Mr_Happy_80
Mr_Happy_80 t1_jbzymce wrote
Reply to comment by criminal_cabbage in France to Invest €100 Billion in Railway Infrastructure by Winstonoceaniasmith
Yeah it is well out of date as everyone remembers that nationalisation spree the government went on with the railways after Jeremy Corbyn won the election.
Mr_Happy_80 t1_jaenecc wrote
Reply to comment by monkeypox_69 in TIL that due to "Subjective Age" most children and adolescents feel older than they really are. But this switches at around 25. By age 30, around 70% of people feel younger than they really are, with the discrepancy between actual age and subjective age growing over time. by AspireAgain
I see more and more white hair each time I look in the mirror, but I'm fitter and more dangerous as a sportsman at 40 than I was when I was 30.
Mr_Happy_80 t1_j6evvnx wrote
Reply to comment by vincent3878 in You can rent watering cans at our local cemetery by Derboman
Reeeeeeeeeaaaaaalllyyyyy. Mind blowing.
Mr_Happy_80 t1_j6evock wrote
Reply to comment by Bad_Manners1234 in You can rent watering cans at our local cemetery by Derboman
Because it was a joke about the Germans supposed love of rules and rule following. It's almost like it can be acceptable for one European national to joke about the habits of other European nationals.
Mr_Happy_80 t1_j6euxgr wrote
Reply to comment by vincent3878 in You can rent watering cans at our local cemetery by Derboman
Maybe. That sign is in Dutch though.
Mr_Happy_80 t1_j6djwc8 wrote
Reply to comment by canarow in You can rent watering cans at our local cemetery by Derboman
If there's one thing Germans love, it's following rules. Everyone knows to return the watering cans, so the watering cans are returned.
It is quite telling about the Dutch that despite having a deposit system on the cans they're essentially useless anyway as people have stolen the roses from the spouts.
Mr_Happy_80 t1_iyje76b wrote
Reply to comment by kokopilau in TIL that the southern United States converted all 11,500+ miles of its railroads from broad gauge (5 ft/1.524 m) to nearly-standard gauge (4 ft 9 in/1.448 m) in just 36 hours, starting on May 31, 1886 by 1859
It doesn't really matter. Setting up trains for other gauges isn't hard, as there were plenty of old BREL locomotives sold to Eastern Europe and Asia converted to 3ft or 2.5ft gauges.
Mr_Happy_80 t1_iyf5bkl wrote
Reply to comment by level100Weeb in Revealed: more than 70% of English water industry is in foreign ownership by greatdevonhope
It's the fault of Conservative governments selling state assets to their friends for pennies on the pound. The resulting lack of investment is why our beaches are polluted and raw sewage is being pumped in to our rivers.
If you want an example of why private companies are the wrong people to own and run public services then look at the UK. From water, to public transport, to health care, to electricity, to oil and gas, to post, it's one monumental cluster fuck set up to line the pockets of shareholders with tax payer's money.
Mr_Happy_80 t1_ixpsczl wrote
Reply to comment by gutzilla309 in Someone suggested this might fit here. Me in 1987 on my 1977 XR75. by gutzilla309
My father sold all of ours when we had out grown them. I have got an '89 KX80 we restored together, which the kids aren't allowed to ride.
Mr_Happy_80 t1_iucimp1 wrote
Reply to comment by thelovelykyle in Qatar lavished British MPs with gifts ahead of World Cup by ladyem8
Get educated.
Mr_Happy_80 t1_iuchqfb wrote
Reply to comment by thelovelykyle in Qatar lavished British MPs with gifts ahead of World Cup by ladyem8
Uncle Rupert's lie machine has got you good.
Mr_Happy_80 t1_iuchg4y wrote
Reply to comment by thelovelykyle in Qatar lavished British MPs with gifts ahead of World Cup by ladyem8
Wake up, mate. Labour isn't the party of the left any more. Keith even stood up at the party conference and said Labour is back in the centre. It should be no where near it.
The voting record isn't opposite each other, as Labour MPs have some of the worst attendance. Not attending a vote is agreeing with the bill that succeeds. All turning up to vote against Austerity bills is voter pandering. For every Zarah Sultana there are 5 red tie Tories.
In power they're not in a rush to reverse anything. Privatised industry is still privatised and will remain so. A windfall tax is just another tax on us. Tell me I'm wrong.
Mr_Happy_80 t1_iucajpf wrote
Reply to comment by _CurseTheseMetalHnds in Qatar lavished British MPs with gifts ahead of World Cup by ladyem8
The Tories can't decide what their stance is on fracking, having U turned 5 times in the last 6 months.
A windfall tax isn't a tax on energy companies, it is another tax on working people that hits the poorest the hardest. It is still our money. We don't need windfall taxes, we need a regulator that does something and isn't run by someone's friend from public school.
We have a shadow health minister pushing for more NHS privatisation as he's in the pocket of insurance companies, and other MPs in the pocket of foreign owned water companies.
They're all the same. Keith is another Blairite Tory in a red tie.
Mr_Happy_80 t1_iu9ub4y wrote
Reply to Advice for repair/replacement for stripped under-countertop dishwasher anchors? by nineinchgod
As a bodge to get by on the spot, I've put match sticks in the holes and wound the screw back in.
Look at putting in insert nuts and bolt it down. Or a bolt through and nut on the other side.
Mr_Happy_80 t1_jcte6ug wrote
Reply to comment by PotentialSpend8532 in We've had public access to ChatGPT for 3 months now. Has anyone made any actual profitable business or quality thing with it? by eratonnn
> it has easily saved me 100 hours since release
That's the thing people are missing. It's not going to replace everyone, it's a tool that can reduce the hours a project can take. That means people are going to be put out of work in the way CNC machines replaced machinists.
I use ChatGPT to assist with coding on projects and I use it the way I use my CNC machines. It isn't going to do the whole job for me, but if I set it up correctly it will output the result I need that works. If I set it up poorly, with the wrong tools and substandard programs, then it spits out a result that is crap, and I'm to blame rather than the machine.