Rick Moen

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  Seen on Twitter: Regularly rotate your password, by using the name of the current UK Prime Minister. -- @robsmallshire...
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  BBC Radio 4 listeners may be familar with The Atlantic's staff writer Helen Lewis from the long-form interview programme "The Spark". I think she bears watching, as she displays a deft hand with phrasing in her current piece "Liz Truss...
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  More on Tiwtter: New addition to the unit conversion table: 1 Truss = 4 Scaramuccis -- @delagoya...
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  Seen on Twitter: flatmate has just asked me whether i think the lettuce voted leaf or romaine in the brexit referendum and im frankly furious at how funny i found it -- @bencsmoke...
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  Seen on Twitter: A source close to the lettuce says it is “growing in confidence that I’ll see her off.” -- @ShippersUnbound...
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  paws4thot @ 1454: I know; so has the Deputy Chief Whip, and they resigned live on Channel 4 news (19:00 to 20:00 BST) No 10 claimed later that Wendy Morton and Craig Whittaker un-resigned (de-resigned?, non-resigned?). Stay tuned for more...
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  The Grauniad covers today's Expressen piece (that is mostly paywalled), showing the first public photos of the Nord Stream 1 pipeline damage. 50 friggin' metres of the pipeline is now simply missing, and photos "appear to show long tears in...
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  Pigeon @ 1317 It's called "BCG" which stands for something that again I can't remember. We all had it at school and spent the rest of the term comparing the welts on our shoulders. I see that SFReader already answered...
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  Elderly Cynic @ 1286 said: Nuts. 'Fall' is rarely used here, but it's not an Americanism. https://allpoetry.com/Autumn-Fires Well, I thank you for the lovely literary citation, but: (1) I myself had no idea of the term's provenance; I merely quoted...
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  Pigeon @ 1268: That horrible verbed noun which I cannot agree with your advocacy of... I could mildly demur that "but perhaps should be known as a verb" falls a bit short of advocacy. Call it more a good-natured suggestion,...
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  Pigeon @ 1226: Because nobody ever does that. Look at any row of cars parked on a hill and nearly all of them will have their wheels straight. Any that have done it properly are conspicuous by the oddity. Local...
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  ilya187 @ 1245: Yes, absolutely. My Tesla came with an adapter which allows it to plug into SAE J1772 charging ports, which are standard for all other North American EV manufacturers. At a risk of being pedantic, and very much...
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  JohnS @ 940: No, I already knew where some of the chargers are because I HAVE seen them. For the rest, use Startpage as a front end for Google and when I did a search for "NC EV charging stations",...
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  JohnS @ 912: One thing is somebody has got to force standardization so there's only one charger to fit them all ... and that includes fuckin' Teslas. A few months ago, I read a lucid and reasonable account from some...
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  David L @ 876: Bobb is stuck in that she can't be a witness in a situation before the courts while representing someone in the case. Which is what is happening to most all of these folks. According to the...
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  Funny thing about the Kerch Strait Bridge. Long before it was attacked, it has been predicted to be in danger of collapse, despite the US $4.5B+ Putin threw at the problem of getting it built with record speed (and despite...
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  JohnS @ 807 (commenting to Nojay): Do you understand that the general population is not going to be willing to switch to EVs until they can JUST GET IN ONE AND GO without having to worry about whether they're going...
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  JohnS @ 712: I just can't get over that when I learned to drive & was first looking at buying a car, the base model Chevrolet cost 1/10 as much. Couldn't afford it then, can't afford that now. Depending on...
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  OGH's comment at 679 pretty much nailed most of the reasons sentiments like "If an electric car runs out of juice in the middle of nowhere, you're screwed" miss the mark about EV usage, but I wanted to add a...
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  Pigeon @ 629: If an electric car runs out of juice in the middle of nowhere, you're screwed. To quote the old IT joke punchline, "Well, don't do that, then." But in practice, avoiding doing that has proven to be...
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  Kardashev @ 612: Spawning another topic, any thoughts about the Crimean Bridge kaboom? It was clearly a brilliant Ukrainian special-ops coup -- claimed to have been achieved by exploding a truck bomb right alongside a fuel train. (Yes, I've seen...
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  Cassetteboy has managed to edit Liz Truss's utterances into a coherent narrative -- in rap....
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  Adrian Smith @ 599: don't they have perfectly capable underwater drones for such purposes tho Odd that you would mention that. The Norwegians (familien mins folk over havet) report that there has been unusually high levels of drone activity in...
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  That is correct. Impliedly, the entry level for suspects is well provisioned commercial or military SCUBA divers, with a (but not a “major”) support ship, not some weekend herring fancier. But that’s a huge (salt water) pool of suspects....
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  I might be behind on details, but I heard that the NordStream 1&2 damage was at only 70 meter depth, not requiring a sub, just an experienced SCUBA diver or two — which makes the suspect roster very broad, and...
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  Seen on Twitter: Traders are referring to Truss as “Daggers” - as in Dagenham, 2 stops past Barking. (It's actually three stops past Barking, but what's a Tube stop between friends?)...
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  JohnS @ 360: I wouldn't characterize how (west) Germany was treated after WW2 as having our foot on their neck, suggesting there may have been more fruitful ways to handle Germany after WW1. If you want to read something really...
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  Uncle Stinky @ 339: If you can get past the academic paywall The Myths of Reparations by Sally Marks is a decent account of how the Germans avoided, evaded, weaselled and inflated their way out of their Versailles obligations. Ms....
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  Adrian Smith @281: Has Peter Zeihan deigned to weigh in on what Germany may be facing this winter, yet? Zeihan did, on Sept. 8th. Main points: Energy demand is inelastic, making the market volatile. Need is very difficult to reduce,...
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  Duffy @ 251: Assuming that doesn't happen, what can be done to reboot Russia? It's rather a lot late for that. Long before the "special military action", Russia had doom hanging over it. Between the world wars' devastation, Stalin's policies,...