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Phone theft may just be a casual thing now but I'm guessing it won't be for long. In London, it's organised, industrialised crime with more than 100,000 handsets stolen last year and likely more this. They are using Faraday bags to stop kill signals and the gangs,right around the corner from the...

There have been times and circumstances when even I have claimed not to be able to speak English but barring those types of situations, if I start a conversation in the other person's language, when I start to falter, the other person picks up. It's a natural human trait, to respond to a display...

Is the iron from the USA? Unless it is dual voltage it's really not suitable for 240v electrics. Most of the other things that I guess you brought with you (TVs Phone chargers, laptops etc ) will accept any voltage between 100 and 250 but power hungry items like irons, toasters, kettles etc...

Yes, that's right. In fact it's more efficient that way because the ground at so-many metres deep is surprisingly warm and the temperature down there doesn't vary much. But just like all petrol-engine automobiles work the same way yet they all have their own sweet spots for most efficient...

I think we might be talking about different things. In the case of the traditional electric heater in the home, all of the energy consumed decays to heat in the end. How much you lose depends on your insulation and ventilation amongst other things. A heat pump/aircon is different inasmuch as it...

No. It's not creating heat, it's mechanically sucking existing heat out of the surroundings and the process is completely within physical laws.

I forgot to say: even the energy that's lost to thermal expansion as the system heats up will be regained as heat when it cools down and contracts again.

Well, yes.... and no. The law of conservation of energy means that energy in must equal energy out in some form or other. Gas is no different it's just an awful lot gets wasted in the exhaust etc. A heat pump isn't generating heat (well, it is, but only a tiny bit due to mechanical action) it's...

Does anybody affected by these prices have two-way air-conditioning? You'll have to do your own numbers as regards the price of electricity or gas as a fuel but for reference: Electric heating is 100% efficient (though some of that heating effect is generated as a tiny warming of the...

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/oct/06/argentina-el-chalten-los-glaciares-park-guardians-water-pollution-glacial-rivers El Chaltén is a paradise for hikers. But the seasonal influx of tourists stretches the sanitation infrastructure to breaking point – and even a legal...

Yebbut... Haven't you noticed that there's an awful lot of published slop around these days? And it's not all AI slop - although who can really know without a lot of digging and I've only really time for that with something I'm really interested in. Lots of clickbaitey articles with titles like...

Whiskey? Luxury! I dream of whiskey. I'm over on the other side of the Atlantic[1] currently in the middle of Storm Amy[2] and I'm on a course of antibiotics which don't just politely nudge you and suggest you cut down a bit on the booze but state in bold type exactly what will happen if you...

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/02/javier-milei-argentina-nigel-farage-donald-trump-elon-musk Just to clarify a point in the 1st paragraph: unlike all other political parties in the UK, Reform UK is actually a private company owned by Nigel Farage.

According to the reviews etc it was designed to be operated with just one hand for selfies so I presumed that you bought it to create content for uploading. My apologies for jumping to conclusions about how you used it.

Regarding cameras: a number of us still remember the French photographer who was murdered in broad daylight for his camera in Plaza San Martin. I'm not suggesting that you wave a smartphone around in unfamiliar places but given the special niche your old camera filled and given that a lot of...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/26/argentina-drug-traffickers-livestream-killing-women Brenda del Castillo, Morena Verdi and Lara Gutiérrez were lured with a promise of a $300 payment for a ‘sex party’

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/sep/28/why-trump-is-backing-argentinas-thatcherite-economics While Javier Milei’s shock therapy to tame inflation has won support from Washington and the IMF, ordinary Argentinians seem less impressed

Heheheh - what a shame that Evans-Pritchard is fictional: he would so have fitted in with the rest of the family.

In my opinion, Evans-Pritchard has something of a track record for making the facts fit his opinions. Never quite as bright as his famous father, EE Evans-Pritchard who contributed to The Heritage Foundation's Mandate for Leadership (a precursor of Project 2025) nevertheless he has dabbled in...

Argentina’s financial crash is the first big defeat for Trump’s global Maga movement Archived here: https://archive.ph/Wxvbm