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NotJustANumber99 posted:Build houses on top of the Amazon warehouse. The Amazon arcology. Bunkhouses for the Amazon
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NotJustANumber99 posted:Build houses on top of the Amazon warehouse. The Amazon arcology. Building an Arcology is just the prologue of a Cyberpunk book. But Cyberpunk is never as cool in real life.
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Nov 22, 2022 20:53
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kingturnip posted:Dude, everyone knows Labour sucks. And everyone with a functioning brain expects even left-wing Labour MPs to promote the party because if they don't they'll be deselected and won't win at the next General Election. And then there'll be basically no left-wing MPs at all. They're trying to deselect them as it is. They're trying to stop Corbyn standing as a Labour candidate. I'm sick of hearing "We are socialists! We aren't like them. We disagree with the Labour leadership on all these things. But vote Labour anyway 👍👍" Unless they want to quit the party and take their values to the electorate as independents then all they're doing is propping up the Labour right. Nah, no quarter anymore. gently caress them all unless they're willing to put values above career.
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Nov 22, 2022 20:56
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Payndz posted:I was looking at Stoke-on-Trent (where I used to go to uni) on satellite view in Google Maps to see what had changed in the past few decades, and had a "the hell?!?" moment when I saw some colossal buildings - one of them an Amazon - that are probably visible from space. Stoke has huge amounts of brownfield sites from the collapse of the pottery industry, tons of poorly educated people and is on the M6 an hour from both Birmingham and Manchester. It basically turning into a giant warehouse, every time I go back to visit my folks another area is now warehouses.
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Nov 22, 2022 21:19
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Martin Lewis show this evening a bit grim on next year's fuel costs. How the heck are people going to manage? I've given in and put the heating on since yesterday evening (electric) a setting that brings my living room up to 18.5C. I've been putting the heated airer on for a couple of days because my towels are still damp 24 hours after use without it. NB he just said for anyone on a PRE-PAYMENT meter, if you have not had your £400 yet you should have. It might be a text, an email (check your spam folder) or a letter in the post, and if you haven't seen it, you must contact your provider. No fixes available anywhere apparently if you're just coming of a contract.
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Nov 22, 2022 21:20
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Rarity posted:Ah the winter blackouts have started early I see We lost power for about 5 hours today. 1/3 of properties in the area.
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Nov 22, 2022 21:28
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Red Oktober posted:We lost power for about 5 hours today. 1/3 of properties in the area. I saw an acticle that mentioned blackouts were Scotland/Glasgow based. Is there a reliable tracker for this kind of thing?
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Nov 22, 2022 21:53
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Kin posted:I saw an acticle that mentioned blackouts were Scotland/Glasgow based. https://www.ukpowernetworks.co.uk/power-cut/map
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Nov 22, 2022 21:58
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That just reminded me of this actual treasure of the internet https://www.lightningmaps.org/?lang=en
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Nov 22, 2022 21:59
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Nov 22, 2022 22:04
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Yeah, I wonder what's going to happen next summer when the price cap comes off, then next winter when there's no financial support. The prices are never coming back down, even if / when the war in the Ukraine ends. The majority of the country can't afford the prices. But they also don't want people getting payrises. So what next?
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Nov 22, 2022 22:05
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Martin Lewis show this evening a bit grim on next year's fuel costs. My parents live in a 16th century stone cottage, the kind of house it would be impossible to insulate to a modern standard without pulling down and rebuilding. I pulled out their woodburning stove a few years ago while fitting a new kitchen for them, back when central heating fuel was relatively cheap. They're now in the process of having a woodburner fitted in the main room as a primary heat source. I'm lucky in that I own a van and have access to a practically unlimited supply of free scrap timber from work. I'm spending time each weekend cutting enough up to last them over the winter. A bit of a lovely thing to do environmentally, but better than worrying about them rationing the last few inches of fuel in the oil tank.
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Bobby Deluxe posted:So what next? Everything just slowly gets worse. It will get a lot worse before there is a chance of it becoming better.
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Nov 22, 2022 22:11
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Soylent Yellow posted:My parents live in a 16th century stone cottage, the kind of house it would be impossible to insulate to a modern standard without pulling down and rebuilding. I pulled out their woodburning stove a few years ago while fitting a new kitchen for them, back when central heating fuel was relatively cheap. They're now in the process of having a woodburner fitted in the main room as a primary heat source. I'm lucky in that I own a van and have access to a practically unlimited supply of free scrap timber from work. I'm spending time each weekend cutting enough up to last them over the winter. A bit of a lovely thing to do environmentally, but better than worrying about them rationing the last few inches of fuel in the oil tank. My brother has just bought an old stone cottage and the debate is what to do, insulate internally or no, can't externally. There doesnt seem to be a correct answer.
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Nov 22, 2022 22:24
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They are lovely, but they were built on the expectation you'd spend winter bundled up in one room wrapped up warm around a fire, if you weren't out the house doing manual labour.
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Nov 22, 2022 22:26
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They're so bloody fake. https://twitter.com/cr_short/status/1595030773362749441
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Nov 22, 2022 22:45
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Bobby Deluxe posted:So what next? The fear of starving and/or freezing to death will incentivise shirkers into getting off their backsides into bettering themselves through hard work. Work will set them free. If people CHOOSE to let themselves die through laziness then that's on them, and not their illustrious and charitable overlords
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Nov 22, 2022 22:50
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:They're so bloody fake. With someone perfectly ready to snap the photo at the exact moment too, what luck!
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Nov 22, 2022 22:54
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they had 6 goes to get the photo to be fair
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Nov 22, 2022 22:57
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The odd thing is apparently Starmer is genuinely passionate and knowledgeable about football, which makes his efforts to go along with whatever his advisers think ‘looks good to people’ all the more pathetic really. I remember a little while ago he was asked some specific question on the radio about the England team, clearly designed to catch him out as being ‘out of touch’. It was a question I’m sure he was more than capable of answering properly, but he gave the same lame ‘is this the sort of thing you want to hear?’ response he does about everything. A truly sad, hollow figure of a man. Answers Me fucked around with this message at 23:08 on Nov 22, 2022 |
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Nov 22, 2022 23:03
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:They're so bloody fake. I'd laugh my tits off if someone clever with metadata (?) can analyse that photo and find it was actually taken after the match.
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Gambrinus posted:I'd laugh my tits off if someone clever with metadata (?) can analyse that photo and find it was actually taken after the match. It's already been edited to add the stock photographer watermark (actually, that's odd in itself - why is it sold to a stock photo company? Do they also do newspaper distribution?) so it won't have the true metadata in it.
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all images of keir starmer actually end up with stock photo watermarks in them as a natural effect of his personality and there is a team at labour HQ that carefully edits them out again.
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https://twitter.com/jacob_judah/status/1594822104041627662
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Soylent Yellow posted:A bit of a lovely thing to do environmentally, but better than worrying about them rationing the last few inches of fuel in the oil tank. Buddy do not feel an inch of guilt when this planet is currently being superheated by megacorps each belching more into the atmosphere a day than your parents could if they burned inefficient wood 24/7 until their eternal rest.
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quote:Baddiel is hardly speaking for all British Jews. One case in his book and documentary involves the fact that British Jews are not offered “Jew” as an option on the census when asked to select their ethnicity. (The same issue has been debated in the United States, where white respondents were asked in the 2020 census to write in their racial “origins.”) "Am I so out of touch? No. It is the other Jews who are wrong."
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I cannot even begin to imagine why anybody might not want to identify as ethnically jewish to the government. Clearly that is a thing that everybody would enjoy! jesus mary and joseph lmao
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NotJustANumber99 posted:My brother has just bought an old stone cottage and the debate is what to do, insulate internally or no, can't externally. Draught sealing usually yields alot of bang for buck as a first effort.
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He shows the intellectual curiosity of some sort of...I'm trying to think of an animal that lacks any curiosity like David & I just am coming up blank. "I'm not interested..." is a telling phrase in that interview. Just another public school boy.
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Brendan Rodgers posted:Building an Arcology is just the prologue of a Cyberpunk book. But Cyberpunk is never as cool in real life. When? 
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Good news everyone! https://twitter.com/GBNEWS/status/1595165847638708248
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never really noticed before but that arcology looks like it's desperately holding in a wee
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Very much enjoy publishing absolute nonsense and qualify it with "says [some dickhead]" which makes it factually correct.
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Diet Crack posted:When? Whenever they figure out how to stop the dome being a target for eco-revanchist terrorists.
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Tesseraction posted:"Am I so out of touch? TACD posted:never really noticed before but that arcology looks like it's desperately holding in a wee
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OwlFancier posted:Very much enjoy publishing absolute nonsense and qualify it with "says [some dickhead]" which makes it factually correct. More than you usually bother with
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NotJustANumber99 posted:More than you usually bother with He's quoted your posts a bunch of times though
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Interested in the thread's opinion on this. I own a house (in Canada) which I am living in with my wife. We recently remortgaged and borrowed some extra money to make improvements to our house - it's a bit of a fixer-upper. I have though realised that due to the shape of my plot and the zoning I'm in, as well as my current monetary situation, I could build a decent size extension on the house - if I do most of the work myself, which I believe I'm capable of. It'll be timber-frame (that's how most things are built here) so it'll be relatively cheap and easy (famous last words I know). Since I'm not currently working, I'd like to use the building to make myself some money. I could build an attached garage/workshop and use that to make things to sell with my woodworking talents. I already have some ideas of things I would make that I think would sell well, such as garden furniture/planters etc. and again I'm confident I have the skills to do it if I can make the sales - that's the part I'm worried about. I hate any kind of sales or marketing work. Something else I could build would be a second housing unit - a "grandparent suite" or a rental unit... but I have a severe aversion to becoming a landlord. Even if I were to rent it at lower than market rates I just don't really like the feel of it. So if I were to go this route I'd likely build the extra unit and sell the house plus the extra unit for a decent profit. Even this feels a bit scummy to me, due to gentrification, and the fact that it'll almost certainly be bought by a landlord who will be a shitbag. Also the only way I'll then be able to realise any gains for this (and remember, I'll actually be doing most of the work myself which is where the profit will come from) is if either rent it out or sell the house, and I don't know if I'm super eager to move - I like this house and the location and the neighbours - but I guess if it makes me £80k or something then it's probably worth it? I'm yet to work out exactly how much it would cost or how much value it would add to the house. On the other hand, creating green infill housing (I would build with higher than standard levels of insulation etc.), and contributing to densification (a good thing) in a housing crisis seems like a good thing to do. Unsure how I'd go about renting it out without being a poo poo. Like, market rent rates are pretty high at the moment and if I rented it at market rates I might be able to recoup my investment in like, 8 years? Maybe a bit less? But like I say, I don't really want to do that... but then I'm not sure what a "fair" discount on market rates is, or how to ensure that it goes to somebody who it'll benefit the most. Also that'd be 8 years to pay back the cost of the materials to build it - not to pay me anything for my time for building it. In order to pay back as much as it would add to my house in value would probably take 20 years or more rented out at market rates (though like I say it's currently up in the air exactly how much it'll cost me to build and how much value it'd add to my house so it's difficult to know for sure). I want to do *something* - it's not like the money would just sit there otherwise - there are plenty of other things I could do with it that would start benefiting me immediately like switching our main space heating for the house to a heat pump and putting enough solar on our roof to cover nearly 100% of our energy bills. That would have a payback period of something like 12 years from what we've worked out - and that's with only moderate energy price increases, while I am expecting increases to be quite a bit higher than the "safe" scenario we've planned - so payback would likely be much quicker than that - though I'd be doing less/none of the work myself. Any thoughts? Does it change the ALAB calculations at all if the only reason the rented space exists is because the landlord has spent time and money to actually build housing that otherwise wouldn't exist? Also I'm not sure if I'd be able to build it and then sell it as a separate property (which would probably be my preferred solution) without a whole load of extra cost and legal wrangling and stuff because of the way building lots and stuff work here. WhatEvil fucked around with this message at 07:26 on Nov 23, 2022 |
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The objectionable part of landlording is that you are utilizing your access to capital and the favour of the law upholding property rights, to extract money from people who have neither capital nor favour from the law. Even if you build it yourself it doesn't change that. Lots of people would build their own dwelling if land were not controlled and parceled out based on being to afford a large initial investment, that's why the stick of terrorizing the homeless and squatters is necessary, it is necessary that livable space be rendered unlivable via hostile architecture, policing, and demolition in order to force people into the housing market, from which any landlord benefits. Building the stuff yourself and selling it is less objectionable, though obviously as you say you're still trading with the homeowning class which includes a lot of landlords, up to you whether or not that's an issue for you I guess. You could try to work out how much labour time you put in and the projected increase in sale value and work out how much you're being paid to do it, essentially, and then figure out whether or not that seems excessive to you, whether you are unfairly leveraging your existing capital etc, but that is kind of unavoidable if you have the capital to some extent, you're always going to be in a better position than someone without it and that includes building a workshop in which to ply your craft, which is like, the closest you can come to owning your own means of production. Ultimately once you sell something it's out of your hands and what then goes on to be done with it and how much that's something you're responsible for is kind of hard to figure out. I would say you might be reaching the edge of practical human consideration there unless you're making, like, guns or something. At least in the sense that it is very difficult to find a form of labour which does not, in some way, make things worse for someone, somewhere.
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NotJustANumber99 posted:My brother has just bought an old stone cottage and the debate is what to do, insulate internally or no, can't externally. Too bad, external insulation really would've been the way to go. Get that thermal mass separated from the outside. Nevermind all the issues with trying to add vapor barriers to an old house and hoping it's tight. Which is a thing you kinda need once insulation is added on the inside, if you add more than 50mm anyway. You could possibly add more by using something different than rockwool or glasswool. There are insulation materials that can absorb and release moisture without being ruined and turning to moldytown.
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