fluke

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[–] fluke 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

That's not what was said. The OP was quite blatantly talking about the invasion operations, not the occupational operations.

Your pedantry is unnecessary and unsolicited.

[–] fluke 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

An exception to that would be the Falklands.

While the UK were superior on paper, the specifics of the situation meant that it was a lot closer than it should have been. If Argentina had been a little more brash in their tactics against the task force then it could have went badly for the UK.

[–] fluke 7 points 1 year ago

Don't really see what the relevance of this comment is except to try and shoehorn in some whataboutism.

[–] fluke 41 points 1 year ago (3 children)

But Elon Musk and Andrew Tate have said it's nonsense and that he's a canny guy. I don't know what to believe now!

[–] fluke 250 points 1 year ago (11 children)

The idea that Elon Musk and Andrew Tate think that publically backing him helps quash any suggestion of bad actions is laughable.

[–] fluke 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I doubt it was for anything to do with compliance. More that it was just PSA trying something out. PSA Group marques are fairly well known for doing unusual things, even if it isn't financially viable.

From the wiki:

In 1995, Peugeot launched an electric powered version of the 106, called the 106 Electrique. This was offered in a number of European countries including France, Belgium, The Netherlands, Norway and the United Kingdom.

The electric powertrain was developed and built by French engineering company Heuliez. The car used Nickel-cadmium battery technology manufactured by Saft Groupe S.A., had a top speed of 56 mph (90 km/h) and had an official range of 100 km (62 mi).

Despite the high price of the vehicle, Peugeot anticipated demand for around 15,000 to 20,000 Peugeot 106 Électriques each year, with an expected total production run of 100,000 vehicles. In the end, only 6,400 Peugeot 106 Électriques were sold between 1995 and 2003, most purchased by the French Administration.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peugeot_106

To me that reads like the French govt thought that a fleet of small EVs would be useful for their staff to use for short metropolitan/LA travel thinking that it would reduce fuel/servicing costs or something. For that, it's specs are totally adequate.

Seems that they outsourced the manufacturering to Heuliez who are a coachbuilder who probably sourced some kind of milk float drive train and stuck in the body and chassis delivered to them by Peugeot.

Selling it on a wider market beyond the French govt was likely a 'well, we've gone through this effort, and we're building them anyway, might as well sell them to the public and see what happens'.

Obviously, like everyone else who tried it around the same time, they realised that it was just too soon to try tech wise. And the French govt also realised that there was little benefit to overcome the list of negatives. From things I read in trying to find out more about them, at least some are being kept on the road by replacing the batteries with LiOn and more modern e-motors. One example had a BMW i3 motor retrofitted.

This particular example was in the middle of the Angus countryside, with two toddler sized car seats on the back bench, so I suspect that it wasn't entirely as it was as it left the factory in 1998 and likely had a bit more power at its disposal.

[–] fluke 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yep, but to a casual observer they wouldn't make that connection, assuming it was just a diesel 500.

The correlation between aftershave and a small Italian people's car isn't exactly obvious 😉

[–] fluke 3 points 1 year ago

Smith and Sniff. It's Johnny Smith (of 5th Gear, Late Brake Show YT channel fame) and Richard Porter (of off Top Gear producer and otherwise general very well known and respected in the behind the scenes car journo world fame).

Absolutely hilarious conversation. It's not about the Top Trump type of 'petrrolhead' that seems to be so popular these days. It's a couple of middle aged guys who have a pure passion for anything automotive and have been in the industry for a very long time.

[–] fluke 36 points 1 year ago

If my airforce was comprised in bulk of early to mid era cold war museum pieces with a (very) small handful of late cold war era jets as my flagship units then I would be impressed with anything developed after 1991 as well.

I mean, that's fair enough in itself. There's plenty of nations out there still rocking their Falcons, Flankers, Frogfoots, Frogger, Tornados, Mirages etc etc completely respectedly. But they also allow their pilots more stick time in half a year than the vast majority of NK's pilots get in half a decade.

[–] fluke 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I'm currently not sure how I feel about a proper official diagnosis at this stage. With the stigma around mental health illnesses 8 worry it'll just be used against me. My journey with this is still very young (read: days) so a lot of stuff I'm finding out quite fresh and this particular nugget of info was as soon as this very morning.

There are other routes you can go through such as charities, the main one being 'Right to Choose' who support you with how to approach your GP, templates for letters, what to say to the various people you need to speak to and such. They also act as a tool for you to find support groups, specialists etc etc.

Sounds amazing, right? Hell yeah. Except they're so utterly overflowing they've been closed to new referrals/applicants since the end of August.

2 weeks too late. Honestly, man. You can't make this stuff up.

[–] fluke 3 points 1 year ago

Depending on your situation, maybe if you got your hair cut more often it won't be such difference.

People are commenting on the drastic difference, not that you got your hair cut I find.

If you get it cut every couple of months (or even less) then people probably won't notice except for those that are either close, or NT themselves.

[–] fluke 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I think that the biggest issue is that in many places (the UK is a personal example), the services are so utterly over stretched and overflowing capacity that there is literal years long waiting lists in some parts of the country.

In York area, unless you become a priority case due to being a risk of self/other harm then they have a waiting list of over 4000 people, with the capacity to only process 160ish per year. I'll let you figure out that maths by yourself. It's fucking hopeless. So with an official diagnosis effectively impossible to self 'diagnose' is your only option and you have to hope that the people around you are supportive enough to trust you and help regardless.

Not to mention the difficulty in even getting a referral to an assessment for the diagnosis. The steps in place are practically brick walls to us with the requirements needed to fulfill. You need to get an appointment with your GP (good luck since it's not an emergency), then you need to hope they have some understanding/experience enough to identify if you would be suitable for a referral, then you need to convince them you need a referral, then you have to wait for the specialist to pick you up and be put on the wait list, blah blah blah.

Why go through all that energy when you can just 'diagnose' yourself and carry on with struggling the way you always have. After all, as long as you keep your routine it'll be fine...right?

Except it fucking isn't, but what other choice is there?

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