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I have used TransferWise, and yes, <1%; however https://revolut.com/ have recently added virtual bank accounts, and currently add no fee for market rate transfers.

And that, sadly, as a last ditch effort, would be a very good thing for humanity, but probably not for the planet.

A typical failure to understand the law of unintended consequences.

The total volume of water consumed remains the same, but the water lost to evaporation & distribution leakage (collectively akin to the transmission losses for electricity mentioned elsewhere in this thread) means that not collecting rainwater is less efficient.

Then there's the flood damage caused when the increasing expanses of paved ground fail to absorb heavy rain that rainwater collection can help alleviate.

Tangentially - how about mandatory rainwater storage? A sink for rain to reduce flooding, and a source for grey-water (non-potable water, although residential purification is entirely possible) to alleviate pressure on reserves in times of drought.

> but it's not possible to safely slow or stop on English motorways.

Bullshit. Never broken down? It's perfectly possibly in the worst possible circumstances to safely pull over to the hard-shoulder.

Smart motorway? The left lane becomes hard shoulder with several miles of lane-closed warnings for other motorists.

Random dual-carriageway with no hard shoulder? Limp-home speed under control is far safe than inattentive driver at motorway speeds. Worst case, stopped in the left (or any!) lane is better than having the driver in the passenger seat.

Jeez!

Feel free to check back in when you pass the driving test.

I really don't understand why the only response to a driver being hands-off is a "reminder". It should immediately start decelerating and moving to the side of the road, coming to a complete stop if safe to do so, "limping" if not.

Not just imprecise, but outright incorrect: "He’s been banned from the M1 for eighteen months" (the M1 being a specific motorway). No, he's banned from driving.

> Is that really a UI issue?

More of a UX issue. The worst possible kind.

> I'm a co-founder of https://snips.ai

Yes, we know. You post to literally every voice-assistant related comment thread. If you aren't a bot, you must have a (voice powered?) bot sniffing out threads to post on.

If you're going to do that, please at least learn the difference between a disclaimer and a disclosure. :sigh:

The original headline says "cleaning products", which is what the study covers, but the article lede says "cleaning sprays", which is what the headline here has been edited to suggest.

Much discussion on Reddit a couple of weeks ago when this study was originally published: https://www.reddit.com/search?q=cleaning+products+lung

> Stopped reading after that.

Uh, and you were doing so well. That meme should crawl in to a corner and die.

I stopped reading after that. (It was the last thing you wrote :) )

This is useful background: "Mathematics for Computer Science"

https://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.042/spring17/mcs.pdf

The UK's media is vicious, yet there are few areas where the UK (or other countries subject to UK media scrutiny) are on-par with, or worse than, the US. North Korea maybe?

Thanks for taking the time to come back and respond. I'm going to try to get it under control for the new year. I'll check out that Dr Drew link.

So sorry to hear your story. As an alcoholic though (currently 1.5 bottles of wine down, and wishing I had another to hand), I find it hard to reconcile your situation. Your wife was drunk, you were not, but both lost control? Not judging, just asking.

The reason I ask is that only situation in which my alcohol abuse has triggered any kind of verbal exchange is where (unaware of my situation) my partner has been snappy about something, and due to lack of sleep (staying up late, secretly drinking), I've responded less diplomatically than I would have liked. Never abusive, never physical by either party, and only a small number of times.

Under no circumstance has either of us become physical. That's a totally different problem, and I'd encourage you to seek help for your wife (If I'm understanding correctly that she was the one that became aggressive, or both of you otherwise) It's probably also the time to consider what's best for you both in the long term.

Unrelated to that, but apropos your comment and the OP, I had a cop pull a gun on me when I was 19. I naively, but quite literally laughed it off, as I was doing my job and had no idea the risk I was in from his overreaction.

I was in college, but working a night security job. I had to check the premises set the internal alarm, then check the outside doors. Unfortunately a (really stupid) design flaw in the alarm system resulted in the occasional false silent alarm.

On this occasion, as I was checking the outside doors, a cruiser rolled up, the cop saying they'd received an alarm call.

I identified myself, invited him in (first mistake), then said I'd switch off the alarm (second mistake - why I don't know - it was a silent alarm!)

Switching off the alarm with a key switch required reaching around a door in to a closet where the alarm system was.

I turned around to discover the now less-than-friendly looking cop pointing his gun at me.

I laughed instinctively, as to my innocent mind it seemed absurd. Thankfully, that seemed to drop his guard. He was 6 feet away, and my hands were now clearly empty.

I wasn't asked to follow Simon-says "crawl towards me with your left foot over your right, and your hands straight in the in the air, or we will shoot you type instructions, and shortly after, the dispatcher ID'd me as being a registered person for the property.

Now that I think about it, I had several negative experiences with the cops in a 2 year period. (Broke into my residence in the middle of the night for no reason - I was more embarrassed that it was untidy!; gatecrashed a party because they "didn't like the music" (no neighbours, no disturbance), probably looking for underage alcohol; stopped for speeding on a bicycle!!!