Almost choked again.

Some very interesting bits in here on how the DRS makes “grey” market imports a lot harder to the benefit of big brewers

I have the perfect solution to this....

My day was going better until I discovered not everyone on these islands has had 10+mm of rain and highs of about 8 degrees...

If Eamon Ryan thinks we'll have 5GW additional offshore wind (almost double total demand today) by 2030 and 37GW by 2050 then why is he against additional data centres?

Did the guardian finally write a decent article on Vienna’s housing policies? Mentions some of the important bits - not only does it build a huge amount but it has far less ability of locals to block things.

The “English” advanced from Northern France…

They seem to have quietly dropped the target of 5GW of new supply by 2030. Much easier to just set some new “ambitious” targets in a PDF than actually deliver your prior targets

this is absolutely insane. The planning process is a joke.

New carbon tax on heating oil, fine I’ll just switch to an alternative… oh wait…

Poor forecasting of population growth was an issue even before the immigration wave. Now it's obviously worse but you don't see a big effort to account for this in infrastructure design/spending. We typically just stick with the old plan...

Hey ⁦YouTube⁩ I actually pay for this and don’t want to see Youtube shorts jammed in my face. Insane I can’t turn them off

Middle aged dad in me is trying hard to refuse to turn the heating back on after the good week last week....

Kind of a reverse Y Combinator: instead of addressing a single specific problem that people actually want solved, overengineer an incredibly complex solution that nobody asked for, and then act confused that you achieve nothing.

Rare case of US employment law being more worker friendly than Irish/EU employment law…