As if the stance of a sheep is surprising...

Please. Sheep have identifiable desires and goals in life. Not much, sure, immediate food, immediate safety and being near other sheep. But still identifiable.

You are doing a real disservice to sheep with this comment.

I also live in the UK and like millions of my countrymen I live on a terrace, so charging at home is basically impossible.

I also live in the UK on a terrace. The council licensed a variety of companies to install lamp post chargers, so people can charge at home. These problems are entirely solvable.

Just as a reminder, the US automakers benefited from almost total immunity from bearing the costs of their externalities, plus multiple bailouts over decades, plus literal fucking wars fought to keep their vehicles fuelled.

And so much more. Laws were created at the behest of the auto industry. People are often banned from he freedom of doing something as natural as crossing the road. Zoning laws have made it more or less impossible to build cities that are not dependent on cars. And if states get out of hand with using their states rights for something other than praising Jesus, oppressing women or celebrating traitors, then the federal government will try and step in to suppress any measures they don't like such as congestion charging and emission standards.

The difference is one is prescribed for pain by doctors and sold by drug companies. The other is self-medicated and sold by street vendors.

In some places, heroin is available on prescription, for when morphine won't cut it. It's usually used after incredibly painful surgeries.

No, I have no idea what you're talking about. I've not had mod points for longer than I can remember too. You're not the main character just a victim of a website that doesn't get much love and is likely quite buggy.

What if they ban me for the same reason

What if they ban you for the same reasons that a million cranks a day are largely ignored? It's true, every right wing loonie might be the next unsung scientific genius (in which case we are about to enter a period of scientific advancement the world has never seen before) or you could just be a crank who is coloured so deeply by politics that feeling trump reality,

Or you could be somewhere between.

But my money is that you are not the next Semmelweiss.

Size does in a phone but below a certain threshold thickness is irrelevant.

Imagine trying to stuff something the size of an A4 sheet of paper, but rigid into your pocket. Maybe if only it was 50gsm not 80 it would be comfortable...

Below a certain point, the curvature of you against a flat, rigid phone accounts for as much effective thickness as the phone.

Ooorrrrr buy trash bags?

I've been through this whole process. Actual trash bags are larger and thinner than grocery bags. They don't need to take such heavy weight and don't need to go as far. Plus people don't buy trash bags then litter them. You can also buy biodegradable plastic bags that won't permanently release micro plastics into the environment.

It's really not that bad. I used to tree use carrier bags too. I've got used to the new way and I think it's actually better.

Yes, because we all love walking half a mile a day in the rain

It is said that Americana think a hundred years is a long time and Europeans think a hundred miles is a long way. Unless you parked at the far end of the Walmart carpark in which case Americans think 100 yards is a long way.

There are these devices called "rain coats" and "umbrellas" that you can use to prevent getting wet while your are strolling fire all of 10 minutes. Did you seriously just complain about walking for 10 minutes??? .carrying groceries in paper bags

Good grief why must you make everything so incredibly difficult? Who on earth would use paper bags, especially in the rain. We have these things called "reusable bags" where I live that are often made of cloth.

or transporting 20-kilo items.

Look it's late and I'm tired. Ultimately you probably won't believe that people actually live in London. Maybe you'll concede we do but convince yourself that we live as Sisyphus constantly pushing heavy weights up a hill for all eternity. We don't, by the way.

Maybe one day or will occur to you that people have actually figured out how to live without a car (it's almost like settled civilisation managed that for 6000 years or so), and that transplanting every one of the most perverse things you do in the most car centric parts of America is not actually a very good model of the world.

But what do I know? I've only been living without a car since 2009.

You're both right and wrong. It looks like Panasonic now make an upgraded version with an inverter. It is a little more efficient, 2650W Vs 2830W, but they both have an output power of 1800W, so it's still no faster. Microwaves are generally limited by the output power of the magnetrons, so they're rated by that, not the input power. Still there's not a lot in it by the looks of it.

As for fast kettles, well I'm British. I drink a lot of tea.

You appear to have a lot of faith in the ability of AI to not invent statistically plausible crap.

The average case is not people admitting failure. So in the interests of generating the statistically most likely outcome, it won't admit failure.

Inverter microwaves aren't any better at heating water to boiling than the regular kind. What they are better at is lower power levels.

Also unless you have an epically huge microwave, then a kettle is faster. My 3kW kettle does beat or my pretty huge 1800W industrial microwave. Unfortunately they don't make that model with an inverter for some reason, their only comparable one has an opaque door for some reason. My one quibble is the duty cycle is a bit long for really got low power performance.

I would also recommend installing such a plug so you can have a good kettle.

I usually chuck mine in the dishwasher. Or honestly just rinse it off stove a bit of coffee oil residue doesn't matter between washes.

Not sure I follow to be honest. Barrel jacks aren't usually waterproof, so not much difference from usbc. They're still allowed to do stuff with screw terminalis inside designed to be hard wired. Anything external you can always pot in construction adhesive, epoxy or hot melt for some ad hoc waterproofing.