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I can’t imagine that it’d be possible to do that and conform to building code without some kind of special exemption.

Honestly, I’d think that if there’s demand for a leaning pub like that – and I think there is…I mean, I’ve heard about that thing repeatedly, seen video in it, and I live in the US – it’d be easier to just build one whose owners want to run one, let them gave whatever building code exemptions are required. IIRC, that pub is kind of out of the way, not really where one would expect to put a new pub, given the choice.

AGI is not a new term. It’s been in use since the 90s and the concept has been around for much longer.

It’s not new today, but it post-dates “AI” and hit the same problem then.

I can see your comment from lemmy.today and on lemmy.ml and on kbin.social.

I can see a response to you from @dandroid on lemmy.today and on lemmy.ml. I cannot see that response from kbin.social.

Posting from a kbin.social account to avoid the lemmy.today issues – on lemmy.today, the current behavior looks like the messages in the queue go out when the instance is restarted, but not until then. It’s running 0.19.1.

I am not the admin there, but wanted to make that available in case other instances are affected and trying to diagnose similar behavior; federation problems themselves can cause communication problems in trying to understand the issue.

https://archive.ph/LSiRh

Heh, I checked the air price and updated my comment after you commented but before I read your comment, but yeah, good point.

I don’t care if the train takes 8 or 10 hours to go from one end of the country to the other what I care about is the fact that you are raped by the 200 plus charge.

goes to look

It looks like a rail ticket a week from now (October 10) is about £220 from London to Inverness. A bus ticket (megabus) can be had for £27. On the other hand, rail is about 8 hours and the bus 13 hours.

So if you would like to optimize for price, I suppose that the bus probably is a lot more appealing, though the trip will take longer.

EDIT: Just to check what you could theoretically get the bus time down to, Google Maps says that it’s about 10 hours to go from London to Inverness in a car. So that’s about the floor on what a bus service could do (no changes, no intermediate stops), short of introducing new or faster highways.

EDIT2: For completeness, air (easyJet) appears to be available for that route for £51 and take 1 hour and 40 minutes. More expensive than the bus, but also much less so than rail, and considerably faster than either.

Severn Trent Green Power published a statement on their Facebook page saying they could "confirm that at around 19:20 this evening, a digester tank at its Cassington AD facility near Yarnton, Oxfordshire, was struck by lightning resulting in the biogas within that tank igniting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning_rod

A lightning rod or lightning conductor (British English) is a metal rod mounted on a structure and intended to protect the structure from a lightning strike. If lightning hits the structure, it will preferentially strike the rod and be conducted to ground through a wire, instead of passing through the structure, where it could start a fire or cause electrocution.

The principle of the lightning rod was first detailed by Benjamin Franklin in Pennsylvania in 1755,[2] who in subsequent years developed his invention for household application (published in 1757) and made further improvements towards a reliable system around 1760.

This seems like the sort of thing that one could reasonably equip a facility with large tanks of explosive gas with in 2023.

EDIT:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaerobic_digestion

Image: Biogas holder with lightning protection rods and backup gas flare

That seems to have pointy pole things extending above their tanks.

This is a picture of the facility that just had the explosion:

https://www.stgreenpower.co.uk/assets/images/banners/Severn-Trent-Green-Power-cassington-AD-page-banner.jpg

I do not seem, at a cursory glance, to see any pointy pole things extending above the tanks at the facility that just had the explosion.

An example of another government effort to gather up unused windows and send them to Ukraine:

https://sundries.com.ua/en/the-lithuanian-capital-will-share-window-glass-with-ukraine/

The Lithuanian capital will share window glass with Ukraine

Window glass is what the cities and villages of Ukraine affected by enemy shelling need today. Unfortunately, the country is unable to meet this need. Residents and businesses of Vilnius are urged to hand over windows and double-glazed windows to restore housing in Ukraine damaged by Russian shelling. The corresponding address was made by the mayor of the Lithuanian capital Remigijus Šimašius on Facebook.

According to him, mayors and residents of Ukrainian cities are asking for help in restoring windows, as many houses have holes covered with cardboard instead of windows.

“If you are a business, you may still have windows from your renovated home. If you make glass, you can contribute to helping Ukraine. I have already invited companies from the Municipality of Vilnius, the community of developers and members of the Lithuanian Builders’ Association. Thank you to everyone who responded quickly,” – Šimašius wrote.

He also called on his compatriots to make an inventory of their garages and dachas in search of building materials that could remain after the repairs. While, glass sheets with an area of ​​at least 1 square meter are suitable for collection. (possible with frames) and double-glazed windows. Shimashius noted the points where you can pass.

The self-government of the Lithuanian capital is taking over the delivery of glass to Ukraine.

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It looks like the British government is presently subsidizing insulation improvements to British homes. One option that it apparently chose not to do was to subsidize upgrading to double-glazed windows:

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1152132/gb-insulation-scheme-government-response.pdf

Some trade associations and manufacturers agreed with the proposed measures but pointed
towards benefits that additional measures could bring, such as insulation measures for doors
and windows. Draught proofing, double glazing, and ventilation measures were the most
common ones highlighted by respondents as missing from the Scheme. A few respondents
pointed towards the need to incentivise solid wall insulation further, which is needed in many
fuel poor homes.

Of the minority that disagreed with our proposal, the most popular suggestion was to allow
further insulation measures such as double glazing or draught proofing, to provide suppliers
and households with the maximum level of flexibility.

Were the UK to increase the rate of upgrading to double-glazing via incentivizing same while requiring the donation of the removed single-glazed windows, I would think that this would kill two birds with one stone.

Submitting this, as it’s a bit surreal to see a window manufacturer go out of business due to lack of demand after reading a bunch of articles about how Ukraine’s been unable to obtain windows. When I was reading some documents from the Ukrainian government last year, one of their most-immediate economic asks was for funds to help build window and glass construction facilities, because they couldn’t get ahold of windows to replace those destroyed by explosions.

https://www.thefirstnews.com/article/warsaw-volunteers-win-praise-for-their-windows-for-ukraine-campaign-41749

A team of Warsaw-based volunteers have won praise for their campaign to replace windows in Ukraine damaged by Russian shelling.

Co-founded by Polish activist Zofia Jaworowska and Kyiv architect Petro Vladimirov, the Okno Projekt (Project Window) has so far seen hundreds of disused windows gathered and transported to enjoy a second life in war-torn Ukraine.

Born in July of last year, the initiative was launched when a wave of Ukrainians began returning home from Poland to liberated territories around Kyiv and the Chernihiv and Kherson oblasts.

Jaworowska said: “Winter was coming and it was necessary to help with repairing houses as soon as possible – in the first two months alone we managed to collect nearly 700 windows from across Poland send two full trucks to Ukraine.”

Explaining the urgency of the action, Vladimirov added: “Because of explosion, glass and windows are the first thing that are destroyed so we decided to concentrate on supplying windows. We found out that Ukraine has no facility producing window glass and that before the war 75 percent of it was imported from Russia and Belarus.”

By contrast, Poland is the largest exporter of windows in the EU.

“One and a half thousand windows in a year sounds like ‘wow’ to someone, but looking at the scale of the destruction, we understand that it is just a drop in the ocean,” said Vladimirov.

Scotland has a charity trying to put together (unglamorous) ad-hoc replacement windows for destroyed Ukrainian ones using PVC pipe and plastic wrap. Quoting them:

Since the start of the war, an estimated 1-10 million windows have been blown out in Ukraine.

It looks like the UK has some drastically-older yews.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortingall_Yew

The Fortingall Yew is an ancient European yew (Taxus baccata) in the churchyard of the village of Fortingall in Perthshire, Scotland. Considered one of the oldest trees in Britain, modern estimates place its age at an average of 5,000 years.[1]

Some estimates put the tree’s age at between 2,000 and 3,000 years; it may also be a remnant of a post-Roman Christian site and around 1,500 years old.[2] Others have suggested an age as great as 5,000 to 9,000 years. Forestry and Land Scotland consider it to be 5,000 years old.[1] This makes it one of the oldest known trees in Europe.[3] (The root system of the Norway spruce Old Tjikko in Sweden is at least 9,500 years old.[4]) The Fortingall Yew is possibly the oldest tree in Britain.[2]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llangernyw_Yew

The Llangernyw Yew ([ɬanˈɡɛrnɨu] ⓘ) is an ancient yew (Taxus baccata) in the village of Llangernyw, Conwy, North Wales. The tree is fragmented and its core part has been lost, leaving several enormous offshoots. The girth of the tree at the ground level is 10.75 m (35.3 ft).[1]

This yew tree lives in the churchyard of St. Digain’s Church in Llangernyw village. Although it is very hard to determine the age of yew trees,[2][3] the churchyard gate holds a certificate from the Yew Tree Campaign in 2002, signed by David Bellamy, which states that “according to all the data we have to hand” the tree is dated to between 4,000 and 5,000 years old.

The farmer has been doing work around the fields and cut back overgrown trees which I know needs to be done.

Rother District Council said it would not comment as the tree is on private land.

Not quite the same thing as cutting down the Sycamore Gap tree, which was on public land and cut down without the National Trust’s permission.

This yew was a quite old tree, but it’s also someone removing a tree on their land.

I don’t see a lot of point.

If you have a human driver, it reduces labor costs to have a larger vehicle. More passengers per driver. More reason to use larger vehicles like busses.

But if you have a computer driving, car size or even smaller become more relatively-appealing.

I mean, the article even brings up the labor costs issue.

Rheinmetall recently announced that they were starting up a facility in Ukraine.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/10/business/rheinmetall-german-tank-factory-ukraine/index.html

Rheinmetall will open an armored vehicle plant in Ukraine within the next 12 weeks, shrugging off concerns other Western defense companies reportedly have about building a presence in the country while it is at war with Russia.

I am guessing that the factor is more that Ukraine’s considered to have a decent-enough air-defense situation now that it’s reasonable to start operating factories without worrying about them getting hit with missiles or something.

That’s like if stone henge was knocked down

It was. Just not recently.

It also looks like bits are still coming back these days:

https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/stonehenge-missing-piece-england-scli-gbr-intl/index.html

Missing piece of Stonehenge monument returned after 60 years

“The last thing we ever expected was to get a call from someone in America telling us they had a piece of Stonehenge,” Heather Sebire, English Heritage’s curator for Stonehenge, said in a news release.

If the issue producing the high repair costs is large batteries, though, one would get lower repair costs.

EV batteries are huge, hard to repair, and expensive.

Hmm. Seems like one could make multiple smaller batteries.

I can see limiting highly-restrictive speed limits, as there could be a broader public interest outside of the location placing the limit in having traffic moving. Like, when traffic is moving from point A to B to C, B may be on the only route from A to C and not care how long it requires to get from A to C. But B’s restrictions still affect people at A and C.

But how does limiting traffic cameras make sense? I mean, either you have a speed limit or you don’t. I can’t see a good argument for limiting enforceability of speed limits.