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by Steve44 5y ago
On a related note there are documents called "Bills of Mortality" showing weekly deaths during the plague in London during 1665 ( the year before the Great Fire ) which list the causes. There some descriptions we'd recognise
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by Steve44 5y ago
> seen their shipping from China to Europe quintuple It's actually gone up about ten fold since the beginning of 2020. For a long time a 40ft container from China to the UK was in the region of $1,500-$2,000. By about November 2020
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by Steve44 5y ago
Glad you enjoyed them, it was great for me remembering old memories about my dad too. Yes sorry about Araldite, it's a common word for me. As others have correctly said it's a two part epoxy glue, but it can do much more that just
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by Steve44 5y ago
Not quite typewriters, but my dad started working for Burroughs in the UK during the 1960s repairing their adding machines. They were the ones with blocks of every number and you'd press one digit in each column to select it and then
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by Steve44 6y ago
> They don't make the air fresher, they mask bad odors I read a little while ago there are some which just add scent to mask the smell, but others have a doughnut shaped molecule which captures the smelly molecule. It doesn't
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by Steve44 6y ago
I remember the Hobbit very well, it came in a large pack and included a full copy of the book. It was great to play and the language parsing felt way ahead of all the other games of the time. Playing it, you got a real feel that you were
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by Steve44 6y ago
This is just an analysis of some cups on a campus in India so I agree that it's interesting and worth looking at but possibly not directly comparable with products which meet EU / UK / USA food contact regulations. Sample B s
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by Steve44 6y ago
Do you know how your reusable one compares to these PE lined paper ones? If it's one of the recently trendy 'bamboo' cups, I'm fairly certain most of them are made of predominately with melamine. https://www.c
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by Steve44 6y ago
> You act like I invented the custom I think you've misunderstood, it was I don't think there should be a product which encourages littering. We have paper plates, paper bags, paper napkins which when littered will 'vanis
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by Steve44 6y ago
It doesn't need to be an ICBM, it could be in a shipping container or a fishing boat. They just sail right into position.
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by Steve44 6y ago
It's not the recycling, it's the sending them back through the same supply chain that would be the problem.
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by Steve44 6y ago
> And the reverse supply chains to get containers back to producers put in place. That isn't as straightforward as it seems, they are returning what is a contaminated waste product. That needs to be kept very separate from the clea
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by Steve44 6y ago
KFC trialled an edible cup in 2015 here in the UK. I don't think it took off, more of a gimmick in this form but quite an interesting experiment. https://metro.co.uk/2015/02/25/kfc-unveils-the-uks-first-
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by Steve44 6y ago
I've had a quick look at those bags. They seem to do two types, one has an Oxo-degradable additive which is currently being banned in the EU[1] because all it does is break the bag down into microplastics. The visible litter problem
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by Steve44 6y ago
> When you're done you smash the cup on the road when you're done. Why would you ever want to encourage people to litter. We need to encourage people to be responsible and dispose of their waste correctly.
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by Steve44 6y ago
In the UK we have the capability[1][2] to recycle all the traditional PE lined coffee cups we use here. There are also quite a few collection services[3][4]. One of the challenges is separating the waste ready for recycling so having collec
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by Steve44 6y ago
The EU 1999 Landfill Directive is about the phase-out of biodegradable waste going to landfill. Nothing which composts or biodegrades should be disposed of this way. These cups should not go in this waste stream, the only end of life is co
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by Steve44 6y ago
The current PE lined cups will also leak after some time. They are designed for immediate use, not as liquid storage containers. Most of them, especially the higher quality ones, will usually last a day or two before significantly leaking
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by Steve44 6y ago
This clicked with me when I watched The Brain with David Eagleman [1] on BBC a little while ago. I've always know there is a disconnect between reality and what you interpret but the way he described it stuck. Note this is my layman&
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by Steve44 6y ago
I was taught a long time ago that it's the act of jotting down notes which helps you to remember things. Yes you can always refer back to them, but there is something about the action of physically doing it strengthens the memory rete
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by Steve44 6y ago
Another anecdote. When I was 19 I did a quick conversion job for a company. I'd take an early train down on a Monday morning, worked about 20 hours a day with just a quick nap each night on the reception sofa, and then a train home
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by Steve44 7y ago
Regarding the self-care document, I'd never heard of acetaminophen before so had to look it up but perhaps medical people know the term? I'd half guesses by seeing the precautions though. In the UK it's generally called Para
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by Steve44 7y ago
I know this is London only but they are changing over. I think generally the busses have a ten year life and more will be changing as time goes on. "London’s electric bus fleet becomes the largest in Europe" https://tf
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by Steve44 7y ago
> Does anyone know how it is in the UK wrt heating with fossil fuels? Is there a ban on the horizon there too? There was a planned ban on gas heating for new build houses from 2025[1] announced last year. [1] https://www.bbc.c
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by Steve44 7y ago
There was a famous 'gaff' by commentator Ted Lowe, who said: "Steve is going for the pink ball - and for those of you who are watching in black and white, the pink is next to the green."
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by Steve44 7y ago
His tomb is quite spectacular, it's based on a Bedouin tent and is in a small Churchyard in Mortlake, not far from Richmond in West London. https://www.london-walking-tours.co.uk/secret-london/sir-ric... http:&#x
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by Steve44 7y ago
About 20 years ago I was following a friend in a car and we ended up a few cars apart. I called his mobile and just said “which way are we going at the roundabout”. The person on the other end was very confused, it wasn’t my friend but th
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by Steve44 7y ago
Just a guess, but perhaps the only other map users had pulled over to the side and stopped. Google may have interpreted that as a traffic jam and you didn’t see them. I’m not arguing a point, it’s just a thought as to how that may happen.
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by Steve44 7y ago
I’ve never used Wayz so can’t compare but quite a few other comments note how aggressive Wayz is at re-routing. At points where there are multiple route options it will indicate how many minutes faster or slower each option is.
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by Steve44 7y ago
> The main difference between Waze and Google Maps is that Waze uses real time traffic data. Google Maps has real time traffic data and the accuracy is staggering. I occasionally use Google Maps for navigation in the car and it even hig

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