@ErikJonker Dat wordt nog lastig als ze inderdaad “in Brussel met de vuisten op tafel willen slaan” over bijvoorbeeld migratie.
Bij de Europese Commissie op tafel slaan heeft geen zin, die beslissen niet, die voeren uit. De beslissers zijn de andere 26 regeringsleiders, die een veel sterker mandaat hebben dan Schoof.
Nou verwacht ik dat de strategie is om niets voor elkaar te krijgen zodat ze een beschuldigende vinger kunnen wijzen naar groepen die in de weg zouden hebben gestaan.
The (centrist) Social Market Foundation asked a group of economists to look at the Labour Party's economic policies & see what theorising lies behind them (if anything).
They concluded that pragmatism & small scale/focussed policy interventions seemed to be the driving logic(s) rather than any more general economic theory or position (in this sense they lack the coherence of Biden's policy approach).
@ChrisMayLA6@KimSJ I wonder how knowable some of Labour's planned policies are. There is electorally no benefit to nailing their colours to the mast before the election as that can only damage their appeal with some voter group or another.
I think their biggest challenge will be making their voters feel that something has radically changed for the better in the first 100 days. Only some of that can be achieved with economic policy.
@jon I’d say that the line itself is fine (bar the few non-ERTMS “islands” which require trains to have legacy signalling systems).
It’s the services where there’s room for improvement. If Eurostar can do London - Marne-la-Vallée I don’t see why an Amsterdam - Bordeaux service wouldn’t be able to circumvent central Paris.
Passenger demand and finding trainsets that can do ERTMS, ATB, TBL, and TVM are probably the biggest obstacles.
@ErikJonker@Mndell@helma@EDPS To be fair, one could argue it's not the job of a data protection authority to run a platform such as this. After a successful pilot it should move to the Comms Department where it most likely belongs. #Fediverse
@glynmoody I'm always amused how London allegedly consists entirely of Muslims, poor people, and criminals but simultaneously also consists entirely of out of touch wealthy elites.
@glynmoody Considering AI based search engines perform worse than non AI based search engines it would almost make more sense for Google to put its normal search behind a paywall and the AI-affected version free for non-paying users.
Departing Montbard for Paris this morning. Then onwards to Bruxelles. Not a regular #CrossBorderRail thread today - I’m going to #ConnectingEuropeDays - I’ll post using that tag
@jon As demand for sleeper carriages clearly outstrips supply this seems to me a great business case for leasing companies.
Many of the night train projects are either experiments or even startups so won't have the capital or the time to wait until a carriage production order is delivered. We’re probably going through an experimental decade to see which routes are sustainable.
Leasing companies can hold these carriages throughout the turmoil and move them from failed project to new project.
@Edent For years I had the exact PIN code on my card as the one the bank used in all its example material. “If your PIN code is 1547…”
This was in the nineties so before you could change your PIN. I couldn’t tell anyone how funny it was that the country’s biggest bank plastered my exact PIN across all their materials because then they would have known my PIN.
Considering there are only 10000 variations many others must have had the same experience.
@evan@evanprodromou Oh, I misunderstood. Yes I've seen those integrations, including yours. That would be quite a step further than the current account, yes.
@Daojoan My partner is a doctor and the misuse of the word steroid winds her up a lot. To her a phrase that includes “on steroids” just doesn’t make any sense.
Also, probably most of the steroid use by non-scientists is in anti-inflammatory medication for treating eczema etc, anabolic steroids for muscle growth enhancement are probably a rounding error.
@ErikJonker De kunst van de Leave campagne was om vaag te zijn met feiten maar te focussen op emoties (makkelijk en minder saai) en vaag te zijn met wat er in plaats van EU lidmaatschap moest komen (om de tegenpolen binnen Leave binnen de tent te houden).
Het zwakste Leave argument was het financiële. Het Brexit proces zelf kostte het land £200mld, meer dan 47 jaar EU contributie. De 10mld EU contributie per jaar is vervangen door 60mld per jaar structurele hogere uitgaven ter vervanging.