Th4tGuyII

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

For her part, the chancellor told BBC News that she thought “sustainable aviation and economic growth go hand in hand"

As said in the article, the technology to reasonably decarbonise planes doesn't really exist yet - so the only path to "sustainable aviation" is to reduce it to the point it can be properly offset by other decarbonisation efforts.

That makes these two concepts almost entirely mutually exclusive without proper planning, and just slapping multiple airport expansions down then saying "It's fine, we'll plant a few trees at some point" doesn't fucking cut it.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 days ago

Oh yeah, I'm sure he just walked up and asked Elon to organise this in the first week of his presidency - the return via SpaceX definitely wasn't planned and organised well before the election happened /s

More proof that Trump lies as easily as he breaths, and that his ~~cult~~ base will believe anything that comes out of his mouth, no matter how easily it can be debunked

[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'd be honest. Life is as much (if not more) about luck as it is skill.

There are smart folks out there who have spent their entire lives working hard, probably made decent money, but will never be rich because an opportunity they were equipped to capitalise on just never arrived.

By that same score, there are people who stumble onto or are born into opportunities for wealth that most people will never see by sheer happenstance.


My only impression of him being that he enabled your wife's cheating, I'd hazard a guess he was born into his opportunity - and while that doesn't diminish his own efforts, its not a fair comparison to make. Apples to oranges and all that.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Well to be fair, over a decade of Tories gutting public infrastructure to give out tax cuts for the rich will do that. Will the population remember that, or just start blaming Starmer for not fixing everything inside of a year, who knows ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 days ago

Imagine getting stabbed with a bootleg CS:GO knife

[–] [email protected] 69 points 3 days ago (5 children)

On one hand, its nice that they actually responded, because even that can't be taken for granted nowadays.

On the other hand, they spent more text on telling you they're holding onto your data (and trying to milk you for more) than they did telling you the thing the email was about!!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

Genuinely such a good idea - though it'd likely have to be censored to fuck if it goes up pre-watershed, which would take some of the joy out of it

[–] [email protected] 55 points 4 days ago (4 children)

While I absolutely agree with the sentiment here, I doubt it'd convince anyone remotely "pro-life" - because one's "just a chicken", and the other's human.

I mean Christ, if you can't get them to sympathise with the life carrying the fetus, you're not gonna succeed with a random chicken's.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago

I'd say I'm tech conservative/cynic with a bit of normie - as I've long accepted that forgoing big tech completely means losing the ability to talk to most of my friends and relatives (because there's zilch chance of me convincing them to move away)

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Why do so many people only learn their lessons after it's already too late? If we hadn't done Brexit in the first place, we wouldn't have to be dealing with this mess.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago

Wow, look at that - Trump doing something blatantly illegal just 6 days into his new administration. Sure wish there was a way to hold a president account for doing blatantly illegal things while in office so he couldn't just get away with it, again.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Does Trump mean like when Ukraine cut Russia a deal to give back the Soviet Nukes, and Russia promised it would respect Ukraine's sovereignty? That kind of deal that Russia makes lying through its teeth?

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