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@paulnash666 @afneil Agreed: thank you @afneil

@afneil Wow, it really is a can of worms around Starmer. Thanks Andrew for keeping us abreast of a complicated and fast moving story.

The other question Starmer dodged was Mandelson’s links with Sistema, part of Russia’s industrial/military complex. Mandelson served on the board at £200,000 a year from 2013 til at least 2017, which meant he stayed on long after Putin’s annexation of Crimea (2013). UK intelligence much more worried about this (and his China connections) than the unsavoury Epstein links. Its chairman was a Putin crony. British intelligence knew the board was riddled with Russian spies. For once, Starmer can’t say he didn’t know. Much of the info was in the public domain. The Sistema issue was included in the Cabinet Office due diligence report which went directly to Starmer on December 11 2024. Yet within a few days he’d gone ahead with Mandelson’s appointment. He has yet to explain why he appointed to our most security-sensitive embassy a man who’d recently been on a board full of Russian spies.

@hobbs510039 @RAF_Luton Silly Billy! This is Elon’s private Concord and those - well spotted! - are for catching his personal Space X vehicle in flight.

@RAF_Luton So far ahead of its time, actually build to catch baddy bombs. The clip below, once the pilot caught up to the semi nunclear bombs it would clip onto it with the device, underneath and slow it down and stop. It was called Bomb automated loading lock system, very cleaver stuff👍

Photo of the Day: The X15 was the world's first Advanced Rocket Stealth Enforcement airplane, built by the Boffins at LARPA the X15 first flew on the 31st Feb 1926 reaching an altitude of 80,085ft and a top speed of 7175mph (Mack 8.0085) Photographed from a Canberra

@RAF_Luton I beg to differ - I know, I know, but I really am not new here. This is the little known USAF Stealth Concord. Perhaps seeing it taxi with the nose cone ‘up’ fooled you? This was its main stealthy trick, that and the Homebase black paint. Who knew it absorbs radar?

@afneil HaHaHaHa! Brilliant, thank you Mr Neil 😊

To describe Maugham as a ‘fixated loon’ is classic British understatement.

BREAKING NEWS: “Starmer denies knowing he was Prime Minister” Sir Kier Starmer has revealed that no one told him until last Tuesday he won the 2024 election and had become PM. He told Beth Rigby “I was totally kept in the dark by my officials. I’m really angry about it.”

@Crystopher @gjullianfk @muellerberndt HaHaHa! Excellent! We disagree on some stuff, but I suspect we’d agree on most things. Great chat 🫡

@gjullianfk @Coolcmsc @muellerberndt Why? Our apple is correct

The community note misses the point. We do not aim to derive EVERYTHING from first principles. That's impossible. We start with the simulation geometry and setup, and that setup has "config settings". We even have designed a micro-architecture for the sim. github.com/FloatingPragma…

@Crystopher @muellerberndt Than you. I look forward to that. And I admire your enthusiasm! Until then, my reading of you publications is very much like watching any type of Apple apparently falling in my garden. Is it an Apple, a real one or is it something else that will just fly on through the Earth?

@Coolcmsc @muellerberndt It's deeper than maths-only! We already have results and applications rolling out soon from the discoveries (:

@Crystopher @muellerberndt Again, correct. But going back to the point of this thread, being confident as a result of a maths-only approach that doesn’t derive things we know is theorising within that truth. It’s true until it isn’t.

@Coolcmsc @muellerberndt But now we know the apple can be anything

@Crystopher @muellerberndt Well, exactly…. ….they always were. But Newton didn’t know that at the time - nobody did.

@Coolcmsc @muellerberndt These are way different apples

@Crystopher @muellerberndt Well, that’s OK then… Newton had it all covered whilst the apple was in flight!

@Coolcmsc @muellerberndt Then we will cross that road when we get there but right now everything points to OPH being correct.

@AsBrexit @afneil OK, that’s interesting, thank you, especially when taken with this year’s government response to Fingleton. My reading, as an anaesthetist who isn’t including Hinkley (2030?), is the first electrons will arrive in 2032->34. @afneil was addressing Miliband and 2030.

@Coolcmsc @afneil Read between the lines. A lot that is happening is confidential. There is significant movement though. Research the nuclear taskforce review.

There could be 8,000 jobs during the construction phase (3,000 local) tho I suspect that’s at the higher end for political purposes. And by definition they will not all be green. When up and running the group of three SMRs might need as few as 300 folks. Are you sure you’re in the nuke business?

@AsBrexit @afneil Well, that’s much more helpful. I appreciate your reply and will definitely research it. FYI - not that you should pay any attention to me, honestly you should not - I’m far more confident now that I’ll be finding good data to back your points. Thank you.

@AsBrexit @afneil Well, there’s no answer to that, I guess. Your reply is its own rhetorical fait accompli. Perhaps, like @afneil and myself, consider just sticking to offering an opinion without attempting to bolster it with a vague shy at something you understandably can’t set out clearly.

@Coolcmsc @afneil I literally have the insight but for very obvious reasons I'm not going to (aka cannot) plaster it all over social media.

@AsBrexit @afneil You keep saying that then…. Eventually, you’ll work out that ‘being in an industry’ confirs very little without insight. And I’m content you don’t understand what I’m on about - and remember, it’s not me that’s saying it’s my ‘area’. @afneil isn’t either.

@Coolcmsc @afneil You recently posted that you're an anaesthetist. No idea what you're on about really. I can only keep saying that I know that there is a lot of fast movement in Nuclear.

@WrightusArthur @AsBrexit @afneil Welcomed you say? By whom? I understand your point and to whom you think it relates to. But they don’t count when it comes to decisions to actually go ahead.

@Coolcmsc @AsBrexit @afneil SMRs would be welcomed on former nuclear sites, such as Sellafield, Wylfa, etc. Well-paid, safe, industrial jobs or herding sheep. Not a hard choice.

I’ll let you into a secret: big nuclear power stations are hugely capital intensive. Our newest — Hinkley Point C — won’t come on stream until 2031 — six years late on original launch date. So can’t count to green jobs before 2030 (MIliband benchmark). When it is fully running it will employ circa 900 permanent positions. It’s also the most expensive power station of any kind in the world: twice over its original £18bn budget (2015 prices) at current £35bn (2015 prices). Around £50bn in today’s prices. For 900 jobs. My, my these ‘green jobs’ are expensive. And that’s if you count nuclear power as green. Here’s another secret. AI data processing is also hugely capital intensive. As well as energy gobbling. Not all the energy they use will be green because they require reliable dispatchable power — and renewables are not that. Also, just because you work somewhere powered by renewables does not necessarily make your job ‘green’.

@AsBrexit @afneil You keep saying you work in that area. What about me? Do you think I work in that area? Take care with the implications of your reply… As to ‘struggling’, I’m happy to agree that I’m assuming you write your own posts.

@Coolcmsc @afneil In what way am I 'struggling'? I'm not Ed Milliband and I feel no pressure here. I do however work in the area (of Nuclear) and know that a lot is happening. Obviously can't comment on certain things.

@Mc77Jimmy @afneil Andrew isn’t an expensive body whose purpose is to provide such figures - by which I mean as stated on their website. Why do you expect him to serve that function when you accept they don’t? He’s a commentator who speaks about good and bad journalism and good and bad politics.

@afneil Sorry to point this out, Andrew, but you always seem to rubbish the idea of respected institutions making "inaccurate predictions" without offering any of your own. Everyone who knows about making forecasts knows assumptions are imperfect and will differ from reality. Do you?

Too much weight being given to IMF downgrade of UK growth this year, from 1.3% (previously) to 0.8%. First, it’s just a forecast — and IMF usually wrong. Second, the Left gave too much credence to IMF forecasts when they were bad for the Tories. The Right shouldn’t make the same mistake now Labour is in power. Third, the IMF’s previous 1.3% forecast was over-optimistic even without Trump’s War. Fourth, the new forecast puts UK firmly in the G7/European mainstream: 0.8% Germany, 0.9% France, 0.7% Japan — and above 0.5% Italy. Fifth, which makes it strange that the usual Europhiles are saying this downgrade only strengthens the case for rejoining/getting much closer to the EU. Economically we’re already in the EU average re growth. In or out of the EU, the major economies are close to stagnant — and have been for some time. If anything the latest IMF stats (for whatever they’re worth) suggest we should join Northern American (US 2.3%, Canada 2.5%)!

@afneil 😂 Excellent 👌🏼

@AsBrexit @afneil Now you’re really struggling. It doesn’t matter what you suspect, whatever part of the economy you are in. The figure does include development jobs and then they’ll be moved on to the next project - the ‘same’ 8000. Miliband is, in part, counting them each time.

@afneil I suspect that development jobs are included in the figures. The use of 'clean energy' is deliberately chosen for nuclear (because it is true that nuclear isn't completely 'green'.). Wylfa will not be the only development that's for certain.