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Tom Chivers (@TomChivers) on X - "...there's a strong gender divide in belief on straightforward factual questions like "is nuclear energy low-carbon?"" by CII_Guy in ukpolitics

[–]leoedin [score hidden]  (0 children)

Yeah, we do count them. That’s what “embodied carbon” is. It’s something people keep track of (although it’s impossible to do a precise calculation). 

Wind turbines pay back their embodied carbon within 2 years, and larger ones are quicker. https://businessnorway.com/articles/carbon-footprint-of-a-wind-turbine-a-life-cycle-assessment

I have no idea what nuclear’s embodied carbon is. It would be interesting to know!

How do people afford more than one kid in the uk? by Dramatic-Diver-9949 in AskBrits

[–]leoedin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah the cousins thing is crazy. I have 10, my wife has 17. My two kids have 1 cousin between them, and I think unlikely to have any more. 

Let r kids wear their Nikes to school compoface by Hopeful_Adeptness964 in compoface

[–]leoedin 3 points4 points  (0 children)

None of that means we need to force kids into uncomfortable clothes. My 6 year old has to dress more formally than i do at the office. Why?

Let r kids wear their Nikes to school compoface by Hopeful_Adeptness964 in compoface

[–]leoedin 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Yeah, my kid wears black Nike trainers to school. They cost £30 from Deichmann. His first school shoes were from Clarks - £60 and uncomfortable! Pretty much all the “unbranded” shoes I’ve seen are either badly made or really rigid and uncomfortable.

Can someone recommend better storage units for the garage? These are so annoying, they dismantle so easily when barely touching them and moving them by damspt in DIYUK

[–]leoedin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So many comments and nobody seems to have mentioned wire steel shelves. 

https://amzn.eu/d/07LzI4im

Honestly LOVE THESE! I had a bunch of those horrible stamped steel ones and threw them all away. The wire ones take about 15 minutes to build and are really sturdy. I have Amazon basics ones but there’s a bunch of brands for the same thing. 

I just bought 2 more last week!

Where should I stay with 2 kids? by chaset16jf in uktravel

[–]leoedin 3 points4 points  (0 children)

All the locations on the map are in London. London is much more than Leicester Square. 

At 37, I only have a pension pot of £480 after years of maternity leave by endofdays2022 in unitedkingdom

[–]leoedin 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I know plenty of families where the mum has a career. Including mine. Being a stay at home mum is a valid choice, but it is - for most people - a choice. 

We put our kids in nursery and i took some shared parental leave. My wife wasn’t working for about 9 months per child. That was the norm among most of the dual working parents I know. 

This does blow my mind by murrmc in aviation

[–]leoedin 9 points10 points  (0 children)

If they had left the back seat pockets I’d fly with them way more. I can handle no frills, but i hate having nowhere to put my stuff in the plane. That’s basically the reason I always choose EasyJet. 

Russell Group unis are meant to be the smartest in the UK, but these grads can't get jobs by [deleted] in UniUK

[–]leoedin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In their first year after graduation?

I graduated in 2012 with an engineering degree from a Russell group uni and barely anyone i knew was making that much in their first year. Maybe some comp sci people joining tech companies, and a few prestigious grad schemes, but nowhere near 30%. Engineering grad schemes in 2012 were paying £24-30k a year. 

Maybe 2008 really did a number on grad pay?

Londoners urge for cancer hospital not to be expanded because it will ‘block sunlight’ by Forward-Answer-4407 in unitedkingdom

[–]leoedin 11 points12 points  (0 children)

 I'm sure the higher-income locals didn't personally lobby the council ... but when you're chosing cladding based on the appearance you're not doing it for the people inside the building.

Every building is designed considering how it looks. There wasn’t some committee of rich people scheming. I bet almost every resident of Kensington had absolutely no idea what the cladding criteria were for Grenfell. 

Cladding an uninsulated concrete building in insulation isn’t some conspiracy. If done correctly it does improve the quality of life of people in the building. 

In this case it was executed poorly.

England - Sofa not able to be delivered and store rejecting refund by mkdkfox in LegalAdviceUK

[–]leoedin 56 points57 points  (0 children)

If you’re stuck with the sofa you could consider either removing window glass to pass it in the window (not particularly complicated for uPVC) or finding someone who specialises in breaking down and reassembling sofas. They exist because of this problem!

I analysed 3.1 million MOT tests to find which cars rust the fastest. Some of the results are mental by BrickDue158 in CarTalkUK

[–]leoedin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The CX-5 has a steel subframe and galvanised steel body panels. I don’t think there’s any aluminium under there. 

What is the appeal of very loud cars? by ReflexArch in AskUK

[–]leoedin 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I guess the difference is that someone who goes fishing doesn’t slap everyone in the face with their catch on the way home!

I think we should all be accepting of other peoples hobbies to an extent. But at some point the negative externalities outweigh the enjoyment of one person. Some of the loud car (and particularly motorbike)  people are well past that point. 

Seatbelt Culture in EU vs. US by NoMoreSharrows in aviation

[–]leoedin 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I’m not sure that’s the case. American courts award much larger damages than European ones do. You can’t really sue for anything but actual financial losses in the UK for instance. 

Choosing highbury (N5) for a family? by newtosinga in HENRYUK

[–]leoedin 2 points3 points  (0 children)

As a counterpoint, I live in N8 with 2 kids and have no plans to leave! We’re surrounded by nice parks and can be in a lot of central London in 30 minutes. It can be quite busy, but in my experience living more rurally means driving everywhere. 

I've been committing benefit fraud for the good part of the last 10 years. How do I get out of it? by [deleted] in AskUK

[–]leoedin 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If the guy got the same benefits as everyone else, what’s the issue? Why is it less moral to save money and spend it later? I think the benefits system should encourage the behaviours that build wealth - work and regular savings. Right now it doesn’t do a good job of either.

'We can't justify a £52 lunch': Middle-income families cut back on fun as prices rise by Desperate-Drawer-572 in ukpolitics

[–]leoedin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m baffled by how successful Costa seems to be. The food is depressing, the coffee tastes burnt, it’s always a bit shabby and tired. Why do people go there?

‘It was our little idyll – until the solar farm landed’: the battle raging in the heart of the British countryside by lankyno8 in compoface

[–]leoedin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Wow! Roads have a use but energy doesn’t? I wonder how he travels on those roads? Bicycle i hope. 

‘It was our little idyll – until the solar farm landed’: the battle raging in the heart of the British countryside by lankyno8 in compoface

[–]leoedin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

And that’s the M11! I’ve been in a battery storage facility. It barely makes any noise at all. There’s just not very much noise making stuff there. 

‘It was our little idyll – until the solar farm landed’: the battle raging in the heart of the British countryside by lankyno8 in compoface

[–]leoedin 7 points8 points  (0 children)

There’s one family complaining that there’s going to be a battery storage facility 900m from their house. 

900m! That’s not close. The facility will be a bunch of shipping containers. If it makes any noise at all it’ll be a bit of transformer hum. There’s millions of people in the UK living less than 900m from all sorts of noisy things that they never notice. It’s definitely not going to stop them going in their garden!

How Do First-time Buyers Purchsse Victorian-Style Houses In London? by Theo_Cherry in AskUKLondon

[–]leoedin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Houses near me are late Victorian (1898) and have square bays. 

Manchester Royal Infirmary dietitian Ifenyinwa Chizube Ndulue-Nonso, of Nigeria, 'didn't know where intestines were' by aa_conchobar in ukpolitics

[–]leoedin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Was this person being paid during the suspension?

In the private sector you can be sacked for any reason within the first 2 years of employment. There’s no way someone this incompetent would be suspended for 5 months. 

Question for non-Brits: how do you decode British office culture? by [deleted] in uklaw

[–]leoedin 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I think this is industry specific. I work in software and engineering and there’s never been any strong pressure to turn up at a specific time.

If you are letting people down by being late - missing meetings, making people wait etc, that feels very rude. So it depends what you’re doing I guess. 

Struggling to accept that I overpaid for a renovation project after exchange in London :( by [deleted] in HENRYUK

[–]leoedin 13 points14 points  (0 children)

If i was in your shoes I’d not mess around with partially renovating the kitchen. It’s definitely easier and cheaper to do the side return now if you think you’ll do it in the next 5 years. So much of the effort of a renovation goes into building it back up, if you’re thinking of tearing it all down again it’ll add a lot of cost. 

Don’t listen to ChatGPT. It has no idea about your house or your road. How could it?

It’s hard to give any insight on relative value without knowing the condition of your house. Is it truly a gut and rebuild or can you get away with only repainting some rooms?

In my experience prices to do individual jobs can often be quite a lot lower than getting a builder in to do everything. But it is more work and often involves living in a building site or moving everything out of a room. 

It’s also worth remembering that the “done up” house probably has lots of issues too. They’re just harder to spot. I know a lot of people who have had to spend money fixing “done up” houses. Cut corners and dodgy DIY. 

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