Fair enough, we’re on the same page then, mea culpa.

My apologies, shit day at work and made two mistakes:

1. Was doom scrolling on a break.
2. Commented after skim-reading.

I retract what I said entirely.

But yours is just to whinge about “there’s nothing we can do” and yet you tell me to grow up.

Piss off you emotional vampire.

Ok cool, looks like we should all just commit suicide right now then.

Come on then fellow doomers, let’s all hold hands and fling ourselves off the nearest cliff.

Oh if you lock eyes with me down there, you’ll be getting a smirk, a wink, and muffled moans from me as I step up the eating enthusiasm with prolonged eye contact 😈

Lady late at night: Let’s go skinny dipping in the sea!

Shark: is it for me? 🥺👉👈

Also, NESO just switched the queue for grid connection applications from “First Come, First Served” to “First Ready, First Connected” because the backlog is so long for DNOs (Distribution Network Operators) that there’s a lot of zombied projects that rushed to get the application without planning permission or funding because the wait is so long.

Hopefully this coupled with additional funding and planning reform will be enough to get the extra transmission capacity that is so desperately needed, even for energy storage sites.

Hi I’m Derek Bum!

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This old laptop is sluggish, but with three shots from Computer Gun…

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And it boots up like new!

As a kinky nerd looking for another kinky nerd, I agree. M straight switch if anyone’s interested haha.

Nope it’s Murdock’s prime method of inception for the lowest common denominator of the UK’s working class, aside from Liverpool because they blamed the crowd for the Hillsborough disaster and therefore you won’t find a copy of it sold in that city.

That’s not an exaduration, it literally has tits on Page 3 (except on Sundays), regularly publishes the most outlandish celebrity gossip stories, and you’d be better informed by reading the shit smears on your used toilet paper.

Someone hook this guy up with Er Nasir.

“America Party”

Americans really are the ultimate parody of themselves. Have fun with your civil war.

Nothing quite like cracking open a few cold ones with the boys.

(This is a joke)

Very good work OP! Keep it up 😊

If I was a US citizen, fucking gladly!

I’ll happily die for being the first one with the FUCKING BOLLOCKS to do something and go down in history. What about you? Do you have the stones or are you happy to wither away under a fascist banner to be forgotten?

Home of the brave? Nah land of the scared cowards, what a failed colony!

Then grab the guns and see if they fire. If they do, then civil war it is. Let these MAGA fucks fire the first shot and then the last will be fired when they’re lined up against the wall.

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This is just the standard operating mode for an English chav circa 2010.

I want them suffering in medical agony and starvation until death finally gets around to them.

Why should it prompt backlash? Did they celebrate the win by knocking over their opponent’s king with their cock?

These pearl clutchers make me want to force said pearls down their throat until they shit out every single bead or I can grab one end of the necklace and rip it out like a fucking BeyBlade!

Jesus, this isn’t a slight against you OP but as an electronics engineer I feel I need to have a rant about the shoddy design here:

First of all, I have no idea what that component is dangling off the burnt-out through-hole resistor is or why it’s there.

Surely it can’t be a part of the temperature control loop, so I would guess it’s a thermal fuse to shut off the blanket if that resistor burns because it handles power to the heating element.

If so, what THE FUCK were the designers thinking?! Couldn’t afford even a small power resistor with a heatsink and a cheap thermocouple to a temp sense IC?!

Nah it’ll be ok, either it burns out the resistor and the customer is not injured or the customer’s house burns down. Either way no deaths, just complaints about our shitty build quality.

Second, they’re using WAY too much solder for these surface mounts components.

And third, why has R16 shifted from it’s pad? Bad soldering job from too much solder? Bad placement from the PNP machine? Or, god forbid, something gets hot enough to cause the solder under that resistor to start melting?

It’s genuinely shocking the amount of stuff that’s just being allowed to be sold these days.

If you can’t get the blanket repaired OP, please consider sending this to Big Clive as he’d have a field day with this.