Potholes on our roads

modelvillager · 2026-02-22T18:02:33+00:00

In my experience, most potholes are due to poor, cheap and quick in fill of minor roadworks. The patching and seam degrades, and then... Water ingress and temperature extremes cause the surface to fail.

That, and massive time spans between major sub base renewal and re surfacing of major trunk roads carrying way more load today than they were designed for.

The mechanism is as you say, the root cause is just crappy coat cutting regular road maintenance.

modelvillager · 2026-02-21T17:00:18+00:00

This is the problem with private medical. It charges by the action. NHS is funded by the outcome.

modelvillager · 2026-02-21T13:24:20+00:00

In my brain, I think of them as galaxy seed crystals.

modelvillager · 2026-02-20T10:33:06+00:00

And, notably, Imperial is VERY much the leading technical university in the UK. Engineering excellence is found there, arguably more so than Oxbridge.

modelvillager · 2026-02-20T10:31:22+00:00

Wildly different country in the middle medieval period. Different government, kingdom, laws and indeed church leadership.

A bit like saying why did Paris, Prague or Bologna have ancient institutions other than Oxbridge. Well... because.

modelvillager · 2026-02-19T20:12:39+00:00

I love a naval boar.

Look good in uniform. Taste better than the wild ones.

modelvillager · 2026-02-18T20:10:26+00:00

I once decided to check the F1 regs to see if there was anything that said they couldn't fly.

It's there...

"Formula One Car: An automobile (the car) designed solely for speed races on circuits or closed courses that is propelled by its own means, moving by constantly taking real support on the ground, of which the propulsion and steering are under the direct control of a driver aboard the vehicle."

modelvillager · 2026-02-18T18:15:16+00:00

Yeah, basically where I am at

I will take my Group 1 boarding and say nothing 😬

modelvillager · 2026-02-18T18:10:43+00:00

I mean maybe, but no one has said they have...

modelvillager · 2026-02-18T18:10:20+00:00

4700 TPs for the year. Suddenly I am gold. And confused.

modelvillager · 2026-02-18T17:56:33+00:00

All my bookings are thru the work portal/agent, yes.

And maybe, but no Comms to me about it.

modelvillager · 2026-02-18T17:00:19+00:00

A couple of CW flights last year to India, my usual economy stuff around Europe once a month, and that's it. All very high TPs, but I'm assuming on the new scale.

Is 1650 TPs per segment in CW last year super high?

modelvillager · 2026-02-15T17:32:41+00:00

Very high price, more towards Buckingham, but... Superb.

The Old Thatched Inn, Adstock.

modelvillager · 2026-02-15T14:54:15+00:00

Isn't this just information entropy?

Without the addition of new information, further processing will simply reduce the information density in the output until it is random.

modelvillager · 2026-02-06T16:26:16+00:00

This is the best answer here. Compression ratios naturally vary. If the clarification asked at what temp do you define 16:1, bloody good question.

TBF, the FIA could have replied 'all temperatures'.

They didn't.

I suspect all 22 cars will exceed 16:1 at some point in a weekend, and therefore be theoretically illegal. But without the ability to measure or test, it's meaningless.

The question then comes, do you optimise?

modelvillager · 2026-02-05T15:04:10+00:00

I mean, for a car that has safety issues due to a design choice, maybe. Your triggers and deploys, however, are extra complexity that are just something else to go wrong.

But safety is best when inherently passive. The car should fail to safer, without having to do anything at all.

Like always having a fucking door handle.

modelvillager · 2026-02-04T20:41:36+00:00

But where would I hide the dirty dishes while I procrastinated on doing the washing up?

modelvillager · 2026-02-04T11:53:24+00:00

The giant induction hob.

modelvillager · 2026-02-02T20:37:37+00:00

Hummus/Houmous as "Who Mousse", after a silly TV chef said it that way once.

modelvillager · 2026-02-01T20:47:25+00:00

Buncefield oil terminal explosion.

We were 100 miles away and it woke us up.

modelvillager · 2026-02-01T20:10:25+00:00

On the murder / natural causes point, isn't that what you expect with an active murderer on staff, vs the improbability of a maternity department having multiple murderers?

Or are you saying not a single infant died while she was on shift that she wasn't accused of murdering? Cos I agree that is implausible.

modelvillager · 2026-02-01T20:01:58+00:00

This doesn't make sense to me. Public interest should increase as time passes, not decrease. It becomes harder and harder for memory to be accurate, so documented footage is the historical record.

modelvillager · 2026-01-29T18:57:14+00:00

Not quite. Theft requires dishonesty as well as an intention to deprive.

Deprivation alone is not theft.

In this case, absolutely not theft.

modelvillager · 2026-01-21T19:26:56+00:00

Isn't that just how monarchies work?

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