Noit

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Are Thule backpacks still good?

I bought a Thule Crossover eight years ago and the zip on it has finally gone. Short of getting a local seamstress to fit a new zip, I think it's time for a new one, and am a bit tempted by the Thule Crossover 2 30l. Are Thule still good? Is there anything else of the same sort of size that I should be considering?

Noit OP ,

Where would one go to get a custom made backpack with double stitching?

Noit ,

I’d heard lava tubes pitched as one of the more straightforward ways of building a moon base, fascinating to learn that this would actually be a return to form for human dwellings.

Humans: we just like living in lava tubes.

Noit ,

Yup. Have put it down to the kids being at nursery and bringing back every cough and sniffle. It’s wrecked my wife’s sleeping because we’ve a baby who wants to feed when he’s feeling under the weather and he’s had a cold for what feels like weeks.

Noit ,

Master Chef has been on telly for 34 years, this is disgusting Loyd Grossman erasure.

Noit ,

If anyone wants to do some play-money betting on who wins, I’ve got a prediction market here.

I thought it was a nice first episode, watching Sophie try to hop across a lake was a highlight.

Did anyone else think that Gary was going to turn out to be the scarecrow and the boat gorilla would be a deliberate bluff?

Noit ,

Bit late to the party, but something to be aware of if you're buying Solovair. I have a pair of astronaut boots, had them for about 20 months, worn them almost daily and I need to get them resoled now. I went to my local cobblers and they said they don't do Solovair, they just do glue jobs. I went to Solovair (I'm local to their factory) and they said that they're currently doing so much business that they're not able to offer resoling. They provided details of two webshops (keycobbler.co.uk and bootrepaircompany.co.uk) who do offer this service, but that involves sending them off for weeks and weeks. So I'm going to need to buy a second pair of boots to wear while my first pair are out for repair. And the resole is a significant chunk of the original boot cost: I spent under £170 on the boots, and they're going to cost £70 to resole plus shipping.

I'm still going to do it, I love them and I'd have spent a similar amount on trainers in the same period just through wear and tear, but it's not particularly a money saver or a convenience.

I guess that when I do have two pairs I'll be able to rotate them daily so this will be something that comes up every four years rather than every two.

Noit ,

There’s a lot of potential options. Gen V remakes are next on the main series remake list. Let’s Go and Legends were both sort-of-mainline-ish games that would be about right for a sequel. I’m betting there’s still more DLC for SV. And wasn’t there a rumour about another Detective Pikachu movie?

Noit ,

They were pretty direct remakes with a few new bugs and a controversial art style. I was never a big DPP fan and the remakes failed to change my mind.

I do think any future remakes will be different though, i vaguely remember a story about ILCA who made BDSP and I don’t think they exist in the same form as they did when developing the game.

Noit ,

Last night I stuck all the major meteor showers into my calendar. I’d gone outside and seen stars and remembered how l much I love to see stars and I rarely stargaze nowadays. I’m going to make more of an effort, especially for the seasonal meteors.

Noit ,

You can’t afford it now. This tech is going to be something people can do in their sheds within a decade.

Noit OP ,

I’ve set up a play-money prediction market if people want to join in.

IMO this is within Labour’s grasp, it’s in the range of their recent by-election wins and given it was Skidmore who took it from them, one has to speculate that a local MP of nearly 20 years, standing down in protest of the government, isn’t going to encourage the party faithful out to vote for his replacement.

Noit ,

This prediction market has May at 50%, and that’s mainly because I keep buying it off he back of news like this. Seems like a lot of people are May doubters.

Reasons I think May is the most likely candidate are:

  • expected polling bounce off a giveaway budget in March
  • small boat numbers are at their natural minimum and only rise as Summer begin
  • later in the year you start running into things like party conference, which you don’t want to miss, and fuel bills, which are going to be a bad news story again. Even if you rank “holding on to power above all else” as the most important thing, a late Q4 election looks a terrible mistake.
Noit ,

How dare you “two YouTubers” unname then when one is Ashens, king of tat, lord of the brown sofa.

It’s on his second channel for those interested.

Noit ,

Wild that the government thought this needed to be a vote. Embarrassing that they then lost it, just for the chance to try and shunt some costs off their administration and into Labour’s. Now it’s just one more crack in the foundation of the party.

Noit ,

This is insane. Right now I’m reading The Coming Wave by Mustafa Suleyman (formerly of DeepMind) and I’d been a bit concerned that he was all hype, but giving humanity a 45-fold increase in materials we know about? That’s enormous. The future is going to be a crazy place.

Noit OP ,

Fixed, thanks! Voyager auto title letting me down smh

Noit ,

Hoplite maybe? It’s on mobile but is a lot of fun.

Noit OP ,

I’d love to see a poll of millionaires to see what the split is of in favour vs not in favour of them being taxed more.

Noit ,

It is, constitutionally, an enormous hot potato. MPs are elected by their constituents. Any body that can fire an MP is a threat to democracy. It’s easy to say that rapists should be kicked out. But sex crime is often a crime with no direct supporting evidence. False abuse claims are an overblown threat in the general population, IMO, but if “Parliament HR” was a real thing then there’s a very obvious and easy route to force out MPs who aren’t toeing the line.

It also has to be balanced against lawbreaking as legitimate protest. Imagine an MP rejected by their constituents to legalise cannabis. If that MP smoked a fat dooby in public it’d be entirely consistent with their political mandate, but they’d be at risk of most HR policies as well as possible arrest. That’s why the current process is that an MP had to be sentenced to now than a year in prison before a recall petition, they have to have done something really quite bad.

Or, put another way, if a Berlusconi type was elected tomorrow and everyone knew they were a gropey sex pest at point of election, what right would any political body have to deny the voters specifically what they have requested?

Morals shift over time, politicians often drive those shifts, there has to be space for politicians to shift those morals even if you don’t approve of them.

Having said all that I think the best answer is a more aggressive approach to recalling MPs, we should be able to hold our MPs to account more than once every five years if their electorate desires it. And we should also have proportional representation so that unpopular views don’t get into parliament because of First Past The Post split vote nonsense.

Noit ,

With Cameron seen walking in, this looks more like he’s setting up an election cabinet.

Noit OP ,

Honestly I’m surprised it’s still so uncertain at this point. I can’t see how Braverman can stay in post after this. But prediction markets still have her at only around 65% chance of leaving this year. Which is wild to me!

Noit ,

Is there a process for removing a peerage? Asking for an incoming Labour government.

Noit ,

That last tape is like a good American adaptation of a Brian Butterfield commercial. Sublime.

Noit ,

I swear I cannot decide if Lucy Beaumont is actually a comedian or if she’s had head trauma and someone incredibly cruel is giving her out for us to laugh at. I can’t think of any comedian I’ve ever felt more like saying “are you alright, love?” to.

In the last task Julian was prodding her to actually pretend to hold the pineapple behind her terser.

Noit OP ,

Kill WFH, kill the four-day-week, the population must be restrained to their offices lest they use all that spare time to better themselves.

Noit OP ,

Just to preempt the “he should be in prison” comments, as this is a police inquiry he will not be required to resign unless he is found guilty and sentenced to more than a year in prison, and has run out of appeals.

Of course there is nothing stopping the Conservative Party from withdrawing the whip if they feel he is distracting from their work, but even then he can sit as an independent MP until he resigns, or the next election.

Innocent until proven guilty does apply even to politicians you don’t like.

Noit OP , (edited )

The rule of a 12 month sentence before a recall petition can be triggered is regardless of crime, it’s not a specific “get away with rape” clause. In fact if he is found guilty it’s very unlikely he’d get such a short sentence, the 12 months is more to stop an MP losing their job over not paying their council tax, or too many speeding tickets.

The big problem is our rape conviction rates are a shameful embarrassment so by the stats of it, if he did commit the crime he’s incredibly unlikely to be sentenced. And even if he was, it’s unlikely to be before there’s a general election.

Noit OP ,

Between Blunt, Bone and Pincher I’m beginning to think we live in a simulation.

Noit OP ,

Yeah, at least that’s what he said when he was defending another sexual abuser theguardian.com/…/conservative-mp-crispin-blunt-t…

I wonder if he was already under investigation at that point? It’s only five months ago.

Noit OP ,

At some point you start to wonder whether our abysmal rape conviction rates are a deliberate government policy to protect Conservative MPs.

Noit OP ,

Sky News now reporting that the whip has been suspended, so it looks like the Tories aren’t standing by him and hoping it blows over.

Noit OP ,

She’s directly challenging a Sunak invitation here. Between that and the threat to boost her own budget, she’s spearheading a total breakdown in party discipline.

Noit OP ,

I’ve set up a couple of prediction markets on what happens next. Odds currently say he’s almost certainly going to face a by-election, and Labour can win it if they can pull off Tamworth / Selby style swings. Which I think they’re more than capable of.

Noit ,

Terra Nil is mentioned in the article but I must give it a recommendation, it’s very chill and restoring a wasteland or ruined city to a thriving ecosystem is a great counterpoint to building a bustling city.

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