I think you replied to the wrong post. The post you replied to is saying the same thing you are: Norks & Iran sent troops.

It’s not the purification reason that it is “pref sea water” it’s availability and impact of source. Fresh water is becoming a steadily scarcer resource whereas global sea levels are rising.

You’re absolutely right, Mango Mussolini is an unreliable ally, but if the MIC can make money for no effort in licence fees I suspect this will stick.

Absolutely agree on all counts.

The optimal flow from a consumer and global warming perspective is

• build out renewables until lowest predictable output exceeds demand, at which point you have massive over generation at peak,

• utilise excess power generation to crack water for hydrogen (pref sea water)

• use h2 for making ammonia fertiliser and other viable use cases

• Use BEVs for personal and busrs and as much as practical caternary overhead power or live rails for trains, trams etc the power should be super cheap given over capacity.

This of course runs into vested interests

If you’re on android install firefox and ublock origin.

Website link above was perfectly usable for me

There have been a massive number (and value) of publicly funded projects subsidising and supporting hydrogen worldwide, including Berlin. They all failed because it’s a dud, an utter blind alley. The ONLY reason those trials happened was because fossil fuel companies want hydrogen to maintain their supply monopoly.

Sure, but it’s all part of a building, positive, trajectory. Each little bit helps Ukraine towards being able to evict the invaders.

So board of directors are liable if the company itself isnt directly liable is the short answer, directors can hold joint liability along with the company

I believe there is a difference between bad decisions and illegal decisions

This is self evidently true, or I’d be in jail for the relationships I had in my teens.

and what individuals can be held liable for.

To be liable you need to have broken a law. So yes a person, or an AI, can make stupid but legal decisions, for which no legal liability accrues.

Not too sure where you’re going with this though

Fair. Sound logic. But in between “is an authoritarian country” and “is not an authoritarian country” lies “sliding rapidly in the wrong direction”.

That’s the UK right now, arresting 80 year old grannies for wearing a pro-palestine t-shirt. Convicting people in front of a jury for one crime and then sentencing them under terrorism charges the jury never heard about. Etc etc. What’s that biblical quote about motes in eyes ?

I’m in the UK and the authoritarian surge of the last few years compel me to say we need to focus on ourselves before paying attention to others. Metaphorically we need to put our own oxygen masks on before trying to assist others. People here are literally being arrested for wearing a t-shirt in support of Palestine. We’re in no position to tell others what to do.

It depends on the country and the documents used to create the company.

US, UK, Australia & NZ (and probably Canada but I don’t know) have fundamentally the same (not identical but pretty close) corporate governance laws.

Yes a corporation is a separate legal entity; that was established in case law back in the 19thC in the UK (Salomon V Salomon), it does not however means that individuals are always protected, you can “lift the corporate veil” in specific circumstances (negligence fraud etc). IOW a corporation can be sued but sometimes the individuals inside the corporation can also be sued

I’m not aware of any laws in the above countries that require the presence of an explicitly named CEO role, however all the standard laws require governance of the organisation through the directors and via directors & shareholders resolutions. An individual company can specify a structure in the documents used to create it (variously called things like a constitution or memorandum and articles of association depending your country/state) mandating that certain roles need to exist within the coy but that is optional and not standard.

To address your actual point as opposed to the law, the CEO is an operational decision making functional role. If someone is making strategic decisions whether their title is Managing Director, CEO or Chief Stupidity Officer it doesn’t matter, it’s a functional role not a legal one. The legal buck stops with the directors regardless of who or what is making decisions for the company, however if there is a live person in the CEO role they can be sued on the “lift corporate veil” bases (fraud negligence malfeasance etc). If the CEO has acted within their bounds and in good faith then any issues sit with the directors (note I’m trying to condense a massive list of if ands and buts into a pithy sentence, there’s a zillion exceptions but that’s the broad rule).

So yes, the board could legally put an AI in place and direct it to run the company. If it makes bad or illegal decisions that liability rests with the directors.

If the AI oversteps its delegated authority is possibly the one area where it could get legally interesting. I would expect the directors to be held liable for any decision the AI made even if it executed something it was explicitly told not to as it is reasonably foreseeable (by anyone with a functioning brain cell anyway) that that could happen and oversight is needed. I could also see a board dragging the AI provider to court to try and hold them as being accountable (don’t think they’d win, but I can see there being a lawsuit)

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Interesting, but I think we need to focus on our own backyards before poking others.

Western society is becoming progressively authoritarian because we are not ensuring freedom of speech, protest and discourse. Certainly the English speaking countries are struggling with this, and Western Europe doesn’t seem much (if at all) better.

“First, democracies and civil-society actors should double down on supporting free media, independent reporting, human-rights monitoring, and transparency in authoritarian countries.”

should instead read

First, democracies and civil-society actors should double down on supporting free media, independent reporting, human-rights monitoring, and transparency in authoritarian our own countries.

Interesting, if I’m not misreading that index you have 2007 to 2015, then jan 2024 onwards monthly (at 30-50gb a file) but not the 9 years in the middle

Most don’t. A handful of high end tourers and sports bikes do.

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Thats a bit out of date. All the majot parties said 2 weeks ago they weren’t going to dignify Nige’s tantrum by standing, and they havent.

Count Binface is literally the most legitimate candidate opposing Farage. The other candidates are 20 odd independents plus the neonazi Laurence Fox

I know the Indians have their 2 digit 3 digit thing, who else does interesting groupings ?

No he’s comedian Jonathan Harvey, writer of among other things the political satire “The thick of it” and comedy show “Have I got news for you”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Count_Binface

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thick_of_It

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Have_I_Got_News_for_You

I’m sure he’d get along famously with Stevenson though

it did go over 30° the last time i was there. but tbf also that’s the hottest it gets

40C in London in 2022,

https://www.londonworld.com/news/weather/heatwave-london-weather-highest-ever-temperature-recorded-uk-heathrow-airport-3773879

37.7C last month (June 2026)

https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/blog/2026/june-2026-heatwave-a-recap-of-the-temperature-records (for avoidance of confusion those are the records for June - the 40C was July 2022)

Anything over 28C is currently classified as a heatwave, but I think they’re going to have to revisit that, or just say “all summer is a heatwave try not to die” given 32-35C has been consistently hit pretty much every summer this decade.