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Screwdriver wrote: Sat Jan 21, 2023 12:34 pm
Mr. Dazzle wrote: Sat Jan 21, 2023 10:01 am So here's a Q...why don't dairys have reusable plastic bottles? There must a reason(s).
Melting point of HDPE is only 125ºC

It goes very soft way before then, you wouldn't be able to sterilise the bottle.

It does raise a question about introducing so much plastic into the human food chain though. It's really not good for you!
Doesn't have to be HDPE though.

Back when I worked in stoodent bars we had placcy pint glasses which went through the really hot dishwasher.

More recently, baby Ds bottles were plastic and they got sterilised in the microwave using steam.

Must be other reasons you can't/don't use placcy refillable milk bottles.
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Mr. Dazzle wrote: Sat Jan 21, 2023 2:43 pm BA use driverless electric tugs with some of their planes. Double whammy of modern.
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Couple of years ago, Oxbotica (UK AV systems developer) had IIRC on the same day automated vehicles running on-road, airside, in a quarry and in a mine.

It was 2018 when they trialled airside at Gatwick.
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Mr. Dazzle wrote: Sat Jan 21, 2023 5:29 pm
Screwdriver wrote: Sat Jan 21, 2023 12:34 pm
Mr. Dazzle wrote: Sat Jan 21, 2023 10:01 am So here's a Q...why don't dairys have reusable plastic bottles? There must a reason(s).
Melting point of HDPE is only 125ºC

It goes very soft way before then, you wouldn't be able to sterilise the bottle.

It does raise a question about introducing so much plastic into the human food chain though. It's really not good for you!
Doesn't have to be HDPE though.

Back when I worked in stoodent bars we had placcy pint glasses which went through the really hot dishwasher.

More recently, baby Ds bottles were plastic and they got sterilised in the microwave using steam.

Must be other reasons you can't/don't use placcy refillable milk bottles.
Milk bottles don’t have to be HDPE but as a matter of fact, they are.

Placcy pint glasses and coke bottles etc will be PET, melts at 260C, much easier to sterilise. I assume the shape of the handle precludes the use of PET for milk jugs due to its inherent stiffness so that such a structure would be too brittle.
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https://www.wionews.com/trending/15-pol ... uts-554407

In the past, we have seen many incidents where the smart fitness watches of Apple have saved the lives of people but in a new incident in Australia, a trainer's Apple Watch led to a chain of events resulting in police rushing to his gym. The trainer at a Muay Thai gym in Australia accidentally made an emergency call via Siri.

The 34-year-old Jamie Alleyne, who is a Muay Thai and boxing trainer, accidentally activated Siri on his Apple Watch Series 7, calling emergency services while he was training a client. Unlike other instances where Apple Watch's features like fall detection and Emergency SOS have automatically called for help, this time it was Siri that heard Alleyne shouting the combinations of numbers '1-1-2; and 'good shot' in his training session.
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This used to be a thread to do what it says in the title.

It was fun and interesting.

Now it's gone back to lunatics arguing to the death.


Now just fucking stupid.
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Yorick wrote: Sat Jan 21, 2023 9:28 pm This used to be a thread to do what it says in the title.
It was fun and interesting.
Now it's gone back to lunatics arguing to the death.
Now just fucking stupid.
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Another for Yozzer :)

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-64341453

A cane toad so giant wildlife officers thought it was fake has been found in a north Australian rainforest.

The "monster" specimen is six times bigger than the average toad, weighs 2.7kg, and could break a world record.

Dubbed "Toadzilla", the animal was quickly placed in a container and removed from the wild.
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cheb wrote: Sat Jan 21, 2023 9:56 pm How's this for tenuous local news: http://www.hebrides-news.com/transatlan ... 20122.html
Is this translated from local dialect?
"Detouring in a completely direction"

ie As opposed to a partial or incomplete direction? :)
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I would prefer my plane to fly completely in one direction TBF.
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Wonder if this scumbag will go to male or female prison.

It/he/she should lose all human rights, same as the victims.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-64388669
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Yorick wrote: Tue Jan 24, 2023 5:44 pm Wonder if this scumbag will go to male or female prison.

It/he/she should lose all human rights, same as the victims.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-64388669
I think you're on to something there.

Let's have a Trans only prison.

Otherwise there will be cries of oppression, discrimination and being marginalised etc.

It might also be safer for the trans crims.
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Convicted as a woman, get out, change back to original name and CRB checks sail through. This is what the SNP are aggressively defending.
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Le_Fromage_Grande wrote: Mon Jan 23, 2023 11:17 am https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/23259720.bu ... satanists/

Devil went down to Waveney
I notice the article says that it is an 'ill-defined belief system'. But to say that is a hate crime isn't it?
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Yorick wrote: Tue Jan 24, 2023 5:44 pm Wonder if this scumbag will go to male or female prison.

It/he/she should lose all human rights, same as the victims.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-64388669
He is biologically male and must therefore go to a male prison.
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irie wrote: Tue Jan 24, 2023 8:14 pm
Yorick wrote: Tue Jan 24, 2023 5:44 pm Wonder if this scumbag will go to male or female prison.

It/he/she should lose all human rights, same as the victims.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-64388669
He is biologically male and must therefore go to a male prison.
But this is Scotland where their politicians proudly pose in front of banners calling for feminists to be beheaded and eaten.
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irie wrote: Tue Jan 24, 2023 8:14 pm
Yorick wrote: Tue Jan 24, 2023 5:44 pm Wonder if this scumbag will go to male or female prison.

It/he/she should lose all human rights, same as the victims.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-64388669
He is biologically male and must therefore go to a male prison.
They’re saying he’s in a women’s prison right now.
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Yorick wrote: Tue Jan 24, 2023 5:44 pm Wonder if this scumbag will go to male or female prison.

It/he/she should lose all human rights, same as the victims.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-64388669
This is what happens when you ignore the warning signs from the lunatic asylum formerly known as America and allow the disease to spread.

Gender affirming surgery for children next on the list. Naturally, the state will remove these children from the harmful influence of their gender biased, non-inclusive parents. It is happening in the US now, ergo, it will happen here sooner or later.

I would happily point out the obvious strategy being played out here but I would be castigated for going "off topic".
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Can't find the details yet, but it appears that after years of James Comey & McCabe etc at the FBI suggesting Trump was a Russian asset, it now turns out that the person Comey appointed to investigate that claim WAS a Russian asset...

Edit, found this:
https://abcnews.go.com/US/actions-agent ... d=96643687