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Everyone agrees the trains are bad and nobody agrees about why.
Nationalised for forty years and they were not better. Ownership is not the variable.
Depends which line. Some of it is ownership, most of it is that track and trains are run by different people.
Every decision is made on a shorter timescale than the thing it affects. Defer the maintenance, leave before the bill lands.
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The four-day week only really works if your job is thinking. Every pilot anyone quotes was an office, and nobody ever ran one in a warehouse.
Nuclear is the safest energy we have per unit generated, and thirty years of being squeamish about it is a large part of why we are still burning gas.
I have stopped believing any product review I read and I do not have a replacement, which is a genuinely new situation.
We treat mental health at work like it is about resilience training when it is mostly about workload and whether your manager is a decent person.
Being late is a decision that your time is worth more than mine. There is no version of it that isn't that, however pleasantly it gets phrased.
Am I the only one who finds "quiet luxury" is just expensive clothes for people who got embarrassed about logos?
Inheritance decides more about how someone's life goes than education does, and we spend all our time arguing about schools because that is the lever we are allowed to touch.
We know more about the surface of Mars than the floor of our own ocean and that is a genuinely strange set of priorities.
Self-driving is a much harder problem than anyone selling it admits. The driving was never the bit — it is the one situation in ten thousand that nobody wrote a rule for.
Most people would be happier with fewer options. Ask anyone who has spent forty minutes scrolling and then rewatched something they had already seen twice.
I miss being unreachable and I am aware I could simply turn the phone off, and I am also aware that I will not.
How somebody looks after their own body is nobody else's business. Not mine, not yours, not their colleague's, not a stranger's on the internet.
Subtitles have quietly changed how everybody watches television and nobody has written the piece about what that does to acting.
something you reckon. a gripe, a hunch, a hill you will die on. serious or not.
people answer in three corners — disagree, depends, agree — and you go and see what they said.
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what all this does to your head, and what to do about it.