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Joining the exodus - hopefully leaving the antiscience idiots to pat each other on their backs in peace
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You’d think the fact that we’ve heated the oceans to the point the octopus have moved to the channel from Morocco might have been worth more than a passing observation
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Honest question, have you had to deal with this process? I’ve recently had to ring council and dwp phone lines about precisely this and you know what? Lovely people trying very hard to help with compassion.
It’s more than hyperbole - it’s actually a bit offensive.
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Hyperbole much 🤦♂️
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You know most people get a demand already because by the time you have picked yourself up after a parent dies and start the notifications some pension or benefit has been landed in the account.
Yes this would make it a bit larger and a bit more universal because of the lag. But chaos?
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Both measures are flawed in their own way?
All things being equal the proportion of people dying of cancer will rise as other more preventable causes are prevented 🤷♂️ one emphasises detection and treatment, the other includes a broader context.
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👏 brilliant data visualisation
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Shows how I was misled by skimming the article then!
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It’s not about embodied is it? It’s the emissions from running it afaik
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Abandoned psych ward, one way mirrors?
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He’s there so Leo can educate him about the right thing to do regarding Ukraine
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I love his write up is touting his reduction in people taking statins - like his own dearly departed dad 😂🤦♂️
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It’s genius, serves a very specific sort of data compute job but there’s plenty of it!
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Frankly easier to plumb the data than the water or heat - genius really
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There’s a great project where you stick a compute node on your hot water tank and they send it jobs
Applied for their pilot program a couple years back and hope it rolls out more widely!
www.heata.co
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So are his waiting time issues, every Tesla sale from now on will be from inventory and offered at a steep discount.
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How about taking the 75% of students who emigrate right after their course back out of the bloody numbers or at least contextualising that properly
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A policy of leaving NATO makes the rest of it pretty irrelevant sadly
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We’ve just gotta stop pulling it out the ground, the idea it really matters any more who is buying it is for the birds. Saudi can pump oil profitable at a fraction of the current price - demand led reductions simply won’t work
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I think the total storage capability is only a few GWh, 30second ramp up. I reckon the interaction with batteries is likely very significant. If it was batter topography and could store more then sure - different market.
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Yeah and their total storage isn’t huge there ( and limited by topography) I think the upgrades were about getting that energy in or out more rapidly right? Does feel like something batteries will impact greatly
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Drax want more cash? What’s changed this has been on the cards for 2 years no? Have batteries undercut the economics?
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It could prevent the price gouging bidding from the gas generators when there is no other source of the missing GW
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This isn’t mrp is it? Do we have a recent mrp after the (highly regional) locals
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It totally depends on how regional their vote it surely?
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Not just muscle bound and intergalactic but part of the Sith😂
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Given there is an IP Dabbs plastering company in Northampton, and its reviews mention he’s called Ivan- the name isn’t a complete mystery? Why not ring him up?
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First in Australia, Canada did it last week, I hope such results against trumpy twats continue for ever ✊
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In fact it was a particular slice of the country. This is shit for the tories without a doubt but Labour still have 107 councils down from 108. The Tories have 33 down from 49 - less than the Lib Dems
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Final election results of the Midwest cycle of the local elections. It wasn’t the whole country 😂
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Totally disingenuous to lump the uk with us there 😂
5.6 week statutory paid leave.
With the vast majority of employers requiring that the 8 bank hols are taken as part of it, or give them on top.
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And yes of course they are the party has been out of power for a generation, the country is in a state, and don’t get me started on the rest of the world. 😂
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Then again it was a different world where things weren’t turned on their head and inside out so easily.
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I was 19 at the vote, was a great way to enter the world of voting, sorry you missed it! I don’t think it was necessarily a model but I think it was appreciated for what it was. I don’t think Reeves got the same treatment
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How old were you in 97 that budget setup surestart
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Accounting for that and as proportion of the budget and everything it was a big tax and spend budget. It’s just been lost in the previous cuts and totally ignored 🤷♂️
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He was self declared prudent of course but that's a very different thing
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Tory policy in 97 wasn't billions of tax and spend? You are right they had a lot more cash in 2001, but I don't think brown was accused of being fiscally conservative after 97?
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I don’t get people leaving Labour for the greens, at a time when unilateral nuclear disarmament is batshit and Miliband is the only politician with any power trying to put out the fire that our planet is becoming.
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Different context for sure but you cannot possibly describe them as more fiscally conservative than the Blair Brown govt?
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Hang on be fair a moment their first budget was bigger than browns first in terms of shovelling money into services ! It was 30 billion or so? I don’t understand how that fact gets overlooked so quickly.
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I don’t but sounds interesting! I remember a piece a decade or so ago about changing building regs for flat roofs to have to be white, and roads to have additives to boost infrared reflectivity. Feels like a simple thing we should have done ! (Like so many)
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Not that cooling houses is an unworthy goal of course!
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How many mirrors would we need to deploy to meaningfully offset the imbalance? Is it practicable or is it just about cooler houses?
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Start of a govt rather than the fag end - there’s hope