Surely Sheldon should be here commenting on this?

Are they working all through the night? One man working 40 hours a week with no sickness but including 5 weeks holidays per year works 1880 hours. A year of hours is 8760.

I used to have a 20 mile commute four times a day on dead flat roads. I bought a super-efficient car (skoda fabia greenline} and played with the speeds and gears to my hearts content to find the scientifically most efficient speed to use the least fuel. The result was that the slowest speed the car could maintain in the highest gear was most efficient. That was 30mph in 5th. I would usually average over 100 miles per gallon of diesel. Spent a lot more time in the car than i would have at 60mph, but audiobooks are great. This doesn’t add much to the discussion here. 60mph is much better than 70mph, and i’ve driven in wales with the 20mph limit in all urban areas and it doesn’t seem to cause any problems - i’m totally in favour.

just shake the box up a bit. you’ll soon know if the cat inside is alive or dead!?

Nuclear power is all well and good, but imagine the possible results of a couple of 30k shahed drones hitting the plant, or even an iskander at mach 5. Absolutely not worth the risk.

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I’m sure the headline should say “once sold out, they’ll only be available on the second-hand market”. Not gone forever though.

We do still have leaded petrol. All piston engined aircraft are still burning fuel with added lead.

Maybe you dont have too many extra fees, but when you use your visa card or MasterCard to buy from a merchant, 3% of the purchase price is paid by the merchant to visa/MasterCard. In the long run that puts prices up because the vendor is passing on those costs to you, the buyer. Its a tricky issue because if you pay cash, the shop has to store, transport securely, and pay to deposit the cash into a business bank account. That might cost around 3% of their takings too. The feeling here is that if you buy 100 pounds worth of shopping, it doesn’t cost visa/MasterCard anything like 3 pounds to process that payment, more like a few pence. So perhaps we are being taken advantage of?

Swearing is brilliant if you smash your thumb with a hammer, or break something expensive. If you swear all the time in normal conversation you don’t have any special words left to use when those things I mentioned happen.

Its rumoured that in the Falklands war (early 80’s) after a UK ship was hit by a French-made Exocet missile fired by Argentina, UK diplomats massively pressurised their ally, France, to provide the required codes which could be radioed to future in-flight exocets. further french-made armaments would not be able to hit the UK forces.

I had an objection to google pay for a while, and discovered Barclaycard (credit card in the uk) use an app which would act as a replacement for google pay. Worked perfectly. Of course then I found out how terrible barclays bank is for the environment, so I tap my co-op credit card now. Interestingly, google pay takes nothing when you use them to buy stuff, Applepay grab 0.25% as a transaction fee. Makes them billions per year, and the cost is shared by all of us.

Every extra oil well widens the availability of the product, that’s bad. Please stop drilling.

if the device switches off while in use on charge, that’s too slow. if the device switches off whilst charging because it overheats, that’s too fast. in between, forget it, the electronics will handle everything, and yes slower charging is better for battery life but you needn’t obsess over the difference, it’s there but unquantifi able. if you’ve heard anything other than this advice and you believe what you’ve heard, there’s not much point in people here trying to guide you.

lava?

you can tell how “working class” the potential election winners are by the fact the probable PM has a knighthood.