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When driving across Canada a few years ago, I got a slow leak from one tyre at about 10pm. It was in the middle of the great New Brunswick forest. The isolated gas station that appeared out of the gloom was closed, but I pulled in anyway. Sticking out through a hole in the garage wall was a tyre inf...

It's hard to find a big organisation that actually has a back up for anything these days. All the big shops shut down here if there's an internet failure. They could take cash instead of cards, but management won't let them sell anything because the electronic inventory system wouldn't be usable. Fo...

Humus YouNotSafe to resign.
Now. who's he going to find to succeed as FM to make him look good?

A new development, I think. The Ukrainians are now targeting Russian army trucks over the border in Belgorod Oblast. https://twitter.com/sternenko/status/1784582556299530743 This is about 5 miles over the border, east of Shebekino. It's the first main highway on the Russian side. I don't think the d...

The majority of Tory Voters is now two of them.
Who does the other guy want?

The Ukes have now started on the Russian railways. Two diesel locomotives destroyed. One in Orenburg (of the floods), and one in Vladikavkaz (Caucasus) Both a long way from Ukraine and each other. https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2024/04/28/7453383/ However, Russian railways do have about 20,000 l...

Can't say I've ever met a shouty student who had a clue about anything.
I've been part of 2 student actions. There were no meetings, speeches, rallies, protests, or shouting; just action. Both were successful.

Ask them when they are flying out to Palestine to start resisting.
Otherwise, Intifada is just a tale, told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

Clear sky, no wind. A big breakfast, then off to continue stripping all the old vinyl siding off the house, east wall this time.
Roast beef and beer as the reward when it's done.

It is not a free market.

As I predicted a couple of months ago, every single failure to a Boeing will now be headline material.
It's just the way the media works.

My understanding from studies in aviation is that it takes more attention to monitor an autopilot in a complex manoeuvring environment than it does to control the vehicle directly. This is not surprising; humans have not evolved to monitor, but to do. And Tesla comparisons with the average can't be ...

Git while the gitting's good!

Boeings are not completely unairworthy...


..some bits are missing

Gusty north wind, sunny spells here.
No wind and sun, feels like +12, working in t-shirt.
30 seconds later, sun goes behind clouds and big gusts, feels like -12. Almost freeze to death before getting fleece and toque on.

Spring in Canada
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvnYOvZPIdU

The easy way to get them to ignore you is to bug them. I am still waiting a response, promised "Shortly" in a letter dated Apr 2013. They have ignored my complaint letters. However, it does mean they daren't contact me again as I could reasonably bring up their incompetence. Pools Panel: Goalless Dr...

The Russians have left their worst troops on the Left Bank of the Dnipro. Yesterday they decided to send some ordinary troops out to move some anti-tank mines the Ukrainians had left. That the Ukes might have left grenades under some of the anti-tank mines, with the lever of the grenade held down on...

Brakes, wheels, suspension, etc will require more maintenance due to the increased mass, and also be more expensive. One of the major problems with EVs appears to be battery pack damage from minor collisions, which also results in higher insurance costs, sometimes much higher. https://www.ctvnews.ca...

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