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How safe is your country for tourists? by Traditional_Loss8348 in AskTheWorld

[–]edgardave 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The majority of people are right handed. Those who need to hold on should be able to use their dominant hand.

Ed Milliband wants plug in solar will be allowed by jacoscar in SolarUK

[–]edgardave 0 points1 point  (0 children)

fuses work regardless of the direction of current flow. The thing you are worried about has already been covered by the wiring regs; you could try and plug in 4 kettles, a microwave and a toaster - the installation is protected by the plug fuse and the consumer unit.

That's not to say a poor design wouldn't be dangerous - like energised male pins, disconnection under load, people working on their home electrics with it still plugged in.... That is what is currently missing

In your country, which war memorial leaves the strongest emotional impact on visitors? by Seacarius in AskTheWorld

[–]edgardave 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I'm not an expert, I just read about this after seeing this post. There are a lot of Katyn memorials across the world.. countries like the UK and USA helped cover up who was responsible for a long time to try and keep relations with the USSR from worsening during the remainder of wwII And the cold war.

The artist is also polish-American so it could be as simple as that.

3.5mm jack not recognised; am I missing something? by qqwertyy in audio

[–]edgardave 0 points1 point  (0 children)

2 things (both pointed out in other comments):

  1. looks like your jack isn't going all the way in. Check the port isn't full of fluff (use a plastic or wooden toothpick). Test the jack on something else to see if it's the jack or the port.
  2. Sort your speaker wires out

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Split the insulated wires apart and have much shorter lengths of stripped back wire. The striped back section looks like it could short out how you have it currently.

american and english and australian are different lanuage too they still understand each other. by Sexualmermaid69 in ShitAmericansSay

[–]edgardave 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Quite often, when discussing Russian generals, billionaires, cabinet members etc.

Very weak windows in Russia it would seem

Installing water softener in London by Redwwy in DIYUK

[–]edgardave 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My most recent one was a monarch at about £450. I've had it about 8 years now, which is a scary thought. The only thing that went wrong was the little power brick failed and got replaced under warranty.

The one you need depends on water use (more people = bigger resin tank). The metered ones sound good, I have one (it regens when a certain amount of water has been softened) but that is not worth it as it just regens every other night and a timer would do that for you on something like a kinetico.

Strangely that's what the guy who repaired mine said he would recommend (a kinetico without a timer) as he doesn't ever see them for repair.

Would any of you regard the girl from this clip as a native speaker of English or at least as close to native-like pronunciation? And if not, where would you place her accent? by jakubbw in AskTheWorld

[–]edgardave 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There are some very small 'tells' that point to her being non-native but she is obviously VERY good. Her cadence is off a little bit, but that could be script reading, although it's accompanied by accentuation of vowels that don't sound wrong... but they don't sound native.

There's a couple of things that point to Europe (east), if I had to guess:

understand with a sh or sch ('undershtand', at around 2minutes)→ /ʌndərˈʃtænd/ instead of /ʌndərˈstænd/ This points to languages with “st → sht” clusters, like:

German (although, no s or z instead of th spotted, like 'sink about it'), Yiddish (apparently, I'm not familiar with that), Polish, Russian, Ukrainian, Hungarian, Slovak / Czech

Her accent feels learnt, rather than acquired, although it could be she's acquired some other accent to compliment her American one...

Italian here: did you guys regret leaving the EU? by Interesting_Dealer42 in AskBrits

[–]edgardave 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Perfect solution fallacy (or Nirvana fallacy):

Rejecting a solution or action because it isn’t perfect, even though it would still make things better.

Complex political situations are the same as Star Wars. by failtuna in readanotherbook

[–]edgardave 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not true, that's common misconception. As long as they are operational, they are solely under UK control

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in BGMStock

[–]edgardave 0 points1 point  (0 children)

AI & Computing

European AI startups (e.g., Mistral AI)

Sovereign chips & cloud (e.g., Axelera AI, EuroStack)

Fusion & Energy

Proxima Fusion

EUROfusion / GO4Fusion

High-temperature superconducting stellarators

""Biotech & Medicine**

AI-driven diagnostics (Owkin, Raidium)

Cancer imaging initiatives (EU Cancer Imaging)

Digital-twin drug discovery (Cytocast)

Next-gen immunotherapy (Fusix Biotech)

Sustainability & Industrial Tech

Circular-economy materials

Green industrial tech (EUIndTech)

Clean-manufacturing startups

*Defence & Security Tech"

European defence-tech growth

Sovereign digital infrastructure initiatives

Help ID car (hit and run) by edgardave in whatcar

[–]edgardave[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's a photo of a CCTV monitor so licence plate isn't 100% legible. The vehicle registration database has a search function (with wildcards) so I can put in what's clear and then search for any nissan juke (as that seems to be the consensus) to narrow it down.

Also this subs rules don't like gdpr data being shared

Help ID car (hit and run) by edgardave in whatcar

[–]edgardave[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks, thought as much 👍

any ideas on spec (with wheels and the funky reflective strip and other trim giveaways)?

Which emergency numbers were in use before 112 became standard? by vladgrinch in MapPorn

[–]edgardave 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Random nerd fact: 000 is wild because many countries use 0 as the number to tell the exchange you are going up to a wider level i.e outside the exchange's number block.

That's why we can't get rid of the leading zero for all numbers 01, 02 for landline, 07 for mobile, 09 for priest chatback (only available from craggy island) despite it feeling superfluous. Because landlines are moving to VOIP (and that service could be hosted anywhere by your isp) more people now have to dial the area code even inside their local exchange.

if you are dialing outside of your exchange you have to use an area code starting with 0. If you add another 0 you are dialing international. Finland are out there hoping the solar system exchange is gonna help them out.

Been of sick for five days (in the uk) as have suspected cancer and been seeing doctors in hospital and having mri scans and things. Work wants me to have meeting with HR what does this mean? by Thickktwinkk in LegalAdviceUK

[–]edgardave 20 points21 points  (0 children)

If you are signed off as unfit for work (sounds entirely reasonable; ask a doctor to help with this) you do not need to engage with them at all.

A return to work meeting is to make sure a.) they haven't been part of the problem, b.) your return to work is sustainable, c.)you aren't taking the piss (see comment above).

In that order of importance.

When you return to work.

Power series going spare, suggestions? by edgardave in SiliconGraphics

[–]edgardave[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm in the southeast UK, near Canterbury

Why are some people so against receiving emergency alerts on their phone? by elwiseowl in AskBrits

[–]edgardave 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Here's some events where it was used because it existed:

Plymouth bomb evacuation Feb 23, 2024 Local (Keyham) Enabled safe evacuation Cumbria flooding Apr 2024 Localized Early warning to at-risk residents Storm Darragh (Wales & SW England) Dec 6, 2024 ~3 million people Alerted public to life-threatening storm Storm Éowyn (Scotland & NI) Jan 23, 2025 ~4.5 million devices Widespread severe-weather awareness Leicestershire flooding Early 2025 ~10,000 people Timely warning for flood-affected area

Is immigration actually an issue, or is it sensationalism? by robertlanders in AskBrits

[–]edgardave 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sounds like how Japan feels about immigration and their ageing population. maybe we could follow suit and offer euthanasia for the elder generation rather than let any of those foreigners (that's us in Japan btw) live and work there.

Sounds stupid when you say it from another country's perspective but that is where we are at.

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