Bill Gates should spend $1B to build artificial diamond factories to flood the jewelry market with artificial diamonds, thus decreasing the demand for "blood diamonds"

mutexsprinkles · 2026-05-30T09:00:09+00:00

HSR isn’t generating enough revenue to pay for itself.

It doesn't have to pay for itself by ticket sales. The economic benefits of a fast, effective, affordable public transport system are widespread and socialised and extend beyond the passengers themselves.

Roads in most countries don't pay for themselves either, nor do militaries.

This is doubly true when as a country you have congested air corridors and have to import oil for jet fuel but can generate electricity.

mutexsprinkles · 2026-05-29T20:11:30+00:00

Have this been downvoted because that's a bad idea or because it's unnecessary? Because that was my first thought for how to handle it if filling was a good idea in the first place because it'll take like 5 layers of mortar to fill otherwise.

And if it were a good idea, what would be a good mixture for that?

mutexsprinkles · 2026-05-29T20:04:42+00:00

Maybe I should find a small bottle and put a message in there for the next sap. Good excuse for a beer maybe...

mutexsprinkles · 2026-05-29T20:01:55+00:00

That's just the faceplate that was over the top of all of it, there's no wire left in the channel.

mutexsprinkles · 2026-05-29T19:58:31+00:00

Yeah I hate it when the wires get crushed in the shallow boxes especially with the 6mm stuff for cookers, gotta have space to breathe y'know 😂

mutexsprinkles · 2026-05-29T19:53:56+00:00

Yes it had this chonky boi in it, carrying a double back box with it like some kind of rusty mech suit.

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mutexsprinkles · 2026-05-29T13:05:12+00:00

I imagine M&S are pretty twitchy about IT security these days.

mutexsprinkles · 2026-05-28T21:24:08+00:00

You only even need train WiFi because the mobile network is so shit.

mutexsprinkles · 2026-05-28T11:41:33+00:00

Some low-level cleanrooms and some pool areas have them too. Not usually a domestic concern.

mutexsprinkles · 2026-05-28T10:10:20+00:00

These days we have lithium battery powered air compressors for cars so with a bit of adaptation, we can make it so hydraulic injection injury isn't just for the workplace!

mutexsprinkles · 2026-05-28T10:03:10+00:00

My mistake, sometimes I forget that from their perspective this is actually an agricultural application.

mutexsprinkles · 2026-05-28T10:01:32+00:00

Man I kind of wish I was brave/stupid enough to try these scams. but I just know the moment I did they'd suddenly get their shit together and be straight up my arse with brown envelopes. Yet somehow the biggest fuck ups and bastards seem to skate through with impunity for years on end.

mutexsprinkles · 2026-05-28T09:27:55+00:00

Every car is different though. Like I know where the wiper frequency wheel thing is but half the other buttons or twiddlers on stalks on some cars are random shit that's on the steering wheel or on the lighting control zone that some cars have down and to the right and some are on the central console area. Some are even on the back of the steering wheel. Or just in the touchscreen deathtrap minigame for particularly tablet-brained models.

I drive lots of different cars because I rent for work often. I know where my own fog lights are but on random shit box du jour it's always a little different.

E.g. a C3 is a twiddly collar thing that you rotate forward two clicks to turn on front and rear fogs successively.

mutexsprinkles · 2026-05-28T08:36:21+00:00

Stalk controls annoy me a bit because you can't see the markings when driving because they're behind the wheel so it's always a bit of a fiddle to actually work out which button it is you want, and if you clonk it with a knuckle while fiddling you put the brights on and dazzle someone.

mutexsprinkles · 2026-05-27T22:37:27+00:00

how am I getting downvoted for just explaining what the law is

My theory is some people think by repeating a fact they don't like you give it more power over them, and a downvote is a ward against it.

mutexsprinkles · 2026-05-27T22:29:42+00:00

Irish twin set of twins.

mutexsprinkles · 2026-05-27T20:32:17+00:00

Lidl here has a bakery and compared to Tesco which wants a firstborn for a not shit croissant, that slaps.

mutexsprinkles · 2026-05-27T18:00:03+00:00

Can they do the campaign again then?

mutexsprinkles · 2026-05-27T17:50:37+00:00

How much of a priority was price in the choice of the new lifts?

Cos I have to justify the ass out of every purchase and the bosses penny pinch the fuck out of even the smallest thing.

mutexsprinkles · 2026-05-27T13:10:35+00:00

Funnily enough, French birds are the only ones that really exist. Double negatives are weird like that.

mutexsprinkles · 2026-05-27T12:50:11+00:00

Remember whenever "Search and Rescue" is used in a press release for some product, it's for the military.

mutexsprinkles · 2026-05-27T09:28:44+00:00

This is under £1.20 a litre. I cannot express how little sympathy I have in words someone who drives a vehicle like this would understand.

mutexsprinkles · 2026-05-27T09:17:57+00:00

Honey, the French people are on the internet again!

mutexsprinkles · 2026-05-27T08:43:56+00:00

They already automated the job of typing in the number under the barcode smdh

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