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by gadders 4mo ago
>>There have been intermittent stories of planning, FSA and trading standards personnel being threatened by armed gangs in the last few years which is an indicator of some new severe gaps in state capacity. Yes, chiefly immigration po
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by gadders 4mo ago
Oh agreed. If anyone cares that much travel back to whichever country they support and enlist. Also renounce your British citizenship at the same time.
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by gadders 4mo ago
...or any topic really. More people on the right than the left are being jailed for hurty words.
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by gadders 4mo ago
Well Starmer had a massive majority and could have got whatever was needed passed to sort out public finances, but his MPs rebelled (or he chickened out).
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by gadders 4mo ago
I could see that happening. This idea isn't perfect, but beats the alternatives: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracle_Village
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by gadders 4mo ago
Sounds safe: https://ciceroinstitute.org/news-media/more-than-50-of-homel... "In 8 states, over 50% of unsheltered homeless individuals are registered sex offenders. National average: ~13% when including those wit
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by gadders 4mo ago
Then we should let the electorate make a fully informed decision about whether they want to definitely reduce their standard of living for some estimated/modelled future climate issue (none of which have come true to date), bearing in
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by gadders 4mo ago
Well, it's not really a rebuttal, is it? When choosing a path to take we need to be clear on both the climate benefits and the economic disbenefits (or vica versa).
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by gadders 4mo ago
You act as if reacting to global warming is cost-free. It would have a drastic impact on the economy and people's standard of living, especially in the 3rd world.
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by gadders 4mo ago
What's that scientific saying about correlations and causations? But, yeah, let's all go back to middle ages pre-industrial economy just in case.
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by gadders 4mo ago
It's a good idea, as long as this clown show of a government doesn't link it to mandatory digital IDs.
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by gadders 4mo ago
This is the real reason for the fudging of the data. People don't want an ethnicity/citizenship status/birth country breakdown of things like benefit use.
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by gadders 4mo ago
If you pick 2023/2024 and the UK, you can see the disaster that is the Boris Wave.
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by gadders 4mo ago
It's already in the hands of rich men: "A decade ago, Forbes estimated Fidel Castro’s personal net worth at $900 million." https://www.forbes.com/sites/keithflamer/2016/11/26/10-surpr.
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by gadders 4mo ago
https://watt-logic.com/2025/05/09/the-iberian-blackout-shows...
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by gadders 4mo ago
This was the question you chose to respond to: You think Solar + Batteries is equivalent to a nuclear power plant? What would the footprint be for equivalent solar power production? I'm not sure how me saying "50-70x more area&quo
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by gadders 4mo ago
Yeah, but he's wrong? Solar + battery requires 50-70x more land than the equivalent nuclear plant, according to google.
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by gadders 4mo ago
You think Solar + Batteries is equivalent to a nuclear power plant? What would the footprint be for equivalent solar power production?
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by gadders 4mo ago
They're also more exposed to massive power outages. Why do you think that is?
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by gadders 4mo ago
Oh, China is by no means a beacon. I just don't think we should be (effectively) outsourcing pollution to them. In the last 8 years, China has emitted more CO2 than the UK has in the last 250.
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by gadders 4mo ago
The case against wind and solar is that it only works when it is windy or sunny. At least Nuclear is consistent.
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by gadders 4mo ago
Is this satire? We have steel plants and potteries closing down because they can't afford to be run due to energy prices. But that's OK because we can import from China or wherever and it counts against their (dirtier) emissions t
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by gadders 4mo ago
...when it is sunny and windy. I honestly don't know why anyone is arguing against nuclear at this point.
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by gadders 4mo ago
Oil companies seem awfully keen to drill in somewhere that is not economically viable. Net Zero has left us more exposed to Putin, not less as we don't produce much of our own energy and are in fact buying Russian oil via India, rather
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by gadders 4mo ago
Oh look: https://www.gov.uk/government/people/ed-miliband "Ed Miliband was appointed Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero on 5 July 2024. He was elected MP for Doncaster North in May 2005.&quot
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by gadders 4mo ago
He might have been a Net Zero nut, but I don't think he's the one stopping people fracking or drilling the North Sea. And it was Nick Clegg who said "no point building a new nuclear plant as it will take ten years to deliver&
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by gadders 4mo ago
The massive wave of migration in the last few years has decreased GDP per person.
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by gadders 4mo ago
At a large company I know, offshored Polish developers now cost more than ones in the North of the UK. So I think Poland has come up as much as parts of the UK have gone down.
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by gadders 4mo ago
Standard growth-hack douche-baggery. You'd think the YC mentors would give advice like "Don't be a dick to your potential customers". Also I'd tell them where to stick their invoice.
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by gadders 4mo ago
Does the UK get this new AI and not the EU?

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