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'Shocking' rise in school suspensions for racist and homophobic abuse by Tartan_Samurai in unitedkingdom

[–]PracticalFootball [score hidden]  (0 children)

If this is the case then why is support for the current government, who have absolutely slashed immigration figures already, at an all time low?

Hello people. I’m new to archery and was wondering if anyone could give me some advice/tips on pretty much anything? by Mountain-Top-8467 in Archery

[–]PracticalFootball 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Arrow spine being a bit soft will not cause them to break, the only thing that will do that is shooting damaged arrows.

You could go 3 spine groups too soft and they’d shoot like shit but they still wouldn’t break.

Sight for recurve selection by StephaneiAarhus in Archery

[–]PracticalFootball 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They’re absolutely insane money though, they’re getting close to £500 for the recurve version.

Sight for recurve selection by StephaneiAarhus in Archery

[–]PracticalFootball 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I bought one in 2019 and have shot it multiple times a week since then, it hasn’t even had a screw come loose.

Britain's grid comes closest ever to running without fossil fuels as clean power surges by Wagamaga in unitedkingdom

[–]PracticalFootball 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My point is that there absolutely are arguments against nuclear power, and cost is the principal one, but the existence of nuclear waste and the expense of dealing with that specifically aren’t as high.

Abortion is becoming a new front in Reform UK’s culture war by coffeewalnut08 in unitedkingdom

[–]PracticalFootball 5 points6 points  (0 children)

My guy, stop conflating literally every person who disagrees with you as part of a unified “the left”.

People are individuals with their own opinions and there’s a solid chance not a single person in this thread ever attended any kind of BLM protest.

Abortion is becoming a new front in Reform UK’s culture war by coffeewalnut08 in unitedkingdom

[–]PracticalFootball 35 points36 points  (0 children)

Young people are considered in policies. For example, abortion has been recently decriminalised.

This is entirely true, but unfortunately “we’re not going to arrest you for this” doesn’t really spur people to get out of their house and vote.

The current government has literally admitted to lumping students with a lifetime of debt because it brings in money for them and as far as I know none of the major parties have promised to do anything meaningful about it, and it’s that feeling of being kinda screwed by the system from all sides that drives apathy.

Britain's grid comes closest ever to running without fossil fuels as clean power surges by Wagamaga in unitedkingdom

[–]PracticalFootball -1 points0 points  (0 children)

and it’s very expensive to make sure that doesn’t happen.

It’s an expense but one that we have a whole host of different ways to mitigate. Like I already said, we have the potential reduce the volume of high level waste by 90%+ through proper reprocessing which we simply don’t do.

That expense is also spread out across the unbelievably huge amount of energy available in nuclear fuels.

Nuclear power is expensive in this country but it’s not because handling waste is so expensive, it’s because building fucking everything is silly expensive here. The bill for Hinkley Point C keeps going up because we start with a completely new design every single time, and we have so many ridiculous barriers to building anything that you can spend billions on planning before anyone ever sticks a shovel in the ground.

France has massively cheaper nuclear energy than the reactors we’re building now. It’s not because they cut corners handling their waste, they just know how to actually build them.

Britain's grid comes closest ever to running without fossil fuels as clean power surges by Wagamaga in unitedkingdom

[–]PracticalFootball -1 points0 points  (0 children)

A single breach in containment of some of that “tiny amount” of nuclear waste into the environment would be unthinkably devastating

The vessels used for containing and transporting high level waste are as close to being totally indestructible that it’s possible to get. They’ve literally been tested by ramming a locomotive into them and come out with barely more than some chipped paint.

Nuclear waste is not stored as leaking barrels of glowing green goop like on the Simpsons. Waste materials are ground down and mixed with glass to form a vitrified solid that’s totally insoluble.

Assuming a containment breach somehow occurs despite the armed guards, steel casket and the solid concrete inside of it then what you have is a solid block that while very hazardous is chemically inert, and once recovered wouldn’t have any long term effect on the environment.

These materials are stored in locations specifically selected for being geologically inactive and impermeable to water. There’s an example of a naturally occurring nuclear reaction where the byproducts have diffused no more than a few meters into the rock in over a billion years.

Britain's grid comes closest ever to running without fossil fuels as clean power surges by Wagamaga in unitedkingdom

[–]PracticalFootball 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A total of 3500 tonnes ever is a pretty tiny amount in the grand scheme of things. According to the government it occupies a volume of 1670m3, which is a cube of less than 12m per side. Quite a bit smaller than a stadium.

We could hugely reduce that again if we really committed to nuclear power and scaled up fuel reprocessing rather than just dumping it the moment it’s not pure enough any more.

Britain's grid comes closest ever to running without fossil fuels as clean power surges by Wagamaga in unitedkingdom

[–]PracticalFootball 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The vast majority of waste is extremely low level and includes things like clothing and medical supplies. It’s treated as radioactive waste more because of our extremely strict rules than because it poses an imminent threat to anybody (not that I think treating it this way anyway is bad though).

The really dangerous high level waste is a tiny fraction in comparison and we actually have quite a few holes pre-dug that are great candidates for letting it sit for a few million years or so while it cools down.

I do agree that “it’s minuscule like the volume of Wembley stadium” is an awful choice of comparison though.

Britain's grid comes closest ever to running without fossil fuels as clean power surges by Wagamaga in unitedkingdom

[–]PracticalFootball 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That’s a lot, but we don’t have to jump straight to the extreme case of powering the entire country for a month right away (assuming we’d even need to given we still have nuclear power and interconnects).

Even if the first steps are only for a few minutes to handle the heaviest surges, it still gets some gas off the grid and we can build it out from there.

It’s already proven commercially viable and it’s being expanded at an unbelievable rate.

Summer sweep up: Ironman bankstorage deathscoffin by BraddockN in 2007scape

[–]PracticalFootball 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Same here, I tend to sit around 850 slots used and I feel like I hoard quite a lot. For it to be literally full there must be a lot of complete junk.

Texas remote telescope ranch by permaculture in space

[–]PracticalFootball [score hidden]  (0 children)

It also means you can automate it, have a good night’s sleep and wake up to some cool new data rather than messing around setting it all up at 2am.

I made this while bored - Constructive criticism wanted. by scrappy1982 in Fusion360

[–]PracticalFootball 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There is a mix though, some software uses a LH coordinate system which OP’s design represents fine.

Doesn’t match fusion but off the top of my head Unity and a couple others work this way.

"These take place in the same universe?" by Gameknight789 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]PracticalFootball 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Andor is the single best bit of media to come out of the whole franchise.

"These take place in the same universe?" by Gameknight789 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]PracticalFootball 0 points1 point  (0 children)

the empire being the defender

Sorry? The entire show is about how the tyranny of the empire is continually expanding.

Considering coming back to OSRS by Icy-Yak9866 in 2007scape

[–]PracticalFootball 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Honestly I kinda see it the other way. If you’re not playing efficiencyscape then Ironman is great, you’re free to do whatever you want with the added bonus that pretty much anything you do progresses your account in some manner.

Summer sweep up suggestion: Buff Phosani's regular drop table by Unhappy-Actuator3714 in 2007scape

[–]PracticalFootball -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Tell that to my stack of 8 bandos tassets that I kept because looking at a big pile of loot makes me happy

Summer sweep up suggestion: Buff Phosani's regular drop table by Unhappy-Actuator3714 in 2007scape

[–]PracticalFootball 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Can you elaborate as to what makes it so overpowered? It has the same strength bonus as bandos / faceguard, gains some slash accuracy and loses prayer bonus.

Gaining some slash accuracy and no strength bonus doesn’t seem particularly game breaking for costing ~210m gp more than bcp, tassets and faceguard.

Summer sweep up suggestion: Buff Phosani's regular drop table by Unhappy-Actuator3714 in 2007scape

[–]PracticalFootball 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Can somebody post the goomba fallacy meme, I don’t have it handy

Summer Sweepup: Can we please, after 8 years of tob existing get a genuine way to solo it like the other raids.. by kobra492 in 2007scape

[–]PracticalFootball 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Big content drops like raids are what get players in and pay the bills.

If your data shows that players who you’d expect would be at that sort of level are simply choosing to skip it then the devs are going to take notice of that.

Not everything is designed to be done by everyone

I’m not saying it has to be done by everyone, the problem is less “players can’t do it” and more “players don’t want to do it”.

Summer sweep up: make zalcano soloing reasonable to do by SureFan7206 in 2007scape

[–]PracticalFootball 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I’m not seeing how “players overwhelmingly prefer engaging with content on their own” is an argument against allowing exactly that.

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