GreatAlbatross
@GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk
- Comment on Keir Starmer says the UK can decarbonise without disruption – that’s neither true nor helpful 1 day ago:
VAT on meat you say…
- Comment on The return of Trump means Britain must rethink its defence strategy – and role in the world 2 days ago:
And expensive. Imagine the cost of changing the entire road network over to use metric.
“Minister, we have a cunning way to lower the speed limits, and go metric, at the same time…”
- Comment on Typhoo Tea teeters on the brink of administration 2 days ago:
But how will I get an “ooh” now?!
- Comment on Guardian will no longer post on Elon Musk’s X from its official accounts 2 days ago:
I mean, we should be able to interact with mastodon via fedipub, right?
If we had a separate server, it might be messy, as then there are two sets of accounts.
- Comment on Any hope of ‘getting Britain working again’ must not demonise people on welfare 2 days ago:
I’d say the conservatives do a pretty bang up job treating disabled people badly.
- Comment on Guardian will no longer post on Elon Musk’s X from its official accounts 3 days ago:
I’ll keep an eye on the feddit.uk applications for grauniad@theguardian.com in that case!
- Comment on Police investigating historical sex offence allegations against Russell Brand hand file to CPS 1 week ago:
20 years, for a more serious answer.
I found it frustrating at school when my history teacher finished at Afghanistan, with no discussion on how it related to the current situation.
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- Comment on I benchmarked 6 different metal USB sticks 2 weeks ago:
Awesome work, thankyou for taking the time to do this.
I too love a metal USB stick for the keychain, and my old DTSE9 could do with a refresh!
- Comment on Over £1 billion to boost bus services across the country as bus fares capped at £3. 2 weeks ago:
Big bus.
We know they’re paying you off with day savers, don’t deny it! - Comment on Why do cell phones have a data limit but home internet doesn't? 3 weeks ago:
I can only speak from a UK perspective, but most home ADSL/VDSL/Fibre providers don’t have limits, other than “if your usage is tanking the network, we’ll ask you to knock it off” type clauses.
Most providers are also signed up to an agreement that if your speed drops 50% below the agreed speed on the package on average, they’ll either give you refunds, or let you out of the contract.
The only ones that throttle are the bargain basement operators aimed at people who don’t care, and one otherwise very competent provider that for some unexplainable reason only gives 1TB by default, charging an extra £10 for 10TB.
And I guess there is also a pricing step up to guaranteed bandwidth. For business use, they tend to be things like 1gbits headline, 500mbit guaranteed burst, 100mbit guaranteed sustained.
- Comment on #notaseagull 3 weeks ago:
From my experience, they’re “Hanging around outside the chip shop” gulls.
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- Comment on Woman admits hurling McDonald's milkshake over Nigel Farage 3 weeks ago:
He was made sticky by vicky.
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- Comment on Cheating alleged after men’s world conker champion found with steel chestnut | Sport 4 weeks ago:
You’d need steel chestnuts to even attempt such a thing!
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- Comment on 'Botched insulation means mushrooms grow on my walls' 5 weeks ago:
I like to think of it like a passive action that helps handle the smaller amounts of moisture (humans breathing, cooking, laundry), but also an action that helps reduce the problems of acute issues that occur. That way, when something does happen, there is at least a dampening effect while the leak is fixed.
Leaks and rising damp still need to be addressed, obviously.Examples are things like vermiculite render on the outside, Steico/Wool batts as normal insulation.
The downside is, it’s expensive. The insulation is only as good as fibreglass/rockwool, and costs about 3x as much.
- Comment on 'Botched insulation means mushrooms grow on my walls' 1 month ago:
There is another thing that I sometimes talk about on here, breathability.
You either need to prevent any moisture moving in any direction, or allow vapor to move with breathable materials.
Ones that allow water vapor to move, but not liquid water.Older buildings, where the original materials were breathable, should ideally continue to use breathable materials. This prevents issues with water wicking through one old surface, then getting trapped behind another. It also removes the risk of damaged or badly designed vapor barriers allowing things through, as the materials themselves help get the moisture out as a passive action.
- Comment on Online retailer eBay scraps fees for private sellers in UK 1 month ago:
They’re also changing the way you get money after someone buys something.
eBay balance, apparently. So by default, when a transaction happens, the money stays in eBay, and you have to manually transfer it out, instead of scheduled timed payouts.
- Comment on A Next Generation Approach to Heating and Cooling Buildings 1 month ago:
Building wide generating and averaging absolutely makes sense.
It needs tighter regulation though. As when you have apartments that are effectively tied to a provider, protections need to be in place to stop ridiculous energy price hikes and maintenance charges.
- Comment on Aldi price match at Tesco - dozens of goods not like-for-like 1 month ago:
It’s getting to the point where the only saving grace for Tesco over Aldi is the delivery vans.
- Comment on Nationwide to launch mortgages at six times' income for first-time buyers 1 month ago:
Here comes the next house price hike wave, then.
Nationwide are also launching deals under 4%.
- Comment on Dozens from UK take up Putin’s offer to ditch ‘woke’ West and move to Russia 1 month ago:
Shipping people out of the UK to Australia?
That’d never work. You’d have to charge them at least ten pound. - Comment on Dozens from UK take up Putin’s offer to ditch ‘woke’ West and move to Russia 1 month ago:
The trick is to fit 9.5mm every time, until their partner asks if there is a way to make it stronger.
Then fit 2 layers of 15mm soundboard.
- Comment on Protection zones around abortion clinics in place by October 1 month ago:
The great thing is though, it’s completely up to you to choose: If you want to carry a child to term, and have the requisite equipment, you can do so.
If someone else doesn’t want to, that’s their decision too. - Comment on Campaigners tie baby slings to statues in call for better UK paternity leave 1 month ago:
That’s a pretty awesome idea, I’m not going to lie!
- Comment on Protection zones around abortion clinics in place by October 1 month ago:
Alternative take: People should be able to undertake one of the hardest personal decisions/actions of their life without the chilling effect of others.
- Comment on Oxygen 1 month ago:
I thought it was.
- Comment on Oxygen 1 month ago:
I just got frustrated with it.
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You’ve got the battle for the survival of an entire planet after they all got biodroned.
How many chapters that actually detail what happened? It felt like all it did was go
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Attack announced, humans arrive and set up a beach head, daar flattens a few cities in the background.
Then spends more time talking about how he is burdened and manly as a result of doing it than the actual doing.
The Hell storyline after that gave me hope, as I trudged through chapters of “cor, look at Adam’s muscular muscles muscling”, but once that finished, and we started getting storylines like “Why can’t we have guns in Folctha? Murica!”, I kinda gave up.