@jhallwood Turns out they were looking for a woman accused of theft. Description was "black cocktail dress". I found the aggression utterly amazing, not too mention the obvious fact that every third woman was dressed the same way.
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Benjamin North
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@jhallwood I was in Vegas in 2017, me and two Americans -husband/wife, reasonably drunk but sitting at some kind of food place off the strip. Two cops grabbed the wife, handcuffed and questioned her against a glass wall as me and husband tried to figure out what was going on.
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I remember our first time in the States, with my Mum, aunt, Nan and younger brother. After walking around we stood still for a bit to get our bearings and two policemen came up to us to tell us we had to move or we would be charged with ‘loitering’.
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I don't care how I look to a Brit. I live in a free country and don't have people regulating my every step
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@ChestnutNjoyer @pieguy1098 @EricRichards22 How often is a grown man sitting in the back seat anyway?
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@pieguy1098 @EricRichards22 They are large on the outside, but if you're a grown man, you can't sit in the back seat unless you cock your head at a 45. In the latest generation, they reduced the head room even further.
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It's pretty simply that nobody makes non-compact sedans, and the crossover foid-mobile suvs are not really large enough to sit in
Manlet King ☩@TheManlet_King
Truck guys have become a lot like cyclists. Yes, small trucks were regulated away, but for every utility bed, gravel hauling, daily work truck, there's 3 3500s that never sees a dirt road and maybe pulls a boat 4 times. Redditification, performative, just like beards and guns.
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@guidoacasa @rcolvile @CeeElexF I think the PD rules might have changed actually. Or it's not really clear if AC units meet MCS 020; can't remember the exact details but looked confusing when I tried to have it put in.
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Some really weird attempts on here to deny that aircon is de facto banned. The London Plan literally has a ‘cooling hierarchy’ of all the things you need to try before you’re allowed to consider aircon, and even then you need to somehow make sure it’s the lowest-carbon option.
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@usrbinsean @bigseb31213 Russian reserves are ~45x larger than Ukraine. This is not a resource war.
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@bigseb31213 Disagree, there are known deposits and massive estimated gas reserves that Russia has always salivated about and potential Western gas deals directly precipitated the 2014 invasion.
The ideological nonsense is how its sold to Russians, not the underlying motives.
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What an insane war. And all for absolutely nothing
Asami Terajima@AsamiTerajima
Trying to infiltrate into Kupiansk, Russian troops crawl 15km through the pipelines, constantly trying to build new exits. The main issue is that the pipeline is "almost impossible" to destroy, “Abat,” the deputy commander of Khartiia Brigade, says. kyivindependent.com/battle-for-pip…
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@RokoMijic @bobbybroccs @isnit0 Is it? Most common seems to be 7k which isn't a big difference.
I feel basically you're talking at cross purposes. It's clearly not optimal, however it was unclear when I had a split system whether recent building regs changes meant split required planning permission.
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I bought an aircon and it’s great.
You should buy an aircon for your home too if you feel uncomfortable in the heat.
This should not be controversial.
Looking for Growth@lfg_uk
Britain will do literally anything but install air conditioning in new homes.
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@RokoMijic @bobbybroccs @isnit0 Split also required a scaffolding tower, would have meant the wall unit being directly over my desk due to room constraints, and likely only used 4-5 weeks a year.
Seems these portable units are fine for the narrow use case people buy them for.
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@RokoMijic @bobbybroccs @isnit0 This seems to be nonsense. My loft office is ~12°c cooler than it was yesterday. Variable that changed was a 10k BTU portable ac arriving.
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@bobbybroccs @isnit0 well it is colder in that location but it pulls in hot air from outside and heats up the rest of the room
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After years of joking about the fact west Cornwall had never recorded 30°C before it finally happened in July/August 2022, it's absolutely extraordinary to see the Met Office forecasting 30°C in Camborne for tomorrow - in May. The all-time record from 2022 is 30.4°C.
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@JoshHochschild @mka_ultra PC games? Digital and physical, often same price.
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And yet the publisher resists making transparent the inferior quality of the product or listing in such a way that would even allow differential pricing. Why is that?
Name any other industry in which a manufacturer can sell two items of different quality material and workmanship as the same product.
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do you know expensive it is to store an entire print run of a 20 year old book that sells maybe 50 copies every year?? print in demand is the only way all these beloved esoteric translations or whatever are still available from small publishers!!! it’s just impossible otherwise
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@JoshHochschild @mka_ultra The publisher is sharing the benefit of an available book with the buyer. That is exactly what we're talking about!
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Let me put it this way: The publisher has guaranteed profit on PoD. With a traditional print run, no matter how much cheaper per unit, there is risk of loss. If this weren’t the case, publishers wouldn’t use PoD. Since it is the case, publishers need to share their gains with buyers. Not only truth in advertising, but basic justice, demands charging a lower price for an inferior quality edition. However small the margins are, they are guaranteed, and it is greedy and dishonest of publishers to keep it all for themselves and not discount for the buyer.
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@JoshHochschild @mka_ultra The choice is either 1) stop selling low vol books; or 2) sell POD versions.
The margin will not be better in 2, it just makes the sale of those books possible at all.
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@JoshHochschild @mka_ultra Argh. What you're comparing is:
1) print run for oop low volume sold books = loss
2) POD for those books, probs small per unit profit. Print cost probably $7 or so, vs $2.50 for print run.
Margin still needs to be shared w/ bookseller, plus overheads.
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@JoshHochschild @mka_ultra It wouldn't save the publisher money on unit costs though, POD more expensive than a print run for obvious reasons.
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So if it saves the publisher money to do PoD, the publisher can afford to charge less for it. Which is also just because the quality of print and binding is worse.
In no other industry can a producer market an inferior 2nd gen product as if it were the same as a higher quality original.
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@buccocapital 1) This is plainly not true. Dario wrote a whole essay about it, to name just one example.
2) See above.
3) They believe it has risks but I think we’d all agree it’s not Anthropic or OpenAI’s job to make social policy.
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1 of 3 things is true about big tech’s AI narrative:
1) Nobody can tell a compelling story about how AI will be good for society
2) It hasn’t occurred to them to tell that story
3) They believe it’ll be bad, but it’s not their job to fix it
I don’t know which is more damning
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@aidnmclaughlin @LachCartwright Der Angriff has invited William Keitel.
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CBS News has invited Pete Hegseth to be its guest at the WHCD @LachCartwright reports breakermedia.com/p/whcd-battle-…
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@sergeantdixie @rcolvile We already have enforced realism. I don't think we have to be defeatist about this, we're never going to get back to £300k houses but building more (of everything) will lower their relative cost AND increase working salaries.
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Sorry, Kevin, this is nonsense. Housing costs as a % of income have risen from 10% in 1957 to 30% or more. We are 6.5m homes behind European average. And the evidence from the many other countries with similar interest rates but higher housebuilding is pretty bloody clear.
Kevin Hollinrake MP@kevinhollinrake
We do need to build more houses, but blaming house price inflation on baby boomers is largely missing the point. The reason house prices have increased more than salaries is lower interest rates. Owning a home is pretty much as affordable as it’s been for the last 50 years. It’s getting on the ladder that’s tough. Hence Kemi’s bang on commitment to scrap Stamp Duty on your own home.
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@sergeantdixie @rcolvile I agree with this. The problem is that currently prices are too high for top decile earners (and businesses), pushing down fertility, lowering productivity, tax revenue and UK competitiveness globally.
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@sergeantdixie @rcolvile Yes but my/Robert's point is that a) HCOL areas are way more expensive than they were 30 yrs ago, b) we don't have to accept that. We built way less houses than peer countries, we continue to underbuild, and we're reaping inevitable consequences that make us poorer.
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@bbdnorth @rcolvile My grandkids won’t be 60 when I die.
Young people can afford houses. They just can’t afford them in expensive areas. Guess what. Exactly the same problem my generation had 40 years ago. Those areas might be bigger than they used to be but if you want a house make a choice.
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