Can't they do basically the previous state of affairs only with more guys on and near the border? Hamas managed to break through their defences this time but it seems like the Israelis weren… (View Post)

Hi to whoever it was who was asked "please give me 1 word to describe the Conservative Party" and said "Conservative". (View Post)

Weirdly the things that make those French lines cheap also make it pretty unsuitable for high-speed rail. See Yglesias: https://www.slowboring.com/p/amtrak-should-build-a-good-train The counterpoint … (View Post)

Sunak is so weird, it's like he's trying to do Trumpism from a catalog. It doesn't work, to pull it off you need to be the kind of person who would call up a child at Christmas time an… (View Post)

The delay for the Japanese maglev is that they wanted to build it without putting a station in one of the prefectures it will pass through, and that prefecture has developed a totally scientific and … (View Post)