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All businesses collect deadwood. The lazy, the incompetent, and those who's jobs are no longer relevant. Netflix is just doing what any sensible business would do by cutting out the deadwood.

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Should I burn my Sally Rooney books*, or should I hand them in at a police station. I'm guessing the former as I reckon I could be arrested if I took them to a police station. (*Asking for a friend as I don't have any Sally Rooney book, or do I?).

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The only fault of the owners is that they should have changed the name long ago, but Poundland's real problem is that high street footfall has crashed. Shops like Poundland were like remoras feeding on the scraps left over after people had shopped in the big shops, but now the big shops are dead.

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Denmark has already scrapped their postal service due to lack of demand. Other countries are thinking of doing the same. If we had kept the postal service in public hands, then it would be us tax payers who would be paying for this unprofitable, and increasingly anachronistic service.

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Maybe the rouge AI in your toaster could set fire to your toast, resulting in your house burning down?

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It's nice to hear that the Republicans have already won the mid-terms, and have done so by a massive margin, all without a single vote being counted. Fantastic to see that democracy is alive and kicking in the USA. (Who incidentally have banned overseas observers from the elections. Not needed?).

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Why private schools? I haven't read the article, but unless it refers to just a ban on them watering their sports pitches, then it does seem a bit harsh, and bar in mind, not watering the pitches will have knock on consequences for future England rugby & cricket teams.

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Another one of those games where the answer is not a proper word. 😡 Wordle 1,943 4/6 🟨⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟨🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟩⬜⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Which rock have you been hiding under?

It it quacks like a train, and waddles like a train, it's a train.

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Best of luck trying to squeeze that train through some of London's underground tunnels.

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The threat is real. In June 2020, a ~130m rock, LD2020, came within 200,000 miles of earth (the moon is ~250,000 miles away), and it wasn't spotted until after it had passed us. Not an Earth killer, but it could have wiped out a big city. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_LD....

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2020 LD - Wikipedia

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Just stupid. Think about those wing mirrors and headlamps. They are not aerodynamic. And as for the 2CV moniker, ridiculous. I've travelled many a mile in a proper 2CV, this thing will not be a 2CV.

I'd be certain people are working on AI systems for the missiles so that they won't be deflected by such counter measures, and the bad guys won't be too far behind in using them.

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And yet you probably don't worry about getting out of bed, even though that is full of dangeres.

Have you been on the London Underground, and some of the journeys can be quite long, such as Uxbridge to Baker Street, with people standing next to you in the aisle.

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And what would that achieve? Maybe the boats could be used to house a few hundred homeless people. Maybe the planes could be used by a budget airline to connect remote communities, but they still cost a lot to run, and couldn't be used by a charity. And as for the islands, there are no ferries.

Recently near where I live they dug up the local high street to replace a 100m of gas main (which I'm sure you will agree is more important that a water main). The road was closed for 2 months, and as I said that was just for a 100m of pipe. The business on the high street lost £1000s.

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These day's nobody has £20 to spend on a glorified bit of cheese on toast with a fizzy drink. PizzaExpress and the others like it are doomed. The only curious thing is why anyone would want to buy the brand. It won't have many assets to strip as the buildings are most likely leased.

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I nearly succumbed to the same trap, but got lucky on guess 5.

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Would things have been any different under public ownership? Thames Water have been trying to build a new reservoir near Oxford for decades, but the nimbys keep blocking it, and the leaks could be fixed, but would you be happy with all the roadworks that would entail.

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I presume that they are fitted with heaters so that they can be quickly defrosted and then dried out. Which makes sense for a supermarket. What I don't understand is why anyone thought it a good idea to allow the heaters to be remotely switched on.

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Having supermarket fridges and freezers connected to the internet is a good thing provided that the internet is only used for monitoring the temperature. Allowing it to be used for switching on the defrost heaters is asking for trouble.

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Is that 400th five a good or bad thing ;-)

Very lucky to escape that trap. According to the Wordle bot there were still 8 words left on my 5 guess. Wordle 1,942 5/6 ⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜ 🟨🟩⬜🟩⬜ ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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No, what it's really about is bringing down the price of diesel in an attempt to win votes at the mid-terms.

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An easy game after a good start, and a word that makes me smile. 🙂 Wordle 1,941 3/6 ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Citroen revives the 2CV for an electric age

Will this EV madness ever end? Citroen, just why, and more importantly, can it carry a basket of eggs across a ploughed field without breaking any of them? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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The French firm is reinventing the classic model as carmakers come under pressure from Chinese rivals.

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Gillian Martin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Yep, pig manure can be used as a fertilizer.

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Reposted by Pablo Allelli

The man who wants a Nobel Prize can't spell Nobel ...

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But can it carry a basket of eggs across a ploughed field without breaking any of the eggs?

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I 100% agree, but they are past gambles. Governments change, but that doesn't alter my belief that we need more nuclear because renewables aren't, and never will be, reliable.

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What happens when the sun doesn't shine and the wind doesn't blow for an period? As I said earlier, renewables are unreliable, and we would 5000 times the current battery storage to cover an extended period. (I've done the sums).

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No, but I'm sure that those behind HPC will have done the sums because as private venture, it will be the owners of the relevant companies that will be footing the bill, not us tax payers.

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No, but design work is on going. It's only a matter of time.

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I'm not sure how that is relevant. It was never designed with decommissioning in mind. The situation is very different with Hinkley Point C, where after safety, the next most important design consideration is ease of decommissioning.

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I got stuck on guess 4, and had to try a word that could never be the solution. Wordle 1,940 5/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟩🟨 🟨⬜⬜🟩⬜ 🟨🟨🟨⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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