Robert van der Heide

Robert van der Heide

  • Commented on Strong and Stable!
    What about the closely related dispute over whether a building’s “first floor” is at ground level or one above?...
  • Commented on Strong and Stable!
    What about fungal liver infection and no alcohol consumption?...
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    “If you've been convicted of one of those felonies you are not a political prisoner no matter what your motivation for commiting that crime.” I’m questioning the assumption that all who are convicted are guilty. The US has had many...
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    “The leader of the murder plot turned states evidence and testified Seale had ordered the killing.” That’s not necessarily proof of anything other than that the informant was given a very strong incentive to give the testimony that the prosecutor...
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    I had the same idea at the time, that having to accept truss as PM was literally the final straw....
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    And Micron is planning a new plant in Syracuse NY, with equally safe climate and geology. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/10/04/micron-chip-factory-new-york/...
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    Maybe SNP should start running candidates in the rest of the UK? Platform to be (1) raise taxes on the rich & (2) kick Scotland out!...
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    Political party makes promises, wins election, breaks promises. Here in the Us that’s pretty standard. Just they usually break them a lot sooner....
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    “ Meanwhile, Truss will stride off into the sunset with her "Public Duty Cost Allowance.” and a pension based on yearly salary.” Maybe the plan is for each Tory MP to take a week’s turn as PM so they can...
  • Commented on Necroqueen!
    I learned it as: The worms crawl in, The worms crawl out. The worms play pinochle On your snout....
  • Commented on Upcoming blog outage
    That’s the cover story....
  • Commented on I can't even
    Finding things by looking out your window rather than by looking at your smartphone? That is so 20th century! (Only half kidding.)...
  • Commented on I can't even
    All those times the Ukrainians blew up an ammo dump or whatever Putin insisted it was an accident. Now Putin’s insisting this was Ukrainian action - maybe that means this one was an accident?...
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    It was a couple of months ago so I may be misremembering. He might have meant cold methane, or I might have just mixed it up with something else entirely. It was a hydrogen energy conference so there was a...
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    “For aircraft, I would assume that every crash that today results in a fireball or fire engine use would result in an explosion.” A little while ago I heard a talk by a guy from the Compressed Gas Association who’s...
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    “Hydrogen is useless for in-atmosphere craft” Someone at Airbus disagrees: https://www.airbus.com/en/innovation/zero-emission/hydrogen/zeroe Also you overestimate the difficulty of handling hydrogen. It’s already routinely schlepped over highways in LH2 tankers to warehouses where it’s dispensed into fuel cell powered forklifts. It’s true...
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    “ And those who have forced us down to this point are hereby declared guilty of treason, to suffer the traditional penalty and their bodies to be left on the lamp-posts as a reminder...” Hope that includes Murdochs as well...
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    I think it’s that you can write the evil, but you just can’t get your head around that much stupid....
  • Commented on I can't even
    “ there is no sane way to satirise what is currently happening in British politics, even through the medium of a looking-glass world where the nation is ruled by an Ancient Evil rather than a human politician.” The big problem...
  • Commented on Necroqueen!
    “ It is interesting how almost all of the satirists now go in for straight reporting with commentary, rather than satire as such.” Hard to do satire when reality keeps topping it....
  • Commented on London Bridge
    And build lots of nukes to run those electric stoves....
  • Commented on Necroqueen!
    “ crashing, at full speed, straight into the ground, leaving behind a plume of smoke, twisted metal, and tattered remnants."” UK government has a control system designed by Boeing? That would explain a lot....
  • Commented on Necroqueen!
    I’m just amazed it hasn’t been the basis of much “How’s that special operation going?” mockery....
  • Commented on Necroqueen!
    I think it’s more like Borrow lots of money. Give it to rich people… Mission accomplished!...
  • Commented on Necroqueen!
    Wow. So it’s Truss who’s taking the piss. (1) Has no one commented publicly on the similarity in name to another special operation that isn’t going very well? Naming one’s signature policy after a world-renowned ongoing self-inflicted nation-wrecking fustercluck is...
  • Commented on Necroqueen!
    “Special Financial Operation” I hope you’re taking the piss. But the way reality keeps scooping the Onion lately I can’t be sure....
  • Commented on London Bridge
    If you ever try to rid a building of cockroaches by any means other than wrapping it in Tyvek and pumping it full of poison gas you’ll find that getting rid of most of them is trivial, getting rid of...
  • Commented on London Bridge
    But they did it with 1950s tech, not 1820s tech....
  • Commented on Necroqueen!
    “ Have THEY released any information to indicate this is anything more than some poor soul's grief overcoming his common sense?” That’s the cover story they’re sticking with for now....
  • Commented on London Bridge
    Using sunlight and land to grow crops, feeding them to animals or people, then having the animals or people to push things Is a pretty inefficient way of turning sunlight into mechanical energy. Using sunlight and land to grow wood...
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