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dsquareddigest.bsky.social • 27 days ago

in which, I diagnose the real problem of British building - it's not NIMBYs, it's NOMFUPs https://open.substack.com/pub/backofmind/p/the-only-growth-industry-is-excuses?r=kt8l&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

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oldtrotter.bsky.social•27 days ago

Have we moved onto "it might not literally be true but it shows regulations always increase business costs" yet?

dsquareddigest.bsky.social•27 days ago

yes, professor leunig was doing that one the other day

oldtrotter.bsky.social•27 days ago

*sigh* Get those children back into factories to cut business costs and turbocharge growth.

tacitean.bsky.social•26 days ago

Took me a second to recognise POSIWID in Welsh ...

jmackin2.bsky.social•27 days ago

If you don't like the lack of vowels as an excuse, there's plenty more: nationally-important mushrooms are my fave, but who doesn't love a vole?

scottmartens.bsky.social•27 days ago

Unless British attitudes towards Welsh have changed in a way that I think I'd have heard about, it's not remotely credible that a project of that size was canceled because of concerns about the Welsh language. But nonsense about regulatory review has been the norm since at least Reagan.

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