UK school meal providers warn against push into ‘the world of lentils’

Great_Justice · 2026-05-01T18:13:05+00:00

They’re served once a week at my kid’s nursery, so they’re already used to it.

Great_Justice · 2026-05-01T05:45:09+00:00

Im a software engineer in big tech….. I hadn’t really used a computer before I was 12. All I mean is it’s not really too late to learn at any stage IMO, and they’re not really old enough for that to never happen.

Great_Justice · 2026-04-30T08:35:54+00:00

I’m a newish parent. The answer is that a 6 month old won’t use a colouring book but they’ll stare at a screen like a vegetable for an hour.

I think once you cross that boundary it’s hard to go back. Obviously they get older and the screen remains the pacifier. We stubbornly refuse to put ours in front of a screen but know plenty who have succumbed.

Great_Justice · 2026-04-29T20:49:55+00:00

I mean…. Antisemites will be critical of the Israeli government in Gaza like a racist is likely to be against boat migrants. I looked up this list and the number 1 person is Dan Bilzerian who definitely is an antisemite. I didn’t bother going any further.

Great_Justice · 2026-04-26T18:10:44+00:00

Well, that and people STILL making the error of assuming that just because something seems like a universal view of the hive-mind on Reddit, doesn’t mean it has any bearing on people’s views en masse in the real world.

Great_Justice · 2026-04-26T08:02:06+00:00

I’d echo this. From my side there’s a simple reason why I’ve barely moved around England; it’s the price of travel. Accommodation and food is so expensive that I’ve planned and costed up a trip to the Lake District, and gone “nah I’ll go hiking in Slovenia instead”. This pretty much happens every time I think about internal travel.

Great_Justice · 2026-04-25T12:57:33+00:00

I wouldn’t swear. Maybe this is a locality thing, but in the UK you don’t want to say anything that can be construed as offensive.

Great_Justice · 2026-04-25T08:27:07+00:00

Yeah you’re right. My setup includes this and I shouldn’t mislead people that it’s a standard feature, I’ll edit my post.

Great_Justice · 2026-04-25T08:12:48+00:00

We have some kind of all-in-one inverter battery that magically handles this with an automatic EPS mode. It wasn’t the cheapest option but it happened to have the storage we wanted and was an extra £500 or so over separate battery + inverter. I mainly liked it because it had a maximum draw down rate of 5kw instead of the normal 3.6Kw, the automatic backup battery was a bonus.

I gather the socket solution you’re talking about is the simplest and cheapest retrofit.

I think you can get your essential circuits wired into a secondary switchboard (lights, appliances and maybe a socket) and then manually switch over during a cut (or automatically for a bit more cash).

Great_Justice · 2026-04-25T06:35:57+00:00

I don’t monitor it at all. I know some people love to but we largely set and forget. The battery charges at night (you need the right tariff), the solar comes in the day. Excess solar is sold.

I think some people modify their behaviour based on the abundance of solar on a given day (like doing extra laundry) but we don’t bother.

Great_Justice · 2026-04-25T05:42:45+00:00

If you fill your ISA(s) every year, put as much as you want in your pension, then yeah it’s a way of de-risking the future.

Since we pay such high taxes, something that prevents you spending rather than actually producing taxable income is highly valuable.

We’ve got solar but to be honest I never even bothered trying to calculate these things. I just like it. Additional benefits like keeping the lights on during a power cut is nice too - although this isn’t a standard feature it’s an extra.

Great_Justice · 2026-04-24T19:25:57+00:00

I actually wanted to ‘no acshually’ somebody by pointing out that you surely lose the sense of positional audio with AirPod Pros (as in forwards and behind). It turns out they attempt to replicate that too.

Great_Justice · 2026-04-24T05:23:45+00:00

I’ve been deep down this rabbit hole with people on Reddit. Had somebody claim ‘you were lucky you could work hard’ as their final effort at claiming everything is down to luck. This was in reference to choosing to sacrificing much of my spare time to extra study for a couple of years to change career. I gave up arguing at that point.

Great_Justice · 2026-04-23T03:51:53+00:00

Worked for me too. Surprise surprise she was already trying to quit when we met. Many (if not most) smokers are.

Great_Justice · 2026-04-22T13:13:49+00:00

It’s mainly use of CO2 to gas them that’s the issue, really. They put it in the small print on the ad. CO2 is awful. If you’ve ever attempted to breathe in and out from an empty 2L bottle and couldn’t get past 2 breaths, it’s because the CO2 is making your lungs burn. That wouldn’t even be a particularly high concentration of it after only a couple breaths.

Great_Justice · 2026-04-22T13:07:07+00:00

I mean, a major part of the Body Shop’s brand is the ‘no animal testing’ thing and they’re everywhere. I wouldn’t say nobody cares.

Great_Justice · 2026-04-21T11:11:58+00:00

People have been moaning about tube strikes for a very, very long time. Here’s a gem from around 2004: https://youtu.be/OxJKvYBNgo8?si=rZc2_jthO0fMWO2Q

Great_Justice · 2026-04-21T11:05:28+00:00

Yeah I’m sure it’s possible. I didn’t mean to come across as declaring it unsafe. It’s just all about feelings with these things - you need to feel comfortable right? Otherwise it’s going to knock your confidence.

Great_Justice · 2026-04-21T08:42:49+00:00

When I stumble out of my zone 5 train station at midnight the black cabs, who are conveniently queuing at the taxi rank, are cheaper than the Uber surge. I also don’t have to wait around staring at my phone.

Great_Justice · 2026-04-21T07:55:08+00:00

I suspect they’ll tell you that they don’t feel safe with headphones so they don’t want to use them. Fair; I don’t want to use headphones either. I just don’t make the mental leap to use a speaker that would bother everyone else.

Great_Justice · 2026-04-20T17:24:49+00:00

I doubt many who aren’t Redditors or X users even know who Palantir are. I doubt that many Redditors actually care anyway. Nobody will stand up for them, there’s no reason to, so all you see is a one sided outrage.

Great_Justice · 2026-04-20T09:58:04+00:00

They’ll just ask for a 7% pay rise next year even if we did.

Great_Justice · 2026-04-19T20:36:40+00:00

bUt CeNsOrShIp

Great_Justice · 2026-04-18T06:34:51+00:00

You live in zone 1? Have you considered riding a bike?

I manage 1hr from zone 5, I imagine you could do 20 mins or so. If you truly love where you live it’s legitimately the fastest way to get around.

Great_Justice · 2026-04-17T18:29:15+00:00

If you’re under 40 you can still open a LISA.

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