

Were. Not was.
Were. Not was.
You got a pro managing it?
\sigh
Spaces before a full stop? Really?
Fair question.
That user goes around issuing weird and pointless corrections to other people’s comments, even sometimes to the point of personally insulting people who make grammatical or spelling errors – often common ones that non-native speakers make, so I thought it’d be funny to do the same in turn, since their comment history is filled with much of the same.
I wouldn’t usually do it, it’s a pointless exercise IMO.
Why do you keep putting random double spaces in half your comments?
Not it doesn’t. Did an Ai slop this story too?
No it doesn’t. Did an AI slop this story too?
I can’t speak for everywhere, but the UK has recently banned the approval of any more North Sea oil drilling, approved several zero carbon energy projects, and is changing planning permission so that people won’t be able to block onshore wind and energy infrastructure projects. They’re also doing an ICE car ban 5 years earlier than the EU (2030).
Then there’s a bunch of new standards for new homes built (e.g. gas boilers not allowed anymore), grants for improving home energy efficiency, and a few other policies like that.
The UK has done a pretty great job so far of decarbonising. Despite having more technology and a population 17% higher, the UK uses less energy now than in 2002. So the UK has been willingly using less energy for years now already. Additionally, the grid has went from being mostly coal and gas to 72% emission-free, with coal being completely eradicated.
There will still be difficulty, though. Most homes in the UK use gas central heating, and since the UK has the oldest housing stock on planet earth by a considerable margin, most houses aren’t suited for air or ground source heat pumps. I truly don’t know what the answer is for that in regards to net zero.
You are wrong. Ran is past tense of run.
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/run-into
run into something
present participle: running | past tense: ran | past participle: run
If you run into problems, you begin to experience them:
example: We ran into bad weather/debt/trouble.
If you’re going to try to correct people, please make sure you’re actually right first.
It’s ran. Because I’m talking about past events.
For anyone wondering who the 5% are:
UK
Switzerland
USA (though this will probably be reversed or ignored under Trump)
Andorra
United Arab Emirates (wait, really?)
Ecuador
Brazil
Uruguay
St Lucia
New Zealand
I’m frequently told that Linux is hard and you need to be a tech guru to use it, yet every week I see 1-2 articles of issues in windows you need to do some bullshit to fix, and in my own use of it I’ve ran into issues (especially after doing an update) that I just don’t run into on Linux or MacOS.
I feel the best advice is to simply watch it and try not to let online opinions sway you until after you’ve watched it.
I was dreading it, because I saw a lot of online voices saying it’s genuinely the worst thing that has ever been on television. Surprisingly to me, I mostly enjoyed it, although I found season 2 to be stronger than season 1.
A few parts I didn’t like, a couple of parts I mentally even groaned and thought “…why did they do that?”, and some other parts I found great.
Controversial, but overall I’ve liked it more than parts 2 and 3 of The Hobbit without a doubt.
And some people wonder why the cybertruck is barely sold outside the US.
Everything I hear about this thing is bad.
I think a lot of Labour’s plans are good plans that will easily pay off in the medium-to-long-term, but I fear that won’t be enough if they want to make a good impression before the next GE.
In the short term, people will be hear them say they’re lowering bills, but in real life they’ll still see energy bills rising, water bills rising, council tax rising.
Of course it’s not Labour’s fault we’re in this mess, but the media and the right are doing a damn good job in convincing everyone that it is.
It’s good that we finally have a government that’s thinking beyond the next quarter or two, beyond their incumbent term even, but Labour need a few irrefutable things they can point to that will be significantly better by 2028/2029, that we can observe improving in real time.
Yeah. I get it when the Galaxy class was designed, and at the start of the Enterprise-D’s mission, after all, the Federation had been enjoying an unprecedented era of peace. Aside from the occasional border skirmish, like the Federation-Cardassian Union war (which ships like the Enterprise wouldn’t have been deployed to anyway), there was very little to fear.
After things start kicking off with the Romulans, Ferengi, Borg, and Federation-Klingon relations becoming complicated, it’s surprising they continued to allow it. Picard himself said he had begun to seriously consider whether that was a sound decision. Which to me screamed of classic British understatement for “what the fuck are Starfleet doing continuing to allow this?!”
That said, later ship designs seem to move away from housing civilians, so it seems they got the message. It’s just surprising that after a year or two into the D’s service, with all of these threats, they didn’t order civilians to move off the ship.
Join up with some terrorists and sabotage the planet because people are having too much sex, duh.
Our minimum wage is indeed fairly high, and the taxes that low earners pay is very low, but we do have problems. Wage compression in this country isn’t particularly good. Most people are either minimum wage or close to it.
Even a lot of highly skilled jobs aren’t highly paid, it’s a problem for the economy, for tax revenue, and for encouraging workers to go for better jobs/strive for progression. I don’t know what the government can do about it, but the answer certainly isn’t to pin it on young people and imply they’re lazy.
But one thing the government can definitely impact is what you mention at the end of your comment: government policy can certainly help bring down the big costs like property costs (both for people and businesses), energy, water, council tax.
For anybody like me who doesn’t know what the blackout challenge is:
The blackout challenge is a social media dare that calls on users to strangle themselves with a belt, purse strings, ropes, and similar items until they pass out, all while uploading the resulting videos to TikTok. However, the challenge did not start on TikTok, nor is it exclusive to the platform.
What the fuck
It’s so irritating that these have flown completely under the radar. Some of these are absolutely worth talking about.