Its probably why they and not others were picked to do this, they think people will forget

But not smarter, Dick was a lot smarter than these Dickbags, its the only thing going for them is that they are dumber than they are facists

Except if young people get considerably cheaper then firms will switch older minimum wage staff to younger ones where they can. I also doubt he’ll be capping this at 18, more like 21 when it shakes out.

Older minimum wage people who think this won’t impact them and still plan on voting for Farage are deluding themselves as they are the actual target of this policy.

Try this one for the best books, you won’t have all the plot lines but the main plot was decided decades before the series even started

https://booksreadlisten.com/best-horus-heresy-books/

I think this list is pretty close to the best books, you can jump off with series based on your favourite characters like Garro if they click for you: https://booksreadlisten.com/best-horus-heresy-books/

Couple those with the Siege of Terra but skip may be the first wall (as I detest Thorpes writing) and Mortis as its a bit boring.

People might say that way spoilers lye, however the ending was main lore even before the series started.

They didn’t expect the success of the first few that made the times best seller list, thats like massively more than they expected to sell, so they increased the planned number and the quality dropped massively as they expanded to the authors to suit.

If you read just the best books you’d still get the same favour but cut it to about 20 books or so, including the best ones in the Siege of Terra that are the actual ending.

Except in the UK you can’t as they don’t sell them. They also ended UK support for their smoke detectors as well.

I switched to opentherm hardware and its now on my HA properly rather than via the cloud.

I did get a good ten years out the Nest hardware, I consider that reasonable for what it cost. Sure old fashioned controllers last longer, but i want the smart features

The fact that’s its pre-watershed for sporting events that are popular with kids makes it even worse

Quality of the system is such a massive dependency here, I can well believe that someone watching old reruns from a shitty streaming service that is upscaled to 1080p or 4k by their TV they purchased from the supermarket with coupons collected from their breakfast cereal is going to struggle to tell the difference.

Likewise if you fed the TVs with a high end 4k blu ray player and any blu ray considered reference such as Interstellar, you are still going to struggle to tell the difference, even with a more midrange TV unless the TVs get comically large for the viewing distance so that the 1080p screen starts to look pixelated.

I think very few people would expect their old wired apple earphones they got free with their iphone 4 would expect amazing sound from them, yet people seem to be ignoring the same for cheap TVs. I am not advocating for ultra high end audio/videophile nonsense with systems costing 10s of thousands, just that quite large and noticeable gains are available much lower down the scale.

Depending what you watch and how you watch it, good quality HDR for the right content is an absolute home run for difference between standard 1080p and 4k HDR if your TV can do true black. Shit TVs do HDR shitterly, its just not comparable to a decent TV and source. Its like playing high rez loss less audio on those old apple wired earphones vs. playing low bitrate MP3s.

Currently use a Brita filter as its enough to take the chemically smell from my tap water. Espresso machine has a built in water softener that I change every six months or so. It isnt the most efficient way to do it but the machine does not have any build up when I have checked, my water tastes neutral and nice to drink if not amazing.

Long term I want to build in a proper water purification, strip, and remineralization solution into my mains supply when I get around to redoing the kitchen. UK is low risk for water contamination but we do have recent incidents of it happening so its not zero risk and I would rather not take the risk with the way our water companies are ran.

Yeah its gets a lot easier when you chase through an electrical issue yourself, but its not for everybody. My first few cars I did that, breaking old ones to provide spares/upgrades but I do not have room where I am now and I certainly do not have the time I did to manage it. Have you looked at the lithium battery upgrade?

Lol, complex hybrid for long lasting cheap to maintain car. I think most of the Prius model years are great, a few are pretty bad, not Ford Pinto bad, just not good. A hybrid wouldn’t be my first choice to do mega miles in though, not unless I was sure I could manage the work on the electrical systems myself.

Its considerably cheaper, if its reliable, cheap to repair when it breaks most likely because you can fix it yourself, doesn’t cost a small fortune to refuel it and/or your weekly mileage is low.

Unreliable shit boxes that you do not have the time and/or skills to fix yourself, and drink fuel when doing a high mileage lifestyle, its a much more marginal conversation when compared to a (cheaper than these two shitty tesla) brand new car with a warranty and full maintenance included in the lease.

US always seems hellbent on shitty 7 year loans with huge APR to fully outright buy a brand new expensive truck when the owner does at least 20k miles a year. It really is an awful way to get access to a car, a lease would be considerably better for someone who wants to regularly change to a new car and will pay a premium to do so over buying and running an old car.

I have WfH for about twenty five years now and I will say the same thing I always say when this type of comment pops up, if people do not want to talk to you for some reason they will not respond as its a lot easier to hide on email/IM than an office situation. If you finding that people are hiding from you, then that’s as much a you problem as anything else for not directly addressing it.

I actually find it considerably easier to get hold of someone via IM than any other method short of direct dialing them as I can reach them in meetings or away from their desk or even in another country entirely, its only if they are intentionally ignoring you it does not work. If the person is presenting in a meeting or otherwise legitimately incommunicado then they aren’t going to respond F2F or IM anyway.

Not measuring output volume or quality consistently is a widespread problem for businesses, regardless of location of the employee. Consistent and accurate measurement is the only way to be sure you are getting the results you are expecting, for coding that means code reviews not commit counts, 360 feedback, and so on. If you are feeding back, and someones ignoring that, guess what, its also a you problem for not building in consequences and follow ups. It also applies just as much in an office situation as it does remote.

Wow, I just have never had that, it does make some sense as its cheaper not to have to offer them.

I know people piss in them thats for sure, and at the very least water is allowed to stand in them far longer than I would allow with my own kettle, I cannot stand stale tasting water residue.

Wow I cant believe someone downvoted you for that, only commented so you would know it wasnt me

With Lost they repeatedly said that nobody, not a single person, had guessed what the ending was, not realizing that this was one of the first shows to go massive for fan theories on the Internet so everything even remotely plausable had been guessed.

So yeah, they painted themselves into that corner fair and square as it was clear they had no fucking clue what the ending was when they started that show.

If it was me, I would have admitted someone guessed it and just picked whichever fan theory seemed the most sensible to me.

I don’t think I have ever been in a hotel that doesn’t have a kettle, just seems weird to not offer one.

I cant help with the kettle part, but I can help with the pourover part. I use a Hario V60 drip kettle air (its not a kettle, despite its misleading name) for pouring while traveling as its resin so unlikely to break or dent, its extremely light weight, and can give a reasonably fine pour to a gush, if that’s what you need. It does take a little while to get good with it due to it being so light weight.

I use a food safe thermometer to track the temperature, that way I do not care what kettle I use, plenty of reasonably cheap folding ones on amazon and the like.

The reason the Premier League was created was for the teams in the Premier League to keep more of the money by sharing less with the lower leagues.

The Premier League earns so much more money than the lower leagues its impossible to get into and stay in without a rich sugar daddy.

Even if you do get up with money to spend as Forest found when they got promoted, the cap on your spending is greatly reduced for that first year so you struggle to compete without a points reduction for overspending.

The rules exist to pull up the ladder as much as possible. One of the main goals for any European super league is to remove relegation and promotion. Its about locking in that revenue stream.

Having said all that, the punishment is there to stop the club being pillaged or mismanaged as in this case. The threat of a points deduction stops anybody sensible from just borrowing their way up the league without being able to pay for it. We had clubs getting in all sorts of messes and far more often as they tried to buy titles.

This owner is far from rational, best case was his plan was to sell it to a friend for a pound and wipe off the debt, and thats me being very generous to his ability to plan ahead.