Off topic, but really loving "the russia", it has a great tone to it

Urgh, the ones that say "well my ice car can do 700 miles on a tank so until EV can do that I'm not doing it" annoy the hell out of me.

I know damn well they're never driven that far without stopping at least once

Hah, that's a cool solution [no pun intended]

Yup, spot on, I didn't explain it clearly enough but how you articulate it is better: it does indeed have a digital "On" switch so just giving it power doesn't achieve what I need

Yeah, I wish I did but alas not

I feel like I'd benefit from a smart dehumidifier.

I'm on a Time Of Use tariff where my electricity is very cheap at night. I'd like to be able to schedule for it to come on for those 5hrs in the winter to take the moisture out of my shed-office. It achieves nothing to put it on a smart meter as you have to physically press go on the dehumidifier

What's madness to me is that people in my country have a holiday to the US booked... and are still going.

My safety is worth more than a few sunk thousand

What's great is Canada is pushing forward will alternative negotiations. The US should know that they need to get to the table immediately before all the deals are done

Thanks, pocketcast is US so I'm moving to your proposal of AntennaPod

I'm afraid I've had to give up on Anytime Player, there's too many bugs and it's missing key functionality. Gone to AntennaPod but too early to say

That's my concern but I'm giving it a go. I asked Le Chat and it said it originated from a developer in Germany so that's good enough for me

I'm not in the US but that's truly chilling to hear. When you're not surrounded by it, you don't realise how normalised something becomes in a different part of society.

Great point, what sort of a hellscape is that!?

Who decides which country is "crazy"?!

As I saw this happen I thought that this would be the take but in reality, what's he going to do? Just stand there and not help pick them up for him?

My take is he's just helping the elderly as Trump won't have the mobility to bend down and get them.

Great link, thanks. Wow it is. I'm not against the idea if it offers more internal space but so many SUVs/cross overs are the same size inside as a much smaller car.

We'd hired a vw t-roc for 4 and turned up with too much luggage. They encouraged us to take a bog std estate (Fiat Tipo) and it was insane how much more fit in it

Are you in the US? I'm in Europe and I think people here working in supply chains have reservations about DEI targets when buying for American companies for this same reason. We're taught to buy only based on value and capability to deliver.

Is the Skoda Enyaq an SUV though? I kind of had in my head it was an estate

I agree, it's a step beyond the little sticker on the back of the car.

I'd do the same if I had one but pedoguygate switched me off the brand and it's never been the direction that I wanted to see EVs go (look I have a button that makes the car/range go down really fast. I also don't think talk of range without reference to battery size is helpful)

Tries afri-cola in Berlin at the weekend and that was very nice. I'm in the UK so our cola options are limited but I don't drink alot of fizzy drink anyway