Posts by lord_of_shropshire@poa.st
(DIR) Post #AL9y8pSqqHoXOlQRsW by lord_of_shropshire@poa.st
2022-07-04T21:03:11.690296Z
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@TurboNormie Yeah. It really is catastrophic. The wheels have completely come off. I think the main inertia in the system at the moment is people are just loading up their credit cards. I work with a guy who earns something like £12.00/hr. His dual fuel energy bill went from probably something less than £1200 for the year to £3300 for a year and the price cap on energy costs will likely go up again in October and March 2023. So the typical domestic dual fuel will probably be £4000 for the year in 2023. There are a lot of people who are not going to be able to afford hot water or cooking let alone heating this winter. The rental market here is also suffering from a "melt up" and property prices have absolutely exploded. My supervisor at work owns his parents old house in a rough area of a shitty working town in the West Midlands conurbation. He purchased it in the late 1990's for £56,000 when his parents died. It's a 4 bedroom semi detached. Very dated. Has been rented out for 20 years. He will probably sell it for something like £215,000 and it needs extensive work on it. The average wage in the town is probably something like £22,000. The same town where in 1984 my dad purchased a large 3 bedroom semi for about 2.5X his income with £3000 down. You have no idea how much I hope we eat our elites. Europe is much better off in the Russian sphere of influence to be honest. We can at least afford their energy for now.
(DIR) Post #ALGrFJtoSZL0LtGSyu by lord_of_shropshire@poa.st
2022-07-08T04:48:54.784148Z
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@Fever @graf @MechaSilvio The first thing I thought when I saw him assassinated is he may have been making moves to change Japans attitude towards the blockade of Russia.
(DIR) Post #ALGrWoCP3iInFSIcSG by lord_of_shropshire@poa.st
2022-07-08T04:52:02.107270Z
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@augustus At this point Corbyn might be able to convince the voters if he ran again that everything they worried about his far left administration doing has already been done by the Tories. I think you're right - between them they probably could do it.
(DIR) Post #ALIVy399ma6kkcHjqS by lord_of_shropshire@poa.st
2022-07-08T23:59:52.137422Z
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@Terry I don't think any one faction is in power. I think that's partly why the country is in such chaos - you have the Biden crime family themselves who parade out sleepy Joe for the cameras once a day and sign his name on documents. They need the whip hand of his office to keep Hunter out of prison as well as enrich themselves. They probably don't care to much about the minutiae of running the nation. Obama is obviously still pulling some strings from the shadows - if Obama was running the show with Biden as a puppet things would not quite be as bad as they are currently - as sad as that is to say. You obviously have the rabid neo-conservative faction Clintonistas running foreign policy. The same people who ran Obama's foreign policy. Finally I think you have the rising stars of the administrative class - the AOC faction who likely work as staffers and advisors who were trained by left wing ideologues in the Ivy leagues who were raised with participation trophies and are exploiting this power vacuum to push even more insane policies than the other factions would.
(DIR) Post #ALK9AGVzzmxz3dkFpA by lord_of_shropshire@poa.st
2022-07-09T18:53:48.510917Z
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@TurboNormie I don't know how common it is in North America but a lot of companies here in the UK and parts of Europe have spent a fair bit of money on automated enforcement systems using ANPR cameras - especially the supermarkets. You have to enter your registration at a terminal and pay on your way out or they dispatch a "fine" to the address your vehicle is registered at. Some will refund your parking for 2hrs if you spend more than £5 in store - my guess is this technology will proliferate and become cheaper like CCTV and access control has over the last 20 years. Interesting to note that rural locations of these same supermarket chains don't bother. I have had exactly that thought though. I used to work at a fair few places with these mickey mouse parking operations who used to do enforcement on them but between reduced traffic volumes in the cities and the cost and shortage of labour I bet its not economical at the moment. I used to work at a fairly large office building in the outskirts of Birmingham and they had a parking warden and he was basically employed on the back of the revenue he could drum up for them. I bet he lost his job when the lockdowns happened. I drove past a few times and the car park was deserted.
(DIR) Post #ALwZR8wNHWQZd9rhVA by lord_of_shropshire@poa.st
2022-07-28T07:47:13.170705Z
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@BasedDojimaDragon @Shadowman311 @professionalbigot69 After Cyberpunk 2077 and Mass Effect Andromeda that would really be a hell of an achievement.
(DIR) Post #AMIzKEFTSVXGNrZ30S by lord_of_shropshire@poa.st
2022-08-08T03:20:57.729401Z
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@TurboNormie @natsock Worst case scenario by end century is 1500ppm which by the norms in 500 million years of animal life is pretty moderate. Earth has been in one of its worst most bitter ice ages the last 3 million years. Last time the climate was this cold was the Carboniferous. The norm has been a warm greenhouse in which life was generally abundant. A million years from now the catastrophic climate change they talk about will be hardly noticeable beyond a large layer of limestone and carbon shales in ocean sediment maybe with some very odd isotope ratios and chemical signals and maybe someone wonders why all the mega fauna in North America and Australia went extinct about 50,000 years ago. Hardly the end of the world though.
(DIR) Post #AMIzkzTgU5eQOLyJyy by lord_of_shropshire@poa.st
2022-08-08T03:25:46.449281Z
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@Wisconsin_Kraut @CoQ_10 @sunspot @teknomunk Real gangsters use camels.
(DIR) Post #AMIzqKHOZTUmM5lgHY by lord_of_shropshire@poa.st
2022-08-08T03:26:45.877272Z
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@General_Ursus I can't believe the UK hates Russia more than France. 😂
(DIR) Post #AMcjbZp55IhhmZMyoq by lord_of_shropshire@poa.st
2022-08-17T15:59:02.450153Z
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@sickburnbro Even more shockingly that is just what Pfizer admitted to - if you look through a lot of their trial data in some of them tens of thousands who initially took part in the trial were never followed up on. Very likely they were "forgotten" from the trial in order to bias the results to what Pfizer wanted - like 100% effectiveness. So who knows what the real rate is - it could probably be twice that.
(DIR) Post #AMuJejcVi7apj2FdNA by lord_of_shropshire@poa.st
2022-08-26T03:33:05.083258Z
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@TurboNormie We're being told that by 2023 the yearly cap on energy bills will be lifted to £6000 a year - just a few weeks ago we were being told it would be £3800 a year.
(DIR) Post #ANjffaAEqvUdKsYZai by lord_of_shropshire@poa.st
2022-09-19T22:10:01.656044Z
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@teknomunk I would guess the average age of many of the transformers that are in the system right now has never been higher. Many of them are probably twice their design life times. I would expect failures to increase in frequency - call me cynical but I also doubt many of the new replacements are of the same build quality as the units they are replacing. Where I work we had 6 11kVA transformers supplying our various distribution boards and bus bars. In 2019 we replaced 5 of them because they were all built in 1960 with a 25 year life span and several of them were showing signs of failure. Glad we did it then. Next door to us is a food processor - our site back in the 1960's was all one company that was then broken up and sold off. Some of their transformers are even older probably dating to the mid to late 1950's and some have probably had no maintenance since the 1990's when the last firm began running the place into the ground - I always feared that failures in the electric grid could cascade out of control and beyond the ability of supply chains or the repair crews to deal with them.
(DIR) Post #ANjgWAQbGlcErfHfhA by lord_of_shropshire@poa.st
2022-09-19T22:19:31.399740Z
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@TurboNormie @EssentialUtinsil @teknomunk Not to mention all those mid sized German family run firms - I believe the Germans call it the "Mittelstand" who specialise in producing obscure but important industrial products - many of them exported around the world. Replacing those could be harder - replicas made in the far east would likely be inferior or just no longer be available full stop. We buy various spare parts from small firms like these. Where I work we are almost universally on Siemens controllers - our older stuff we have a fair stock pile of spares we have acquired through one means or another but we have some newer machinery which we would be screwed. I wonder if FANUC will be able to exploit this to their advantage if it really gets bad.
(DIR) Post #AO2buqOvlE9K2yFWCG by lord_of_shropshire@poa.st
2022-09-29T01:27:28.619926Z
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@TurboNormie I would suspect its probably of Turkish or maybe Iranian origin. The Americans or Brits whoever carried it out would likely use something procured through a third party that wouldn't trace back to them. Maybe they had the Ukrainian SBU purchase it.
(DIR) Post #APJCVq9H6EBCoYo7Ci by lord_of_shropshire@poa.st
2022-11-05T23:25:01.842384Z
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@NellSco You're a whore.
(DIR) Post #APTiuySNzynXDAApFY by lord_of_shropshire@poa.st
2022-11-11T01:15:14.783591Z
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@JenRubin I think its very telling that only two religions on earth explicitly deny the existence of our lord and savior Jesus Christ and that is Judaism and Satanism. When I see a vile stinking creature like you crawl out of humanity's ass crack I start to think maybe there is no difference between the two. Burn in hell.
(DIR) Post #APYTJsz6r1QU0F8Vou by lord_of_shropshire@poa.st
2022-11-13T08:14:01.562008Z
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@DK_Dharmaraj @apropos @dave @AlbinoMutant @graf @dave At this point it seems to me like its to Russia's benefit the longer the war goes on. The more the west bleeds financially, the more disastrous the energy situation in Europe gets. Ukraine could collapse from within before the Russians are even forced to defeat them militarily.
(DIR) Post #APdZX2KJ0HV4FwVJh2 by lord_of_shropshire@poa.st
2022-11-15T19:17:11.036691Z
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@Ghislaine Here in England my 60 something parents are on their 4th as of a few weeks ago. Although I think their first two were the Astra-Zeneca one. The cost of living and Ukraine have very much taken over as the "current thing" here.
(DIR) Post #Acqk4R1DFyEMS2slaS by lord_of_shropshire@poa.st
2023-12-16T00:03:50.246740Z
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@augustus @lain As someone who has family in Ireland and who has been visiting since I was a boy in the 1990's I run into these types of Irish people online who have an extreme bitterness and vindictiveness towards the British yet I have been all over Ireland to some of the most remote parts of the country and have never felt unwelcome or had any of this attitude and likewise I have never seen this attitude (beyond a bit of light teasing) to the Irish in Britain. It is a curious development, I'm not sure what these peoples malfunction was - when I have seen this online on places like reddit I always wondered if it was yankee Irish LARPing as Irish in the same way Americans would LAPR as Brits in the UK subreddits. The "Celtic Tiger" era was not an overall positive for Ireland in my opinion. While the country was less prosperous and in some ways quite backward compared to Britain 30 years ago it has caught up in many regards but the cost of housing there has been explosive and I don't think people are actually in practical terms better off for any of it besides a small elite. It has been worse in Ireland probably than just about anywhere in the world. Ireland has become a colony of a few global mega corporations who base their operations there in order to avoid tax. On paper the Irish are wealthier in GDP terms than the British though in reality the standard of living is better in Britain. The Irish political class are probably some of the most craven, incompetent and corrupt of any developed country. I see Ireland and the future and I wonder if it won't end up a lot like Greece after the euro inevitably fails.
(DIR) Post #AcqoyaDcdZel1CiRRA by lord_of_shropshire@poa.st
2023-12-16T00:58:43.508915Z
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@augustus @lain I wonder if its some kind of urban phenomenon? Kind of like how the majority of far left spiteful mutants in England are probably to be found in a handful of the major cities? I was in Dublin for my cousins wedding in August and didn't notice any signs of resentment towards myself. Though my family live out in county Meath.