A gamer, tech nerd, aspiring software developer and political nerd. First year Computer Science student @SCC_Lancaster
Bedford, England
Joined March 2018
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Today, the Trump administration repealed the endangerment finding: the ruling that served as the basis for limits on tailpipe emissions and power plant rules. Without it, we’ll be less safe, less healthy and less able to fight climate change — all so the fossil fuel industry can make even more money.
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Richard,
The issue for Ford, Stellantis, etc is not one of U.K. net zero policy (almost all countries have net zero compliance requirements) it is two fold
1) Flip-flopping regulatory requirements from national governments including ours.
2) Some OEMs, like those mentions, who have been slow to embrace EV / REEV, synthetic fuel technologies. That is a management issue.
Yes China are winning, but mostly because their Govt set a policy of transition to New Energy Vehicles starting in 1992 and consistently stuck to it over all of their intervening 5 year industrial strategy plans.
You cannot put technology back in the box; companies have to exploit cutting edge technologies and those that legislate against them, or try to hide behind tariffs barriers, will eventually die.
EVs are a relevant technology, complimented by other emerging technologies like synthetic fuels. EV in-particular raised the thermodynamic bar to a level unobtainable by ICE. Battery Technology is fast evolving to support the grid and allow for decentralised and democratised energy generation. The U.K. has not lost this race and in fact leads in some areas of software and electronic control - we have a thriving university spin-out culture.
Rather than being divisive about net zero, it would be better to advocate for U.K. industry to lead the maturation of its superb technology, supported by Govt to help avoid the TRL4-7 “Valley of Death”. As ever, I remain open to discussing both battery and vehicle technology in detail with you and demonstrate why firm and consistent policy is important to our transport and supporting industries - including for example indigenous virgin steel manufacturing.
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It’s so weird how some people can have a balanced perspective and want a car company to do better and at the same time appreciate what the do already. I know, wild concept!
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This is going to be a long one, but I think y’all need to hear this.
FSD is an incredible software, and it’s wild to see the progression Tesla has made. I’am glad many of you are extremely passionate about it, and I’m excited to see how Tesla pushes the industry along when it comes to autonomy.
I am not an autonomy expert but I am a car enthusiast, I have been since I was born. I grew up in a car family, and I’m grateful to be able to have a career and hobby based in the car industry detailing. I love cars.
FSD is an extremely cool product, but it’s not for everyone. We are in an insulated bubble here on Twitter (X) and I think less people actually care about FSD than you might think in the real world. Did you know out of the entire fleet only 12% of Tesla’s have FSD or are subscribed to it as of Q3 2025? I’ve attached the screenshot below. Now, this was before launch of v14, but has the needle moved that much? I guess we will see in the Q4 2025 metrics.
All this to say…
What I don’t understand is this push for people to call people idiots, morons, r*tards, dumbasses, etc, etc, the list goes on… Because they have a differing viewpoint of FSD. It’s bizarre to me how it have become if you don’t use FSD you are just dumb.
Again, I’m glad y’all enjoy it, it’s fricken cool… But just because you believe in something, why do you have to shove it down everyone’s throat. Every comment lately is “Tesla or nothing, FSD or nothing, everything else is trash”
There are some great offerings out there in the EV space, and I enjoy getting to drive my Tesla and other EVs in the industry.
I enjoy driving over sitting in a car letting the car make every single decision for me, hence why I don’t subscribe to FSD. Tesla removing autopilot(autosteer) from future cars is a huge miss in my opinion. I didn’t buy my Tesla for FSD, I bought my Tesla cause it’s awesome to drive, the software is leagues above others, and it just makes me smile. I enjoy driving my car hard on canyon roads, and running errands. When I’m on the interstate Autopilot was all I needed to sit back and relax a bit. I get to control the speed, the lane I’m in my following distance, and let the car center me in a lane. It’s all I needed. That’s why I’m so bummed to hear AP is gone.
All this to say, I love Tesla’s cars, I’ve owned 3 and I will own more. But just because someone decided to buy another EV or use/not use FSD doesn’t make them wrong.
Enjoy your car, enjoy your tech, but let people enjoy their car. The car community is awesome when you can respectfully agree and disagree and make a decision on what you want to spend your hard earned money on.
Thanks for coming to my TED talk.
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The Telegraph have uncovered previously redacted plans for the basement in the proposed Chinese Embassy
Story:
telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/01…
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You live in an age with the fastest technological advancement in human history, with prosthetic limbs capable of being integrated with your nervous system. Disabilities aren’t a death sentence. Your willingness to kill an infant because it didn’t come out perfect is evil
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Please sign and share for Proportional Representation @narindertweets @YourParty2025 @markofagenius @tf_politics @georgegalloway @PhilipProudfoot @BobbyVylan @Tracking_Power @FightingAnne1 @theleftbible @fiona_lali @revcommunists @NewLeftReview petition.parliament.uk/petit…
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We have cleared 1.4 million signatures! I think this means the initiative is all but certain to proceed to the EU Commission. I think the only scenario it won't will be if we had botnet spoofing on a large scale earlier, so more people signing still helps.
eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/…
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I'm cancelling the usual videochat this month since I'm so busy on the campaign, it will resume next month. I'll have some more Stop Killing Games news in the near future.
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No, the "Socialist" in Nazi was populist rhetoric to appeal to workers—Hitler himself called socialism "an unfortunate word." They persecuted actual socialists, banned unions, and pursued far-right fascism with state-controlled capitalism, not worker ownership or egalitarianism. Democrats' policies align with social democracy, not Nazism. (Sources: Snopes, Britannica, historical records.)
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The EU initiative has crossed 1.25 million signatures! I think 250k is the current record for invalid signatures thrown out on other initiatives, so we MIGHT be safe, but I could see us breaking that record also. The more margin we get, the better!
eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/…
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I was given some stats about previous EU initiatives that passed and how many signatures were discarded. It looks like the low end was about 100k and the high end was about 250k. I suspect we'll be closer to the high end, so every legit signature helps.
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The site says we have cleared 1 million signatures! I hate being like this, but there's a chance a significant number of them aren't real. That means we have to keep signing in overdrive mode to make up for them! I'll have a video on this later today.
eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/…
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We have passed 900k signatures! I said this in August, and I hate saying it again: Every person who makes a mistake on the signing gets theirs invalidated, so we have to go into overdrive to make up for them. 10%? 20%? 40%? We can't stop at 1 million!
eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/…
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Today's the #StopKillingGames promotion day planned by the volunteers! I encourage people to make a post with that hashtag. I'm just following orders though, it's safe to label me as a boomer in regards to social media.
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Signature collection for the #StopKillingGames initiative against planned obsolescence of video games is ending in a few weeks. If you're from Europe, please sign the petition and support game preservation! Links below:
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#StopKillingGames is one of the most important consumer rights movements today that you can contribute to easily! The movement seeks to end the destruction of video games that you bought when publishers decide to end support. Anyone in EU, please sign: eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/…
#StopKillingGames is one of the most important consumer rights movements today that you can contribute to easily! The movement seeks to end the destruction of video games that you bought when publishers decide to end support. Anyone in EU, please sign: eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/…
