jabjoe
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- Comment on ‘Children were calling for their mummies’: UK pupils struggle in 40C-plus classrooms 22 hours ago:
Agreed. Do all the things!
- Comment on ‘Children were calling for their mummies’: UK pupils struggle in 40C-plus classrooms 22 hours ago:
Completely again, but I don’t see that as either or. We need both. This is the coolest summer we might have in our life times. I’m genuinely concerned we are getting ready fast enough of what is coming. I mean it could swing the other way if the gold stream stops, or we need to deal with crazy cold, and maybe crazy hot.
- Comment on ‘Children were calling for their mummies’: UK pupils struggle in 40C-plus classrooms 1 day ago:
We know this is the norm for summer now and only going to get worse. We can’t rebuilt all our buildings for this new climate, but we can retrofit active cooling. We need a nation program of ACs for hospitals and schools.
- Comment on ‘Children were calling for their mummies’: UK pupils struggle in 40C-plus classrooms 1 day ago:
Aircon is an air to air heatpump. Normally they can run in either direction.
- Comment on Gary Stevenson: 'Tax wealth or we'll return to the feudal age' 2 days ago:
Have been a while. The American tech monopolies and their awful business practices have been with us decades. Been “too big to fail” and “too big to jail” for a while. Just now it’s in everyone’s faces.
- Comment on Do you think that Edward Snowden is a hero? 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think you remember https before. Snowden’s revelations kicked off LetsEncrypt and the much broader deployment of https.
- Comment on Tell your MP: End the Big Tech Rip-Off 4 weeks ago:
Done. Good on OpenRightsGroup pushing this. More this is highlighted the better.
- Comment on Amazon’s main UK arm handed £7.6m tax credit as profits soar to £355m 4 weeks ago:
These American Big Tech monopolies pump money out of our country, and many other countries. They are parasites enfeebling us all.
- Comment on Average new UK electric car price is now lower than petrol vehicles | Autotrader says average EV cost is £785 cheaper, in an important milestone in the move away from fossil fuels 2 months ago:
Well that is going to start causing panic for fossil fuel companies and petrol heads. Important mile stone. Cheaper upfront and cheaper running costs.
- Comment on London Mayor Sadiq Khan calls on Labour Party to reverse Brexit and rejoin EU at next election 3 months ago:
Don’t know when it stops doubling and switch to thousandths. I mean it’s not like imperial worries about sticking to any bases anywhere else.
- Comment on London Mayor Sadiq Khan calls on Labour Party to reverse Brexit and rejoin EU at next election 3 months ago:
Well you have to. My old school engineer dad thinks of everything in “thou”, thousandths of a inch. And if it was all base ten, it wouldn’t be a problem. I had to deal with an imperial label last few weeks, with 3/64 and 3/32 parts. Anyone picking this up isn’t going to know that, they just see 0.046875 and 0.09375.
- Comment on London Mayor Sadiq Khan calls on Labour Party to reverse Brexit and rejoin EU at next election 3 months ago:
No, please for metrification on us. Imperial wastes so much brain. As computers rarely have a way of entering fractions, you end up with decimals of an inch, or miles, etc. Stupid stupid system. Start with putting all distances and speed in both units, wait 30 years, and remove the imperial. It is aging out anyway, slowly. Fahrenheit is almost gone at least.
- Comment on 3 months ago:
Nazi always were a bit camp… All a bit homoerotic, but always closeted.
Tragic really, before crimes against humanity drown out any sympathy.
- Comment on Tesla wins licence to supply electricity in Britain 3 months ago:
Here comes Telsa V2G.
- Comment on Green Party wins Gorton and Denton by-election with Labour pushed into third by Reform 4 months ago:
FPTP is the simplest and least representative. Worth reading about different systems out there.
- Comment on Green Party wins Gorton and Denton by-election with Labour pushed into third by Reform 4 months ago:
More often it is Conservatives, also on about a third of the vote, and that has deeply broken the country, but I take your point.
I’d like score/rank voting based mixed member.
- Comment on Green Party wins Gorton and Denton by-election with Labour pushed into third by Reform 4 months ago:
Electoral college isn’t ideal, but the two party system is worse. It’s just red vs blue. My team vs your team. It’s false. Far better as in much of Europe, a sea of parties, coming and going, constantly compromising. That’s a better reflection of real politics.
- Comment on Green Party wins Gorton and Denton by-election with Labour pushed into third by Reform 4 months ago:
Yep. Compounding it, the far right throw in trolling social media that there is no point voting. That those opposing the far right are just as bad in some way. That there is no less bad option to vote, so don’t bother.
Frankly, I blame those who didn’t vote Harris or Clinton almost as those voted Trump. Hold your nose and vote less bad, AND push for a better system. The UK’s FPTP is deeply broken, but it’s dysfunction is nothing compared with the US’s duopoly.
- Comment on Green Party wins Gorton and Denton by-election with Labour pushed into third by Reform 4 months ago:
It didn’t work of the Democrats either. It should of because how awful Trump is and Kamala seamed good, but how good she would be wasn’t the focus. But their system is even worse than ours.
- Comment on Green Party wins Gorton and Denton by-election with Labour pushed into third by Reform 4 months ago:
I don’t disagree. I think FPTP is immoral and a liability. I’m disappointed in Labour to looking to address it despite their membership overwhelmingly supporting it. They hope to pay on “it is us, or Reform” which is party before country and could backfire and massively damage the country.
- Comment on Green Party wins Gorton and Denton by-election with Labour pushed into third by Reform 4 months ago:
What’s great about those numbers is Con+Reform is soooo far behind Lab+Lib+Greens.
The margin the Greens won by is so big that even if was more split with Labour, Reform still wouldn’t have one. Which will horrify Labour as people won’t fear vote splitting as much.
It’s one small bi-election, but I like what it says about the Overton window.
- Comment on Ex-Tory Home Secretary Braverman defects to Reform UK 5 months ago:
Reform is a pro-Russia party with members jailed for Russian corruption. Farage is just good at it and not been caught.
Reform would give MAGA the UK. Traitors. Reform is full of Brexit people when Brexit massively damanaged the country. Traitors. Reform would privative the NHS screwing over all the but the rich. Traitors.
Magnet to the worse of the Tories.
Let alone the blatant racism and intolerance of any diversity. I refuse to tolerant their intolerance. It must be challenged or we’ll end sinking into a hell hole like the US has (and is still descending further).
- Comment on Ex-Tory Home Secretary Braverman defects to Reform UK 5 months ago:
Their leader is a Putin man.
www.facebook.com/ledbydonkeys/…/887348060902269/
(Sorry this Led By Dockers video seams to only be on Facebook and Instagram)
- Comment on BBC to review 'Bias' in Climate Change reporting 7 months ago:
GB “News” is a blight on the media landscape. Calling itself “News” but says it is just “entertainment” so doesn’t have to follow news standards. That needs to drop them in a world of trouble. They need to be made an example of so we don’t get more of that.
- Comment on 7 months ago:
I’ll never hear, or read, that phase the same again!
- Comment on 7 months ago:
Makes me think of Children of Ruin by Adrian Tchaikovsky. 😀
- Comment on ‘Enforced veganism’: Ofcom lets GB News flout accuracy rules, say climate campaigners 8 months ago:
And the politically sane should be pushing back hard. If you can legally have misinformation labelled “news” we have a massive problem.
- Comment on ‘Enforced veganism’: Ofcom lets GB News flout accuracy rules, say climate campaigners 8 months ago:
It’s very simple. You can not call yourself “news” and not come under news regulations.
- Comment on Tommy Robinson says Elon Musk is paying his legal costs as trial begins 8 months ago:
Scale is everything here. That the problem.
- Comment on Does AI need to be perfect to replace jobs? 10 months ago:
To be fair, those selling AI spades make money from this AI gold rush.