Surely you just enter whichever of Malaysia, Indonesia and/or Brunei is being visited.

this is what you need:

https://flux-web.vercel.app/

Thank you, not tried to connect everything yet, but this is precisely the level of blandness I was looking for!

This is just silly now

Serious suggestion, I’d really like a road cycling event where the winner is whoever spent the most time at the front, subject to finishing in the peleton. What would the strategy/tactics be like? 100 mile long bunch sprint would be great to watch.

Thanks to advice from @prettygreenparrot, I’m now all set up ready to discharge from my battery. So now there probably won’t be any more saving sessions again knowing my luck!

Not sure if it is the demand locally, or something akin to the cable coming out of the wind farm not being fat enough.

But it is frustrating that the aspects that feel like they should be easy are not being addressed. Lots of people have smart meters now, but most people have no way of being given cheap electricity and being told “now is a really good time to charge your cars up!”. How hard can that bit be?

I feel I am missing out here, does anyone know a way to make a Tesla powerwall II discharge to the grid? I’ve googled but found very little UK-specific info.

Is it brown then?

I think he means that he won’t mind if it gets muddy

Was going to say that this is trivial compared to the extent to which schools teach kids a mark scheme to pass an exam rather than a rounded knowledge of the subject.

But on reflection I guess being a safe and competent driver isn’t that trivial matter, so fair point.

Thanks CP!

Do the exposure lights still use a proprietary charger rather than USB-C? I have to admit that puts me off.

Plus being able to charge other things from the light is incredibly useful

Oooh, is there a light out there that is also a powerbank? Which one(s)?

Wow. That’s an impressively niche product. How many kids are there who weight 20-40 kg, want a dropper post, and have a frame with internal routing?

In contrast to the above, at first we paid £40 for an anvil with wheels from Halfords, and it didn’t get much love, and was a bugger to carry. The much lighter hornit was money well spent imo.

£200 is maybe more than you need to spend, though.

And choose between being lightweight or having a brake. For a little nipper, I think lightweight is more beneficial. Others will be along soon to disagree.

Early rider is as good as it gets. Hornit Airo is also excellent and far cheaper.

Well I think those who set off earlier in the day had a nicer time than those racing later! Good fun though.

Final should be good at least

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I pay a marginal tax rate of 100% on the proportion of my earnings that is deducted for tax.

I really really really wish just once interviewers and commentators would laugh in the face of any idiot using the fantasy term “marginal tax rate”. As mad as the lettuce is, such concepts are allowed to become the real orthodoxy by a compliant media

I don’t get it, isn’t “marginal tax rate” a perfectly reasonable measure to use to describe progressive tax rates as income increases?

I would be delighted to be proved wrong, but it feels to me like there will be no huge progress this year. Ukraine have advanced, but surely Russia will have had time to re-fortify the second and third lines in the areas of that progress and so there are still huge defences to break through.

Hopefully Ukraine, with western support, are better able to survive a war of attrition through the winter and will be able to have another crack next year with new approaches including F16s supporting.

I can imagine this war becoming all about drones before too long though.

Also, get a travel card and see how many modes of transport you can take. Kids love it. Easy to get to double figures.

This is my tip too. Starting central, Thames clipper to millennium dome, nip inside for toilet and food, cable car across the river, DLR (in the driver’s seat) back to central. Plus riding the upper deck of buses generally is enough alone to keep a 4 year old happy.

I’ve never thought Trump would actually go to jail and then still get elected president but it doesn’t feel like an impossible scenario.

Ftfy

Maths turns out be dead easy on Octopus Flux when you have solar and a battery and the right mindset. Your panels will make whatever income they make, and every unit of electricity you use yourself costs you 20p. Simple as.

That might be 20p of lost export during the middle of the day, or 20p that you buy overnight. But the figure is 20p. You can sell everything that you generate during peak hours, and you only buy from the grid in the night when it is cheap.

Might not remain true in winter if your batteries dont cover a full 24 hours of usage. And it gets more complicated if you discharge your batteries to the grid (can anyone do that? Powerwall doesn’t)

How you individually choose to support the climate is up to you.

In that case, how do you ever expect any meaningful progress to be made to address climate change?

Some gloomy people in this thread, if policy makers think how some of the doom mungers think then no wonder we can’t have nice things

Being a bit more optimistic, I think there is a lot of scope for technology to save us.

Fusion is a bit of a red herring. Maybe it will happen one day but has taken too long already.

Lab grown meat could make a breakthrough very quickly, since unlike fusion reactors, we can build an experiment, learn from it, and try to improve on it in a cycle time of days rather than decades. If we crack it, we could scale up fast, and free up an enormous amount of grazing land for tree planting.

Similarly, crop yields could improve enormously if we manage to engineer more perennial grasses. So we won’t need to wast energy growing a whole plant each year, instead we harvest the seeds each year (or a few times per year) and leave the plant to grow. Apparently we have managed this with some rice strains and working on more new crop types.

If things get really bad, we still have the option of more robust intervention like shading the upper atmosphere with sulfur dioxide. Higher risk, sounds scary, but nobody seems to be able to put their finger on why it wouldn’t work. Except the obvious risk of unexpected consequences.

Even if they went and lived in a tent some clever sod would be smirking at them for using half a kilo of polyester

All the safety equipment they use is oil based rather than from non oil based. They could wear non oil based clothes but they choose not too.

Didn’t take long

We live in a fossil fuel dependent economy, there’s only so much you can do to extract yourself from it before your own individual actions become futile — politics has to change.

I mean, that’s kind of exactly their point.

Sure, they could go live in a tent and eat berries. But what good’s that gonna do

Exactly this. It isn’t hypocrisy, and labeling it as that is lazy thinking.

In a similar vein I could argue about inheritance tax being insufficient but that won’t stop me trying to maximising what I can pass on to my daughter

Yes exactly. I would be in favour of much higher tax rates for people like me. But I’m not going to voluntarily pay more tax myself, because that won’t save the NHS. I’ll only do it if every other bugger who earns the same as me or more also pays it. Then it might make a difference.

I’ll be honest. I have kids, climate change scares me, but I still eat meat, still drive places, and still plan to fly on holiday occasionally when the kids get older.

My feeling is that either we come together on a global scale and everyone makes really tough sacrifices, or we are screwed. Individuals making really tough sacrifices, even loads of individuals, does not change the outcome, perhaps it just pushes the apocalypse back by a month.

So in many people’s eyes, I am enormously hypocritical. I vote green, and would fully support “extreme” measures like global bans on flights, and rapid reduction on fossil fuel usage even at great expense to today’s quality of living. But I am not willing to do this unless everyone else does it too. Only then does it make a difference. I only have one life and do not want to reduce the quality of it for no reason.

I would make an analogy to food supplies being handed out to unruly crowds of desperate people. There is loads of pushing and shoving and a queue would be both fairer and more efficient. I could try to start a queue, but nobody would join and I would starve. So instead I will join in the pushing and shoving, because I want to get food for my family. But I will also be shouting at the people handing out the food to say that there should be a queueing system.

Likewise, I am carrying on living the only life I have and trying to make it as enjoyable as possible (within reason). I wish there were better ways of showing that I would support much harsher climate change measures. I hate it when people villify just stop oil protestors for ever taking a flight to go on holiday.

I feel like many people have a similar mindset but have no means to share it.

Not got them yet, but liklely to go with loftstilts.co.uk.

Have a read of trustpilot reviews before you do!

I used them, everything was fine in the end, but much slower delivery than expected, which caused me to look into their reputation a bit more. Pay by credit card and allow plenty of time.

Forest Gump for cultural references

Gladiator?

If I were being especially harsh I’d say it was literally just that one scene out of the entire trilogy that is especially memorable!

I’ll bite:
Rolling boulder
Grabbing hat under closing wall
Delicately replacing the golden idol with a sandbag
The Ark being stored away in a warehouse
The minetrain chase
Petra
The guy who challenges to a fistfight and is nonchalantly shot
Cutting the rope bridge
Chilled monkey brains

I expect these have all been referenced by family guy at least.

Absolutely talk to builders at the same time. A decent architect will be able to name a few local builders who have built their designs previously and will be able to say if the job went well and the customer was happy.

Builders and architects and fairly independent, and won’t be afraid to give honest feedback on each other!

I think once we all get used to it, it will feel far more appetising than an actual animal that lived a grim existence in a world full of disease, poo, and industrial farming methods and then being butchered in a bloody mess.

If they can scale it up to bring costs down, “clean meat” will quickly become the norm.

Having said that, you could look into hiring a Hilux with rooftop tent in Swakopmund for a week, and then you could venture further and see Etosha, Sossusvlei etc.

If you want a pleasant time, Cape Town by a billion miles.

If you only have ‘a few’ days around Walvis Bay, keep expectations down, getting anywhere in Namibia takes a long time. I’d just go to Swakopmund, there is a lot of cool stuff to do there.

Looking back, cadets is a pretty massive waste of MOD budget tbh.

I’m old so this was end of the 70s / start of the 80s. I did think it was a bit of a risk having an armoury in the school with probably 50 Lee-Enfields and 10 Brens secured to the wall with a chain plus ammo in a different room.

You aren’t that far out of date. I was at school in the early 00’s and it was mostly the same, but with aforementioned terrible cadet SA80s plus a token LSW.

But don’t worry, we each had to stand to attention and confirm that we had no live ammunition on our persons at the end of the session, so all very watertight really.

I had a similar quandary. I use Picasa (went out of support years ago), but with the photo folders sitting on Google drive so they sink automatically. I use Picasa to make albums etc, windows folders to organise the files, and it all stays backed up on the cloud.

Interested to hear alternative solutions though.

Edit: all this means I basically don’t use Google photos at all, but it seemed really quite rubbish when I tried it

Either bent coat hanger as above, or a vacuum cleaner down your seat tube to encourage the inner or some string/dental floss to navigate around your bb, then thread the outer over that.

Marzocci surely? Buttery smooth game changer with an incredible 100mm of travel when everyone else was using terrible 63mm elastomers. Z1 was the fork of dreams.

Then RS and Fox figured out how to build air forks well, and Marzocci regressed into an MZ and MX line which felt like they didn’t want to try to be nice forks. And now you hardly ever see them.