I think you've put your finger on the problem.

It's easy to pick the well thought out logic of this argument by the way A/C uses the phrase "Gaymer faggots" which as everyone knows is entirely sensible.
Everyone who mods the A/C down must be a Communist.

Have you considered trying to not be a giant arsehole? I suppose not.

The last Hollywood blockbuster I thought might be worth pirating was the Barbie movie. I thought it was ok but not worth whatever they are charging at a cinema.
I used to enjoy superhero movies, but they've been recycling plots for about 20 years now. Star Wars jumped the shark a long time ago, and the last Star Trek series I happened to catch was just appallingly written.

Thanks for the links, some really interesting projects.
The United Downs project looks like the most promising one, apart from a tiny project in Southhampton that seems to use a source of geothermally heated water to directly heat some buildings.
I can't find anything that says United Downs is actually producing any electricity yet, but they seem to have drilled the holes down to more than 5 KMs which is pretty impressive.

I'm not sure how you'd go about doing geothermal power in the UK. It's an extremely old landmass with no active volcanism. Presumably you'd need to drill down several 10's of kilometres which I'm thinking might be hard.

I'm happy to see stories like these. It's a device I might be interested in buying if they'd sell them outside the EU.
The link in your sig is dead by the way. Maybe a vacuum tube has gone pop.

Get with the times Grandad. Everyone just uses their phone now.

The lower SO2 fuel does cause a small weakening of the masking effect, effectively giving a boost to ocean warming, but there are other, larger things happening that have had a larger effect, such as the Hunga Tonga–Hunga Ha’apai eruption and much lower levels of Saharan dust.

Apparently it's bad when she does it.

When was she president?

I'm a happy Linux Mint user, but I agree with you.
There is a very basic image editor called Pix on Mint, which is fine for basic crops and touchups but if I want to do anything really in depth there's GIMP.
GIMP is still awful by the way.

China is way too integrated into capitalism to be "sanctioned into oblivion".
They're not Russia or North Korea.

Heavily armed cops bursting into people's houses and waving guns around is a mostly American problem. It doesn't happen much in civilised countries.
I looked at the photos in the article and those guys look more like an occupying army than policemen to be honest.

It says she's a lawyer, but I'm not buying it based on the level of her literacy.