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Guavanaut posted:A 'poo poo cow' scenario, if you will. Can't you use the toilet like normal people?  Sir Sidney Poitier posted:What loving justification does anyone have to argue for incandescent light bulbs? Do they feel their energy bills are too low? Some reckon the new sort of lights flicker and give them headaches. (I think that was more the CFL light bulbs rather than the LEDs but they probably have fixated on that from CFL days, or maybe they still haven't blown.), or just 'bloody EU'. But worth considering that incandescents would provide more heat to the room than low watt bulbs so the energy isn't necessarily wasted in the winter at any rate. I did get my dad's mother & child lamp after he died. The elongated bulb in the top bit went and I discovered on going to renew it that it was 150 or 250W (can't remember now!) and I used to run it 5-6 hours every evening. Stopped using it and made no other changes to my electricity usage and my bill went down £5 a month just by that. (This was 2016!) Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 20:40 on Mar 3, 2023 |
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Sir Sidney Poitier posted:What loving justification does anyone have to argue for incandescent light bulbs? Do they feel their energy bills are too low? I think CFL bulbs did a lot to poison people against anything new lightbulb wise, but also there are a lot of people who just hate anything being different from how it was when they were a kid.
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did she do anything? i can't remember anything about truss being PM because the queen died and there was a lot of stuff about that
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https://twitter.com/paulmasonnews/status/1631679420195917825 https://twitter.com/leighsus/status/1631685073207451653
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crispix posted:did she do anything? The best thing Trussy did was manage to be PM when Brenda died. I'm sure she (Brenda) hung on just long enough to see off Boris.
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https://twitter.com/BelfastBre/status/1631731129735856128?s=19 Poor Conor.
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we should adopt that thing in Italy where the local politician who did the biggest blunder of the year gets locked in a cage and dunked in the river
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OwlFancier posted:I think CFL bulbs did a lot to poison people against anything new lightbulb wise With lightbulbs there was room for a more carrot led solution with mass public funding of as many different competing viable lighting technologies that you can think of until one of them beat incandescents soundly in all areas, but it was the End of History and the EU is far too neolib to do that so that's not what we got. OwlFancier posted:but also there are a lot of people who just hate anything being different from how it was when they were a kid. crispix posted:did she do anything?
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Persons living in Wales - avoid Newport on 28th/29th April. Either that or turn up with a placard & loud hailer. https://twitter.com/AndrewRTDavies/status/1631596401644675072?s=20
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I previously asked "why Keith", but now, why Brenda? Where does that come from?
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Guavanaut posted:a more carrot led 
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Sir Sidney Poitier posted:I previously asked "why Keith", but now, why Brenda? Where does that come from? Private Eye nicknames for royal family
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When low energy bulbs first came out they were poo poo, and were really dim and had to like gradually get brighter. Now we have the technology to have low energy bulbs that are normal but old boomers still think they're like they were in the 90s.
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Bring back 3500W vacuum cleaners! I want my freedom from these EU shackles!
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Mar 3, 2023 20:54
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They always use those weird squiggly bulbs in the news articles too. "Ooh doesn't it look weird, Norman" Rather than the ones that look like... lightbulbs. 
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Mar 3, 2023 20:58
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I talk to my light bulbs and they change colour according to my odour levels measured by my internet watch
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In fairness I have never seen a CFL that didn't look like the spiral design.
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NotJustANumber99 posted:I talk to my light bulbs and they change colour according to my odour levels measured by my internet watch "Levels" feels like it rates you separately on different flavours. 10.5 Garlic, 0.5 Toe Jam, 5.0 Adrenaline Sweat
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NotJustANumber99 posted:I talk to my light bulbs and they change colour according to my odour levels measured by my internet watch just bathed in a green or brown light constantly
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They go purple when I'm probated so I feel the full shame
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Sir Sidney Poitier posted:What loving justification does anyone have to argue for incandescent light bulbs? Do they feel their energy bills are too low? One argument I could see is that they aren't as bright as LED bulbs, so they would produce (slightly) less light pollution which is a problem for stargazers.
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The Question IRL posted:One argument I could see is that they aren't as bright as LED bulbs, so they would produce (slightly) less light pollution which is a problem for stargazers. Just get a less bright LED bulb? Bring back curved bananas and cucumbers! No more weird EU straight ones. Get rid of auto start/stop on cars!
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Sir Sidney Poitier posted:Just get a less bright LED bulb? Bring back chokes!
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The Question IRL posted:One argument I could see is that they aren't as bright as LED bulbs, so they would produce (slightly) less light pollution which is a problem for stargazers. Wouldn't the ability to produce LEDs with quite narrow emission spectra make it more feasible to use filters to remove light pollution, assuming some level of government coordination?
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The only possible advantage of incandescents (other than tiny signal lights which still have niche uses) is when you need a lot of waste heat for any amount of light. So keeping your shed from freezing in winter, hatching eggs, growing sensitive plants outdoors when they're small, etc. You can do all of that with flat low wattage heat mats now and not scorch things or set them on fire though.
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my honda civic i inherited from my grandmother was an automatic but with a manual choke (to hang handbag). A nightmare when it was cold. I remember trying to do a hillstart onto a main road in it and making such a hash of it a police man got so cross with me he stopped in the middle of the road infront of me having just erratically turned out and ran back to berate me about how he was transporting a dangerous prisoner and how i was loving it all up.
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Sir Sidney Poitier posted:What loving justification does anyone have to argue for incandescent light bulbs? Do they feel their energy bills are too low? When they first came out, LEDs especially had a slight strobe effect and gave some photosensitive people headaches, but they haven't done that in years, and the savings over incandescent are huge. But a bunch of people are still convinced that they're poo poo or that halogen light looks 'purple.' Used to work for Dalkia many years ago, some people get really hipstery about lights. Also I started typing this before 99's post, but got distracted by our group nearly wiping in our D&D game.
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domhal posted:Bring back chokes! Bring back starter handles! Meanwhile: the question is, will the Starmeroid boot Hodge out of the party? https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/03/benjamin-netanyahu-israel-jewish-diaspora-palestinians Netanyahu has brought Israel to a dangerous moment. We, the Jewish diaspora, cannot just stand by Margaret Hodge Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 22:14 on Mar 3, 2023 |
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Guavanaut posted:The only possible advantage of incandescents (other than tiny signal lights which still have niche uses) is when you need a lot of waste heat for any amount of light. So keeping your shed from freezing in winter, hatching eggs, growing sensitive plants outdoors when they're small, etc. Notably, oven bulbs are still incandescent.
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if only I could be so grossly incandescent
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Bobby Deluxe posted:It's like teslas; they had problems when they first came out, gammons have convinced themselves they're poo poo, and no amount of talk about how much they've improved will convince them they're ok now.
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Bobby Deluxe posted:It's like automatic gearboxes; they had problems when they first came out, gammons have convinced themselves they're poo poo, and no amount of talk about how much they've improved will convince them they're ok now. It's the same with CD's and why people think that Vinyl captures more sound than digital. (Though if you go down the "actually newer technology is just better" line of thought you get into arguments about how "no 60 frames per second makes movies look like soap opera. All films must always be 24 fps!" But well save that one for the movie board.)
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I think one of the low key funniest things is watching a youtube video of someone playing a vinyl record and seeing people say how much better it sounds than digial media.
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Guavanaut posted:The only possible advantage of incandescents (other than tiny signal lights which still have niche uses) is when you need a lot of waste heat for any amount of light. So keeping your shed from freezing in winter, hatching eggs, growing sensitive plants outdoors when they're small, etc. Incandescents are better for planted aquariums since any old Incandescent will put out the necessary spectra for photosynthesis and heat the tank up to boot. For LEDs you need to be careful as the cheap and cheerful ones might not have the necessary wavelengths.
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Lol they had real time awareness that cheap restaurant food was a cause of spreading covid and at most they didn't want it extended, including gagging media? Sounds about right. Problem is that it's destroying the Tory has-beens while also deliberately suggesting that any public health measures should be cynically disregarded because no one in charge is actually making rules to protect people. That's their aim and going to be the narrative which is loving nightmarish when we need public health enforcement to stop literal poo poo being dumped in our water, let alone possible bird flu pandemics.
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Z the IVth posted:Incandescents are better for planted aquariums since any old Incandescent will put out the necessary spectra for photosynthesis and heat the tank up to boot. For LEDs you need to be careful as the cheap and cheerful ones might not have the necessary wavelengths.
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namesake posted:Lol they had real time awareness that cheap restaurant food was a cause of spreading covid and at most they didn't want it extended, including gagging media? Sounds about right. You say has-beens, but wasnt eat out to help out basically rishi making the big time? If it gets any traction and sticks to him then... I dunno we get some shitter lightbulbs or something?
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There was a restaurant down my street that refused to join Eat Out To Help Out so they just sat empty while all the other restaurants were packed with customers. That restaurant is gone now. Stupid motherfuckers.
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