John Arnold

Not for me. I love the idea bit for me it’s all still in “Google Sans” or Arial

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New recycling tech recovers nearly pure nickel and cobalt from old EV batteries Researchers have developed an eco-friendly recycling tech that extracts 99 percent pure nickel and cobalt from waste batteries.

If anyone cares at all, EV battery recycling is now hitting 99% recovery for important metals

Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is

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“Unstoppable” force of populism meets immovable object of reality.

Let silly hacks go and work on their next bit of Westminster gossip. THIS is the main news from that conference. The clearest indication yet, right from the top.

Former Brexit Party MEP denies taking payment from pro-Russian campaign A prominent former MEP for Nigel Farage's old party denies taking bribes in a pro-Russian campaign.

In other shocking news, adjascent apples in same barrel also appear brownish.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

PS I know it shouldn't surprise me, but OF COURSE he lives in France.

Apple. It just works.

Nice to see Betty a bit Sweaty.

Nigel Farage responds to racism claims saying he never ‘tried to hurt anybody’ Reform leader denies racist or antisemitic behaviour ‘with intent’ at school, but says he can’t remember everything from 49 years ago

Farage says he can't remember being continually racist and antisemitic.

The axe forgets. The tree remembers.

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But the part of the message that made me wince and made me post was people saying that all Labour voters are automatically racists and fascists and I think that's going too far.

Not only do I care about the wellbeing of refugees but I attended a Refugees Welcome event at the weekend. I am 100% pro-refugees. I posted originally cause I saw a few posts saying roughly the same thing. I'm seeing a lot more now and I may have been wrong about it being coordinated.

I support the people pointing out the racism of the policy. I agree with letting the Labour government know they disagree with the policy. Not with those saying that Labour voters are automatically racists.

Arguably agree with that. The part I have a problem with is those who say all Labour voters are automatically racists if they don't immediately quit the party and publicly criticize the government over these policies.

I'm deleting this post because it seems like many people over-read it and incorrectly assumed my views on something as a result. Just to be clear I don't like the new immigration policies and I agree that we should express out views about them. But not that being a Labour voter makes you a racist.

We will make far more progress in getting change by collectively letting them know we disagree with the policy than by fighting among ourselves.

You, like many others, have over read what i wrote and assumed my opinions. I loathe these new home office policies. I just don’t think that what the home office says makes the rest of us racists and fascists. Name calling won’t fix this. We have to put pressure on the government to change course.

And yet that is how it does work. Perhaps if we had PR it might work differently. Perhaps not. I would prefer that all politicians were at liberty to vote and speak with their conscience. But that isn’t the current reality.

So you are contending that Starmer himself is coordinating people to put out a message saying that Labour voters are racists and fascists?

You’ll forgive me if I don’t find that very credible.

Like what exactly?

And before you all go in the attack and assume I’m an anti semite you might consider asking me me views on the policies that sparked this argument.

Wow you’re going way too far. I said I saw maybe 3 posts with very similar messaging and wondered if they were connected. That’s the extent of my conspiracy theory. Talk about massive over-reading.

This is very interesting. Is it the plan now that whenever someone criticises Polanski‘s self described populist approach that the critic will be labelled anti semitic? That’s the kind of thing that far left of Labour used to do in the pursuit of ideological purity. Are those now batting for green?

Wow. Why does everyone assume that I agree with these policies? I do not. I think they’re wrong and potentially racist and I loathe the sense that they are pandering again to the far right. But I don’t think that makes all Labour voters and parliamentarians racists or fascists.