The judge stated a minimum term of 7 years before he can apply for release on licence. He will be on the sex offenders register for life, forever having to report his whereabouts, every time he moves address etc.

Given how it’s pushing people to buy EVs and here in the UK to install solar, batteries and air source heat pumps it would be one of the best things there’s been for a while to get people to shift to renewables.

Most public sector workers outside the emergency services spend the majority of their working week doing fuck all, browsing social media and chatting with their colleagues. It’s why this guy was able to get away with it for so long because he was still hitting his performance targets just doing what the public sector think a week’s work is in the one day it would take someone in the private sector to do it.

I don’t think that it’s fair to be honest. He will have been under regular performance reviews. Clearly he was doing the job to an acceptable level.

It’s not his fault that they gave him so little work for a week that he could do it in a day. TBH I think it says more about the levels of productivity the public sector thinks qualifies as a day’s work.

He has to satisfy a parole board that he’s suitable to be released on licence, it’s not an automatic thing.

Guess it’s different because there were injuries in the bus, which I wouldn’t have expected from just braking

I would have. When you slam on your brakes what happens? You go forward in your seat. In your car you’re restricted to how far you go by the seatbelt which locks to prevent you going too far. People travelling in buses tend to not wear seatbelts so they’d have flown forward and directly in front of their faces would be the metal bars of the row of seats in front.

Europe does not invest much into technology

We invest shitloads, we invent shitloads. The problem is you don’t hear about it because it’s bought up by US tech companies to be announced as one of their new products. Ask Americans who invented many of the key milestone technologies and they’ll reply with a list of Americans. They’re then shocked when they found out that those Americans are actually only the ones who patented it first and that it was first invented in Europe.