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What is the best flav... you all know what this question is:
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Labour 907 49.92%
Theresa May Team (Conservative) 48 2.64%
Liberal Democrats 31 1.71%
UKIP 13 0.72%
Plaid Cymru 25 1.38%
Green 22 1.21%
Scottish Socialist Party 12 0.66%
Scottish Conservative Party 1 0.06%
Scottish National Party 59 3.25%
Some Kind of Irish Unionist 4 0.22%
Alliance / Irish Nonsectarian 3 0.17%
Some Kind of Irish Nationalist 36 1.98%
Misc. Far Left Trots 35 1.93%
Misc. Far Right Fash 8 0.44%
Monster Raving Loony 49 2.70%
Space Navies Party 39 2.15%
Independent / Single Issue 2 0.11%
Can't Vote 188 10.35%
Won't Vote 8 0.44%
Spoiled Ballot 15 0.83%
Pissflaps 312 17.17%
Total: 1817 votes
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OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

LeoMarr posted:

this countrt is undwr constant threat of terrorism and corbyn has showb ti.e ans time again. a lackadasical responae to the ordeal that norml cotizens experi3nce or worry about. in concerned that the guy may make things worse on the gloval stage and in that may beunable to maintain civil harmony between religious sects.

I figure he's probably got a pretty good glove game in his allotment shed.

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OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

Also boo corbyn for not caring about the terrorism I and 99% of the country don't experience as opposed to the economic problems most of us do.

What a oval office.

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

nothing to seehere posted:

It's not food we need to worry about : It's stuff like metals, fossil fuels (even if just for plastics), the stuff used to make western consumer goods generally. We can feed the world, sure, but can we cloth and house them to 1st world standards?

I mean I'd be fine living in a wooden house and wearing nothing that isn't made of cotton, cotton's hella comfy, I wish people would stop making things out of polyester.

Give me a wood house, cotton pants, a lifetime supply of potatoes and an internet connection and I'll be quite happy.

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

Genuinely a secure life to me would be valuable enough to give up a lot of hypothetical possibilities.

A secure home and a worthwhile job and a bit of time to myself is all I can ask of life.

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

Tijuana Bibliophile posted:

Why d'you think cotton farming isn't terrible? It cost us the Aral sea

I think you can farm a lot of things sustainably or unsustainably.

And given most of my cotton clothes last a few years at least with regular wear I think you could eliminate a lot of clothing production demand by getting rid of consumption driven clothing purchase.

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

Guavanaut posted:

That doesn't scale well with populations density though.

The wooden housing bit, not your cotton kecks.

Not with density no, you need better materials for that.

Though I've a soft spot for stuff like windcatchers and underground irrigation as a substitute for AC and other low density solutions.

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

Shrink me until my terminal velocity falls below my impact threshold of injury.

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

spectralent posted:

Nuclear fission is a process that requires mining, though. I fully agree we shouldn't be ignoring nuclear to the extent we are, but at the same time nuclear is a stopgap until we get either fission or cover the sahara in solar panels.

Uh, I mean, covering the sahara with solar panels requires rather a lot of mining as well, and they don't last forever.

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

Guavanaut posted:

The nice thing about the Saharan sun is that it's high enough W·m-2 that you can just have a bunch of mirrors and point them at a matte black thing full of water or low melting salt or whatever you want. Or hydrocarbons if you want to make fuel oils.
You don't need the intensely manufactured ones with rare earth metals or semiconductor fab facilities.

I mean going by the American attempts in Nevada that's a very efficient method of making boilers on sticks explode and a limitless supply of cooked migratory birds but has difficulties in consistent power generation compared to solid state devices.

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

If we're going absurd geoengineering projects I want a dam across the gibraltar strait.

Yes I know that would turn the mediterranean into the dead sea. I don't care.

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

Total Meatlove posted:

Nuclear is a renewable energy resource

Or at least if we run out of fuel for it and haven't figured out a solution by then something else has gone drastically wrong.

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

happyhippy posted:

Netherlands is mostly flat, so there must be some strong winds?

So how about invading, killing them all, and converting it all into one massive wind farm for the world.

I'll take my Nobel Peace Prize in used 50 notes please.

Might have some issues if you're a bit slow off the mark and the sea levels rise.

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OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

Guavanaut posted:

Trees. There was supposed to be a massive thing where Scandinavia would move to managed forests capable of switching masses of coal power facilities to pelletized biomass, effectively making them carbon neutral solar power facilities, with the trees themselves as the energy storage.

What actually happened was that a lot of them went with cheap US biomass which was made by ruining old growth forests in the South.

Trees are large solar chemical batteries that you can live in.

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