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Post by stixxuk on Oct 25, 2021 8:39:00 GMT
My house doesn't even have a cavity in the brick in the original parts (also got an extension which is all insulated to modern standards with underfloor heating which should be fine).
Hopefully in 10+ years when the boiler gives up the tech will have improved and make hotter water from a smaller unit, right?
Was wondering if I'd get away with putting a heat pump up on a bit of flat roof in my house, they look fucking massive.
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Post by Honk If You're Horny? on Oct 25, 2021 8:43:44 GMT
Personally, I would love us to progress into a workless society and seems inevitable with the progression of technology. It will be a very, very long process to happen though and many wont be able to accept the very idea of it. Just look at how much scorn many people still treat the idea of a four day week. I also expect we will need some sort of currently magic seeming tech, like a Star Trek replicator, before we can really do it. Back in the 80s, a lot of academics were seriously discussing what to do with all the free time that people would inevitably have now that PCs, Email etc were being introduced into offices. There was the serious idea that the increased efficiency would mean that we'd all have only 3-4 hours of actual work each week, so they were worrying about how people would keep busy. That seems to have been about as good a prediction as flying Deloreans. I guess it's hard to predict the impact that technology will have on society and work. I was reading a comic a few years back, where the rich lived in compounds with private security forces, and most of the poor had been reduced back to serfs of their corporate overlords. Alternatively, another book I read recently had a cashless society, but basically everyone was just indentured servants to their company, who would get sent to new worlds to produce for the company, and what they'd get out of it was basically food, housing and basic needs. So, even if the march of AI and Robots does get rid of most low/intermediate jobs, I'm not sure we'll end up in a Star Trek / UBI utopia.
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Post by Dougs on Oct 25, 2021 8:55:34 GMT
This whole thing has got me stressed out somewhat. I had to get the cavity fill removed from my house as it was causing damp problems. We have great windows installed now but the rest of the fabric is as basic as it comes - a double skin of brick and render and that’s it. Same as you there’s nowhere to put the thing either as our house design has the entrance on the side and the main rooms back and front. Under the front window? At the ‘front’ door? Fuck knows. We have a side entrance and passageway which is used for direct access to the kitchen with muddy boots etc. The new boiler would be going on that wall, so in theory a heat pump could too - but it's not very wide so could see it jutting out too far. Plus, I have no idea how effective a heat pump would be on the shadiest part of the property (thanks to my neighbours' house)
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Post by nexus6 on Oct 25, 2021 8:57:18 GMT
My house doesn't even have a cavity in the brick in the original parts (also got an extension which is all insulated to modern standards with underfloor heating which should be fine). Hopefully in 10+ years when the boiler gives up the tech will have improved and make hotter water from a smaller unit, right? Was wondering if I'd get away with putting a heat pump up on a bit of flat roof in my house, they look fucking massive. Agreed, hopefully, like electric cars, the longer you hold off the better the tech will be. So smaller heat pumps and more efficient would be a gain. I would hope they could be put on a roof too as it's the only place I could see me putting mine. They seem frigging huge so it would need screened somehow sitting up there so as not to look ridiculous. My question would be about the huge stock of 100 - 150 year old tenement flats up here for example - how do they cope with heat pumps? There is often no space, they are really tall despite being only 4 storeys, and they have multiple owners who all need to agree/cough up the dough. There is huge scope for piss-taking from private companies working for the government, as always with these initiatives
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Post by stuz359 on Oct 25, 2021 18:57:21 GMT
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Post by technoish on Oct 25, 2021 19:20:50 GMT
They are often put on roofs in other countries. My house in DC had a massive AC and forced heat furnace for heating on the roof.
The size depends on supply needed.
Don't think sun light has any impact.
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Post by Bill in the rain on Oct 26, 2021 5:07:09 GMT
Unexpected source to say the least, although he's always been a bit of a hard line libertarian - for good and bad.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 26, 2021 9:46:40 GMT
They know it's going to be challenged so have primed a fucking moron to (mis)lead it, would be the conspiratorial explanation, but I don't think he's up to understanding anything that complicated. www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/oct/26/owen-paterson-faces-suspension-breaking-lobbying-rulesA serious and egregious breach, which earns him a month off work. 6 years he's been at it. I really don't see how it brings the house into disrepute however, it could not possibly have less repute than it currently has. Useful cover for whatever shit they are up to today infact. The Speaker says the Chancellor should resign for instance, but that is already being forgotten, as just commonplace parliamentary activity under the current leadership.
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Post by drhickman1983 on Oct 26, 2021 9:48:28 GMT
So a serious breach earns him a nice month holiday. Wonderful.
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Post by dam on Oct 26, 2021 10:48:27 GMT
So a serious breach earns him a nice month holiday. Wonderful. He's now claiming that the investigation caused his wife to kill herself. She was being investigated for the race course stuff too. Nice deflection.
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Post by Dgzter on Oct 26, 2021 11:20:38 GMT
It's absolutely grim stuff. Not really sure how to respond to this:
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Post by Sarfrin on Oct 26, 2021 11:21:18 GMT
'Natural justice' presumably meaning 'I'm never in the wrong.' If it did play a role in his wife's suicide he should feel guilty for breaking the rules in the first place and not blame the people who caught him at it.
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Post by stuz359 on Oct 26, 2021 11:38:34 GMT
Natural Justice is code for 'do they know who I am?'
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Post by Deleted on Oct 26, 2021 11:50:58 GMT
It's all just noise now. Even when Tory MPs wrote to senior judges to tell them to exonerate a Tory MP (Elphicke) charged with sexual offences, it was forgotten in the one day suspensions some of them received, they were even allowed to refuse to apologise.
Sympathetic rumblings from senior Tories will now follow until Paterson is back grifting with the rest of them. They are probably slightly miffed he was stupid enough to be caught, but they will close ranks as ever.
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Post by dogbot on Oct 26, 2021 11:52:25 GMT
"My only crime was... getting... caught..."
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Post by X201 on Oct 26, 2021 17:07:09 GMT
Quality Tory trick of give a pay rise to the public sector that won’t actually amount to anything. It will vanish in their National Insurance rise and inflation heading off towards 4-5%
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Post by Techno Hippy on Oct 26, 2021 17:13:47 GMT
We need to crowdfund a Font Geek space station so that we can dust off and apply mustard to Mother Earth's anus from orbit. I did take part in a crowd funded space telescope, but unfortunately it blew up on a Russian launch pad,
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Post by technoish on Oct 26, 2021 18:17:42 GMT
Quality Tory trick of give a pay rise to the public sector that won’t actually amount to anything. It will vanish in their National Insurance rise and inflation heading off towards 4-5% I do wonder if they will confirm what level it will be. My money is on 2%. Which will still be a real terms cut but will start to inflate away my mortgage!!!
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Post by stuz359 on Oct 26, 2021 18:35:11 GMT
Astonishing clip.
You can criticise XR or Insulate Britain all you like, but if this is the level of ignorance on display, all power to them.
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Post by Rich on Oct 26, 2021 19:39:52 GMT
Quality Tory trick of give a pay rise to the public sector that won’t actually amount to anything. It will vanish in their National Insurance rise and inflation heading off towards 4-5% I do wonder if they will confirm what level it will be. My money is on 2%. Which will still be a real terms cut but will start to inflate away my mortgage!!! Are they actually going to announce a figure? Sound on the news this morning that they were just going to announce that the various independent pay review bodies will be invited to conduct their reviews and make recommendations next April... which the government will as always; ignore and do it's own thing. Either way, it will still end up being a pay cut that we're told we should be grateful for.
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Post by Danno on Oct 26, 2021 19:41:56 GMT
Astonishing clip. You can criticise XR or Insulate Britain all you like, but if this is the level of ignorance on display, all power to them. That can't be real It's real, isn't it. That man exists, cannot think, and has a job on talkradio.
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Post by Rich on Oct 26, 2021 19:43:27 GMT
It's brilliant. And really bizarre that both Mike Graham and Talk Radio have retweeted claiming a win.
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Post by Danno on Oct 26, 2021 19:45:07 GMT
Slight aside but James Felton remains one of the few reasons to venture onto Twitter. I might make another account and just follow him.
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Post by Whizzo on Oct 26, 2021 19:46:00 GMT
What's even more bizarre about that clip, Mike Graham being thick isn't, is that TalkRadio pinned it to their Twitter and was trying to make out it was something to be proud of. They later dug up an article about bacteria being used to grow "concrete" that's not actually concrete as evidence their bloke wasn't being a moron, it being theoretical made them look even more demented.
Still people using renewable wood rather than good old natural concrete are obviously woke or something.
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Post by Rich on Oct 26, 2021 19:47:49 GMT
Carpenters are the new metropolitan elite.
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Post by anthonyuk on Oct 26, 2021 20:09:45 GMT
Anyone else feel that short talk radio clip is like something from V for Vendetta?
Who the hell tunes into that.
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Post by technoish on Oct 26, 2021 20:15:44 GMT
I do wonder if they will confirm what level it will be. My money is on 2%. Which will still be a real terms cut but will start to inflate away my mortgage!!! Are they actually going to announce a figure? Sound on the news this morning that they were just going to announce that the various independent pay review bodies will be invited to conduct their reviews and make recommendations next April... which the government will as always; ignore and do it's own thing. Either way, it will still end up being a pay cut that we're told we should be grateful for. Not sure but I had an inkling it would be a bit more than that, as it has a big impact on departmental costs. Also expect to see something on workforce numbers.
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Post by Jambowayoh on Oct 26, 2021 20:24:20 GMT
Anyone else feel that short talk radio clip is like something from V for Vendetta? Who the hell tunes into that. Cunts. Cunts tune into that kind of stuff. Then they type into YouTube "Right wing hero DESTROYS libtard".
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Post by stuz359 on Oct 26, 2021 20:43:31 GMT
It feels like a parody clip from Robocop.
Anyway, they have been doing roadworks near where I live, so I'm going to plant it, water it every day and let you know how it goes.
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Post by sport✅ on Oct 26, 2021 20:48:57 GMT
Carpenters are the new metropolitan elite. Given the price of lumber these days, you're not far off.
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