HerbGrower
@HerbGrower@slrpnk.net
- Comment on Prince Harry and Meghan ‘moving back to Britain this month’ 10 hours ago:
Are they after privacy or not? Feel like I keep hearing mixed things although tbh I don’t pay much attention to them
- Comment on A Finnish town is heating itself with 2,000 tonnes of crushed rock: its giant “sand battery” can cover almost a month of heating demand and has cut district heating emissions by 70% 11 hours ago:
0c water kept cool by a big ice tank. Traditional radiators wouldn’t work but there are options that do. High thermal mass of water too.
- Comment on Easy Delivery Co. I'll just be a little car driving a kei truck around a mountain town. 13 hours ago:
Factorio engineer. All shall bow before my might, British trains will finally arrive on time and HS2 with be completed overnight. Along with about 30 more high speed railways. Although they will all be carrying the products of industry and weapons. NIMBYs will be exterminated with extreme prejudice by an army of spidertrons.
The grid will be carbon neutral by the end of the week and power will be so plentiful as to be free. ISS will suddenly be dwarfed by an enormous orbiting megafactory.
World peace assured through guaranteed destruction to any resistance.
- Comment on Easy Delivery Co. I'll just be a little car driving a kei truck around a mountain town. 13 hours ago:
Need to play that more
- Comment on Anon doesn't have a plan 13 hours ago:
32 here, my parents divorced which kicked me out as they sold the house in my early 20s. From friends I see some still live at home, but those that do all pay rent or help out in some way.
- Comment on ‘Cheap travel is not a defence’: the parents facing court for school absences in England 22 hours ago:
75% attendance isn’t happening from a week off for a holiday during term time. That is a week off every month
- Comment on Anon doesn't have a plan 23 hours ago:
So there is no incentive to get a part time job? Lol, what a dumb system.
- Comment on Anon doesn't have a plan 23 hours ago:
£700/month without a mortgage to pay would be great. Its comparable to what I was earning from an apprenticeship when I first moved out once adjusted for inflation…
- Comment on Anon doesn't have a plan 1 day ago:
How’s the state pension over there? Here in the UK its pretty good, if you have paid off your house anyway. I would be richer than I am now from working if I had a pension but no mortgage.
If you also had to pay housing then it could be kinda rough, but I have lived alright on less.
- Comment on Anon doesn't have a plan 1 day ago:
I know I struggled after leaving school for a few years, but even then I still managed to get the occasional part time or irregular hours of work between periods of unemployment. That was living in a small town too. Then I got an apprenticeship and been fully employed ever since.
- Comment on google's getting pissy about using their shit while logged out 1 day ago:
Everyone is under suspicion. Criticism of Israeli genocides detected! Apply terrorism charges.
- Comment on one step closer to 100%'ing life!! 1 day ago:
I thought the tech could maybe have a use case but PNGs was utterly useless.
- Comment on google's getting pissy about using their shit while logged out 1 day ago:
But there is nothing to update. They already did it all
- Comment on google's getting pissy about using their shit while logged out 1 day ago:
I have seen some funky trips in comaps as well tbh. But I suspect any map tool is going to get that. At least it gets my commute to work right, which google doesn’t.
- Comment on google's getting pissy about using their shit while logged out 1 day ago:
For a long time google existed without an option to create an account
- Comment on Chef 2 days ago:
Sure, but the same applies to cooking as well. Could go a step further by saying where is the line between cooking and baking.
Take it a step further, flatbread vs lasagna? Although we often say baking if you put something in the oven, even though it isn’t baked goods at all. Meanwhile bread is usually thought of as baking, but small flatbreads can be done in a frying pan.
- Comment on Chef 2 days ago:
I throw some flour into a bowl, what ever flour I happen to have. Wholemeal, plain, bread, its all flour. Then dump in how ever much sourdough starter I have currently minus a little. Finally add water until it feels roughly like dough, slightly on the wet side. Leave.
Come back later that day or forget about it and do it tomorrow, add some flour until it feels good and make the pizza base. Its just add flour/water until the dough can be formed into the right shape.
- Comment on Chef 2 days ago:
That was 2 bulbs of garlic right?
- Comment on Chef 2 days ago:
Less cancer and asthma than wood/charcoal though. But at some point you need to accept risk and enjoy life.
- Comment on Chef 2 days ago:
Why does this get repeated so much as if it is some kinda rule when it often isn’t.
I do all my baking on vibes. The sourdough feels about right, in it goes. Nothing at all was measured. Even temperature is vibe based.
- Comment on Water companies in England and Wales explore ‘surge pricing’ during drought 2 days ago:
Yeah gravity would be less maintenance, just a tube at that point.
You can get pumps designed to go under the shower by the look of it but then you need to power it. Otherwise DIY options, might be some battery powered pumps that could work. Thought sump pumps perhaps but apparently those are rated for many many thousands of litres an hour. Maybe if I can find something smaller than that…
- Comment on Water companies in England and Wales explore ‘surge pricing’ during drought 2 days ago:
I didn’t say all usage free, I said first x units. So that could be first 20 litres a day or what ever.
- Comment on The price of soda in 2017 2 days ago:
I want Aldi to sell the syrup for their own versions, just think how cheap it could be!
- Comment on The price of soda in 2017 2 days ago:
Is that low? I usually get Aldo xz cola, about 25p per litre.
- Comment on Britons greatly overestimate number of sex crimes committed by foreign nationals 2 days ago:
They overestimate crimes in general.
- Comment on Water companies in England and Wales explore ‘surge pricing’ during drought 2 days ago:
I do like the idea of first x number of units are free to all. So essentially that means drinking water at home is free
- Comment on Water companies in England and Wales explore ‘surge pricing’ during drought 2 days ago:
I wonder if I would need a pump or could connect a tube directly to the bathroom tap/shower outlet at the side of my house. It is only elevated slightly above the ground, it looks like the path is flat but there could be a slight gradient either way that I am unaware of. Kitchen outlet for the washing machine and kitchen sink is a bit higher. But I think the bathroom water is a cleaner source.
Either way its something to look into trying. Pipe probably doesn’t cost much to experiment with and can be removed when not needed. Worst thing that would happen is the shower fills up and you notice that pretty quickly, then just take it off.
- Comment on Water companies in England and Wales explore ‘surge pricing’ during drought 2 days ago:
Suppose it also depends on how much water do you want if it was to run out. If you can afford it then continue as normal with a few £1000 spent on a tank could be OK.
Worst case is enough to drink and wash your hands, and pretty sure they would be distributing water you can collect if it was to get that low.
- Comment on Water companies in England and Wales explore ‘surge pricing’ during drought 2 days ago:
Shortages to the point of restrictions though surely, rather than having no water left at all. Where I live hasn’t even had hosepipe bans yet, and we are getting a new reservoir soon.
If I was planning for no water at all I would look at getting a hand pumped RO filter for filtering sea water. I could distill it but that takes far more energy. Have wondered about the RO filter anyway for cooking by the beach but there are usually public taps close enough. Would allow going to more remote parts of the beach though.
- Comment on Water companies in England and Wales explore ‘surge pricing’ during drought 2 days ago:
Yeah there are no hose pipe bans where I live too, although I am somewhat aware of trying not to use it excessively too.
My garden the grass can die and will come back when it rains so that gets nothing normally. In plant beds its all drought tolerant stuff like rosemary, its doing OK though I am giving them a little water once or twice a month.
Saving the water butts for plant pots and newly planted cuttings. For that they seem to be lasting OK. We are expecting rain this week at least. I suspect things like rosemary would have grown a lot more if I watered them more, but they will survive just fine without too.
Grey water collecting feels like a more sensible option to look into. Most households use over 100L of water a day, only the toilet being water you don’t want to reuse could give you a small water butt per day in water. If I do I hope it can be a DIY project.