Yeah, but they have their favourite Sky News pundits bring it up regularly knowing that it punts the can down the road another couple of decades. Sky News pay masters are happy because they are firing broadsides at renewables. And I have to listen to the same old stale boring talking points again.

I wish we were in the timeline where nuclear was practical, but right now, in this moment, it is not.

Well how many people on Death Row are handing out juicy consultant work when he gets sick of being in local politics (or gets kicked out)?

Come now, I have had several FIGJAMs tell me that solar panels are essentially just junk at end of life, we basically have to bury them underground they are so toxic… So we might as well keep burning coal. I think they would know, they are self professed smart guys on the internet.

They are as insufferable as the nuclear advocates who regard every renewable as a distraction from building out more nuclear generation capacity.

So start making the penalty for data breaches executive fingers. It will really bring home the importance of getting it right.

Plus there are more than a few companies that will have to work out how to get signatures from people who have lost all of their digits within weeks of that rule being put in place.

As things stand you have together caught breaking privacy laws, then you have to be unlucky enough to get properly investigated, then you need to be even more unlucky to actually get fined, and truly monumentally unlucky enough to not be able to tie things up in court long enough for the consequences to hit faster than the golden parachute can open.

Fines are just a cost of doing business and there’s so many avenues for “accidentally” having data leak after all.

Maybe they don’t want the competition?

I tend to trust those sorts of breakdowns as much as I do Pauline. They are basically fortune tellers in Lab coats. Regardless of her ethnic background she is 100% Cunt that counts for a lot more.

Yeah, but luckily Pauleen has declared Australia a Judeo-Christian nation. So we are going to have fuckhead racist white supremacist scum acting as apologists for the churches. It’s weird how we don’t get to have personal privacy or data security in the name of protecting the children, but they won’t put churches on a watch list don’t you think?

Probably far less for David than for the rest of us.

The thing is we are going to be seeing far more climactic extremes, in part due to this exact sort of person. Building houses with standards is absolutely more expensive up front and usually heaps cheaper over the longer life of the house.

My in-laws house is built to a pretty damned high standard, compared to my father’s. My old man is forever spending money on small repairs, his powerbills are higher (I mean my in-laws are currently net exporters so their powerbills are almost entirely usage charge free), and his property price is largely based on the size of his block, whoever buys it will just knock it down and throw 2-3 units on the land.

It’s the Sam Vimes Boots Theory all over again, its expensive to be poor.

To get off you mean, they can only cum if they think of a child going hungry in slum level housing.

Yep, sink the country and send us into debt, tank businesses. But on the plus side we get to have another few years of insufficiently taxing billionaires and corporations while they steal all our data and turn the country into a giant network of datacenters that other parts of the world view as warmly as a wet damp fart on an elevator.

All so her “base” can feel emboldened to express the racism that sits at the core of their being like a festering, weeping fistula of pure evil.

What a pack of fucking idiots.

Does the UK government outsource that sort of service?

Oh please be somewhere you can sue for racial discrimination… Please!!!

Depends on the human. I would be cool with Elon and a bunch of his sycophants living there… Briefly.

There was a time, before Google showed their hand, that I would go out of my way to leave Google reviews. Good, bad or somewhere in between I would document the customer experience.

Since Google made it clear what trajectory they are on I have returned to the old ways. Amazing service gets a letter, great service gets a quiet word to the manager. Bad service gets a word to the manager at the end of the transaction, terrible service and I just never return again and tell anyone who asks why. Everything in between those extremes gets me acting as a polite customer and that’s about it.

Have I over thought this?

Bit hard of hearing old timer? I said I’M DONE WITH YOU, BYE

Well you got me there chuckles, of course I am Gen X not a baby boomer. Which I already alluded to. But I guess the memory ain’t what it used to be huh? Anyway I’m done with you now. Bye.

Okay Boomer

Cool, remind me again what the plural of anecdote is… Is it data? It has to be data right?

I gotta say you got my Boomer sense tingling.

You seem angry, and confused. That’s a common state of mind as people get on in years. Relax, have a cuppa and if this is the way you feel on a regular basis consider talking to your GP, they can help out with resources and support to help you in this time of transition.

We are also in a period where we can acknowledge that people exist on a spectrum and people change. My youngest son has ADHD, we got him treatment, support and flexible learning arrangements that mean 99.9% of the time he can be a “regular” kid with a “regular” life. When I was his age it was just drug them, pack them into the special class and forget about them. As much as I agree with your sentiment we do live in slightly enlightened times.

We assume elderly people are going to struggle with people taking advantage of them in so many other aspects of life, why do we let the media and politicians get away with it?

To be clear, I am not advocating for stripping anyone’s rights, or giving them a lessened voting weight. I don’t actually have a solution. I just think it’s the sort of thing a mature democracy would be able to discuss in good faith. Instead we get to be told about how much privacy and personal sovereignty we want to sacrifice in the name of “won’t somebody think of the children”.