was that businesses were more accurately assessed as to their market value. If anything, the internet was improved by the dot com bubble burst, does increase the number of actually practical ideas.

    I suspect AI will be better once the AI bubble bursts, and the research goes back into labs and starts being done by ethical scientists again.


  • I’ve never understood the appeal of the “smartified” appliances. My TV is more annoying than it used to be because it has smart features, it was actually more useful when it was dumb and simply played broadcast television or whatever was fed to it varian HDMI port, I don’t need smart light switches asI can turn my own lights on it’s not that difficult, I don’t need a smart fridge either, not unless it’s going to stock itself.

    I can’t think of a single piece of equipment that I use on a regular basis that would benefit from having internet connectivity added to it. I guess it would be nice if my wall clock updated when the hours changed due to daylight savings, but nothing other than that.