Triumphal arch - Wikipedia

_Lots_ of countries have triumphal arches.
Just so long as he doesn’t call it a “Trumphal arch”. Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Arch maybe 🤔

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I wonder if they’ll favour a French #linux distro like #mageia.
Hopefully not a US corp driven one like #RHEL, but that seem practical.

France KICKS OUT Microsoft OS - 2.5M Gov Devices to Linux, €Millions Saved, 30 Years DONE YouTube video by House of El

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Hopefully just a fuckup and not some filtering or censoring by the platform.
😠

Post your favourite film from the year you turned 18.

Smashing photo. Even the bucket has something to say!

Yay for everyone!

And don’t forget the crew member from Canada and upcoming canadaarm3 if the lunar gateway still happens.

The wider Artemis programme also includes contributions from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and the Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre of the United Arab Emirates, though their hardware contributions will be more prominent in later missions.

Additional European support teams operated from ESA’s technical centre ESTEC in the Netherlands and the European Astronaut Centre in Germany.

ESA also had a dedicated console in the Mission Evaluation Room at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, with European engineers monitoring the ESM’s performance around the clock throughout the mission.

Engines and thruster electronics came from an Airbus subsidiary in Lampoldshausen, Germany; cabling was supplied by Leoni, also based in Germany.

The backbone structure was built by Thales Alenia Space in Turin, Italy, with all components integrated by prime contractor Airbus in Bremen, Germany.

Contributions came from across 13 ESA Member States, involving 20 main contractors and over 100 European suppliers.

It carried 33 engines in total: a single main engine for major velocity changes, eight auxiliary engines for orbital corrections, and 24 reaction control system engines for precise orientation and manoeuvring.

… essentially the engine room and life-support system of the Orion spacecraft:

The ESM supplied air and water for the astronauts, provided electricity through four solar arrays, controlled the spacecraft’s temperature, and delivered propulsion for key manoeuvres in deep space.

Then who made the drogue chutes?

Apple-esque

Nice bill capture.

And the service module was built by ESA!

A Greylag Goose (Anser anser) swimming on rippling green-tinted water. The bird faces right with its long neck extended upward, showing the characteristic grey-brown plumage with a distinctive concertina-fold pattern of barred feathers on the neck. The wings display dark brown and black flight feathers with pale cream-edged scalloping on the back coverts, while the white belly and undertail are clearly visible. One pink webbed foot breaks the water surface. The bird’s reflection shimmers in the calm water below.

#BirdButt is #BirdOfTheDay? #BirdsUK 🪶 #VictoriaPark #EastLondon

A screenshot of the Windows Disk Clean-up utility dialog box. The window has a white background with a grey title bar reading “Disk Clean-up” and a standard close (×) button in the top-right corner. In the body of the dialog, there is a small icon of a computer with a broom on the left side, next to the text: “The Disk Clean-up utility is cleaning up unnecessary files on your machine.”

I think this is broken. After it completed #Windows was still on my machine.

For a while I used my deceased ZX81 as a door stop. Wouldn’t have worked out so well if _it_ was thin enough to slide under a door!

"Sod it, the bloody thing's stuck again"
- Major Clanger ...

The interior of a GP surgery waiting room at The Limehouse Practice in London. The spacious, brightly lit room has a grey vinyl floor and white walls. A curved reception desk with a light wood counter runs across the back wall, with two open service windows protected by clear screens, and health information leaflets and posters displayed along the front. A wall-mounted analogue clock hangs above the desk between the two windows. Approximately fifteen blue plastic chairs with chrome legs are arranged in spaced rows across the room, facing the reception desk. Two doors are visible on the left side of the room, and a doorway and a wall-mounted monitor displaying information are visible on the right. A sign above the reception desk reads “Welcome to The Limehouse Practice — Reception.”

Calm before a storm? Or just very early for my appointment? #NHS #GP #Limehouse ❤️

It was! A “CDC” (Cœur de Chauffe) rhum agricole arrangement.

Well that’s not true (find any stats you like) but if it was, get a car with a blade battery.

40! That’s good. That would power my flat for days! More than half of my car battery too 👍

On range, I concede that a car that can’t do 200 miles in 90->10% would be an issue for me. I do often venture into North Wales via Telford and that’s a 190 mile round trip. NW: not the charger capital of the world!
My current car happily does 300 even in the widdle of minter.

I can’t charge at home, do a lot of long journeys. Still cheaper to run than my last ICE car. Sometimes the FUD is stronger than the reality. For me, I _wanted_ an EV and was pleasantly surprised it turned out better in every way :-)

Yes there are many people who aren’t in a position to replace a car and wouldn’t advocate doing so _just because_. But so many people buy/lease a _new_ car every 3 years and still go ICE. My current EV was bought used. Still had 6+ years warranty.