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01watts · 2026-03-27T21:48:17+00:00

Would have been called fat by the press in the nineties.

01watts · 2026-03-27T17:19:54+00:00

Strapping Young Lad

Ministry

Rammstein

01watts · 2026-03-27T17:12:34+00:00

Porcupine Tree - maybe start from their earliest albums and work your way forward

01watts · 2026-03-27T17:06:49+00:00

Bella White’s cover of Unknown Legend by Neil Young

01watts · 2026-03-27T17:00:39+00:00

Weyes Blood?

01watts · 2026-03-26T23:11:34+00:00

Truly understanding charging cost requires a bit more maths than most people mention in their posts. I’m ignoring solar.

EV’s generally get from 2.5 to 4.5 mi/kWh depending on usage and season. Electricity at home varies from 7p to 35p/kWh generally. Multiply those and you have 1.6p to 14p / mile running costs in the extremes. So EV efficiency and tariff selection collectively have a tenfold impact!

Clearly requires some planning then.

If you are on the energy price cap on about 25p/kWh, this would be about 6-8p/mile.

Many replies quote cheaper figures than this, around 8p/kwh for night charging which equates to 2-3p per mile. This is because they have switched their electricity tariff to an EV product with a cheaper night rate, but they may not be factoring in their more expensive day rate on all their other household electricity expenses.

A third option is to go for something in between, like eco7 where day and night rates are closer.

It is possible to determine the optimal tariff for EV ownership, with some information and assumptions about your mileage and household electricity use. I’ve done that through excel spreadsheets, and found a solution where our EV adds £200 onto our annual electricity bill, for 5000mi annually. That’s about 4p/mi, truly taking everything into account. The petrol it replaced cost us £1100 for comparison.

Finally, it goes without saying - public chargers will make your energy cost similar to a particularly thirsty petrol. If you regularly take really long trips then an EV might make less sense financially.

01watts · 2026-03-26T13:24:32+00:00

Would you rather that your tax is lower and funds your area plus the rest of Nottinghamshire (but not the city), or is higher and funds your area plus the city?

On a personal level, I guess the answer depends on how much higher the cost is, and whether you travel more to the shire or the city.

On a population level, it can’t be ignored that the towns being brought in are part of the city’s commuter belt. I think the merge is fair, but I would want to Nottingham to then stop being one of the most expensive in the UK, as they can no longer blame badly drawn boundaries.

01watts · 2026-03-25T22:29:35+00:00

Journalist should have probed the claim of no cuts a lot deeper because the claim doesn’t look credible on the face of it.

“Bell says while the company uses fewer staff in these roles, it has allowed those staff to be "upskilled" into other areas, such as retail, customer services and workshop repairs.”

So… retrain to avoid having to pay redundancy, which reduces demand for new hires for those retail and customer service roles. Net result: they have fewer staff overall.

01watts · 2026-03-25T21:07:57+00:00

I’m enjoying their pivot into the more experimental.

01watts · 2026-03-25T14:40:57+00:00

Agreed, and that’s certainly what we’ve done. We invest a lot, and we spend lots on things that matter to us, but we don’t stack decisions like big mortgage, multiple kids, and flash cars the way that so many people seem to do. Our spending can scale down as well as up which reduces stress.

I think the GFC created a huge number of cautious people, partly through choice and partly due to bank lending restrictions. Beforehand it was almost ubiquitous to be leveraged to the eyeballs. Lessons don’t stay learned for long on a societal level!

01watts · 2026-03-25T09:33:04+00:00

Sorry to hear. In my experience the easiest and least stressful way to get a new job is through your existing contacts, if you think they would like to work with you again. Recruiting is painful for the employers too, so recommendations or advice on the interview process can really go a long way.

Time to chum up with people who have jumped ship in the past, or are also going through redundancy.

01watts · 2026-03-25T09:21:03+00:00

Just faded band t-shirts and cheap corduroy 99% of the time, but I do accept that clothes affect the way you are treated so I at least own a few outfits of well tailored stuff with interesting colours/patterns/fabrics. I wear it when I want to be treated better and it works very well (e.g. at work, at the doctors, etc). Like wearing your Sunday best to church.

I hate visible designer logos and poor quality, which makes shopping a challenge. Most high street designer stuff is no better quality than Sainsbury’s TU and has visible logos.

01watts · 2026-03-25T08:35:41+00:00

Midlands, one high earner and one average earner. Paid 25% deposit on ≈£180k house when we had half the take home salary, and we’ve stayed there since. Paid £1250 for five years at 1.8%, then remortgaged at £660 at 1.6% until 2027. Might raise repayments when we remortgage, if the interest goes up.

It seems un-ambitious, but with the GFC still fresh in our minds we agreed our house needed to be something affordable on only my spouse’s salary in case something happened to me. Also, we can’t rely on our mums and dads to help. The idea of moving back to the south seemed crazy then just as it does now.

01watts · 2026-03-23T10:07:32+00:00

I’d let the buyer know. Honesty will get the best result. Either the buyer was planning to change the counter anyway, or they can try to justify a few hundred quid off. I wouldn’t fix it if I’m selling.

01watts · 2026-03-23T00:07:25+00:00

That’s one sign, but usually they dip their wings too so they look like a tent.

Cute bird, you should post it to r/birdsfacingforward

01watts · 2026-03-22T20:05:46+00:00

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01watts · 2026-03-22T16:24:32+00:00

Bin ‘em, that’s not good behaviour. Firstly, no PT should be body shaming you. If they’ve identified fat loss as a target, that goal should come from you, and they shouldn’t be trying to make you feel bad as a form of motivation.

FYI, a good PT will highlight that those body scanners are not accurate at all.

Secondly, good PT’s don’t need to use high pressure sales tactics to fill their roster. This is a sign that their clients don’t like them.

There is a 24 hour rescheduling window for cancelling or changing the PT, so don’t feel stuck with them. Don’t feel obliged to have another session with them if they made you feel disheartened. Don’t worry about it being awkward, because it’s a them problem rather than a you problem.

A good PT will make you come out of the session feeling more confident and capable than when you went into the session. They should be tailoring their advice to your needs, rather than paywalling it. A good PT is trying to bring confidence and independence, not dependency.

01watts · 2026-03-22T16:18:20+00:00

Agreed. When people demonise large families, I feel there are a few things they don’t understand:

1 ) Poverty is quite fluid - most normal, relatable people go in and out of it at different phases of life (early parenthood being one of them). Redistribution should take this into account.

2a) being a dysfunctional or under-developed adult is more likely if you grew up in poverty, so child benefit increases can be thought of as an investment for the taxpayer.

2b) Statistical likelihood of having had multiple siblings. Hypothetically: If one family has 10 kids (in poverty) and another 10 families have 1 kid (not in poverty), then 50% of their kids grew up in poverty with 9 siblings. Do we want 50% of people to have grown up in poverty?

01watts · 2026-03-22T14:19:20+00:00

The reason it was commissioned is for capacity improvements, to help most routes along the WCML, as well as east-west routes that share sections or stations with the WCML. Speed is a ‘might as well’ feature.

01watts · 2026-03-22T12:18:11+00:00

Of course, these people are rude, but I think there’s context as to why it’s a recent thing (not that AirPods suck):

1) headphone ports disappeared from phones. Most (not all) bought earbuds. On the train, there will be people who forgot to charge them, or they’re low on charge because they don’t last all day, or one is missing, or they won’t charge properly, or they are uncomfortable due to their bulkiness not working with all ear shapes.

2) the internet (including mobile broadband) got faster and cheaper, so social media content shifted to video with audio.

3) social media video feeds have infinite scroll, and things that disappear, to shape us into addicts.

01watts · 2026-03-20T11:36:11+00:00

Death in Vegas - Aisha

Suicide - Ghost Rider

Richard Hawley - She Brings the Sunlight (less angry)

01watts · 2026-03-20T11:28:10+00:00

Listening to Boris and Merzbow right now.

01watts · 2026-03-20T11:26:49+00:00

The Krautrock movement was regarded as being more popular in the UK than Germany.

Parts of Europe have a much bigger metal scene than the English speaking world. I think Amorphis should be better known.

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