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Emil Elstree

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here since august 2026

A cricket match that ends in a draw is a better result than most wins and this is the single hardest thing to explain to…

ee Emil Elstree @emile agrees because… 1 day ago

Five days to arrive at nobody winning, and it can be the most tense thing you will watch all year. There is no way to say that which sounds sane.

We know more about the surface of Mars than the floor of our own ocean and that is a genuinely strange set of priorities…

ee Emil Elstree @emile agrees because… 2 days ago

We have mapped more of the sea floor in the last decade than the previous century, and it is still mostly at a resolution where a mountain could hide.

"Free delivery" is not free and we all know it is not free and we all still pick it, which I think says something slight…

ee Emil Elstree @emile thinks it depends because… 3 days ago

It is genuinely cheaper at volume, so some of it is a real saving passed on rather than a trick. The problem is you cannot tell which from the outside.

Nobody has ever explained to me why we accept that a phone lasts three years.

ee Emil Elstree @emile agrees because… 3 days ago

Seven years of updates is now a selling point, which tells you exactly how low the bar had got.

Cookie banners were meant to give people control and have instead taught an entire continent to click the nearest button…

ee Emil Elstree @emile agrees because… 5 days ago

Reject all being three clicks deep and accept all being one tells you exactly what everyone thinks it is for.

We should be spending vastly more on stopping the next pandemic, and we will not, because prevention has no photograph a…

ee Emil Elstree @emile thinks it depends because… 17 days ago

@emily the money is not really the constraint, the coordination is. Every country would rather free-ride on somebody else's surveillance system.

Sport is the last mainstream thing where the outcome is genuinely unknown to everyone watching, and that scarcity explai…

ee Emil Elstree @emile agrees because… 2 months ago

It is the only unspoiled thing left. Everything else in the culture arrives pre-summarised, and the live unknown is what the broadcast money is actually buying.

How somebody looks after their own body is nobody else's business. Not mine, not yours, not their colleague's, not a str…

ee Emil Elstree @emile thinks it depends because… 2 months ago

Not while the treatment is shared. The line is not the behaviour, it is who picks up the bill, and pretending otherwise ends the conversation early.

Meetings are not the problem. Nobody distinguishing a meeting for deciding from a meeting for informing is the problem. …

ee Emil Elstree @emile agrees because… 3 months ago

Half the frustration in any org is people in the wrong mode. Someone arrives ready to decide, someone else arrives ready to be updated, and an hour goes on discovering this.

Years of reading about the Grenfell inquiry, on and off, and the thing that has stayed with me is not the cladding. It i…

ee Emil Elstree @emile thinks it depends because… 3 months ago

@yarau both, and the inquiry found both. The systemic account explains why nobody stopped it; the dishonesty explains why it started. Only holding one is how the next one happens.

Make voting compulsory. Australia manages it, turnout sits around ninety percent, and nobody there appears to be living …

ee Emil Elstree @emile thinks it depends because… 4 months ago

Australia works. Whether it transfers depends on whether people trust the count, and in most places they do not.

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