This was what the UK discovered after Brexit

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boots_theory

Cries in HS2

Not a boomer, but as a Brit - the grey squirrel is an invasive species which has pretty much driven out the native red squirrel from most of the country. They also cause damage to trees through bark stripping.

As others have pointed out, 40 year tech still beat current tech.

I’d swap may out for probably TBH.

In windows open command prompt type

shutdown /f /s /t 0

Multiple wealthy countries have put incentives in place to encourage increased birth rates, all have failed. Other than forcibly inseminating women there’s not much they could do.

How odd, here an electric will be £100-£150 and petrol you’re looking £250+

The post says you “you drive it” while you could say that for a push along it seems odd wording.

Before they had electric, that was the only type. It’s not fancy.

True that they did exist in the past, however unless you’ve got an old one they’re around twice the price of electric and more expensive to run. But, more than that, it points to you having enough garden to need petrol.

Look at Mr rich pants here, needing a ride on petrol mower. Most people round my way have small push along electric mowers.

Apple fans and people that fall for their slick marketing would

Yeah but their people all live in misery.

Lol the yanks are giving it a good go, and look at the trouble they’re in.

The point is the smaller model was popular what was popular then, and the giant SUV (or even worse those massive truck things) are what’s popular now.

Taken a bunch of money from them it looks like as part of shells greenwashing efforts. https://www.shell.co.uk/about-us/news-and-publications/media-releases/2022-media-releases/shell-uk-and-british-cycling-agree-long-term-official-partnership.html

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandalism

About 1.7% of the internet as of 2020.

https://healthit.com.au/how-big-is-the-internet-and-how-do-we-measure-it/

OK, but why not eat less beef and more chicken and herring?

In my country at least beef consumption peaked around 2012 (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/oct/24/uk-meat-consumption-lowest-level-since-record-began-data-reveal)

I think post WW2 there was a drive towards the idea that we’d never need to go without. This combined with lifestyle changes (more people working longer hours) gave birth to the rise of fast convince foods and the mass growth of places like McDonalds and Burger King.

Why don’t people just stop? Ideas within society have a lot of momentum, they take a lot of energy to get started and a lot to turn or stop again.