Can you imagine how extraordinary different our lives would be today if Al Gore was the President on 9/11 so Dubya couldn't use it as an excuse to reboot his Daddy's war? Fuck every single irredeemable fucktard involved in that deliberate choice.
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Yeah, but the people in the Volvo get to walk away.
I'm on a variable rate electricity tariff and I use Home Assistant and iLO to power things on and off automatically, so most of the time it pulls 30-50W. At peak it pulls north of 1.5KW but that's really rare.
Makes mine look boring.
"How many pornos does a woman need for a week in space? One? A thousand?" - Someone at NASA, probably
In the next Andy Weir book, I bet that's how he calculates acceleration in zero G.
"I just happened to remember that semen has a viscosity of 93 Penrose and that a palladium vibrates at 6.3e⁷ portisheads per waneshaft when exposed to bicurious voltage. So by spunking on a metal ruler and shorting out a 9v battery on it I made a rudimentary McGlochlon Scale!"
Years ago I ran a pub quiz and one of the categories was "Name the song from this description of the lyrics":
A low-level government employee abuses his access to national infrastructure to secretly spy on a woman he is obsessed with. He acknowledges that he has a unhealthy obsession and that he really should back off, but quickly managed to convince himself to carry on, assuring the audience that he is still spying on her.
The two most extreme time zones are 26 hours apart, so it's possible to have a twin born an hour after the other with a birthday two days earlier. With a little planning, that is.
A few notes on terminology: Great Britain is a geographic term, not a legal one. Great Britain is an island divided between England, Scotland and Wales which all, along with Northern Ireland, form the United Kingdom. The demonym of United Kingdom, confusingly, is "British". Sometimes "Great Britain" is used to specifically refer to the UK without Northern Ireland, though there are plenty of parts of England, Wales and especially Scotland that are also not on Great Britain.
Anyway, to answer your question: the currency of the entire UK is Pound Sterling, which is the same everywhere: £1 in London is the same as £1 in Edinburgh. Some Banks in Scotland and Northern Ireland have permission from their respective devolved governments to print their own banknotes, but they must be backed by Bank of England notes stored in a vault and, importantly, they are not automatically accepted elsewhere. Some large retailers will accept them, but shops in Northern Ireland, England and Wales are under no legal obligation to accept a Scottish banknote, whereas the Bank of England notes are accepted everywhere.
Also, while the banks that issue notes in Northern Ireland and Scotland are just regular, privately-owned commercial banks, the Bank of England is entirely publicly owned and doesn't offer much in the way of traditional commercial banking services.
I'm on track to buy my first house this year and I'm genuinely looking forward to getting a solar setup. I've already built out a couple of small systems elsewhere, so I can't wait to get my own.
Did you read the article? Or even the two paragraphs long summary of the article OP posted?
Hérë, håvē ßòmê mõrè.