I would have thought it was a sign of badly controlled allergies...

It is probably lobbying from some of the big corporations, petrostates and indirectly from the large number of people and voters that would rather believe a lie then be inconvenienced.

Renewable power network museum exhibit YouTube video by Dave Ansell (Sciansell)

We built an exhibit where you can build a renewable power network that has to work in different weathers. To try and make it feel more tactile you interact with our by moving tiles around a map. It has been surprisingly popular being the favourite exhibit of many children.
youtu.be/ahOoO4U1tlI?...

I would say that the bigger point was when guns became more important than stopping tyranny by democratic means. Though the bubbles of social media and many other things that apply to all countries are part of it

The British countryside has always been an industrial landscape since the bronze age. I grew up in a tiny village that now has 36 houses and it had a blacksmith a wheelwright and a saw pit. It is generally people who have moved into the countryside and think it is a theme park who complain.

I think it was truncated in some way, it was probably my screw up.

I get the impression that modern SD cards don't like being unpowered. The ones in active pis seem to last for years, but sitting in a box they just stop working after a year or two. I guess they lose their firmware.

Yeah, I had hacked picamera2 0.2 to make the graph in openGL at full frame rate on a pi zero 2, which was possibly not sensible, but it works nicely. What really killed me was the image I made of the pi 3 years ago got corrupted. That and an option when calling it. The pi forum is great though

I have finally got a spectroscope working for my demo lecture in the Cambridge physics tomorrow ( A physical history of the light bulb ).
I spent far longer than I would like to admit getting it to compile on 2026 rpios.

Though it is hard to tell if that is because of the money, or who you have to be to get the money ( most people would stop long before getting to a billion).
Either way it isn't good.

The number you should be looking at is dividends and stock buybacks.

If they have used the money to rebuild the pipes, it would look like they have made a profit of 95% of the money they have used to rebuild the pipes. As redoing pipes is a capital investment so will charged against profit over 20 years or whatever is appropriate.

Surely you then end up with a load of companies that own all the assets with a few very well paid employees who subcontract to companies who employ lots of badly paid people, or have a dodgy ownership structure.
It probably makes more sense to tax those with high income, and possibly dividends.

Just posted off a generator to a wind farm... Visitor centre. Though the design is actually based on a wind turbine design, though I took all the iron out of the design so the resistance to motion is less with no load, so the difference when you turn on a light is very very obvious.

We ended up insulating it with sand, which kind of works.

Our solder pot died, and we needed one before Monday.... Luckily I had a cartridge heater in a drawer, and we built a new one.

There is a dominance of people who used to live in London and now live around the edge of London and commute into London, or have a fancy flat in a posh area. From a long way from London, this looks like London, but I can see how it wouldn't feel that way if you live in London.

Did you ask him or vice versa?

The thing that gets me is how fast they recruited so many goons doing it. Were they having a normal life and suddenly thought, oh I could go and bully foreigners for a job?

Plus the jobs hardest to automate are probably the ones that involve a combination of thinking and practical things. Plus relying on China to make all our stuff is looking a less good bet...

I think there is an over emphasis on university courses at the cost of other forms of education, especially technical & continuing education. You are going to take in information better if it is spread over more time and less intensely, especially if it is relevant to what you are doing.

Be careful, any herb that actually has an effect is a drug, with an unknown dose, so you can do plenty of damage, depending on the herb.

My dad was a manual labourer, cutting lawns, and we had very little money, but we certainly weren't 'working class' in that sense, as my parents weren't working class in the 60s and 70s.

Yeah, it is all broken, as working class can be used to refer to a cultural group that were probably working class in the 60s or 70s, and haven't been make to think about society much since then.

It is also complicated by being 'working class' being fashionable in the 80s and 90s.

I assumed this was something more sinister as the photo looks exactly like every photo of a police station you see in the papers.

Yeah the difficult bit is working out what you should be throwing away

It is complicated by the way that Hamas did something awful so supporting Israel seems kind of reasonable until Israel did far worse things back. So the timing is very important on this.

What I can find is that this is around surveillance, to find hostages. If anything getting the hostages out sooner would have been better for the Gazans as it would have been harder for the Israeli government to justify continued attacks. It certainly isn't open and shut.

I am not against your aims in this, just your espoused methods, which I think are counterproductive because they are very easy to paint as being anti UK rather than anti a particular policy.

Yes, but then do something against the government, throw paint at Whitehall, tie yourself to big Ben, etc. the problem with attacking a military which has nothing to do with the Gaza horrificness is that you are attacking a national asset whose job is to protect the nation.

Yes, but throwing paint at aircraft is unlikely to make a difference to this.
Though my guess is that they are too scared of Trump, which is not surprising since Brexit, and our screwed economy.