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Al-Saqr posted:Things are going great for your country when the military has to be drafted to drive trucks for civilian gas lol Britain is gonna do great against functioning countries like China Listen here motherfucker we are going to sell the poo poo out of our mansions to your government and there's nothing you can do about it
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Aidan_702 posted:I used to work in Estates in a Uni and these constantly had to be upgraded/replaced so I don't really think that means anything This is a primary school with maybe a hundred pupils, I doubt they have much internal use for a UPS of any capacity.
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I dunno what's preferable to be honest, a sudden collapse like the Soviets (where all the disaster capitalists rush in and buy everything up), or a gradual collapse like we're in now (where all the disaster capitalists rush in and buy everything up).
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Al-Saqr posted:Things are going great for your country when the military has to be drafted to drive trucks for civilian gas lol Britain is gonna do great against functioning countries like China
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goddamnedtwisto posted:This is a primary school with maybe a hundred pupils, I doubt they have much internal use for a UPS of any capacity. You can look up Planned Service Interruptions and outages on the UKPN website here; https://www.ukpowernetworks.co.uk/power-cut/map Looks like there was an outage on the Isle of Dogs earlier today? From memory you're around that way. For clarity - the way that fines are calculated by Ofgem for outages means that DNO's are absolutely incentivised to use generation to backfeed customers and keep lights on. £13 for each UPRN off, £15/hour for every hour after that stacks up quickly, especially in incredibly built up environments. Might have been that there was an outage, they've backfed from generators and then fixed the main fault? Total Meatlove fucked around with this message at 14:13 on Oct 4, 2021 |
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keep punching joe posted:I dunno what's preferable to be honest, a sudden collapse like the Soviets (where all the disaster capitalists rush in and buy everything up), or a gradual collapse like we're in now (where all the disaster capitalists rush in and buy everything up). It's the former. A long slow collapse just gives people time to adapt to reality. With a more sudden collapse there's at least the prospect of breaking point being reached
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At least all of the decaying soviet era architecture has an ephemeral beauty to it, we're stuck with the deflation of the millennium dome and whatever 20,000 student accommodation towers will melt into.
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At what point is filling up the tank not ‘panic buying’? Didn’t fill up last week as had 3/4 a tank. Got just over half now, I don’t usually let it go much below a half, but am slightly worried as I’m in the south east and everyone I know is having fuel troubles, and my town is ridiculously over subscribed for every service so I can’t see it easing here soon. Don’t want contribute to the problem either though.
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Fill er up, chaos reigns.
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Lady Gaza posted:At what point is filling up the tank not ‘panic buying’? Didn’t fill up last week as had 3/4 a tank. Got just over half now, I don’t usually let it go much below a half, but am slightly worried as I’m in the south east and everyone I know is having fuel troubles, and my town is ridiculously over subscribed for every service so I can’t see it easing here soon. Don’t want contribute to the problem either though. If you're filling around the time you'd normally fill it then I think you can safely say you're not panic buying.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Okay I'm going to go absolutely 100% Enjoy your visit to the internationally recognised sovereign territory of Egypt.
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here because there's a lorry with a crane dropping what looks a *lot* like an industrial backup generator into the car park of the school on my estate - the box itself is unmarked (looks like a shortened ISO container) but it is the exact dimensions and has the same side doors as the ones my company uses for temporary backup when working on the UPS at our smaller data centres.
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Jakabite posted:Im out of the U.K. on mainland europe right now and let me say, the euros are finding our woes absolutely hilarious. I really can’t blame them. A slight aside but my wife has been watching France 24 for the past couple of years and the quality of it is far better than any UK news channel (even channel 4 which i quite like) You often get a perspective on what's going on in the UK that you won't get on a UK news channel. And they cover international stuff way more. Like they covered the Tory party reshuffle the other day... when was the last time the BBC talked about a reshuffle in the republic of loving anywhere They have it on youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKWsY1tt8qw
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https://twitter.com/peterwalker99/status/1445006225729630209 https://twitter.com/peterwalker99/status/1445008839741427720 Big lol that the Beeb's reward for years of groveling and tacking to the right is to be at the mercy of Nadine Dorries, who's such an unthinking true believer in culture war poo poo that she can't ever be appeased.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:This is a primary school with maybe a hundred pupils, I doubt they have much internal use for a UPS of any capacity. The container is the new classroom they are installing.
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You know who else wrote a bestselling book.
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Lol if the BBC gets taken out by the Tories.
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Total Meatlove posted:You can look up Planned Service Interruptions and outages on the UKPN website here; Assuming it *is* the same model we use (see below though) it's about 500kW peak output and about 400ish maximum sustained output - a hefty bit of kit but not "Power an entire council estate" levels of juice. Also the school would be a weird place to put it - the substation for the estate is a hundred or so yards away with a convenient park right next to it. Digging around though, they're doing a big maintenance job on the CHAP system that provides district heating for that part of the estate next week and the boiler room for that is just across the road from the school, so it's possible that this is actually related to that, the notice mentions two weeks of work but no outage to the heating and hot water so maybe this is some sort of temporary replacement boiler for that and they're just storing it there until the start of the work.
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The BBC is basically a Tory mouthpiece that includes token and insincere "both sides" sentences here and there. I guess nobody respects a groveller.
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Oh dear me posted:I have to have a low fat, high protein and calcium diet for medical reasons, so I drink skimmed milk by the gallon, and it is lovely thank you, as well as being literally a lifesaver. Then make sure to keep on doing that! 
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Flayer posted:The BBC is basically a Tory mouthpiece that includes token and insincere "both sides" sentences here and there. I guess nobody respects a groveller. Is it really grovelling when their political pundits are all Tory plants? Just off the top off my head: Nick Robinson (Founding member of Young Conservatives) Sarah Sands (Was a loving Editor of the Telegraph and now in charge of the BBC flag ship Today program) They are all Tory's I mean that's not even mentioning the ex journalists that ended up getting jobs working for the Tory's after their stints on the BBC.
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stev posted:If you're filling around the time you'd normally fill it then I think you can safely say you're not panic buying. I've filled up three times since the start of the Petrol Crisis I think.
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Flayer posted:The BBC is basically a Tory mouthpiece that includes token and insincere "both sides" sentences here and there. I guess nobody respects a groveller. The BBC is a mouthpiece on most issues but they aren't bigoted enough for the tory base.
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Hallucinogenic Toreador posted:The BBC is a mouthpiece on most issues but they aren't bigoted enough for the tory base. that's not from lack of trying it's because the tory base can't actually be swayed
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I still think that the BBC is a far more effective propaganada tool as it is, with the air of "neutrality" If it goes goes full GB News then I think it would probably be less convincing, the wedge needs a narrow end.
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I like that Twisto's endless vague mutterings about things 'round my way' means I've narrowed down where he lives to basically 2x 50m2 areas.
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:A slight aside but my wife has been watching France 24 for the past couple of years and the quality of it is far better than any UK news channel (even channel 4 which i quite like) Can agree. I'm trying to learn French at the moment and when I'm not faffing about in Duolingo (Somehow did 35 hours last week Oo) I have France 24 on for passive listening. Sometimes I watch it when having my dinner and while I can't fully understand it yet, its been interesting to watch the UK and international coverage.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Okay I'm going to go absolutely 100% One great benefit of brexit is that it gives us a useful preview of what the whole world is going to be like, permanently, once climate change-induced shortages of absolutely everything start to bite in a few years Shame that nobody will learn absolutely anything from it though
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kingturnip posted:I like that Twisto's endless vague mutterings about things 'round my way' means I've narrowed down where he lives to basically 2x 50m2 areas. I've given away enough information over the years to narrow it down to one of about 50 houses, you're slacking.
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Also someone at Facebook is getting sacked because it looks like they've just crashed their entire network - routes to it keep appearing and disappearing at random and it's causing big enough issues that some internet exchanges have blackholed them altoghether.
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I had assumed you were some sort of angry genius loci of tower hamlets that will not stop posting until canary wharf is cast down.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Hah, I came to the exact same realisation as I was talking to someone else about this - thinking this government has plans for *anything* beyond this: Reviving this gif I made: 
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Also someone at Facebook is getting sacked because it looks like they've just crashed their entire network - routes to it keep appearing and disappearing at random and it's causing big enough issues that some internet exchanges have blackholed them altoghether. Yeah, WhatsApp has been dead for the last 30 minutes too
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Also someone at Facebook is getting sacked because it looks like they've just crashed their entire network - routes to it keep appearing and disappearing at random and it's causing big enough issues that some internet exchanges have blackholed them altoghether. Hasnt a major DNS just shat the bed? Although saying that pretty much everything else works.
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WhatEvil posted:Reviving this gif I made: At least the monorail actually got built.
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serious gaylord posted:Hasnt a major DNS just shat the bed? Although saying that pretty much everything else works. Nobody can get to Facebook's DNS servers because nobody can get to Facebook's network. It's not impossible there's a more general DNS issue but that's more likely to be symptom rather than cause. e: Ironically I can't really get any more info because the people I know who'd actually know for certain I normally communicate with over Whatsapp. I know I could text them but it's not 1999 any more.
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