I've been finding the theory that predicts Putin's behaviour is that he's a dude with a big pile of oil company stocks who wants the oil price to go up and he doesn't care about anything else. German… (View Post)

Yeah, Japan does it for anti-theft reasons and I don't think it's compulsory. There aren't any numberplates or anything, I think you get a teensy little sticker to put on the frame somewhere if you w… (View Post)

The Inflation Reduction Act deal includes permitting reform so your wind farm doesn't get held up for 10 years while you count migrating halibut or whatever. Doesn't Britain need something like that?… (View Post)

That's fair. Also a lot of the reason politicians have to run on ideas that they know aren't really as good as they sound is because the voters aren't paying attention, they'd work it out if they spe… (View Post)

Rand Paul is kind of a hack but TBF libertarians have objected to the Espionage Act for a long time, it's a pretty terrible law. (View Post)