So it isn’t necessarily correct to say the carbon footprint of natural materials is lower. The carbon footprint per unit weight of a lot of plastics isn’t actually bad when factored in with the durability of the end product and quite often high recyclability. While you have fairly high carbon intensity in making it,…

They should have called his bluff and had him propose a motion to block unrelated items in Bills, which is a big problem in every country, but very much so in the US.

To be fair that is a very arguable justification if it involves breaking commitments. If Australia were having an outbreak it would be very murky, they are only really getting away with it because Australia has a much better handle on covid.

The ROI/NI border needs to stay open because it was the primary import export route for the whole island. It’s also not like the UK doesn’t have geographic isolation as an option, public health is also a devolved matter across the whole of the UK.

Actually 100x would be fairly conservative, standard electrical fit out for a home is peanuts, off grid capable needs a very different set up ideally and just having the set up for solar on the roof and battery packs etc can massively rack up the cost vs standard build given you need better quality and standard of…

That would cost an absolute fortune per home, for a new build you could be talking 100x on current costs for electrical fit out on a home just to have the facility to have some of those features let alone actually fit them.

I kind of feel like additional SKUs in this generation from both sides is a little irrelevant at the moment given they sell 100% of everything they shove out the door. Surely it would be better to just get better volume out of the existing SKUs rather than waste time and money with new ones unless they are going to…

From what I understand volumes on parts sales are still as good as ever if not better, the competition on the market is fiercer for sure, but the building community is still huge.

I’m not apologising for Churchill, largely because I don’t believe it requires apology given A. I’m not Churchill and B. his views were of his time and thus irrelevant. However that disregards the point that there was an alternative for the UK against Germany, although less so by the time Churchill was in power,…

There is a big difference between the management of a city sim type title and a AAA RPG title, hugely different in terms of scope and scale in almost every area. Skylines also had a long time to generate sales and if firmly in the Paradox get it out the door then screw every drop of money out of it with DLC model.

There isn’t really a difference between passivity and peaceful in that context. The everyone is the same argument is also silly, there are many differentiating factors in humans and ignoring them leads to discrimination as well as exploiting them.

He didn’t put racism in his art or didn’t burn an empire to the ground? Historically the latter is very true given the UK only finished paying off US war loans in the late 90s and gave up all of its remaining territories even where there was no clear internal political driver to do so. Certainly some of that is…

He isn’t really a racist though from what I can see from the article, he’s anti-feminist/opposed to gamergate, which isn’t really saying that he doesn’t perceive the value of minorities. And even that’s not straight cut as extreme feminists like Rowling as an example aren’t peaceful either by your definition. However…

I was mostly commenting originally on your point about art vs beliefs and the ability to independently express and hold different and even conflicting beliefs.

For some you could do that, but as often that’s the consumers interpretation as much as that of the original author. And there are plenty artists where you absolutely know their views would not be consistent with today, but the work still stands up as at best neutral.

You are aware of the conflict in your statement? You disagree with him, but will punish all his colleagues for his views regardless of what the product is like and how he behaves professionally.

There are many examples of famous Artists or individuals that were artists and there views had absolutely no impact on their work either artistic or professional. While some people’s personal views are expressed strongly in their art for many they make no distinction at all. It’s not like that’s an unusual premise,…

To be fair some people should just know better, and it may well still work out long term cheaper as a model. I know I’ve got a similar system for my electricity, but I at least have a local annual cap that’s actually reasonable. If a similar situation happened here the worst case scenario wouldn’t wipe out all the…

Because people are complex creatures capable of complex thought and opinions and don’t have to maintain a logical structure.

So you are okay with corporations making moral judgements about your character before hiring you? Because that is what you are arguing for, there is a reason for so long the rule has been leave your personal opinions at home has been a fairly universal rule.