John Holroyd

[John Holroyd @JohnHolroyd]

@ShticksAndStews I suspect they poured it that way specifically so you'd finish quicker, not want a second pint and to rub in the fact they were happy, (and likely in their minds busy), enough with their existing clientele and just didn't want you there.

[John Holroyd @JohnHolroyd]

@lfg_uk Tbh, they need their remit changing to relate to a single square foot of Saddleworth Moor, with all revenues for the operation of this quango to be drawn from said square foot and then be left to it.

[John Holroyd @JohnHolroyd]

@CharlotteCGill @Glinner You’d get more sense out of a 3 year old that’s eaten 1lb of skittles and downed a two litres of full fat coke whilst binge watching 8 solid hours of Skibidi Toilet.

[John Holroyd @JohnHolroyd]

@TheAdamWaite You can likely only do that by entirely removing or ablating welfare enough so that actively wanting growth and jobs in a town becomes everyone's business.
That probably won't happen.

[Ammanichanda @Arkasiraee]

This is the most powerful single gas turbine engine ever built for electricity generation.

Siemens Energy's SGT5-9000HL weighs nearly 500 tonnes, spins at 3,000+ rpm and can produce 593 MW from a single machine.

Its exhaust leaves at around 670°C. Instead of wasting that energy, a combined cycle plant uses it to drive a second steam turbine, pushing total output to roughly 880 MW at over 64% efficiency, enough electricity for around 840,000+ homes.

Run it continuously for 24 hours and that's 21.1 GWh of electricity.

For perspective, to generate the same amount of electricity it would take roughly 1 million 600 W solar panels spread across 16 km² and would take around 6 average days to generate that much electricity.

Or 40 modern 15 MW offshore wind turbines would take roughly 3 average days.

This is the sheer scale and power density of modern gas-turbine engines, generating hundreds of megawatts, continuously, from a single rotating machine.

[John Holroyd @JohnHolroyd]

@DM_Arts_ No reason not to brag in this particular case.

[John Holroyd @JohnHolroyd]

@dhh Ran perfectly fine on my ancient, but still beastly, 2013 Dell Precision M4800 when I gave it a test drive last year.

[John Holroyd @JohnHolroyd]

@v_j_freeman A serious government would immediately make @Miss_Snuffy a Baroness, then conscript her as SoS for Education and let her sort the general problem out over a year or so, as evening homework after her day job is done.

[John Holroyd @JohnHolroyd]

@SDPhq We actually have pretty much that, 140 tonnes of it, sat doing nothing at Sellafield.
Ed was planning to mix it with glass rather than a series of reactors to make it useful.

[Fraser Nelson @FraserNelson]

About 40,000 people die of sepsis in Britain.
Palantir's tech cut sepsis deaths by 70% in one Florida hospital.

Andy Burnham is being urged to join the new wave of anti-tech populism. It would be the biggest mistake of his premiership.

My Times column: https://t.co/XLG1d52Zjx

[John Holroyd @JohnHolroyd]

@nostarch Yes indeed, a suspiciously large number of Linux books truthfully.
All to draw attention away from the lack of an Absolute OpenBSD 3rd Edition I suspect.

[John Holroyd @JohnHolroyd]

@Liv_Boeree I lost one of my favourite friends to pancreatic cancer last year. He also left a widow and two daughters now moving into adulthood, without him.

This promises a world where the curse that took him, and so many others, could be eradicated.

[John Holroyd @JohnHolroyd]

@LaurencePostrv @elonmusk You mean you don’t also have a powerwall I/II/III, limited edition flamethrower, or keys to a boring machine? Dude…

[John Holroyd @JohnHolroyd]

@data_barbs Just buy an old LaserJet 4/4000/4100/4200, a jet direct 170/175x, and get cheap toner refills.

You'll end up with a printer setup that feels like it was built to survive a direct thermonuclear blast and manages to crank out 20k pages for £60.

[John Holroyd @JohnHolroyd]

@MarkBaard @JohnHMcWhorter Glenn will get it out of him soon enough I’d suspect.

[Echo of my 4Fathers @Vikingr1776]

Let me point something out here.

Our hero shooter may not have scored a hit on the bad guy.
Our hero shooter may have received effective fire when he engaged the bad guy.
Leftist weirdos may try to use these facts AGAINST our hero.

The reason why we cheer is not because he "won" the gunfight. We cheer because in a world full of people running away or recording on their phones, our hero acted selflessly and put his life on the line for others. "Greater love hath no man."

To me, the outcome doesn't matter. What matters is whether or not you have the spine required to fight back against evil when it appears.

The valkyries don't take the winners to Valhalla, they take the warriors.

[John Holroyd @JohnHolroyd]

@fOx1257067 @ZenWeck Really can't see it taking as long as this played out for someone to get down the stairs for pizza, unless it was ordered specifically to aggravate her for the pizza lovers viewing pleasure.

[John Holroyd @JohnHolroyd]

Shame on you, Robert, for selfishly thinking of keeping a roof on your community's church, or expecting the modern idea of ministry to mean what perhaps it used to do, when the Church now clearly needs all its resources to publicly wallow in performative atonement as a desperate attempt to attract the ephemeral praise of those who hate it, and be seen as still somehow important, perhaps even considered an "ally," in this modern age.

The Church today is not far from being just a form of business that trades moral indulgences for money.
Not quite in the same sense as papal indulgences of the past, but more in the way of paying down their self-apportioned share of the modern zeitgeist's twin original sins of colonialism and slavery, and doing so nearly entirely for optics, not effect.

The Church elders enjoy basking in the self-congratulatory glory of their generosity and apologetic abasement, and givers can, if they like, share some of that radiance reflected down upon them. Not unlike the Pharisees praying loudly in public for all to see and admire.

Naturally this shambling pantomime is going to be wilfully silent on the matter of their own forbears who actually helped to end slavery when it genuinely mattered and was not a popular cause, first in the Empire and then worldwide.

Really, Robert, I mean... for you to start bringing up all those old fashioned facts and to openly question their sincerity, well it just selfishly and mean spiritedly looks to puncture their balloon doesn't it? You ought to be ashamed of yourself.

[John Holroyd @JohnHolroyd]

@DanielJHannan My personal favourite would be a special targeted wealth tax limited trial bill.

Pop all of them on the list, and tax them a flat 2% yearly, over 5-7 years to determine if such a policy generates any useful revenue, does it drive people away, etc.

[John Holroyd @JohnHolroyd]

@DanielJHannan Let them say what they want, part of the fun of football is settling tangential or entirely unrelated scores, again and again on the field by proxy, and crowing about it whenever the opportunity arises.
They won, they get to crow, for now.