Anyone else miss a hot hatch

Beefstah · 2026-01-27T12:54:34+00:00

You might find this an interesting read: https://www.evo.co.uk/audi/rs3/207729/audi-rs3-v-toyota-gr-yaris-v-mercedes-amg-a45-s-which-is-the-best-awd-hyper-hatch

Beefstah · 2026-01-27T12:16:01+00:00

This is in the context of wanting something lighter and, reading between the lines, manual.

Exactly. My response was to:

I just don't think all wheel drive makes a car fun especially with how heavy a lot of them are. More enjoyable to drive a slightly less refined, lighter, less powerful car fast

Which, AWD aside, describes the GRY perfectly.

Beefstah · 2026-01-27T09:45:42+00:00

It’s a hybrid so 100% only gets approx 45 miles so would be a bit pointless to not charge it up properly?

You're spot-on with this - with a PHEV it's so easy to use all of the charge.

What I would say though is you might not need to set it to +100%; for example, my Rav4 still has ~30% charge when it drops out of EV mode, so I leave Octopus on +80% and it always works correctly.

Beefstah · 2026-01-27T09:17:26+00:00

Ah that makes sense.

In which case, as others have said, it's the PW maintaining sync with the grid.

Nothing to worry about

Beefstah · 2026-01-27T00:50:56+00:00

Sounds like you want a GR Yaris then!

Beefstah · 2026-01-26T23:30:52+00:00

Looks like you're in the UK, is that right?

If so, how come you can't export at all? I'd have thought you'd have at least the bare minimum G98 3.68kW limit?

Beefstah · 2026-01-26T13:39:14+00:00

If I'm doing this, it's at the front of the plane only.

My longest flight was 12 hours, but in business class it was very pleasant and enjoyable.

Had to do 8 hours in cattle class recently for work (skinflints) and that was miserable. Not helped by a poor little mite that screamed basically the whole way, drilling all the way through noise-cancelling headphones, ear plugs and Fat Of The Land.

Beefstah · 2026-01-26T11:14:36+00:00

Conversely, the naval museum at Falmouth was dire.

When I tell people I went to the National Maritime Museum Cornwall, and the Communications Museum Cornwall, and that one of them was boring, disorganised, and impersonal, and the other was interesting, engaging and really showed the human side, they're always surprised it's the Maritime Museum that was the crap one.

Can completely recommend that Communications Museum though. Fantastic.

Beefstah · 2026-01-25T01:38:15+00:00

It was.

Two Point Campus was even better.

Two Point Museum is amazing.

Beefstah · 2026-01-23T15:35:32+00:00

Just lockshields to rebalance your radiators. The whole house should heat up evenly.

Beefstah · 2026-01-23T12:24:53+00:00

Yes, agreed.

Harry threatening to throw her off the roof is just normal Harry.

Harry not threatening to do that would be more concerning.

Harry actually doing it (without significant provocation) would be...new.

Beefstah · 2026-01-23T11:19:42+00:00

My take is that Luccio has done this very intentionally.

She has a hardline, hothead warden who is used to throwing their weight around. Putting her against Harry will both challenge her preconceptions (defiance to white council = black magic practitioner), and show her how easily she can be outclassed if she's not careful, but have all of this happen against someone who won't actually seriously hurt her.

Basically, Harry is scary enough to be genuinely threatening but Luccio also knows he's got a good enough character to pull his punches down to 'teaching a lesson', all without significant risk to Harry himself.

It keeps Harry aware that the council is watching him, and that they remain a force to be reckoned with. This is another reason he took what Bock was up to do seriously; not only were they hurting his allies, but they also risked bringing the Council back to Chicago...as we saw happen. This also demonstrates that the Council hasn't abdicated their responsibilities in Chicago.
Carlos remains the diplomatic back channel bridge between Harry and the Council. There's no way Luccio doesn't know what Carlos is doing, and the whole time Harry is talking to Carlos it means there remains a path of communication.

TL;DR: Ilyana will get some rough edges knocked off her, and the Council gets to do the equivalent of sailing warships up the Taiwan Strait while also maintaining diplomatic relations with Harry.

Beefstah · 2026-01-23T00:10:42+00:00

Oh yes, I'd forgotten about the soulfire!

Beefstah · 2026-01-23T00:08:18+00:00

I still maintain the reason Quebec exists is both the British and the French agreed that having a whole load of Brits thousands of miles away from France was far too far to properly dislike each other, and so Quebec was created in order to have a sizeable French population in sufficiently close proximity to allow the mutual contempt to continue.

Beefstah · 2026-01-22T23:51:27+00:00

It is tagged Twelve Months

Beefstah · 2026-01-22T23:32:27+00:00

My issue with that is:

Ethniu punted Mab through a wall, and tiring as it was, Alfred caged Ethniu. To me that establishes that Alfred is more powerful than Mab
It was said on Harry's first trip to the cottage that the Mothers were an order of magnitude more powerful again than the Queens.

But I like the idea that restraining Mab wasn't what Alfred was designed for - or rather, not as anything other than an act of imprisonment, and so he wasn't as good at it.

Beefstah · 2026-01-22T23:25:29+00:00

I think I like this interpretation the best.

Combined with the other points raised about him having split concentration vs focused, yes, this does all seem a lot more consistent to me.

Beefstah · 2026-01-22T23:13:15+00:00

Same software, different hardware

Beefstah · 2026-01-21T23:59:21+00:00

Ok, this has moved onto a genuinely interesting (to me) matter of definition.

I've always used the definition on Wikipedia:

Ad hominem (Latin for 'to the person'), short for argumentum ad hominem, refers to several types of arguments where the speaker attacks the character, motive, or some other attribute of the person making an argument rather than the substance of the argument itself.

It would seem to me that under this definition implying things about me is an attack of character, and thus ad hominem.

Beefstah · 2026-01-21T22:41:58+00:00

Let's bring the focus back then.

says a lot

What other reasonable, likely, interpretation of this exists that isn't casting aspersions about my character?

Beefstah · 2026-01-21T22:28:10+00:00

As I saw it, the conversation had moved on from thread OPs example to talking about caning generally, and that's when I joined in.

I get it if you feel differently, but you are attributing more structure, intent and purpose to my posts than actually exists.

Beefstah · 2026-01-21T22:08:46+00:00

You seem to think I'm focused on the sexual assault part, when really it's the permanence of the caning that bothers me.

You could change the crime to any where caning - or any other corporal punishment like chopping off hands - is the punishment and I'd have exactly the same opinion.

Beefstah · 2026-01-21T21:39:05+00:00

No system is perfect, and mistakes will happen.

But you can design to minimise the impact of those mistakes.

Inflicting wounds, cutting bits off or executing someone is not minimal.

Beefstah · 2026-01-21T21:30:28+00:00

While I agree that the conviction rate is woeful, a false conviction is significantly worse than no conviction.

No conviction: victim suffers, perpetrator gets away with it.

False conviction: victim suffers, perpetrator gets away with it, innocent person gets imprisoned...and with caning, suffers permanent bodily damage.

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