Whether you learn to type in one of the approved ways, or any other way that allows you to type without looking at the keyboard, being able to do so is a critical skill for any kind of typing. The less time you spend thinking about how to type, and the less time you spend correcting edits, the more you can allow your thoughts to turn into text. I can do a certain amount of punctuation without looking (All the usuals... and of course including parentheses and brackets) and that's handy even while just scripting — or trying to quit vi.

They didn't have any choice. They tried for years to get someone to build new nuclear in the UK, but even with the massive subsidies and guaranteed profits, nobody wanted to.

In the end only EDF, with Chinese investment in the project, were willing to do it.

We are talking about the UK, not the US.

The only people who will build nuclear in the UK are EDF, who are French. They are currently quoting a minimum of 20 years, but their current 20 year projects here are delayed. No legal issues, they are just crap at building nuclear plants.

The blackout in Spain was not caused by lack of inertia. Besides, there are better and cheaper ways to add inertia, if that is what is needed. For example, in Ireland they have converted old coal power stations to large spinning mass generators that provide that inertia.

The tides will be minimally affected by what is being proposed for the Severn. For example, Friends of the Earth proposed tidal lagoons, which have the additional advantage of being able to be sub-divided to make the power output constant and consistent. The lagoons would themselves be beneficial to local wildlife.

The bottom line is that anything we do to generate energy is going to cause some disruption to nature, but there are also clearly some options that are much better than others. Using tidal power in the Severn is one of the better ones, and it could provide as much as 7% of the entire UK's demand from that one site. It's comparable to a nuclear plant in capacity, but much, much, much cheaper. They may be additional benefits depending on the design too, such as transport links over the Severn, or new tourism opportunities.

The only solutions are incredibly expensive. You can solve almost anything by throwing unlimited amounts of money at it, but that's probably not a good idea.

We don't really have a decent solution for waste storage either.

Speaking of solved problems, we have incredibly cheap renewable options. Big old fusion reactor with billions of years of life left on it. Super reliable tides that can provide base load.

Today the UK is about 40% renewables, averaged over the year. It varies depending on the weather, and the percentage is increasing. There are still some huge opportunities, like a tidal system for the Severn, and massive off-shore wind farms, as well as big storage projects. All low hanging fruit, all much cheaper than the alternatives.

Gas will use the excuse that it is a placeholder for nuclear. Nuclear is already the most expensive source of electricity, and takes in excess of 20 years for us to build. By the time the first of the new generation, Hinkley Point C, comes online, it will already be obsolete and unnecessary due to the expansion of renewables and storage. Unfortunately, despite it being complete unviable, we will still have to pay for it because to get anyone to build it they had to promise a guaranteed high price for ever watt produced, no matter if anyone actually wants to buy it.

China isn't your foe, you just want them to be because there always has to be a Big Bad to justify whatever bullshit you want to do.

Yes it's done via a sensor in the seat and in the belt buckle receptacle. It will also detect cargo over a certain weight. You can buy a seat belt "extension" to plug into the receptacle to defeat it.

Climate change, of course.

Ha ha, only serious: Ukraine has a number of resources which are important to Russia, including cropland. Russia invaded Ukraine historically for the same reason. Ukraine also used to be an important manufacturing center for Russia. Notably, they produced cast tank turrets. You may have noticed that Putin is experiencing an armor shortage.

It's certainly true that some people will do this. But you also don't necessarily need to set the UBI benefit at levels that will allow people to do it everywhere, or to take up much space doing it. And people who want more or better drugs will still go pick up cans. Basic income trials generally show that people usually still work so long as the payments don't affect anything like eligibility for other benefits, which for large families can be critical. Many of those programs are not even paying very much.

The people you see mostly have jobs. You have to have a job to be worth ferrying around on a spaceship, or taking up space on a station. (Or you have to be the annoying child of someone who fits that description.) You have to have a job to have a lot of stuff, or big expensive things like a spaceship. But it doesn't seem like most humans in the Trek universe have to have a job unless they live on a colony.

We might also have to prevent profiteering on some items, like housing and groceries, or provide alternatives to the commercial options. There's no reason why people should be able to make more than a reasonable profit providing necessities. Businesses need to serve communities in a mutually beneficial relationship. They depend on the apparatus of the state to exist. Of no communism! But we already have many laws on how much you can charge for many things.

The alternatives to UBI are far larger changes than it is, especially since a lot of people are already receiving a BI in the form of Social Security. Nearly 74 million Americans are receiving some amount of Social Security benefits, with a pretty wide spread of benefit amounts which average around $1900. Even some people with an acknowledged disability are only getting a few hundred dollars, because they are doing some work. And if they do very much, they lose the rest of the benefits.

It takes a bunch of administration to do all that screwing people over.

UBI is already a good idea, along with national health. Expand Social Security and Medicaid to cover everyone over time. Exactly how much/what it should entitle you to is a matter for debate, but if this capitalism thing is going to not eat itself when it's based on there being consumers then it will need them to continue to exist and have money.

Obviously the plan is to make sure some number of us die, which is why they're doing all this malicious bullshit to the public health apparatus. They clearly don't think they need as many of us. They are no doubt correct about that, although I don't think the system will work well if they get it down as far as I suspect they would like.

It's not good for them either. It's not good for us sooner, but it's not sustainable. The technology is nowhere near ready to replace enough of the plebes to keep them from danger.

Sadly, it's possible to make killbots much more cheaply and quickly than humans. The "waves and waves" approach will not work against palm-sized drones which can fire say twenty ~22lr shots or so, which is extremely feasible and "bounce around death round" bullshit aside, still plenty deadly. It will not work because there will be waves and waves and waves and waves of them. You can try the jamming devices, that hasn't got much spam in it.