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@Oknowuk

UK and EU distributor of vacuum glazing with insulation below 0.4U enabling the end of gas central heating. Full range to be launched soon on https://t.co/MWD0GeYWf4

London, England Katılım Temmuz 2021
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Oknow@Oknowuk·
@Toptap_one @disheartened_gy @c_k_lynch Welwyn Garden City through to Cambridge and the North.... A27 Bognor, Littlehampton, Worthing is all new build on the most-productive, mega greenhouse land growing half of SE's salad veg and had restricted coastal and countryside views and, no, Duke of Bedford was not involved.
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Toptap1@Toptap_one·
@disheartened_gy @c_k_lynch Nope. No other developer would have been granted permission for a development of this scale on prime farmland. If you can point me in the direction of another one, that'd be great.
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Conor Lynch@c_k_lynch·
New houses recently built in Poundbury If it was not for HM The King, architecture would not have witnessed a revival in this country. His efforts have revived craftsmanship, natural materials, and much-loved traditional details.
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Oknow@Oknowuk·
@man_of_hill @c_k_lynch Bricks were laid when wet and salts from the brick and mortar soak to the surface, dry out and sit there as a crusty powder that can brushed off with soft steel brush. Don't mop it as it will soak back in the brick.
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Mister R.@man_of_hill·
@c_k_lynch Lovely. May I ask, what is the white on bricks? Mold or a mineral? We see it here in Hilton, KZN too.
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Oknow@Oknowuk·
@WoodyWoodys @MrMatthewTodd @CalleToGo @CuriosityonX Social science is not physics, chemistry, biology, biochemistry, geology, oceanography or climate science. This is the problem with Climate Change - it's a specialist field but some think their loose grasp of general science is enough to refute the experts. Same with covid vax.
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Curiosity@CuriosityonX·
🚨: Earth is tilting toward its next ice age in 10,000 years, new research reveals
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Oknow@Oknowuk·
@OldbergAlex @AmirAminiMD UK has a better past, present and future than those countries I listed, except the USA that is going through a stupid patch it is regretting.
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Alex Oldberg@OldbergAlex·
@Oknowuk @AmirAminiMD Humans biggest worry is the future, its genetically programmed, even politicians or people like you cant change that.. So, it doesnot matter whats present, it matters in which direction it goes..
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Oknow@Oknowuk·
@OldbergAlex @AmirAminiMD Still vastly better than Iran, middle east, russia, china, nkorea, most of africa, s america and now USA. And Israel doesn't look that nice....
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Alex Oldberg@OldbergAlex·
@Oknowuk @AmirAminiMD yes, Iran could be a nicer place politically, but Britain is definitly not nice anymore... its dying...
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Oknow@Oknowuk·
@AmirAminiMD It's an American war because WW2 lend-lease let communism survive to produce dictatorships in russia, china, vietnam, nkorea.... US needs to be an adult and spank their naughty child before it joins a gang and spoils the neighbourhood.
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Amir@AmirAminiMD·
For the record: Ukraine IS 100% a US war. Just because European leaders are too dumb (or scared) to say it, doesn’t mean it wasn’t the illegal expansionism and extension of the US military presence disguised as NATO bases in east Europe that inevitably led to this war.
Department of State@StateDept

SECRETARY RUBIO: The U.S. is constantly asked to help in wars and we have. But when we had a need, it didn’t get positive responses from NATO. A couple leaders said that Iran was not Europe’s war. Well, Ukraine isn’t our war, yet we’ve contributed more to that fight than anyone.

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I Kaya@kaya85kaya·
@AlgosJoni @bswud Self drive taxi won't be significantly cheaper than your own car Something like 60p a mile That kills the ideas of people taking trips for the sake of it 800 mile return trip to Scotland at 60p = £480 No thanks
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Ben Southwood@bswud·
We need a tax on self-driving cars. Beneath eight states of the American Great Plains lies the Ogallala Aquifer, one of the largest bodies of groundwater on Earth. For centuries, extraction was constrained by the modest capacities of wind and hand power. At that rate, this 'fossil water' resource was effectively limitless. Farmers could draw as much as they wanted without ever running it down. worksinprogress.co/issue/escaping… But in 1949 Colorado Farmer Frank Zybach invented centre-pivot irrigation. Combined with electricity and the centrifugal pump, farmers could now draw thousands of gallons per well per minute, enough to irrigate 40 acres at a time. Since then, the aquifer has gone down 10%, losing a Lake Erie's worth of water. It is down 50% in the dry parts, where it recharges just 0.02 inches per year. Without intervention, modern pumps will bring about the total end of irrigated farming in the arid parts of the Great Plains in 20-30 years. This is what I call the Ogallala Trap. Technological change can create a new tragedy of the commons. The telegraph enabled the destruction of the passenger pigeon; sonar, radar, and diesel enabled the industrial trawling that devastated the North Sea cod in a decade; chlorofluorocarbons came close to destroying the ozone layer. Self-driving cars are about to do the same thing to roads. When you can sleep, work, or drink with friends in a moving vehicle, you will take many more journeys by car. Roads, which are free at the point of use almost everywhere, will grind to a halt. People who have to go to the office or the hospital will be stuck sharing the road with people having beers, working remotely, and taking naps. There is a fix, but it depends on acting now, before autonomous vehicles go mainstream. Voters balk at being charged more for something they already depend on. The tax needs to come in as soon as possible. Waymos are already in dozens of cities and do millions of journeys per month. We have very little time left. If we want to save our roads from omnigridlock, we must introduce road pricing for autonomous vehicles.
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Oknow@Oknowuk·
@bswud @MoarPart One parked car bottlenecks the street like a bus lane that serves a purpose of moving people while working, sleeping or drunk. Do 1st, 2nd and steerage class buses.
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Ben Southwood@bswud·
@MoarPart That will be helpful. But we won't use all of that for driving, and it won't be nearly enough. (And it will take a long time before people completely get rid of non-AV cars.)
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Oknow@Oknowuk·
@anna_c_kramer @HMNorthey BP do try making efforts to not harm nature more so than US companies. A dent in profits is worth the PR and UK/EU rules are firmer and only US producers demand they're dropped. Can Americans ever not be mega-rich enough and just be content to be tastefully-rich like Europeans?
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Anna Kramer@anna_c_kramer·
NEWS: Pete Hegseth is invoking "national security" to exempt the oil industry in the Gulf of Mexico from having to follow endangered species laws. FYI there are only ~50 Rice's whales left in the Gulf. They are at risk of extinction. notus.org/climate-enviro…
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Oknow@Oknowuk·
@anna_c_kramer @HMNorthey Just for those aiming at BP, the Deep Horizon was Halliburton's equipment failure but they paid their pals in US gov to find BP liable because, well, its got 'British' in its name and every American is educated to blame those Limeys for everything.
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Mary
Mary@madlaine63·
@anna_c_kramer Not too much sealife left in the Gulf of Mexico after the devastating Deepwater Horizon catastrophe. Fishing, oyster and shrimping were destroyed. Only dead zones left. Another reminder of the existential effects of oil spills.
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Oknow@Oknowuk·
@farrellbruce2 @anna_c_kramer And the real quote was 'look after it, it will be a sin to spoil God's work'. Domion meant oversight and adminstration.
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Mendo5an@mendo5an·
@Fat_Jacques @rcolvile Yeah but it won’t have the 40% floor area requirement. It will affect the orientation and pitch of roofs. Second & third order effects on design haven’t been factored in
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Robert Colvile@rcolvile·
The Future Homes Standard: - Means that from 2028 new homes CANNOT be on the gas network - Your home HAS to have solar panels on the roof, equivalent to 40% of the ground floor area - It will cost £10,000 more to build Homes designed by Ed Miliband, paid for by you...
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Oknow@Oknowuk·
@thomasonlife @rcolvile @Fat_Jacques Asbestos lagging and arsenic in wallpaper? Why let buyers choose grandma's indoctrinated preference? How many unhappy buyers wished newbuilds were a higher standard than the builders' options bought on price?
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samemistakes@quarterno9·
@ClemCowton @rcolvile 10K extra on a mortgage.. so you need to include the interest on that. Not quite the benefit that you may think
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Oknow@Oknowuk·
@CNN Earth is trying to kill off the consumers. It's shame the useful lifeforms are caught in tge crossfire but, hey, hands up who misses the dinosaurs?
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CNN@CNN·
A record warm March has melted an already abysmal snowpack across the western United States, with impacts clearly visible in satellite imagery. It’s setting the stage for an especially concerning summer season for a region critically dependent on mountain snow. cnn.it/41uKSQg
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