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Music (mainly prog rock) and veggie loving, geeky cat butler living in Hertfordshire UK. A lover of all things LOTR (since I first read it over 50 years ago) scifi and what have you. Ex soldier (Royal Artillery) and other trades ;-)

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The Expanse series is narrated by Jefferson Mayes. He is absolutely magnificent and really does bring the books to life.

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Expanse series as already mentioned and I'll throw in The Rivers Of London series, narrated by Kobna Holdbrook-Smith. Absolutely glorious. Can't see how anyone could do the series better.

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The one by Phil Dragash is magnificent. Truly a work of art and love.

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Chris Barrie does a better job of voicing Lister than Craig Charles!

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That we know of.

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Most of of them care more about their bank balances so vegans can do one.

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Don't forget the cucumber sandwiches ;-)

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I don't believe it!

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Just downloaded on BorrowBox from my library!

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Blimus! I was (sort of) joking ;-)

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So with renewable getting cheaper by the minute, how can we justify the cost of nuclear?

Renewable is going to be so cheap that losses in transmission over distance will be acceptable. Meanwhile here in UK we have costs for nuclear guaranteed for the next thirty odd years.

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Yes it was back then, but it isn't now so we ought to weaning ourselves off of it rather than building new, which will cost many billions over their lifetime. Half of which will be spent building and then decommissioning.

In a couple of thousand years, if we are still here, our ancestors will curse us for the nuclear waste we are going to leave for them to clean up.

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Why on earth would anyone else want their picture taken with him?

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Sounds too good to be true - if it's legit, this is an excellent idea. Lets hope they can scale it for industry.

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Durin's Bane!

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Mine only lasted a year.

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This is going to be a real problem - because the Daily Mail and such will be screaming that all the problems are still there 6 months later - never mind that they've taken 14 years to put in place. People like my ignorant and racist sister in law, whose answer to the issue of migrants is to 'Just shoot them'. These people really do just open their mouths and let the bile pour out. She'd never vote Labour as they are too common. Unfortunately there are plenty like her about. Totally selfish and only concerned with themselves and showing off to their friends.

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Yes we do but anything with that smeghead Farage is not the way to go.

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'I want to push back on the 50% figure. Most Americans don't even vote. Maybe 50% of "voters" say fuck yeah, but even that isn't accurate since he didn't even win the popular vote.'

Semantics. If he gets in the rest of the world will associate Americans with him. Because he won the election. The fact that he manipulated, rigged, coerced or whatever is neither here nor there.
It's the same way that we tend to associate all Russians with Putin, Chinese with Xi and the British with whoever is in the seat this week.
Just over 50% (of the people that voted) were in favour of Brexit but now that label and it's repercussions are associated with all of us. If everyone that didn't want it had voted, we'd still be in the EU.

This is why it's so important to vote.

And to have honest and accountable politicians, although I may have stepped into fantasy here.

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The Expanse.

Don't think I'm alone either.

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Working through the Matthew Richardson section at the moment following a recommendation on here. Excellent stuff.

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Does Neil himself narrate? I've heard a few things by him, he's great.

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Until stupid people stop buying this crap, this is always going to happen.

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Because people buy them, they won't stop making them whilst they sell. Stop buying them and they'll stop making them.
It's not like the are necessary.

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Hey Americans! If you vote him in, you deserve everything crappy that happens to you.

European made batteries could be 60% less carbon intensive than Chinese, researchers urging Europe to support investments ( www.transportenvironment.org )

Onshoring the EV supply chain to Europe would cut the emissions of producing a battery by 37% compared to a China-controlled supply chain, according to new analysis by Transport & Environment (T&E). This carbon saving rises to over 60% when renewable electricity is used. Producing Europe’s demand for battery cells and...

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We need to wean ourselves from anything made in China - difficult as seemingly everything is made there. They do not have our best interests at heart. Look at the post regarding the steel plant in Serbia.

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We could just ask the mice.

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The haunted pencil.

I despise that man with an irrational hatred. I've never met him, don't know anyone that's met him.
Yet I would quite happily do things to him that would get me banned from here.

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They are limbering up - this has been coming for some years but the west will sleepwalk into it. We should have distanced ourselves them years ago instead of sucking up to them for cheap oil and gas.

We ignore the warning signs at our peril.

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People that live in the world outside a computer. They send birthday cards and things. And write with pens.

Step outside, sometimes it's quite pleasant.

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The Insider by Matthew Richardson. Love a good spy novel. And this is very good.

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What are the chances of that?

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Not a million to one then?

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ITT people on this thread need to listen to Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Wayne%27s_Musical_Version_of_The_War_of_the_Worlds?wprov=sfla1

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Ha ha ha.

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He said the delay was because additional time was needed to synchronise the policy of the devolved administrations in >Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales with that in England.

What a load of old fish parts.

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Excellent stuff - we need more of this sort of system worldwide. Not just relying on one or two sources. Stick some panels up and a couple of wind turbines and extra can be pushed to the system or stored.

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'China has called the allegations "malicious slander".

Counter-terrorism police have described the allegations as "very serious".'
They would do though wouldn't they?

Why has it taken over a year to charge them?

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Fair enough - but a year? That seems a bit excessive - I hope they've been locked away for the duration.

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Act Of Oblivion by Robert Harris.

Dubai submerged in floods as UAE gets over a year’s worth of rain in hours ( www.aljazeera.com )

Heavy thunderstorms have lashed the United Arab Emirates (UAE), dumping more than a year and a half’s rain on the desert city-state of Dubai in just a few hours and flooding major highways and its international airport....

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Not a lot of sympathy for them about is there?

Trump rails against wind energy in fundraising pitch to oil executives | At a Mar-a-Lago dinner, Donald Trump doubles down on promises to derail a key form of clean energy ( wapo.st )

“I hate wind,” Trump told the executives over a meal of chopped steak at his Mar-a-Lago Club and resort in Florida, according to a person with knowledge of the meeting, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe a private conversation....

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Is that another name for a Salisbury steak?

Or is it because he can't use a knife and fork?

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Being ex British Forces, this always makes me laugh.

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Yes, that's the saddest thing. They have to prepare for a known criminal to literally bulldoze his way over all the good work that has been done. He doesn't even understand what's been done, he just knows that it was done by people that aren't on his side. So it must be bad.

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'Outside of a few plainly-corrupt politicians (like a certain senator from West Virgina),'
And some really manky British politicians.

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After a reccomendation on here, I'm working my way through the World War series by Harry Turtledove. Currently halfway through Striking The Balance. Excellent series but I must admit to skimming in places in this volume. I feel that it's been padded out a bit. Will keep on though and finish the series. Excellent author and really does go into alternative history scenarios with detail.

Also, as I have since about 1967, constantly reading The Lord Of The Rings ;-)

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Yes.

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Well they did say monorail!

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