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A few trees wouldn't go amiss.

Please enjoy all episodes equally.

The first series was OK. I struggled to the third and gave up.

Anything related to Discovery is dead to me.

Indeed. 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫

I'm assuming this was exempt accomodation. Would be nice if the local authority could claw back some of that 'support' money.

The people that hold the debt: pension funds, insurers, banks, other countries.

Exactly. We are not in a good situation. If there were to be a big economic shock - we'll be in serious trouble.

But you are right, something has to give. Governments either have to spend less, pay down the debt and live within their means - or grow their economies, reducing the need for borrowing and the ratio of debt to gdp.

The cost of servicing the debt matters more than the size (but lower is better). Japan, for example, has an enormous debt to gdp ratio (217%) - but the cost of servicing that debt is low because investors have confidence in their economy. UK has large debt and large servicing costs. Not good.

The government borrows money by issuing bonds (gilts), basically long-term IOUs (give me x money now and I'll give you back X + X% in the future). The debt - outstanding gilts -is owned by a lot of folk: pension funds, foreign governments, banks, insurance companies. It is worryingly high.

I've just finished episode 7. I'm going to hold out and binge watch the last 3 in one.

Fabulous series so far.

What a delightfully odd video. Made even more strange by not being able to understand a word of it. 🤣

Added electricity monitoring to #homeassistant. Now frantically turning everything off.

Hadley Freeman is, as usual, succinct and pointedly excellent at the end there. What a mess.

Alas, it is people that make social media suck. The more you have, the more it sucks.

Rooting for plagues isn’t pragmatic - or kind. Maybe try ‘Petty Vegan’ instead?

That's fabulous.

All I can say is that it works well. I expose most items to HomeKit (through HA) because that’s what the family are more comfortable using, but HomeAssistant itself is extremely powerful. A zigbee adapter makes it infinitely more useful.

These are great. I’ve got a few of them dotted around to turn off groups of lamps. IKEAs zigbee plugs are good too.

I beg to differ.

I always thought that ID cards were a reasonable idea, but people get VERY het up about them.

Is.. that wierd?

I think it's because we've ended up in this wierd twilight zone where the end that connects to your device is routinely USB-C, but the other end is USB-A.

Owen Jones winds me up like no other!

It’s everyone. The Guardian is just as bad, especially the opinion columns. I’ve had to stop reading.

Bluesky, like Mastodon, professes to be liberal and tolerant, but in reality, their liberalism and tolerance are limited to very narrow boundaries.

Rather unsuccessfully, in my case.

This did make me chuckle.