Why precisely 8 zip ties? Only a few things need securing?

Thank god you didn’t ask them if you could borrow a rubber.

UK English: Eraser.

US English: Condom.

Once again, UK investment and implementation of infrastructure is shite not the concept of smart meters.

For an example of a proper smart meter implementation nationwide, look at Estonia.

100% coverage. Works brilliantly.

In fact it works so well there’s companies that use the data generated by the smart meters to predict faults on the grid on the Low Voltage (LV = less than 2000 - 1000V in the electricity transmission world). That is unheard-of elsewhere because you’d normally have to install LV monitors for a few months on a location where faults have occurred to try and find it.

Fucking Tories, fucking Westminster, fucking civil service, fucking national grid, and the fucking utility companies all dragging their heels over this because the entire energy grid is privatised whereas anywhere else sensible, the national electricity backbone is nationalised with local networks semi or fully private.

Source: I work in th power industry.

Oi, how did you take those pictures without me noticing?!

(stress eats)

On top of that, fruit IPAs are a thing as well. They’re not my thing but other people like them so, good for them I guess.

South Korean coup?

Nope, it’s me Prigozhin!

There’s literally the handle of an electric kettle on the left side.

No this is something far worse: someone in the UK whom has strayed from the light and committed heresy!

May the Tea Gods have mercy upon them, for I shall have none!

So hypothetically, if an Israeli gets depression, is experiencing a lot of negative self-worth, and is having suicidal thoughts, and keeps telling themselves they “don’t want exist anymore, I don’t deserve to live, etc.”…

Does that make them antisemitic?

Just four more years and then his papers get released. I can’t wait for the juicy details!

Thomas realised that the only way for the Island of Sodor to guarantee it’s security was to demonstrate the effectiveness of its nuclear weapons program.

He was about to be a very naughty engine.

Sounds like it could do with a bit of affirmative action to adjust the representation of the armed community.

You already have enough “help”; in fact you have on average three per person in the US.

The post-grad assistant helping me with that assignment night before it’s due:

“Oh that’s easy, just apply Kirchoff’s Gambit. Here’s the solution because the lecturer hasn’t changed the assignment questions since they started here 20 years ago.”

Me, wide eyed: “You are an angel amongst demons!”

How the university lectures go:

“Here’s a design theory, here’s another, and another, and another. Be sure to master these techniques for the exam, because they’ll be with you for the rest of your career.”

How the industry design practice goes talking with the senior electronics design engineer:

"Whilst I was high/drunk/sleep deprived from insomnia/all three at the same time, I drew up this circuit schematic last night and finished at 6am then got into the office for 8.

The calculations for these resistor and capacitance values? Idk, they just feel like the right values based on what I read in the data sheet. If they’re wrong who cares, we’ll stack SMDs on top or just respin the boards because PCBs and passives are cheap and we’ll (read: you’ll) desolder and reuse the more expensive ICs.

My design justifications notes? Haha that’s your job, silly junior engineer. Oh by the way, I’ll make value changes to 80% of these components fixing my mistakes, also known as ‘tuning the sensor circuits’, before I update the schematic. Even after it goes into production I’ll just pinch boards off the line and change some things in the BoM without writing an ECO because I don’t have time for that.

Yes I do still prefer to use leaded solder without an extractor fan, why do you ask?"

That engineer will either be the most liked person in the company or the most hated person in the company, yet either way are clearly un-fireable.

Why? Have I managed to miss the triggering of Article 5, the emergency NATO meetings, the declaration of war, and the conscription order?

Blimey, I really overslept.

Fighting for Ukraine against the head oligarch of Russia? Yes.

Fighting for oil interests of oligarchs in Londongrad? No.

Sure, with my skillset I’ll be designing and building drones by the 1000s. If that is what is required to stop a tyrant from threatening Europe hand me a long brown overcoat, hat, cigarette, and FRSKY radio transmitter!

Edit: I should emphasize, I’d rather not fight if not necessary. I’d rather be in my current job creating equipment for infrastructure that will power the green energy transition.

However, I have studied history and there are times where conflict is unavoidable especially when dealing with power mad dictators. The countries of Europe deserve to live in peace to find their own paths without the threat to their borders and sovereignty. Russia itself deserves a government that works for everyone not just the dozen oligarchs in Moscow.

Oh and for the record, fuck US imperialism (though they are a NATO ally) and fuck the CCP, yes you tankies can fuck off as well.

My circuit design lecturer: “If you dig down deep enough into the theory, every component from resistors to microprocessors are analogue and complex.”

Me: (internal screaming intensifies)

My plug: “Here, smoke this doob.”

Me: (inhales deeply) It all makes sense now.

Please do it Putin. WE want the excuse, NATO wants the excuse, Poland’s chomping champing at the bit for the excuse and we really want to see how long it takes them to rush Moscow.

Edit: damn it Lemmy, I’m an engineer not a dictionary.

Exactly!

We have SO much potential for wind, wave, and (given our expertise) small scale nuclear. Particularly windy and wave with the North Sea, Irish Sea, and the Atlantic.

Nationalise North Sea oil and gas production in collaboration with Norway. Jointly use the profits from the sale to exclusively invest in new offshore wind farms and wave farms, build energy islands to house the substation equipment and triple the number of grid interconnects to the EU to create a robust super-grid.

This then creates an international energy market where the UK national producer can sell excess energy to the EU countries.

Invest into clean hydrogen research for storage, transportation, and usage. Particularly in aviation and automotive. Use some of the profits from nationalised oil and gas to offer incentives to companies that make inverters, generators, switchgear, and all the other components for power generation to build production facilities in deprived areas in the North of England, Wales, and Scotland to replace the jobs lost in oil and gas, with retraining expenses covered. Offer x-prises for rare-earth-free motors / generators and innovations in battery technology.

If the UK did that we’d have a HUGE trade portfolio in a market that is ONLY going to increase year on year for the foreseeable future that can be exported across the world and sold to rapidly expanding countries looking to move away from fossil fuels or countries that are looking to leapfrog fossil fuels like they did with leapfrogging landlines and going straight to cellular technology.

Britannia rules the waves? No! Britannia HARVESTS the waves!