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https://weather.com/news/weather/video/deadly-tornado-floods-bring-chaos-to-mexico

G20 country’s climate is starting to fall apart. Weeks without rain, 40C one day, 70cm of compacted hail the next.

the indolent retired who love the idea of National Service

Comfortably bitching about it at the pub instead of in a hospice or a food kitchen says it all.

Great job, thanks for all your work.

Purely out of curiosity, rather than identifying an actual need (because, except for an occasional large sale, nothing here is time sensitive): if LFGSS were taken down for multiple days and Velocio wasn’t around or able to stop it, is there a backup location identified where evacuees can go? A Reddit forum for example? Additionally, is there an external comms channel that parishioners can refer to for authoritative updates?

I posted this in partial jest, but realised that a party halfway thru a significant sale (e.g., someone has paid and shipping or collection is pending) might be quite inconvenienced if they didn’t exchange contact details beyond this website. Lesson and mitigation then is to always exchange contact details on sales where you’d be bothered if the website became unavailable.

I once snapped my cogs from a high-gear start

What do you mean by snap? Finding it difficult to envision snapping steel cogs.

For real eh.

Your testicles very probably have plastics in them. So do your dog’s. Sources linked in article.
https://www.popsci.com/science/microplas­tics-testicles/

Lol, thought this was news thread, now amending.

(Moved to news)

The taste of the water in some parts of London or even in some buildings might be unpleasant. Some folks might find comfort in knowing they won’t suddenly be left without water (eg old folks with limited mobility, rather than preppers). There also seems to be various cultural elements related to it: snobbery, distrust of water companies, beliefs about cleanliness.

It’s a real shame that so much plastic is being used for disposable bottles in a city that has potable water everywhere.

https://www.bicycling.com/health-nutrition/a60412469/cycling-saddle-pain-women-surgery/

Women cyclists are having severe issues with their external genitalia due to the design of bike saddles. Sometimes it’s so severe that they need surgery to remove parts of their labia: half the women on one UCI world tour team have had labioplasty surgery or have tissue damage severe enough to change how they can sit on a bike. As a majority male sport, it’s an issue that doesn’t get enough attention.

Sure if you’re making sure to always keep more than a week’s worth of food in the house, and it seems that loads of people aren’t, hence the above mentioned govt campaign.

Made the unsolicited suggestion only to try to help you avoid unpleasantness at home with your partner, no condescension intended. I’m definitely one to take an argument to its final conclusion if someone’s spouting nonsense in my home about something that deeply matters to me; and sometimes it’s worth it, other times it’s just a waste of energy that accomplishes nothing.

If I might offer an outside view, in the hopes of sparing you some strife: it doesn’t seem like she’s reached her conclusions on the issue with a rational, fact-based thought process. As such, trying to reason her out of that position likely won’t achieve anything except risking frustrating and angering you further. Sucks but that’s the human mind for you.

Perhaps you can tell her firmly that it’s an issue you feel very strongly about and that you don’t want it discussed in your house?

Pro tip on residential emergency food stores: instead of buying MREs and military rations, buy an extra few meals worth of non-refrigerated food that you’d eat anyway. Use a First in - First out system to ensure food doesn’t go out of date, and don’t let he cupboard empty before replenishing.

Few things make a crisis more subjectively miserable than unnecessarily crappy food.

What a suitably pathetic image for a pathetic PM. Sullen, in a dripping wet wool suit, conceding that his leadership is politically untenable for much longer.

He’s made hundreds of millions as PM, but all his money can’t erase this historical public indignity, and that’s a lovely silver lining.

Funny how that works eh? I think it’s understandable to wonder ‘oh god now what’s gone wrong’, given the times. However, I think the rationale this time is as simple as ‘this is a useful message that needs to be repeated at some point, and now is better than later’.

I wouldn’t try to read too much into it.

Household-level resilience measures which, at scale, can make a significant impact on emergency services and public crisis response.

Just a simple first aid kit, fire safety kit, flashlight/torch, and a handful of meals and corresponding litres of drinking water. Not very expensive, not very intrusive, but proven to be enough to save lives directly and indirectly in a large-scale emergency.

It’s a good idea in any case.

Straight from here to #Depression.

I've no concerns about the airworthiness of either

It would be unadvisable to take the flight if you did.

777 are still very safe airframes within a very safe industry. Given the choice, I’d go with airbus, although the 787 is one of my favourite planes.

Winner winner!

I feel like a broken record but anyone want to guess the make and model of the airplane? Not necessarily the aircraft’s fault this time, mind, but there’s a definite trend going.

OpenAI wanted Scarlett Johannsen to voice their newest AI, she says no, they copied her voice anyway.

Nothing says ‘trustworthy’ like the posterboy for AI enacting people’s fears about their technology.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/20/24161253/scarlett-johansson-openai-altman-legal-action

Using rim brake carbon rims on disc brake hubs, in principle, safe or stupid?

It’s easy, don’t believe the propaganda. The one thing you’ll need a specialist for is the reamer, and you can buy pre-reamed sleeves.

They’re sold in pairs because they’re cheap to manufacture, and one version (post 2014) has a (tab) that engages on a hole in the frame; whereas the other (pre 2014) does not. An observant eye will note that the latter have marks betraying how the tabs are ground off at the factory, so they don’t even bother having two molds, they just belt sand half of the sleeves.

(Remembered the word)