TheHalc

Sounds like your dad was taking about software daemons and Maxwell's demon.

I'll accept that, only as long as Americans learn that route is pronounced "root", not "rout".

But I would suggest that any band names that use umlauts/foreign letters should be pronounced accordingly.

Motörhead still kind of works.

It's been long established that coal produces more radioactive waste than nuclear power, and largely dumps it straight into the environment.

Somehow people think it's worse if you keep it contained rather than massively diluted. If we thought of it like we do radiation in coal waste, we'd be happy to just dump it in the ocean.

Living in Finland, I'm proud of the fact that we've got one of the first long-term/final storage sites for nuclear waste in the world. YIMBY.

Oddly enough, it's safer than wind.

Solar's a little better in that regard, but all three are so much safer than any high-carbon sources of energy that any of them are great options.

I understand where you're coming from, but some of the strongest communities are in rural places where public transport is unfortunately not a sustainable option.

We desperately need electoral reform.

In a more diverse political landscape like the ones enabled by proportional representation, it's very hard for a single party to be able to reach a majority without coalition partners.

If the Tories had to rely on coalition partners, there's no way they'd have been able to hold a coalition together this long - they can hardly hold their own party together at this point.

Nuclear submeringue. The new season of Bake Off is getting spicy.

I'm sorry to hear about your loss. Losing a close friend is awful, especially when it's stacked on top of other things.

In a galaxy with replicators, who would actually still know how to cook eggs (other than Sisko's dad)?

Hopefully you're in a better situation now, I'm sorry to hear you've had to go through that.

I guess I'm fortunate that I tend to associate it with some of the worst conversations I've had with people on Reddit rather than anything more personal.

"We trained it on social media."

"Why does it keep making stuff up and then getting argumentative if called out?!"