Beta Testing Weenie cough I mean Best Tech Wizard

“. . . Wes Streeting as a politician”.

Please use NSFW tag for such abominable gore.

Stan showed how in southpark s14e04. It was very easy.

Yeah but make sure you get the high mocktane stuff, too weak and you end up with punypunk.

In the 1990s all internet data was transported by snails using these things called AOL CD-ROM packets.

With the TC-AOL-CD-ROM protocol, you had to keep on gluing a copy of the same CD to another snail every day and sending it off to the recipient, until you get one back confirming the reciept.

If you do enough annoying wordplay to cause enough people to boil over with anger you can get Punpunk.

obligatory garth marengi

https://youtu.be/AFDWFTiKwss?t=143

Haha, i’d write a thousand pages of documentation before entering ticket hell. I fact I do put a lot of information into the ticket - they still won’t read it though and i’ll have to repeat myself 15 times to 5 different people.

The solution to this problem. . . I have no idea, but I’m sure they’ll appoint another delivery manager who will get hired by the ones who already know fuck-all to know less than them.

I’ve found that the few managers who want documentation, get documentation, and the others who want tickets and “story points”, get tickets and fictional bullshit - in general.___

Some cafes will do it - not as standard, but a few - maybe try the ones trying to be 1-up from a greasy. https://seahousescafe.co.uk/the-breakfast-menu

As will many hotel breakfasts, there’s often little single serving marmite things in with the single serving jam packets. I’d say about half the hotels i’ve stayed in with decent cooked breakfast have had it on offer.

I’ve also seen it in little roadside food van / trailer type things too.

Anyway, you want sainsbury’s yeast extract instead of marmite, it’s way gloopier and nicer tasting.

"Hey, there’s Evan. "He’s a young guy. “He likes the Stereophonics.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRZ-IxZ46ng

If there was a God and it was an actual conscious entity, how could any human ever comprehend the motivations or intentions of such an entity. It can start again from scratch in 6 days - it’s not an ecologically constrained being.

It might be like a fighting dog trainer - the trainer might like it, feed it , take it for walks, abuse and traumatise it and so on, or it might not - just like God might. But after it loses it’s last fight, they can just get a new one.

God might care, but has no reason to. He could just as well be fucking around for a laugh. Or doing some scientific experiment, or fish tank, or it’s just an art project to show off to break the ice at parties. No human could ever know.

So it’s just not worth wasting time thinking about - unless you’re charismatic enough to disempower the charlatans and demagogues who do claim to know the will of god. If that is the case, good luck to you.

Are you arguing that imperfect anti-trust is worse than no anti-trust?

Usually anti-trust is based on proving market concentration and abuse of market power - so to prove a monopoly you have to show impaired consumer choice, and persistent supernormal profits / price fixing.

I don’t know if that’s true for these markets you’re talking about, in my country medicines are mostly generically prescribed with govt price regulation for most common medicines. That mediates the abuse of market power.

As for food I think there are usually alternatives. I suspect there are market power abuses going on but more subtle ones in the wholesale / middle market. Most nestle type stuff that i’m aware of has readily available cheap alternatives.

Monopolies are already allowed under patent of course - so I assume you’re not talking about that. Although I think patent extensions are maybe a problem that is at odds with anti-trust.

I’d be Interested to hear what the individual citizens can do to shut down monopolies though? If it’s as simple as “don’t buy their stuff” then it’s not really a monopoly; or, it’s a luxury in which case - meh, choose another passtime.

Royal Order Trebuchet Flatten Levant

Werner von Braun?

radioactive cheese

I only use my Erin Friar these days.

Flatbed scanner, or photo with grid paper in background.

Warp it until the gridlines are straight.

I don’t know how to do the last part - I suck at photoshop.

Hmmn, the version of England that i live in is filled with cheapskates and incompetence.

I remember the uk govt having to rapidly rewrite a whole section of the the MCS to address heatpumps. due to widespread under sizing, and poor installation / system design. Sure you can get quiet ones, if you pay even more.

The govt and the HP manufactures like to do their CBA on a “best case”, “minimum viable spec”, herioc assumptions about insulation/remedial work, and minimal retrofit costs. Oh sure they “can be quiet”; but what price was assumed in the CBA? not the “silent” model that costs a few £k more.

Whole new build estates were built with inadequate systems - there’s no excuse for not getting the sizing right on such a development as the overhead of an engineer is nothing, but of course they cheaped out; save £5k cost per house. Fuck the buyer ; they can pay for all the rework, and all the immersion heater uptime in the meanwhile.

It is totally reasonable to warn people of cost overruns, poor performance and massive remedial work with heat pump installs in England since inadequate installs and uderspec systems have happened and will continue to happen whenever a customer chooses the midpoint estimate. You need to tell them get at least 5 quotes and expect to pay the second highest or something. And they need to be vigilant that they actually get the output spec that they pay for.

If they tell people these things are “cheap”, then many peple will think that means they can take a cheap quote. It’s true that they can work, but the system needs to be designed and sized right - and this is likely to mean an awful lot more expense than a gas boiler that peple are used to.

I saw a youtube video where they remediated an inadequate install - they basically doubled the power rating, and installed several extra bits and pieces, must have been at least double the original cost - but they never gave the cost of the new system or the remedial work. This makes me very suspicious they just threw £30+K worth of stuff at the video as an advertising cost.

Brevity is okay if it doesn’t spawn comments like some I saw in the rest of this thread when i first read it, which I’m going to paraphrase rather than quote directly: “we’re talking about everyone because it’s an average”

I dont know how to educate people use, interpret and critique statistics, but I know I’d rather the tweeters were even more brief and just pointed to a source that does a decent job of showing the data and give people a chance to learn numbers can be used summarising what’s happening to a population.

If they’re just quoting a few numbers to support their opinions they can fuck off for all I care - that’s not actually going to help people understand what’s going on - or how the data can help them do so. It just creates more hot air. And whatever they pick, there is a counter argument ususally everyone can find a cherry that sounds plausibly representative of far more than it actually is.