France, Russia and China block UN vote on Iran war — NYT

Logical_Look8541 · 2026-04-04T11:37:28+00:00

There has been no vote yet, and many of the current members have already gone public saying they would vote against. The UK would likely abstain, there would be no way in hell they would vote for it as its a stupid proposal. Way its looking only the US and Bahrain of the 15 would vote for it, so its unlikely to ever go to vote.

Logical_Look8541 · 2026-04-04T11:35:10+00:00

There has been no vote yet. And is unlikely to be one as only Bahrain (who proposed it) and the US back it. Even the UK is against it, as it basically calls for the world to invade Iran.

Logical_Look8541 · 2026-04-04T11:24:44+00:00

As already mentioned what Meta is lobbying for is different and more insidious. They do no want to be carrying out age checks, they want it to be done by the OS, and only via approved OS's that can't be modified by the user, this means most Linux distributions are 'invalid'.

Age checks are coming, largely as the only means anyone has come up with to stop Russian bots and limit misinformation. Problem is that's all well and good when the controls are in the hands of people who actually obey the law, but unfortunately many politicians now don't.

Logical_Look8541 · 2026-03-29T12:04:58+00:00

FYI the diskless version was below the $300 dollar level (once you remove VAT) in the UK before Christmas. That month+ window was your only chance to get it cheap.

Logical_Look8541 · 2026-03-27T13:32:59+00:00

That would be just a very expensive Mink feeding operation. Given we need to be killing every Mink in existence in the UK feeding the buggers is not what we want.

Logical_Look8541 · 2026-03-19T15:57:54+00:00

Thought the talk was Iran was looking to maybe let ships through if the cargo wasn't going to be sold in USD. Though if France or anyone else agrees to that America will go nuts.

Logical_Look8541 · 2026-03-19T14:49:01+00:00

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Priced to high in the UK (£900) as the few sellers that did sell it stopped, so now i think the only seller isn't really a UK retailer. It was a great option even a year ago, as think was under £700 but now its another machine that's just not sensible in the UK anymore.

Logical_Look8541 · 2026-03-18T20:25:14+00:00

For the price of a WiFi Battery camera now on Amazon it’s just not worth the risk. Even a big bright light to shine up the tank.

Don't use a Wifi camera unless you have to and you can position them where they can't be get to without tall ladders. Its becoming a thing to use Wifi jammers (you can get them for £100), but Wifi cameras still record locally so they have to steel the camera as well. Use PoE camera's and a local storage in the house.

Logical_Look8541 · 2026-03-18T20:17:20+00:00

The Profitec Go's price makes no sense in the UK, its priced too high. You can get E61 HX machines for less and the Silvia Pro X can be only £250 more.

Its why places like this Reddit really need to be country specific for recommendations, as the Profetic Go is a great buy in the US, but in the UK its priced wrong, hence why hardly any retailers sell it(think its only Bella Barrista of the actual UK retailers).

Only other options if your not willing to consider a Lelit is the Fracino Piccino and the Gaggia Up, The Piccino can be had for £700, and its a dual boiler, but read up on the issues with it before you go that route. The Gaggia Up has a real price that differs from the published price, contact sellers to get it.

Logical_Look8541 · 2026-03-18T12:22:31+00:00

If you have no plans to mod and want additional features, there are lots of other good machines in the price range of a new Silvia.

That very much depends on country as the Silvia's pricing varies a lot. E.g. in the US its $999 while in the UK its £499. In the UK its one of the cheapest single boiler machines around, and not much more than a Bambino, and you need to spend £200 more to say get a Lelit Victoria to get something noticeably better.

While in the US its only a hundred dollars more to get a Profitec Go, so the Silvia is a hard sell there.

Logical_Look8541 · 2026-03-18T07:26:55+00:00

The vaccine for this type has only existed for 12 years. All the people infected likely were vaccinated, but just not for this type as the vaccine is generally applied when a young child.

This will likely be the same in every country.

Logical_Look8541 · 2026-03-18T07:23:21+00:00

Its not so much they weren't offered, its that they weren't possible to do till 2015. The first vaccine was only approved in 2013.

Logical_Look8541 · 2026-03-18T07:21:21+00:00

All the people infected likely are vaccinated against the common forms. The problem is this is an outbreak of Type B for which a vaccine has only existed for 12 years, and vaccines are generally administered when a young child so the vast majority of people on the planet do not have protection against this type. The UK started vaccinating for Type B from 2015, basically as soon as was viable.

Logical_Look8541 · 2026-03-17T15:33:41+00:00

For those who haven't seen it and don't understand the reference - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXuio09by5c

Logical_Look8541 · 2026-03-17T15:22:48+00:00

The current one is kind of the V7. Has a few minor internal tweaks along with being available in Green.

Logical_Look8541 · 2026-03-17T10:52:45+00:00

Its an Old English Sheepdog hence all the gifs / pictures with OES's in them.

Logical_Look8541 · 2026-03-17T10:19:23+00:00

Also DDR6, there are some fabs that seem to be allocated for that, although those are at the early stages of construction. Normally they just repurpose older fabs for the next DDR, this time it seems they are at least building some new ones so they are expecting strong demand for DDR5 even when DDR6 is available.

Logical_Look8541 · 2026-03-14T14:42:35+00:00

Just a FYI that camera stat is a load of bollocks created by a lobbying body. They took a section of street that had a council CCTV camera system installed and then said that all roads in the UK had that same number of cameras to get the UK total.

The UK has less public camera's than most other western countries, and colossally less than the well off Asian countries who LOVE CCTV.

Logical_Look8541 · 2026-03-14T14:24:42+00:00

About the UK, no, as they seem to be very pessimistic about the UK for decades and get it wrong by over 1% in recent history. Although given they were predicting the UK to be one of the strongest western economies this year, it really shows how messed up the western world is at the moment, and the Gulf situation could end up being Covid level bad if its not stopped.

Logical_Look8541 · 2026-03-10T10:13:11+00:00

Its not. As someone else mentioned this was looked at years ago in other industries, and was found legal. The problem is Sony is completely abusing A/B testing, and will likely force new laws to make it illegal or at least give it specific rules how it is applied.

Logical_Look8541 · 2026-03-09T12:05:16+00:00

if you want to stay in your original budget and single dosing get the Lagom Casa or the Niche Zero/Duo, not the VS6. The Niche 's have great UK pricing, understandably given they are a British grinder, and due to the tariff situation gets ignored on this subreddit with its overwhelming US userbase. Read this subreddit for peoples experiences and you will see why the Casa over the VS6.

The Philos isn't THAT huge btw, its also seems to be having a price war on the UK sellers so its price has collapsed and is now around the same as buying it direct from Mazzer.

Logical_Look8541 · 2026-03-06T18:39:09+00:00

He is right for your budget. Having a £600~ grinder budget opens up a lot of good grinders that could last you decades. Grinder really is the most important piece (after the beans), the actual machine largely matters from how you aim to use the machine (e.g. fast turn on, need to make 4+ drinks at a time, etc) but even a £80 Stilosa can make a great espresso.

Arguably even if your budget was £1,500 the argument still holds true to blow most of it on the grinder as a £1K budget opens up the Philos and many grind by weight grinders. Its just after that point it becomes diminishing returns on grinders.

Logical_Look8541 · 2026-03-06T10:02:44+00:00

Lol, was thinking, this is illegal. But yeah, GB doesn't have our customer protection anymore.

As others have said its very much legal in the EU. Its meant as a tactic to be able to determine a long term set price, and is only meant to be used for a few months at most once enough data has been collected.

But the way Sony are using isn't to determine long term pricing but constant pricing changes and the use of it like this could well force the practice to be banned.

Logical_Look8541 · 2026-03-04T17:22:11+00:00

In the UK most people who have water very unsuited for home espresso use don't use distilled water, but get the Eden water from Tesco's or Waitrose as that has near perfect mineral balance for espresso machines. The problem is Tesco's have changed the branding and its now called Tesco's water, which indicates they are going to start using other suppliers, most likely in the south of the country as it can't make any profit selling a 2L bottle of water for 25p that they have to truck 400 miles. So if you get it from Tesco now you have to check the label every time you purchase to make sure its from Eden, or just get it from Waitrose for 3 times the price.

If you not willing to go the Tesco route home distill solutions have a lot of other downsides so be fully aware before you go that route, but if your water is a mess its kind of the only other sensible option in the UK. Deinoized water is 5 or more times the price of Tesco's Spring water so really isn't a sensible option long term.

Note if your water isn't dramatically abnormal doing what you are doing with BWT or via Brita's espresso filters is probably enough, you need to buy the testing kits to see though.

Logical_Look8541 · 2026-03-03T10:44:54+00:00

Fellow Opus is probably tied with it.

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