arethuza

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by arethuza 8mo ago
You could also do a version of this for the KSR novel "Antarctica", which is effectively "White Mars". ;-)
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by arethuza 8mo ago
On YouTube I seem to mostly get ads for gambling apps that emphasise the controls and safety measures they have. I've never gambled let along used a gambling app.
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by arethuza 8mo ago
Or drugs?
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by arethuza 8mo ago
Here is one reference: https://www.facebook.com/groups/749749943166663/posts/126838... I have seem other references.
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by arethuza 8mo ago
I note that one of those lines seems to take a big detour up and round Cruachan? https://www.visitcruachan.co.uk/
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by arethuza 8mo ago
During the Falklands War some of the UK's European allies intercepted transmissions from Soviet spy satellites that allowed the location of the Argentinian fleet to be identified - this information was passed to the UK.
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by arethuza 8mo ago
"Much of this 'configurability' is there only to allow SAAS" ERPs and CRMs were highly configurable long before SaaS.
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by arethuza 8mo ago
No, it's always been a source of amusement to me the number of people who have convertibles here...
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by arethuza 8mo ago
Octopus pressured us into getting smart meters and they're the folks I am speaking to to get the things to work so as far as I'm concerned they're on the hook. Mind you, I couldn't help noticing that the meters themselve
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by arethuza 8mo ago
There's even a service for it: https://www.taps-aff.co.uk/
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by arethuza 8mo ago
I'm a bit bitter about Octopus, although they did rescue us from the horrors of our previous supplier their insistence on us getting "smart" meters that can't then function as smart meters because of poor signal and are
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by arethuza 8mo ago
Scottish summer - finest day of the year! ;-)
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by arethuza 8mo ago
I can't help thinking that people here in Scotland with convertibles (of which there are a surprising number) would probably use less than you per year ;-)
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by arethuza 9mo ago
I can also recommend: "The Earth: An Intimate History" by Richard Fortey
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by arethuza 9mo ago
People do tend to forget about the homing sea haggis subspecies - with each group returning to the area of the same whisky distillery where they were born.
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by arethuza 9mo ago
What about ferries?
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by arethuza 9mo ago
Indeed, I was going to add that Scotland isn't really that far North (or indeed South) so there will be lots of places where the problem is far worse!
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by arethuza 9mo ago
How do you find the Enyaq?
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by arethuza 9mo ago
From NHS Scotland: "In Scotland, we only get enough of the right kind of sunlight for our bodies to make vitamin D between April and September, mostly between 11am and 3pm." https://www.nhsinform.scot/healthy-liv
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by arethuza 9mo ago
Why would a small Tesla "eat Chinese for lunch" - the brand is tainted (to put it mildly) and the Teslas I've been in didn't seem to have great design or build quality?
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by arethuza 9mo ago
Management consultant firms propagate these ideas - even if they had nothing to do with the original implementation.
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by arethuza 9mo ago
A few years back we "decluttered" our house in order to make it more appealing for sale and put all the stuff in storage. After the property eventually sold we went back and looked at the stuff we had stored and probably threw out
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by arethuza 9mo ago
To be clear - I'm in Scotland and the flags I see are the Scottish flag and the EU flag (often combined). I know there has been a spate of flag flying for other reasons but I haven't actually seen that myself.
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by arethuza 9mo ago
Going by the variety of flags i see people flying I'd say there is quite a lot of patriotism about - just not for the UK.
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by arethuza 9mo ago
Yes Minister explains it nicely: "Minister, Britain has had the same foreign policy objective for at least the last 500 years: to create a disunited Europe. In that cause we have fought with the Dutch against the Spanish, with the Ger
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by arethuza 9mo ago
Voice commands and Scottish accents are not a great combination.
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by arethuza 9mo ago
Well there is the awesome Cutting Edge Engineering channel - but they have the advantage of coming from Australia.
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by arethuza 9mo ago
I do know the type of person you are talking about and I don't think it's the Empire as such (which is long gone) but the lingering on of the kind of exceptionalism that was used to justify the Empire. Wonderful sayings like: &qu
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by arethuza 9mo ago
"repeated trying even in the face of failure" That's pretty much the motto of one of Scotland's greatest heroes - Robert the Bruce: "If at First You Don't Succeed, Try Again" https://en.wikipedi
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by arethuza 9mo ago
Also starting anything with "With the greatest respect..."

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