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Me too (under)

Good to see.

Come on Lambeth!

(I have skin in this game)

3rd party charging points are one thing.

Allowing residents to use their own electricity supply to charge their cars is another. It's vastly cheaper and the lack of that ability for people without off-street parking will be a large inhibitor of uptake.

he’s asked for a channel for the cable.

I read it that he has asked for permission to install a channel himself.

Even less dickish.

I think that what is interesting about it, and makes it newsworthy, is that these channels will likely become part of the near future street furniture. It's hard to see how the proposed move to EVs will otherwise occur.

It's interesting to see which council will be the first to give them the green light.

So, yes it looks on the surface like a local story about a grumpy git, but I think it is a actually story about the council and about the broader story of widescale EV adoption.

So, in summary, Parklife?

Anecdata, my Pixel 8a has been reliable and unobtrusively excellent.

Plus one for Galibier. Absolutely great stuff and not too pricey.

OK, so I took a hint to get the definition and then a free letter.

Self kicking now in progress.

One under.

99 below for the streak....

Typical.

A twunder would get me to a hundred below par on my streak.

But I am totally stumped.

Grrrr.

Yes this is laughable and sad and insane and tragic etc etc.

But it really makes me think about all of the actual power structures that we have in our society and how they came to be legitimate and official.

I know many real justices. I know a handful who sit in the Supreme Court. They are just people.

Nothing special or innate grants them their authority, other than a complex interaction of groups of people stating that they have that authority.

Nothing more than that Mark-kishon fellow, except with a bigger and more complex group of people deciding on a more complex series of decision steps to grant them their authority.

Yes, the two are quantitatively different, but not qualitatively.

I am pondering the fragile and arbitrary nature of these institutions more often at the moment, with the fascinating but terrifying situation in America.

"one less rucksack"

LFGSS sticker on suitcase is genius.

I'm stealing that.

Also, quite apart from your opinion of whether it is OK or not, it is literally the rule of the road, as defined in the Highway Code:

Rule 264

Keep in the left lane unless overtaking.

If you are overtaking, you should return to the left lane when it is safe to do so (see also Rules 267 and 268).

Which, along with the rule regarding not overtaking on the left, demonstrates the reduced capacity argument made above:

Rule 268

Do not overtake on the left or move to a lane on your left to
overtake. In congested conditions, where adjacent lanes of traffic are
moving at similar speeds, traffic in left-hand lanes may sometimes be
moving faster than traffic to the right. In these conditions you may
keep up with the traffic in your lane even if this means passing
traffic in the lane to your right. Do not weave in and out of lanes to
overtake.

As for the subjective argument regarding predictability, to my mind someone driving in accordance with the highway code is more 'predictable' than someone following their own set of heuristics for the best way to behave.

Note, the rules above are not the case in other countries, so it is always worth having a familiarity with the conventions that apply in the jurisdiction in which you are driving.

(Note, for context, the rules quoted above are specific to motorway driving. I make no comment on the rules for other roads, although I believe that the above also applies to dual carriageways and similar)

I got my first major milestone today: repping deadlifts that weigh more than I do (80 kg > 77.5kg)

It's small beer to a lot on here, but it feels great to me.

Bit of context, my first ever deadlift was 35kg on 9th June this year.

Oooh that sounds very promising.

Thanks!

For reference the source of that post is :

<details>
<summary>Click for detailed spoiler explanation:</summary>
The answer is *ammo*.

The definition is *bullet*.

This is arrived at by:

Taking a (compass) point, in this case "*e*" (for East), out of the word *memo*, giving "*mmo*".

This is then put after the third letter of *draft*, which is an "*a*", to give the answer of "*ammo*". 


</details>

EDIT - looks like the spoiler thing ruins the formatting. It looks fine in the preview pane. I will raise a bug.

There seems to be an issue with rendering formatting in a "details" html tag, which I use to hide spoilers.

If you look at post https://www.lfgss.com/comments/17563617/, it renders nicely in the preview pane, with line spacing and italics, but then looks horrible in the actual post.

I wonder if this is a feature to prevent some form of code injection attack? But it kinda sucks.

Click for detailed spoiler explanation:

The answer is *ammo*. The definition is *bullet*. This is arrived at by: Taking a (compass) point, in this case "*e*" (for East), out of the word *memo*, giving "*mmo*". This is then put after the third letter of *draft*, which is an "*a*", to give the answer of "*ammo*".

EDIT - looks like the spoiler thing ruins the formatting. It looks fine in the preview pane. I will raise a bug.

I would very much like to spend a night in a tent underneath a sky that has an incredible star field, with a visible Milky Way, etc.

I don't have the time or resources to visit the Atacama Desert for these purposes!

But organising a bike packing trip to somewhere that approaches it would be an awesome, bucket list type adventure.

So, any suggestions for where in a) England, b) the UK and c) Europe would be best to aim for?

Amazing!

Here's an example spoiler (click me):

Darth Vader is Luke's father!

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Which is made with the following code:

<details>
<summary>Here's an example spoiler (click me)</summary>
Hello!
</details>

Could I put in a feature request?

Over in the Minute Cryptic thread where we talk about crosswords, and in other threads as well (often about sporting event outcomes), I like to use the html summary / details tag to make hidden text. (I'll put an example and description in the next post).

Problem is that the syntax for it is unwieldy and hard to remember and is always a pain to go and look up and type in.

Is there anyway we could add it to the UI of the app's editor?

Maybe along with other text editing capabilities like bold, italic, link, picture etc, like on the main website?

I disagree, not tenuous at all.

I think it is a really nice, totally logical clue. Which I expect hangedup just spoiled, inadvertantly.

It is one of those clues where you have to split the reading in an unlikely place, to divine the distinction between definition and word play.

In this case, I love how hidden that split point is. It makes the clue loads better IMO.

I also really enjoy how coherent the surface reading of the clue is. It's a sentence that could be uttered in an ordinary meeting without note or comment.

It's a contender for my fave ever minute cryptic clue.

Bag o shite

fairly common, and discussed here:

Fair enough, I am convinced.

In which case, yesterday's was a great clue.

Friday fun time.