I’m actually really looking forward to lab grown meat becoming an established industry. Not just for the benefits to the environment and animal welfare but because you could feasibly grow the finest lobster meat, fois gras, wagyu steaks etc etc on industrial scales which would lead to much lower prices.

You could even get in to really exotic meats like mammoth, platypus and giraffe or whatever else.

Before we move over to heat pumps and electric heating, a lot of work needs to be done on insulating homes.

A heat pump is not more efficient if you have to run it 24/7 to try keeping up with heat loss from single glazed windows and drafts from knackered doors etc.

I mean if democracy is writing an X in to a box once every five years, then yes.

Personally I think democracy should be about more than that, but as one person alone it’s tough to know what to do about it.

Yep, if I was homeless with no prospects, especially in winter, a prison would be looking pretty attractive.

What’s the crime? Honest question, I’m not being facetious.

Presumably (if I had access to Putin) I could phone him and ask him to not escalate the war. Why is that illegal?

About one hundred million people declined to vote at all.

You’re getting down votes because the truth hurts. People in the echo chamber don’t want to hear anything except “Trump bad”.

To sum up your comment succinctly it can simply be said that the democratic party failed to relate with and engage the electorate, something that Trump did successfully.

The rest of the world is concerned about US politics because they are essentially the world police due to the size and power of their army.

If you stopped sending bombs, warships and fighter jets around the world, stopped interfering with foreign politics and just focused on NASA, Hollywood and music we’d all love you.

Ah yes, the classic scalper mobile haha

I think that’s called “lowest common denominator” politics and whilst I understand why it could seem like the natural thing to do, it’s not something I’ll be taking part in.

Sorry that we would rather have free healthcare and things like that, good luck!

What do Subaru’s have to do with anything lol?

I’ve said for a while that I would be absolutely unsurprised to see another Trump term, we live in the post-satire era.

I think a lot of people need to have a good hard look at themselves due to the ridicule and derision they directed at the opposition electorate rather than trying to engage them and win them over.

Quick! Let’s shut the country down for a year, spend £250 billion on things that have no intrinsic value and then act surprised when we get a shit load of inflation and a cost of living crisis.

It’s not about the size of the number, it’s about presenting information in a way that the average reader can understand. The best way to do that is to present it in the way that they’re accustomed to and I don’t think I’ve ever seen scientific notation used to refer to a sum of money.

It’s great that you and I understand scientific notation, but it’s worthlesss when you’re trying to get the average person to understand what you’re writing if they don’t know it themselves.

To make myself clear, I’m not saying that scientific notation isn’t useful, I’m just saying that most people don’t understand it.

For extra credit, 74,500,000,000,000,000 aka seventy four quintillion, five hundred quadrillion.

Not really. Most people aren’t familiar with scientific or engineering notation. Writing £1,000,000, one million pounds or £1Million is a lot clearer than writing £1×10^6.

My cars odometer says 91,584, not 91.584×10^3

Some people believe the Sega Dreamcast was a superior console but that it failed to appeal to the mass market because the Playstation and the xBox also had the ability to play DVDs.

At the time DVD players were very popular and a standalone unit could cost in the ballpark of £100, so the ability to get a 2in1 unit that played games and DVDs was very attractive.

UK taxpayer is now liable for Thames Water’s £12bn debt.

How the fuck did we end up with a system that allows so called “investors” to not just pick our pockets, but the pockets of people that haven’t even been born yet?

All this to allow Thames to survive for at least one year.

Thames needs to be allowed to fail and investors need to take the hit, not the bill payer.

I keep hearing about all the tankies here, but I’ve never actually encountered one.

I don’t think that liking the ideals of communism means that you want to bury all Putin related news or even that you support Putin at all. Russia hasn’t been communist for a very long time.