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> "What is the airspeed of an unladen swallow? (European or African)"

What are you expecting to get from something like that?

FWIW I'm not arguing against it.

> Change power pricing to be cheaper at off peak times

That's already the case. But with 2 million or so cars sucking juice at night, that will no longer be "off peak" and of course the grid needs some downtime which will be harder to do then.

Ireland's electricity is quite dirt. Coal and peat are being phased out, so they already need to replace existing grid generators and now top up with lots of new generation too.

As said, I'm sceptical about it all until I see the grid plans.

I can't wait to get me some Itchy and Scratchy Money

PCPs for everyone! (joke, but seriously I think this is what they expect/want)

Yeah, not buying it until I see the plans on how they're going to increase the national grid to power this.

I see what you did there. But I don't live in the US, if I did I would feel the same about that funding.

Yeah I don't see what that has to do with my comment. I don't want my taxes sent to subsidise their space industry, nuke program or military. Not a big ask really.

I don't live in the US.

I have no problem with India doing whatever it wants and prioritising certain things above others. I do object to my taxes funding foreign aid to a country that have a well developed nuke program, a big military and a burgeoning space industry. Good for them but not with my money thanks.

Not British, but two Irish acquaintances of mine were rounded up and deported from the US in the early 2010s. I don't see a problem, they broke the law in illegally moving there. Such practices were common among Irish up until the 2000s. Doesn't happen so much anymore, but then again it is near impossible to legally emigrate there if you're from Ireland.

What about Coke Zero?

> israel withdrew from gaza in 2005, but kept control of access points

Why does Egypt blockade Gaza on their side? (serious q)

> Who owns a car here?

I do (Uk). I don't know of a single friend, family member, work colleague or as part of a couple, which doesn't have a car.

My car has a touch screen and I hate it. Aside from being crap, I cannot safely use it while driving.

Yep, still there. I picked up a nice tree ornament last month :)

I only ever code at home when I'm prepping for an interview.

I stopped watching early in the season. The episode with the severed babies head... where it became clear that we're gonna get a spin-off about StarFleet spies... No thanks, as a lifelong Trekkie it felt strange to switch off. But I started watching the Orville and am loving it.

Weird that it's happening again. I wonder what infrastructure changes they're making to presumably cause this?

Ah yes, the SNP voting against the reforms in England and Wales (which they enjoy in Scotland) was hilarious. Nats gonna nat.

> Didn’t “the next island over” have Father Ted Crilly at just the right time?

British produced and made, Irish written and acted. Guess it depends on your defintion of an Irish show but you can be sure that if something is funny, RTE had absolutely nothing to do with it.

I don't do any of the above! I lock it, keep it up to date and are not foolish about what to run/download.

> take cheap shots at "lib" cities like SF

Possibly but I'll throw my two cents in. Non-American here with no Dem or Rep axe to grind, SF is the most disgusting western city I've ever been to.

> supervised injection sites

As long as they're located in the parts of town where the rich/upper class live, I say go for it.

Is drug testing common in the US? Here in the UK, outside of certain fields, I've never heard of it and would laugh if I were asked to.

> First Facebook disappeared behind it’s own walls, then google...

Google stopped XMPP compatibility before FB messenger did. I believe the latter still had an interface to the XMPP world up until 2015.

> Also, at what point does an Instagram account become "inactive"?

When rich and famous people want your handle.

Aye, it's my goto for viewing diffed files from mercurial and git. Really nice tool.

So... what are they going to do?

I'm in the UK. It wasn't a comment on the limiter as such, rather pointing out to the above poster that going under the speed limit can be very dangerous too.