Doesn't really matter if the economy got bigger if it just means more money to corporations. The average person has certainly not seen growth. A mortage increase of 5% coupled with low wage increases, high food and fuel inflation left most people much worse off.

Then again, this unit of measure has always been a very poor one in countries with huge wealth gaps.

I don't think this accounts for unpaid hours and the not at all voluntary socials in some countries such as Japan.

Boats. Mash them. Boil them. Put immigrants in them.

You won't get me to defend Labour. But I'm a realist and I still see potential for a good future. Your defeatism will almost certainly not get us anywhere but whatever hellhole we are headed to.

We see voting differently. I see voting as the beginning of a journey. It's a very good entry point for people to understand the power balance within a society. It's in a way why we teach mathematics in school. Not because we expect everyone to be a mathematician or to contribute to a change in mathematics. Though collectively it most certainly has had a very positive effective. See just how monstrously fast our technology has advanced since we started mass education.

A lot of people will just vote and be done. But what if 1% become deeply interested? What if they go on to get others interested? What percentage of the population do our ministers represent?

Honestly, since you brought your experience into this I'll just say that for your age I'd hope for more wisdom. But this is no surprise.

Didn't expect the current government to get something right. The funny thing about the right is that they at least support nuclear. Probably for the wrong reasons.

People are too optimistic about renewables. The world has a limited supply and if the richer countries keep competing over it when will the poorer nations ever get the chance to ditch their coal and oil?

How many countries have invested into production vs just out buying the poorer countries?

The intermediate solution to our problems will be a mix of nuclear and renewables. Being so against nuclear despite our massive issues with climate is a nice gamble people take on other people's future.

We are both far from meeting current electricity demand even in the richest nations and switching away from oil in transport. We need multiple solutions. And as we have seen from the current energy crisis in Europe, no government or population is willing to have a discontinuous energy supply, something common in most renewables.

I didn't interprete perfect health as immortality in this case. Just a long life until I died of a very old age.

If you don't care too much about how it looks then you could just straight up have a Python dictionary in a separate file then just import it into main code.

If you want something more formal looking (or expect rather dumb users) then perhaps something like tkinter that draws default values from a file such as the above. Tkinter can enforce input types and such quite easily too.

People keep complaining about Python speed but my functions that only pass run at lightning speed.

There are few things more saddening than watching a good friend burn their lives for the sake of friends and family who wouldn't do the same for them.

What's that as a hard number and how does it account for dual users?

Finally the right answer for the people who call Python slow.

Slow yes. But moe? Endless amounts.

I love Fortran 66.