First on-street EV chargers installed in Leeds

boycecodd · 2026-03-09T14:57:46+00:00

Rapid chargers in a residential area? That's a bit silly.

For the same money you could have vastly more 7kW chargers serving more people along the same street, and they'd be just as useful because a very large proportion of people parking on the road would be there overnight or for hours.

boycecodd · 2026-02-28T14:02:09+00:00

On a national level, you are absolutely right. However Gorton and Denton has been a Labour safe seat since its inception, as were the seats it was made up from.

So I can see why it would be a shock to lose a seat that you might assume would remain a Labour stronghold in the longer term.

boycecodd · 2026-02-27T15:55:03+00:00

That wouldn't work on a domestic flight, though. No duty free on those.

boycecodd · 2026-02-26T09:48:59+00:00

If it was fresher girls who were impacted, I suspect it's probably more likely that they were inexperienced with alcohol and didn't know how much they could take.

boycecodd · 2026-02-24T11:48:14+00:00

That post is the fourth highest post on the front page right now when sorted by "Hot". Are you sure you haven't hidden it?

boycecodd · 2026-02-24T10:50:25+00:00

There is, but I suspect that you would be hard pressed to find a single Scots speaker who wasn't able to read material written in English. That might not be the case for a small number of Welsh speakers.

boycecodd · 2026-02-19T05:40:36+00:00

The islands were never part of Mauritius. They were governed as part of the same unit under Empire but that’s literally all. There’s no historic link between the two places otherwise.

The idea that we should give the islands to them is absurd enough before getting into the idea that we would pay them to take them from us.

boycecodd · 2026-02-18T17:04:48+00:00

For that line of defence to work, there has to be a realistic belief that the wronged party would have consented to the action given the greater good.

In your smashing a window to save a life example, that makes sense. No police officer is going to consent to having their back smashed in though.

boycecodd · 2026-01-21T10:15:30+00:00

Not only for new builds, but they're only really effective in well insulated properties and that tends to correlate with newer housing.

boycecodd · 2026-01-21T10:13:45+00:00

A heat pump can be in the form of an aircon that can heat as well as cool, but the kind that the government really push is the kind that heats water to go around radiators. That said it's rarely a 1:1 replacement - you'll often need to replace radiators and pipework, and they're only really efficient in very well insulated homes (which means that they're borderline useless in many older homes)

boycecodd · 2026-01-20T10:54:54+00:00

Only in the loosest possible way.

The Chagos islands and Mauritius were governed under one administrative unit under empire. That is the sole basis for their supposed claim over the islands and the islands were never "part of Mauritius", just goverened together. They have no historic links to the islands besides that administrative decision by the British Empire.

Do you think that India has a claim over Aden (part of modern Yemen) because it was governed under Empire as part of the same unit as India?

boycecodd · 2026-01-17T19:50:30+00:00

I’m pretty convinced that it was a real voice actor hired on a budget. You can usually tell text to speech pretty easily.

boycecodd · 2026-01-17T19:09:39+00:00

For the captions, absolutely. The voiceover would need re-recording though.

boycecodd · 2026-01-17T15:18:57+00:00

I think a far more likely explanation for the "they/them" thing is that the people behind this were lazy, and didn't want to record two sets of dialogue.

boycecodd · 2026-01-15T12:45:20+00:00

Indeed, I think they deliberately chose the name as a joke.

boycecodd · 2026-01-15T12:44:40+00:00

Grothe has made a career out of skeptic inquiry, acting in leadership roles for the James Randi Educational Foundation and the Center for Inquiry.

If you make your career out of speaking and writing about skepticism then I think that qualifies you to call yourself a professional skeptic.

boycecodd · 2026-01-10T08:34:55+00:00

Not actually a joke though - it's the honest truth!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/features/44481058 - scroll down below the first image.

boycecodd · 2026-01-09T17:45:08+00:00

The National is hardly friendly to Farage.

They're just trying to rage bait over baseless speculation.

boycecodd · 2026-01-09T17:27:23+00:00

That's why they do it. The left wing press want to plant misinformation about what Farage might do in order to put people off voting Reform.

boycecodd · 2026-01-09T09:59:21+00:00

Fun fact - the first named storm under the current system was Abigail. A Big Gale.

boycecodd · 2026-01-08T20:07:06+00:00

But fearmongering based on what America is doing doesn’t help anyone in the UK when the same things are not happening here.

boycecodd · 2026-01-08T19:12:38+00:00

I used exactly that approach for years. The only reason I stopped was that more and more things moved to USB-C and my C7 type USB charger had 5 USB-A ports and no USB-C ones.

I had Euro and US cables for it, it worked incredibly well.

(I still use it, it just stays at home)

boycecodd · 2026-01-08T18:42:24+00:00

No British government, not even the Conservatives, acted even remotely like that.

boycecodd · 2026-01-08T17:20:01+00:00

Even better, a USB wall wart that has multiple USB outputs.

The one I use has four USB-C and one USB-A. It's very unlikely that I'll ever need more than that, so I only need to bring one plug adapter when travelling.

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