I think anyone living within 2 miles of a wind turbine or solar farm should pay no standing charge on their ESB. Let’s see if that shifts public opinion.
I think anyone living within 2 miles of a wind turbine or solar farm should pay no standing charge on their ESB. Let’s see if that shifts public opinion.
Sadly the Canon SD1100 seems to be dead. The lens isn’t retracting properly, it’s giving a lens error, and not focusing when it does work. So It’ll join the display of old tech.
This little chap has that bulgy feeling of a battery that’s met its end. Unlike the DS XL I don’t think this battery is easily replaced or worth replacing.
Sadly this one can’t run off its gumstick battery anymore. There is an attachment for a AA battery. I need to get one of those. It does work from the power adapter and it sounds INCREDIBLE. This really was an amazing technology that just didn’t survive the CD. I prefer it to CDs.
This guy is working just fine. 18 years old now. It uses 2AA batteries but also has a cell battery for remembering settings. I had to change that last year.
Doing a little bit of a check on the bits of old tech I have lying around. This little fella can’t seem to focus. I’m hoping the battery was just too weak to power the lens. Fingers crossed.
Paying for Prime Video and still having to rent or buy the movie you wanna see is like paying a cover to get into Blockbuster Video. A scam.
Incidentally go back and listen to the original of Bette Davis Eyes. The cover is so embedded I. Our brains that the original sounds like a modern ragtime version someone does for YouTube.
She Also Wrote “Bette Davis Eyes” If I was stranded on a desert island with only the songs she’s written, you could leave me there and I’d be quite happy.
This is a song Sonny Bono stole from Jackie DeShannon, I’m stealing it back. She absolutely 100% definitely wrote this song and didn’t get the writing credit. youtu.be/zIcKuWF4JXQ?...
Still. I’m sure your lurch to the right is winning over the voters. Oh. Oh Dear.
Hi Mr Starmer. Let’s see if your lurch to the right is winning over the right wing press. Oh. Oh dear.
Best use of New Mexico I’ve heard in a while.
Oh I can think of WAY fucking bigger mistakes politicians can and do make. This guy has no imagination.
Just finished the Deliver Me From Nowhere Audiobook. Why oh why didn’t they record it on a tape recorder in a bedroom? Anyhoo decent book. Not life changing. I’m curious to see how the movie turns out. I’m not sure there’s much of an arc.
I hope when Kevin Costner dies his obituary identifies him as “American Actor Who Portrayed White Characters”
Yep ours still use the 2DS And the Wii gets heavy use. Golden Age of consoles. Gone forever.
Musicians were making a much better living when “Home Taping” was “Killing Music” than they are now. There’s a lesson in there somewhere.
Remember when tech was good? This DS XL is 15 years old. Tried charging yesterday and the battery is dead. No worries. Nice handy little cover that screws off. Pop out the battery and pop in a new one. Also doesn’t rely on some company keeping a server running. And I OWN the games on carts.
I know this is probably a stupid question, but have you tried getting Lancia Beta Montecarlo caps from Europe? Are they any more gettable? Or would they not fit?
Nice. Don't know if you'll be anywhere near it, but Los Alamos, California is worth a look. Some cool antique places which...you know...it's America so that means stuff from the 1960's.
I don’t think you should have to be better until Starmer does.
"When people say the past was better that's just nostal.." Oh.. Oh dear. It really was better. youtube.com/shorts/1d1RJ...
Labour are convinced that they will pick up reform curious voters with these policies. And they’re also convinced that the rest of you will hold your nose and vote Labour rather than risk a reform win. If you don’t make it clear they’re wrong, these policies will keep happening.
I have a question for all the Labour voters. When you see these announcements and post comments about them being shameful etc. Are you also writing to your Labour MP and telling them that you’ll be voting tactically to ensure Labour loses the next election?
They’re not even their marbles. They belong to Greece.
Don’t know if this is useful info for anyone but that John Cage composition that’s just silence isn’t about the silence. It’s about that fact that it’s almost impossible to experience actual silence. It’s about listening to all the stuff you can hear when there’s no music playing.
I know multiple kids aged 12-15 who picked up instruments because of The Beatles. Not Nirvana, Oasis, or Greenday. They might like all of those but The Beatles are the inspiration. Which is mind blowing. A band that broke up before their parents were born.
Helping 4 kids rehearse their band for an upcoming gig. Worked out I’m 1 year older than their combined age. I don’t really know what to do with that. In other news, The Beatles are HUGE with 12 year olds. I think the availability of YouTube means they know more about them than we ever did.
No, you can die and they can take your stuff.
They’ve gotten impatient with the slow transfer of wealth from the middle class to the oligarchs. Some in the middle class have actually had the temerity to increase their net worth. The plan now is to kill you alll and take your stuff.
What are the Gardai supposed to do? If it’s been up for 4 hours you call a doctor.
Liz just to be clear, they failed to respond perfectly to the comically insane crisis manufactured by government (i.e YOU). People not dealing perfectly with you being insane and creating a crisis isn’t an endorsement of you. It just means you raised the crazy bar and we need to recalibrate.
Wait. Is that Kier Starmer story real? I thought it was like "The Onion" or something. Jesus Wept.
Film makers should be forced to watch 1940s musicals so that they can replicate the lighting and colors.... I'm tired of not being able to see shit.
"with language, even as a baby you're jamming with professionals" This is a really cool observation about teaching music. youtube.com/shorts/Uc_bP...
Mary Robinson never had a second term. Do we allow non-consecutive terms?
Can someone ask Catherine if it was a mistake because now she wants to be president. Or has she felt for some time that she made a mistake, and has she ever mentioned that to anyone before now? Are there any other mistakes she'd like to include in this amnesty?
That is one of the great explanations of contentious politics through comedy. Matched only by the genius of James Acaster on Brexit. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xm6I...
I wonder about these people, whether they realise that they cause a few minutes of hassle for each individual they mess with. But a lifetime of being a miserable shit for themselves. It's not like being a prick comes free. It takes time, effort.
Do they know that we all know that you don’t add all that extraneous detail unless you’re lying? They gotta know. Right? Surely?
That’s also fine.
Not gonna lie. If I’d managed to get into government in the UK and realised I wasn’t up to the job. I’d probably want people talking about something like the ECHR rather than how I’m doing with running the country.
Of course AIWA cruelly changed their logo over the yearrs so there’s that.
I have a growing respect for Man United. When Liverpool were in their slump they were bad, bud never so bad that they were funny for fans of other teams. United have totally committed to the bit.
Picking up a prescription from the pharmacy last week. Pharmacist: That’s €1.50 Me: if we were in the States that decimal point wouldn’t be there. Pharmacist: You’d probably need a few more zeros. Both: LOL
Reminder that it keeps working.
Fucking Method Actors. They ruin everything.
Is it because you didn’t read the original post?
OP mentioned that usage went down. Cost per kWh went up If their billing is based on a variable demand based cost then a DataCenter certainly would affect their bill.
I’m just glad they’re giving it to him when they could have given it to ….. Waves hand vaguely at a rogues gallery of utter shits.
Worst Boardgame Ever
Hey Kier Starmer. This is what terrorists actually look like. Stop arresting grannies with signs and do your fucking job you fucking coward.
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I really think the current guy in charge of health would look at this and try to figure out if there’s a way of injecting coal lung to make up for the switch to clean jobs.
Mine wasn’t as close. Family friend. And not as unexpected or young. We’ve had one or two of those over the years and they hit very hard.
The best part of this is the clean energy. The second. best part, by a very slim margin is that this annoys exactly the kind of people I love to see annoyed. They’re outside idling their trucks right now just because they read this.
This made my day.
I did a thread last week on 24 hours with Solan Panels. bsky.app/profile/zx23...
I just now made the connection with your earlier post about “headlines” Condolences to you and all her family. Shocking, horrible situation.
The good thing is that bad resale value means cheap used EVs. And on balance I’m fine with people who buy new losing their shirt, even if I was one.
There was something to it with really early EVs that were little more than proof of concept. Range is a solved problem now. The issue now is cost and resale value.
I’ve an MX-5 that does 300 miles comfortably. And when I take it easy I can push it to 350. The gauge drops faster for the second “half” than the first. I love cars. I love ICE engines. But the pretence that Range Anxiety is an EV problem is total crap.
Somebody on here called certified lunatic RFK Jnr 'Microwaved Mel Gibson' and that's... perfect
I was at a funeral this morning with heavy rain. I have to assume not the same one. Mine was in South Kilkenny,
In 6 years of driving an EV I’ve never run out. And never felt anxious.
I’ve driven many Petrol and Diesel cars with the fuel light on. With the “predicted range” reading 0 for 10 or more KM. I’ve sat in traffic jams with the engine running on vapour. I’ve even freewheeled into petrol stations. And I’ve run out of fuel 2 or 3 times. That’s anxiety.
When I arrived home. Sure enough I had 2% left. I’ve seen some claims that showing exact % causes range anxiety. That EVs should show if you’re roughly Full or Empty like ICE cars. I say no way. This level of precision is the antidote to anxiety.
Nearing home the car is still showing I’ll arrive with 4%. After the drive down it figured out how I’m driving so it’s pretty accurate. But it wanted to take me a road I didn’t like. The road I do like saw me getting hiome with only 2% I did it anyway.
This is why range anxiety isn’t an EV issue. I had precise numbers. Not just a low fuel light that could mean anything. I could directly see the impact of speeding up and slowing down.
As I was about to head back The car was predicting I’d make it with 4% to spare. That doesn’t sound a lot but it’s loads. I only use 15% for my typical 60km commute.
The car was actually telling me I wouldn’t make it, but that was based on my normal driving style. I figured taking it ever so slightly easier It would be fine. The great secret of driving at motorway speeds is that dropping 10km/h or so makes almost no difference to your journey time.
I had to head down home to a funeral this morning. Looking at the charge I had I figured I could just about get there and back without needing to charge. There were chargers along the way if I was wrong.
After my thread last week about how solar works even in bad weather, here’s a few posts about how range anxiety is a Petrol/Diesel problem not an EV problem.
There’s a reason why even today you show Back To The Future to a 14yo they’ll tell you it’s their favourite movie of all time. It’s like nothing they’ve ever seen growing up.
Animated is cheaper. It’s only about money. Not demand driven.
The deviousness of your little “accident” becomes clear. The whole of the South East to aim at and you land half way down a cliff. Bravo sir.
I’ll be honest. I listened to Friday night comedy which was funny about 30% of the time. And a few other shows that I can live without. I think it’s going to take me about 2 weeks to adjust to not listening.
Permanent TSB have this really cool feature on their internet banking. As far as I know it's been there for years. When you log in, and click on....anything...it logs you out. Using a different browser might work. It's a bold move to shut down branches, AND have crappy internet banking.
And to be fair, the coverage I do get to hear, and the podcasts I was listening to, the quality has been on the slide. I was still listening largely out of habit.
Also things like Radio 5, the football coverage is blocked by region also. Honestly I'd pay the UK Licence fee for full access to the BBC. But I guess that will never be an option.
I looked at that and unless I'm mistaken the podcasts are a week or so delayed. Which makes topical shows ....kinda...you know.....not topical. I'll look at it again.
I caught the end of The Godfather on some TV channel last night and it reminded me how good John Cazale was in what was his film debut. He only made 5 movies, all of them nominated for best picture. He died aged 42 in 1978. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ca...
Just got blocked from BBC Sounds after 800 years of oppression.
What about those of us that want to see movies with less VFX that aren't getting made any more because the whole industry is trying to move to a model where movies can be entirely made inside a computer?
Overall wealth inequality has been heading in the right direction for nearly a decade now. That's good news.
Has there ever been anyone in history better than Dolly Parton? I can't think of a single person. youtube.com/shorts/eZQOJ...
My Tesla can’t remember my seat position. It just keeps reclining me too far no matter how often I fix it and save it. What I’m saying is I’m not confident these guys have the chops to do self driving cars.
Though I suspect this may be more about timing than anything. There have been some sizeable drops in stocks in the last year that quickly correct themselves.
Overall household wealth up, but the top 10% down. We’re doing something right. Keep it going.
I’ve started that show twice now and failed to make it past one or two episodes. Looks like a show I’d like but it keeps being replaced by lighter stuff. I think I’m just fatigued by seriousness.
So, when he makes a less than fawning comment about Swift, you claim he’s jealous. But when you call him a nobody we’re supposed to believe you’re not jealous?
His master’s dinner.
I initially misread that as 12 years in Primary School and I thought, good for Gerry, not afraid to talk openly about his kid being held back like…4 times.
Oh gawd. I was watching an old Late Late Show interview from 2002, a well known guy is in the audience, chimes in with some pompous, holier than thou, over the top bullshit. So, I think...hmm I wonder what he's been up to since then. Ah, became a politician, then Child Porn and Sex Trafficking.
I wouldn't have had her as a guest precisely because everyone knows exactly what she has to say, and it's entirely bullshit. But for a podcast to stand out, any publicity is good publicity. They can pretend she's there for what she says, but really she's there for what everyone else says about her.
Our house isn't quite at Net Zero yet, but every step we've made in that direction has saved us a ton of money, on Fuel Bills, on Electricity Bills. I can only assume Mr. Tice wants a world where I'm poorer so his friends are richer. Fuck you Mr. Tice.
Aparently Richard Tice is so dumb, he thinks "Brexit" is spelled N.e.t.z.e.r.o. What a loser.
