I mean, that’s most subreddits tbf

I have now been locked out of my work emails for 2 days and it is taking all of my energy not to lose my shit with the IT people

I can think of much bigger issues for the sport - like being entirely behind a paywall in the UK, for example

It’s a weird desire for people to flatten out a sport’s idiosyncrasies because they think *that* is somehow holding the sport back.

It never is, and fans really love the idiosyncrasies.

Yes it may well be you have to break the season up around July/August

It’s not like you can do the GT any earlier because of the weather

The only changes to the season should occur because, relatedly, the climate in Europe has changed.

I can imagine a time not so far away where racing in July/August is just **too hot**

Every other year some idiot says the calendar is “illogical” when it plainly isn’t.

One of the absolute joys of cycling is how the races mark out the seasons, the months, even the weeks of her year.

“We’ve updated our email security” inevitably means being locked out of your emails.

Extra fun when IT are only contactable by….email

Wind struggles from a price cannibalisation problem which would be mitigated if mass power storage was possible but alas

Give it 18 months and we’ll soon start seeing “Centrica trader paid £20m, whilst this pensioner died of cold” and “renewables allow us to be ripped off by nasty energy traders” headlines

(My position is this pricing mechanism is the fairest way to encourage investment in cheaper energy production, and if you want to lower bills you then have to explain how you intend to pay for the investment)

I mean, the system incentivises cheaper energy production, subsidised by the power users - I can think of worse systems.

The problem here is a culmination of a lack of investment historically, a nation for which cheap renewables are not suited, and poverty.

Not the energy pricing mechanism!

Depends on the contracts but in theory yes, in practice, they’ve needed “distressed” investors to strong arm the power desks to offer something tolerable to help the refinance and even then they have been reluctant..

Big balance sheet investors help a lot here for obvious reasons

I won’t lie I have a horse in the “renewable power generation making money” race, not in the “lowering people’s bills” race, though obviously in an ideal world I want both

Ugh poor you.

Able to listen to any music while you’re there?

If so, what.

Banks don’t want the exposure, they can’t trade around it, so they offer plumber’s quotes basically

The old one has historically found it hard to hedge out the volatility in a way that doesn’t sink them

Yeah.

I smell a big big *optimisation* opportunity here.

£££

It’s a curious policy. What is it trying to achieve?

I guess it’s saving that first tranche of now infamously unprofitable wind farms?

In another episode of “deregulate everything apart from things *I* care about” I would insist that all paid parking has your classic parking metre thing as if we didn’t have apps.

“Not sure how relevant losing an election is to becoming PM” ok hun

Lost an election comfortably

It’s always the lying that people hate!

Just say “we figured the guy implicated in the same scandal as Trump would have more common ground”

Because that is also the truth!

There are references and references.

I don’t think you understand how a seminar works

Dutch interview feedback (not mine *ahem*)

*thick Dutch accent *

“Ja you are very good technically, I would say, flawless, but also boring”

a man in a leather jacket is standing in front of a building with a sign that says opening on it . ALT: a man in a leather jacket is standing in front of a building with a sign that says opening on it .

Took the Eurostar