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New comment by iso1631 in "Oceans hit highest temperature on record"

iso1631 — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 12:56:06 +0000

Not in the EU but have similar regulations

> less efficient home appliances (dishwasher, washing machine, drier)

How exactly are they less efficient?

> cookie law

The fault being those trying to steal my data

> car annoyances (e.g. "beep if over the speed limit")

I haven't seen that

> paper straws

I'll give you that one, however in my country its businesses that stopped it just to customer pressure, not a law, indeed it's perfectly legal to serve plastic straws to people, its just people don't ask for them

> attached bottle caps

These are great

> LED lights

These are also great

> expensive electricity

In my country that's due to the price of gas

New comment by iso1631 in "Credit Card Rewards Became a $9.2B Wealth Transfer"

iso1631 — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 12:41:58 +0000

> If interchange fees were capped, people would go back to cash, imo

And this is based off evidence from countries where interchange fees are capped?

New comment by iso1631 in "Credit Card Rewards Became a $9.2B Wealth Transfer"

iso1631 — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 12:29:51 +0000

In my country card fees are less than cash fees, so I guess that's a wealth transfer from card payers to cash payers?

New comment by iso1631 in "Credit Card Rewards Became a $9.2B Wealth Transfer"

iso1631 — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 12:27:41 +0000

Or you could simply not pay on the credit card, and avoid the trap?

New comment by iso1631 in "iCloud+ Hide My Email addresses will remain on icloud.com"

iso1631 — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 09:15:20 +0000

I do this and have done for over a decade (and used to from about 1998 to 2006 when I ran my own mail server), and don't receive any emails like this

New comment by iso1631 in "Woman stranded in Spain after UK's eVisa system mistakes her for twin sister"

iso1631 — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 15:27:43 +0000

I had professional photographers (guy at timpsons) do it with when my kids were that age. Was a doddle and cost about £5

The hilarity of having to compare a baby picture with a 5 year old kid stood in front of you is a separate problem.

New comment by iso1631 in "UK internet age checks have boosted rogue adult sites, says Pornhub"

iso1631 — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 14:10:34 +0000

There are sites which follow laws and those that don't.

New comment by iso1631 in "UK internet age checks have boosted rogue adult sites, says Pornhub"

iso1631 — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 14:10:05 +0000

Another

The UK tried to ban choking porn. Quite reasonable given the realities of monkey-see monkey-do.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/06/chokin...

Trouble is, "nobody in the UK" consumes porn.

Had they not passed the "ban porn site" bill then the majority of people would be viewing porn on sites which will enforce (or at least attempt to enforce), and consumption of it would reduce.

Instead UK people consume port from places which is quite happy to have choking, bestiality, and child porn.

Good job Mary Whitehouse Brigade.

New comment by iso1631 in "US Military's cyber command unit grapples with cluster of deaths by suicide"

iso1631 — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 15:51:17 +0000

Neither Norway nor the UK are in the EU.

And Russia is constantly attacking europe (EU and non-EU), in addition to its invasion of a European country.

Of the three adversaries you mention, and the additional one being the US technocratic administration, China is the least threatening to Europe.

New comment by iso1631 in "US Military's cyber command unit grapples with cluster of deaths by suicide"

iso1631 — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 17:55:26 +0000

That's just deliberate damage to the US, his actions have increased move to energy sovereignty globally and done more for net zero than any president before him.

New comment by iso1631 in "US Military's cyber command unit grapples with cluster of deaths by suicide"

iso1631 — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 17:53:08 +0000

This was wasn't after January 2021, and hasn't been during his second term. There are methods to hold presidents accountable, there are institutions to prevent the harm from happening.

These have failed.

New comment by iso1631 in "US Military's cyber command unit grapples with cluster of deaths by suicide"

iso1631 — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 17:51:02 +0000

> There's lots of people working for NATO and federal agencies in Europe that have been assassinated by the luckystrike branch of the FSB. The name comes from the Telegram account with underscores in between, and they're essentially recruiting kids or former inmates for GTA style missions.

Iran too

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwyqggvyp1do

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jul/29/norwegian-te...

New comment by iso1631 in "US Military's cyber command unit grapples with cluster of deaths by suicide"

iso1631 — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 17:40:58 +0000

Well that would be fine if it was defence. But it's now the department of war, led by a person who has attacked two countries this year alone.

New comment by iso1631 in "Microsoft Edge is about to lock out older ad blockers, just like Chrome did"

iso1631 — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 17:27:33 +0000

You talking about the creators that have ads in their videos?

I tend to skip those, although map men's are good, but I also tend to prefer those who don't have ads.

New comment by iso1631 in "Tax cuts for the wealthy only benefit the rich (2023)"

iso1631 — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 17:16:02 +0000

More "vacuumed up" than trickled

New comment by iso1631 in "US strikes $1.2B deal to pay German firm to halt offshore wind projects"

iso1631 — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 16:07:12 +0000

Trump is ugly and noisy

New comment by iso1631 in "US strikes $1.2B deal to pay German firm to halt offshore wind projects"

iso1631 — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 13:09:00 +0000

I'd argue quality of life is down since the invention of smartphones

> There must be a cap where quality of life is good enough though, right?

Maybe in some hypothetical future, but even the fantastical world Star Trek TNG has improvements on quality of life that could be made.

I think part of the problem of today lands on the post-cold war and certainly post-911 media landscape. There just aren't optimistic future. Distopia is more popular and certainly more numerous than Utopia.

New comment by iso1631 in "US strikes $1.2B deal to pay German firm to halt offshore wind projects"

iso1631 — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 12:22:37 +0000

Coal rolling is done to spite the holier-than-thou sanctamonious bullshit that people who say "we need to eat lentils and live in a cave" come out with. It's an illogical reaction, but it's human.

We need answers, not revert to a world of catholic sin

Change your car to run off electric, great

Change your city to transport 1000 people by train rahter than 1000 separate cars, great

Power your AC from your off-grid rooftop solar, great

Whine that people need to stop using AC, stop eating meat, stop watching TV, it's just harmful.

New comment by iso1631 in "US strikes $1.2B deal to pay German firm to halt offshore wind projects"

iso1631 — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 12:16:01 +0000

Do smart watches and cameras and llms increase quality of life?

New comment by iso1631 in "US strikes $1.2B deal to pay German firm to halt offshore wind projects"

iso1631 — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 12:14:53 +0000

In medieval times we used tiny amounts of energy on lighting and everyone sat around in the dark, however the energy used per lumen and indeed the carbon impact per lumen was far higher than it is today

Do you think we should return to medieval heat and light?