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by ljf 3y ago
As a child in the 80s UK - a gourd was the commonly used word for all squashes - and gourds were pretty rare to find in a shop. If you saw a gourd it was often an ornamental dried gourd that someone would have as a gift from the states. &#x
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by ljf 3y ago
Ice ages tools : https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/frozen-poop-kn...
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by ljf 3y ago
Back into the power grid. Quote: When regenerative braking is employed, the current in the electric motors is reversed, slowing down the train. At the same time, the electro motors generate electricity to be returned to the power distributi
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by ljf 3y ago
Yeah it is a hard trade off - waste vs efficiency. Sad to see waste generated but efficiency is increasing still, so the energy saving of replacing a device can be large. I brew beer and a lot of people make keezer or kegerators (fridges or
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by ljf 3y ago
But they also do entirely plain units that last well with no 'extras' - their commercial units are also great and easy to repair. But most people want to spend as little as they can so avoid the commercial units.
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by ljf 3y ago
Similar (or actually not as good) fridge was $330 - so let's say $350 for a better one: https://www.thepeoplehistory.com/50selectrical.html $350 in 1950 is equivalent in purchasing power to about $4,431.04 today. My la
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by ljf 3y ago
I'd be happy if we kept the amount of tax raised to the same £ (here in the UK) - but by actually properly taxing the rich, that could then move more people out of income taxation (they would still pay all the other taxes that we pay i
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by ljf 3y ago
I live on the coast in the East of England and can see three banks of wind turbines on a clear day. The nearest are 4 miles out to sea. When they were first installed there was local opposition, but now no one cares about them at all. They
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by ljf 3y ago
Near me (East of England) there seems to be no end of offers of free pallets from building and manufacturing trades - posts on local groups or adverts for as many pallets as you can take away. I was tempted to get some for a project, but th
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by ljf 3y ago
For a long time, a friend and I wanted to start a series of TV channels that showed the full days TV from a year ago, 10 years go, 20 etc - adverts and all - for me it is the adverts and news/topical bits that would be most interesting
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by ljf 3y ago
I don't know about the US but in the UK you can sort out new insurance in a few minutes - though one of the questions is usually 'have you ever had an insurance policy canceled or refused' - answering yes to that can cause si
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by ljf 3y ago
Comparable to petrol cars - the figure I've seen is 3-400miles refueled in the same time as a gas car: https://driveclean.ca.gov/hydrogen-fuel-cell#:~:text=Fuel%20... That said - my diesel car easily does 600-700 miles
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by ljf 3y ago
I'd not be so quick to judge - some parents worry if their kids use a device for 30 mins, some for an hour, some all day - so the fact they are considering scaling back doesn't really tell us much about their child's usage. O
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by ljf 3y ago
Key is 'patients who routinely' - they didn't prescribe Crosswords and Chess - these are people already disposed to doing those things, which will be a subset of all people. I remember a friend taking up tennis for a similar
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by ljf 3y ago
Likewise, but don't forget that bacteria have loads of uses and niches in the environment, so killing 'good bacteria' in a stream or environment (or in your body) can have greater impacts than it might first seem.
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by ljf 3y ago
This is the same reason I far prefer to disinfect with bleach rather than antibacterial cleaners - the anti bacterial properties last for ages and are messing up the sewage plants here in the UK. Can't imagine what they are doing to ou
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by ljf 3y ago
I love old books like this - I used to spend hours pouring over ebay (and yahoo auctions) picking up all sorts of weird and historically interesting books for less than £5 each. Some of the most interesting (to me) I found through reading t
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by ljf 3y ago
I live in a town of 7000 - so the population density is likely far higher here in the UK than where you are. But here there are 3 private day care centres I could walk to, plus a school based one, (for kids from 3yo, that is free).
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by ljf 3y ago
My father is 83 and struggles to walk more an a mile these days due to a leg injury and the need for knee replacements. But on his electric three wheeled bicycle, he covers a few miles each day. No matter the weather he heads out in the mor
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by ljf 3y ago
Yes you would, until there is a cheaper alternative - which in time I'd hazard a guess that there will be.
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by ljf 3y ago
I was brilliant! The only pain was the first account I got it with only had half a gig of data a month, but I soon sorted that out. I used it with a little Bluetooth keyboard and did loads of coffee shop/pub writing in it.
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by ljf 3y ago
Yeah, stuck on android 12 but still receiving security patches for now. The phone had already been out for a year when I got it, so pretty impressed.
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by ljf 3y ago
This cannot come soon enough - I have a 4 year old Huawei P20 Pro - the phone still more than meets my needs in terms of gaming, photos/videos and day to day use - I've not had a single issue with the phone - other than that final
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by ljf 3y ago
Very true - but the value of peat as a heating fuel is now vastly diminished as other more efficient fuels are available for a lower price. I remember peat still being burnt in Shetland when I was young, and compared to coal or even wood it
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This! When you can run your house and charge your car for free with your own panels and batteries, oil/gas has very limited value to me. We rarely burn peat any more too as another example of a 'valuable resource' that is lef
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People acquire disabilities: https://employersforchange.ie/Acquired-Disabilities#:~:text=... . The important bit in your wording above isn't the 'by ones own exertions' but: "to get as one's own&quot
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UN says climate change ‘out of control’ after likely hottest week on record(theguardian.com)
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Tuesday was world’s hottest day on record – breaking Monday’s record(theguardian.com)
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Early Underwater Manipulators and Robots(cyberneticzoo.com)
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by ljf 3y ago
Non technical (Product and Strategy person), but it is a word I know of. I only recently remembered it as I haven't heard it in a few years, after an article enlightened me that it was originally a 'hippy' term (for the same

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