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I don’t seem to have the ability to PM people on my app but if you could PM me with those examples, I’d be very appreciative.

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Unfortunately political systems are often held together with “tradition” and “gentleman’s agreements”, where conventions dictate how people should behave. Politicians typically followed them because it is seen as the honourable and right thing to do.

However, it seems to be a recent trend among the hard right that politicians just ignore those conventions because:

a) those conventions are inconvenient b) honour means nothing to them, and c) nothing actually enforces those unwritten rules - so there are no consequences for ignoring them

Similar things have happened here in the UK as well. I guess our political systems both assume some degree of good will & trust in its representatives, and it generally turns out that trust is misplaced.

Maybe it came along at the right time in my life, but Fallout 4 has got to be in my top 2-3 games ever.

The atmosphere in 4 is unlike almost anything I’ve played before or since. The story is great fun and I loved the settlement-building - it gave the game a sort of second life as a fairly chill building game once the story was complete.

Fallout 76 was just poorly judged and clunky. The multiplayer aspect ruined it. Although with that said, I did enjoy the C.A.M.P. idea. That was a good mechanic.

I feel like perhaps your response isn’t the most productive way to help someone in crisis.

New contender for “worst take of 2023”

Also make superb camper vans if you aren’t too mad about the 150 mile range!

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Look at the list of commissioners and their credentials. Many are economists but there are several civil engineers and even an Oxford professor who is a former director of the Environmental Change Institute. Mostly they seem legit.

I’m as happy to go Tory-bashing as most, but let’s at least make our disdain evidence-based.

I’m not sure we read the same article!

The “watchdog” is the UK’s National Infrastructure Commission, which is staffed entirely by civil servants, and whose remit covers far more than domestic heating. Not sure I see a link to the heat pump industry.

If anything, the opposite is true - the Energy and Utilities Alliance (who are quoted as being pro-hydrogen) is an industry body comprised of gas companies and boiler manufacturers, some of whom are selling boilers branded as “hydrogen mix ready” despite the UK having little to no infrastructure to distribute hydrogen at scale.

Never underestimate the will of bigots to obsess over other people’s genitalia.

Edit: I said the above to be facetious and poke fun at these wall-eyed transphobic lunatics. I realise that trans / NB issues encompass SO much more than that, and I was being deliberately reductive in order to make a point. I hope that comes through ❤️

Interestingly there have been some studies (I seem to remember one in particular back from 1999) that show nicotine having a positive effect on Ulcerative Colitis. Opposite seems to be true for Crohn’s though.

Although every piece of medical advice I’ve ever heard is to avoid smoking at all, especially tobacco. Dry herb vaping is OK though.

Yeah that’s a good suggestion. A common way to refer to low-level memory structures e.g. C structs. Bit packing, padding, and alignment.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_structure_alignment