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And then YouTube Premium is just not a good deal in my eyes, £12.99 a month is an awful lot to pay just to not see Ads.

I think this includes YouTube music (at least in my market it does) which makes it fairly good value for money if you already subscribe to a music streaming app.

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I think so, but with ads just like the free tier of Spotify.

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But worse for those looking for a rental.

Rent control is a bandaid on a real problem that makes things worse long term. What California needs is build more, which means end the NIMBY and unfreeze property taxes so those seating on underutilized land are forced to develop it or sell.

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Given the millions of people whose retirement fund is invested in the stock market, yes it will.

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The set-point theory is junk science propagated by the HAES movement. Human bodies can’t escape the laws of physics, if you eat less energy than you expand you’ll lose weight unless your body somehow evolved the ability for photosynthesis or nuclear power.

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It’s the F14. Its wings fucking move to change the shape of the aircraft!

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Ah the yearly Oxfam cherry picked data. For this one, they say “since 2020” but really this is “since Mars 2020 when the stock market was crashing and hitting incredible lows”, which helps inflate their click-baity figures.

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Get off your soap box, I just pointed out that Oxfam numbers are manipulated.

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Those two months do skew the numbers. Why do you think they specifically picked March and not January as anybody else would?

You can defend your opinions without having to manipulate the numbers.

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Doesn’t change anything to Oxfam doing cherry picking.

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No it doesn’t. Cheap solar is great but even if it was $0, you’d still need some other tech to provide electricity when the sun is down. So it’s either gas, batteries, nuclear, etc. but you can’t just use solar alone.

And until batteries get good enough, nuclear is the cleanest option we have.

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Germany has tons of solar and winds and yet it is pretty common to have neither (windless nights) at which point the entire grid needs to be powered by non renewables. That’s a lot of standby power.

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How long will it take for us to get good enough batteries?

Including the time to manufacture and install them at utility scales (we are talking powering an entire nation out of batteries for hours), way more than a decade.

Batteries are already being installed on grids but they can only help so much smooth out power delivery. They are very very far from having the ability to completely take over an entire grid.

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They could. Someday.

Nuclear can, now.

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Time is running out on the climate, how many decades can we wait for the “perfect” solution to show up when we have a good enough one right now they can help?

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I learned the same lesson the same way 😞

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Android? Google Photo? Google Pixel? Google Pay? Google Apps? Chrome? Chromebook? Google Drive? Chromecast? Android Auto?

They launched a ton of successful stuff since Maps came out in 2005

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But all “successes” are gonna be years old. You don’t turn something like Chromebook into an overnight success. It takes years for an ecosystem to grow, users to find use cases, software revisions to polish the product, word of mouth, etc.

For comparison the Apple watch came out in 2015 and Airpods in 2016. What other successes has Apple had in the past 7 years? Maybe their AR thing will take off, but if it does it’s probably 5-10 years from becoming a mass market product.

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That is really playing with words… Android (the OS people run on their phone) was originally developed by a company bought by Google, which then funded it, made the overwhelming number of contributions to it for 19 years, does the marketing, certification plus all the non-open source elements that make the experience what 99.99% of users get everyday when they use their phone.

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I personally love it. Being able to search “Tom at the beach drinking a cocktail” and get all the relevant pictures is magic.

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In my experience laser Brothers are still less fussy and way more reliable and durable than competing brands.

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