davetortoise
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- Comment on Reckless quads on the streets of Birmingham, almost knocking someone down 18 hours ago:
The white lines across the width of the lanes where they meet the junction indicate that oncoming traffic has to give way to traffic on the roundabout - the fact that the lane on the roght doesnt have one shows that no traffic should be approaching the roundabout through there. The writing on the other end of the road is also oriented so that cars coming in the correct direction can read it.
In practice, as far as I know pretty much every road in the UK is two-way unless signage explicitly states otherwise. So you don’t really think about this as you’re driving.
- Comment on Reckless quads on the streets of Birmingham, almost knocking someone down 1 day ago:
Noted 😂
- Comment on Reckless quads on the streets of Birmingham, almost knocking someone down 1 day ago:
That’s not how it works in the UK. Double yellow just means no parking on the side of the road.
- Comment on Reckless quads on the streets of Birmingham, almost knocking someone down 1 day ago:
Its not
- Comment on Reckless quads on the streets of Birmingham, almost knocking someone down 1 day ago:
These kids are being taken advantage of by ciminal gangs and endangering regular people. Its a serious problem all over the UK. Yes, they’re getting capture by the gangs because they’ve had their futures stolen, but this is absolutely not “good for them”.
- Comment on Reckless quads on the streets of Birmingham, almost knocking someone down 1 day ago:
“Chavs” is our preferred term 🥰
- Comment on The cylinder must remain unharmed 6 days ago:
Three holes
- Comment on Now we're cooking with gas! 1 week ago:
If I remember right, copper-steels welds are horribly difficult unfortunately
- Comment on Now we're cooking with gas! 1 week ago:
Oh right! I didn’t realise you were talking about distributing heat more evenly, that’s my bad. Yes I can definitely see that being effective.
- Comment on Now we're cooking with gas! 1 week ago:
I don’t want to contradict your lived experience but I’m quite sceptical that the improvement is real. Adding a layer of solid material between the heat source and the steel can only reduce the amount of energy transferred to the steel, as some will be absorbed by the material no matter how conductive it is.
- Comment on Now we're cooking with gas! 1 week ago:
Copper pans exist but they can be a pain to cook with. The high thermal conductivity means they heat up much fast than you expect, so it’s easier to accidentally burn stuff, and they also cool down much more quickly once off the heat which can also be annoying. Plus you need to worry about oxide formation and food sticking much more than you do wity steel pans.
- Comment on German joke 1 week ago:
Henninh Wehn is a weird one because he’s much better known outside Germany than inside. His act of “look how funny and strange Germans are” doesn’t really land in Germany, maybe a lack of self-deprecating humour?
- Comment on This is what happens when AI trains on Instagram shitposts 1 week ago:
We wrecked the graduate job market for this
- Comment on Sometimes you just have to know 1 week ago:
No, the voice was begging him be normal and not tear up the floor.
- Comment on The line cook quietly handed me this 2 weeks ago:
Fair enough
- Comment on The line cook quietly handed me this 2 weeks ago:
My friend how long did you spend on this
- Comment on The line cook quietly handed me this 2 weeks ago:
Obligatory wkuk sketch
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- Comment on Wildfire phone alert was 'entirely appropriate', government says 3 weeks ago:
We as a nation are largely careless and dismissive about wildfire risk. At the time the alert went out, peoples homes were literally burning down. Personally I think it was an appropriate wake-up call.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Fair. I mean, quantum immortality is dumb and wrong anyway so it doesn’t really matter either way.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Did you respond to the wrong comment
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Theres a deeply pseudoscientific theory called “quantum immortality” which says that the many worlds interpretation is correct, and every time a probabilistic event possibly leading to your death occurs, your consciousness seamlessly continues in those universes/timelines where it does not end. Hence, you can never experience death, and will always improbably escape it unless there is literally zero probability of survival.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Damn I didn’t realise other people thought like this
- Comment on You Used To Be Cool. Pfft, Sell Out 3 weeks ago:
(They were only able to do this at the time because they were being propped up by the CIA!)
- Comment on Jason Arday, former Cambridge university professor, found dead after resigning following plagiarism row 3 weeks ago:
Liverpool cleared him, and Cambridge opened an investigation but it never completed. Doesn’t really matter at this point whether he did or not, it was a completely overblown and racially motivated response to academic misconduct either way
- Comment on Jason Arday, former Cambridge university professor, found dead after resigning following plagiarism row 3 weeks ago:
I guess the penalty for plagiarism is psychological torment followed by death now, but only if you’re black.
- Comment on how to watch less youtube on my tv? 3 weeks ago:
Write a comprehensive thesis about administrative practice in the early mongolian empire and then obsessively maintain the wikipedia page on it
- Comment on Paying the bills 4 weeks ago:
Good heavens
- Comment on Paying the bills 4 weeks ago:
Actually, it’s a wyvern. Dragons have four legs and two wings, wyverns have two legs and two wings.
- Comment on Chaos 1 month ago:
Reaaaaaaaaaal