I freaking love this - haven’t played for a while though. The puzzles are great. Though really it’s still only 4D, the regular 2 for the board, plus time, plus parallel realities/dimensions.

I mean in a perfect world it would be amazing! Data driven investment for roads too… but I doubt the practicality.

Jesus - the cost of developing the system for monitoring, implementing it, and creating safeguards to prevent fraud would eat up most of the revenue!
Much easier to take a mileage reading at each MOT. If existing vehicles need software updates people just won’t do it.

Oh for sure - there’s always an edge case… but they’ll still be paying less than they would on fuel duty… unless they’ve got their own private refinery 🛢️⛽️

The issue has always been that you can’t tag electrons for one use or another. The number of miles driven on public charging is such a small proportion vs home charging. Many people only use the public networks a few times each year. An extra tax on public charging wouldn’t replace fuel duty £

I guess while we’re getting taxed 3p per mile driving in Europe to pay for upkeep of UK roads, EU drivers visiting the UK will be using our roads while paying for the upkeep of their own. Swings and roundabouts really.

Surely fuel duty is effectively ‘pay per mile’ already? Sure - it’s variable depending on your mpg… but it’s still a strong correlation.

They’ve gotta replace the income somehow, and 3p/mile is a pretty good deal - still cheaper than petrol if you’re charging at home. The problem it creates is a hurdle to adoption for those who can only use expensive public networks. But that needed fixing anyhow. Hopefully this will give impetus.

I really wanted to see a list of bills to support co-ops… maybe I’m not engaged enough / it’s a comms issue… but they’ve had a year and I still don’t know what concrete legislation is in the works to support the sector.

It astonishes me that Labour is so quiet on Co-ops given that they have @coopparty.party.coop as a sister / sub-party with 10x the number of MPs that the greens do. I actually contacted them in the run up to the GE to ask for a copy of their manifesto, and was told it’s was just all in Labour’s.

I can’t help but read this in your memory palace voice, and it’s beautiful.

Yay for Monsterhearts 💜
Where can we watch? Do you have a channel I can follow?

This sounds super interesting - anywhere we can read more? Are there jobs out there for space architects? Do you need architecture quals or is it more of an engineering thing?