And so the withdrawal that we’ve all been wanting for years is finally happening. Let’s hope it continues until all US forces are out of my country.

The judge stated a minimum term of 7 years before he can apply for release on licence. He will be on the sex offenders register for life, forever having to report his whereabouts, every time he moves address etc.

Given how it’s pushing people to buy EVs and here in the UK to install solar, batteries and air source heat pumps it would be one of the best things there’s been for a while to get people to shift to renewables.

Most public sector workers outside the emergency services spend the majority of their working week doing fuck all, browsing social media and chatting with their colleagues. It’s why this guy was able to get away with it for so long because he was still hitting his performance targets just doing what the public sector think a week’s work is in the one day it would take someone in the private sector to do it.

I don’t think that it’s fair to be honest. He will have been under regular performance reviews. Clearly he was doing the job to an acceptable level.

It’s not his fault that they gave him so little work for a week that he could do it in a day. TBH I think it says more about the levels of productivity the public sector thinks qualifies as a day’s work.

He has to satisfy a parole board that he’s suitable to be released on licence, it’s not an automatic thing.

Guess it’s different because there were injuries in the bus, which I wouldn’t have expected from just braking

I would have. When you slam on your brakes what happens? You go forward in your seat. In your car you’re restricted to how far you go by the seatbelt which locks to prevent you going too far. People travelling in buses tend to not wear seatbelts so they’d have flown forward and directly in front of their faces would be the metal bars of the row of seats in front.

It is called marginal pricing the wholesale electricity market uses which determines the spot price of electricity. It is based on the most expensive form of generation, typically gas, needed to meet demand regardless of how little is required. So here in the UK if 99% is generated by low cost renewable and only 1% is generated by expensive gas it all gets priced at the rate for the gas. Absolute madness when you live in a nation like the UK where all electricity retailers are getting their power from one national network operator.

It’s not twisting anything, it’s verifiable fact. Water temperatures in rivers in the current heatwaves we’ve had in Europe that are more than 10 degrees celsius above mean average temperatures has meant that the temperatures in rivers and lakes are already reaching levels that are causing severe issues to the wildlife and plants within them. Dumping millions of litres of hot water from power stations into them just makes a critical situation worse.

They do. What happens is that either water levels drop sufficiently enough or the temperature of the water in the rivers that they’re drawing from rises to a point that it cannot provide sufficient cooling so they have to turn down or turn off the reactor.

Seems like me finally closing my Facebook account this week was timed well.

Anthropic and OpenAI literally have no control over their leading AI models anymore and it’s only by sheer luck that they’ve not gone full rogue.

Are Americans really this stupid and brainwashed into thinking this is OK?