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@DanielW_Kiwi This has been my go-to for years and years. I hate stickers on things, and always remove them. Eucalyptus oil removes the residue and it smells great. Win-win situation.

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3 weeks ago

@merkin_about The best time

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This past week, on a test bed in Britain, a Rolls-Royce jet engine ran at full take-off power on pure hydrogen, putting out water vapour instead of carbon. Nobody on Earth had managed it before. It is the sort of thing that ought to stop the country in its tracks, and it will be forgotten by the weekend. Leave aside the recent paroxysms of renewed net-zero insanity from Derelict Ed and the pervasive atmosphere of offended envy that greets much homegrown achievement nowadays in Britain. This engineering is a wonder, and it's British to the bone. We gave the world the jet engine in the first place - Frank Whittle, a Coventry man and an RAF officer, patented it in 1930 while the Air Ministry assured him it was a curiosity. Rolls-Royce is today one of perhaps three firms anywhere that can build a large aero engine at the outer edge of the possible, and it has just done what most of the industry swore was twenty years away. As usual, you marvel at how little the people who govern us had to do with it. The engineers in Derby are world-class; the stewardship above them is third-rate. They pulled off a global first while paying the most expensive industrial electricity in the developed world to keep the power on over the bench - a weight no German, American or Gulf rival has to carry. We produce frontier brilliance on the shop floor and fritter it away at the despatch box, and we have done for two generations. That is the maddening shape of modern Britain: brilliance from below, sub- (or, indeed, ultra-) mediocrity from above. The people here who actually make things are still among the best in the world; the state that is meant to back them treats a firm like Rolls-Royce as a photocall today and a takeover target tomorrow, and prices its energy as though it would prefer the next plant were built in Texas. Progress starts from the other end. Give these people what every rival government gives its champions and we beg ours to do without: the cheap, abundant power their competitors already enjoy, a supply chain built around them, and a state that guards a national asset rather than auctioning it. The hard part of a British revival - the talent, the nerve, the engineering - is already done, and was done again this week, by people who deserve a far better country than the one currently sitting above them. We just taught an engine to breathe fire and exhale water. The least we owe the men and women who managed it is a government and a state as brilliant as they are.

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3 weeks ago

@iPaulie Looking sharp!

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3 weeks ago

@algorithmsayshi Damn straight - best city in the world 🌃

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3 weeks ago

@GunGnome There will be ways you can sync the watch to an emulated time signal from your computer, e.g. jrcomputing.com.au/Set_Watch/Set_…

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3 weeks ago

@DaveMilbo Betteridge's law of headlines states: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no." If the publishers were confident that the answer was yes, they would have presented it as an assertion.

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3 weeks ago

@merkin_about Geely cars have a 7 year, unlimited km warranty and 12 months free roadside assistance. Roadside is extended for 12 months when you service your car with Geely. The battery has an 8 year warranty that guarantees that you'll have at least 70% battery health after 8 years of use.