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Re: The jury’s out – politicalbetting.com
Who is going to be the first politician to demand a summer air conditioning allowance?
Re: The jury’s out – politicalbetting.com
Better not to have climate austerity policies that restrict people’s use of energy, both in winter and summer.https://x.com/AlecStapp/status/1943723803181277562Those dying are the sick and the old.
We need a new Marshall Plan for shipping air conditioning units to Europe
Better to save the money for extra heating in winter.
Re: The jury’s out – politicalbetting.com
ICE are a bunch of thugs mandated to ignore constitutional protections.
ICE interrogate kids at youth baseball practice—threatens to arrest coach when he defends them.
Every kid on team is U.S. citizen.
"Agent said if kids are here legally, what do they have to lose," coach explained.
"I told them they still have their 5th & 4th Amendment rights."
Youman Wilder has not only coached baseball on Manhattan's West Side for 20 years—he also has a law degree.
He has since changed the practice schedule as a precaution to make kids feel safe—but all except 2 players have still been too afraid to come back out to the batting cages...
https://x.com/LongTimeHistory/status/1943693085088555038
No prizes for guessing that racial profiling was involved.
ICE interrogate kids at youth baseball practice—threatens to arrest coach when he defends them.
Every kid on team is U.S. citizen.
"Agent said if kids are here legally, what do they have to lose," coach explained.
"I told them they still have their 5th & 4th Amendment rights."
Youman Wilder has not only coached baseball on Manhattan's West Side for 20 years—he also has a law degree.
He has since changed the practice schedule as a precaution to make kids feel safe—but all except 2 players have still been too afraid to come back out to the batting cages...
https://x.com/LongTimeHistory/status/1943693085088555038
No prizes for guessing that racial profiling was involved.
Nigelb
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Re: The jury’s out – politicalbetting.com
WFA - U turn after implementationQuite clear now that the government have lost the will to do anything even marginally controversial. Which is problematic; because we need fixes, most of which are not easy, and losing another 4 years to inaction is going to make the solutions even worse.
PIP - U turn after announcement
ISA - U turn before announcement
Re: The jury’s out – politicalbetting.com
What problem are judge-only trials addressing?
Is it eg a lack of jurors? Judge trials are quicker because you don't need to get lay people up to speed? Judge trials are less likely to collapse and so need to be run again? Or something else?
Is it eg a lack of jurors? Judge trials are quicker because you don't need to get lay people up to speed? Judge trials are less likely to collapse and so need to be run again? Or something else?
FF43
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Re: The jury’s out – politicalbetting.com
One of the benefits of getting a heat pump is it can be reversed to make an air conditioner. If we are going to transition away from burning gas for heating, we're going to need the extra electricity supply anyway. Why not make it more comfortable in the summer?The sensible amongst us do not do thatThink we need to install shutters on windows, like the French.The biggest difference between Brits when it’s sunny, and all of our southern neighbours, remains that we rush to fling the windows open and they rush to close them, and draw the curtains..
I'm interested that the latest RExxxx *, which is apparently a Conservative Think Tank, are maundering on about air conditioning, as part of their performative "using less energy is not something we should be concerned about" shtick. They are still trying to out-Nigel, Nigel, without noticing that back in 2021 his party were saying they were serious about tackling Net Zero, and he will turn his coat like the flim-flam man he is when necessary - and the Tories do not have that skill.
https://x.com/ClaireCoutinho/status/1943660950118175110
* Britain Remade.
RobD
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Re: The jury’s out – politicalbetting.com
ICE are a bunch of thugs mandated to ignore constitutional protections.It astounds me how many utter thugs must have been hiding in the ranks of ICE, only held back by fear of getting punished. They didn't get this way overnight. If you're prepared to interrogate kids, snatch mothers from their children and kidnap people off the street, you were always like that.
ICE interrogate kids at youth baseball practice—threatens to arrest coach when he defends them.
Every kid on team is U.S. citizen.
"Agent said if kids are here legally, what do they have to lose," coach explained.
"I told them they still have their 5th & 4th Amendment rights."
Youman Wilder has not only coached baseball on Manhattan's West Side for 20 years—he also has a law degree.
He has since changed the practice schedule as a precaution to make kids feel safe—but all except 2 players have still been too afraid to come back out to the batting cages...
https://x.com/LongTimeHistory/status/1943693085088555038
No prizes for guessing that racial profiling was involved.
If the dems get back control before Trump turns the US in to a dictatorship, there are going to have to be soviet-scale purges of law enforcement at all levels.
Re: The jury’s out – politicalbetting.com
I have made the strategic move to Spoons for the air con. Only for an hour or so until the Friday night crowd get here.No idea. I'm staying inside for another couple of hours. 23C in here with the solar driving the air to air heat pump in cooling modeIt is (I am told by Alexa) now 31C here.30c in the shade in my garden an hour ago.
What is happening with temperature profiles through the day, assuming Jeff Bozo is not trying to sell me Factor 48?
We're going to be the South of France.
Re: The jury’s out – politicalbetting.com
Horrible weather for work today, I think it got up to 32⁰C with a "real feel" of 35
Luckily I had a quite light day's work so only had to walk about nine miles. And between noon and half one, when I was in Ogbourne St George and had some of my most exposed and longer walks, the sun was somehow hiding behind two tiny clouds
Spare a thought for your posties when it's this hot
Luckily I had a quite light day's work so only had to walk about nine miles. And between noon and half one, when I was in Ogbourne St George and had some of my most exposed and longer walks, the sun was somehow hiding behind two tiny clouds
Spare a thought for your posties when it's this hot
Re: The jury’s out – politicalbetting.com
There have been lots of great days of test cricket - so recently as England's tour to Pakistan for example. Or even the World Test Final just a month ago.Can't remember a more enthralling day's test cricket.Such a low bar, though,
What seems to me so great about this is that we're seeing two top-form sides battle, and we're seeing it over five tests. Now that has been quite rare.
Omnium
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