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  • Why does Omegle being privately owned matter? Does a city council have less responsibility than a private business to prevent harm? Do your parks have security patrolling them? I've never seen that. Was Omegle "full" of perverts, or were there are a handful in comparison to the many ordinary users, but our attention naturally focuses on the aberrant cases?

    "club" implies membership, which Omegle didn't have, which is the whole issue, and why I went with a park which anyone can enter without registering, not a club.

  • Next year the city park will be forced to close down after the council was sued for by a woman who was allowed to meet a paedophile in it as a child.

    Children need to be taught how to not get abused by strangers offline and online. If they aren't, it's not the fault of the place that allowed them to meet. When I was a child I was using the internet to talk to adults and had a great time. (The adults who had to deal with my crappy attitude before I learnt some netiquette probably had a less great time...)

  • This is a bit trickier with heat pumps because they are not very good at delivering a lot of heat energy quickly, especially if you need a large temperature increase because you enjoy a nice hot shower (I have my boiler set to heat water to 65 degrees for a comfortable temperature at the shower head, though could set it a bit lower.) There are various ways around this but a common one is storing water so you don't have to heat it quickly or using an old-fashioned electric shower so that the heat pump doesn't need to be oversized. You don't get the extra efficiency of a heat pump, but showers aren't the majority of domestic energy consumption; heating is.

    There are other arguments for water tanks, of course - as a millenial you may not be thinking about a house with a large family, but it's similarly inefficient, even with a gas boiler, to heat water on demand for many bathrooms and radiators all at once and you're better off having a (large!) water tank. "Inefficient" here not in terms of the amount of gas used, but the amount of boiler.

  • At the moment the patrol is a single River class whose largest armament is a 30mm cannon. In the past there tended to be either a frigate or a destroyer in the area, but while the Argentine navy is much diminished they can probably overpower or outmanoeuvre that defence.