David, do you really think that CO2 removal by non-vegetative means could make a difference? I can see (some) merit in capture at source for a few non-fungible processes, but can’t make the numbers add up (eyeball modelling only) at an atmospheric scale.
<Scottish Highlands has entered the conversation>. TBF, Iceland does have superb drinking water, especially straight from the stream.
“This mission was brought to you by Tunnocks Tea Cakes and Nespresso”
Congratulations to the Artemis crew and to NASA 😃
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Please stop spamming everyone’s timeline with these bloody ads.
Saved someone’s image of US gas prices at $5.39/US gallon
Stolen from someone’s indignant shot of US petrol prices. That’s Regular at a whole £1.06/€1.21 a litre. Last time I checked a UK price it was £1.60/litre & the rest of Europe will be similar. At £1.06/litre there’d be dancing in the streets. (Laughs in European & drives off in EV)
Really grateful that this front page has been nominated for Front Page of the Year at the Scottish Press Awards. Thanks to the judges for acknowledging its wide reach last summer.
And a huge well done to our contributor Halla Mohieddeen on her Nicola Barry Award nomination!
Image of a dozing Maine Coon cat, not having the grace to look remotely sheepish after getting his paw stuck down the bathroom basin waste at 3am…
This fluffy idiot in the bathroom @3am: The basin wasn’t draining properly, so I removed the plug to help. He promptly performed a full ‘Arctic Fox’ dive into the water, and got his paw stuck down the waste. I had to v carefully lift him straight up and then rotate him to unscrew him
#catsofbluesky
…and I used to regard him as a radical but thought-provoking alternative view of economic strategy.
That’s exactly what the UK wanted at the last election. Yet we got a government that has abandoned nearly every founding - and needful - principle of its party. Needless to say, it’s being trashed in the polls and, more than 18 months on, the UK still goes backwards by most measures.
BTW, my ‘clickbaity’ snipe was aimed at the video, not at the post!
Guess…
Those numbers are too low
Sorry, but just how clickbaity-stupid is it possible to be? The 1972 image was taken on a Hasselblad, with Earth in sunlight and was processed on Earth. The Artemis image was taken with the Earth occluding the Sun, take with either iPhone 17 or Nikon and sent compressed over a restricted downlink. 🤦🏻♂️
The Iranians have already said that they won’t try a reciprocal assassination on Trump, giving that he’s doing more damage to the US than they could ever manage. It’s exactly the same logic that the British used when they stopped supporting assassination attempts on Hitler from mid-1943.
Ducked, dodged, went diving on Heron Island, had an enormously long lunch at The Groucho, bought a new Mac or even got locked into a hotel room by a frustrated editor!
Timely advice: after 11 years of note-taking, I'm all of 2,000 words into my first fiction book. So I'm not going to feel pressured when writing (rather than cleaning the house. Again). I used to watch the agonies that Douglas (Adams) went through for deadlines, and really don't want to go there 😆
Burned out US Hercules and helicopters on an abandoned airstrip in Iran. Now where have I heard that before? I am at least glad they appear to have got all personnel out this time.
Trump is now pre-announcing war crimes, in an unnecessary war (save as an Epstein distraction) launched illegally under both US and international law. If the US ever lets him out of prison, I hope there’s a cell at The Hague ready, next to those for Putin & Netanyahu.
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Scottish here: I think you’ll find that this is a socially democratic exchange with parties who understand the difference. No Bubbas here…
I’m with you there, but there’s a level of interdependency and nuance there that gets lost in slogans. In Apple’s case, I’m appalled by Cook’s pandering to the regime (which Jobs would never have stood for), but operationally they remain one of the lesser offenders in the pantheon of fuckery.
Those are the relevant exclusion concerns: as one of those pioneers, I have zero issues with keeping up but even my 95-year-old mum’s first question on visiting us was, “what’s your WiFi code?” The phone helped greatly with her hearing, but the big unresolved issues remained visual and haptic
You’re not alone there. The singing, that is. But had you ever considered writing (and apparently thinking) in anything other than Mao-era slogans? You come across like a cheap rewrite of Wolfie Smith…
It’s really ironic that you quote Moorcock in your bio: all your postings here demonstrate are that you have zero understanding of the ironies, paradoxes and complexities of a technocratic society, that Moorcock illustrates so deftly
Fawning tech bro wannabes? JFC, sonny, all you’re doing is demonstrating how badly gibbering bigotry like yours flails incoherently at the very tools that make your sad little world function.
Segment maturity is arguable - a lot of products use historic/skeumorphic models, which don't position Apple well for emerging experiences.
It is though producing the best hardware it ever has, and Apple/ARM silicon is a fundamentally better architecture
There's a transformational gap there.
Multi-image overlay of a grey Maine Coon cat, Moriarty, in a full leap from the top of a car to the adjacent boat trailer. Processed into monochrome, with vintage noise and effects, intended as a conceit to invoke the spirit of that pioneer of motion capture photography, Eadward Muybridge.
This is me channeling my inner Eadward Muybridge: a drive sequence of Moriarty at full leap, albeit with some vintage F/X applied.
#caturday
Sounds like what we'd see in Europe as an older ASHP design (-6 to -7ºC crossover) whereas newer designs are happy way below that. We're doing a new build now, and these ASHPs will do well, at least until the AMOC collapses, but we're putting in a supplementary log burner against that possibility!
Umm. Did feel a bit sick… 😆
You are exactly right: like lawyers, accountants are are paid to be afraid of everything, which is not how to run a company: a CEO (and board) need to listen to them, and then choose to follow or ignore, based on strategic insight and risk perception. That's what CEOs should be being paid for.
What's your ASHP's design point? We looked at ASHPs 15 years ago and, below -4ºC they'd basically give up. We went for a 170m borehole geothermal GSHP at the time, but modern European cold-climate ASHPs are +2 CoP down to about -15ºC.