This happens already!! As the other commenter mentioned you need transmission lines between the countries, but in more developed parts of the world this is the norm.

One of my favourite websites shows current generation as well as the interconnects between grids: https://app.electricitymaps.com/map/72h/hourly

To clarify, it is a significant stretch that under British law Palestine Action committed any acts of terrorism.

It is mostly an authoritarian overreach.

And the reason that people are protesting so vehemently is two-fold:

Firstly, it is critical for the functioning of our society, that the government is not able to freely carry out gross abuses of power such as the designation of Palestine Action as a terrorist group.

Secondly, it is relatively trivial for the government to use their proscription of Palestine Action as a basis for the proscription of subsequent protest groups, and they have also already used it to arrest people simply for signs which say things like “free Palestine”.

In other words, protestors are able to make twice the impact with a single protest.

You are correct that the protests are specifically about the group Palestine Action. Which while they have committed crimes within the UK haven’t committed any acts of terror. And therefore should not be classified as terrorist.

The terror act was extremely controversial when it was enacted because it grants the government far reaching authoritarian abilities which are fundamentally against our standard of human rights.

It is only acceptable for extreme cases of groups which are in fact committing acts of terror against civilian population.

Therefore, it is protesting against the decision to designated a group which is not terrorist as terrorist

Kneecap have been getting massive publicity because of their pro-palestine/anti-genocide stance. I haven’t listened to much to their latest stuff, but I should re-explore them.

Sometimes yes, sometimes it is correct to use murder.

But I was just using it as well known an example of how even a short sentence can have implicit bias while appearing to be simply factual. Not referring to anything specific.

Sometimes using killed is the most factual, sometimes it isn’t. Saying someone died is often factual as well. It’s really dependent on context what word to choose and they can create a very different narrative.

It also can simply be passive versus active voice in sentence structure.

There was an interesting case where Reuters headline was about police in South Africa killed protesting miners. They had a headline video that showed the police opening fire and an officer getting them to stop shooting. And a second “uncut” video on their RSS feed that wasn’t published in any headline that showed the miners were actually a giant mob carrying machetes, sticks, clubs and a few had guns which were fired into the air. The mob started charging the police line and when they opened fire the mob scattered. There was no mention of the police officer that had been beaten to death in the same area the night before by the protesters.

Both were completely factual reports, but they lacked context, and were subsequently widely used to demonise the police.

(Now, don’t get me wrong, cops are usually at fault, and the wider situation of why did those miners need to protest etc is a different topic. But in that specific instance there was a lot of context missing to the individual actions)

Since they generally report in a shorter format, they tend to not provide much context.

On the one hand, one could say this tends towards less bias, but on the other, context is absolutely critical to assessing a situation.

I think they have their place in the news cycle, and they are a useful source. I think that if they report an event you can be confident it has occurred, BUT they are very, very good at putting spin in only a few words, e.g. “murdered” vs “killed”. They also leave out extremely important context when it doesn’t fit their narrative/bias/click farming.

I am extremely critical of Reuters. But if they are one source amongst many they are useful. Particularly if you look at local news sources or other Reuters news snippets for context around the event.

The others have put good descriptions of why calories are an accurate measurement for food energy.

However, you are absolutely correct that calories are not a perfect measurement, and different types of foods are not one to one replaceable. 1500 calories of sugar is NOT the same as 1500 calories of protein!

Burning the food produces a reasonable and useful approximation of the available energy.

Does the human body burn food? Of course not. We transform food into useful components and then pump them around the body to be used by cells.

If you eat 1500 calories of protein, your body will use some of those calories simply as proteins, rather than breaking them down into energy (via sugar). Which means you will have less food-energy in your system and are more likely to run a deficit.

Again with protein, the transformation of protein into sugars which can be used as energy takes energy, so you end up with a smaller amount of calories actually being available.

TL;DR Calories are not perfectly interchangeable. However, they are our best, and most useful, quick way of approximating energy intake from food.

It really depends on your personal financial situation.

For me, I only need around 50k per year (before tax) to maintain my lifestyle and save a bit. That includes a pension (as if that will make a difference lol).

So going from 70k to 55k would be … Uncomfortable (I get you with the stability anxiety), but rationally, if my mental and physical health were suffering. Those extra 20 % is really not worth being miserable.

You only have one life. Make sure to enjoy it.

Having said that, if it was going from 55k to 45k, I would have to have a close look at my finances and lifestyle to see what would be worth cutting. The end question is: are the things you need to cut to make do worth the extra suffering you are currently enduring?

Everything has a cost, whether that is paying with your time, your health, sanity, or choosing to spend time with one person instead of another. Only you can answer if it’s worth it for you.

Interesting article, clearly written with an extreme bias.

It definitely makes some extravagant claims that are not thoroughly backed up.

This definitely doesn’t belong in TIL. It is not an established fact, and if it is an established fact, a medium article from a strongly biased author is not a reliable source for it.

TIL the US committed mass war crimes in Korea resulting in a 20% population reduction is maybe more apt. But it still requires a better source than this article. Such as an academic paper or article which includes references to reliable sources.

It’s not el Salvador’s responsibility to transport him back to the US.

I don’t think he is being stopped from leaving, but it’s up to the US to make it right, not El Salvador

EDIT: it wasn’t clear from the article that he was being held in a prison. My bad on that.

Absolutely should be released, but it is still not on El Salvador to send him to the US.