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it's never gone away but was slightly on the wane, I think, in the late 20th century

The question is why has it come back more perniciously than ever? I would never have expected this when I was a young adult. Technology, digital media, digital pornography?

I know the latter suggestion is unpopular, but the mass access and normalisation of depictions of sexual exploitation and rape surely is a factor?

Like, what was the browsing history of this man who orally raped an unconscious woman repeatedly, causing her to have a heart attack?

I wouldn't doubt that, but there you get into quantification territory, and you probably need a good researcher to put numbers on all of that. I prefer to concentrate on why the ideas are wrong; they obviously underlie all you mention, but I don't think it's a chicken-and-egg question as to what causes what. I think it's clearly the ideas that cause the acting out. You also have to remember that it's not only exploitation and rape that's depicted but also enthusiastic 'consent'. Then men come across real-life women who for some odd reason don't act like that.

So the new budget looks, pretty good?

I think so

The lettuce doesn’t think so, which means it’s probably sound.

i can park my car on my actual road about 50% of the time. Within 25m of my house about 10% of the time. Charging from a house to on-street parking will never work

these channels will likely become part of the near future street furniture

It's not ideal. And not what the futurists envisaged. What happened to cheap, fast public charging stations? Why does electricity you buy at a petrol station have to cost several times as much as your domestic supply?

Why does electricity you buy at a petrol station have to cost several times as much as your domestic supply?

Infrastructure and lack of ubiquity.

It's a lot more expensive to put in something that can get a car to 80% in 40 minutes, compared to a domestic supply that can get a car to 80%+ over night.

Have people who have paid ~£1k to get a Pod Point installed at home factored that into the electricity prices they're paying? Probably not.

Filling a car in a petrol station takes anything from 2 minutes (fill up, pay at pump, fuck off) to 10 minutes (fill up, amble around shop, getting a chai-mocha-frappa-cino, queueing and paying). If you could dump electrons into a car at the same pace as liquid hydrocarbons then there wouldn't be as much of an infrastructure problem. Instead you'd need 10 times as many "pumps" and a boat load more space to be on a par with liquid hydrocarbons.

Going back to the initial question, it's this increased infrastructure that has to be paid for, and that's paid for as a premium on top of the actual electrons you're being charged for. That and the lack of competition.

^ Bollards are still bollarding, even in this day and age. The World Bollard Association on twitter is underrated.

Doesn’t take care of her hedge fund mates, does it?

Alongside the dream of parking outside ones own house, there's those without EVs and the NIMBY effect who don't want the extra parking pressure outside their house .

researchers have also calculated that based on the latest ‘811’ battery technology (80 per cent nickel, 10 per cent cobalt, 10 per cent manganese), UK demand for EV batteries will require almost the total amount of neodymium produced globally each year, three quarter’s of the world’s lithium, and “at least half” of the world’s copper.

But yeah, street charging for everyone!

holy moly

That's part of councils' statutory duties.

Pavements without trip hazards are part of statutory duties. I don't really care if the channel works...

Cars don't need more power than a 2CV. But Range Rovers for everyone.

As long as batteries remain in short supply, they're much better utilised hanging off your house, by a factor of three or so, IIRC

I'm not equally annoyed about anything. If you read the para carefully I'm playing devil's adocate on this point.
with regard to 'plenty of people' with solar panels that is currently circa 5% of households. Hopefully many more in future

Another day, another case of unspeakable violence against women

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9wr5zw40ypo

I can't help but conclude that there is a subset of men that actually admires Trumps and Boris' behaviour. They would love to be able to get away with all those two did.

There is.

...where the woman - whose identity is protected by law - ...

I wonder if the voyeuristic attitude of the media plays a part... That reads as if the reporter would really like to have provided the name. I didn't read on, but my eyes caught some of the gist of the gratuitous detail as I closed the tab, and it struck me that some brutal pervs probably get off on reading stuff like this.

I'm not sure how to address such a systemic problem beyond individuals calling out misogyny whenever they come across it - and a national campaign, say, to promote just that would probably just create a backfire effect where those who need calling out would just write it off as virtue signalling.

Maybe we've started to move the needle down the track already, as kids grow up in a world where 'toxic masculinity' is a concept, and increasing numbers of parents are wary of gendering everything?

Does Trump understand one of Musk’s businesses sells electric cars

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2024/oct/31/donald-trump-kamala-harris-us-election-latest-updates-live

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Is that the camera's white balance contributing to that, or is it just the light? It's magnificent tremendous.

Reminds me of all those blue-and-orange movies fifteen years ago

Camera sensors struggle with very extreme ends of the colour spectrum if it's also very bright.
The hi-vis vest is rendering perfectly, so draw your own conclusions from that

Violent misogyny is central to the Rights political platform- Tate being one of the primary influences on young men for example. The whole repeal the 19th amendment part of Trumps Project 25 coalition and the push from the evangelicals for women to derive power only through their father or husband.