tankplanker

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What Can We Do to Get Youth into Ham Radio?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, they usually have me changing band as I want well away from that, i don’t want them hopping across.if I stay there But even just unprobalamtic farmers chat ain’t going to be appealing to most kids.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What Can We Do to Get Youth into Ham Radio?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Make clubs accessible for younger people again. Lots of clubs became old man’s clubs that aren’t where kids want to hang out. Clubs are a great way to get access to gear without having to buy it and be able to use it via the club license(s).

  I think showing the different types of communications available, including sat coms is helpful. Not everyone wants to ragchew with old men.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why can’t HVAC be made smarter?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  With a thermostat, smart or dumb, you set a target temperature and a time. With a dumb thermostat it waits till that time and then activates. With a smart thermostat it should learn how long it takes to heat or cool to that target temperature in certain conditions and then aims to hit the target at that point.

  So if you got up at 8am and wanted it 20c with a dumb thermostat you got to work out when it needs to go on in order to hit that as no heating system is instant on something the size of a house, with a smart thermostat with learning you do not need to do that at all, just set it for 8am.

  As no system is working in a vacuum how hot or cool it is outside, even how sunny it is, has a big impact on how quickly your system heats or cools. Being able to measure and compensate for the outside temperature means the actual start time can be adjusted for you. This can save significant amount of cash.

  As an example, lets say the outside temperature was going to be -10c 6am till 8am and you wanted it 20c by 8am. Doing it with a dumb thermostat you would either have to live with an under or overshoot on temperature. Say next day its 2C, now you need to adjust your overshoot again. With a smart thermostat I do not need to do that at all.

  Sure, you can just live with the under/overshoot, but its better for your bills and better for the environment not to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Quarter of Gen Zs consider quitting work as young Brits cite mental health as key reason to go unemployed⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Are they still living at their parents, trapped by the UK housing and job markets?

  Different pressure when you aren’t going to lose the roof over your head or you next meal if you quit work.

  Its probably the only real upside of not being able to afford your own place.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Captain of container ship involved in North Sea collision arrested in the UK, identified as Russian citizen⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s possible the tanker was the stand on boat and expected the container ship to alter its course. As the tanker isn’t the most manoeuvrable of vessels, it could have then left it too late to take avoiding action. They rarely move even when not the stand on vessel. Obviously, they should have been raising hell on the radio and prove that, too.

  If they have the AIS transmissions from both vessels, it would be extremely unlikely they weren’t also receiving it. Now, if nobody was watching it, then that’s going to be a proper paddling once it goes to court.

  I’m assuming the fog made it hard for visuals at a distance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨More SEND pupils could go to mainstream schools as support shake-up is considered⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So there will be more funds from the central pot for councils to fund supporting SEND at mainstream school, right? RIGHT?

  Honestly this is a dumb a decision as I have seen so far from this government. SEND in mainstream schools already costs a huge amount of a councils budget and is massively underfunded and under resourced as a consequence.

  All it does is lower every pupils attainment not just the SEND kids who also have an unsuitable environment forced on them.

  Couple this with successive governments making it harder to get a proper EHCP if they haven’t started the process in Primary School means there are far more kids than on the offiical SEND list that should be getting proper support.

  Whats actually needed is picking a mainstream school in each area and converting it to a dedicated SEND school as a minimum. Then moving those who would benefit to that school while moving those who wouldn’t out. Most areas have more than enough kids for this to work. Its not going to completely solve the problem but it would be a big improvement on the shit show we have now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mickey 17 is a big middle finger to space-obsessed strongmen [Review]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hope you enjoy it!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mickey 17 is a big middle finger to space-obsessed strongmen [Review]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Gilliam-esque, the scientists in particular are very Brazil/12 monkeys like

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mickey 17 is a big middle finger to space-obsessed strongmen [Review]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I watched this today and really enjoyed it.

  I’m not going to pretend it’s the greatest or deepest sci-fi film ever made, but it’s fun if you are into dystopian; it’s almost Gilliam esc. but it doesn’t quite embrace it fully.

  The Messianic cult leader is a little on the nose and as 2D as his realife inspiration is.

  It doesn’t explore all the possibilities or offer real depth to what is a complex topic, but as a soft sci-fi story it’s a fun and sometimes funny way to pass a couple of hours.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone remember this?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Mosaic and Lynx on Sun workstations was how I started as well. Back then, there was a ton of open ftp access as well, wild.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon paid more than $1bn to take creative control of James Bond⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Musk is more of a Spy Kids villain. Trump is a Lazy Town villain as Spoticus is diametrically opposed to him even more than Robby Rotton. Putin is the perfect Bond villain, complete with his own evil mountain hideout.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Inspirational⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It gets worse as the horse was part of a herd that came with the ranches he purchased to smush into a mega ranch. He wanted rid of the horses as they cost a fair bit to keep, so he was literally giving away something that saved him money and cost them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hair loss drug finasteride 'biggest mistake of my life'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Low T also causes hairloss…

  Also, I used the difficulty in getting TRT when HRT is so widely available as a perfect example of how much harder it is to get medication for men from the NHS.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hair loss drug finasteride 'biggest mistake of my life'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Its availability of treatment as well for mens health. TRT thresholds that the NHS applies to men are insanely low, almost like they do not want to spend the money rather than provide actual benefit to people with low test. Its pretty bad as the threshold for women to get HRT is almost non existent and its just given out without further tests.

  While I think TRT should only be issued once tested it should be at higher thresholds as it solves so many other issues. However like the new weight loss drugs we do not give the NHS enough money to stick it on prescription for everybody that would benefit from it, particularly as both are likely to be very long term to whole life treatments.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Alien: Romulus sequel will show things that have never been seen in the franchise before⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Alien franchise that we’ve never been before, and to discover things that you’ve never seen before.

  this just smacks of writing a film by devising a bunch of action sequences and reveals then smushing it together hoping that the big shinny sequences distract from the plot and characters being wafer thin cardboard cutouts like last time.

  Its terrible writing to work like this, cobbling together a script around predefined points. Its typical of film writing by committee where everybody on the committee has to add in their idea they came up with independent of the script to demonstrate their value.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨how do you workout when you don't have much time?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I switched to working out at home and saved a whole bunch of time I used to spend getting to and from the gym, plus all the faffing about waiting to get on the stations I wanted to use. Its not going to work for everyone but if you can do some sort of workout at home or at work if you lucky enough to work somewhere that has facilitates, then you can save a whole bunch of time.

  As others have mentioned switching to high intensity can give you as big an impact in a lot less time. Unless you training for endurance events spending a couple of hours working out everyday can actually be counter productive. I used to train twice a day six days a week, an hours weights in the morning then two to three hours of BJJ/Kickboxing and I never made the same strength gains as when I toned that shit down.

  Two hours is pretty excessive, you should be doing 10 minutes stretching tops, unless its an actual stretching workout such as yoga or you are working out an injury. Spending an hour on a stair master or a runner is only good if you actually challenging your heart rate during that time, and then only if you working on endurance for a reason.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Poll reveals the amount of Brits who would take weight-loss jabs for free on NHS⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is using BMI, which while the vast majority of these people are at the very least overweight it will be missing all the unhealthy skinny fat people.

  I wish they would switch to a system that takes account of waist/hip ratio as if you do not have a narrower waist than hips (with a bigger differential if you are a woman) you are carrying more fat than you should be and are also at a risk of a variety of “fat” people illnesses such as heart attacks, diabetes, etc. despite your weight being in a normal range as you lack the muscle mass and/or skeletal mass for your height

  The actual number of people who need to sort out their diet and exercise is just shocking.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kemi Badenoch announced as new leader of Conservative Party⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s the fact that she weaponises it, often using herself as an example of why something isn’t needed, such as DEI or maternity pay, ignoring that she ended up in an incredibly privileged position even before becoming a MP.

  Couple that with her bloodthirsty desire for revenge on anybody or anything that annoys her, such as her statement that a quarter of civil servants belong in jail means if she did ever get in we would have ideocial purges worthy of any of the most nutty dictators.

  I absolutely do not buy her defense that it was just a jolly jape, that’s the defense of the far right when they fail to land enough support for whatever hateful shit they just spouted.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Harvest in England the second worst on record because of wet weather⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Worth noting that lower UK production, either caused by climate change such as the article talks about, or farmers either turning over fields to non farming uses such as solar or housing as farming is no longer profitable for them, means increased inflation for food. It also means we are less resilient to further food inflation if other countries have their own climate changed farming issues as we saw a little while ago.

  Failure to invest in farming now means small savings today but higher food prices tomorrow.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Climate tipping points' could 'wipe out' UK crop growing, report warns⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s the cost to transition, it’s different equipment such as tractors for vines are different from tractors for cereal crops, it’s the other facilities, field layouts, soil composition, training for the farmer that they will need support with. Plus picking fruit currently requires people in much larger numbers than harvesting traditional cereals.

  With the bad weather we are getting for winter crops with the heavy rain ruining planting, climate change is already here for UK farmers. We have to do something, even if it’s just funding to improve drainage for those who can.

  The real problem is the lack of appetite from government as it needs actual planning and money, something lacking so far.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I just opened an overpriced can of fancy soup and on the label, along with the expected stuff like 'gluten-free' and 'GMO-free,' was 'mustard free' and 'celery free.' Is that a thing now?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As others have mentioned, you can be allergic to mustard, however mustard often contains gluten either from it being processed in the same factory as other gluten containing products or from the vinegar that is added. Many vinegars contain gluten due to the barley.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Keir Starmer pins economic growth hopes on British Hollywood with new tax relief⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Pinning your hopes on tax relief on Hollywood when Hollywood is perfectly fine pushing the absolute limit of whats legal with their finances seems as daft as his carbon capture scheme. Hollywood is quite prepared to cancel or delete even expensively made content because it will make them more money as a tax rebate than with residuals or marketing costs.

  Even if they don’t out right cancel it, we end up subsidising bombs like the $50m tax break wasted on Ant-Man and Wasp or $55m for Marvels that lost Disney $300m ish.

  Giving them more tax rebates is also dumb because you are competing any number of other places for who can be the cheapest to work at with the largest tax breaks, its not a sustainable marketplace. Its much like the countries who offer Nike incentives to come build a factory there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Captain America: Brave New World' bombs at test screening⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The problem is not enough people liked Falcon/Winter Soldier. Its the same thing when people say they liked Marvels or whatever, good for you that you enjoyed it, but nowhere near enough people did for the amount they spent on it and it lost huge sums. Disney simply cannot sustain huge bombs time after time and if they are going to spend this sort of money it has to be a success, which means making stuff that is actually popular.

  I like the fact that they went with a black Captain America, the problem is casting. Mackie is clearly well connected as hes hardly lead a massive commercial success in his time, just the opposite. The problem that Marvel has is that they stuffed so many of the bigger name black actors into Black Panther, including a few who would have been a much better choice than Mackie, now they are reluctant to recast them in a different role. Sure they have done this a few times, but very rarely when its to face roles rather than one face role and one CGI or “blue face” role, or one film and one TV series on Netflix.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Captain America: Brave New World' bombs at test screening⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No, they got promoted to film directors with a large budget. Hopefully this bombs and they go back to making day time soaps.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Captain America: Brave New World' bombs at test screening⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Mackie has never struck me as charismatic enough of an actor to lead a franchise as big as Captain America, hes just so boring to watch, its like he isn’t even there.

  Couple that with what seems to be another bland script from the goofs that brought us Falcon and the Winter Soldier and I am not surprised it sucks.

  The problem is always that Disney is trying to cut costs on the directors, writers and actors by picking TV level people. Its pretty obvious this hasn’t worked so far and that they have had to press the panic button to get as many of the OGs back as possible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I avoid enshitification of my keyboard and mouse⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If it runs QMK I would port to vial over via any day of the week, cannot stand via. Granted I need to run the app when I want to adjust the key map (and only then), but it removes the need for WebHID or any similar problems. I have been able to replace my custom mapping and macros then compiling my own custom QMK firmware and uploading it to the keyboard workflow with live editing of the map and macros.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesco loses UK legal battle over plans to ‘fire and rehire’ staff on lower pay⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They also argue that the business would go bust or move out of the country, both resulting in far wider job losses. I don’t doubt that a small minority of businesses might fit into this but a business the size of Tesco that made a couple of billion of profit last year and is heavily dependent on physical sales in the UK to achieve that.

  Same argument is used against the likes of Amazon or Apple paying fair taxes or wages, they do about 30 billion and 1.5 billion of sales of mostly physical goods here respectively, that they would have to give up on, which is just not going to happen. Apple has about half the UK mobile market, like they would give that up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Next shop workers win equal pay claim - BBC News⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Would be interesting to see the arguments made, as I suspect the staffs’ council pushed that the number of men at the warehouse skewed the wages? Seems really off to me either way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Next shop workers win equal pay claim - BBC News⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s very similar to the asda equal pay case, which has already gone through the supreme court so the precedent has been set.

  The Birmingham dinner lady case started all this off, which was a disgraceful cash grab. Their representation successfully equated that dinner ladies who work a few hours a day term time only had an equal job to bin men who work all hours (they do gritting as well) with refuge. It’s a large part of why the council went bust as it meant selling off revenue generating assets such as the nec.

  The care worker equality case for Birmingham I agree with btw, that’s very similar conditions and hours.

  “The Equal Pay Act requires that men and women in the same workplace receive equal pay for work that is substantially equal, even if the jobs are not identical. The job content, not the job title, determines if the jobs are substantially equal” - this is the problem right here, the legislation needs refining.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rachel Reeves paves way for cuts and tax rises to fill shortfall left by Tories⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I like the economist drawing the conclusion that its the same size hole as the national insurance cuts, almost like the Tories willfully set everything on fire on their way out of the door.

  Massively dumb of Labour to commit to not raising general taxation when it was evident that the Tories likely hadn’t funded the national insurance cuts.