rmuk

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[–] rmuk 7 points 14 hours ago
[–] rmuk 14 points 1 day ago (5 children)

I know, right? Why deal with Problem X when Problem Y also exists?

[–] rmuk 14 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

In the UK it's got to be the City of London. Famous for being an ancient city established by the Romans and awash with history, now one of the world's biggest financial centers with a modern skyline of famously distinctive skyscrapers. It's home to some world-famous landmarks like Saint Paul's Cathedral and Tower Bridge, and has a population of about 10,000.

The City of London is not to be confused with London, London, London or London.

[–] rmuk 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Starmer's government, regardless of leaning, is made up of professionals. Honestly, the past decade wouldn't have been so bad if the government hadn't been so fucking sleazy. As an aside, it helps that the current Transport Minister is a bit of a transport nerd.

[–] rmuk 17 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Are Temu the ones who say "pretend you're a billionaire" or something but their ads always have the most bizarre, undesirable-looking, nasty, cheap, plastic things in them?

[–] rmuk 2 points 6 days ago
[–] rmuk 3 points 6 days ago

We're talking about Southern US pronunciation so much that I read your comment from "do I" onwards as if it was being spoken like a Southern Belle.

[–] rmuk 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I say "all of y'all" and make a point to really emphasize the "'".

[–] rmuk 20 points 6 days ago

Good, thanks. You?

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[–] rmuk 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Sucking dick behind Burger King.

[–] rmuk 7 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Is this, like, fantasy?

 

These water fountains flow constantly with fresh drinking water for anyone to use and they are everywhere in Rome. Covering the spout with your finger forces the water out a hole on top, creating a arch of water at perfect 𝓼𝓵𝓾𝓻𝓹𝓲𝓷𝓰 height. The Romans were/are with us.

 

The apartment blocks - two of perhaps a hundred - are surrounded by open greenery, wide walkways and dense tram networks. Most of them have café bars, bookstores, grocery stores or the like on the ground level and loads of benches, play areas and exercise equipment dotted about. The place is rife with Third Places.

The remarkable thing about these is that, to the locals, they seem fairly unremarkable.

 

Does anyone know a way of calculating the amount of heating I need to maintain an average temperature in terms of kWh of heating per 24 hours? Ideally one taking into account weather conditions.

I have a pretty big Home Assistant setup which includes switches for individually controlling all the (electric) heaters in my home. I'm also using an electricity supplier that changes the amount they charge every 30 minutes to reflect supply and demand. Given these rates are published at least 24 hours in advance I can currently choose a number of hours to run the heaters per day and have an automation automatically select the cheapest periods. I'm paying less per kWh for heating than I would if I was using a gas boiler. Plus, it's all from renewables, so working out that number of hours is the next step.

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