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@rantylars

Engineering, Infrastructure and Aviation geek. Infrastructure engineer. Will rant about almost anything.

Katılım Ağustos 2013
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Lars@rantylars·
Getting off socials for a while. I think the right-wing algorithm is breaking me and partner mentally and we're getting at each other's throats just because we're close together when it happens.
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Lars@rantylars·
@MikePea73444529 Bevan and Attlee and maybe even Wilson are rolling in their grave so often they've augured a new Channel Tunnel.
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Mike@MikePea73444529·
@rantylars I'm not having a go Lars. Many of us could see the steady drift to the right and were warning on here about Labour. I quit the party in September 2022 knowing this. Disgraceful you were given personal assurances. You are right Labour used to help the vulnerable. No longer.
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Mike@MikePea73444529·
Labour voters. Hang your heads in shame. Don't tell me the adults are back in the room. They are appalling and heartless.
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Lars@rantylars·
@PerfectPigott @MikePea73444529 You can't just listen to every opinion you get, especially from people who have skin in the game. Which cuts down the number of sources you can actually rely on.
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🐽 ³⁹@PerfectPigott·
@rantylars @MikePea73444529 no way of knowing… except everyone on the left telling you this would happen for the six months leading up to the election
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Lars@rantylars·
@MikePea73444529 I recieved personal assurances on disabled rights before the election. I chose to believe in something else there is nothing else left - I was mistaken. And foreign and domestic policy can't really be compared - traditionally Labour is the party of helping the weak+vulnerable.
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Mike@MikePea73444529·
@rantylars I don't agree. Reeves was talking about financial restraint/austerity pre election. Starmer had dropped virtually all of his pledges. He was happy to keep the anti democratic Public Order Act in place. He fully backed Israel. We were repeatedly warming what he was about.
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Lars@rantylars·
@David__Osland Can you tell me how much sewage in m3/day went through primary and even secondary treatment before privatisation, vs say 10-20-30-40 years afterwards? Do you have any data at all?
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David__Osland@David__Osland·
The Victorians put an end to the dumping of raw sewage in the Thames. A century later, Thatcher's privatisation brought it back.
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Lars@rantylars·
@sib313 @David__Osland This whole claim is based off the notion that the EDM data - which only became valid this year when ~99% installation was reached - is gospel. Ie, spills have gone up by infinity% and before privatisation they were zero. It's bananas. The whole thing based on spin and lies.
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Lars@rantylars·
@David__Osland Imagine posting this the year the Thames Tideway interceptor is coming online. There are many cogent points to be made about the failure of Thames Water - this isn't one of them.
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Lars@rantylars·
@echetus She's a weathercock who has no actual loyalty to any policies. A young Lib Dem, a DEI advocate Prime Minister and now a Trumpian. Perhaps she's onto something - sucking up to whoever seems to have the best chance of ruling the narrative at the time.
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Stakeholder Consultant@echetus·
Liz Truss is a literal diversity hire (via David Cameron’s A-List) who appointed “the most diverse cabinet in history” that bragged about having no white men in the top roles.
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Liz Truss@trussliz

Britain has more DEI employees per head than anywhere else in the world, the highest tax burden since 1948 and record migration. We need a Trump revolution. After all, who doesn’t want to see Great Britain made great again? @Con_Tomlinson 👇 courage.media/2025/01/24/tru…

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Lars@rantylars·
@OxonJames They won't meet with disabled people or charities either while cutting benefits. There's a running theme here - they don't actually represent us.
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James Clark@OxonJames·
Twice in TV interviews this morning the Chancellor Rachel Reeves has been asked why she was happy to meet billionaires in Davos to listen to (and then act on) their concerns about the Budget, but has consistently refused to meet Britain’s farmers. It’s an excellent question …
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Lars@rantylars·
@RexKram55112378 A few weeks ago Trainline told me I had 10 minutes to make my connection even though my first train was 30 minutes late. Turned out the connection left as planned, quite a while ago. Was the last train of the night. Eck.
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Officer Wibble@RexKram55112378·
‘Is this the Bristol train?’ ‘No, the Bristol train left a minute ago’ ‘This is platform four right?’ ‘Yes it is, the Bristol train was on platform three’ ‘But my [Trainline] app says it goes from platform four’. *sighs all round*
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David__Osland
David__Osland@David__Osland·
'Crackdowns on benefit cheats' were announced by Peter Lilley in 1992. And Tony Blair in 1997. And James Purnell in 2009. And Iain Duncan Smith in 2013. And Jeremy Hunt in 2023. And Rachel Reeves in 2024. The soundbite never gets old.
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Lars@rantylars·
@aniemyer @OnDisasters I also remember reading about the pioneers of mail flights in DC-3s all over the US and Canada, and the horrendous conditions they encountered flying through storms with massive up and down drafts, before we really understood met and 'don't fly there' or had weather radars!
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aniemyer@aniemyer·
@rantylars @OnDisasters We’ve all been there, of course. And over here, as in mountainous areas elsewhere, you can get caught in mountain waves when downwind from significant ranges that get your attention very fast.
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Francisco Cunha@OnDisasters·
#Breaking #Ongoing Today (Jan 24th) a United Airlines B-787 was involved in an incident over Daloa (Ivory Coast). Preliminary info points jet was en route at FL360 when it suddenly dropped around 200 ft before gaining it again, injuring various passengers. Jet landed safely after occurrence. Aircraft was operating Flight UA613, from Nigeria to US. Sources @AviationSafety and @aviationbrk
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Lars@rantylars·
@renewablesmiffy @leepfwd @colinwalker79 I hate to quote Rees-Mogg but he did make one good point. Ask an economist a question and you get the answer you want. So someone probably asked them to make the project look cheap. Was it CGN, EDF or UK govt? Who knows.
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Lars@rantylars·
@renewablesmiffy @leepfwd @colinwalker79 Quite right. How HPC ended up costing as much as it did is either a shocking indictment of the engineers and project managers, or of the people who produced the cost estimate. Someone was kidding themselves.
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Colin Walker@colinwalker79·
Since the blackouts they repeatedly predict will happen as we move to renewables NEVER happen… …net zero skeptics are reduced to trying to blame the weekend’s blackouts - that had everything to do with a massive storm and nothing to do with renewables - on renewables
Craig Mackinlay@cmackinlay

Erratic #wind across #UK & #Europe from #Dunkelflaute nil to #StormÉowyn chaos should be an education that #Renewables are a poor substitute for reliable energy. A million people across UK were out of power yesterday: you’d conclude that stepping up reliance on #electricity through more #EVs & #Heatpumps might not be sensible & indeed dangerous in winter. The #NetZero evangelists @energygovuk @Ed_Miliband believe huge banks of (Chinese dominated supply chain) batteries to smooth supply to be the answer:- 1. I thought the idea was not to rely on foreign states, friendly or otherwise for #EnergySecurity 2. Cost is astronomic. An economic study for #California puts battery cost at $16 trillion, that’s 5x size of UK economy (UK and California energy demand is not dissimilar). They have to be replaced every 10-15 yrs. Article below highlights fire risk. Lithium-ion battery fires create huge toxicity requiring local evacuation. They have to be left to burn out; usual fire suppression is not effective. The mining of minerals, transport, manufacture & final disposal has a horrific #carbonfootprint. Add to that new grid connections, new #Aluminium #Steel #Copper #cement for pylons & the folly worsens. #Greenwash upon greenwash, higher costs, less reliability & higher risks while not saving a molecule of #CO2

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Dr Jay Watts@Shrink_at_Large·
I can’t stop thinking about the contempt in Liz Kendall’s gaze when she said there would be no such thing as ‘a life on benefits.’ Facial expressions like that wound deeper than words. They radiate shame, internalised by those already struggling. This is how systems dehumanise.
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