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A fascinating insight into the psyche of Britons – politicalbetting.com
A fascinating insight into the psyche of Britons – politicalbetting.com
Comparing the US results with the British results shows that Americans are more confident across the board that they could beat up an animal. The biggest difference is geese – 61% of Americans think they would win, vs 45% of Britonshttps://t.co/Cfn9prx3hM pic.twitter.com/n7mW8qGZXG
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I think i have...
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With TSE having advance warning as well!
PB, once again, ahead of the curve.
Or maybe it means it has literally no transmissability at all, and it's impossible to catch.
But given its from SAGE, there's means there at least a 60% chance, it's between these two bounds.
Has no-one got round to prosecuting COVID for being racist and misandrist yet?
*However*, even with Australia's ample sunshine, it can't produce power as consistently and as cheaply as massive open pit coal mine. There you can have the furnaces running 24 hours a day, which makes it a lot more economical than having stop-start-stop that comes with solar, even in Aus.
If battery power continues cheapen, that may change, but right now it wouldn't be economic.
https://twitter.com/lewes_news/status/1395686056704479233
BBC News - Amazon shuts US construction site as nooses found
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-57206701
So this is just verification of the Peston Effect (TM).
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-57201044
I thought that is why people were on Tinder in the first place?
I didn't buy them because so many people in my life would have hated that I was wearing a dead animal.
But boy they were so comfortable,
So perfectly rubbish that the Scandinavian spread betting guys (who we drank with) actually tried betting on every other horse in races he had bets on. And made money.
Always being wrong can be very valuable.
Or maybe it means it has literally no transmissability at all, and it's impossible to catch.
But given its from SAGE, there's means there at least a 60% chance, it's between these two bounds.
And a 30% chance that it is worse than 12x more transmissible, but a 10% chance it cures COVID.
(No particular view personally)
As an aside, the one where I reckon that I might do OK is the snake. So long as I got hold of it first, of course.
Current battery charge rates are between 30 and 80 miles per hour. A petrol car will go about 400 miles on a tank and it takes about 2 minutes at most top fill up. The equivalent - if you can get a battery that will take you 400 miles and currently you can't - is around 5 hours charge time. Charging at home is not possible for a large part of the population as they lack garages or drives. So for me to drive to Aberdeen, for example, goes from being a 6 hour journey to an 11 or 12 hour journey. If I can find a place to charge my vehicle and want to sit for 5 hours waiting for it to charge somewhere at the top of the M6.
Until they get a massive reduction in charge time and a huge increase on battery life, the idea that we will be able to continue as we are but just with electric cars rather than petrol versions is for the fairies.
Formula E - supposedly a great advert for electric vehicles - showed this perfectly a few weeks ago in Valencia when half the cars failed to finish because they ran out of power.
As many of us said - the media narrative was basically -
"lots of people dying in India"
"there is a variant that we believe originated in India that we have now found in the UK"
"Johnson didn't act fast enough!!!"
"1+1+1=11,956"
Question time last night was like a baying mob about this. Reckon any of them will calm down now it looks no worse than the Kent variant?
So I drove 470 miles from wine country to Los Angeles last summer in my fancy new electric car. I stopped once along the way for about 45 minutes.
Now, my electric car uses fancy internal 800 volt technology, and I was stopped at one of Electrify America's new 300KW chargers. (And I also literally got home with about 8 miles left in the battery...)
But these charging networks are going in all over the West Coast. So, sure you have to stop for 40 minutes to add 250-300 miles of range, but that's massively quicker than the numbers you are using.
'Mrs X', as they signed the email, sent the poison pen missive on Monday to every lawyer - except the trainee - in the K&L Gates office where her alleged husband works.
RollOnFriday is not naming the office, or the junior lawyer, in order to protect her identity.
According to Mrs X's email, which was leaked to RollOnFriday, she discovered the trainee and her husband were conducting an affair several months ago.
Mrs X said she found "items" belonging to the trainee in her home, and that the affair had put a "great strain on our marriage".
Mrs X's alleged husband is senior to the trainee, but Mrs X appeared to place the blame for their alleged tryst on the young woman, accusing her of "trying to seduce him at work and after work".
"Despite my husband intend[ing] to leave her, she does not agree and insists [on] contacting my husband. If this does not stop, we will apply for a restraining order against her", she informed dozens of the pair's colleagues.
Mrs X named the trainee in her email, and included a large picture of the other woman just in case her workmates needed help placing her. But Mrs X did not disclose her own alleged spouse's identity in the email, "in order to protect the reputation of my husband and my family".
As well as leading Mrs X’s alleged husband astray, the trainee was accused by Mrs X of borrowing "some 150k" from him which she spent on "beauty procedures, i.e. botox and many fillers".
"On the weekends her private life is also very messy", continued the vengeful Mrs X, who alleged that the trainee was a "self-proclaimed model" who conducted a secret second career providing "private and intimate photo-shooting" so she could supplement her salary.
https://www.rollonfriday.com/news-content/exclusive-punish-trainee-who-seduced-my-husband-demands-furious-wife-kl-gates-lawyer
For over night trickle charging, lampposts are being converted in a number of urban areas already.
Most higher capacity chargers are being installed in carparks.
But are we going to convert car parks so that almost about half the spaces have chargers with them?
A lot of the planning for this seems to be done by people who can charge at home, who tend to think that "topping up" needs to be done on long journeys. But if you don't have a driveway then every single time you charge needs to be in public, not just topping up.
"lots of people dying in India"
"there is a variant that we believe originated in India that we have now found in the UK"
"Johnson didn't act fast enough!!!"
"1+1+1=11,956"
Question time last night was like a baying mob about this. Reckon any of them will calm down now it looks no worse than the Kent variant?
You forgot the 5% chance that it actually revives those killed by an earlier version of COVID.
So a negative CFR.
A chap round the corner from me lives in a flat with no car parking, has a Tesla 75. So, he only ever Supercharges it. He doesn't find it too much of a problem - most uses it during the week for short distances. Starts the journey with a top up if he is going away on a weekend, at the first services with a Supercharger.
Four months in, Joe (a junior solicitor) was taking Friday off to go with his mates to Amsterdam for the weekend.
This caused some small jealousies with his colleagues, who decided to play a practical joke on him.
On Monday morning when he arrived in the office he found a printed note on all the desks about "mandatory drug testing". With a frightened look he scurried off, while his fellow trainees pissed themselves.
20 minutes later, he returned and started clearing out his desk.
His mates said "What are you doing? It was a joke. Ha ha ha."
"Ahhh... said Joe. Well, I saw the mandatory drug testing notice and thought I'd better resign rather than be fired. So I just told the partner that I'd been thinking about it all weekened, and decided the law wasn't for me."
Quite a lot of sneering today, by you and others, at Sturgeon preferring not to refer to it as the 'Indian' variant. I'm tempted to defend her:
Glasgow is still in a form of lockdown because, presumably, of the spread of the Indian variant.
There's a fair number of people of Indian origin in Glasgow, some of whom may indeed have returned from India/spread the variant.
A small minority of (racist) Glaswegians, when they hear from the FM that it is 'Indians' spreading the variant, may vent their spleen on said Indians, blaming them for the lockdown, and beating the shit out of them.
The same risks do not apply to reference to the 'Kent' variant, unless there's a large contingent of identifiably different Thanet folk in Glasgow.
I spend far less time charging my electric vehicle than I ever did refuelling my petrol powered car, because it takes no more than 10 seconds to plug it in when I get home. It is therefore always full.
And I'll use Electrify America (or equivalent) charging stations once or twice a month year.
Edit to add: In the last year my trip to Yountsville and back was the only time I needed to use public charging infrastructure, and it was *great*. I plugged the car in, my wife and I stretched our legs and ate a pizza and when we got out the car was full.
We organised header note paper from the Australian sister company and write a letter telling him that due to staffing issues they needed him in a tiny mining town (can't remember where for t he first 6 months).
We also made sure that the managing partner was fully aware of the scheme which was kept going until 3 days before he went to Austrailia as his complaints got worse and worse.
Glasgow is still in a form of lockdown because, presumably, of the spread of the Indian variant.
There's a fair number of people of Indian origin in Glasgow, some of whom may indeed have returned from India/spread the variant.
A small minority of (racist) Glaswegians, when they hear from the FM that it is 'Indians' spreading the variant, may vent their spleen on said Indians, blaming them for the lockdown, and beating the shit out of them.
The same risks do not apply to reference to the 'Kent' variant, unless there's a large contingent of identifiably different Thanet folk in Glasgow.
Ha, maybe. Or maybe it's the same instinct which forces her into all sorts of contortions to avoid the word 'Oxford when talking about the vaccine.
Because in Nicola's world, only bad things come from England, and only England can be the cause of bad things.
I want electric cars. I think they are a logical step forward and will buy one as soon as it can match the performance of my old knackered ford galaxy diesel. But that means I want a 500 mile range on a 1 stop sub 60 minutes recharge (that doesn't actually match my Galaxy as I can do that distance without a stop but I am happy to have the chance for an enforced cup of coffee). And bear in mind I can charge at home. Many people can't.
The Government (whoever it is at the time) is going to have to abandon the target. It is completely unrealistic.
Because in Nicola's world, only bad things come from England, and only England can be the cause of bad things.
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India's not in England.
Glasgow is still in a form of lockdown because, presumably, of the spread of the Indian variant.
There's a fair number of people of Indian origin in Glasgow, some of whom may indeed have returned from India/spread the variant.
A small minority of (racist) Glaswegians, when they hear from the FM that it is 'Indians' spreading the variant, may vent their spleen on said Indians, blaming them for the lockdown, and beating the shit out of them.
The same risks do not apply to reference to the 'Kent' variant, unless there's a large contingent of identifiably different Thanet folk in Glasgow.
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Respectfully its bullshit....racists are going to racist and it has been wall to wall coverage about this variant from India, so everybody knows about it and where it came from. Whatever you call it, people inclined to racist behaviour will do so regardless if you try word play, which she failed herself in the press conference.
When I bought the Tesla Roadster a decade ago, there was literally no charging infrastructure at all. You could charge at home... or... umm... you were out of luck.
There was no DC charging. There were no superchargers. There were no "lampost" chargers". There were no chargers in supermarkets or car parks.
That changes a little bit every year.
Now, I suspect that Lincolnshire is going to be among the last places to have universal charging infrastructure in place, but mark my words, it's coming.
How many houses in the UK don't? And I swear we're still building most new homes without them either. 2 off road spaces with charging should be the presumed default for all new builds.
But you would be amazed at the charging infrastructure in Southern California. In the car parks in Santa Monica, maybe 15% of the stalls have charging ports, and that's only growing.
Glasgow is still in a form of lockdown because, presumably, of the spread of the Indian variant.
There's a fair number of people of Indian origin in Glasgow, some of whom may indeed have returned from India/spread the variant.
A small minority of (racist) Glaswegians, when they hear from the FM that it is 'Indians' spreading the variant, may vent their spleen on said Indians, blaming them for the lockdown, and beating the shit out of them.
The same risks do not apply to reference to the 'Kent' variant, unless there's a large contingent of identifiably different Thanet folk in Glasgow.
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Either that, or a politician with a history of terminal wokeness and anti-Englishness seized a golden opportunity to be simultaneously woke and anti-English...
FPT Cookie - I think Aussie farmers use intensive farming for cattle despite the land area because they can. It's cheaper to herd in a small area, and if you're not bothered by welfare considerations and it's legal, why wouldn't you? In the same way, unenriched cages for hens were common in Britain until they were illegal, just as inhumane sow farrowing crates are common in Britain today while illegal in some other countries.
There are always some farmers who treat animals humanely because they want to, and/or because they see a market for high-welfare meat. But while unpleasant practives are (a) legal and (b) cheaper, you'll always find plenty of takers. British farming is on the whole, with exceptions, more humane than most countries - but mainly because voters care and persuade politicians to make it so. The current government is mostly doing well on that front in the opinion of most of us lobbyists, with the mooted trade deal being an exception.
FPT MattW: I don't know the background about the EU import of hormone-treated Aussie beef, apologies. Part of some complex trade deal?
India's not in England.
Yes, exactly. So Nicola doesn't want to name a plague variant after it. There is only one country which can be the cause of Scotland's ills, England. So having a Kent variant is great. But an Oxford vaccine presents her with a problem.
I've done it a fair few times and it works.
Geese are easy. If you are strong enough.
Dog's, though...
It's not true that "there's no such word as can't". Sorry, JRM's nanny. But there are a lot more "don't want to"s than "can't"s.
If you believe in endless rebirth since beginningless time, then yes you have.
Many, many times.
1) I see Heathrow was able to separate people by the risk level of their arrival but had chosen not to do so.
2) I notice Portugal's new infections are increasing again - this will not have been affected by this week's tourist flights.
3) The hospitalisation numbers are showing a steadily increasing proportion from London - the effect of London's higher number of anti-vaxxers perhaps ?
Everything's minimalised here. Many parking garages etc here won't have any space to squeeze in charging ports for parked cars. And if people can't charge at home, and spaces with infrastructure are limited while out, then you're really going to struggle.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/may/21/novavax-volunteers-in-uk-threaten-to-quit-over-approval-delays
Autocorrect wants me to say ribbon, which is even more pathetic.
It seems to with everything else.
My farmer uncle once saw that his bull, kept in a small pen and always radiating fierce aggression, was losing the ring in his nose and so reached unwisely between the wooden bars to pinch it back together. With a swipe of its head the bull smashed his forearm against the side, breaking bones.
If the state gets in the way, by demanding and refusing planning consent etc, then it can't.
https://twitter.com/MechEngineerB/status/1395827309576400901?s=20
Heavy past-life karma.
If I was forced to, I would much rather get into a fight with a crocodile than a kangaroo for instance. Wrestle a crocodile and you might have a chance, but a kangaroo? They're brutal powerful beasts.
I once saw the aftermath of a 'fight' between a kangaroo and a large SUV. The SUV was totalled, the kangaroo unscratched and jumped away like nothing had happening.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kydQqVycrzU
“She was a little younger than me, so it's like the Romeo and Juliet story.
https://twitter.com/JakeSherman/status/1395730553249349635
She committed suicide when she was 20.
This story is tragic, and nothing like Romeo & Juliet.
https://twitter.com/KateBennett_DC/status/1395798144244494337