Yeah this is purely a hardcore isolationist ranting.

Evolution in action. Still sad.

I have never heard of that but I’m open to the experience.

Yeah that’s Phillips specific as far as I know. Never seen it IRL but the reviews for it are good in that it expands your perception of the screen size but I totally hear you. The immersion is the thing for me too and I’m not sure how it would affect it.

I don’t believe I’ve ever had fondant potatoes before. Went off to learn about them. They look delicious. Very similar to roast that we’d do in butter but I bet the rosemary gives a nice nom.

The recipe I saw calls for Russet. Not sure I’ve seen them for sale here either.

Hard agree. I’d eat a lot of potatoes as an actual potato and the only one I’d generally not be arsed with is baked. Roast absolutely crushes them. Nice mash too. Chips? Easy win. Bit of gratin with a nice meal? Yes please. Potato salad for lunch? Better than baked son and you’d better believe it.

Come to think of it, I honestly cannot think of a variety I’d place below baked on the yummy spud scale.

We got given one of those led strips that stick to the edges all the way around the back of the TV. We have it on red and it’s a great mood light in an otherwise pitch black room. I wasn’t convinced I would like it but everyone in the house does.

If you’re referring to the backlight on an LED TV, the one we got has “zones” so the bleed isn’t too bad at all.

This post caused me to look for the first time in ages and the QLED ones look interesting.

A nice OLED TV. I love watching movies.

Edit: Holy cow OLED is still very expensive. I’ve changed my mind: projector.

Would Western Europe and the US come to the aid of those smaller NATO allies and engage in a potentially grinding war to throw Russian back?

I believe deeply that Europe would. The strategic consequences of not doing so are too clear. Plus, we all really like the Baltics.

You may mark this for future wine or milk.

I nearly nibbled that onion hahaha. Brilliant.

I’d say we’d need to make a bunch of biofuels to fill the immediate shortfall to keep tractors moving but as you say we’ve plenty of really good quality land, water, wind. Lots of chemical and medical processing capability once we have the raw ingredients for medicines etc.

Main medium term issue would be mineral and metal mining and processing as we’re short on that but yeah overall think we’d be basically fine.

I initially saw black and blue, but after scrolling to the top of this thread yesterday I could only see white and gold and again today, even zooming in.

Immediately switched to black and blue after reading that.

The mind is a fascinating thing.

Edit: Holy crap I’m back to white and gold.

Nailed it!

“Staunch Ukraine supporter” me bollix. Glad this didn’t get watered down.

I like your guess but I feel like it’s mow.

Someone French please help!

Your comment caused me to scroll back up to try to force the white and gold (love the spinning dancer) but as soon as I got there the dress was already white and gold despite the black and blue I had initially seen.

Wild.

WANT!!! That looks incredible.

This is one benefit of an authoritarian regime - they have had laws mandating electric buses and motorcycles in at least Shenzhen for over five years now (last time I was there) and I’m sure other large cities too. There was a strict limit on the number of cars allowed to be registered for travel inside the city too.

This gave them a huge boost for their own battery based vehicle industry. It’s also heavily subsidised.

In tropical countries, orange rinds may be permanently green – even when completely ripe.

Crazy!

Lol no. They are entirely taking the piss.