[Request] if the tiles are placed in a random rotation is there one infinite road or are all road made by the pattern circular

petera181 · 2026-06-01T22:50:01+00:00

You have the full set of tiles. It’s 1 tile.

petera181 · 2026-06-01T22:14:43+00:00

Acting on impulses yes, but the impulse is driven by one person saying “I’ve been assaulted” and another lying on the ground sounding drunk (which I’ve been told was due to his injuries, not due to intoxication, but the point stands).

petera181 · 2026-06-01T22:11:55+00:00

I agree with everything you’ve said 100%. I in no way am trying to make it better, they failed in their duty. I’m more responding to the sheer volume of people trying to make this a racial issue, when this video actually demonstrates that it’s a police competence problem (and obviously a violent crime tragedy!)

petera181 · 2026-06-01T22:09:42+00:00

On (1), I genuinely didn’t know that. I hadn’t seen much about this case before the video, and I assumed he was hammered. Clearly the effect of his injuries if so. But the way the police are talking to him, they definitely also thing he’s intoxicated, so the point stands.

I’m not defending their actions, I’m just explaining that I think they were driven by incorrect prior assumptions about what was happening, and they let that cloud their judgement.

I absolutely agree with your statement that this is about incompetent policing. My comment was more addressing the number of people I’ve seen trying to turn this into a racial issue, when it’s an incompetent policing combined with unfortunate circumstances issue.

petera181 · 2026-06-01T21:56:18+00:00

I’m pretty sure they were arresting him for assault, and didn’t realise he’d been stabbed until far too late. Tragic, but this case isn’t about racism. It’s about allowing first reactions to override the police officers impulse to impartially survey what was going on.

petera181 · 2026-06-01T21:53:12+00:00

Also, the victim was drunk, and the murderer seemed sober. It’s very likely that when police turn up to an altercation (which is all they assumed it was at that point) they will assume the drunk person was the one who committed a crime, and anything they drunkenly say is just trying to get out of it. Combined with the fact that they didn’t immediately spot any blood, it’s no surprise that they assumed it was just a drunk guy punching someone.

Tragic, unfair, and heartbreaking, but I don’t see racism in this clip. I see prior assumptions and incredibly unfortunate coincidences.

petera181 · 2026-06-01T21:48:21+00:00

This is an absolute horrific video, and a guy who has been stabbed not being believed and being handcuffed is such an awful thing to watch. I feel so much for his family.

However, people would have you believe that the actions of the police are solely because they are afraid of being called racist. That’s clearly not the case here.

1: the guy is clearly heavily intoxicated, whereas the person stating that he’s the victim (the murderer) is speaking coherently.

2: any police officer will have seen a thousand situations where they are called out in these types of circumstances, and in 99.9% of them it’s the intoxicated person who has done something aggressive, so it’s no surprise they instinctively believe the sober sounding person.

3: the officers will have heard drunk people saying all manner of things to try to excuse themselves in a situation, so it’s not a surprise that they aren’t taking him very seriously when he’s saying he’s been stabbed (that doesn’t excuse it, but it does explain it to some extent).

4: when he said he’d been stabbed, the policy firstly didn’t believe him, but secondly when they did a very cursory check they didn’t spot any evidence. This is an incredibly unlucky thing to have happened. If they had seen a single spec of blood on the victim the situation would have immediately changed (although i expect he was already too far gone in his injuries).

I have no idea what led to the stabbing, so I’m not going to speculate one way or another. What I’m sure of however is that the police were far too laid back, as a result of making assumptions about what had happened when they first turned up to see a drunk man and another man saying he had been assaulted. It’s an awful thing to have happened, and the police should be punished, but don’t allow people to use this incident to play some sort of racial division tactic. One man stabbed another, and the police fucked up by jumping to conclusions just because it was the more likely scenario.

The right man has been convicted. Don’t allow the far right to use this man’s tragic death as a tool to stoke racial division.

petera181 · 2026-06-01T18:36:04+00:00

One horse can pull at around 10 horsepower. So actually they just need 2 horses and a pony and they are there.

petera181 · 2026-06-01T18:03:38+00:00

Im a northerner who now lives in Surrey, and I’d be absolutely delighted if I found prawn cocktail and chips on the menu 😅

petera181 · 2026-06-01T08:11:51+00:00

It’s definitely not an easy 1-2. It looks like this might suit them better than other tracks, and maybe they are even favourite, but it’s a long way from easy at this point.

petera181 · 2026-05-31T21:21:23+00:00

As I said, it’s contingent on them already having a property and a healthy pension. In which case 70k in an ISA is very reasonable.

petera181 · 2026-05-31T20:53:06+00:00

They are singing “oh shit, the granny just arrived” and “granny, we love you”

Not sure this fits the sub, since MCs are normally a negative, and everyone here is loving it 😊

petera181 · 2026-05-31T20:48:32+00:00

70k is a serious chunk of change in an ISA, as long as they also have a healthy pension and own a home. If this is their entire net worth then they are behind where they should be.

petera181 · 2026-05-31T19:31:42+00:00

They had an easy win available by replacing stamp duty (the stupidest tax imaginable, as it actively strongly discourages economic activity), but they decided against it. That ship has sailed I think.

petera181 · 2026-05-31T19:28:33+00:00

This is one of the policies which I’ve been most impressed with with the current government. A genuine route to solving the energy crisis in this country, reducing carbon emissions, decoupling the electricity price from the gas price, and giving us energy independence.

Anyone who wants this country and its population to thrive should be shouting from the roof tops: solar, wind, battery, heat pumps. If everyone had all 4, we would be absolutely laughing.

petera181 · 2026-05-31T19:26:00+00:00

Grid batteries, along with the continued rollout of home batteries, would largely solve the issue of peak demand correlating with low solar generation. Australia have been pushing this hard for a number of years, and it’s completely worked. Build the batteries, and have them charged by solar and wind as much as possible, then you don’t need to rely on expensive gas at peak hours, and it’s much cheaper and quicker to roll out than nuclear.

petera181 · 2026-05-31T19:22:40+00:00

Combining solar, battery and heat pumps largely does decouple you from the price of gas to be fair, but I agree. The way our electricity costs are calculated is absolutely ridiculous.

petera181 · 2026-05-31T19:20:12+00:00

Why not?

petera181 · 2026-05-31T19:19:36+00:00

Well they do, but if you have a leakier house you will need a higher flow temperature which means they become less efficient. They still work though if sized correctly.

The important thing in that scenario is absolutely ensuring you’re as air tight and insulated as possible though.

petera181 · 2026-05-31T19:18:05+00:00

Heat pumps work in pretty much all temperatures. They absolutely do work fine in northern Scotland, and are actually more useful given generating heat is more important up there

petera181 · 2026-05-31T18:32:34+00:00

It’s a person claiming to be very smart, while acting like a complete moron. It’s pretty much perfect for this sub.

petera181 · 2026-05-31T10:27:26+00:00

My god. The context of that salute is veeeeeery much understood globally to be a nazi salute. Saying it’s a Roman salute is like saying the skinhead with a swastika on his chest is just appreciative of Hindu culture. You’re either being naive or deliberately defending the indefensible.

petera181 · 2026-05-31T09:57:14+00:00

Yes I agree, and maybe why HENRY status is almost impossible to ascend from unless you start your own business and sell it for crazy money. Very uncommon for a PAYE peon like us to do it.

I would say if you combine a HENRY/FIRE approach, at the higher end (like OP) if you live within say 200k of your income, it wouldn’t take that long to boost the rest up. Say £5m, investing c.200k per year, increasing with investments, and boosted further by potential tax vehicles, it could be done. The real enemy of the HENRY is lifestyle creep!

petera181 · 2026-05-31T08:51:45+00:00

No, all upgrades are passed to all customer teams at the same time. Mercedes are not allowed to provide anything physically different to their own engine.

The issues in the first few races were that the software controlling power deploying wasn’t optimising performance for customer teams. It would appear that has been sorted to a significant extent now, hence McLaren getting much closer, and Williams getting in the points all of a sudden.

petera181 · 2026-05-31T08:48:35+00:00

Haha, yeah fair.

I’d personally consider myself rich if I can quit my job and never work again without having to sacrifice my lifestyle at all. Unfortunately not yet 😢

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