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Farage decides to take a break from the public eye https://t.co/eqhjKKJQKq
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Just been to Camden Lock (don't ask) - first time in 18 months, er years. Some observations.
1. Thousands of people there.
2. Five in a thousand wearing masks.
3. The British are quite an overweight lot. Especially noticeable in the hot weather.
4. There was a pop up vaccine centre in the Stables with queues a couple of hundred yards long all day.
5. People queuing were I'd say 18-25 on the whole.
6. Absolutely no instances of people wearing masks stepping into the road to avoid other people wearing masks to effusive thanks.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/sportsnews/article-9797679/England-stars-belt-Euro-2020-anthem-Sweet-Caroline-joyfully-holiday-together.html
England stars Mason Mount, Luke Shaw, Kyle Walker and Declan Rice have been shown together singing along passionately to Neil Diamond's hit 'Sweet Caroline' while on holiday in Mykonos after Euro 2020.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/07/17/cloth-face-masks-comfort-blankets-do-little-curb-covid-spread/
The PL are worried that there could be postponements galore with COVID spreading like wildfire.
https://www.aachener-zeitung.de/imgs/48/1/1/0/7/7/6/8/8/9/tok_07f1bf0b460f5adc5135a1e97dadbb86/w1900_h766_x1796_y725_ZVA_mdb_27252829424978345-6cc816303862f785.jpg
This is a very large mine and you have to wonder if any coal fired power stations might go short. Buy Australian coal futures...
When this happened in near Leeds it took years to pump it out.
So they can probably sing a long to Sweet Caroline as much as they like...
Didn’t we have something like this in 2012?
The (lignite) mine is owned by RWE
https://www.rwe.com/en/our-portfolio/our-sites/inden-mine-site
Reading the blurb tells me that the river was diverted around the mine in some super-eco friendly way. Unfortunately it decided to follow its old course during the flood - straight into the mine.
Hubris doesn't cover it.
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Blessem,+50374+Erftstadt,+Germany/@50.8177248,6.7901552,870m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x47bf16291a3dc5e3:0xa2760fee1ebe7d0!8m2!3d50.8132732!4d6.7966581
So yes, it looks as though the sandy land has been washed into a sand pit. I'd love to see aerial pictures from other angles.
😠
ETA on the down side, I spent £20-odd on new masks just this week.
I believe I'm right in saying the coal from these mines is not exactly Welsh steam coal in quality, and rather bad for the environment (even compared to other coals)?
The article says that *some* cloth masks do little good because they are full of holes.
FFP3 masks are available now on a number of sites including amazon. They are often good for a few days if you are careful. Unvalved are rather stuffy, but protect other people completely as well as the wearer (if correctly fitted), valved masks only protect the wearer to that degree, but are much more comfortable, they have less benefit for bystanders.
I will be wearing a valved FFP3 for my trip to London tommorow.
Cummings is seriously losing it. He has retweeted a self-promotional ad by Toby Ord, senior research fellow at (ahem) Oxford University's "Future of Humanity Institute", led by Nick Bostrom, author of the "simulation hypothesis". In a time when a great deal of seriousness is needed, such as right now when there's a pandemic on, Bostrom should do us all a favour and store his simulation hypothesis where at least one English football supporter likes to keep his flare.
But I've downloaded "Future Proof" and will read it.
It's almost as if there's about to be a change of reign or something.
It will take a long time to fill a hole that big, so I'd hope nobody was caught out.
https://twitter.com/StubbeWolfgang/status/1415341565204221963
Will deaths be up to 1,000 a day by end July?
I am wearing a mask everywhere.
It's very scary.
IMO
The German problem with nuclear power is an environmental disaster in many ways.
See: https://www.investing.com/commodities/newcastle-coal-futures
Added benefit they are adjustable and actually stay on, so no constant pissing about adjusting it that i see most people spending half their life doing.
Scottish cases have dropped from a peak of around 4,000/day immediately following break-up, to 2,000 now.
You know the masks are most likely legit for starters, as they can't afford to flog dodgy masks to people working in high risk environments like paint booths or construction sites with high dust issues.
But my posts are genuine.
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It is, however, very cheap to mine as it is all surface strip mining. And if you put the power plant and the coal mine in the same place, you eliminate one of the most annoying parts of coal energy generation - the getting of the coal from mine to plant.
But can he save it, as the rodent saved TVam? Hmmm, no.
Vaccinology is practically potions, if you ask me.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_Q5xoqqdmYEzU3Z8FSLgzk0lYyCw5Ot1/view
Of course the biggest laugh will be when the Electoral Commission rules that it can't be "Yes/No" but "Leave/Remain".....
To be honest I read a tweet about a model from I think Bath uni that said ≈ 2500 hospitalisations a day by mid August and then did a work backwards. But all very rough. Might as well stick a finger in the air.
Demographics in which there has been a relatively low take-up (such as - I guess - registered Republicans in Florida), those I can understand.
No matter how much you despise any politician is this really necessary
The mathematically impossible has happened!
Talking about big floods, a while back I was reading about the Missoula floods (*). Up to 40 different events, with one every fifty or so years, each releasing between 9 and 15 cubic miles of water per hour, which ran at up to 36 metres per second.
That is cubic miles of water.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missoula_floods
(*) Perhaps prompted by a comment on here?
I predicted when/if deaths reach 100 per day people will start really panicking again, but given how cautious people claim to be on Covid matters I'm surprised the panicking has not really taken off yet.
But he thinks he is progressive .....
Funny old world
This meant that maintenance costs had already started rising. Metal, seals, etc all get weakened by being in a nuclear power plant - whether through thermal cycles or the bombardment of radiation.
Now, if the German government had not mandated their shutdown, would they have continued for another ten years or so? Probably. But they were on their way out already, because you can't extend plant life indefinitely, maintenance costs were rising, and (as Hinckley Point C has demonstrated) there is no economic case for building new nuclear.
https://twitter.com/MirrorPolitics/status/1416456419881242624
EXCLUSIVE Starmer set to expel 1,000 far left Labour members in four ‘poisonous’ groups
Corbyn included?
Good job centre moderate types like me keep it reasonable.
I would have thought the experiences of our footballers and the huge support they have received from across the political divide against hate and racism is a real moment for decency
Right now, the schools are out. But in a month, they return. Small towns may get absolutely hammered by Delta as a single case in a high school infects everyone.