FatLegTed
@FatLegTed@piefed.social
Music (mainly prog rock) and veggie loving, geeky cat butler living in Hertfordshire UK. A lover of all things LOTR (since I first read it over 50 years ago) scifi and what have you. Ex soldier (Royal Artillery) and other trades ;-)
- Comment on 'UK-first' intercity battery trial train outperforms diesel 2 weeks ago:
Those wires and associated infrastructure need maintenance, security and constant upkeep and monitoring.
- Comment on All of Earth's water in a single sphere! | U.S. Geological Survey 3 months ago:
That doesn't look anywhere near big enough does it?
- Comment on New UK gov't approves 3 huge solar farms & wants to expand rooftop installs 4 months ago:
Good - get them installs rolling.
- Comment on Unused PPE worth £1.4bn was 'stored inappropriately' 4 months ago:
Of course it was - forests are not designed to store PPE.
- Comment on Farage urges Zelenskiy to seek Ukraine peace deal with Russia 4 months ago:
Hey! Why give the foxes a hard time?
- Comment on Government destroys £1.4bn of PPE from one Covid deal 4 months ago:
The basis of they were mates.
- Comment on A fun way to spend the evening next Thursday 4 months ago:
Any following the instructions is going to get very, very drunk ;-)
- Comment on Britain’s richest family sentenced to 4 years in jail 5 months ago:
Exactly. All those 'extra milky' cappucinos.
Scum people deserve scum service.*
- Note that I said service, not staff. If someone is willing to clean your shitty toilet, you need to pay them decently.
- Comment on The exponential growth of solar power will change the world 5 months ago:
Sadly it will be a long time before that happens. I wouldn't mind betting China an Russia keep it unavailable for some of the smaller countries that have fallen under their influence.
- Comment on New Patient: EL2401 Female Otter Pup (Name TBD) 5 months ago:
Looks like a Daisy to me :-)
- Comment on England set to miss post-Brexit targets to clean up rivers by 2027 6 months ago:
The haunted pencil.
I despise that man with an irrational hatred. I've never met him, don't know anyone that's met him. Yet I would quite happily do things to him that would get me banned from here.
- Comment on Royal Mail waives £5 penalty charge for fake stamps 6 months ago:
People that live in the world outside a computer. They send birthday cards and things. And write with pens.
Step outside, sometimes it's quite pleasant.
- Comment on Hundreds of black 'spiders' spotted in mysterious 'Inca City' on Mars in new satellite photos 6 months ago:
ITT people on this thread need to listen to Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Wayne%27s_Musical_Version_of_The_War_of_the_Worlds?wprov=sfla1
- Comment on Hundreds of black 'spiders' spotted in mysterious 'Inca City' on Mars in new satellite photos 6 months ago:
Not a million to one then?
- Comment on Hundreds of black 'spiders' spotted in mysterious 'Inca City' on Mars in new satellite photos 6 months ago:
What are the chances of that?
- Comment on ‘Huge disappointment’ as UK delays bottle deposit plan and excludes glass 6 months ago:
He said the delay was because additional time was needed to synchronise the policy of the devolved administrations in >Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales with that in England.
What a load of old fish parts.
- Comment on Laurence Fox told to pay £180,000 in libel damages - BBC News 6 months ago:
Ha ha ha.
- Comment on Two men charged with spying for China under Official Secrets Act 6 months ago:
Fair enough - but a year? That seems a bit excessive - I hope they've been locked away for the duration.
- Comment on Two men charged with spying for China under Official Secrets Act 6 months ago:
'China has called the allegations "malicious slander".
Counter-terrorism police have described the allegations as "very serious".' They would do though wouldn't they?
Why has it taken over a year to charge them?
- Comment on Texas got more electricity from solar than coal last month 7 months ago:
'Outside of a few plainly-corrupt politicians (like a certain senator from West Virgina),' And some really manky British politicians.
- Comment on A Chinese Humanoid Just Broke the Robot Speed Record—and Now It's a Race Against Time 8 months ago:
Wondering why the bloke needed a huge puffy jacket. He's either a George Costanza wannabee or it was very cold where they shot the video.
- Comment on Microsoft defends barging in on Chrome with pop-up ads pushing Bing, GPT-4 8 months ago:
I've never got Wine to work. Gave up with Windows programmes as there's nothing I need there. Other people have different uses though.
Looks like my distro hopping days are over now though and settled with EndeavourOS. I'm well aware it's Arch with a fancy hat on but it suits me. For now 😉