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Cake day: July 8th, 2023

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  • Yes, yes, yes! It’s the only way to fight emissions from cars, to encourage people to leave their cars at home, and even bring in programmes and laws to actively discourage them from using their cars.

    I’ve been car free for over a decade, and while it isn’t always fun, I do prefer a comfortable train ride to having to drive myself in traffic. And people love you complain about the cost of public transport, but I still pay far less than my friends on travel expenses evey month.







  • They’re talking about commercial scale coffee products and coffee flavoured products (bottled coffee drinks, instant coffee, etc.), where a reduction of 75% of the energy consumption could not only be very profitable, but also helpful in hitting environmental targets. Coffee is already a bit of an environmental nightmare when it comes to water usage in farming, so lessening the impact of commercial coffee is definitely a plus.


  • They never change. I used to repair laptops for a well known laptop brand, this was around the release of Windows Vista, 2006 or so.

    We were getting a lot of warranty repairs where the issue was “laptop slow” or words to that effect. The only issue with them was that they didn’t have enough ram to run Vista smoothly enough. The whole system chugged. But as there was nothing wrong with the laptops, we’d send them back to the customer largely untouched saying “buy more ram.”

    At some point, a couple of suits from the company came to look around the warehouse and meet the team. I was primary diagnostic at this point, so I would inspect most of the laptops and confirm their issues. I was getting around 15 laptops a day at this point that were just low ram for Vista, so I asked the suits “why do we sell laptops with Vista that can’t run it properly as they don’t have enough ram?”

    His response was that “Microsoft sets the specs of the laptops. Nothing we can do.”


  • Make buses free to use for all, ban all car journeys under 20 minutes (largely unenforceable, but it needs to be done), reduce subsidies on fuel and instead subsidise bicycles, micro mobility and accessible mobility, build bike lanes and safe pavements, allow zoning of more retail inside residential areas so cars are needed less day to day, encourage late hours retail, turn parking spaces into green spaces.

    These policies would lead to cleaner air, hit our environment goals, less dependence on foreign fuel supplies, greener spaces, healthier population, therefore taking the strain off the NHS. It’ll create jobs as there will be more evening retail jobs, building infrastructure always improves the job market, and none of this is difficult to implement, none of it is costly, and all of it benefits the entire population of the country, not just London or the wealthy.