jabjoe
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- Comment on Britain will rejoin the EU within 15 years, former Brussels chief predicts 3 weeks ago:
No. He needs to be trialed for treason, then jailed when found guilty.
- Comment on Disposable vapes to be banned in England and Wales from June 3 weeks ago:
It should surprise me, but not as anymore. It must be economies of scale making lithium batteries the cheapest thing to do now.
- Comment on Row as Starmer suggests landlords and shareholders are not ‘working people’ 4 weeks ago:
Yer, I totally trust the Telegraph on what Starmer says on the lines in a class war. Completely trustable source on the subject. Not at all trying to put that line with as many people on its side not Starmers…
- Comment on Disposable vapes to be banned in England and Wales from June 4 weeks ago:
Good. The batteries alone being disposable is insane. …nub.news/…/staffordshire-university-graduate-use…
- Comment on UK to consider USB-C as charging standard • The Register 5 weeks ago:
Academic. The EU has already done it and so we in the UK already have it. Our market just isn’t big enough, relative to it’s locality, to do something different. Whatever the EU does just washes over us. Only now we have no say in the what that is or how it is implemented.
- Comment on Dozens from UK take up Putin’s offer to ditch ‘woke’ West and move to Russia 1 month ago:
So less Reform/Conservative voters in the UK. Win!
- Comment on Chinese EV owners are losing access to smartphone app updates and driving features when companies go bust 2 months ago:
They should be standard protocols and you should be able to change server to competition. Be great if it was all open, but failing that, standards, competition and right to repair.
- Comment on Energy price cap: Typical household to pay £149 more a year from October 2 months ago:
It’s all faith really. There is no faith renewables can see us through when the wind is no blowing and their is no sun. Maybe tidal will help easy that fear. I absolutely believe there is plenty of time gas could have been off but wasn’t.
When the faith is there we don’t really need gas, that will when the price is decoupled and the markets will kill gas overnight.
- Comment on Energy price cap: Typical household to pay £149 more a year from October 2 months ago:
“Why does gas make my green electricity provider more expensive?” …parliament.uk/why-is-cheap-renewable-electricity…
- Comment on Cannabis: Drug production booming in UK's empty high streets 3 months ago:
It is worse still. Gifting such a lucrative market to the criminal underground, funnels a lot of money to organized crime. Wouldn’t surprise if they are influencing to keep the status quo.
- Comment on Thames, Yorkshire and Northumbrian Water face £168m fines for sewage spills 3 months ago:
Renationalise and sue the old owners and management for as much as we can claw back. It’s been a complete con.
- Comment on More than 100 arrested in London as violence flares after Southport stabbings 3 months ago:
Thank you. I expected to be download badly. Nice to be wrong about that.
- Comment on More than 100 arrested in London as violence flares after Southport stabbings 3 months ago:
We don’t know the details yet. But, if this stabber was a white kid, we’d all be talking about mental health. Non-white kids of immigrants can also have mental health issue. But the worse of country jump straight to racism, blaming the culture of the immigrant. If this lad grew up here, he has been surrounded by our culture. If there is mental health issues, it’s our fault it wasn’t caught in time. If he went mental for cultural reasons, we can’t wash our hands of that either. If we want assimilation, we can’t other people.
- Comment on Meatly Receives UK Approval for Cultivated Meat in Pet Food 4 months ago:
If this cheaper that offcuts humans won’t eat, that is extremely promising.
This should be way better for the environment, way cheaper and free a lot of land.
So wasteful to grow a whole animal for few cuts of it’s muscle.
- Comment on Mythbusters 4 months ago:
Yep, Electronic Frontier Foundation. Key players in Right To Repair in the US. With good history of “fighting for the user”.
- Comment on Mythbusters 4 months ago:
Just because no one else has said, Adam has been involved in EFF for a long time. EEF Podcast episode with him in it:
eff.org/…/podcast-episode-making-hope-adam-savage
Which delights me as he’s more mainstream and so wakes people up to things like the Right To Repair movement.
- Comment on Mythbusters 4 months ago:
But super important and not done enough! Disproving something can save humanity such time.
- Comment on Michael Mosley: Body found in Symi search for missing presenter 5 months ago:
They could have just waited a tiny bit.
- Comment on Michael Mosley: Body found in Symi search for missing presenter 5 months ago:
Yer I got the update. Just seams odd to go public until they had identified the body. I mean it wasn’t a long wait.
- Comment on Michael Mosley: Body found in Symi search for missing presenter 5 months ago:
The body has not been identified. It might not be him. This is a non-story until it is identified. Surprised it was so prematurely reported.
- Comment on Reform UK pulls to within two points of Tories in latest YouGov poll 5 months ago:
I think two party systems and FPTP need to go. In both UK and the US.
What I favour is Mixed Member Proportional Representation. Like NewZealand and Germany. But I want it PR mixed with Score/Range voting rather than FPTP.
The UK also needs decentralizing and federating. Maybe break up England into units similar to Scotland, Wales and NI.
- Comment on Reform UK pulls to within two points of Tories in latest YouGov poll 5 months ago:
I think the UK has a lot more swing voters than the US. In the US way too many people are Republican or Democrat people. They will vote for ‘their’ party or not at all. In the UK it’s more fluid and not part of people’s identity. Even a raging gammon changes who they vote for, as the Conservatives are finding out. Chasing that vote is losing them moderate votes.
- Comment on The Bill & Ted Trilogy will be released in a most excellent 4K box set by Shout Factory 5 months ago:
Randomly yesterday I found out that Alex Winter/Ted is into digital freedoms : podbay.fm/p/…/1716275100
- Comment on Conservatives plan to bring back mandatory National Service 5 months ago:
Ah yes, that will make new Torys. Boot camp. Break their will to make them into good/conservative citizens. Don’t see that working… though I can see old voters (who didn’t actually do it either) might think that.
- Comment on Eurovision viewing parties in England cancelled over Israel’s participation 6 months ago:
Yet the UK’s popular vote give Israel 12. The song wasn’t strong and I did think Israel wasn’t popular here.
- Comment on #justgradschoolthings 6 months ago:
You can do it, but you also need to test it all.
- Comment on #justgradschoolthings 6 months ago:
Not just ADHD folk. I’ve had programmers like that, swinging from “I can’t do it” to “I don’t need to test that”.
- Comment on UK has worst rate of child alcohol consumption in world, report finds 6 months ago:
This is any consumtion at any level. This whole story hangs on if any alcohol consumption, at all, under 13 leads to harm. Something they have one quote on.
“People tend to have this perception that introducing children to moderate drinking is a good way of teaching them safer drinking habits. This is untrue. The earlier a child drinks, the more likely they are to develop problems with alcohol in later life.”
To date, in recent decades, each generation in UK, and elsewhere, drinks less alchole issue than the previous.
academic.oup.com/eurpub/article/31/2/424/5981990
statista.com/…/alcohol-units-consumed-by-gender-a…
…biomedcentral.com/…/s12889-022-14760-y
I did find:
alcoholchange.org.uk/…/alcohol-and-your-child
“There is no clear answer as to which approach is best but, overall, there is little evidence that letting children try alcohol makes them less likely to develop problems with it later on. In fact, research has found that children, whose parents allow them to drink at home and/or provide them with alcohol, are probably more likely to drink more heavily when they are older.”
So it could be we are heading for a fresh boozing generation after years of decline. But it is not clear.
- Comment on How is the hydrogen made? 7 months ago:
Some of car industry. Some are dumb or corrupt. Then a lot people/consumers just see the range and zero ‘direct’ emissions. They don’t look at cost per mile, total energy efficiency, fuel storage and distribution, etc.
- Comment on Britain risks becoming dumping ground for ‘slave labour’ solar panels, UK official warns 7 months ago:
98% of anything coming from a problematic country is an issue. Or even anything single country.