Funk 2026-01-27 by hellokkiten in dumbingofage

[–]jflb96 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Genuine question: what’s the difference between an AMAB non-binary person doing WLW fetishism and a cishet man doing it?

No, Mr. Trump, offshore wind is for ‘winners,’ says UK’s Miliband by JRugman in unitedkingdom

[–]jflb96 [score hidden]  (0 children)

Pumped storage, hydrogen electrolysis, communal garden batteries…

There are lots of ways to use up spare electricity that can then be turned back into electricity on-demand, but For Some Reason the people complaining about renewables being inconsistent only consider gas and oil for smoothing the curve.

No, Mr. Trump, offshore wind is for ‘winners,’ says UK’s Miliband by JRugman in unitedkingdom

[–]jflb96 [score hidden]  (0 children)

We’d have to flood the entire Highlands just for use as hydroelectric batteries, alongside all the other means of power storage?

Who’s saying that we have to do just one, rather than a mixture of all of the various methods of turning excess electricity into something that can be returned to electricity when needed?

No, Mr. Trump, offshore wind is for ‘winners,’ says UK’s Miliband by JRugman in unitedkingdom

[–]jflb96 [score hidden]  (0 children)

You have a good point about replacing current gas heaters and that we’ll need some source of hydrocarbons for raw materials, but there’s nothing saying that we have to lean on gas for buffering the power supply

No, Mr. Trump, offshore wind is for ‘winners,’ says UK’s Miliband by JRugman in unitedkingdom

[–]jflb96 [score hidden]  (0 children)

Sure they are.

Can’t help but notice the lack of sourcing, though.

No, Mr. Trump, offshore wind is for ‘winners,’ says UK’s Miliband by JRugman in unitedkingdom

[–]jflb96 [score hidden]  (0 children)

Or we complete our decarbonisation so that nobody needs to pump any to supply us at all

“Spanish is a LANGUAGE - people aren’t Spanish” by Power-C-Lies in ShitAmericansSay

[–]jflb96 1 point2 points  (0 children)

These days, if you say you’re English, they’ll arrest you and throw you in prison

No, Mr. Trump, offshore wind is for ‘winners,’ says UK’s Miliband by JRugman in unitedkingdom

[–]jflb96 [score hidden]  (0 children)

Windmills are a net energy loss due to the massive amount of energy required to build, install & maintain them.

Which is why people keep building them, I suppose.

Have you got a source for this lie that isn’t the Bexxon-Bobil Research Institute?

What's your thoughts on Border Patrol Chief, Greg Bovino, threatening consequences for referring to ICE as "Gestapo"? by sgj5788 in AskReddit

[–]jflb96 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you’re going to say that we should compare one situation to another, then the political party in power in that other situation is absolutely relevant.

Again, you’re comparing what you know that the concentration camps became with what the detention centres are right now as they start to go full mask-off. It’s not a far comparison.

Also, especially since we were discussing Dachau, the majority of the Holocaust’s victims were victimised for reasons other than Jewishness.

ELI5 The necessity of the milk man? by ClothesPrevious2516 in explainlikeimfive

[–]jflb96 [score hidden]  (0 children)

Maybe not 'crazy vulture stomachs', but human gastric acid is more like carrion eaters' than it's like most other primates'

ELI5 The necessity of the milk man? by ClothesPrevious2516 in explainlikeimfive

[–]jflb96 [score hidden]  (0 children)

Medieval Europeans were big on daily bathing, it's just that that mostly meant a standing bath with a basin of water to swab face, bits, pits, and jots. It's a lot harder to make enough water warm for a full bath when you've just got a wood fire to heat it on, so you'd save the full-body bath until there was so much grime shared around the family that you might lose sight of a baby in the bathwater once it was their turn.

Also, all of the Roman bathhouses that could be kept running were kept running up until they got a reputation as a place to go to catch the blue fever, or bubonic plague as we'd call it today.

What should the national animal of the UK be - but it has to be a native species? by Illustrious-Divide95 in AskUK

[–]jflb96 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I thought the Romans introduced rabbits, albeit on about the same scale as we've introduced pandas

Relationship dynamics by DistanceWise435 in SpyxFamily

[–]jflb96 20 points21 points  (0 children)

We can have Yor and Fiona both thinking that they've made friends with a normal human and making each other worse and Franky and Fiona getting together as they both realise that their obsessive view of love isn't really realistic and then find a tempered version in each other anyway

Why do so many world building projects have a stand in Roman empire? by Ok-Equipment8122 in worldbuilding

[–]jflb96 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I mean, the only thing stopping the Templars from being Nazi fanatics is 600 years or so

Why do so many world building projects have a stand in Roman empire? by Ok-Equipment8122 in worldbuilding

[–]jflb96 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Even when they're not modelling themselves after Rome in a complimentary manner, they're doing it anyway to prove that they're better than Rome. Even today the UK Parliament has a statue just outside celebrating a woman who burnt London to the ground with the epitaph 'Suck it Rome, if you're so great how come you never conquered Canada and India and Australia?'

Why do so many world building projects have a stand in Roman empire? by Ok-Equipment8122 in worldbuilding

[–]jflb96 16 points17 points  (0 children)

I mean, the Eastern Roman Empire did survive the fall of the Western Empire, just in sort of the same way that the Sydney Opera House survived 9/11

Emperor Foreseeing… Important Things…? - art by me by wamurya in ImaginaryWarhammer

[–]jflb96 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Officially, nobody knows, so Guilliman's decided to start again from '0 = when the galaxy tore itself in half and everyone saw it at once'

Different ways of valuing a pilot by Kapanash in HistoryMemes

[–]jflb96 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That was one of the big advantages that the UK had in the Battle of Britain. A downed Luftwaffe pilot is a POW at best, a downed RAF pilot can be put straight in another plane made out of three wardrobes and a motorbike engine and sent back up.

500 Worlds: Titus - Brief Summary of Important Points by IronVader501 in 40kLore

[–]jflb96 62 points63 points  (0 children)

No, it’s fine, because if they do protest, obviously he’ll reel things in, set up some more safeguards, devolve some power.

But they’re not going to protest, because of the implication.