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[The Bear]

2 hours ago, CornwallFox said:

Such a f**king moron. 

[FoxesDeb]

4 hours ago, The Bear said:

Such a f**king moron. 

At this point I feel like DT should have his own unique derogatory term. Lumping him in with your average moron seems a bit unfair to them. Same with any other insulting names we could call him really, deranged lunatics are probably saner than he is so although this is my preferred term for him, it doesn't seem to cut it any more, he's off the scale.

[Trav Le Bleu]

3 hours ago, FoxesDeb said:

At this point I feel like DT should have his own unique derogatory term. Lumping him in with your average moron seems a bit unfair to them. Same with any other insulting names we could call him really, deranged lunatics are probably saner than he is so although this is my preferred term for him, it doesn't seem to cut it any more, he's off the scale.

Don means father in the Catholic church and Trump means fart, so how about...

 

Daddy Fart?

Edited 29 April by Trav Le Bleu

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Over 850 tonnes of food waste collected in month
A view of food waste in a dedicated bin, with leftover bread and salad visible.
Image source,Paul Moseley/BBC
Image caption,
Food waste sent to standard landfill releases greenhouse gases

ByBen Mellor

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8e8lg1ye30o

 

Leicester
Published
36 minutes ago
Councils that started food waste collections in Leicestershire and Rutland have collected a total of 869 tonnes of food waste in roughly one month.

Hinckley and Bosworth Borough Council, Blaby District Council, Oadby and Wigston Borough Council and Rutland County Council (RCC) started collections in either March or April.

The government set a deadline of 31 March for all homes in England to get weekly food waste collections, but many local authorities missed this, including Leicester City Council who expect to start their services after May 2028.

Councillor Oliver Hemsley, RCC's cabinet member for environment and transport, said he was "quite surprised" by how much food waste was collected.

A view of a Rutland County Council food waste recycling truck.
Image source,Rutland County Council
Image caption,
Hemsley said teething issues with collections were being ironed out

"Anytime you change things for people, we tend to be quite conservative about stuff, but it's actually really good to see that it's being embraced by the Rutland residents," Hemsley said.

He added that the food waste collections also worked better with modern habits.

"We've known lots of things over time. We used to compost our potato peelings and things, but it's become less easy for people to do that.

"Offering this service, rather than just chucking it in the black bin, has allowed us to meet the needs of our community and do something for the future generations."

Where does the waste go?
Food waste sent to landfill, along with general waste, "doesn't just harmlessly break down" according to guidance issued by a number of local authorities.

"It has a big impact on the environment as it rots and releases methane - a harmful greenhouse gas that is 25 times more potent than carbon dioxide."

Instead, food waste collected by these collections is turned into energy.

Hinckley and Bosworth Borough Council, Blaby District Council, Oadby and Wigston Borough Council, and Rutland County Council all send their waste to anaerobic digestion plants.

"It's a process where they feed it in, and it generates a gas which is used to generate energy," Hemsley said.

"It is probably going to generate savings [for Rutland County Council] of around £253,000 in the first year.

"So it's well worth having and helps offset the costs of having it put in in the first place."

Who collected how much?
According to the latest data provided to the BBC:

Hinckley and Bosworth Borough Council collected 262 tonnes between 1 April and 24 April

Blaby District Council collected 256.86 tonnes between 30 March and 28 April

Oadby and Wigston Borough Council collected 173 tonnes in total as of 30 April

Rutland County Council collected 176.88 tonnes in total as of 27 April

Charnwood Borough Council, Harborough District Council, and North West Leicestershire District Council are expected to start collections later this year.

Melton Borough Council said it would start in April 2028, while Leicester City Council said it would start "after" May 2028.

[leicsmac]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1m253033m4o

 

A massive 'megatsunami' wave created when part of an Alaskan mountain crumbled into the sea is the second tallest ever recorded – and a reminder of the risks posed by melting glaciers, say scientists.

Last summer a giant wave swept through a remote fjord in southeast Alaska leaving destruction in its wake.

The event went largely unreported at the time, but a new scientific analysis shows it was caused by a massive landslide.

An incredible 64 million cubic metres of rock – the equivalent of 24 Great Pyramids - splashed into the water below. The sheer power of that amount of rock plunging into the fjord in under a minute created a gigantic wave almost 500 metres tall.

 

A little glimpse of how devastating the natural world can be with just a (relatively) tiny shift - thankfully out enough in the middle of nowhere that no one was hurt.

[leicsmac]

And now, for something so unbelievably inaccurate it joins Flat Earth et al as actually being hilarious:

 

 

 

 

 

 

[SpacedX]

Starship V3 poised for another launch attempt billed as make or break for SpaceX.  They've lengthened both the upper stage and the Super Heavy booster of Starship Version 3 in order to expand fuel capacity, improve payload capacity, and upgraded its propulsion system with Raptor 3 engines. New launch pad too. 

[leicsmac]

5 hours ago, SpacedX said:

Starship V3 poised for another launch attempt billed as make or break for SpaceX.  They've lengthened both the upper stage and the Super Heavy booster of Starship Version 3 in order to expand fuel capacity, improve payload capacity, and upgraded its propulsion system with Raptor 3 engines. New launch pad too. 

Cleared the tower and away, stage sep also good but some issues with engines on both booster and craft.