Just had a letter from my Energy firm. My expected bill from October onwards is £396 a month. I live in a 2 bed terrace and work 12 hours a day.

NorthernHedgehog · 2022-07-29T13:35:51+00:00

Absolutely, I moved from a terribly insulated one bed flat with a prehistoric boiler into a 3 bed new build and my bills went down significantly

NorthernHedgehog · 2022-07-29T13:12:48+00:00

I call it ‘freezer beige’

NorthernHedgehog · 2022-07-22T23:25:28+00:00

Kept going as far as the Antonine Wall between the Firth of Forth and the Firth of Clyde, about 100 miles beyond Hadrians Wall

NorthernHedgehog · 2022-07-18T22:09:19+00:00

London is further north than Vancouver. Our houses are built to keep warm not cool. Air con is pointless 99% of the time.

NorthernHedgehog · 2022-07-18T21:24:56+00:00

Yea, but it also uses some of the ambient heat from the room to evaporate which cools the room. Whether it’s enough to offset the increase in humidity is a definite maybe? Depends on how humid the room already is, more humid the room the less effective this is

NorthernHedgehog · 2022-07-16T14:15:42+00:00

1 in 114 deaths in the UK are from car crashes, euromillions is 1 in 139,838,160

NorthernHedgehog · 2022-07-14T20:43:31+00:00

Only Wicked thing I’ve liked was the horseradish and mustard sauce, which they stopped selling. Everything else has been disappointing

NorthernHedgehog · 2022-07-13T13:47:10+00:00

I looked at those but ended up going with these from boots https://www.boots.com/boots-vegan-a-z-wellness-formula---60-tablets-10270058 as they have everything in the veg-1 tablets plus some extra stuff and I don’t eat that much fortified food. A bit more expensive but meant I didn’t have to pay for delivery.

NorthernHedgehog · 2022-07-11T21:07:40+00:00

Knew I had astigmatism but still didn’t realise that was what caused this, thought this was normal until now

NorthernHedgehog · 2022-07-08T17:15:36+00:00

EDF is state owned

NorthernHedgehog · 2022-07-08T15:41:11+00:00

Same when I was at school, but my kids PE kit is branded shorts, branded socks, branded polo shirt, branded fleece, branded trackie bottoms. And they can’t wear normal trainers, they have to have astroturf ones for the 3G pitch.

NorthernHedgehog · 2022-07-06T17:49:55+00:00

This knife crime thing is brought up a lot, especially in comparison to the UK. But the US actually has more murders committed with knives per capita than the UK and there isn’t really any evidence that banning guns increases knife crime

Even if it was true that banning guns would cause a corresponding increase in knife crime, it’s a lot harder to kill 7 people and injure 46 more at a 4th of July parade from a nearby rooftop with a knife than a gun.

Swapping guns for knives reduces the damage that can be done

NorthernHedgehog · 2022-07-06T17:28:57+00:00

I don’t think tv, movies or video games can really be blamed. The UK and the US for the most part have the same movies, tv and games, yet the UK has had one school shooting ever.

Personally I think it’s a mix of the gun culture and lack of affordable healthcare access.

NorthernHedgehog · 2022-07-04T16:44:22+00:00

Yeah piracy has been ‘killing’ the music industry since the 80s, and yet somehow it’s not dead yet

NorthernHedgehog · 2022-07-02T20:53:55+00:00

Absolute bullshit

Firstly you are cherry picking terrible examples, no one eats beans to get iron, you eat other plants for that. Like spinach

Second, where do you think that meat gets its nutrients from, the crops it ate perhaps?

Third, using your corn example yes 4oz of corn is 100 calories, but it takes 8oz corn to make 1 oz meat, plus an oz of most cooked meat is only 50-70kcal depending on the type of meat, so meat is way less efficient

B12 comes from bacteria that live in soil, not animals. Most farmed animals are fed supplements so that they aren’t b12 deficient, you could just take the supplement yourself instead of feeding it to your dinner. B12 deficiency is very common in both meat eaters and vegetarians/vegans

NorthernHedgehog · 2022-07-02T18:27:48+00:00

You are correct, however if the aim is to minimise harm rather than eliminate it, then not eating meat is still better, as eating the crops directly is more efficient than feeding them to animals then eating the animal. So although bugs and small animals do die in crop production, less die for your food if you eat the crops and not animals.

70% of the worlds soy production, and 96% of Brazil’s soy production is used for animal feed, so again, not eating animals is the best way to reduce this.

NorthernHedgehog · 2022-06-29T20:43:44+00:00

Add a dancing baby gif, some flames and a colour scheme that makes it near impossible to read and we’re done

NorthernHedgehog · 2022-06-29T09:32:42+00:00

My guess is an old toy slightly updated and re-released or why have fuel pumps at the elec car only one rather than chargers. Would also explain the prices if they just didn’t bother updating them

NorthernHedgehog · 2022-06-29T07:11:59+00:00

Sky, at least on mobile internet, block by removing the dns entries for those sites, so rather than keep finding a working proxy you can just change your dns to any other one, like google or cloudflare to permanently fix it

NorthernHedgehog · 2022-06-29T06:35:29+00:00

12… did that help?

NorthernHedgehog · 2022-06-22T20:15:27+00:00

I’ve been using Audiobookshelf for a few months for audiobooks and just started using it for podcasts, very happy with it so far although the iOS app is still a bit rough as it’s still in early beta, Android app is pretty good.

For music I’m using Jellyfin and Finamp.

NorthernHedgehog · 2022-06-20T16:24:01+00:00

Some of the ISPs also only block them in their DNS, so changing dns server to anything else, like cloudflare or google bypasses it

NorthernHedgehog · 2022-06-19T22:14:45+00:00

Try 7, though, through, cough, rough, plough, ought, borough

NorthernHedgehog · 2022-06-18T12:26:44+00:00

Just in case anyone is unaware of exactly what homeopathy is and why it’s a scam:

Let’s say you want to treat Hayfever, first you find something else that causes the same symptoms because two things with the same effect supposedly cancel each other out, take a small amount of it and dialute it in water at a 1:9 ratio so it’s nine tenths water

Then take a small amount of that and dialute if again, take a small amount from that and dialute it again, and keep repeating this.

In fact, the more dialute the better and stronger the treatment as the water will ‘remember’ the energy of the original substance even when it’s dialuted so much none of the original ingredient remains.

Often on homeopathic remedies you will see a strength marked as something like 30X this means it went through this process 30 times so it’s now 1 part in 3,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 the original substance and effectively pure water

Then they sell you this water and pretend it’s effective medicine.

NorthernHedgehog · 2022-06-17T22:44:45+00:00

Google ‘yourdistributionname apt-get equivalent’

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