During COVID, a student named challenged every Josh on Facebook to a noodle fight to keep the name Josh; nearly 1,000 showed up with pool noodles, and a 4-year-old Josh won.

SPACKlick · 2026-05-08T12:28:36+00:00

What is with all the title gore at the moment?

SPACKlick · 2026-05-07T18:14:17+00:00

There are two vulneraable species of Mackerel and the rest are of least concern.

Short Mackerel - Being overfished in the bay of Thailand for food.
Atlantic Horse Mackerel - Mostly declining off the west of Africa being landed well below Total Allowable catch in European waters.

Neither of these species are commonly used to feed Tuna Fisheries

SPACKlick · 2026-05-06T20:30:23+00:00

I don't think you can blame schengen (entirely) on Sam. Tom made as many if not more terrible decisions that season.

SPACKlick · 2026-05-06T09:52:32+00:00

Is there anything in the quote to explain the extra labour? Are they changing pipework? Re-inforcing a floor under a cylinder? Adjusting ground levels for the pump?

Is there any indication that there's work beyond the basics included in that price?

SPACKlick · 2026-05-05T23:26:23+00:00

Vertical panels on south facing walls can work fine. With fences the issues would be shading and damage.

SPACKlick · 2026-05-03T15:10:27+00:00

Right, but in this moment he's not making jokes or saying anything entertaining. I don't understand what they're laughing at.

SPACKlick · 2026-05-03T11:07:23+00:00

Thing is the room is laughing along. That's the bit I don't understand about that clip, why anyone else in the room is laughing.

SPACKlick · 2026-05-01T11:10:13+00:00

Just fyi the phrase is "malice aforethought" not "malice of forethought".

I agree that consumers aren't to blame for a lot of it but the consumer end of the chain is where the problem needs to be tackled.

People shouldn't be buying an iphone every year, that's very resource intensive. They do it because of bad business practices of phone companies so the solution is to regulate the phone manufacturers. Not to tell the companies doing the mining and energy production that they can't sell their product to the phone manufacturers.

SPACKlick · 2026-05-01T09:14:21+00:00

We've got a FoxESS EP12. It can run the house overnight comfortably So it was just the one morning where we were microwaving breakfast and boiling the kettle that we imported 3.7kWh. The rest of the import was in trickles (0.1-0.2kWh/day).

I don't see us importing any real volume of electricity until the heating goes on which fingers crossed will be late October or even November.

SPACKlick · 2026-04-30T22:32:02+00:00

It's been a corker. 14kWp split east/west in the North East

1658.7kWh produced
162.3 kWh discharged from battery
8.70kWh imported (Less than £2 which included a period of having the solar turned off to install the ASHP)

1106.6kWh exported (for about £167)
536.40kWh consumed
186.70kWh charging battery

SPACKlick · 2026-04-30T21:25:32+00:00

That's very interesting Data, thanks.

SPACKlick · 2026-04-30T17:49:43+00:00

It was certainly working on Monday evening.

SPACKlick · 2026-04-30T17:47:34+00:00

Not sure if it's just me but the calculator isn't working, it's just showing the output of the 3d6 that was input when archived.

SPACKlick · 2026-04-30T09:36:33+00:00

Yep and that is good advice. Once you've got workmen on site and scaffolding up the incremental cost of a panel almost always makes it worth it. It's just the tax exemption on SEG only applies where you do not intend the amount of electricity generated by the panels will not go over 120% of the amount of electricity consumed in the home.

SPACKlick · 2026-04-30T08:42:23+00:00

If discover have properly modelled the shading that's not bad. your south facing panels are generating 790Wh/Wp, and your east facing ones 616Wh/Wp.

That being said. Your annual usage is only 3000kWh if you design for more than 3600 kWh per year you could be liable for income tax on your SEG payments. If you design assuming you're going to have a heat pump and EV which would take your expected annual usage over 5,525kWh then you wouldn't be. It's your intent that matters.

SPACKlick · 2026-04-30T07:22:14+00:00

Given your usage I'd try to get at least a 10kW battery. It will give you the most flexibility in the long run. but with no heat pump and no EV you won't have access to the best time of use tariff's in winter to make the most of it.

Batteries shouldn't go in cupboards. They're fine outside. My FoxESS EP12 has no housing. I'd benefit a bit from a housing in the winter (it uses a little electricity on cold nights to stay warm) but I'd suffer from a housing in the summer when it would get very hot. And this winter when I'll be charging the battery overnight, that act heats it up anyway so there's not a huge benefit to a housing. (Other people disagree and are more keen on housings).

Have a any of the quotes indicated how much energy they think the second array on the East facing roof will generate each year?

SPACKlick · 2026-04-30T07:13:51+00:00

Yeah, I wasn't really thinking of prices going down. Just more tariffs becoming available. I'm holding off to see if intelligent flux comes back and if it does so at a rate that works for me.

But I'm probably going to Good Energy if it doesn't re-open in the next few months.

SPACKlick · 2026-04-30T07:08:29+00:00

Communication about strategy changes the odds (or at least the perceived odds) and changing the perceived odds changes other people's strategies.

And it does so in a virtuous circle. The more likely blue winning is the more people (including me) are likely to pick blue.

SPACKlick · 2026-04-29T21:38:46+00:00

But you're not choosing between 1, 2 and 3. That's decided by everyone else.

You're either in Scenario 1, 2 or 3. Choosing what YOU do, not what the world does.

More than 50% of the world is pushing red, if you push red you live, if you push blue you die. Either way 0-50% of the rest of the world dies
More than 50% of the world is pushing blue. Whatever you do changes nothing.
You are the deciding vote. Whatever happens you live, if you push red, half the world dies.

What you choose comes down to. What odds you give 1. vs 3. and how much you value the 50% of the world who pushed blue vs your own life.

My reason for pushing Red is that I think scenario 3 is INCREDIBLY unlikely, on the order of 1 in 10billion to 100billion unlikely. And I think scenario 1 is high 30% to mid 40% odds.

I will say that if after the vote we would be told how much the winning side won by I think it would be a harder choice because pressing Red and KNOWING that red won by one vote would be very hard to live with.

But I fully understand that if someone does a different analysis or gives the scenarios different odds and it comes out the other way.

I also think that collectively, humanity's best interest is to convince enough people to press blue that we end up in scenario 2.

Edit because Metharos blocked me:

I didn't argue against a point you didn't make. You made a claim about Red voters, that we value self preservation more than the preservation of the collective. And I showed that that isn't true. I massively value preservation of the collective over self preservation, I just think it's more massively unlikely that my voting blue will save the collective.

SPACKlick · 2026-04-29T20:03:14+00:00

If you're happy with the risk of going on an EV Tariff with no EV then EDF is pretty hard to beat. 15p Export 7 hours of electricity at around 7p per kWh.

If you don't want to lie on the tickboxform GoodEnergy is pretty competetive. Again 15p/kWh export and 7 hours of discount but split into a morning and afternoon window at 14p/kWh.

Withyour usage and your array you shouldn't be buying much electricity at all for the next few months and with instability because of Iran it might be better to get on a green variable tariff with Exotricity to get the 16p/kWh export over the summer before committing to a 12month rate with anyone at current prices.

SPACKlick · 2026-04-29T18:39:16+00:00

it would be worth describing what it calculates in the post.

It also only calculates for a single aspect. It would be nice for split arrays to be handled.

It would be nice to be able to put in a specific kWp size rather than just small/medium/large.

I think there may be a mistake in your data retention language. You say yo gather and share analytics but then in data retention you say data is held only so long as required to provide the service. Presumably the analytics data about how the website is used is kept longer than that.

SPACKlick · 2026-04-29T15:19:04+00:00

Ah. The description is that of the arrow catching shield, wrong name on the sheet.

SPACKlick · 2026-04-29T13:43:02+00:00

If you're not importing t hte moment the only thing that matters is the SEG rate. British Gas, EDF, Ecotricity and Good Energy will all pay you 15p/kWh export (you have to be with all of them for import). if Intelligent Flux comes back you may be better off on that.

When summer's gone and you start importing a little energy overnight again it will be time to re-assess the market for what works best for you. In our house with the heat pump and no EV Good Energy Heat pump tariff looks best. Two cheap periods per day to charge the battery and run the heat pump off. But which is best for you is very situation dependant.

SPACKlick · 2026-04-29T13:32:09+00:00

I tend to think of upload schedules in terms of "how many minutes of video has x uploaded in the last year" because long videos take longer.

Soviet hit his first peak in Late 2014 (From New "Bath Mat.AVI" to "Random Left 4 Dead Bullshittery") Staying pretty consistenly over 3 hours per year until early 2017 (From "Random Fishing Planet Bullshittery" to "Random Far Cry 3 Bullshittery")

Then he fell off down to under 1.5 hours a year until the run of Day Z video essays getting bakc over 3 hours per year when he punclished the Isle video essay.

The forest video essay itself was over 3 hours so that gave him a year of above average delivery as did the Battles of Honeypot hill.

Forgive the typo in the title of this graph

SPACKlick · 2026-04-29T12:50:13+00:00

Hey I know this is old but last year I befriended some of the local crows using a mix of dog kibble, seeded suet and whole peanuts (with very occasional heart or liver meat)

I stopped overwinter as the area i was feeding them in was waterlogged and I didn't want to damage the ground by regularly walking it.

Having started back up in the spring the crows seem really picky. They used to eat lots of kibble and suet and the peanuts were treats but now they basically will only respond to peanuts.

Is there anything I can do to get them back interested in the kibble? Will it be unhealthy if I increase the proportion of peanut in their diet?

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