3 dB is a doubling/having of sound pressure, so 3.5 is not nothing

Wow, tough guy here

These things only become meaningful when you look at emissions per capita AND remember that China manufactures large amounts of the world’s stuff. All your iPhone emissions count as China’s because it was manufactured there, but they really belong to your country. Same for loads of other stuff. Careful you don’t fall for the tenor of this article, because it’s probably intended to distract you (“Why should I bother when China is really bad?”) and keep you consuming

Important to know that real-world testing shows that PHEVs are rarely plugged in and just burn oil much of the time

Except people don’t plug in their hybrids and run them on fossil fuels. Hybrids are yet another way the FF industry keeps itself going while pretending things are being fixed

People need to hire vehicles occasionally rather than buy more polluting vehicles against some rare edge case

If anyone finds themselves in this position, you should ignore everything else and just look at the ERTO size, which should be on the tyre itself. This is a standard way of measuring tyres and wheels, and is much better than the old ways

Here’s a really good analysis of how it’s not true the Boomers have all the money - there are lots of very comfortable Millennials too. It’s more complicated than people like to think

Didn’t want to walk more than the absolute minimum distance, I suspect. And/or didn’t want their precious PCP baby out of their eyesight

It also feels like a way to funnel bribes to politicians in plain sight, by paying them massive sums to rant at a camera with barely anyone watching

Woodlice

m’=m-45. Fixed it for you

The main alternative would be state funding, proportional to vote share. The big question would be how one establishes a new party

Loads of people - probably most people - didn’t have Sky. When did shoveling cash at Murdoch become some sort of minimum entry level for society? Not having a TV would be vaguely interesting, but not having Sky means nothing

Hark at Simeon Stylites here

Ah, thanks. I knew it was something like that. I bow to your superior knowledge on 80s sci fi comedies

IIRC it was a character in the movie Spaceballs, and he got into trouble for using the name

Although that photo looks like the old days, when he was Lord Buckethead. He had to change the name for copyright reasons

Never read anything into a one-off result. You need to see how you get on over multiple occasions to have any idea if there’s a pattern. Keep going! (Because by the time you’ve got more data points, you’ll also be fitter 😉)

I got some of those Chipolo trackers shown in the photo. So far I’m pretty disappointed. Based on the locations being reported, I’m pretty sure my phone is the only one in my city working on the Find my Device system, and even that is intermittent. For example, I’ve left my bike, which has a Chipolo tracker hidden on it, in public places such as a busy train station. After two days on the station platform - with goodness knows how many Android phones passing by - the bike is still showing as being at home in my garage. Like, it didn’t even get logged on my own phone as I cycled to the station and left the bike and tracker there. The system really isn’t up to speed yet