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Comment Re: Labour inherited this shite (Score 1) 270

You missed the bit where TFS says 2005. This started then when Labour were in power and raised taxes and spending even more so debt was increasing when the economy was at its peak during a long boom. Nothing that followed has helped, but you canâ(TM)t just blame the Tories.

Comment Re:Some Evidence. (Score 3, Informative) 107

Dude there are *four* surviving space shuttles. One in DC, one in NY (those are close together, fair enough -- the one in NY was only for atmo testing and while mostly capable of flying in space, but never received the refit to be able to do it) but the other two flown shuttles are at KSC in Florida and in Los Angeles. If your argument was that people have to travel too far, then we'd move the NY one to Nebraska or something to minimize distance traveled from any point in the country. That would also be a lot cheaper to stay at a hotel there than in Houston.

But, conveniently, Florida, New York, DC and California are some of the most visited places in the US. 64% of Americans have visited Florida (far more than any other state), 56% have visited New York, 54% DC, and 50% California. Texas just barely beats California at 51%, so you could probably improve accessibility a tiny tiny tiny bit by moving the LA one to Houston, but that would leave the entire western US with worse access (distance from LA to Houston is 1500 miles, vs distance from Houston to KSC is 1000 miles, and that's not even taking into account places like the Pacific Northwest.)

If you want to see a shuttle for less money, you have a couple of options. Go to Florida and drive to KSC, or stay at a cheap place somewhere along the Northeast Corridor or Metro North train lines and take a day trip into NYC -- you can stay late as the last Northeast Corridor trains run late into the evening and the Metro North trains leave as late as 1AM. (And you can take an uber to Penn/Grand Central to get the short distance to the train stations if you want to avoid the subway at night -- it's not as dangerous as the news makes it seem but you do see some tweakers on the subway, but the regional trains out of the city are clean and comfy)

Comment Re:mandatory for employment (Score 1) 63

If they want to stop illegal employment, they'd be better off investing in enforcement and prosecutions. When people start losing their homes or small business or going to prison, others will start thinking twice. 10% of global revenue for somebody like Uber Eats would get their attention too, and while they're at it, make the employer liable for their delivery people using illegal ebikes. Every employer I've worked for in the UK in recent years has done one or more passport checks. I assume they have some other reliable but less convenient alternatives for people who don't have a passport.

Comment People you know (Score 3, Insightful) 24

Will the fee also stop Facebook's AI slop, reels and other crap from people you don't know?

Never mind, it still won't bring me back. I take a look once in a while and it's 99% crap. Even people I'm interested in who do post don't show up in my feed, which totally defeats the purpose of the bloody thing.

FB is dead and it doesn't attract young people at all anymore. Insta will follow in due course.

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