jabjoe
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- Comment on More people buying electric cars and heat pumps than ever before 1 week ago:
Can’t talk of heatpumbs, but EVs are great. Been two years being an all EV family. I still don’t see enough curb side opposition for people without drives. Home charging x10 cheaper than dino juice, but public chargers (80p per kWh), are basically the same cost. So without home charging, there is little to no cost saving. Which is not only unfair, but will slow EV adoption.
- Comment on Not enough teachers, children turned away: Schools 'can't cope' with population boom 5 months ago:
Confirmed. No boom : www.worldometers.info/…/uk-population/
- Comment on Misogyny identified as breeding ground for extremism in UK, says leaked report 5 months ago:
Pretty sure there are professional right wing trolls flooding and popular social media. MAGA backed, Russian backed, etc
- Comment on WH Smith in secret talks to sell historic high street arm 5 months ago:
Amazon? They probably want Waterstone to. Competition
- Comment on Starmer must protect elections from foreign interference, says watchdog | Party funding 6 months ago:
My preference is score/range voting. Then there is no vote splitting.
- Comment on Starmer must protect elections from foreign interference, says watchdog | Party funding 6 months ago:
He should also get rid of FPTP now. If he doesn’t, the sane vote will be split Lab, Green, Lib and maybe Plaid, SNP and maybe Con. While the nutty vote all goes to Reform and they get in with like less than a third of the vote.
- Comment on Do linux users have wives? 6 months ago:
There is lots to fix. Including the pipe line of Linux devs into the industry.
- Comment on Do linux users have wives? 6 months ago:
Which sucks, because tech needs women. Badly.
- Comment on Do linux users have wives? 6 months ago:
When some gives you that emotionless stare, it means not only is you comment not funny, it’s not really socially acceptable.
Linux users are not all male, or all straight, or single. Outside of incel groups, most groups aren’t (probably even they have members who secretly aren’t!) 😃
- Comment on TRA recommends new duty of up to 83.5% on Chinese excavators 7 months ago:
I only light skimmed : …amazonaws.com/AD0047 - Statement of Essential Fa…
But this looks it could be argued the Chinese excavators are cheaper because they are electric. That all the combustion engine vs electric is the normal anti EV FUD. JCB don’t do electric as they say it can’t work. They back hydrogen or the status quo. If JCB is right, they shouldn’t need tarrifs.
But maybe is some evidence is real market dumping I didn’t see.
- Comment on Britain will rejoin the EU within 15 years, former Brussels chief predicts 8 months 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 8 months 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’ 8 months 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 8 months 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 8 months 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 9 months 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 10 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 10 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 10 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 10 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 11 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 11 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 11 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 11 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago:
They could have just waited a tiny bit.
- Comment on Michael Mosley: Body found in Symi search for missing presenter 1 year 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 1 year 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.