Too said "Some wascals are saying register every one you buy - frozen or not.

https://x.com/Mr_Trubshawe/status/1839919057073500365"

HAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHHAAAAAAAAA

tomo,
Bit tricky introducing fuel into the diesel inlet with the risk of detonation during compression. Perhaps a spark ignition, with diesel-style direct injection during power stroke?

I certainly don't give the politicians a free pass. Just their whole climb up the slippery pole is all about getting (political) power, so they might have a blind spot when it comes to an excess of (kW) power.

No forgiveness for meddling with a system that used to work fine. Nor for their making themselves irrelevant by putting more and more critical decisions in the hands of unaccountable bureaucrats.

DaveS,
It's still good that the plight of sausages made it to the world stage. If only Starmer's worst sin was the occasional lapsus linguae.

tomo,
I'm sure the free online training in climate change represents fair value for money. How does it go again: if it's free, you're the product.

I can kind of forgive the politicians for not understanding the problems with excess power. The whole idea would be absurd to many of them: you can never have too much power. It's also a bit tricky to come up with a real-world analogy that they might understand. All the excess frequency and high voltages will just have them glazing over. In due course, I suppose they'll understand blackouts.

The Python gang didn't see quite far enough to foresee chicken licences, but they did explore the possibility of bee licences. I see NSW has required those since 2015. It's Brazil world; I'm sure of it.

Jo Nova has been pushing for people to make submissions to Australia's misinformation enquiry. Expectations at zero, though I did send one in. Basically said that if they're going to decide what is true and what is false, fairness demands they publish lists of official truths up front. People will then know what may not be questioned. (Of course the arbiter on matters of mis/dis-information is to be my usual bugbear, an independent authority)

More interesting (to mechanical nerds) is Porsche's new 6-stroke engine patent: goes through the usual 4-stroke cycle, then more or less grafts on a 2-stroke cycle at the end.

Very interesting, but I'm not too keen on it. Yes, I like 2-strokes' more frequent power strokes, but what I really like about them is their simplicity. The "6-stroke" suffers from being even more complicated than the 4-stroke.

Needs no introduction.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oj66kWZwYrU

tomo,
The lens part was meant to describe not to excuse. I don't think it's possible to eliminate bias — there are more reports than time to broadcast them, and random sampling wouldn't please the audience — but elimination of media groupthink would help reduce it. Tricky problem since the whole pipeline to journalism demands groupthink. How exactly did journalism become a university thing? It's the bureaucratic blob again, isn't it?

Enjoyed the scare porn. Particularly liked the precisely-vague warning that such storms would be "50% more frequent". Sounds alarming, but what does it mean in reality? They say the status quo is one such storm every 100-300 years, so 50% more frequent means one and a half such every 100-300 years; or one every 66-200 years. Pretty big overlap with what it was before.

Perhaps a bit of work on the drains might help mitigate future floods. Probably more effective than pleading with the weather gods to ease back on the rain.

Haven't heard anything on the Starmer sleaze here. Somewhat related (I suspect), in Brendan O'Neill's interview with Liam Halligan, Halligan suggested that Labour still thought it was in opposition. Consistent with Starmer's nonchalance: "the spotlight's not on us, and we can always blame the Tories".

DaveS,
Yes, we did see the pro-Palestine demonstrations in London on the news last night. Was only a brief segment showing a bit of pushing and shoving. Got rather more on pushing and shoving where Netenyahu was arriving in New York.

It is all so predictable. They might as well serve up a half hour of bleating Four legs good, two legs bad, perhaps with a short interlude for two minutes of hate.