The head of Wagner was unhappy with Russian military leaders and thought he'd take matters into his own hands as Putin was going to support him. Putin did not. Now there are 10,000 men heading to Moscow.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-66006880

BBC correspondent saying his claims of having 25k troops is misleading as most in Africa (down from 50k), may have 10k which is a huge thorn.

More an attempt to take over military than Putin it seems.

Edit: live feed 🍿:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-europe-66006142

So if I updated all my comments to say fuck speak, they’d auto hide them for me?

Yes people do like nice design and user interfaces. Apple managed to grab a large market share by understanding that.

It doesn't have to be cluttered but it doesn't have to be ... this.

If you want things to improve, you are going to have to accept criticism that your current crush isn’t perfect. There is already a lot of the toxic Reddit’ness that has come over, we don't need more.

Also when you are paying for those that is after tax as well. So I save about £2k a year just on travel costs, that’s the same as a £3k pay increase.

Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits different treatment of insured persons on the basis of their sex in connection with pension funds. This was a supreme court ruling, so kind of linked but not quite.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/253100

Interestingly, in UK and EU it became illegal to discriminate by sex for car insurance from about 2012, without very careful use of data - which doesn't happen. It is allowed to be linked on things like jobs though.

I've been slowly amending my most like comments (leaving the most downvoted). Yet to see any come back, maybe Reddit didn't value my top notch sarcasm Vs helping people with actually problems.

What would they do for the hours after school finished normally or if work on weekends?

Sounds like a work / life balance problem. Companies will have to be made to change their working practices, allow more remote, flexible working hours and reduced time.

UK is, very, slowly starting to move to a 4 day week for work (reduced hours, not cramming in 4 days x 10 hours). The productivity increases along with recruitment make it worthwhile. My company isn't there but 35 hours + 50 days holiday so not far.

That would solve the 4 day school day. Also allow for parents to educate their kids for 1/2 a day if needed.

Yes but not for long.

As (generally climate denying) people love to point out, wind and solar is erratic power generation. For this reason you need triple capacity Vs requirements.

This means that for a huge amount of time you'll have excess energy, once we start to be predominantly renewables, battery storage is expensive. One of the solutions is to create hydrogen, also pumped hydrogen, etc.

Brian Cox was also in d:Ream.

American but E from the eels, his dad came up with the Many Worlds Interpretation

made lewd comments about his daughter Ivanka's appearance and talked about "what it might be like to have sex with her."

That is shocking! Always said stuff that sounded like he abused her as a child/teen/now.

When 16 hosting a teen pageant saying to the crowd "Don’t you think my daughter’s hot? She’s hot, right?"

Howard stern and saying she had the best body (2003)

Howard stern 2004, he said he regretted his previous inappropriate comments ... Oh no called her a "piece of ass".

2006 the view, "I’ve said that if Ivanka weren’t my daughter, perhaps I’d be dating her"

2013, asked what he and Ivanka had in common, she said "real estate and golf", he said: a) "Good answe" or b) "Well, I was going to say sex but I can’t relate that". Well it wasn't answe a was it

60 is useful because it’s easily divided by lots of small numbers, 1,2,3,4,5 and 6, other factors include 10, 12, 15, 20, 30, and 60. This is why we can split our day so much.

The Babylonians popularised base 60. The origins of which were possibly derived from 2 separate groups in Mesopotamia, that started trade but one used base 12 and one base 5, multiply together to get 60.

You can count to 5 and 12 on one hand easily (12 by using thumb to count each section of your 4 finger). Using both hands you get to 60.

https://mathsciencehistory.com/2021/11/09/count-to-60-with-your-phalanges/

China also has counting to 10 on one hand, theory being you can indicate quantities with one hand full at a market.

Yes and no. It is an opinion piece but when done by a PM, it becomes a policy that lays out the direction of travel that the government expect head in.

She was protesting about the physical and sexual abuse of children by the church. The criticism helped to continue the protection of pedophiles, which continued for decades and still happens.

Joe Pesci (a study in short man syndrome) said on TV he wanted to slap her for ripping up a photo and the audience applauded him for it.

There are a few reasons. Firstly it’s in their own interests to protect their people from huge climate change. Secondly renewables are cheaper than coal, without the same variability of supply (Australia had political falling out before and Russia may not be the very stable genius we think).

They can also add punitive damages. Didn't seem to be in this case BUT a meal marketed at children shouldn't cause scars.

With the coffee case had lots of damages for this. MacDonalds had been warned that they were serving coffee at dangerous temperatures, had 700 complaints but it was cheaper to pay compensation than fix.

They served the coffee at much higher temperatures than other establishments, so normally you'd have 12 seconds to wipe coffee off your skin but with MacDonalds it was 3 seconds, causing 3rd degree burns.

They lied saying it was done as people wanted to drink after driving for a long time but their surveys showed the opposite.

I think the company taking unilateral action to remove access to purchased equipment is the real issue, not how to find work arounds.

I could understand them saying we won't deliver to you until we've investigated.

Wouldn't count hydrogen out yet as it's not just for cars.

The UK and Europe (particularly Germany) are also investing in hydrogen but less so for cars, London has a few hydrogen busses though and cheaper production could mean more popularity.

There is a demand for Natural Gas replacement, as heating and cooking is very common in some places (78% of UK homes and 50% German use it for heat).

Replacing Natural Gas network with hydrogen is cheaper and quicker than conversion to heat pumps (it'll likely be a mix). UK gas network and storage has been converted to deal with hydrogen and has had successful trials, this winter UK could start blending upto 20% hydrogen into the gas supply. 100% hydrogen trials to start in couple years.

Green hydrogen is a great store for renewables as well. Solar and wind are built above required capacity (due to variability), this means the vast amount of times there is excess energy. Pink hydrogen (nuclear) is a potential biproduct from SMRs.

Lithium has been found to be in grannet and deep groundwater in UK, so it's not just mines. Australia is a huge producer of lithium as well, far more than China. But being energy independent is a huge boon.

They have some powers, they got upset at Facebook and decided to flex a bit by sending one of the boys around, to invite one of his mates for a chat.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/nov/24/mps-seize-cache-facebook-internal-papers

The person sent was the serjeant at arms. They carry a sword. Doubt they took it out but they also carry one of the House of Commons maces, which is gold covered and jewel encrusted, about 1.5m (4.9ft) long and weighs roughly 10kg (22 lbs).

Imagine some large, pissed off looking dude, dressed like he’s from the year 1415, kicking your hotel door in because you didn’t RSPV properly. Then being told hand over documents or we may stick you in jail (and you know the pretended it would be the Tower of London).

The 1,000 yard stare he must get when asked if he enjoyed London and how lovely that history must be.

I was wondering if that joke would die off soon, glad she's ensured it'll be here for another decade at least.