Your comment reminded me of the fun fact that there’s more water in Loch Ness alone than all of England and Wales’ lakes and rivers combined!

Add in all the other Scottish rivers and lakes, and you can see why Westminster is loathe to let Scotland have independence.

Some places just have a fuckton of water, and the Australian outback is not where Mad Max will take place irl in the future, but in these places.

Why? One of the candidates is standing on the platform of bringing back the monarchy. It’s fitting to use British iconography.

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You think NATO v Russia is going to require conscription?

Or, sorry, let me rephrase that. You think Albania, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Montenegro, Netherlands, North Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, UK, and USA v Russia is going to require conscription?

Or, sorry, let me rephrase that. You think 966 million people v 145 million people is going to require conscription?

Or, sorry, let me rephrase that. You think a country that has been at war with its small neighbour for 10 years and is struggling v the largest military alliance in the world with the largest economies in the world would require conscription?

I’ve been a bit of a dick here to get my point across but making excuses for the tories bringing back conscription is also a bit dickish.

If you want to sign up, go for it. If there comes a point where it’s required, I’m a relatively young fit man so would consider signing up too. But only when there’s a need for it. There is no need yet.

Plus, if we’re going for WW3, we’re all gonna die in the nuclear blasts before we even get a chance to put boots on the ground anyway.

Only the silly parts of the UK. Some give education for free like a sensible place that gives a shit about its citizens.

Let the people who installed/created it maintain it or let a bunch of new folk do it, which is likely to work best?

The abroad part isn’t the issue. We’re a global village with the Internet now, after all. It’s the outsourcing part that’s the issue.

Am I reading correctly? Are you saying you cook pancakes in your rice cooker?

How do you do that?

NHS Dumfries of Galloway has confirmed some children’s mental health records have been published by criminals following a cyber attack.

Can’t even get the first line of their story correct. Dumfries AND Galloway

They’ve done a lot of exploration, though. I worked on some of the kit that went there. It came back pretty beat up, so it’s rough out there, but there’s plenty of oil.

New oil extractions were halted in the North Sea for a while, not extracting it doesn’t mean much. It just means it’s not been deemed profitable enough yet.

Oil.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geology_of_the_Falkland_Islands#Petroleum_exploration_and_reserves

A red day, ere the sun rises!

https://youtu.be/7lwJOxN_gXc?si=_VIg1ShZtpOaa0JC

What was the Creek incident? Google hasn’t really helped

Paper isn’t always secure!

https://soranews24.com/2024/04/26/japanese-city-loses-residents-personal-data-which-was-on-paper-being-transported-on-a-windy-day/

There’s been a huge uptick in pedestrianisation, bus gates, cycle lanes, Low Emission Zones, and now an ad campaign supported by the Scottish police. The SNP just dropped their agreement with the Greens, and it’s cost their leader his job.

Infrastructure takes time, and it’s moving in the right direction.

Could it be faster? Absolutely.

But this campaign is hardly something to be complaining about.

https://open.spotify.com/track/4KM77RUl2IKdXGhtOBbKIS

"You load 16 tons, what do you get?

Another day older and deeper in debt

St Peter, don’t you call me 'cause I can’t go

I owe my soul to the company store. "

The company store is slowly making its way back in vogue

Why even use precious metals at all? What is wrong with big stick?

Does anyone know if this is owns outright or owns with a mortgage?

To be fair, what do you expect people to talk about?

5-12 comments covers most topics for a given article/meme. Any more than that, and it starts to just become a repeat of what someone else said.

Do you want to read 10 copies of “lol that meme is so me!”

I always thought it was wild that your average thread on Reddit could garner thousands upon thousands of comments, with the vast majority of them being repeats of something someone already said.

Then factor in that those same comments are in the next thread, and the next one. That’s not engagement, that’s insane!

The comments here are far more sparse, but they still cover all your bases. You still get the interesting info dump from some expert or hyperfocused individual who’s done a bunch of reading, you still get a humorous pun or joke, and you still get the “well, actually, this is wrong because…” just, now, it’s like 1 of each type instead of a thousand people all trying to crack the same joke in one thread.

Edit: to clarify, I mean 5-12 top level comments

“just”? Oh, well, when you put it like that.

The large wind farm off the coast of Aberdeen could power about 70% of the entire city iirc. That was one of the first large offshore windfarms, they’ll only get better and more efficient. If large offshore windfarms become more common, then huge swathes of the country will be powered by them.

If we then become reliant on those windfarms (which appears to be part of the long term plan) then putting control of them in foreign hands gives them power over us such as “oops, a cable broke and now your whole city has gone dark, ease off on foreign policy A, or agree to trade agreement B, and we might be able to fix that cable for you”

It’s a nationally critical piece of infrastructure, it’s strange to source it out of country.

Of course, a UK company could try that kinda stunt as well, but they then need to answer to UK courts. It’s less daunting for foreign state run companies as they can pull out of country easier to avoid repurcussions and have the backing of their government.