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Convex posted:Sometimes I wonder who would be the more principled and pragmatic leader; keith stammer or a single sheet of A4 paper I'm not sure a white square with two faces would make a decent LOTO
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Niric posted:
loving incredible lmao Ms Adequate fucked around with this message at 22:39 on Nov 30, 2020 |
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Total Meatlove posted:Please get a smart meter. Which looks like about 2025.
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:I'm not sure a white square with two faces would make a decent LOTO 
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Shouldn't you be shilling Yorkshire Energy?
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I got moved on to the People's Energy recently, which sounds like an evil company from an Ayn Rand novel, but I had heard very good things about profit-sharing even though it was slightly more expensive than my previous supplier.
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Convex posted:Sometimes I wonder who would be the more principled and pragmatic leader; keith stammer or a single sheet of A4 paper
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Total Meatlove posted:Please get a smart meter. I know that in the initial rollout people got some poo poo ones and that damaged the usefulness of the programme overall but it really will make things better long term and does gently caress all to you in the short term. The new ones are fine. Smart meters are peak liberalism, working on the assumption that humans are homo economicous and will alter their habits to make marginal electricity bill savings while giving electricity companies excuses to raise energy bills because they "can" be offset by meter use.
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https://twitter.com/martynziegler/status/1333467194005614593 But what if you're eating a scotch egg? (For the nerds - it is illegal to drink alcohol in a football stadium within sight of the pitch, as such all of the bars are under the stands, and it's functionally illegal to have seats in those areas because they're part of the escape routes)
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can someone explain starmers thought process on this for me please like for the spy cops and war crimes bills: labour members oppose, starmer supports, he thinks voting against will let him be painted as a terrorist, so abstaining is picking a course of action that he thinks will be the path of least resistance this time: Keith has been generally supportive of lockdown measures, has said he thinks this bill specifically is in the national interest, and labour party members are I presume lockdown leaning, so what the gently caress is his rationale trying not to alienate laurence fox and the gammons? trying to "send a message" to the government that they better buck their ideas up? force of habit? I just don't understand how he has arrived at this position, after releasing a statement saying the tiers are in the national interest (else how is voting against them "not in the national interest") and insisted that he will always act in the national interest someone please explain
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Total Meatlove posted:Please get a smart meter. I know that in the initial rollout people got some poo poo ones and that damaged the usefulness of the programme overall but it really will make things better long term and does gently caress all to you in the short term. The new ones are fine. Last time I looked into it the smart meter rollout continued to be a massive cluster which has cost about £13 billion so far, or an additional £500 on energy bills for each of the 26 million households in the UK. About 3.6 million of currently installed meters are in 'traditional' i.e. dumb mode and the rest of the SMETS1 ones are probably going to need to be ripped out and replaced at some point anyway as they stop working once you switch supplier. Which of course nobody in the UK ever does. https://assets.publishing.service.g...eport_FINAL.pdf https://www.theregister.com/2019/09/17/four_year_delay_for_smart_meter_rollout/ The main benefit to 'consumers' has been a natty little in-house display that tells you information you could have found out anyway. Meanwhile suppliers are getting shot of their meter readers and the government is salivating over the prospect of demand shifting and selectively cutting off electricity as the national grid heads towards rolling blackouts from lack of new generation capacity. Please feel free to expound on what the actual benefits are, but to my mind it's just another failed national infrastructure project under capitalism. RockyB fucked around with this message at 23:18 on Nov 30, 2020 |
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Lungboy posted:Careful with Avro if you try to leave them. Even though meter readings were submitted to switch away they insisted on using their internally calculated usage and kept taking money off us for months without telling us as they decided we still owed them money when they owed us. I swopped away from Bulb recently, and they were fine for that. (swopped to Neon Reef, who're cheap, but new enough their webpage is very barebones)
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RockyB posted:Please feel free to expound on what the actual benefits are, but to my mind it's just another failed national infrastructure project under capitalism. In theory my electric car charger can monitor energy prices in like minute by minute real time and ask for electricity when the network is desperate to unload it so will in fact pay me to take it.
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XMNN posted:can someone explain starmers thought process on this for me please It’s just that this is a contentious issue that will pass either way, so the question is what political capital is gained by voting for or against it? It’s a bunch of really poo poo and poorly-thought-out regulations, so they won’t be popular, but if they vote against they can be painted as being akin to anti-mask weirdos. So abstaining is just the best choice by default. That’s the argument, anyway. I can see the logic, though I think any benefit (or avoided cost) is offset by the fact that if you do this over and over again you’ll end up seeming like an intransigent do-nothing party.
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NotJustANumber99 posted:desperate to unload it so will in fact pay me to take it. Hot
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NotJustANumber99 posted:In theory my electric car charger can monitor energy prices in like minute by minute real time and ask for electricity when the network is desperate to unload it so will in fact pay me to take it. Yes, that was one of the original promises way back in 2013. Has anyone, anywhere, actually achieved that? Correct me if I'm wrong but I don't think the SMETS2 standard even has the concept of providing minute by minute pricing data to the customer. Let alone any standard API to send that information to things like car chargers. https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/381535/SMIP_E2E_SMETS2.pdf quote:4.4.2.1 Communications Links with a PPMID via its HAN Interface E: Whoops, quoted the gas meter reqs. RockyB fucked around with this message at 23:55 on Nov 30, 2020 |
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ThomasPaine posted:Oh yeah I 100% believe Fox doesn't believe a thing he's saying and he's just angling to become another manufactured controversy generator in the Clarkson/Morgan mould, but I don't get why. He's already a well-off posho living a perfectly comfortable life as a third rate actor, he doesn't need to. And while people like Clarkson have said some pretty godawful bigoted and ignorant things this goes a step beyond, using his platform to spout garbage like this isn't just your standard 'belligerent dude being offensive', it's an active threat to public health, it's going to get people loving killed, and he knows it. I don't understand how that kind of person looks at themselves in the mirror tbh. I think the point I realised quite how bad he is was when even bloody Morgan was calling him out. No this is what the wealthy already believes and everything else is Glinner double downing. Remember this all started when he was trying to promote a folk music album about how sad he was nobody laughed at his jokes anymore. He is literally costing himself money doing this. His son probably called him racist and it broke his brain.
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Comrade Fakename posted:I think but do you really edit: Also in relation to trans issues Joanna Cherry still sucks
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RockyB posted:Yes, that was one of the original promises way back in 2013. Has anyone, anywhere, actually achieved that? No it's still the dream unless you're an industrial consumer of electricity in which case your pricing is based more-or-less on consumption of available capacity, rather than number of kWh. Distributed energy storage and buy/sell at individual user level could be such a huge win for energy efficiency but we're still a way off it because of the changes needed to move the juice around and manage side effects. What happens, for example, if every Tesla in the UK starts with the same default setting for when it buys power and they all switch in at once? We've learnt this lesson once already- economy7 caused grid problems because it meant all the really high load appliances switched on at precisely the same time.
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xtothez posted:[*]The quotes all include additional charges for dental & eyesight cover, in the same way our car insurance companies charge extra for a loving courtesy car. As everyone knows, teeth and eyes are luxury organs you can easily live without. I mean, those aren't covered on the regular NHS either.
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feedmegin posted:I mean, those aren't covered on the regular NHS either. No, but basic treatments are price capped (dentist anyway, I'm not too familiar with opticians - after spending £180 on specs about 6 years ago, I now use those £1.49 a pair reading glasses from Home Bargains which are perfectly adequate for my needs.) I wish I could find an NHS dentist round here - I've some treatment needs doing that will be capped at I think it's about £243 or £343 on the NHS and will cost over £1000 maybe £2000 private. Put myself on a waiting list in March - ha. Obviously that's all gone for a burton. Aneurin Bevan Health Board claims you don't need to be registered, just make an appointment. First question asked by receptionist is "are you registered". Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 00:40 on Dec 1, 2020 |
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WhatEvil posted:I can only speak for the Ottawa area and the supermarkets I go to but... yes they do. There are a few different kinds of meat pie in the freezers, plus I just bought Pilsbury chilled pie crusts the other day which have a specific set of instructions for savoury pies on the box. Well known American city Ottawa. Canada and America do have some differences you know... I lived in Michigan for 10 years and yeah savoury pies not a thing. Though locally they had a mutant version of the pasty. With CARROTS. And GRAVY.
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The new regulations that MPs will be voting on tomorrow have been published, and at the end say: "No impact assessment has been prepared for these Regulations." Which seems like a pretty massive admission that they're just making it all up.
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