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Ironically it's probably because so many of the slop videos try and copy their style. However I would have thought YouTube would be more proactive with a channel with 25M subs.

Oh totally. I'm fortunate I have off road parking and a beefy solar grid so my normal runabout and commute is functionally free.

The UK has recently made the process of getting charging gullys for house hold street charging easier to get approved and installed. The remaining challenge is HMO's and hi rises. We could either mandate lower rates for locals using public charging infrastructure or more ubiquitous low power charging available at hi-rise car parks given most cars will be parked for at least 8 hours "overnight".

We took the electric car for our families European road trip last week which saw us land in Spain, loop through southern France before returning via Caen. While we were using an app too plan stops with high speed CCS chargers we certainly didn't need to go out of our way. Unsurprisingly the major trunk routes are well appointed with fast chargers - generally cheaper than the UK fast chargers as well.

Range anxiety isn't really a thing I feel these days and having regular breaks helps with the quality of the driving.

Plastics, waxes, solvents, synthetic fibres and even pharmaceuticals. There are second order products from cracking like hydrogen which are important for things like fertilizer but that is rather carbon intensive.

You can use organic oils for some of these. However organic oils are more complex so need to be broken down into simpler building blocks which all takes energy and processing. Of course you also need to grow oil bearing plants which also tend to require a lot of fertilizer.

Time your run with the pulsing sphincter!

My first year Chemistry dissertation was about this. Of all the useful things you can do with hydrocarbons burning them is the most wasteful.

Hmm I see nothing - I guess the posts don't federate back to .ml?

I joined the .ml server because it was the dev server. Looking at the communities I subscribe to most are on other servers. Occasionally people ascribe beliefs to me based on my home server but so far I haven't bothered looking for a new home.

When I first joined there were a bunch of popular instances that closed down so choosing a non-dev server seemed like a bit of a gamble. Same with mastodon servers.

We also have the very catch all of "disturbing the peace". Some friends of mine got done with that because the police had been called despite no actual crime being committed. They were eventually "bound over" for a year which is basically a deferred fine to encourage you not to do anything that attracts the police's attention.

I don't begrudge peoples difficulties with English. It has some positives like not needing gendered conjugation for objects and a fairly wide cultural exposure. However it freely steals words from other languages making it a bit of a mongrel. Also the spelling and pronunciation is entirely non-regular so the usual answer to people looking for rules to work these things out is "just know".

Thanks. Are they related? I don't understand any Asian languages myself but I do recognise difference in for example the Korean symbols and Japanese ones. But Japanese and Chinese ideograms look very similar to my ignorant eyes.

It's super common if it's any sort of open source project because the collaborators can be anywhere and English is a good baseline.

IIRC one of the big tasks when Star Office became Open Office (later Libre Office) was translating a bunch of the German comments to make the code more accessible.

I'm sure I've seen some majority french code bases as well. There are certainly academic hypervisors out of China which have comments in Chinese kanji.