rlamacraft @rlamacraft@qoto.org

The UK Environment Agency has some tips for the public to help conserve water, including

> Deleting old emails to reduce pressure on data centre servers

I kid you not.

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/england-faces-5-billion-litre-public-water-shortage-by-2055-without-urgent-action

The singular of data is not anecdote.

Consider, if LLMs existed in the 1820s trained on all the knowledge of that time they would be enthusiastically recommending leeches and bloodletting as medical procedures.

First past the post might not be ideal, but proportional representation isn't the utopia people think it it. Just take Israel for example. Far right nut jobs never get enough votes to rule, but just enough to threaten to collapse the government unless they get what they want.

Nettles are lovely green leaves that are healthy to eat, easy to grow, but hard to process. Supermarkets should sell frozen nettles to include in curries and stews, just like they sell bags full of blocks of frozen spinach.

I have zero sympathy for people who lost their homes due to cliff erosion or are about to soon. You knew perfectly well what you were risking when you bought a house teetering on the edge of a cliff. You have only yourself and your stupid decision-making "skills" to blame.

London doesn't have much in common with the rest of the UK so it should be split off in to its own country and added as a 5th UK country

JSON implies the existence of JDÓTTIR

Referendums are abdication of duty and responsibility of elected representatives and should never be used.

Just thinking about better ways to penalize corporations that break the law.

Fines are trivial and never keep pace with reality. Instead, what if companies had to give back a chunk of shares to the government? Issuing new shares that dilute existing shareholder value, and making the govt part owners. Effectively, nationalize the company in degrees with every breach of trust.

Brioche has no right to exist. It's too sweet for a bread. Too dense for a pastry. And too bland for a cake.

The only way for Labour to resolve its internal differences - and the Labour electorate too - is: to implement PR during this parliament; split in two; then form a coalition after the next election, with the Lib Dems and/or Greens thrown in too

Slightly pedantic, but the government actually does have a magic money tree and it's called the Bank of England. It can, and does, create money out of thin air. It would be far more accurate to say 'We have a magic money tree but we have to be careful how we use it'.

As of today, “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone” was published closer to the Apollo 11 Moon landing than it was to the present day.

Why don’t we want to clutter that first line? Why the 50 character limit when monitors these days allow greater resolutions than the old 80 character width limit?

One word. Scannability. With git log —pretty=oneline I want a vertical list of meaningful summaries I can scan down without too much lateral eye movement. Try doing that with 140+ characters! 50 wide seems about right.

The lack of public toilets in our towns and cities is a national disgrace. Simple solution: give businesses a small rebate on their council tax in exchange for allowing non-customers to use their facilities.