Adrian Bowyer

Soon to be rebranded Megaband.

Yes. We've thought of making one ourselves.

Plus it's only greed directed *at their own children* that cause the wealthy any inheritance tax problems at all. If you give all your money to your children at least seven years before you croak, they don't pay a penny. Most people have a rough idea of their own life expectancy.

Indirect answer: my late father was a painter. He had a painting that had hung in a gallery for six months priced at three-hundred quid without selling. One day he went in and said, "Put it up to five hundred and fifty."

It sold the next week.

Barn owl box with hatch for cleaning.

Looking for a barn owl box to put on a tree. They seem quite expensive.

My wife: Christ! This one's got a bloody garage!

Graph of industrial robots installed per year.Japan, US, S. Korea and Germany are pretty constant around 25,000. China goes from 25,000 to 270,000.

This is pretty extraordinary.

Graph of industrial robots installed per year.Japan, US, S. Korea and Germany are pretty constant around 25,000. China goes from 25,000 to 270,000.

This is pretty extraordinary.

Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work.

"A billion transistors are more reliable than a single mechanical lever."

It's getting like electricity...

I think the transition from being a child of, to being a friend with, one's parents takes about twenty years, starting in one's late teens.

Partially. That's the fiscal reason for it. But I think it's mainly based on a value estimate combined with engine capacity if petrol. My car is new. My wife's is old and has a small engine.

To a certain extent true also. Most of us in Europe have fibre access, for example, whereas I get the impression that's not always the case in the US.

Car tax. Petrol £20. Electric £195.

On the left the tax for my wife's petrol car. On the right the tax for my electric car.

If this isn't a perverse incentive, I don't know what is.

#ClimateEmergency

Accessible, cheap clean energy could spark a new world order Unshackled from legacy fossil fuel interests, the world’s clean energy future is being forged in the bustling cities of the global south.

Just as mobile phones allowed developing nations to leapfrog landlines twenty years ago, now cheap solar, batteries and EVs are allowing them to leapfrog fossil fuel infrastructure.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

I'm particularly impressed by the analytical care implied by both the measurement and use of distilled water.

Already reposted the quoted post but just started cracking up all over again because I can’t believe we saw a wholesome example of this exact format in the wild

I went to sleep and went to Wales for the first time in my life in my fifties.

Lege.

If you're a victim of repeated flooding, you need to start looking at land use upstream.

One of these sponges up vast amounts of water, releasing it slowly, the other does not. One reduces flooding, the other *increases* it.

Without addressing this core driver, it'll just keep on getting worse.

Short wire connecting two plugs.

I have one of these. Whenever there's a power cut I isolate the house then connect up our generator. It's great!

TBF I once got on a train at Paddington for Cardiff when I meant to get one to Bath.

I'm particularly impressed by the analytical care implied by both the measurement and use of distilled water.

My car has just sent me a message to tell me that it is parked but not locked

I'm sitting in the bloody thing...

Impressive precision peeing here.

By nibbling their ears?

I am going to put this away for a while.

I understand. But I would have thought that he has sufficient cash to make other things loom larger in his attention.

The Wrong Side of History is always, always, the same side. It doesn't take detailed research to discover this. So likewise, I don't understand. Henry Ford was many things. But he wasn't stupid. Yet he chose wrongly. Bezos simply doesn't need anything from the wrong side. So why has he moved there?

Well. Not if they're a czarina.