There’s a great podcast series on Tradwives by @annieknk.bsky.social and it was amazing how so many of their reasons for being Tradwives were basically just problems of capitalism. “I want to be a housewife instead of working full time and still not making rent” well yeah, that does suck!

One problem is finding the right citations for a field’s basic ‘stuff everyone knows’ (e.g. “disk winds are ubiquitous” in astro). It’s fairly common to just dig out another recent paper/thesis and assume theirs are fine, so I can imagine some people are even lazier.

It’s by-election normally, but why not. Bi candidates only, almost certain to get a better MP.

It sounds like his goal was to inflict maximum suffering on the guy, which would involve dragging it out as long as possible.

Also very different if historically people were doing part-time gigs because that was all they needed, vs people doing full-time gig work and still not making rent.

We’ve had so many years of “the people have to make sacrifices to get us through <situation>” and no sacrifice is ever repaid when the situation ends. People won’t be happy until they feel like they receive restitution.

That’s a pay cut, matter how people frame it.

There’s an old Kenyan proverb, often used when someone is being loudly ignorant, that goes something like this… “Unlike the stomach, the brain does not alert you when empty.”

To be fair that hasn’t been the case for decades now, even in the 2010s the timeline to the first ‘demonstration’ reactor was 2040.

(ITER has gotten a decent budget, but through truly stupid political compromises that’ve made the project a nightmare)

Alas, civilian fusion isn’t relevant for military applications (except for the US’s NIF) so it doesn’t get £££. When I worked at the UK’s fusion program, one footballer’s transfer fee was bigger than our entire staff budget…