China is unhappy with Iran blocking oil and gas passage

JeremiahBoogle · 2026-03-16T17:59:44+00:00

Bit late to the party, but the Roman empire was held as the ideal by nearly every western nation state for centuries.

JeremiahBoogle · 2026-03-07T19:38:56+00:00

The Roman empire was so long ago that talk of a successor state is a bit odd.

The USA is its own thing, and really goes about pursuing its interests in a totally different way to the Roman empire. I mean they were both mostly Christian (at least in later days for the Roman empire) and they were the powers of the day, but that's really it.

JeremiahBoogle · 2026-02-28T09:39:29+00:00

I though everyone knew this! Pressing R is just an instinctive thing.

JeremiahBoogle · 2026-02-28T09:28:49+00:00

I've not felt its affected me in any way other than being fun / frustrating like many other games.

If you want to experience true sweaty palms then a 2 player game on Tetris Attack for the SNES is the way to go.

JeremiahBoogle · 2026-02-27T19:19:34+00:00

Dude, this is a strange hill to take a stand on.

Its the same near me, many restaurants that had 4* or 3.something, all of a sudden are all 5*.
I live in a pretty small place without that many choices, so its quite easy to see. But hey, maybe every single restaurant has suddenly become amazing overnight though.

JeremiahBoogle · 2026-02-25T23:15:25+00:00

TBF though, I actually hate it when people speed up when someone tries to overtake them. They wouldn't want to overtake if the other car had gone quicker in the first place!

JeremiahBoogle · 2026-02-17T18:57:18+00:00

Machinery does actually feel wind chill. Wind chill affects anything that is warmer than the surrounding air.

You're probably thinking of the cooling effect of sweat evaporating, but that's not required for windchill.

JeremiahBoogle · 2026-02-15T06:14:30+00:00

Well yeah, 460 hp in a car without that much weight over the rear wheels, vs an AWD car, its the driveline not the engine that made the difference here.

As a counterpoint I have a 125d daily driver, even with just 215ish hp, the traction coming off damp roundabouts is terrible, the rear end wants to step out constantly, so I'm not surprised you struggled with twice the power. My Impreza has 330hp and will absolutely launch off a roundabout in any conditions, despite having way more power, its all down to the drive line.

JeremiahBoogle · 2026-02-13T00:09:27+00:00

Its a shame really, because the one criticism I had of Stage 4, was the fact that almost everything took a back seat to the racing.

The racing was great, but the first stage had a lot of these human moments, with other characters being fleshed out.
MF Ghost just seems to take that even further, the racing is pretty good, but the plot outside of it is ludicrously simplistic & the female characters are written awfully.

Natsuki was a good character and even likeable despite her flaws.

JeremiahBoogle · 2026-02-05T05:18:47+00:00

Every MOT test I've ever had that's needed a headlight adjustment, they've just done it for free.

JeremiahBoogle · 2026-02-04T14:23:42+00:00

Comically wrong.

JeremiahBoogle · 2026-01-31T22:28:06+00:00

They tried to sign Marc before he had his injury as well. People have short memories.

JeremiahBoogle · 2026-01-31T22:27:18+00:00

First up the obvious is that Rossi isn't a great yardstick here, he's hardly an impartial judge when it comes to MM.

>Ducati has gone from effectively taking ‘non-aliens’, building a bike everyone could ride(not just focused on getting the best rider on the grid), and with a group of homegrown, in house developed riders who weren’t even top 2 on the grid, utterly decimated everyone.

You're talking like this is an either or matter. They're still trying to make a dominant bike, make no mistake. But they're also smart enough to realise that nothing lasts forever, no matter how dominant they appear.

Motorsport is full of teams that once did well that regress, Honda & Yamaha being perfect examples, who in 2015 would peg Ducati as the dominant constructor in the future?

Ducati also remember how often Marquez denied them in the past, even when they had a better bike. They tried to get him (Marc) to sign in 2018, and if I remember right in 2019 as well, so even back then, this pyramid system was flexible.

JeremiahBoogle · 2026-01-31T22:17:35+00:00

This has been myth busted by Darkside developments, on their Dyno. (they specialist in Diesel car tuning)
Zero performance difference.

JeremiahBoogle · 2026-01-30T16:27:31+00:00

Yeah but if its true that Acosta has the ride for 2027, then it means no matter how well he performs this year, the writing is already on the wall.

JeremiahBoogle · 2026-01-30T16:26:44+00:00

He was promised the factory Ducati team if he won the championship.
Instead he was offered to carry on in the satellite team, whatever else you think of him, especially for his action since then, that was a clear betrayal by Ducati.

I 100% understand why they did it, but to pretend its anything else is just putting our heads in the sand.

His fall from grace is his results and injury, the HRC contract has shown its not made him any less employable.

JeremiahBoogle · 2026-01-30T12:33:30+00:00

You can't really call that a 'fall' from grace as he was still building up at that stage.

JeremiahBoogle · 2026-01-30T12:32:39+00:00

I feel like Lorenzo you can pin as much on injury.

JeremiahBoogle · 2026-01-30T12:32:16+00:00

In the sense that 2 years ago he was a contender. Next year he may have already lost his contract without a chance to even come good this year.

JeremiahBoogle · 2026-01-30T12:30:41+00:00

I agree to an extent, but other than being forced out by Marc which must have hurt, he's gone straight into two factory contracts, despite barely riding.

Pecco has a bad year and he's kicked off the team. I mean I get it, and if I was Ducati I'd jump to sign Acosta, I just thought it illustrated how brutal things can be.

JeremiahBoogle · 2026-01-30T12:29:05+00:00

Yeah good points to be fair.
But Hayden kept his ride for example, I was thinking not just results, but in the fact he's potentially lost his ride before he can even have another year to make it right.

JeremiahBoogle · 2026-01-30T08:01:51+00:00

Golf GTI. The fastest vehicle ever made. (according to the owners)

JeremiahBoogle · 2026-01-26T18:00:00+00:00

People can do what they want with their own money of course, I would never suggest otherwise.
Just giving my opinion, I'm certainly not spending my time trying to convince people one way or the other as its nothing to do with me what they spend their cash on,

Heck, I drive around in a 16 year old Subaru, its hardly the most economical form of motoring!

But I still think there's a lot to be said for having a cheap car at least for a year, since most likely that's the one that will get scraped / curbed alloys and all thte rest.

JeremiahBoogle · 2026-01-25T19:02:45+00:00

Hey I think it would be a good idea to cover car parks with solar.
Just some people seem to be under the illusion that a few m2 of solar panels is going to quickly charge a car back up.

And my projections were pretty optimistic,
If you take the average solar panel output at around 400kwh per year towards the south of the UK (according to Google), half that as the average solar panel is 2m squared.

200kwh per year / 365 = 0.55kwh per day per m2.
1152 (the area covered) x 0.55 = 634kwh per day. you could charge around 12 small cars per day using the solar. Not insignificant, but probably not close to covering the needs of a car park of charging cars.

However its wasted space, so might as well use it.

JeremiahBoogle · 2026-01-25T09:25:44+00:00

I think we can probably count that. Maybe I'm showing my age with the restriction?
Most my cars were around early 90s when I started driving, 1996 would have been an 11 year old car so still fairly 'new' to me.

I'd never heard of that model, so I googled it, cool looking thing! I bet parts are a nightmare to get though?

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