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I feel sorry for the town.

The defenses will cost £30m but are described as complex so I suspect they would cost more. They've secured £15m (haven't said form where) and want the Government to fund the other £15m.

It doesn't sound like a lot but the problem is when funding is tight can you justify £15m for the town centre of a town of 5000 (not even for all residents either) when likely there are other projects across the country that might make bigger impacts with the same money.

It's tough but this is not a zero sum game, it's a horrendously complex picture of many projects competing for scant funding. I do hope they get the money they need though.

Yeah this is an example of corporate corruption, where enough voting shares are in the hand of a minority of investors and the leadership team is under their control.

It is in no way a good idea for Tesla to give away $54bn. The only person this pay package is good for is Elon Musk.

Elon is trying to extract money from the company because he knows it's in decline. Profit is down since 2021, sales are down, and most of the crazy high value of the company is around expected future tech that is basically broken. Tesla's self drive tech is broken because Elon Musk himself interfered to keep the costs down, and they are stuck with a lemon.

Meanwhile their competitors are making more and cheaper electric cars, and also are further along in self driving tech. The idea of a fleet of autonomous cars that Tesla sold itself on is sound but it isn't going to be delivered by Tesla.

Tesla stock is a speculative bubble and it's only a matter of time before it pops as people realise it's not going to deliver the dream it claims. It's conpetitors will. Tesla could have succeeded but the guy who didn't even found the company fucked them by interfering.

Elon Musk is nothing more than a loud mouth investor. He's had a lot of luck in what he's invested in but he himself is a moron.

From a marketing point of view, they certainly managed to grab attention and outraged traditional media.

From a car point of view - it looks ugly to me but maybe it looks better not on a shocking pink moon scape? It's far better than the cyber truck and the cyber truck seems to have found an audience. But I don't think there are as many idiots with £100k plus. This really has to appeal to the wealthy.

Maybe it will work as a status symbol - it is totally unique, I'll give it that. Quite the gamble though.

Is this a tycoon game? Seems like a racing game with a few management options?

Alot of what they collect are meaningless in the context of day to day health.

Pulseoximetry is a good example. Your pulse rate will go up and down as you exercise and rest, and your oxygen saturations may fluctuate. In a healthcare setting they're only really relevant when you're ill - they're useful to measure how ill you are or as a warning sign that you're deteriorating.

But they're not really useful as measures of how well you are because when you're well they will be normal. Constantly monitoring them is pointless.

As devices to guide exercise - seeing how active you've gotten for example - they may have some use. But for monitoring how well you are, not really much help unless you have a chronic illness like COPD or if they catch evidence of problems like heart palpitations.

The calibration and medical certification side is also an issue, but mainly it's just that it's a bit pointless.

Companies are throwing money at this stuff and trying to get consumers on board (because they think there is a lot of money in health care), but it's largely a waste of time and money for most healthy people beyond guiding exercise. And even then it's a bit dubious how useful it is.

Edit: also as you allude to, these are devices that help track you and harvest data. Getting people to essentially wear monitoring tags so the companies can harvest and sell data on where you are and what you're doing will make them money.

Biden will be remembered as the president who let Trump win - ran when he shouldn't have, stepped down far too late, endorsed Harris immediately shutting down any attempt to find the best possible candidate. And now he's a major hypocrite.

All his achievements in Office will be overshadowed by this election. He will be a footnote in history, which will be the Trump story.

Yeah, for US money the serial number is prefixed with a letter to donate the year it's from and the note also has a series year for the actual design printed on it.

Money has evolved a lot since the 1980s so modern money would be obvious. And banks in the 80s would probably be pretty hot on money fraud as hard case was so central to the economy.

A better option would be to collect money printed prior to the year you wanted to time travel to. It's unlikely they would be able to detect duplicates of real money already in circulation elsewhere in that time. But it might be hard to fine money that old in large volumes as so much gets taken out of circulation and replaced with new money every year.

A steam engine back to Ancient Rome, just to see what they might have achieved with that kind of idea.

Interesting story. Although the "$10bn" a year in damage is the usual bullshit about piracy. It's impossible to estimate how much people would have been spent by the consumers if they hadn't pirated content - they probably just wouldn't have bothered watching whatever it is pirated via a different route. The method of just saying "this is what we would have charged for this so this is what we much have lost" is dubious.

I do feel some mixed feelings that public money and resource is directed towards what is essentially an issue of copyright infringement, albeit on an industrial scale. But I suppose I can see the argument that an organisations of this scale would probably be linked to other criminal activities and organisations.

There is literally a kettle on the left lower side of the image (likely deliberately as it seems awkward having it in front of the air fryer like that)

They may close streets but it makes sense to save money to just film the cars that are there if they're just doing a short wide shot of the street.

Seems like overkill to hire 20 cars just to fill a street for a TV show if its a single establishing shot. Although no doubt they would do that for any scene being taken from multiple angles for continuity.

It's because a quid is worth much elss that it used to be, not because a mars bar is worth more (although I'm sure some of it is increased profit margins masked as inflation gouging customers too)