BrightCandle

@BrightCandle@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Infrastructure construction in Britain is defective. The most budget UK tramway is more expensive than the most costly french tramway⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I suspect it’s just corruption. As we have seen government works by giving their friends the work at crazy markups with no requirement anything be delivered. The end result is lots of people getting rich off government contracts and low quality infrastructure at best.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your all-time favorite game? Let's discuss the best options!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The mod packs just keep coming and there has been a number of interesting packs since 1.20 was released.

  Its got a billion accounts its the most played game in the world ever so its surprising to find it so far down this list.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Seagate's fraudulent hard drives scandal deepens as clues point at Chinese Chia mining farms⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The problem is the information asymmetry, there is always another person for a fraudulent company to exploit due to a dysfunctionally expensive court system. Its why we need market level regulations and public institutions that recover peoples money and fine the organisations for their breaches. This sort of thing works a lot better in the EU than in the US due to the sales laws, the ability to return within 2 weeks, default warranty on goods out to 12 months and expectations of goods to be as advertised forced onto the retailers. They work, they need more enforcement from regulatory bodies but retailers do follow them for the most part and quickly change tune when you go to take legal action when they don’t because courts know these laws inside and out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK would need forest ‘twice size of London’ to offset new airport expansion.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The level of production of CO2 is so vast that planting trees is not going to do anything meaningful. We need to sharply and rapidly stop producing CO2 immediately and work on viable scalable CO2 removal and storage methods with urgency.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Stars of Star Trek: Section 31 Know Why You're Nervous About the Movie⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The two trailers put out on the Star Trek Youtube channel definitely didn’t calm my concerns about this movie!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK's elite hardware talent is being wasted.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The UK wastes most of its graduate talent, much of it ends up in jobs other than what the degree is directly in. Despite quite a lot of great Computer Science and Engineering universities most of the reasonable paid jobs have historically been in finance. As inequality gets worse and worse the Uk is becoming a county of serfs and lords once again with a poor populace and very rich owners. Its what people keep voting for so its what they want but it confuses me everytime people vote to be lorded over.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Keir Starmer says the UK can decarbonise without disruption – that’s neither true nor helpful⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Food is the big one that clearly has to change, its not possible to reduce the CO2 impact of meat and that will have to change. Its also going to be required to change the gas boiler for a heat pump or electrical heating, cars to be replaced by Electrical Vehicles and to stop using airplanes. The electrical side which is making progress is only about a third of the CO2 production and all the other things also need addressing.

  What a lot of personal CO2 calculators currently do is conflate primary CO2 production (your burnt the fuel in your device) and secondary (you bought electricity from a company) but things like meat and airplanes we know there isn’t a technical solution to reducing CO2. The same is not true for transit miles and other goods which often get included but which could largely be made with electricity given the transition that must occur.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Any hope of ‘getting Britain working again’ must not demonise people on welfare⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The war on the disabled that Labour is committed to will bring further shame to a country already getting called out for crimes against humanity against disabled people in the UK. Labour seems to be worse than the Conservatives in its treatment of the most vulnerable in our society.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Government pledges nearly £22bn for carbon capture projects⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The laws of physics mean that no matter what we do with carbon capture it is never going to be cheaper and less energy to emit it and then capture it again. This is a foolish endeavour the focus should be on the green transition with Wind, Solar and Storage combined with ensuring infrastructure is there for Electric Vehicle transition. This is the sort of investment the fossil fuel wants governments to make that will have no impact and allow them to continue to emit.