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Vaping ‘to be banned outside schools and hospitals’ in England in c/globalnews@lemmy.zip
[–] baggins@beehaw.org 5 points 13 hours ago

Good luck with that. After all it worked so well with cigarettes.

North Carolina Family Informed Their Insurance Policy Voided Once House Gets Wet in c/theonion@midwest.social
[–] baggins@beehaw.org 2 points 1 day ago

Ah right, not like household insurance then, at least here in UK. I've seen a few instances of people with no insurance having lost everything.

Problems in c/memes@slrpnk.net
Problems in c/memes@slrpnk.net
North Carolina Family Informed Their Insurance Policy Voided Once House Gets Wet in c/theonion@midwest.social
[–] baggins@beehaw.org 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

And I bet there are more than a few that don't have it, but expect the gubmint to pay.

Russia’s new ideological battlefield: The militarization of young minds in c/news@beehaw.org
[–] baggins@beehaw.org 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

This has been going on in some form or another for quite some time. There is an excellent BBC documentary by David Dimblebly from a few years ago that is worth watching. He travelled across Russia and this was going on all over. Ex military in schools teaching weapons drill and love for the motherland. Nor sure when it changed from motherland to fatherland. Maybe when Putin decided to come out of the nazi closet.

Mozilla Thunderbird for Android Is Finally Here in c/firefox@lemmy.ml
[–] baggins@beehaw.org 5 points 4 days ago

'You can download Thunderbird Beta on the Google Play Store, or get the latest pre-release version from the Github Releases page.'

Diego Garcia: What is on the secretive UK-US island in the Indian Ocean? in c/unitedkingdom@feddit.uk
[–] baggins@beehaw.org 9 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Military with sigint and some long range radars. Quite a bit if info available online.

I'm probably on some sort of list now :-)

Damian Lewis herds sheep over a London bridge as part of a quirky tradition in c/weirdnews@real.lemmy.fan
[–] baggins@beehaw.org 3 points 5 days ago

There are no plans to bring back other ancient freemen’s privileges such as the right to carry an unsheathed sword in public and to be escorted home if found drunk.

That's a shame.

It's Saturday, what have you watched this week? in c/casualconversation@lemm.ee
[–] baggins@beehaw.org 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Working my way through For All Mankind again. What a superb piece of TV that is. Magnificent. Also Slow Horses and lay night we started Bad Monkey. That's pretty good as well.

Got to give Apple credit, they do make some good stuff. The quality and attention to detail is superb, even if the show is naff. I was very excited to hear they were making Foundation, and the quality was outstanding. Never finished the first series, it was like watching paint dry. Likewise Silo. Dark Matter? I didn't even make it to the end of the first episode.

A new vertical farm, with a footprint of less than an acre, can produce 1.8 million kg of fruit annually. in c/futurology@futurology.today
[–] baggins@beehaw.org 1 points 1 week ago

Eh?

On second thoughts, don't bother.

Goodbye.

A new vertical farm, with a footprint of less than an acre, can produce 1.8 million kg of fruit annually. in c/futurology@futurology.today
[–] baggins@beehaw.org 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Read the article - it's indoors.

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It's not everyday you see a submarine outside your bedroom window. (www.forcesnews.com)
 

Mum! There's a submarine driving down the road!

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The Expanse (beehaw.org)
 

Rewatching The Expanse for the nth time. It always cracks me up to see Bobby Draper stuffing those cucumber sandwiches into her face. Do you want some?

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A sad sign of the times (www.bbc.co.uk)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by baggins@beehaw.org to c/casualconversation@lemm.ee
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Probably not what you're expecting - but the fact that the once iconic 'British' car is now made in China.

I spent many hours under the hood of my MGB GT :-(

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How do I make my bread really dark? (beehaw.org)
 

Am trying to make a dark rye loaf like you'd find on a stall or in a shop. Not the really dense 'pumpernickel' style but round or oblong tin shaped.

Have tried various percentages of strong dark rye, muscovado sugar and black treacle but the loaf is still not that dark. I did try some cocoa in one loaf but that just gave an odd colour.

Am using a Panasonic bread machine and in over 5 years it's only ever produced a couple of duff loaves - which were down to me (forgetting yeast, mixer blade or water) and often use it for the dough function and then finish in oven. Am not averse to resorting to full manual though if needed.

Any ideas?

TIA

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Well, this is inconvenient. (beehaw.org)
submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by baggins@beehaw.org to c/animals@beehaw.org
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Won't be doing any laundry just yet then.

Edit - pic didn't load

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I always wondered what was inside an egg! (beehaw.org)
 

And now I know.

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Supercat! (beehaw.org)
 

This was my wife’s new throw/ blanket thing. Daisy never used to get on the sofa. But now if the throw isn’t there, she’ll sit and look until one of us cracks.

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It's taken two years (beehaw.org)
 

She loves these throws. And as long as I keep my ankles crossed and legs still, she'll stay.

Must admit I choked up a bit as our last two would never do this.

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Time to ditch Amazon Prime? (www.bbc.co.uk)
 

This will be the straw that breaks the camel's back for me.

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