@Peak_Ascent @g__j My parents live in a rural area and have had a Nissan leaf for about 8 years. They haven't charged it on a public charger that whole time except on the day they bought it so they could drive it home. They charge at home.
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Robert (Jamie) Munro
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Robert (Jamie) Munro
@rjmunro
See also @[email protected], https://t.co/YlGYCUMG7p
Oxford, UK Katılım Nisan 2008
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Actual expert in both petrol and EV
Tom Callow@au_tom_otive
The average petrol forecourt dwell time is 7 minutes (yes, it is - I worked for bp). The average fill is circa 20 litres (200 miles). Charging an EV isn’t the same, but 100 miles in 8 minutes shows how vanishingly irrelevant the difference is becoming.
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@Ms_L_E @MichaelRosenYes I always wonder how much crime this has prevented, compared to how much pain this has caused people who didn't realise. Seriously, what do countries gain by setting this rule. If the rule was "you're allowed 3 months after your passport expires" what issues would that cause?
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@MichaelRosenYes Pretty much every civilized country in the world mandates that you have at least 6 full months before expiration on entry. Well done you for showing everyone what a fn retard you are ...
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Ha! I’ve just been refused entry onto a plane from Stansted to Bologna because my passport issue date is March 2016. The expiry date is August 2026 but the rule is 10 years from issue date. Another Brexit benefit. Apparently. Go home now.
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@iamabdulrosheed @Asmaasultanaa @elonmusk @grok No, it's true that someone has made a lawsuit. It's not proven true that they can read your messages. They say they can't, which is plausible, but we can't know for sure. It's also possible another app can read your WhatsApp messages on your phone especially if you use backup.
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@Hengist123 @rorysutherland I don't get what you mean by "I refuse to travel into and back out of London on the same line." Is that what you meant to type? Do you mean I refuse to use HS1, because I usually go home on the same line I went in on so that I arrive back at the same place at the end of the day.
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@rorysutherland And we paid for those Ashford and Ebbsfleet stations with higher fares on the “heritage” lines because of all the benefits the new line would bring to Kent. Like many others, I refuse to travel into and back out of London on the same line.
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Because it's a fucking train. That's what trains do which aircraft don't. And because 1.8m people live in Kent and 1.8m people live in Essex, none of whom want to spend 40 minutes going in the wrong direction to spend an hour in a St Pancras holding pen. But apart from that...
El contador 🇫🇷 🇬🇧🇮🇱@Jeanblaguin16
@HelloIAmAntoine @paytick2 @Eurostar Why would a train connecting two of the biggest capitals in the world should stop in the middle of nowhere?
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@BacktotheFuture @nacellecompany @PrimeVideo @AppleTV @YouTube It just says "not available". Is it US only or something? Why?
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See 'A Future on Stage', the new feature-length documentary about the making of Back to the Future: The Musical by @nacellecompany and Bob Gale, now streaming on @PrimeVideo, @AppleTV, and @YouTube. BacktotheFuture.news
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@DraytonManor How are you going to compensate the school trips? They can't take another day off school. I feel really bad for them. youtu.be/biNRf1d-sWg
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Counting down the days until The BIG Restart...
⏰ 27th, 28th & 29th March
🎟️ Tickets just £24.90
🎢 Full Theme Park, Thomas Land & Zoo access
🌙 Late night rides - 28th & 29th only!
The rides are warming up! It's the season’s first big weekend! 💙 🔗 brnw.ch/21x0DsW
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@3dcadMelan @OctopusEnergy We will. But users who live nearer will benefit more because the problem is transmission capacity. So, e.g. an AI data center might be built in Scotland instead of the south. They get cheaper power and they use less power in the south, power in the south is then cheaper.
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People who live in areas with plenty of turbines should benefit from lower bills and help to stop wasted wind adding costs for everyone.
Good to see government moving forward with these important principles.
Department for Energy Security and Net Zero@energygovuk
Sometimes there is too much wind for our outdated grid to handle, especially in Scotland and the East of England. Rather than paying wind farms to switch off we’re trialling a new system where people who live near these constrained areas get cheaper - or even free - electricity.
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@Coho29415979 @DpawsonGas @RaySand17710097 Not exactly, but some chargers are controlled centrally by power companies and combined with smart meters to give discounts (e.g. Octopus Intelligent Go) so they might be able to take local conditions into account.
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@rjmunro @DpawsonGas @RaySand17710097 Could that clamp be activated wirelessly by an ammeter on the *local* supply wire to avoid the said problem of 200 properties on the same local line charging at the same time?
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UK homes fused at 100amps, potential to draw 23kW. Usually 200 homes connected to 300kW breaker (temporarily overloaded to 600kW) so max simultaneous power draw of 3kW. This doesn't happen so the system survives on average use. But then along comes heat pumps!
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@DpawsonGas @Coho29415979 @RaySand17710097 Customers of Octopus Intelligent go tariff, or similar tariffs from other suppliers already do this and get discounts.
Also a lot of car chargers have a clamp on the supply so that if the property approaches its supply fuse limit, they slow the car charge speed to compensate.
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@Coho29415979 @RaySand17710097 Who wants to fill there car up when someone else lets them 😵💫😵💫😵💫🤣
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@iSeaUSA @heresyfinancial You misunderstood. He said adjust your schedule, *not* your clock. I.e. you can get up earlier in summer without having to redefine time itself.
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"Anyone has the freedom to adjust their schedule if the permanent number on the clock is less convenient for them." - Sure just adjust your clock to whatever you like. Works great as long as you don't have to participate in society, where everyone else uses agreed upon hours for things like, work, sports events, school, store and restaurant hours. This may be the dumbest take on X today.
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The debates about standard time vs daylight savings are the lowest IQ arguments I’ve ever seen
The number on the clock is absolutely irrelevant. It’s arbitrary.
The only problem is the time changing twice per year.
Anyone has the freedom to adjust their schedule if the permanent number on the clock is less convenient for them.
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@georgescruggs9 Who sells the most EVs globally?
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Tesla basically makes two versions of the same, nine year old car.
That's it.
That's their entire lineup.
Any other automotive CEO would have been fired long ago.
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@BInvestHQ @JamesMelville Which "this" is Germany and which one is Britian in your assessment? Does Germany fix faster and more often and save time and money, or does it get stuck in planning for ages, then finally get fixed at 5 times the cost and only last a bit longer than the quick fix woudl have?
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@rjmunro @JamesMelville This is where Britain differs from say Germany & some other countries. It's this type of thinking that brings "Great" Britain to its knees. If everything is approached with this type of mentality that is the reason why England's #Education, #NHS & #Roads are where they are today.
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Repairing a road in Germany.
British local councils could learn a thing or two from this.
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@mysticwillz Go to letsencrypt.org and get a new one. Who issued the old one, account, password etc doesn't matter.
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Your SSL certificate expired 3 hours ago.
You didn't get the renewal email.
The person who set it up quit 8 months ago. No one knows where it was purchased.
500 enterprise clients are getting security warnings.
Where do you even start?
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@gosporttomarlow @JamesMelville @JCBmachines @grok which UK councils have purchased or used these machines via subcontractors?
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@JamesMelville JCB manufacture the Pot Hole Pro* I wonder if any Councils in the UK have purchased one, jcb.com/en-GB/products…
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@BInvestHQ @JamesMelville It doesn't matter if it lasts half as long if it costs less than half as much to fix. Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.
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@JamesMelville Agree probably good to patch but will it last? The councils here do whole roads manually this way and doesn't last more than a few years before this spray on surfaces fall apart. False economy, but I do love this machine so much faster than lengthy road closures.
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@funkatopia @TodayiLearrned Very roughly 1m=3ft, i.e. times m by 3 to get ft. Accurate to about 10%
More accurately, 3m=10ft, i.e multiply by 10 and divide by 3. Accurate to better than 2%.
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@TodayiLearrned I love this. Is there something similar for meters to feet? Anytime I watch a show and they give distance in kilometers, I have to Google it.
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@krempasky @matthewstoller If you add those accounts to their phones, how do you stop them using them to bypass parental controls? If you don't add those accounts to their phones, how do they connect to their watch?
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@rjmunro @matthewstoller I basically created burner google accounts so my kids could track their steps. Stupid.
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"Google emailed my youngest child today to tell him he is almost 13 and eligible to remove parental controls... A trillion dollar corporation is directly contacting every child to tell them they are old enough to “graduate” from parental supervision."
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@CodeByPoonam In the meantime if your kids have a normal fitbit that they've had for years, it no longer works. The suggested fix is that you turn off parental controls for their Google account.
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Google just dropped the ultimate smartwatch for kids and it's INSANE
This will transform the parenting forever.
Here's are 5 powerful features you don't want to miss:
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@krempasky @matthewstoller It's worse than that. It worked last year, but my kids can't log in to Fitbit since this month. I'm not accepting taking parental controls off their accounts as a solution.
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@matthewstoller Don’t even start. I just went through a carnival of profanity learning you cannot give your 13 yr old a Fitbit without removing parental controls from the attached google profile.
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Message to Keir: Do not underestimate the depth of anger people will feel about this disgusting decision. If you think it strengthens you I tell you it will simply hasten your demise. You could have shown magnanimous leadership but instead it’s cowardice. theguardian.com/politics/2026/…
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