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Good luck with banning either. Sounds like it’d be a popular policy.

That’s an interesting new definition of ‘useful’ you have.

You think if you told people they all had to get rid of their grass lawns heaps of them wouldn’t just replace them with a load of concrete if they didn’t want the maintenance? Enough people do it already without being forced to by a ban.

Claiming it’s “not actually useful” though is just wrong.

It can be useful. It’s a great surface for doing any form of outdoor exercise on.

So you’d rather concrete jungle over lawns? I feel like if you banned grass lawns that’s what you’d get.

You can’t think of any circumstances where a man claiming to be a woman to enter what is generally a space reserved for the opposite gender with malicious intent wouldn’t be concerning?

Surely basically any changing room or bathroom in the country meets this criteria?

I don’t know how unpopular an opinion it is, but surely anyone just deciding to self ID as a different gender opens huge safeguarding concerns?

I’m all for the process being easy for them to work through, but literally just doing it yourself seems excessively easy and abusable.

Every other device I use with a rechargeable battery suffers hugely with degredation. Can you explain why an EV battery would be an exception (cause I would love it to be!).

Surely if its a very common myth that you know to be wrong you should be trying to correct that.

I also am uncertain about the 2nd hand value of electric cars. Don’t know how much battery degradation kills their range…

The only point I’d make on heat pumps is that they are a good way of heating a home using electricity. Without using heat pumps, even with solar panels most people will still have to use some form of boiler to heat their homes/water and I think heat pumps are a good step forward for us to actually move toward energy efficient heating specifically.

You’re right though that in the short term we can probably get better value from solar panels or investing more in wind

Article is just focused on the UK. So is more like getting 40million people to reduce their meat consumption (not stop) vs getting 8million UK cars off the road.

Who produce emissions because they make a product that ultimately ends up being used by a consumer…

The payrise for teachers is not fully funded despite the government’s initial announcement.

The estimated cost for a 6.5% pay rise is around £1.6b with the additional funding provided being £900m.

The union leaders were told to recommend the deal by 12:30 or it would be withdrawn.

Teachers accepting this is basically voting to reduce staff numbers in their schools but I worry it will be accepted because lots of teachers aren’t willing to escalate the strike action.

Haven’t really followed cricket before but I’ve finally been getting into it with this series!

Sorry I think you misinterpret what I was saying.

Im saying that those who don’t care about it are also likely the ones that need to care about it the most.

I feel like Cambridge Analytics stuff was about picking out who might be vulnerable to those types of political campaigns and by nature there’s probably a bit of a correlation between that type of vulnerability and a lack of understanding of why their privacy is important.

The people who recognise it’s important are unlikely to be the ones picked out by these groups anyway

Not Zuck, but there is definitely a accessibility issue at the moment imo