@Billyp444__ @trumwill That's because televisions became much much cheaper!
It's a manufactured product which can do that, it's hard for food delivery to experience the same price drop.
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JanCambeul
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I figure this is mostly a The Discourse problem, but every now and again some zoomer will be like "What they don't understand is that as far as we're concerned food delivery is a necessity not a luxury" and I grow a little more boomer every time I hear it.
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@PBaboins @ClemCowton "They take heat from a cold place, outdoors, and put it in a warm place, indoors."
I feel like he did? It's not detailed but given word limits + a non technical audience I think he covers the bases
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@CambeulJan @ClemCowton I think it would be better to explain what's happening though. That you are spending 1 part energy from electricity + 3 parts energy from the air to get your 4 parts heat in your home. I don't think it's a difficult thing to explain and it's better for people to understand it
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Heat pumps are such extraordinarily efficient tech, some people simply can’t believe they could be real.
Andrew Orlowski@AndrewOrlowski
Whipple went for lunch with someone from the Tony Blair institute and they invented a perpetual motion machine.
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@PBaboins @ClemCowton It's being very pedantic.
You get 4 times more energy (into your house) than you put in (to your heat pump)
Is a perfectly valid description.
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@ClemCowton Tbf, the journalist technically has got it wrong. You get four times as much energy as you PAY FOR, you are putting energy in from air. But that's probably pedantic.
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@worstall @AndrewOrlowski You get 4 times more energy (in your house) than you put in (to the heat pump).
Seems pretty accurate to me.
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@AndrewOrlowski Four times more energy than you put in? Eh?
Possibly - possibly! - move 4x heat than the energy it takes to move it but that's different....
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Whipple went for lunch with someone from the Tony Blair institute and they invented a perpetual motion machine.
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A lot of responses like this. How Carney is being stupid and spiteful. How BYD vehicles will spy on Canadians. The important thing to bear in mind is that none of these observations matter. The effect of Trump's trade policies is to give China a major North American breakthrough.
Tweet Serith@SerithTweet
@TheStalwart Everything canada does is a spiteful reaction.
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@Object_Zero_ Why have you drawn a line from onshore-offfshore fixed, and offshore-floating?
surely it makes sense to compare the ~£87 AR6 offshore wind to the ~£90 AR7 offshore wind?
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@HCH_Hill "Centralising power" over rent pricings by imposing rent controls only stops landlords increasing rents. So on the face of it I don't see how it's possible that overall rent prices could increase as a result of it.
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The 'centralising power' Tom is referring to here is exclusively for projects that councils *want to block*, so on the face of it his concern seems actually impossible, but I'm sure That London will find a way.
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It's unusual that nobody reading this seems capable of realising that this isn't 1.2 million graduates, it 1.2 million Applications
An individual can make more than 1 application.
unusual_whales@unusual_whales
The U.K. is experiencing a significant employment crisis among Gen Z, with approximately 1.2 million recent graduates competing for only 17,000 entry-level job openings, the most unfavorable supply-to-demand ratio since the late 1990s.
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@GrahamMinshall5 @HCH_Hill If a pensioner has income from savings or company pension, then the state pension surely gives them an extra £208 a week disposable income?
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@HCH_Hill You really are stupid, no pensioner has disposable income from from their old age pension, it comes from their savings or company pension, which all have paid into for decades, you tell me how much disposable income income I have from £208 pounds a week?
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Imagine writing "mine is the only generation with disposable income" and thinking that this justified fiscal transfers to you.
Sandy Tregent@SandyofSuffolk
Yesterday I went to Felixstowe. All the cafes, restaurants and pubs were full. Of pensioners. Like me. Last week, we went to Bressingham gardens. All the visitors were pensioners. Like me. Afterwards we went for a pub lunch. All the customers were pensioners. Like me. I've just come back from Notcutts with a friend @b_donc it was full. Full of customers like us. Older people. Pensioners are keeping daytime businesses going. If it wasn't for us, there would be loads more business closures. Us oldies are really doing our bit to boost businesses and the economy. You can thank me. 😜
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@broon313 @Broonjunior @TonyMcKelvie There's clearly a disfunction in recruitment when we had last seasons big signings Engels (£11m) and Idah (£9M) both starting on the bench.
It's a similar problem to Rodgers last stint where the club (manager/scouts/board, wherever the blame lies) didn't recruit well.
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@Broonjunior @TonyMcKelvie Budget disparity was huge last night. You make a fair point re manager, but it's the same guy who came within 30s of beating Bayern Munich 6 months ago. Kyogo + Kuhn 50+ goals between them, neither replaced despite income of £25m+ from their sale.
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Celtic is a team that doesn't know how to win important matches, belonging to a club that doesn't know what to do with all its cash, owned by a company absent a functioning executive and run by an unaccountable minority shareholder.
I think I've got that right.
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@Object_Zero_ @thomasforth 1. 36% of the public sector productivity can't change as it's measured on a costs=outputs basis
2. Since about 2007 the lines look to have behaved quite similarly?
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With Torsten Bell's rise yet closer to power the usual waves of "what we need to get growth is cut taxes" vibe wafts across the timeline. I can see the logic of these people, and I think most can see the logic of my opposite opinion, so why do we come out on different sides?
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@ShireStrike @CoKeynesian Why do you think that is?
Do you think the devolved government in Scotland or Wales has made the same as Westminster would have?
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@CambeulJan @CoKeynesian This is totally irrelevant with a unified currency.
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@ShireStrike @CoKeynesian Tax raising and spending powers at subnational levels. Like the Germans or Americans have with state/city taxes.
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@CoKeynesian How are you supposed to have a “decentralised” government in a mass society?
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@echetus @Somatichealer0 @joseph_rohrbach An average of 1,683 houses per year between 2011 and 2024 in Cambridge + South Cambridgeshire?
Is this the future of the British economy?
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“GDP/capita of Cambridge is low by European standards”
This is obviously not true, and in any case there aren’t any figures for Cambridge’s GDP per capita.
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@michael_merrick FIFA/UEFA and Olympics all banned Russia after they invaded Ukraine. So it's not just Israel, is it?
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Whatever it is - bans or boycotts - it's only ever Israel, isn't it? Never China, or Syria, or Sudan, or Iran, or Afghanistan, or several other places you could choose from. Only ever Israel. Makes you think.
Leyla Hamed@leylahamed
UEFA and FIFA have the power to punish the member association who is currently committing these crimes they are ‘talking’ about. But as long as they refuse to ban Israel, they continue to be complicit in the ongoing genocide against Palestinians.
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@ChrisMcEleny At £800,000 per home who is it affordable for? Definitely not the tax payer.
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@_JamieMcIntyre When you ask for scale and location to be appropriate, are you thinking larger or smaller scale?
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Delivers higher community benefit *and* ensures scale & location are locally appropriate.
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What about community *ownership* as the solution?
Lesley Riddoch@LesleyRiddoch
Both UK & Scotgov Energy Ministers absent from Highland Windfarm Convention in Inverness. Tories & Fergus Ewing getting applause. Emma Roddick SNP MSP heckled for saying she thinks higher community benefit is solution. Think we are way past that.
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@B_Disappointed @paint3245 @tomhfh Actually the opposite happened.
The nuclear industry was sold off and privatised in 1996.
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@paint3245 @tomhfh Tony Blair and socialism happened.
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Imagine if we continued to grow nuclear power production after 1997 instead of letting it collapse.
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