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Why do Americans measure everything in cups?
Used a couple of US recipes recently and most of the ingredients are in cups, or spoons, not by weight. This is a nightmare to convert. Do Americans not own scales or something? What’s the reason for measuring everything by volume?
Toyota to offer manual gearbox in next-generation electric cars (www.autocar.co.uk)
I don’t really see the point of this. It’s just adding complexity for the sake of it. As far as I can tell when you change gear it just changes some software parameters, there are no physical gears. Yet there’s a clutch and the ability to stall?
Never start vaping, says 12-year-old girl with lung damage (www.bbc.co.uk)
A 12-year-old girl who suffered a lung collapse and spent four days in an induced coma has told the BBC that children should never start vaping.
Coogan and Vorderman back Liberal Democrats' electoral reform pledge (www.bbc.co.uk)
Actor Steve Coogan and presenter Carol Vorderman have backed Liberal Democrat pledges to reform how the UK’s general elections are run.
Tories heading for landslide election defeat, says Britain’s top pollster (www.independent.co.uk)
Exclusive: Sunak could be presiding over ‘wake’ at conference, warns Prof John Curtice – with voters furious over NHS failures, cost of living, migrants and Liz Truss
Join Lemmyvision, a Eurovision-like Song Contest for Lemmy communities around the world ! (jlai.lu)
cross-posted from: jlai.lu/post/4905287...
It is now safe to turn off your computer (feddit.uk)
Nicked this from bsky at bsky.app/profile/retr0.id/post/3kghyoisqoc24
I Need To Admit I’m Never Going To Play My Giant Board Games (www.thegamer.com)
CW: article contains swears...
'Glitter ban' comes into force across EU but critics say it's not enough (www.bbc.co.uk)
People be receiving fewer glittery Christmas cards this year as harmful microplastics have been banned across the European Union....
hmmm (lemmy.world)
‘Left without a voice’: October general election could leave students in UK unable to vote (www.theguardian.com)
Maybe that’s the plan?
'It’s totally unhinged’: is the book world turning against Goodreads? (www.theguardian.com)
Hopefully. Join Bookwyrm!
Windows needs your help updating (feddit.uk)
I'm not ready for the Internet (assets.oldbytes.space)
It's never been a better time to switch to Firefox (www.androidpolice.com)
Two of world's first desktop computers found during house clearance (www.leicestermercury.co.uk)
Two of the world’s first desktop computers have been discovered during a house clearance. The Q1, which was launched in 1972, changed the way we use computers today....
Monty Python and the Holy Grail's official board game includes a working catapult (www.dicebreaker.com)
cross-posted from: feddit.uk/post/6777301...
We’ve reached the point of having to patch the software of your shoes (media.mstdn.social)
cross-posted from: mstdn.social/users/tekkie/…/112037167186333009...
xkcd : Earth Temperature Timeline (imgs.xkcd.com)
cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/4245345...
The end of the world is nigh (feddit.uk)
Internet Browsing (assets.octodon.social)
via octodon.social/
BBC News - King Charles III new coin designs revealed (www.bbc.co.uk)
An entirely new set of UK coins will start to enter circulation at the end of the year to mark the new monarch and his love of the natural world.
Crooked House: Owners of historic pub near Dudley ordered to rebuild it following suspected arson (www.itv.com)
The owners of the Crooked House pub near Dudley have been ordered to rebuild it after the historic building was destroyed in a suspected arson attack....
The revenge of the video game manual (www.theguardian.com)
Instruction manuals died out as video games introduced tutorials instead. But now games such as Tunic and The Banished Vault are bringing them back
Container, a board game with the most boring theme imaginable, is one of the most exciting experiences I've ever had (www.eurogamer.net)
You’d be forgiven for thinking that Container is less an actual playable board game and more a parody of the mundane, dryly economical themes adopted by the tabletop hobby’s more esoteric offerings.