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691.
by growlist 7y ago
'We’ve got all these tech companies filled with very young, very inexperienced, often white boys...' Wow. I got a taste of this attitude studying my MSc in early 2000s. We were forced to attend a couple of men-bashing lectures bec
692.
by growlist 7y ago
I apologise :)
693.
by growlist 7y ago
Removal of the ICE in favour of electric I meant, in case I wasn't clear. Massive amounts of power etc. are required to produce the chassis, bodywork etc. - it makes sense to get a lifetime's use out of them rather than throw away
694.
by growlist 7y ago
Though the extra weight of the regenerative system has to be taken into account.
695.
by growlist 7y ago
Agreed, it's a complex topic. Just pointing out that EVs alone won't solve air pollution from transport. https://uk-air.defra.gov.uk/assets/documents/reports/cat09/1...
696.
by growlist 7y ago
We could for example: 1. Incentivise retrofitting of electric transmissions to cars with internal combustion engines 2. Disincentivise the introduction of new models, visual updates etc. to existing cars via taxation 3. Incentivise durabili
697.
by growlist 7y ago
It's self limiting, with an attenuation in global population once a threshold is reached. I suspect we'll never reach a point where humanity disappears entirely - they'll just hang out in higher altitudes and latitudes.
698.
by growlist 7y ago
Exhaust emissions are only part of the air pollution problem - brake discs and tyres contribute around 50%, as I recall. Depressing! But we need lighter vehicles all round, and less travelling in general.
699.
by growlist 7y ago
I got slated not long ago for saying that mass tourism has ruined travel for me. Seems it's ruined it for other people also.
700.
by growlist 7y ago
UK media is awash with it.
701.
by growlist 7y ago
Believe me I've tried - I love TV and film, but cannot get very far before the obligatory strong, independent and sassy minority group representative appears to deliver their identity politics sermon. No thanks! It's patronising a
702.
by growlist 7y ago
Give it time.
703.
by growlist 7y ago
The media etc. is absolutely awash with it, to the point where I pretty much consider dismissals of the evidence of my own eyes as gaslighting. I've given up on all contemporary TV and film because the virtue signalling is obnoxious an
704.
by growlist 7y ago
Establishment: let's attack men for decades, undermine their position in society and the structures they value Also establishment: why are men so angry?
705.
by growlist 7y ago
Perhaps it might also help if the media etc. stopped acting as if being born male (particularly white and male) is some kind of horrendous original sin?
706.
by growlist 7y ago
Kit is for a T2, but perhaps it would fit a T3 also.
707.
by growlist 7y ago
I got a free sample of pea protein powder with some whey one time. It was truly disgusting!
708.
by growlist 7y ago
One of the strangest things to me about lunch in the Netherlands: adult men drinking milk with their meal, this meal sometimes consisting of a chocolate hundreds and thousands sandwich O_o
709.
by growlist 7y ago
I'd love to do this with a VW T3 Syncro.
710.
by growlist 7y ago
Marketing. Who controls that?
711.
by growlist 7y ago
This is the problem: "We buy things we don't need with money we don't have to impress people we don't like." ...and this culture comes from the top.
712.
by growlist 7y ago
> Why is fracking a requirement, even rhetorically, for "avoiding the dark ages?" I strongly suspect that alongside the well-intentioned environmentalists there are malign influences piggy-backing on the movement for their own
713.
by growlist 7y ago
To someone attempting to return to web dev after a break of a decade or so, my normal response is incredulity at the absolute horrorshow that's arisen. To me it's a complete towering, teetering mess of differing approaches, needle
714.
by growlist 7y ago
I don't see any qualification of on/offshore, which presumably is a pretty important omission? Even though one can probably make arguments about the impact of offshore fracking on public health, surely (at least) also a whole clas
715.
by growlist 7y ago
Apart from anything else, they're going to need a lot more water from somewhere.
716.
by growlist 7y ago
Precisely. The powers that be are apparently intent on forcing mass immigration to high income countries, creating a need for new infrastructure and housing, but somehow apparently all that concrete is magically carbon neutral because diver
717.
by growlist 7y ago
1976 in the UK was fiercely hot for months. I've been told that there was smoke in every direction from our house due to wildfire.
718.
by growlist 7y ago
Contraception.
719.
by growlist 7y ago
I'm wondering about crowdfunding and putting the land into a national land bank.
720.
by growlist 7y ago
In the same time it takes to get across London one can easily be in Lincolnshire via the East Coast Main Line, though the £8k annual season ticket to King's Cross is a bit of a whack.

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