HorseChandelier

Dude, you literally said a meter is a few inches shorter than a yard. That is completely incorrect in any context, wether measuring accurately or illustrating orders of distance.

I mean you could have said “oops my bad i meant a meter is a bit longer than a yard” and i could have said “my dude, you are mistaken about the size of a meter” but its t’internet i guess.

Btw many people have jobs that depend on them knowing how long a furlong is… Ask any racing horse trainer or jockey.

A meter is just a few inches shorter than a yard

True candidate for “confidently wrong”.

It is, in fact, the other way around. A meter is 3’ 3"(ish) - close enough to 3" bigger that it makes no difference to John Doe. It does make a difference when being accurate for reasons of course.

If you want to comfirm it, without resorting to fundamental definitions (uk imperial), 1000m is 5 furlongs to within a couple of inches. There are 220 yards in a furlong so 1100 yards in 5 furlongs, therefore yards are shorter than meters.

Why use furlongs? Because a handy short conversion is 1km= 5/8 of a mile and a furlong is exactly 1/8 of a mile.

But its not ‘real’ cash, its what the owner of it could/can raise against the collateral in today’s market.

So you can’t just go and grab it.

In fact, if you started grabbing the mythical wealth it would be worth less… It may even become worth nothing (or at least less than it cost to seize)… “Oh noes, the feds are taking Elon’s stock… Quick sell it all 11!!1” price crashes, Fed end up owning paper not cash.

Cashless automatic pumps that require a deposit are rare

But getting more common. The ED in Oberzissen now have one pump with a payment device and Oberzissen is in the back end of nowhere.

As an almost completely illiterate (in German) English person I prefer the pay at a counter thing because the usually pleasant person behind the counter can just accept the payment. This is good because getting a phone out to translate the instructions often results in an irate German shouting at you.

they’d likely be unrelated to any changes in vaccine disinformation

Not necessarily true. If they were vulnerable adults for whom the vaccination had little/no effect or who were immunosuppressed, for whatever reason, herd immunity amongst the younger population would have protected them. Now it doesn’t, thanks to the anti-vaxxer in chief.

Holy thread ressurection batman but anyway…

On holidays in the south of France, found 100% robusta in the supermarket. What a revelation.

It seems to be less popular down here than it might be (often on special offer in the supermarkets and a bit cheaper than arabica) but I am happy to drink it (we have a few bricks stashed away for taking home as I don’t recall seeing it readily available in the UK)

It’s a very forgiving brew, great aroma and flavour, just don’t expect arabica!

The DLR is fully automated, though there is a fold away drivers position for use when necessary. iirc It never runs at street grade and sometimes does have software issues which makes things interesting.

I am pretty sure the victoria line has drivers for show. It was one of the very first lines to be automated and, at the time, it was thought that passengers would panic if there were no driver, so they kept with tradition.

Point of order - the electrical grid can be really handy as a navigation aid when walking; it rarely changes (though, perhaps sadly, some long established routes are being buried here in the UK) and is fairly/very visible. Whilst the power line running down your street might not help, the line of towers across the local hillside might be the difference between wandering lost for hours and a fast route out. Map the heck out of it.

Yeh the F quickly forms a stable compound with whatever it can because it is really keen to donate it’s electron. Cl sort of bimbles about, breaking up ozone left right and centre, lending it’s electron then going “ah no I think I want that back, ta” then eventually finds something with which to bond.

Yes - Chlorine ions don’t just react with methane, they try to react with everything, including ozone… There used to be a big problem with a lack of ozone due to the use of CFCs in aerosols.

Never heard of it. Lived in England/Wales for 59 years… Will ask wife, who was a chef.

Ok. So now I know it’s what is used in steak sandwiches.

I have never heard or read its name before - mostly because it is sold in places I don’t frequent (or by food wholesalers) but also because I don’t often have steak sandwiches.

Every day is a school day I guess.

If he does it won’t make much difference to traffic flow - it’s usually at a standstill!

Because the Vikings settled and formed The Russians around Ukraine, from where they spread and eventually formed Russia.

What a small volume… Should have stuck to English measures when you escaped back along 🤣

68ml short of a Pint in my book. Dunno where they got the idea that 500ml is 1.05 pints

Err NATO-Restricted isn’t one of the highest security ratings. It’s one that’s sorta kinda a problem if it gets released rather than a “omg oh noes I am so dead if the leak gets traced to me” type problem.

It’s also actually a caveated protective marking. The NATO bit tells you that only NATO eyes can see the materiel which itself is marked Restricted.

The trouble is there are at least 3 classification/protective marking schemes that I know of and in one Restricted is used to describe materiel that is called Confidential (or is it Secret? It’s been a while) in another.

Dude, get your B12 levels checked. Was feeling old and tired, so I went to drs for something else, he ran bloods just to make sure. Came back ok except B12 deficient. Now I get a B12 jab every 12 weeks and top up with high dose B12 pills every day after 4 weeks. Tiredness gone, cold feet at night gone, visual migraines gone grumpy old git moods gone. Oh and fucking around in a good way is way more on the cards!

The T82 extremes are what we use at work… We have 10 of them and, despite being used by generally incompetent users, seem to survive day to day abuse in a high school. We have had them for nearly two years and have no casualties yet. Other schools in the area also use them - with no reported issues.

I know a couple of multi-band, so not specifically pmr, Baofeng users but can’t comment on their ruggedness or longevity other than to say I haven’t heard bad things.

Another popular brand to look at might be Hytera; possibly a bit out of budget for you. We did look at those, instead of cheaper handsets, but price won in the end.

I am a Motorola fan. Used to use their VHF kit back in the day and it took a lot of abuse.

At work we have their averagely rugged yellow things T82 iirc that work out about €35 each

At home, for the goblins, we have a pair of yellow Motos T72 iirc similarly rugged €60 the pair.

Both models have good range and are easy to set up. Work ones do group programming so you program 1 bung the rest on programming mode and transmit the config. Boom. 10 radios programmed identically in less time than manually doing 2.

They are just about as bullet proof as the cars are self driving. Dunno why anyone might think that they would actually be bullet proof, given Musk’s track record…

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