N fertiliser manufacturing has a lot of emissions, plus runoff as nitrate, plus N2O emissions are also ~265 times more effective as a greenhouse gas than CO2 - it’s easily worse than phosphate

He would have been fucked if he had lost the election, and money won the election, money and the markets is the only thing Trump cares about.

Scott Galloway has the right idea

https://edition.cnn.com/2026/02/02/business/video/national-protests-immigration-trump-administration-lead-jake-tapper

I’m not arguing. You’re just wrong. Both AC and DC have high side switches for safety.

Why do they put MCBs on live instead of neutral?

I’m saying there is more shock risk…

Switching the low side can also be dangerous in high-energy systems because the live conductor is always in circuit even when the unit is switched off. Switching in the high side ensures power is removed when the unit is switched off.

https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/275066/why-would-someone-tend-to-use-a-high-side-device-instead-of-low-side-device

I don’t. But these guys do

https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/275066/why-would-someone-tend-to-use-a-high-side-device-instead-of-low-side-device

70% of the US economy is consumer spending. Hit them where it hurts.

One that is less likely to kill me. Low side switches leave a “floating” load at the supply voltage that could leak to ground

Logically the switch comes before the bulb.

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China sells their exports and gets paid in dollars. They use those dollars to buy US govt debt to get paid interest.

If there is no market for US debt, because countries don’t like the Trump volatility, the interest the US has to pay increases.

At current rates the US spends more on interest than its annual military budget.

It could get a lot worse. Especially if the dollar continues to be devalued.

Opportunity cost.

I think competitive advantage is better than comparative in areas of innovation. The EU’s precautionary principle is safe, but timid. Roman civil law is restrictive and slow to adapt because judges cannot set precedent at lower levels and must apply the law as it is written.

The trend in the UK is of devolving power to the nations. I’m not sure how far that could go. Will we see a return to regions like Wessex and Mercia? We only have representative democracy as a hangover of having to choose someone to travel to London on a horse. We have the technology now to communicate at light speed, and will soon have enough compute power to make the civil service 90% smaller.

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/landmark-devolution-bill-brings-new-dawn-of-regional-power

Mummy issues

Yeah, the bets were in on the £ already as it was way overvalued.

The seeds of Brexit were sown when we didn’t get a referendum on Maastricht. That changed the game considerably and even further with Nice and Lisbon. It meant that regulating with common law would be replaced with Roman civil law, which is much more prescriptive and is unable to be changed by precedent.

I’m just in favour of decentralisation, every time power has been centralised in Europe it has ended badly.

I thought it was an Epstein files joke

Unfortunately that’s the only date the source provides on a constant dollar basis.

Using today’s dollar shows the same thing, the UK is not performing any worse than its near peers.

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.CD?locations=GB-FR-DE&start=2016

To be clear, I’m not suggesting Brexit has been an economic success, it wasn’t an economic decision, it was a political one.

I didn’t choose the measure, the OBR did.

Normalising in dollars is normal.

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.KD?locations=GB-DE-FR&start=2016

Retarded Brexit comment of the week 🎖️