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What's the cost to the economy of not having cars and vans?

Honestly interested to know

£3.60 or there about.

Ask him to have a word with their office in Bath.

They are in charge of a flood gate on the river Avon that acts like a sieve collecting all of the man made rubbish that is floating down but instead of removing it, they open the gate when needed and unleash a tidal wave of crap that floats further down the river towards the Severn estuary.

What a fuckery

He's going to do a shit job, because this government is shit and have removed any teeth the EA might have once had. OFWAT is equally toothless. The water companies know they can constantly dump sewage into the rivers because it's barely monitored and if, in the unlikely event of getting caught, the fines are so low that its cost effective to keep dumping.

Stonehedge is that you?

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/philip-duffy-appointed-new-environment-agency-chief-executive

You move in rarified circles.

At a project team level, EA employees seemed scared to upset Thames Water representatives, even to the extent of allowing, at monthly project progress meetings, verbal updates rather than the required written update circulated in advance.

Stonehedge is that you?

I saw that coming

You move in rarified circles.

Easier than backwards circles. One handed trackstands are my limit.

The Godfather has a serious job to do if he intends to improve the Land Drainage Board. Their sole obsession for decades has been to turn our waterways into efficient canals to avoid flooding, with no interest whatsoever in the environmental cost. Two of my friends have taken early retirement from management level to disassociate themselves from the Government target driven priority of moving water and turds from A to Sea, whilst preserving the dividends of the water companies.

I really do wish him well, but if he tries to reverse the direction of the national cistern I suspect his tenure will be brief.

I have to admit that it looks like one hell of a hospital pass of a job move, to me. But, I'd rather him there than some other tosser.

Let's see.

Well, Sir James Bevan will have completed 7 years as CEO of the EA, but his knighthood dates back to his pre-EA days of 2012 when he was a diplomat, so its not 'guaranteed' for Philip Duffy.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/auschwitz-museum-criticizes-tasteless-ice-cream-stand-near-iconic-death-gate/

Not all Florida is De Santis-land.
And, who knew Miami isn't the most populous city in Florida?

I believe Miami is the biggest metropolitan area by population.

Like a lot of US cities, the actual City is geographically small.

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Just seems odd that Jacksonville hasn't had its suburbs secede.

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Unexpected connection.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/may/17/jeffrey-epstein-noam-chomsky-bard-college-president

Not really, pretty consistent with Epsteins general strategy

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/10/business/mit-jeffrey-epstein-joi-ito.html

Don't think institutions accepting compromised donations is quite the same as Chomsky having his personal finances dealt with by Epstein - who was already a registered sex offender at the time.
To say nothing of this
Chomsky, a linguist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and political activist, told the Journal that he met Epstein occasionally to discuss political and academic topics.
You could call it poor judgement if you were being generous.

I think it's the same level of bad judgement , they knew what he is and they knew it was better to hide it.

MIT and the Media Lab had previously admitted to accepting some financial donations from Epstein, despite the financier’s public history of pleading guilty to soliciting prostitution from a child.
But new reports from the New Yorker and the New York Times said that internal emails indicated Media Lab officials had worked to conceal the full extent of Epstein’s donations to the Media Lab, and his other assistance to the center.

In 2015, according to Signe Swenson, a former development associate at the lab who spoke to the New Yorker, Epstein himself visited the lab, accompanied by two young female “assistants”.
Swenson said the visit, already uncomfortable, became more distressing at the sight of the young women who accompanied Epstein.

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2019/sep/07/jeffrey-epstein-mit-media-lab-joi-ito-resigns-reports

Here you can hear Chomsky say that Epstein had served his sentence at that point so was as
good as anybody else and also there were worse people that donated to the MIT so it's alright.
Jump to 33:25, the time stamp does not work in the link.

https://youtu.be/9B_eLoVq4yI?t=2023

Anyone remember this pic from the Capitol riot? https://archive.ph/qXOu6/0b1ffcaccb85fdcaf757fb672de71fe26a310a29.webp?retry=1
The doofus in the helmet is an Air Force veteran, a Lt. Col. He wanted to grab politicians at the Capitol and waterboard and execute them. In March he was sentenced to 2 years https://www.airforcetimes.com/news/your-air-force/2023/03/17/former-air-force-officer-gets-prison-term-for-capitol-attack/

The other guy was sentenced the other day. He rummaged through Ted Cruz' desk while Cruz hid in a cupboard https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/may/16/matthew-black-january-6-attack-sentenced

Bit in the news about water companies promising to do better with the sewage on beaches fuck up. How damn quickly does your boy move @mashton?!

It didn't seem the greatest apology.

Sorry, we're going to fix it but you'll have to pay for it.