Having to regularly plug your phone into a PC to back up 100GB+ of photos and videos over a USB 2 connection is not even remotely the same as automatic backups to iCloud that you can then access instantly, at any time, anywhere.

There are arguments for and against assisted suicide for terminally ill patients.

Cost – regardless of whether it’s a bit cheaper or a bit more expensive – should not be one of them, Wes.

What the hell is this headline?

The claim has always been that the planned green energy investments and state-owned company ‘Great British Energy’ will save ‘up to’ £300 (compared to 2023 prices) by 2030.

This BBC article from May 2024, before Labour were even in government, confirms this.

There’s nothing to “admit” – nothing is being pushed back or watered down. The timeframe has always been 2030.

The £300 estimate actually comes from a non-Labour-affiliated right wing think tank that uses less ambitious modeling than what labour actually wants to put in place. So assuming that goes well, it could be better than £300, or the £300 could be achieved even sooner than 2030, but Labour haven’t made any promises about that.

Honestly, sometimes it feels like the supposedly left-wing outlets such as The Morning Star would prefer to have the Tories or Reform in charge than have a Labour government that’s not headed by Corbyn.

There should be the mandatory inclusion of a set of open APIs that pass info like:

• display and audio signal (duh)

• microphone audio (to pass voice commands)

• whether the headlights are on (to offer auto dark mode switching on the display)

• whether the handbrake is engaged (so things like video playback can be a parked-only feature)

• crash sensor activation (so that a phone could, if the user desires, automatically alert emergency services)

• For EVs, battery SoC (so that navigation software can include charging stops seamlessly)

• whether the car is left-hand-drive or right-hand-drive (so on-screen buttons can always be close to the driver, not on the wrong side)

From there on, there can be actual competition in the space. You’re not just limited to Android Auto or Apple CarPlay. Any app would be able to use this API data.

I know they aren’t equivelant. Yet you treat them like they are.

I’m not.

Yikes.

Thank fuck you don’t have kids.

Oh look, a tankie.

Sorry, I don’t subscribe to your misguided arsekissing of China – a genocidal dictatorship that openly wants to invade Taiwan.

Same goes for Russia who you also seem to be fond of.

I hate this saying because a large amount of the time it really is malice.

Whoa settle down there, Charles Benedict Davenport

Yup. I’m living in a new build right now and broadly enjoy it, but in some ways I’m shocked it’s not more forward-thinking.

No solar panels, gas boiler, radiators on the walls, no heat pump. I keep thinking why the hell was a house built in 2019 not built with this stuff in mind.

Homebuilders need to be told, they won’t do it by themselves unless it’s cheaper.

Yes, that’s certainly how it appears, but in order to stay that way, we need constant pressure.

We’ve seen a fair amount of places go backwards in terms of rhetoric surrounding climate change. The US in particular was more accepting of the reality of climate change 20 years ago than they are now. We need to be vigilant and make sure climate denialism cannot take root here.

Unfortunately, some conservatives and all of Reform seem to be trending in that direction.

You can compare equatable things…

Now I know you’re trolling. But that’s better than someone who genuinely does think child rape is fine, so that’s good.

You did equate them.

I hope you are never around children.

Nice to hear. Feels like all I’ve heard recently is politicians (UK and elsewhere) advocating scrapping climate pledges

The visit will have a symbolic element with Starmer becoming the first UK leader to attend France’s national commemoration event since Winston Churchill in 1944.

I’m actually very shocked nobody has done this since then. It’s not like our armed forces weren’t also there

Honestly, this is a no-brainer from Taiwan’s POV. The second our economies can get by without Taiwan is the second various governments start questioning whether it’s worth it to ally with them, especially with China trying to undermine Taiwan and anybody who supports them all they can.

In a bizarre way, semiconductor manufacturing for Taiwan has become like nuclear weapons are for other countries.

They’ve made themselves effectively uninvadable because doing so would be an absolute catastrophe for everyone else, including the aggressor.

It’s shocking how much it lines up with MAD doctrine, yet in a completely non-lethal way.

I want advanced semiconductor manufacturing to be less centralised, but Taiwan would be foolish to give up this leverage and security.

You’ve done it every comment where you compared them, as if they’re equal.

You’re either a troll or someone I would not be comfortable having my kids around.

“on the second day of Christmas my true love gave to me, two turtle doves and a partridge in a pear tree.”

It takes a bit of mental gymnastics to assert that on the second day of Christmas he did not send two turtle doves and a partridge in a pear tree.

If I said yesterday I gave my friend a pork pie and today I gave my friend some spaghetti and a pork pie, you would not come to the conclusion that my friend did not receive a second pork pie.

The song explicitly says they are given recursively

How is it autistic? It’s just what he says he gave her.