HumanPenguin
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- Comment on My personal benchy: this one really tests a printer's capabilities 22 hours ago:
Sounds like the eventual end. Will be learning how to take raw circler optical lenses. As the optical centres do. And build the tools for folks to shape them at home.
Such a project would be a huge advantage to many 3rd world environments. And would likely be about embedding quality glass cutting blades etc into 3d printed frames/mechanisms. Likely from PA. With the ability to embed metal rods and gears where stability, strength is needed.
- Comment on Glow In The Duck 2 days ago:
Pretty sure you will earn forgiveness for that pun.
Eventually
- Comment on Thames Water supply ‘on knife-edge’ with £23bn repairs needed 2 days ago:
Huge saving. LOL, a bit like saying don’t worry your only going to die of a bullet, we save the rockets for the big boys.
- Comment on Thames Water supply ‘on knife-edge’ with £23bn repairs needed 2 days ago:
Thames Valley area
Just FYI: Thames water covers a larger population than that. Much of London is not technically in the Thames valley.
- Comment on Why buy a film canister when I can design and print one? 2 days ago:
In the early days, all those types of film were sold in injection moulded clip on cap tube canisters.
But I shouldn’t be surprised that the small sales market today. Means no one is running a big factory selling the canisters. I only ever used 32mm. My brother did a little with larger format films, so I can ask if he has any canisters in the attic. If that helped at all. (measurement and design wise) Not sure what other help I can offer. But if you think of anything a guy from the times film was common can offer. Feel free.
- Comment on Typhoo Tea teeters on the brink of administration 4 days ago:
By drinking some not crap tea.
And being shocked this shit ripped you off for so long?
- Comment on The return of Trump means Britain must rethink its defence strategy – and role in the world 5 days ago:
Unfortunately, only local auth councillors tend to have any interest in lowering the limit.
Well at least since 1967 when the M1 was first given the temp 70mph limit.
- Comment on The return of Trump means Britain must rethink its defence strategy – and role in the world 5 days ago:
Sounds logical on a just consider it level.
But us old farts know better.
The nation went metric in 1965 joined the EU in 1975.
You know how all road signs are reflective. Well, back then that did not exist. Reflective roadsigns started in the early 1980s.
Add to that, most major roads end up replacing the signs every several years.
And the simple fact is No If in the 80s we decided to double sign (as other nations did. Every nation in the EU did it at some point. France was well before road signs, 1795 I think. But the rest of the EU could not agree on anything before the 1940s. Almost all of them had their own versions of imperial like units divided over regions based on political power.
It was not until the early predecessor to the EU post ww2 that most of Europe changed.
If we started in 1980 by displaying km plus mph on all signs. (Rounded to the nearest unit). The original change would not have cost any more than current spending. Buy now, most major roads would have had many replacements, likely dropping the mph.
We would still see some dual signs in very low use back roads.
But when did you last see a non-reflective sign. Because that is as often as you would see MPH only signs. At 0 extra spending.
- Comment on The return of Trump means Britain must rethink its defence strategy – and role in the world 5 days ago:
Just to be clear. The UK is full metric as far as EU rules are concerned.
Heck, as far as the SI is concerned, so is the US. We both changed in the 70s. SI just required all other units to be defined based on metric. The UK and US do this. And the EU just requires all trade to be available as a metric option.
What you actually use to communicate in nation non-sales is your own business.
We and the US are just to stubborn to use the better units.
- Comment on Any hope of ‘getting Britain working again’ must not demonise people on welfare 6 days ago:
As labour are continuing tory crap. And have added nothing to it.
How can that be worse.
As a potential victim of this crap. Please stop weakening the case with over grandiose claims of crap.
- Comment on New coal mining licences will be banned 6 days ago:
Thanks. Makes sense.
- Comment on Keir Starmer says the UK can decarbonise without disruption – that’s neither true nor helpful 6 days ago:
Vat meat is likely the long term future. IE lab grown but more efficient.
Vegonism will become more common. But is not going to be 100% or even close in time to have an effect. Ao likely ever as that effect is its biggest sell atm.
But lab grown meat can manage and use CO2 where as its hard to do so with live animals.
But arible farming is still a huge user of CO2 and really not being pushed to cha ge rapidly. Cost is still seen as more important then green energy use.
- Comment on New coal mining licences will be banned 6 days ago:
The word restricted in the desc rather than the tittle BANNED.
Indicates it’s not as banned as they want to suggest.
Of course, if it’s really banned then great, it’s well past time. But that switch in wording is carrying a lot of weight.
- Comment on Guardian will no longer post on Elon Musk’s X from its official accounts 1 week ago:
Seems Vance threatening tariffs to nations that limit musks political bull.
Has made the political corruption so obvious it can’t be ignored.
- Comment on Post Office: Fujitsu boss 'does not know' if Horizon is reliable 1 week ago:
Post Office: Fujitsu boss ‘does not want to admit’ if Horizon is not reliable
- Comment on Boat work update. 2 weeks ago:
Most of the stuff is together. (obtained wise) Mounting etc is a big part of the 3d printer. But likely after the engine room.
The smaller pie is planned to manage the solar dump. along with a diesal air to water heater (Bobil Van) Linked in but only temp shut off via the pie.
All the mounting etc comes after the bilge and engin electronics.
Likely early 26 for finisjh iven our mobility. ]
Thanks for remembering
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- Comment on Britain will rejoin the EU within 15 years, former Brussels chief predicts 3 weeks ago:
I can see clear calls in 15 years. But likely another 10-20 before those calls agree on any approach to join.
There will be a huge we should get what we had push making any actual agreement impossible.
- Comment on Over £1 billion to boost bus services across the country as bus fares capped at £3. 3 weeks ago:
Agreed.
Hell it would be a fair argument to renationalise all buses and trains and make the service free as a whole.
Honestly that would be a very logical way about doing things. Companies (specifically high street retail but all companies) would benifit hugely. It would trully encourage Public transport over car use . Assuming matched with investment in services.
And remember the lack of rural public transport since 2010 is forcing more and more non working retired or disabled people to be forced to move into cities etc. This is hugly increasing competition for housing and increasing the cost/distance lower paid workers are having to travel to work.
But honestly non of these options was ever on offer. Yes its entirly fair to say hay more could be done.
But it is no way acceptable to attack people as shill just for sharing the announcement as is. It is just attacking for the sake of attacking.
- Comment on Over £1 billion to boost bus services across the country as bus fares capped at £3. 3 weeks ago:
They could have. And that would be cool.
But it would only be a false dichotomy if the true positives and negatives were completely ignored and only the reduced discount was considered.
The simple fact is UK bus services have been hugly underfunded and cut under tories since 2010. Many rural areas litrally no longer haveing any public transport at all.
This causes huge issues. As it forces disabled(non working) or elderly retired people to move into the very housing that lower paid working class people need to compete for. Making the cost of transport a greater part of lower income daily costs.
The simple fact is the tories had no plans to continue the £2 discount forever. And had absolutely no plans at all to invest in improving buses. (Or responding the long since closed trainlines).
Yes their are lots of thing that could be done better.
Hell their is a huge huge argument for making all public transport free. Its pretty much what is needed to ensure reduced car use. Amd would hugly help UK High streets etc. But again can only help if we are also spending money on expanding the existing destroyed public transport system we have.
No one with any brains expects this budget to be a left wing give away. No matter how much many of us may feel that would actually be better. That is just never what either party promised.
But to accuse people of being shills and outright refuse to discuse the positives that are being offered is the very definition of being biased and dishonest in comparisons.
- Comment on Chief thought Skripal poisoning could be 'act of war' 3 weeks ago:
Yeah. Just to let you know. That generic you is the same as saying “you people” and yep we brits have a bad history of that sort of comment. But many of us recognise the error.
Its generally best to say the UK or British government when that is what you mean. Because just like every other nation. Most of the you that are in the UK do not have any control or history over these events.
- Comment on Ever wanted a robot vacuum and w 3D printer hybrid? 3 weeks ago:
Lol
I’ll go hide my shame
- Comment on Over £1 billion to boost bus services across the country as bus fares capped at £3. 3 weeks ago:
Translation. You have no answers. And are the very tory shill you accused op of being.
Cool don’t worry everyone reading can tell.
- Comment on Ever wanted a robot vacuum and w 3D printer hybrid? 3 weeks ago:
Honestly, If it is ever made to work. A mobile/robotic 3d printer would be a huge step forward. Solving the issue of levelling on more random surfaces, IE all existing surfaces. Plus the Issue of moving heat stability with different plastics. It all sounds doable in an open design way. But hugely complex and in need of this type of nutcase to start it off.
But the advantages it would give to home-maker like design would be freaking huge once things become well understood. Adding already developing multi mateial heads etc.
As I have said elsewhere. Never underestimate the value of someone insane enough to try and make dumb shit work. Almost everything we depend on started from someone thinking the most insane idea would be fun to try.
- Comment on Ever wanted a robot vacuum and w 3D printer hybrid? 3 weeks ago:
I’m going to assume you decided the extra weight may improve vacuuming in some limited situation.
But thanks for leaving the correction to make me wonder for a while. Made your comment almost enjoyable.
- Comment on Chief thought Skripal poisoning could be 'act of war' 3 weeks ago:
How exactly is a counterterrorism chief doing anything outside UK jurisdiction.
The UK gov may be doing shit. But I see no evidence blaming Neil Basu
- Comment on Over £1 billion to boost bus services across the country as bus fares capped at £3. 3 weeks ago:
I never said it was a positive.
And claiming the Tory discount was not due to end is dishonest.
I said it was a 50% reduction in discount. I made no claim of positive or negative. And pointed out the positive of the first large scale public investment in buses outside London in over 40 years.
Do not put words in my mouth.
Now to actually claim the positives here. The tories planed to end the £2 cap costing about £225m a year and pay nothing to expand bus services back into the huge number of rural routs they have been ended over their leadership.
The Labour Party instead invested £151 in the £3 discount Plus another £925M in 25-26 to introduce new bus routes, make services more frequent and protect crucial bus routes for local communities.
Now explain how you can claim this is not an overall improovement.
- Comment on Over £1 billion to boost bus services across the country as bus fares capped at £3. 3 weeks ago:
Only if you are looking for false negatives.
The story is the discount was planned to end. But has instead been reduced by 50%.
You can only claim it is an increase if you claim a discount was not planned to end. And that is just a lie.
- Comment on Britons are dying in a blizzard of cheap cocaine. Why is so little being done to save them? 3 weeks ago:
Ah now it all makes sense.
Thames water has been underfunding infer structure. To reduce the purity of cocaine, London eels are subjected to.
It’s not about coked up profiteering scumbags refusing to invest. It’s someone thinking of the eels.
- Comment on Row as Starmer suggests landlords and shareholders are not ‘working people’ 3 weeks ago:
Well no other system would sell a waxing kit to a yeti.
So I spose its… unique