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by midasuni 3y ago
Surely you’d install or write an extension which auto adds a blue tick to your own post for a screenshot if you’re that bothered.
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by midasuni 3y ago
Not unknown to see people sat at the bottom of stairs with a “homeless and hungry” signs
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by midasuni 3y ago
First thing I do is unplug the tv. Been woken too many times by TVs turning themselves on during the night.
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by midasuni 3y ago
Imagine if the date at the end was when the copyright owner had agreed for it to enter public domain, thus meaning it couldn’t be retroactively extended.
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What do you do with the excess power?
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by midasuni 3y ago
How does that help stability? You still need the peakers, unless you propose building excess amounts at massive capital cost to be used for an hour or two a day
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by midasuni 3y ago
Nuclear isn’t free If you can’t support peak load with nuclear you have to have variable load like gas or bio or pumped
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Why?
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Given how cheap 20kWh of battery is compared with the total cost of a house it’s shocking that there aren’t building requirements mandating that much storage.
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by midasuni 3y ago
Nuclear isn’t a great option for grid stability - you can’t easily vary it like gas or pumped or biomass.
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by midasuni 3y ago
Because we took back control from the unelected Eurocrats to give to elected leaders like May (appointed after tory MPs had a public spat), Johnson (after a few thousand tory members with average age 64 got to vote for the funny man off tv)
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by midasuni 3y ago
Schengen coast is far longer - Norway, Greece, Italy. They’re far closer to non European locations too Nobody would land by boat in the U.K. to get into the schengen area (assuming Ireland also joined)
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by midasuni 3y ago
Yes. You’ll also notice correlation between brexit voting and educational achievement, one with income, and interestingly one with prevalence of leaded petrol during formative years (which is linked to age) Weigh brexit vote by tax paid per
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by midasuni 3y ago
Scottish NHS has more funding per head and worse outcomes https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-67828648 Funding is still way below european levels though, always has been, the crisp is that the money is being spent on
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by midasuni 3y ago
While the mail scream about the 50 people arriving on a dinghy they ignore the 2 plane loads arriving at Heathrow
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by midasuni 3y ago
Different types. No longer immigration from western countries with similar values, they cost too much
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by midasuni 3y ago
No, a standard trade regulations and common way of dealing with businesses with a ton of consumer protection as voted in by a parliament more representative than my own national Parliament and a council comprised of my national government.
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by midasuni 3y ago
It’s from Opinium, a decent polling company who know far more about polling than the majority of internet commentators The interpretation of the tables is always a separate thing of course
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by midasuni 3y ago
“You have 47 tabs open, are you sure you wish to close your web browser” Good enough for something g as inconsequential as pressing alt-f4, but not for ripping away the birthright and citizenship of tens of millions of people.
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by midasuni 3y ago
But then we had a chance to reverse it in 2017 and 2019 and failed to.
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People voted brexit to stop non European immigration — specifically Muslim immigration. “ The movement of people in Europe fair enough. But not from Africa, Syria, Iraq, everywhere else, it's all wrong” https://www.washingto
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U.K. will simply never meet the euro criteria - just like Sweden doesn’t. I’d love the U.K. to join schengen though.
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There’s loads. Genealogy companies (find your unknown link to European citizen through Great Uncle Norris), immigration lawyers, people working for GB news…
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As long as you have a decent sample set, which the reputable polling companies do.
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Vast majority of Gaza residents have never had the chance to vote for anyone. The last elections were 2006, vast majority are under aged 35 and thus too young to vote in 2006.
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by midasuni 3y ago
No. You vote in a representative who may wear a rosette at a time but has no obligation to stay wearing that rosette.
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Britons don’t vote in prime ministers. The last time Britain voted a plurality (not majority) Boris Johnson was PM. Since then Liz Truss was put in as unelected leader, then removed, then Rishi Sunak was put in. The last time the country vo
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by midasuni 3y ago
Apple could buy most of the NYT, RIAA and MPAA companies combined with petty cash. The big ones are Disney and Sony with a combined market cap about 250b. Microsoft alone is worth over 10 times that.
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Meltdown events have basically been zero on designs for decades. But we still have massive barriers against nuclear when even things like wind kill more. Everyone talks about Fukushima and the half a dozen cancer cases. Nobody talks about t
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Deaths per twh shows just how safe nuclear is compared with other fuels, yet nuclear is the one overburdened with more safety requirements.

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