@WarSageAnalysis @echetus the only bit thats partially true is some jobs having a maximum commute requirement. not that common but is used for fatigue prevention in some safety critical jobs i've done
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Rich Gray
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@echetus I have to ask, is there even a tiny kernel of truth he's getting this from? Only thing I could imagine he's getting this is from is the tendency of some employers in some European cities, most notably Paris, to throw out applications from applicants from undesirable subburbs?
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Sorry babe. My boss says we we can’t see each other any more
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This company is now worth two billion dollars and launched with a midjourney image
Isaiah Taylor - making nuclear reactors@isaiah_p_taylor
Today I'm excited to unveil Valar Atomics! Valar is my master plan to make energy 10x cheaper in 10 years by pulling oil and gas out of thin air with nuclear fission. This will untether energy from climate and politics, fuel American industry, and unlock a new era of growth
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@yakobper90 Forget everything else, how did England actually lose the Euro 2020 final to Italy? Got to blame Southgate for that!
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@GlenSmith174927 @alexanderrX_ People somehow have decided apprenticeships are this unappreciated,superior thing when they're just as competitive nowadays lol
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@alexanderrX_ The problem is people going to university. Unless youre going to study sciences and work in the field-ie research etc there's no reason to go to university.Even lawyers dont need a law degree Quite possible to get a degree in any shytty subject and do a one yr conversion course
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love the uk system. £9,250 a year for uni. £50k debt before you even start. then once you earn enough to actually pay it back they hit you with 40% tax 2% ni 9% student loan. 51% marginal rate. but sure the problem is you bought a coffee this morning lol
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@kitchentowel @EngFocus Didn't know there was a Leeds in London 😅
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@EngFocus x.com/i/status/20342… bottom left.
Like Britain Remade, I supoort their aims, but they get quite a bit wrong.
LFG Leeds Chapter@LFG_Leeds
Can we build it? YES WE TRAM! luma.com/yeswetram
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1k people have so far liked an incredibly moronic post 🤦. It's absurd commentary like this and people's willingness to believe it that made Sunak believe cancelling #HS2 was a vote winner.
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Hundreds of reservoirs were built in Britain before 1992, for sure. But it was largely not Britain that built them. It was the municipal corporations and local governments who built them. If we wish to retvrn, we should remember that.
Ben Graham@BenGrahamUK
Britain built hundreds of reservoirs before 1992, over 200 in the 20th century. Now? Not one major new reservoir in over 30 years. Population up 13 million. Demand soaring. But Britain has become a country where nothing gets built anymore, strangled by red tape, judicial reviews, and short term politics. A developed nation that’s forgotten how to develop.
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@alexanderrX_ Much the same amongst other engineering disciplines.
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the uk senior swe market has split in two. ai company roles paying 120 to 150k and then everything else scraping along at 80k. who is accepting 80k for senior engineering work?(especially in London)
the difference between the US and the UK is simple. america treats software engineers as specialists. the uk treats them as IT support with a different title.
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@Object_Zero_ @emm0sh I've never seen a job advertised in our field at that range here...
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@emm0sh Honestly, I was making more than $300k as a MechE in the UK back in 2007 when I was still in my mid 20s.
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mechanical engineering:
*$75k/year after 10 YOE, jobs available only in rural towns. requires degree, 50% drop out rate due to difficulty*
software engineering:
*$300k/year after 2 YOE, can live literally anywhere. didn’t go to college*
em m0shouris@emm0sh
mechanical engineering: *vendor, peck typing while looking at keyboard* “Sorry, but the soonest we can do is six weeks.” software engineering: *vendor, reaching out to you for the third time* “We’re willing to discount again to 25% of cost and have you onboarded by Tuesday.”
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>Helps Sudan military against RSF in early days of wars,saving Burhan from the siege
>Helps HTS in the offensive against Assad regime in 2024 December
>Helps gulf states from Iranian drones
>Sent tons of food aid to Gazans
Yet third worldists still call him a zionist 😂😂😂
Kamepin UA🇺🇦@KamepinUa
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@cyclist13 @EngFocus There are test tracks here and in Europe that would be used.
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@EngFocus Radio 4 today said it was because the trains would need to be sent to China to test them as they where to fast to test on uk networks.
At a huge cost.
So a simple solution build them in China and test them in China, theyre already build their own trains
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I haven't been able to read #HS2 £1bn per mph claims, as they're behind pay walls. But the it just seems absurd. What are they even basing that on? Energy costs, infrastructure? 1/5
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@EmiSmithShowe 'leaders' is Sky-speak for when they can't analyse games, we lost this coz we couldn't penetrate the middle
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To all the Rice/Gabriel captain shouters: where has the leadership gone today? We've lost this entirely because we have no on the pitch leadership. We've always been best when Ødegaard has been captain for a reason
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@Mithrandir_AFC the portuguese (Fernandes also does this) seem to treat crying to the ref with their arms out as some sort of art
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Silva is genuinely the perfect heel. One of the dirtiest players on earth, never gets booked, always cries to the ref, always runs his mouth in interviews. Designed in a lab to annoy other human beings
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@peterrhague @BoredtownBoy that does leave you open to the "15 minutes off to Birmingham" dross people used to post.
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@BoredtownBoy It’s an advantage. The downplaying of speed is to me a symptom of a crisis of civilisational confidence. It being fast is a very good thing.
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I hate this. Treasury brain is going to nerf what is left of this project, and rail advocates won't defend it because the bizarre hairshirt thinking they have where they insist HS2 is not about speed.
Speed is a key property of trains. It saves you time. Time is what matters.
Jonathan Jones 🦆@nmrqip
“Whitehall analysis has found that at the highest speeds, every additional 1mph has added about £1 billion to the overall budget.” thetimes.com/business/compa…
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@Samuel_Gregson AI is magic and progress is a straight line where you put enough tokens into the Science Machine and get a new technology out of it
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Spend all day shitting on physics, lying about the physics and economic cases for new colliders, and pumping up cranks and clueless billionaires for populist, contrarian cash from a huge platform.
Be confused as to why your audience has a negative view of physics.
Pick both.
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@BenjaminOCall Needs leasehold reform to attract long term residents to centres. Also more varied and bigger flats...
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hot take: forcibly preventing sprawl is a good thing. build up, not across. cities like birmingham and manchester are 4,500 people / km compared to 50,000 in paris proper and even 10,000 in the paris urban area. densify, improve transit, don’t turn into america.
Amazing Maps@amazingmap
A map of England’s green belts showing the protected land surrounding cities where development is tightly restricted
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It's not complicated and it's got nothing to do with style of football, nobody wants to see big teams who haven't won anything in a while break their duck. It's standard fan stuff. Almost no champions or challengers are ever actually loved by the 'neutral' because there is no such thing as a 'neutral.' People don't mind City winning the league because it's very easy to compartmentalise and they don't have a big fanbase so people just don't encounter many City fans online and in day to day life. All this stuff about 'style' is utter nonsense.
Sky Sports Premier League@SkySportsPL
"There is something about Arsenal that maybe rubs people up the wrong way" @Carra23 on why rivals fans may not want Arsenal to win the Premier League 🏆
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