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- Comment on Keir Starmer says the UK can decarbonise without disruption – that’s neither true nor helpful 17 minutes ago:
I’m actually really looking forward to lab grown meat becoming an established industry. Not just for the benefits of the environment and animal welfare but because you could feasibly grow the finest lobster meat, fois gras, wagyu steaks etc etc on industrial scales which would lead to much lower prices.
- Comment on Keir Starmer says the UK can decarbonise without disruption – that’s neither true nor helpful 23 minutes ago:
Before we move over to heat pumps and electric heating, a lot of work needs to be done on insulating homes.
A heat pump is not more efficient if you have to run it 24/7 to try keeping up with heat loss from single glazed windows and drafts from knackered doors etc.
- Comment on Two more cases of more transmissible mpox detected in UK 1 week ago:
Quick! Let’s shut the country down for a year, spend £250 billion on things that have no intrinsic value and then act surprised when we get a shit load of inflation and a cost of living crisis.
- Comment on BBC Weather app bug forecasts hurricane force winds in UK 5 weeks ago:
Apparently the fastest known winds in the solar system are 1,100mph and on Neptune.
- Comment on Manchester rioter's mum who went on £1,200 Ibiza trip must pay compensation amounting to cost of her holiday 2 months ago:
Yh, not like it’s her job to parent the child, that’s the government’s responsibility!
- Comment on How can I get a screw like this out? 2 months ago:
It’s worked for me but with a couple layers of insulation tape rather than a rubber band.
- Comment on Liz Truss leaves stage in Beccles as 'lettuce' banner unfurls 2 months ago:
Worth noting that Canning died in office, rather than having to resign in disgrace.
- Comment on Labour MPs begin quitting X over ‘hate and disinformation’ 2 months ago:
People used twitter?
- Comment on Two in five not saving enough in pension for even basic retirement 3 months ago:
I was generalising. I think it’s pretty obvious that you can save for an early retirement if you’re lucky enough to have the means to do so.
- Comment on Two in five not saving enough in pension for even basic retirement 3 months ago:
Which the article implies many are struggling to afford.
- Comment on Two in five not saving enough in pension for even basic retirement 3 months ago:
Assuming that it pays enough to justify an early retirement.
- Comment on Two in five not saving enough in pension for even basic retirement 3 months ago:
I believe you could scrape by on a state pension if you have your accomodation paid for, but it’d be absolutely no frills and if your rent is £1000pcm, you’re absolutely fucked.
- Comment on Two in five not saving enough in pension for even basic retirement 3 months ago:
Yep, two years of arthritis and then death, what a brilliant retirement it will be!
- Comment on Water temperatures near UK last year were hottest on record, say scientists 3 months ago:
Definitely not my idea of a nice day out haha
- Comment on Day 8 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots 3 months ago:
These types of “Day X of Y until I forget” posts used to piss me off on Reddit, but here I’m just glad someone is providing content.
- Comment on How do trees know? 4 months ago:
It’s feed back only in the sense that it can be observed as a success or a failure by an independent party.
It’s not like a tree can see that last year’s seeds weren’t very good and try a different mutation this year.
Genes are not self aware, they do not have an end goal and their survival simply comes down to chance.
- Comment on How do trees know? 4 months ago:
There is no knowing or feedback.
Mutations are random and there are many more failed mutations than successful ones.
You only see the successful species for that very reason, the failed ones have not been able to compete or pass their genes on at an appropriate rate.
- Comment on Headlines 4 months ago:
“The Arabs”, it was a terrorist group that an entire demographic is being punished for, 35000 people have been killed, mostly civilians.
Do you think that Israel would be using the same tactics if hamas was hiding among it’s own population?
Yes, it’s genocide.
- Comment on Why are quantum computers these gorgeous golden chandelier 4 months ago:
A tube amp usually has only one or two tubes. This number of tubes implies that they are being used as primitive transistors for logic functions, you can also see a number display made from nixie tubes at the top of the image.
- Comment on Why are quantum computers these gorgeous golden chandelier 4 months ago:
Google image search says it’s a desk calculator with electron tubes.
- Comment on Exit poll: Labour to win landslide in general election 4 months ago:
We need to keep in mind that this was an anti-tory vote, not a pro-labour one. This is shown by labour only increasing their vote share by 1.6% when compared with the previous election.
Labour need to ensure that they’ve made positive changes that the average person can feel by the time the next election comes around because you can guarantee that the Tories are already planning on how they’re going to mop up the reform voters.
- Comment on The 8-Bit Guy: How Cathode Ray Tubes Work [18:32] 4 months ago:
Devils advocate:
If you’re known as a guy that like Pokémon cards and people keep gifting you Weedle’s (one of the lowest powered and most common cards in the game), then after a while you’re going to be like “thanks guys, I know you want to gift me and to not just throw the card away, but these are worth literally nothing to me and I’ll just be throwing them away myself”.
- Comment on Schools in England send police to homes of absent pupils with threats to jail their parents 5 months ago:
I believe the implication is that he soon will be in power but that we might not see as significant changes in policy that we’re hoping for.
- Comment on MP uses parliamentary privilege to ask why Lucy Letby story blocked in UK 5 months ago:
Well yh, if you don’t believe in the basic democratic principle of innocent until proven guilty.
- Comment on Channel 4 responds after calls to sack Rachel Riley for Sydney stabbing post 6 months ago:
The woman that genuinely thought Jeremy Corbyn was racist.
What a twat.
- Comment on Pupil behaviour 'getting worse' at schools in England, say teachers 7 months ago:
I didn’t say it’s not real. I was just implying that “everything bad is long COVID” is hysteria and that we shouldn’t over react until we have the science that explains the phenomenon.
- Comment on Pupil behaviour 'getting worse' at schools in England, say teachers 7 months ago:
I somewhat agree.
It is a real phenomena, but a random assortment of afflictments post COVID with no real test to prove that someone does or doesn’t have it is pretty unhelpful.
- Comment on Pupil behaviour 'getting worse' at schools in England, say teachers 7 months ago:
This is almost certainly Covid.
I think there are so many possible factors and that “it’s long COVID” is just hysteria.
- Comment on Children to stop getting puberty blockers at gender identity clinics, says NHS England 8 months ago:
If kids aren’t considered mentally developed enough to vote, smoke, drink, join the army and all the rest of it then they shouldn’t be choosing whether to block their puberty or not.
I’m against the principle that a child could end up making a choice that isn’t fully reversible.
- Comment on What would be a good glue to repair this spatula with that wont he toxic or come undone in a dishwasher? 8 months ago:
I wash all my wooden stuff in the dishwasher. It’s not ideal but it’s not like they fall apart after the first wash.
I have wooden spatulas that are years old that have always been machine washed.