Sure, BUT, don’t just connect it to the cold water supply - they need proper isolation - I’ve heard of cases where households have gotten really sick and they found that bacteria from the bum gun had made it back to the drinking water.

Not saying that the US isn’t in fiscal crisis, I’m not at all qualified to say either way, but: Comparing government balance sheets to household finances is a age-old conservative folly designed to encourage the working class to support smaller government in order to reduce taxes on the rich - in other words, encourage the turkeys to vote for Christmas (or in this case maybe Thanksgiving?).

The fact is that government finances and household finances are not at all the same thing, for many reasons I’m not qualified to explain, but a couple of obvious ones:

• Households can’t choose to tax the rich to increase income.
• Households can’t print money.
• Households can’t secure low-interest loans that extend beyond their lifetimes (i.e. issue bonds).
• Households don’t typically find spending increases income (i.e. Government workers pay taxes, infrastructure investment drives growth which increases tax revenue, etc etc).

The UK Conservatives used this line of reasoning around 2010 and it’s led to 15 years of growth stagnation with no real improvement in the debt situation.

The schedule times above are off by an hour in some cases - this from the official app:

• SQ Fri 07:30 UTC
• S Sat 03:00 UTC
• Q Sat 07:00 UTC
• R Sun 07:00 UTC

UTC isn’t adjusted for daylight savings, so maybe that’s the source of the error?

It’s also not daylight savings in Europe (CET/BST) until 29th March and China doesn’t do daylight savings…

I feel like over-salting the tenderloin would spoil the flavour. And you don’t want to slow cook it, it will dry out.

But as a possible Irish twist: Replace the mushroom duxelle with white or black pudding? Should such a thing be available where you are

After being very confused by this picture, I just went down a rabbit hole researching the use of “corned beef” across the English speaking world…

As far as I can tell:

• US/Canada call this corned beef, and it’s made from brisket.
• UK/ex-Commonwealth call this salt beef, again made from brisket, and corned beef is very different mushy canned meat product
• In Ireland it seems, from looking at the website for one of their supermarkets, they just call everything corned beef? The canned mush, raw brisket, this - all “corned beef”?

I think I’ve figured it out somewhat.

Handling instance invite codes is definitely missing from the official stoatchat-for-web repo I built my frontend from - see: https://github.com/stoatchat/for-web/issues/639

But I think what confuses things when you ask around for help is that AFAIK a lot of people are using various forks and pre-made docker images that patch things like this.

Well yeah, it’s quite easy to keep your energy prices low when you

• have a wealth of hydrocarbon sources in-country
• supplement them by bombing other nations until they give you there’s
• don’t give a flying fuch about the planet

Population of Sweden: 10.6 million

Population of the USA: 340.1 million

So the population density is very similar and I therefore don’t understand what you’re getting at.

The thing that really grinds my gears is the excessive use of “he/she”. Workplace training is a regular offender for this. Just use the word “they” FFS, it’s sat right there on the shelf for you.

Or don’t, just go with “he” or “she”, this fictional person in your ‘case study’ isn’t real, they don’t give a shit.

I was very tempted, but the cost of their uncapped service was just a bit too much. You get what you pay for I guess, but I’ll take the occasional mild infuriation over around £35pm extra cost.

More of a famous quote I guess, but:

“Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.”

Since I first heard it, I’ve been far less annoyed / paranoid about other peoples actions, at work in particular.

If the US gets a new president in 2029, I’ll be devastated if they don’t take the opportunity to do a major speach or something against the backdrop of a half derelict East Wing - it would be iconic.

I’m not sure these overlapping dots necessary represent the data so well… e.g. it gives the impression that London has only had about three terrorism incidents…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_terrorist_incidents_in_London

Nice - thanks for this

Not my experience. I’ve had my X1C for a year now and have not had to ‘dial in’ a single thing.

Most of my prints are functional items in PETG of various colous. Some PLA for cosmetic parts. And I did some things in TPU earlier in the year. Probably been through like 10kg of filament on it.

Can’t think of a single serios print failure that wasn’t human error - e.g. forgot to clean the bed, didn’t support it properly.

My one gripe is that when changing PETG reels, it doesn’t always manage to wipe the nozzle very well leaving a few rogue stringy bits that usually just pull off.

And obviously I don’t love the closed-wall software situation, but their software is pretty good.

• In 2015, UK consumers spent approximately £1.5 billion on physical entertainment media, including DVDs, Blu-rays, and CDs.

• By 2025, that figure has plummeted to under £400 million, with DVDs and Blu-rays now representing less than 10% of total video spend.

• In 2015, streaming was growing but still secondary. Netflix had around 5 million UK subscribers, and Spotify Premium was under 2 million.

• By 2025, streaming dominates:

  • Over 90% of UK households subscribe to at least one video streaming service
  • Netflix, Amazon Prime, Disney+, and Apple TV+ collectively exceed 40 million UK subscriptions
  • Music streaming accounts for over 85% of music revenue, with Spotify, Apple Music, and YouTube Music leading

2015: Physical Media ~£1.5 billion, Streaming ~£500 million 2025: Physical Media <£400 million, Streaming >£2.5 billion https://www.ofcom.org.uk/siteassets/resources/documents/research-and-data/multi-sector/media-nations/2025/media-nations-2025-uk-report.pdf
https://www.deloitte.com/uk/en/Industries/tmt/research/digital-consumer-trends.html

Sorry, I oversimplified, I can’t use my router with Sky. 😞

Even having switched it over to open-source FW and having dug around inside it over SSH, I couldn’t find a way to get my Nighthawk R7800 to do the Option 61 thing.

It’s not a particular great router, but it otherwise does everything I need it to do and is all setup, so still I figured I’d put up with the white box for a year and then switch again… That was probably nearly two years ago now 😅

We were with Virgin for over a decade. The quality of the fibre service was very good. Probably had about 3-4 brief outages in that entire time. Left because I got fed up with the mid-contract price increases that the government specifically tried to outlaw and then they found a way around it again (it’s not a change of contract if we say in the contract we’re going to change the contract…).

So I rage quit and went with Sky Fibre a year ago, which is BT Fibre and is also very good. Sky were about the only BT Fibre provider when I looked that at least waited until the end of the contract before cranking the price up.

Downside with BT is they force you to use their massive white router, which shouldn’t be necessary.

I don’t think I’ve ever had particularly good customer service from either, but if you get something that is Virgin or BT Fibre to Premises then it should be good quality and hopefully you won’t need customer service too much.

FYI Ian Watkins was Welsh and was sentenced in Cardiff in 2013; the death penalty was effectively abolished in the UK in 1965.

I feel like a separate breakdown per lead source would be interesting - was one source complete junk?