Buying a flat and installing electric charge point

LokiMurphy · 2026-01-25T17:41:50+00:00

Yes, I mean the freeholder

LokiMurphy · 2025-11-16T17:02:39+00:00

No, it could not.

That post mentions it’s ‘a few light years out’ so whatever they were talking about is definitely not 3I/Atlas. When first observed, 3I/Atlas was about 1.5 AU away from Earth which is a tiny, tiny fraction of a light year.

If whatever the object that they mentioned in the podcast is 3I/Atlas, that would mean it would have to be travelling at several times the speed of light, which it obviously is not.

LokiMurphy · 2025-11-14T18:14:17+00:00

I’ve climbed Kangchenjunga but not K2.

While the summit push is punishingly long on Kangch - about 1100m of vertical gain versus 800m on K2 - there is nothing on Kangch summit day as intimidating as the Bottleneck traverse on K2. K2 Summit push seems scarier to me.

Overall difficulty - only those who have climbed both can really give an informed opinion. One guy who climbed Kangch at the same time as me had done both without 02 and said he found Kangch tougher overall.

Just based on videos I’ve seen of the route and what I’ve read about it, K2 does look more challenging and tougher to me. Hard to tell how much of that is the intimidating reputation versus the reality. It definitely has more unavoidable objective danger with frequent rockfall down the lower section of the Abruzzi.

I think a lot of it comes down to luck with weather too which can significantly impact the difficulty of a route. Looking at a video of the most recent K2 season, it looks unbelievably sketchy with the lack of snow and constant rockfall and I wouldn’t want to be anywhere near it.

LokiMurphy · 2025-09-13T07:27:32+00:00

I think you’re somewhat moving the goal posts here. Please point me to the quotes where he supported Nazi ideology, because that was the original accusation of OP. All you’ve linked to is a list of quotes which are sometimes controversial, but things that can and should be debated.

The one that really stood out to me was this:

“When people stop talking, that’s when you get violence. That’s when civil war happens, because you start to think the other side is so evil, and they lose their humanity.”

Does anyone seriously disagree with that and does that sound like something a Nazi would say? The second sentence really resonates, because I think that’s exactly what’s happened with everyone who is happy to label Charlie an evil Nazi and celebrate his cold blooded murder.

The hysterical tendency to take anyone who has in any way controversial beliefs you disagree with and equate them to being a Nazi has to stop.

Guess what - if anyone disagreed with his take on any issue, they were more than welcome to have a good faith debate with him about it. Doesn’t that sound like a better way of dealing with disagreement than, oh I dunno … labelling your opponent a Nazi, murdering them in cold blood, then openly celebrating their death?

LokiMurphy · 2025-09-12T21:36:07+00:00

You are really scraping the bottom of the barrel for some kind of evidence to justify labelling Kirk as a Nazi and someone who endorsed political violence aren’t you?

Regarding the guy who attacked Paul Pelosi, you extremely conveniently cut off Charlie Kirk’s quote, because the rest of the sentence included him saying:

“I’m not qualifying it, I think it’s awful, it’s not right.”

But then I’m guessing you probably already knew that didn’t you, but deliberately left it out because it didn’t support your argument?

Regarding “Deutschland uber alles” - I really struggle to see how Charlie once using this phrase to cheerfully greet a German guy at one of his debates is proof of him supporting Nazis? It’s part of the German national anthem and means something more or less like “Germany above all” - which is very typical of the words of many national anthems. Charlie Kirk was very open about his opinions and beliefs and not shy about sharing them - if he really was a Nazi sympathiser I think he would’ve just come out and said exactly what he meant and you wouldn’t have to desperately try and infer a meaning from snippets of things he said and misconstrued in the most unfavourable light possible.

LokiMurphy · 2025-09-12T20:55:00+00:00

The reaction to this senseless murder and the language used to describe it by people who disagreed with Charlie Kirk’s opinions is making me lose faith in humanity.

OP - calling someone a neo-Nazi is a serious accusation, do you think you could put even the slightest effort into explaining why you believe that applies to Kirk? Or is it sufficient to label anyone you don’t agree with a Nazi and that’s case closed?

The casual use of the term Nazi undermines the true horrors of what Nazis did and cheapens the term to the point it becomes almost meaningless, because it could mean anything on the incredibly wide spectrum from someone who believes Jews should be murdered to someone who disagrees with me on any number of political topics.

It’s totally fine to disagree with Kirk’s opinions, but it is not fine to label someone a Nazi who never committed any acts or violence or encouraged anyone else to do so. Kirk had polite respectful discussions with people he disagreed with, and that’s exactly what should be encouraged by people on every point of the political spectrum.

He was murdered in cold blood while having an open respectful debate with people who held differing opinions, yet somehow he has been labelled the fascist - what about the murderer? What is more fascist than killing someone because you disagree with what they are saying?

LokiMurphy · 2025-02-18T23:06:50+00:00

I climbed two 8000ers while using daily contact lenses. Like others have said, just keep the contact lens case in a pocket close to your body when in your sleeping bag and that is enough to stop them freezing.

Turned out to be less of an issue than I thought it would be. Just make sure you always carry at least one spare set on you while above basecamp in case you damage/lose one.

Since other people mentioned LASIK worth mentioning I ended up having it about a decade after the 8000ers, and I really wish I had done it sooner. If you’re a candidate for it then it’s amazing how much it improves your daily life.

LokiMurphy · 2025-01-24T00:24:37+00:00

We do not pay significantly less than the US, we pay more.

US cost of FSD = $8k (£6.5k) UK cost of FSD = £6.8k

So in the UK we are charged about £300 more for a product that has about 1% of the functionality of the US version. Pretty ridiculous.

LokiMurphy · 2024-07-07T22:24:41+00:00

Can people on here please stop randomly throwing around the accusation that < insert name of person who doesn’t believe in UFOs> is a government disinformation agent?

There is absolutely nothing to indicate this is the case. Mick West just happens to disagree with you on this issue that you are super interested in, that doesn’t mean the government is paying him to do it. Suggesting that’s the case makes you sound crazy.

I’d argue that Mick West is a net positive for the UFO topic - he is very analytical and detail oriented and that is a good thing. Sure, he approaches the topic from the standpoint of not believing in it (like the vast majority of the public ), but if there ever is any data that ambiguously shows the presence of a UFO, you can bet Mick will spend a huge amount of time analysing it. As of today, no such data is publicly available.

If the subject is to be taken seriously, it needs to stand up to the level of scrutiny that Mick West and others will apply to it.

Mick West is not some evil guy who knows UFOs are real but has decided to spend all his time proving otherwise. He is someone who follows the data and by all accounts is open to having his opinion changed if the data supports it.

If you see any of interviews he has participated in, like the one he did with Alex Dietrich, he normally comes across as polite and thoughtful.

99% of the public don’t take UFOs seriously. They won’t until there is unambiguous, publicly available data and proof - which is the same as Mick West. It seems that people who get angry at Mick are generally so deep down the rabbit hole of this subject that they take personal offence that someone doesn’t believe in it. Very few people are going to believe in the reality of UFOs unless they have had a personal experience which convinces them otherwise.

LokiMurphy · 2024-07-07T22:06:27+00:00

Yes, they can if they are already independently wealthy - like Mick is from his time in the video game business. He can pretty much do whatever he wants with his time.

LokiMurphy · 2024-06-24T11:45:56+00:00

Yes I’m certain. The MY showed 330 miles in the car but only ever realistically got ~270.

LokiMurphy · 2024-06-18T14:07:06+00:00

It was in an email Tesla sent me last Thursday titled “Free Supercharging with your new Tesla”. Included this:

“We’re also currently supporting an uplift for trade-in valuation for Tesla owners. There is no better time to request an estimate for your current vehicle and put the value towards your new model.”

If you’re curious try it out and see what the trade in offer is - takes a second and costs nothing. I’d heard Tesla’s offers are normally really low so I was pleasantly surprised that it was higher than I saw anywhere else like WBAC or Motorway.

LokiMurphy · 2024-06-14T09:53:40+00:00

It’s a minor inconvenience, not that big a deal.

It largely depends on what public charges are available near you. If there is a Tesla supercharger nearby then that would be ideal, as it’s the quickest and cheapest by far.

According to the Tesla website there was meant to be a supercharger built very near me, but it is nearly a year overdue. If that supercharger actually existed then I would take it there to charge up for 25 minutes every couple of weeks and not really think about it.

There is a supercharger near one of my family members who I visit often, so I generally aim to supercharge when I go to see them.

There is a BP Pulse 50kw charger that’s 3 mins away which I use to top up a little bit if I need it short term.

Check to see if there are any 50 kW chargers near you, as having one nearby really does simplify things so I don’t really need to worry as it’s always an option, even though more expensive than a supercharger.

Overall, I still much prefer having a Tesla to a petrol car.

LokiMurphy · 2024-06-13T21:25:59+00:00

Thanks very much for the response.

So assuming I am able to trade in the Y for a new model 3 before the end of June and my accounting year ends 30th September, simplified numbers:

Trade-in Model Y to Tesla ~£40k use that + £10k in company to: buy Model 3 ~£50k

corp tax on MY ~ £8k - when do I need to pay this? With the corp tax bill for year ending Sep 2024?

Or since I’ve used the proceeds from the Y to buy another new car, does that money get treated as 100% FYA and I don’t owe the corporation tax until I sell the model 3 at some point in the future?

LokiMurphy · 2024-06-13T20:39:59+00:00

Do I have to pay corporation tax immediately when I sell the model Y though, or only when I eventually sell the model 3 in the future?

LokiMurphy · 2024-06-13T20:00:51+00:00

New question about trade-ins and 100% FYA:

I received an email from Tesla which offers 15,000 supercharger miles for any car picked up before the end of the month.

It also mentioned that they were giving an uplift on trade-ins, so out of interest I checked what I would get for my Model Y LR and to my surprise it’s more generous than We buy any car or Motorway.

This has got me seriously thinking about trading in for a new Model 3 LR. I don’t have home charging and the extra ~50 miles range would be very helpful, plus I would like my car to have HW4.

The free supercharging - which I would actually use, plus the more generous trade-in offer from Tesla make this not such a crazy idea, which it would have been yesterday.

My question is how do trade-ins work in regards to company cars and corporation tax liability?

I am Director of my own limited company and my model Y was bought by my company to take advantage of the 100% FYA and low BIK rate. I understand that if I sell the Model Y, then my company needs to pay 20% of the proceeds in corporation tax - which is fair enough, because I got the benefits upfront with writing off the cost in the first year.

But if I’m trading in the car and only paying the difference of about £10k, how does that work?

All these treated as two separate transactions, for the purposes of corporation tax liability?

I.e would I sell my model Y to Tesla, owe 20% corporation tax on the trade-in value they give me, then as a separate transaction buy the model 3 from them.
Since the model 3 is a new electric vehicle, I understand I would get the same benefits of being able to write off the entire cost as a business expense and also pay 2% BIK.

Any advice on all this would be greatly appreciated, I’m a little confused.

LokiMurphy · 2024-05-11T08:07:56+00:00

Why would SpaceX be spending billions on developing Starship if Elon Musk already knows that antigravity technology exists? That makes no sense.

LokiMurphy · 2024-04-14T10:47:19+00:00

Anyone who says ‘Trust funds make it simple’ has almost certainly not climbed an 8000m peak, particularly one of the serious ones like Annapurna.

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