This is insane. What are we doing letting this stuff anywhere near education?
I can still remember the postcode of the house we moved out of in 1988. It was knocked down a few years later, so it’s not even there anymore.
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It’s a tragedy that we are still so dependent on single use toxic fuel.
Ides of March tomorrow, lads.
Come on, cosmos. You have a chance to do something really funny.
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Or is it Emperor's New Clothes Pudding - the ultimate in dieting luxury.
All these puddings are going to play havoc with my waistline.
Well exactly, but they're there on page 151. More investigation required.
Why does Wellington get more than one pudding? Or is it one for each boot?
I'd like to see the political appointments gone too, but I'm not sure how to replace them. An elected Lords would be almost as problematic as the one we've got. It does good things though - see their response to 'AI' and copyright. Limited term appointments perhaps, and many more true independents.
Handsome fella
Loved this book. Grab it if you can!
I was reading this and thinking of historical precedents, and I guess the closest thing is absolute monarchs who were treated as divine (Egyptian pharaohs, some Roman emperors, etc.) and I realised we do have a word for this disorder: hubris, in its classical sense.
If this means I didn't have to go to the damned things, I'm all for it.
It is very easy to read statements like this as a joke.
This is not a joke.
We have proven with AI, completely by accident, what knowledgeable people have been saying for decades: the environment that rich people live in gives them a very specific personality disorder.
Thank you! I've got a GSHP in my new build, with underfloor heating and good insulation it's brilliant. My brother fitted an ASHP to the 150 year old stone built original farmhouse, which works but struggles in the depths of winter. UK has a lot of such old buildings, hard to retrofit.
They never really caught on here in the UK until recently, probably because gas and oil were cheap, our existing housing stock is not well suited to their relatively low temperature output and our building industry is a century behind everyone else's.
They hate EVs because they need very little servicing too. That's where most dealers make their money these days.
But how would TV advertising cope with the loss of all that revenue?
Actually I agree with you 100%.
Which is exactly why there is so much misinformation and manufactured resistance to the technology. Ditto EVs. They lessen the control of the fossil fuel industry, and that terrifies those in power.
It makes me wonder what people actually have children for. Fashion accessories, perhaps?
Those maps of the straight of Hormuz. Look I don’t want to suggest they’re all stupid, but anyone ANYONE can tell you the quickest way to get from point a to point B is fold the map over and punch a hole through it with a pen. Why is no one doing that?
Perhaps a poorly one.
There are endless debates about where to start with Discworld and which were the best books, but I’ll die on the hill that Granny Weatherwax was the most ‘Terry’ character. The series caught fire with Equal Rights and ended with The Shepherd’s Crown, and I think there was good reason for that.
It wasn't all that expensive, although I suspect you don't have room for one just yet. I had to get it because my study is in the eaves, so there's no wall space for a decent sized whiteboard.
The one smart thing they did was buying up all the media.
I think about this a lot.
It's great because I can flip it over and use the other side, although sometimes I do that and find extensive ideas that I'd completely forgotten about and which might have made earlier writing much easier.
