solarpunkandrobots

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[–] solarpunkandrobots@feddit.uk 4 points 14 hours ago

Its a very interesting question

The presumption is that they are front loading bad news so its all good news closer to elections. But I don't know if that will work if the Americans manage to cause to full blown trade war.

[–] solarpunkandrobots@feddit.uk 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm only recently arrived here but already the tech stack seems significantly more stable

[–] solarpunkandrobots@feddit.uk 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

At time of writing the number of petitions over the lifetime of the system that reached Parliament and then led to law change or action stands at 0. Its a pointless PR exercise in looking like they care. The law on it doesn't even require it to enter the commons, merely to be debated in some back room for half an hour by 3 or 4 mps.

I did see that if you counted up EU stats as a single set of figures instead of country by country the EU would count as the 2nd greatest economy in the world and comfortably ahead of the third. Bet there would much more support for rejoining if that was widely known, it'd show how little chance there is even in principle of making international trader UK work well enough to offset the loss.

This kind of thing always leaves me wondering how stable China really is.

Not because painting dogs is some kind of threat to them but it speaks to real weak attitude to people being fucked over that stuff this blatant is not hard to find.

[–] solarpunkandrobots@feddit.uk 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I honestly think if all secrets were revealed very few people would prove worthy. Practically no one depending on high you set the standard.

[–] solarpunkandrobots@feddit.uk 18 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

I kind of always knew believing reddit was some kind of pure platform basically required being a stereotypical Californian but its declined so heavily in the last 10 years.

Its the number of clearly stupid replies you get now that really irritates me, from people who've very clearly not read or understood what you've said. It used to be a place where the average user seemed to be a PHD looking for cat pictures

I wrote that and now I'm imagining being required to take an exam to join a subreddit. Stupid idea but it would probably restore that sort of tone.

[–] solarpunkandrobots@feddit.uk 20 points 2 days ago (3 children)

That'd be a crazy move. He must know there is an entire wave of new social media emerging thats just poised to punish such a stupid move.

You saved me typing

Exactly this. I very much doubt this is anything but the realpolik that is always going on that is a large part of keeping the country secure and the taps flowing.

[–] solarpunkandrobots@feddit.uk 7 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Heat pumps still need to get much cheaper to be viable for most people.

  1. Complete putting Thames Water into administration
  2. Place Thames Water under government control, set public benefit goals
  3. Wait for improvements in the data
  4. Pass law that any water company failing to exceed Thames Water performance will be merged with it
  5. Wait for the firms to strangle themselves with the rope you gave them
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