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@TinyHouse4Life @SirChrisWilson It was amazing, I really loved it. We only saw lions of the “big 5”, but frankly didn’t care.

@TinyHouse4Life @SirChrisWilson I once went on safari in South Africa, and these terrifying little buggers were very keen to get their share of breakfast.

@mint @Moon @marine @i @jeffcliff @sim @mk I follow several SPC accounts with no problems, FWIW, but you’re geeking beyond my skill set so it may not be relevant.

It was quiet in town today, and I got chatting to the greengrocer.

She was saying that they’d been on the verge of going under, with just her and her husband full time and a lad helping out before college in the morning, and thinking that at best they’d have to switch to just opening three days a week.

Then lockdown happened. They’ve retained a lot of the new customers they got from the veg boxes they started delivering, and now have three full-time employees as well as themselves, and three morning lads, and more in-person traffic than they had before as well.

The local butchers apparently have similar stories.

I thought it was interesting: we hear a lot about pubs and restaurants going bust, but not so much about stories like this.

@Kuenga Warmer than yesterday!

@sj_zero @alex @f1ea91eeab7988ed00e3253d5d50c66837433995348d7d97f968a0ceb81e0929 @DocScranton Damn, I almost wish I could see wtf you’re replying to but — surprise — he has us blocked.

@AnungIkwe Wait, how? Here we have blowers and ploughs, but they would never get such vertical walls with so little surrounding disturbance.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/01/12/the-ev-fiasco-has-descended-into-farce-just-ask-hertz/

[Hertz] in the US is disposing of the 20,000 EVs it bought with great fanfare in recent years, and is replacing them with petrol models. Some of the Teslas, which are no more than two years old, have been listed for sale at $14,000 – little more than a third of their $40,000 price tag when new. The company says it will take a loss of $245 million but it seems to have little choice given the lack of demand from customers and the vehicles’ higher repair costs.

What a difference from October 2021 when the company ordered 100,000 Teslas, sending the car company’s shares surging by 5 per cent. But it is indicative of a more widespread malaise in the fortunes of electric cars. Over the past year, figures from the Society for Motor Manufacturers and Traders revealed a steep fall in interest from private buyers. Now it seems that fleet buyers are having second thoughts, too.

https://archive.is/TDz7f

@Sherri_Ingrey I was going to ask if that was C or F but badum-tish!

That is bloody cold. Never gets close to that here.

@polarisera @Sherri_Ingrey Jeebus, I went badum-tish and everything!

I wonder what the Puppeteers are fleeing from this time?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-67950749

It is 1.3bn light-years in diameter and appears to be roughly 15 times the size of the Moon in the night sky as seen from Earth.

Named the Big Ring by the astronomers, it is made up of galaxies and galaxy clusters.

They say that it is so big it challenges our understanding of the universe.

I started to write a post musing on whether I should order heating oil and then realised that yes, I actually should even though I don’t really need it yet.

“You’re the fourth person this morning to say that,” said the man at the oil company.

@thatguyoverthere She’s back.

@thatguyoverthere You only need a couple of pin holes to blow an egg. I wonder if it was enlarged so that a dowel could be put into it to hold the egg upright while it was decorated.

I did once buy an ostrich egg and we had to use a drill to get into that.

@thatguyoverthere Yeah, that looks real to me. I wonder why such a big hole?

@thatguyoverthere Plausibly. I used to do some egg decorating stuff, and they felt much more solid and heavy after multiple layers of varnish.

@thatguyoverthere @white_male How are you storing them? They should be good for a couple of months without any special effort. When I had ducks, I didn’t even think about breaking them separately to check for six weeks or so.

@thatguyoverthere Apparently not: they’re talking about imposing national price fixing.

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/russias-egg-shortage-is-panicking-putins-regime/

Russia:

On Friday, the Investigatory Committee – loosely analogous to an FBI on steroids – ordered an enquiry into potential price fixing, following on the heels of Prosecutor General Igor Krasnov’s decision to launch his own probe. Rather more directly, the much-feared Federal Security Service (FSB) has been instructed to arrest anyone hoarding eggs.

How is it that my podcast app automagically rewinds slightly after pausing so that it restarts at the start of a phrase but my TV doesn’t?