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One terrible thing about the modern urban UK, is the way our police have come to tolerate a massive amount of anti-social thievery. You literally get no reaction to what is deemed low level theft and anti-social disorder, such as bicycle theft and shop lifting. The latest scam I am aware of...

Are you one of these people who has fallen in love with Chat Gpt? https://www.piratewires.com/p/the-people-who-fall-in-love-with-chatbots

LOL - had to laugh at the 'relatively stationary idea - true though.

In the mid 1970s my brother rode his Honda 50 to Italy from Newcastle with his girlfriend on the back. She had to get off and walk when they were crossing the Alps near Briancon and the Alp de Huez mind you. I rode my old Honda 250 RS to Milan in 1990 with my then 8 year old, eldest son, on...

That lexmoto zsb is nolonger current, but they are still around at £1620 I think. There is a youtube review where the guy says he loves his and had ridden it for about two years. He had a big bike and said he still loved the little lexmoto. If you look after them, I think they are reliable...

All true, I think Peter. But I am guessing the electric moped would cost more than the petrol one, and from the co2/green point of view, bearing in mind the limited battery life and the environmental cost of mining lithium and exotic metals, and the need to replace the battery every few years...

If you don't want to be restricted to 15 mph, buy a petrol moped or a chinese 125cc motorbike. VASTLY better than an expensive, illegal ebike in every way and most likely much cheaper with limitless range. There is no comparison in terms of safety, performance and economy. A cheap chinese 125...

The old mopeds of the 1950s and 1960s had about 1.4 - 1.7 hp which you would need to multiply by 735 to convert hp to watts. They had a top speed of about 30. In the mid 1960s maybe 1966 1967 i had an RM 1. I think that was the model. It had a manual clutch. I think the power output of...

My 73 Skoda is the first car i ever had, since i could measure the speed indepenently, that doesn't do that. The speedo is bang on accurate. I have only checked it with its digital speedo enabled. I haven't calibrated the analogue one.

There is nuance in some discussions, but there is never, 'my truth and your truth .' What there is, is TRUTH. One thing that very much disappoints me about some political actors on the world stage is that they will systematically distort the truth to match their preferences. This is a terrible...

Listen to the farming program on Radio 4 in the morning and what happens to small food exporters.

The EU is all about protectionism and squashing competitive alternatives. Take the ridiculous prices of the Italian shoe business as an example. People on here who criticise Trump's tariffs, should take a look at the EU ones, and the utterly ridiculous and pure spite barriers they impose on UK...

I expect he gets those answers by rigging the prompts. I asked Chat Gpt about cherry picking. The answer is well worth reading, actually. The llm explains how the output can be stacked in a particular way. https://chatgpt.com/s/t_68b71412b3888191a9bb413fa1241c16 "Cherry-picking prompts is a...

I have a couple of low powered motorbikes, a 125cc Cg125 and a Honda CB250 twin. They have 11hp and 20 hp respectively, which runs in watts to 8.08kw and 14.7kw. The 8.08Kw bike can just about do 62 miles an hour and the 14.7kw one gets to about 71 if you can wait long enough. It is quite...

Ha ha ha - I had a similar experience just now. I was driving back from Lanercost Priory where my partner and I went for a coffee at the old priory and a wander around the grounds. It is just along the road about 15 miles over the border in Cumbria, and we were coming back along the winding...

Twit - Hoo? Hoo? I had an owl woo hooing in my garden last night. It is the females who do the hoo, bit and the males do the twit. I didn't know that until I came to live here. I also regularly have a heron at the bottom of my garden hunting in the river. People say they have seen otters...

And yet - this is the way the Product Regulation and Metrology Bill 2025 seems to be driving things. I note that reading the bill as it is right now, product standards which will be compulsory, are to be specified in what are called 'Statutory Instruments'. That means a minister, or appropriate...

I was listening to a Youtube video this morning in which Dominic Cummings was talking about the impacts of AI on the way politics is done. He gave an example of how politcis will be immediately affected - information availability about what concerns voters and where they need to devote...

:) But that carbon I breathe out is only recycled biosphere carbon from my food which is derived from plants and sunlight, so it doesn't count, and since I am now increasingly eating lentils and losing weight (mostly I think from my body converting into methane) I have also been thinking about...