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- Comment on Why do news articles and such call the governments of countries/groups of countries after the capital? 2 weeks ago:
Yes, very useful for subtle distinctions like this!
- Comment on Why do news articles and such call the governments of countries/groups of countries after the capital? 3 weeks ago:
Yes, it’s metonymy, as people have said. You also get it in similar contexts where people will name a building such as ‘the White House’ or ‘[10] Downing Street’ to refer to the governments of the US or the UK.
- Comment on "They basically want to kill me": GOP efforts to turn Musk into a MAGA martyr are backfiring 3 weeks ago:
It’s not surprising that he’s not been able to exploit people’s empathy given that he has literally argued that empathy has gone too far.
- Comment on Is there some school to learn how to be a sycophant? 3 weeks ago:
Any MBA?
- Comment on Why there is no photos of earth from space? 1 month ago:
/s indeed, but you did remind me of a cool image: the Earth not from space, but from Mars!
- Comment on Lessons for Britain from Milton Keynes 1 month ago:
Build houses on the mountain peaks and treehouses in the forests, all linked together with a series of zip wires. I see no downsides to my plan.
- Comment on Lessons for Britain from Milton Keynes 1 month ago:
Yeah, it was very much built in the car is king era, which has left its scars. I’ve never lived there but I visit fairly regularly. It’s not perfect but it’s got a lot going for it. Cycle provision seems to be getting a lot better, for one thing!
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- Comment on Labour is wilfully ignoring that the climate crisis is at a crunch point. 1 month ago:
This is a weird experience for me. Normally when I demonstrate that things are, in fact, the case, people just go very quiet. This is the first time I’ve had ‘that’s too much proof’ used against me, so you at least get some marks for originality.
I do indeed get my information about the news from the news; again, it hadn’t previously occurred to me to do it another way, so I guess I’m learning a lot! I’m not learning things like ‘Why does this person I’m talking to on a website think websites are objects of scorn?’ or ‘Where do they get their news if not from the news?’ but, still. It’s not nothing.
Nevertheless, you’re straying into ‘not even wrong’ territory, here. The things I said are happening, are happening, and while you can believe anything you like, including that things that are happening, aren’t happening, that doesn’t change the fact that they are, actually, happening. Since you’re not amenable to things like evidence (about the news… from the news), I hope you’ll forgive me for ending this conversation. Feel free to get in one last shot, but I don’t intend to reply.
- Comment on Labour is wilfully ignoring that the climate crisis is at a crunch point. 1 month ago:
I was asked to prove first that Labour are moving us away from oil dependence, and then that they are investing record breaking amounts, approving record numbers of green projects, that they have eased planning law to build more green infrastructure, and that they’re planning to do more.
The sources more than prove this. For example, when we have more solar power, we will be less dependent on oil. Labour are making this happen. I refer you again to the many different sources discussing other ways Labour are making this happen through the record investments that are also cited in the sources.
I acknowledged that there’s some repetition. One for each of the claims would suffice, but I added more because I felt that ‘record breaking’ is a bit vague (record for this country or for a fiscal year or…?) so I used more than one source to show that this was a valid interpretation of the facts.
Your latter critique, that all the sources discuss what Labour ‘will do’ is just false. Some of them do, of course - because that’s one of the things you asked me to prove.
I actually have a folder of saved tabs called ‘good things Labour are doing’ because I frequently have conversations with people determined to ignore these things. Could they do more? Yes, of course, and they should. Are they doing the things I’ve said they are doing? Yes.
- Comment on Labour is wilfully ignoring that the climate crisis is at a crunch point. 1 month ago:
I’m not especially keen on googling things for you, as it’s publicly available information which is easy to find. I think a better question, given that these are straightforward facts widely reported in both the mainstream and specialist press, is why you don’t think they’re doing anything.
- Comment on Labour is wilfully ignoring that the climate crisis is at a crunch point. 1 month ago:
It’s interesting you cite Norway because as I said elsewhere in this thread, they are a major oil producer and exporter who are also committed to green infrastructure. That’s the exact approach I think we should take!
You are right that we have a lot of encouraging tech but deploying that takes time and money, and often an ‘upfront’ increase in carbon emissions. Other tech looks good but hasn’t been proven to scale up or is still in the trial stage (as you akcnolwedge).
As I said, I agree with you that Norway is the model to follow; but they produce a lot of oil.
- Comment on Labour is wilfully ignoring that the climate crisis is at a crunch point. 1 month ago:
My line of argument does not require that the oil be used here.
- Comment on Former Russian President Medvedev buys 3.5-million-pound luxury yacht made in UK 1 month ago:
And they said British manufacturing was dead.
- Comment on Labour is wilfully ignoring that the climate crisis is at a crunch point. 1 month ago:
Well, we need both and we should keep exploring both, although we can probably get away from gas sooner.
Norway is actually a great example of what I think we should do: keep using oil in order to fund a rapid transition to green power. It’s working well for them!
- Comment on Labour is wilfully ignoring that the climate crisis is at a crunch point. 1 month ago:
If it was in my power, I would certainly jail the CEOs and nationalise the oil companies, so I’m with you there.
However, stopping oil immediately before alternatives are in place would be a humanitarian disaster.
- Comment on Labour is wilfully ignoring that the climate crisis is at a crunch point. 1 month ago:
The government is investing record amounts in green energy, approving record numbers of green projects and rewriting planning law so it can approve even more.
- Comment on Labour is wilfully ignoring that the climate crisis is at a crunch point. 2 months ago:
I didn’t say the Saudis would produce less, I said we’d use the same amount but buy more off the Saudis.
We do need to move away from oil dependence (and we are), but until we do that, we need oil from somewhere and we may as well get it here.
- Comment on Labour is wilfully ignoring that the climate crisis is at a crunch point. 2 months ago:
If we immediately stopping drilling for oil here, we won’t use less oil, we’ll use the same amount of oil, but buy it off the Saudis, who suck.
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- Comment on Too many young people find doing a day's work 'stressful', says Liz Kendall 2 months ago:
The problem with ‘cracking down’ on benefits is identical with the problem of ‘cracking down’ on immigration. These things are just not real problems and the people who think they are problems are flat wrong. You can’t do anything about unreal problems, because the people who believe in the fake problems just don’t believe in reality.
- Comment on What's something that you find unintentionally scary/creepy but isn't? 2 months ago:
Wind up music boxes. I don’t know why, but regardless of the melody they play, I find them super creepy.
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- Comment on Star Trek TNG Theme but the theme is coming from the Enterprise-D 🤣 2 months ago:
Love the idea that the Enterprise just flies about blasting its own theme tune on every subspace channel.
- Comment on Why the Left needs to watch Star Trek: It has lessons for today's techno-optimists 2 months ago:
I don’t know, we already have open source 3D printers and they really haven’t brought about the industrial revolution some people hoped. Not quite the same as replicators, granted!
- Comment on The Stars of Star Trek: Section 31 Know Why You're Nervous About the Movie 2 months ago:
I agree, this logic has been used to justify atrocities throughout history, including right now. It’s exactly what Israel says about Palestine, China about the Uyghurs, Trump about Mexican immigrants. And it’s completely antithetical to Star Trek’s values.
- Comment on "Section 31" early review round-up 2 months ago:
You found the one reviewer who liked it. I bet they like season 1 of TNG, too.
- Comment on "Section 31" early review round-up 2 months ago:
