In the post-trump era, right wing complaints against an organisation aren't necessarily a sign that that organisation is doing a good thing. Complaints from the factions in power in the UK at the moment are usually just a sign that their actions 'arent right enough' rather than not being right wing full stop.
Also, the BBC News wing has separate management, some of whom were appointed during Cameron's time in office. So the drama and comedy produced by the BBC can be independent of its news editing.
Do you think she's an actor and/or wrong for trying to make a stand and make people think about reducing carbon emissions?
Also, I think going straight to the 'oh, well clearly she thinks everyone needs to sail a yacht instead of flying now' route is a bit childish. All you need to do is think for a second and reduce where you can, which obviously the BBC didn't do here.
Yes, there's a big difference between riding the zeitgeist and actually influencing it.
There is something oddly nice about an older person saying "Oh, just like Sheldon!" (or sometimes Moss from the IT Crowd) if I mention dungeons and dragons or online games.
It might be a very simplified and / or exploitative version of nerd culture but at least there's an instant point of reference for us both.
Apparently modesty isn't that heritable. If you think the world's problems are going to be solved by your one wunderkind, rather than investing time and money in the already considerable number of intelligent people on the planet who are lacking opportunity, then clearly your genes aren't all that valuable.
We have enough people and our gene pool isn't diverse enough to make any one person invaluable to the future of the planet.
This seems really dumb to me. There are still plenty of people who use cash (old and young) and ATMs installed by super markets and banks cost almost nothing to run and only generate value for the installer by increasing the chance people will spend money in their store. If they had said '50-100 years' I would say it's sensible, 'a decade' is click-bait. Also why are we linking Daily Mail articles on hacker news?
The key word you used here is "probably". No-one will ever know because he was vaporized before anyone got a chance to assess the situation. This is why we have trials.