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You sound like my dad in his insistence at all potatoes are baking potatoes. I’ll just go make my jacket new potato then, sure it’s only four centimetres across, nonetheless I’m sure it will make a lovely meal.

So exactly the cities would think, i.e everything that’s not in Scotland.

It also depends hugely on the type of grass that you have on the mix of grass you have. Unless your lawn has only just has recently been professionally laid it will be multiple types of grass all mixed in together, and unless you let it grow really long, it all looks identical.

Clover does better with certain types of grass than others. Unfortunately you kind of have to just deal with whatever mix of grass you happen to have unless you want to rip it all up and start again. I looked into it while ago and high quality meadowgrass (that’s not a type of grass, it’s just a mixture that all work well together for wildflower gardens) is really expensive.

Because classmate is not a friend?

Those would be all very valid uses but the problem is is that they’re not smart glasses. They are just normal glasses (well non prescription fake plastic glasses) with a camera in them. If they could give you directions or something on a sort of holographic heads up display they might have some use.

But then they won’t have any customers.

Well it’s not a PC release so there won’t be mods for a while.

I haven’t heard anything about them using Generative AI, or not as the case may be, so I think you’re just going out of your way to find content to be annoyed by it.

It’s like the French with Le Weekend

Well there aren’t really any generations because they’re all basically the same thing, it’s mostly just regulations and common sense that need to be worked out. For example the Nissan leaf was a truly stupid vehicle in every way, it used a weird proprietary charger that nothing else supported, and it had the storage capacity of an electric toothbrush.

Later EVs were considerably better vehicles, but I wouldn’t really call that Gen 2 because all that really changed was that a standard had been identified for charges (not even an international standard, just a few local ones) and a decent amount of batteries had been put in the car. But essentially the same technology.

I don’t know about that. When I was a kid and we were still on incandescent light bulbs a filament bulb would be maybe £25 (or whatever your local currency is, the actual values don’t really matter). By the time LED bulbs had come out that price had gone down to maybe £3 for a filament bulb, but LEDs were about £30 so a 10 x cost increase. But it was worth it because the LED bulb lasted more or less forever.

Most EV cars are around double the price of an equivalent ICE car, that a 2 x cost increase. But there is a lot less of an immediate benefit to an electric vehicle over a traditional engine vehicle. The fuel is cheaper, but the car is more expensive and fuel prices haven’t risen enough yet to really cancel that out. Clearly we need to start a few more wars in the middle East.

That one and White Christmas and two of the OG best episodes

Well, at least then there wouldn’t be all the stupid infighting.

It’s okay when it’s not raining.

I don’t know anyone who was holding out on lightbulbs untill LEDs

No one is bowing down to him, the administration is just grumbling but it’s not going to change anything. As per usual with the US it’s all projection, they are constantly accusing others of the things they themselves are doing.

But since Iran doesn’t listen to the US, Israel doesn’t listen to the US, Russia doesn’t listen to the US, and China doesn’t listen to the US, I don’t see why we would either.

Well as per usual the rambling of president tiny hands are irrelevant. If social media companies want to do business in the UK, and presumably they do, then they have to obey by UK laws.

What the leader of another country thinks about it is utterly immaterial.

Pizza Hut in the UK has all you can eat. That’s the only place I’ve ever seen it done though, unless you count free drink refills at IKEA.

It’s amazing how many businesses are operated like that. There was an old school arcade near me and it closed down a few years ago because it wasn’t making money, but that was largely their fault, it didn’t advertise itself properly, didn’t sell food or drinks (apparently to protect the machines, which I get, but also at the same time it’s also incredibly dumb) and was only open normal business hours rather than after schools and on weekends.

It got to the point where I was starting to look at taking out a loan from the banks so I could buy the idiot out, because the basic idea was actually great. Then covid happened and that was the end of that.

I’m planning on getting an incredibly unrealistic wig and refusing to admit that I’ve gone bold.