Ok. What’s your point? Did I argue that nuclear was unsafe?

Just because it’s safe doesn’t mean it’s the best we have right now.

• It’s massively expensive to set up
• It’s massively expensive to decommission at end of life
• Almost half of the fuel you need to run them comes from a country dangerously close to Russia. (This one is slightly less of a thing now that Russia has bogged itself down in Ukraine)
• It takes a long time to set up.
• It has an image problem.

A combination of solar, wind, wave, tidal, more traditional hydro and geothermal (most of the cost with this is digging the holes. We’ve got a lot of deep old mines that can be repurposed) can easily be built to over capacity and or alongside adequate storage is the best solution in the here and now.

What was the expansion pack where you could play as aliens called?

You will work in the NHS or the firefighters and so on, so you will certainly engage with community members of all ages and from all wakes of life. For a year of mandatory service that everybody is meant to complete, 18 is arguably the best time to do it.

But anyone who’s not 18 will be denied that “opportunity”.

When you walk on a public road past a hospital do you think to yourself “they stole my money to build this”? You have rights and duties as a citizen. Your service benefits the community as a whole.

Exactly, I already give over a portion of my labour time via taxes to help society. Forcing people to do 25 days extra unpaid work is either slavery or a huge one off tax on 18 year olds.

There’s also no exceptions. So you’ve already got a job that requires you to do weekends? Touch shit. So you’ve got staff shortages. Already work for the fire service or police etc. Touch shit. You’ve got to go pick litter up for 25 days.

25 days of slavery is 25 days too much in my opinion.

Also if we’re arguing that it’s too bring communities together why is it only 18 year olds? Wouldn’t mixing with a wide variety of ages from 18 to 118 be better? Also why is the stick to make people do it a fine (so that the rich will just pay if their kids don’t want to do it)?

I mean, you guys made it into a literal lottery.

But besides that, the proposal is even worse than just conscription. His plan is that there’ll be about 30,000 placements in the armed forces, which will of course be paid. Everyone else will have to do 25 days of unpaid “volunteering”. Of the volunteering is mandatory and your parents will be fined if you don’t do it.

Effectively it’s slave labour for the poor and pay so you don’t need to do it for the rich.

Luckily it’s extremely likely he’s not going to get to try to bring it in. They’re about 20 points behind in the polls and on some they’ve actually been falling further behind since calling the election.

What a world we live in.

Cries in Tory Brexit.

Is that the response where the took a wall of text to say “yeah it’s probably already illegal but we’re going to do nothing to hold companies to the law”?

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We’re putting in tones of wind power. The problem is the weird linking of electricity prices to gas prices and the fact we don’t have anywhere near the energy storage capacity we need. So we end up paying wind farm operators to shut down turbines and generate less when its extra windy.

Same. It helps that I was early enough to have just my name though.

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I think that big difference is for low paid workers, rather than higher flyers.

Comparing a store assistant position between Lidl USA and Lidl UK.

Lidl USA

• Starting pay $16.00 per hour
• Up to 20 days of Paid Time Off (PTO) to use for sickness or vacation, plus 6 paid holidays annually

Lidl UK

• Starting pay £12 (current exchange rate $15.21)
• 30 days holiday (increasing to 35 after 5 years service)
• 10 days sick.