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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is coal and fossil fuels still used?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Thing is, a lot of these aren’t that bad? Making an oxygen mask feels really different to just setting fire to the fossil fuel to shift a 3-ton vanity pickup truck half a mile to Starbucks. And lots of the others can readily be replaced. Clothes, for example: rayon from bamboo can replace a lot of polyester and nylon

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you know the answer?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s whatever browser or app you’re using. It rendered as © for me… Bracket, c, bracket

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fly-tippers’ vehicles to be crushed in bid to save England from ‘avalanche of rubbish’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Premeditated littering as well

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Labour MPs urge Starmer to ‘get out there’ with Trump-style media strategy⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, that’s what I was thinking of with that final sentence

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Labour MPs urge Starmer to ‘get out there’ with Trump-style media strategy⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s probably a case for saying it doesn’t need specifically to be the PM. In principle Starmer could crack on with things behind closed doors as long as there’s somebody sharp, likeable and media-savvy to counter Farage every day. I guess the risk is you’d have to be a very self-confident PM, unafraid of leadership challenge, to go for that

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does it make sense to persue higher education after 40 years ood?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d much rather employ a 50-year-old recent graduate than a 21-year-old recent graduate. There are lots of reasons for this, not least all the extra life experience and the hard evidence of being able to make major decisions and follow through with a difficult challenge.

  No employer expects a new graduate employer to stay with them more than a few years anyway, so I can’t see you’d be disadvantaged there either

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Will AI Startups End Up Like Blockchain Startups?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Old man here… The first online bubble was probably the dot.com bubble of the late 90s, when lots of people first went “This internet thing is amazing and we’re all going to make millions!” I remember boo.com being one of the first high-profile crashes, but pretty soon a lot of that first wave of internet retail businesses folded, with notable exceptions like Amazon, of course.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Psychology⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Psychology gets unfairly singled out wrt replication but the same issues are found in a lot of other disciplines, such as biomed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Proposal⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  She’s crying because she knows he’s about to say “Tibble” and their relationship will be over

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Labour is wilfully ignoring that the climate crisis is at a crunch point.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oil extracted near the UK doesn’t get used in the UK - it goes to the global market.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Labour is wilfully ignoring that the climate crisis is at a crunch point.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  All oil goes on the global market. Drilling for it here doesn’t mean we use British oil here, and doesn’t meaningfully mean the Saudis produce any less. The only way forward is to wean ourselves off being dependent on oil

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This seat reservation doesn't reserve any seats⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This ticket is odd by UK standards, and the arrangement you describe isn’t the norm. These seat reservation tickets normally specify a particular seat

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Smoking ban introduced to protect children and most vulnerable⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorry, but no

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Smoking ban introduced to protect children and most vulnerable⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If they really cared about children and the most vulnerable they’d be taking much firmer action about car pollution, especially near schools and hospitals

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Beginning of the End⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m guessing that’s Venus

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I just opened an overpriced can of fancy soup and on the label, along with the expected stuff like 'gluten-free' and 'GMO-free,' was 'mustard free' and 'celery free.' Is that a thing now?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Now imagine that, but onions

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ticketmaster to be investigated by watchdog over 'dynamic pricing' of Oasis tickets⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Apparently the surge pricing reflected what touts would have charged. Makes you want to grab somebody and shout HOW IS THAT A JUSTIFICATION?! Yeah, and if somebody steals a car they’ll sell it to me cheaper than the dealer - so it feels like TM logic means the dealer should sell it to me cheaper too because that’s what the black market is priced at?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk shares fake news about England rioters being sent to Falklands⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The thing is, they’re now just using platforms owned by Meta and Microsoft, both arguably awful corporations in their own way. Choosing Zuckerberg over Musk is out of the frying pan and into the fire in my opinion. They really should go to Mastodon, I guess?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do Olympic medalists bite their medals?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  At this stage it’s a trope that people imitate, perhaps without really thinking about it. Originally it was almost certainly an ironic joke about the value of the medals, playing on the old-fashioned bite tests that would be used for for items of dubious worth

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Humans didn't invent agriculture⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I suspect the serious answer is that we produce mucus and sneezing as a natural response to microbes, and that’s the environment within which microbes have evolved to take advantage of the mucus and sneezing

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Humans didn't invent agriculture⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Makes total sense: who’s working for whom? Is wheat making an effort to till the soil and find fertiliser to help us grow, or is it the other way round?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are Tetra Paks actually recyclable?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “can be” is doing some heavy lifting here. I confidently predicted amount actually recycled is a fraction of one percent

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trying to buy right size bicycle wheel online⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If anyone finds themselves in this position, you should ignore everything else and just look at the ERTO size, which should be on the tyre itself. This is a standard way of measuring tyres and wheels, and is much better than the old ways

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fck it, we ball⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Woodlice

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Swoletariots of the World⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  m’=m-45. Fixed it for you

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The current state of auto insurance: shit that belongs on a shady Kickstarter from 2013⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hark at Simeon Stylites here

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rishi Sunak announces 4 July general election⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not sure people in this thread get the significance of the song. If they don’t remember 1997, they might simply be taking the song title literally

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come hotel check-in time is always 3-4?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you ask, some places can do early check-in. You might have to pay for it, because it disrupts their routine

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does Sync not display some comments?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks. I’ve never blocked anyone, so it won’t be that. Could be the other thing

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does Sync not display some comments?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not just Sync, I find. I’ve had this issue with other Lemmy apps yoo