I heard it's something like 90% of people lurk, 10% of people comment, 1% of people post. So you need a pretty substantial population just to have enough posts and comments for the lurkers to still hang around.

It's also why it was particularly dumb of Reddit to piss off their 1% and 10%.

Oh it's totally normal for someone to shoot themselves15 times with a gun that holds 11 bullets. They probably reloaded halfway through.

For fucks sake. This division could lead to the momentum folks causing the labour party to split into factionalism again and lose the upcoming GE. Starmer isn't going to be able to do much to affect any ceasefire or literally anything in the conflict whilst in opposition, but if the Tories squeeze out another 5 years the UK will be in a dire dire state. Keep your eyes on the fucking goal.

Good. Who even wants this? It's a stupid and very expensive policy that won't solve any actual problems.

Bring on the GE. Can't wait for this lot to get the boot.

Why is this even patentable? Games already have this, and quick resume on the Xbox does a very similar thing. It's not unique enough innovation in my mind to be able to do it at multiple points in time IMO.

Well this thread sure is depressing. It's full of either tankies or people from Russian troll farms. Only one person actually trying to discuss the article, everyone else seems to be "whatabout America"-ing?

Yeah glad to see those fucks go. There's been an awful lot of bad takes filling up content sections on certain topics, every time I checked who had posted it it was almost always a lemmygrad user.

Could be done fairly easily via the tax system. Each additional property you own increases the income tax on any rent and the capital gains tax when selling it. Bump up council tax for empty properties massively too and the market should correct itself with minimal direct intervention.

Set it up so having a second home means paying more for it, having 3 or 4 or 10 means it's not profitable to keep it at all.

Yeah it looks like the Union flag is next to Gabon on the android emoji flag picker. I think the country code is GB so it's next to GA even though the name is United Kingdom. That might be what's throwing people.

The two US flag emojis are actually different Unicode emojis.

The first is 🇺🇲 'U+1F1FA U+1F1F2' and is for 'U.S. Outlying Islands'.

The second is 🇺🇸 'U+1F1FA U+1F1F8' and is for 'United States'.

No malice, no bad code, no bugs or typos, this is just expected behaviour.

For those of you getting riled up to point out how this wouldn't work in rural Nebraska - yeah no shit!

This video is taking about how it can be very beneficial for urban areas to use electric cargo bikes rather than vans, and how it helps everyone to remove the amount of vehicles in inner cities by providing safer ways for bikes to move around (and better for emissions too!). The parcel services in my city all have hubs where lorry's drop off pallets, and then bike porters to take the parcels for the final mile. It works great.

Everytime there's a video about the benefits of bike infrastructure or public transport the online discourse gets filled with pointless bad faith drivel about how public transport or bike lanes don't work in an area with a population density of 0.000001/km^2. No one is claiming that's the case, and no one benefits from you pointing that out. Get a grip.

Creating a nation wide scarcity mindset across generations is only going to make things even worse. Lack of investment, opportunities, and support means there will be even fewer new businesses and innovations. Levelling up my arse.

Or maybe it's the equivalent of 8.8oz of TNT? Or the weight of the grenade itself?

Crunching some numbers the ounces of TNT equivalent seems to check out.

Supposedly an m67 grenade has the equivalent yield of about 108 grams of TNT.

8.8oz is about 246.4 grams. So this would be a grenade which is 2.5 times more powerful than today's M67 grenade.

I'm more annoyed that even in 2330, the settled systems still uses imperial measurements.