robin_reala

There was quite a famous Elizabeth II.

“The Murders in the Rue Morgue”, if anyone’s wondering about the detective story: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/edgar-allan-poe/short-fict...

Whatever info you’re working from is out of date. The Greens currently have 5 MPs: https://members.parliament.uk/parties/commons

If you’ve got very large containers of sand you can just store energy as heat instead, especially if you’re planning to use the energy for heating eventually: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_energy_storage

The real solution is punitive spam legislation. I can’t remember the last time I had a spam text and I’ve had the same number for 10 years.

Yet. They’ll have to claw back the PE cash at some point.

Yep. My household backs up to a Synology NAS via Time Machine: https://kb.synology.com/en-global/DSM/tutorial/How_to_back_u...

There’s an old story about sausages: the very finely minced sausages like Frankfurters used to be the height of sophistication because of the sheer amount of time it took a person to get the meat that processed, and you wouldn’t use lower quality meat for something that expensive. As soon as industrial mincers became a thing people realised you could throw in the proverbial lips and anuses because the cost per unit dropped so much, and so sausages like salsiccia are now the expensive ones because you have a better chance of identifying the quality of the meat.

They stopped in January: https://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/eM3mQa/tv4-slutar-sanda...