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It's actually much more than 20x for just all available offshore wind, but if you restrict it to just the most economically viable parts and including onshore, it works out at around 20x. I've lost the reference I had for that.

Indeed, and the environmentalists are on board with it because although it will disrupt the local wildlife, it will create new habitats, and in the end the reduction in damage from not using fossil fuels to generate that energy far outweighs the downsides.

There has never been a point in recorded history when the British Isles and territorial waters were windless.

And yes, we have hydro, we have storage, and we could have a hell of a lot more.

Actually the former head of the National Grid said that. The guy running the UK's grid said that the concept of base load was obsolete, and he was right.

The UK has at least 20x as much wind power available than its current electricity consumption. Energy independence is entirely possible, if not particularly desirable.

The UK could be a massive exporter of clean energy. Scotland in particular could be getting rich off it, but like with the oil they aren't seeing as much of the benefit as they should be seeing.

While this is mostly mismanagement, this statement is just silly. Of course there's an element of climate change involved in water management. Iran has already seen a decline in precipitation and it's estimated to only get drier. Combine that with the intensity of rain increasing causing flooding (which is bad for water management since it means water going to the ocean rather than into the ground) and you definitely have a contributor.

Now it's still nothing like contribution of mismanagement, but it's stupid to used the number "zero".

I think you'll find it's actually quite difficult to cut one's own head off.

This has nothing to do with Trump. It takes years of mismanagement to poison people on such a scale. This wasn't even about Trump, he wasn't mentioned, but thanks for showing the world you feel so triggered that you need to simp for him anytime anyone mentions something bad.

Why do you think that is? Why is it everytime anyone mentions bad government you think it's about Trump?

For short term transient activities backups are rarely done for most things.

Actually no. XDG defines 7 directories in total for apps to spread their data across. Firefox is now splitting up across *two* of them. What was previous in ~/.mozilla may not be found in ~/.config/mozilla or ~/.cache/mozilla

It's not bad, but the OP is on point saying that files are split up.

Incidentally GIMP spreads its files across 3 different folders (add ~/.local/share to the list), LibreOffice across three, the other two programs use just the one though.

And reporting desired features as bugs is the reason bugs are triaged and put somewhere, such as into a backlog bin of "maybe I'll do that when I get to it in the next decade".

Also no it's not the only way people can contribute. How much have you donated? Or let me guess, you only care about using the product for free and thing bug reporting is worth its weight in gold?

Nope. I'm saying that unless you are the coder then the priority for what gets done is exclusively at the behest of the coders. If you care about this "bug" that has been open for 15 years then contribute more than simply filling out a bugzilla request. If that 15 year old bug is still there the chances are that no one gives a shit about fixing it.

This isn't double/tripple dipping. It's more like 5 to 6 times dipping because you forget that they take license fees for encoders too.

Oh my god, you just proved my point so eloquently. I said you didn't read it properly, and you proceeded to ... not even look at all the words in the sentence.

I've never seen someone so stupid try and call someone else a dumbfuck. My friend I won't insult you further, with your self-own you're doing that job wonderfully yourself.

Sooner or later? They ignored the Supreme Court ordering them to facilitate the return of Abrego Garcia. Instead they spent a month coming up with some of the dumbest and lamest excuses as to why they couldn't, shouldn't, wouldn't, musn't, etc. Only after every excuse fell flat they went "oh okay, and got the guy back within a couple of days"

We're well past the point of the Trump administration ignoring the courts.

I'm not really clear what it even does. You get an @thundermail.com address I think, probably blocked or assumed to be spam by many systems. Anything else?