I mean, the alternative is you just accept regular grid failures over 1–3 decades while you speedrun towards wind. This sounds great on paper, till you realise UK homes are shifting to electric heating, and those power failures are going to be violent ones doing a lot of damage.

You could mandate lower power use, but that’s a recipe for being voted out. Back to fossil fuels you go.

You could tax energy intensive industry, but the UK is trying to revive its manufacturing centers, not kill the survivors off. Likely this will generate enough friction to shift power again.

You’re effectively handing the anti-green lobby a golden ticket, which may even mean the issues last more than 3 decades as UK politics flipflops around. In essence, a stopgap is needed due to the sheer state of British energy infrastructure.

Laughs in absolutely decimated university sector

We’ve known this one for years. How to increase teaching staff workload:

1). Hire 3 people to do 2.8 people’s jobs.

2). Make a huge fuss and convince 2 of those people they are doing more than the third.

3). Fire one person, and reduce workload slightly.

4). End up with 2 people doing 2.6 people’s jobs.

Repeat as needed to drive your talented teaching staff into the ground.

In terms of nuclear power, lessons need to be learned - the first few plants are going to run over both budget and time because they’re not going to take any risks. Better it runs over than it’s done shoddily.

Remember, the UK power grid is ancient - it’s going to need to be rebuilt from the ground up to integrate renewables (a project more than 20 years in the making). Especially so with such “rapidly” fluctuating power as wind.

Again, it’s a stopgap that should be used while actively developing grid changes to better shift the load to wind.

Nuclear isn’t the worst option if it pushes us to net 0 fast, especially if investment is made in spent fuel processing facilities (government owned).

It is very much a stopgap, but at this point some kind is likely needed.

There’s a really good video on this - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSSkDos2hzo

Adding a little exercise to your life is rarely a bad thing, but to shift fat diet change is the big one.

Here’s one that will have a steady impact - drink an extra glass of water with each meal (helps you feel full for longer), and invest in an apple corer (for easy apple snacks) - aim for an apple a day. It’s helping me slowly lose body fat by reducing caloric intake.

Wait, am I officially old? Does that mean I can finally go full Gandalf and start all my courses with bad “you shall not pass” jokes?

No porn = more horny people = more births

No abortion = more births

The logic driving US legislation everyone, it’s not so much “protect the children” thinking as “make the children have children” thinking.

Honestly, they’ve guaranteed that the US therapy industry is going to have patients for decades to come!

"A trader or third party can upgrade and improve the features of digital content so long as it continues to match any description given by the trader and conforms with any pre-contract information provided by the trader, unless varied by express agreement. "

That’s an odd paragraph to include.

3 teas no lunch is even better - especially if you brew your tea to the consistency of tar…

For every mod you add, complexity usually increases exponentially.

Depending on the game, difficulty also varies: modding stardew valley is joy (117 mods in a pack, easy afternoon sipping tea), modding skyrim less so (oh god,these two amazing mods tweak the same tree, time to go patch hunting, 2 weeks later you play it only to spot obscure graphical glitches, all hail wabbajack automation!), trying to make a working multiplayer mod pack for rimworld is pure suffering (why do you hate me, why do two compatible mods generate mass instability?!? 4 months of bug hunting and unsalvageable runs due to strange mod interactions, gave up for now).

That is less fucks-per-line than most code. There are also no suicide notes in the code, which is usually a good sign (unless your coders are planning a coup).

Sounds like healthiest production to me.

That is the most Australian image I have ever seen.

What really worries me is if an AI were to go rogue and repeatedly fill in this form with plausible but false details.

https://www.ice.gov/webform/ice-tip-form

It’d waste hundreds of hours of brave ICE enforcer time, and clog up the internal system. Especially if it kept passing in duplicates, because the site specifically warms against that.

I think it’s a case of copyright (allowing a creative to benefit from their creativity) vs copyblight (allowing a company and it’s legal team to predate on the creativity of others).

This matter has always lurked in the shadows, but with the advent of “everything as a service”, the consumer is facing a lot more copyblight than copyright.

To put it into context, when a game publisher copyright strikes a fan game, they’re not protecting the team who created the original game; they’re protecting the interest of shareholders. They’re ensuring the game IP remains a valuable asset to trade; not a product that inspires but one that enriches creatively bankrupt parasites.

I mean, if I were to throw out lines such as “if only women didn’t demand so much”, I’d be guilty of misogyny regardless of who I implied the demand was levied against.

The misandry here is “men love to commit murder”, not the implication of who is murdered.

Misandry is where you see men as the problem - nothing more or less. It’s easy to quote stats, it’s much harder to address the real issues underneath.

Yeah… We had the internet and great gaming mags with decent guides.

Gamefaqs introduced me to “100%ing” (the FF7 maxed party, all items, full set of master materia), before games tracked it themselves.

We had it pretty easy in the 90s and 00s; it was also fun as hell.

Ah, misandry, my old friend.

Repolarise the electron microscope’s phase inverter!

Of course we do, you just need to keep on zooming!