Yeah, all fair points. I do love the convenience of using my phone to pay too in fairness.

This may seem like a silly solution but maybe pop your debit card inside your phone case. It should bop through it.

I am not surprised in the slightest. I mean if you have a bunch of smart, highly motivated people it sounds like keeping the crazy man at arms length is the kind of thing they’d organise very effectively.

NASA is clearly capable of things given the right circumstances and budget.

Absolutely agree with this but there is no denying the innovation levels at spacex are higher (I’m not saying this is down to musk specifically. The man is a horror story of a human).

We were all in total awe when seeing booster stages land themselves successfully for the first time. It was such a giant leap forward and to the best of my knowledge no government funded space agency was even considering it before spacex.

Done. Good luck.

It’s a fair question. Some of it is directly Europe related, like France recently announcing that it was on a path to recognise Palestine, or the Irish Taoiseach (prime minister) saying that what was happening there was a war crime.

If you think it doesn’t impact Europe or European politics I think maybe you need to peek through the hand you have over your face in that emoji. Various countries have recognised Palestine, had their Israeli diplomats removed etc.

Very first thought was “surely that’s treason”.

I must look up the legal definition.

There are two Lidl beans. The extra 10p for the ring pull one gets you more than just the convenience. :) Worth trying both though.

Yaaarrrrns.

Yeah that makes a lot of sense in fairness.

I’m not sure if I’m alone in this but I have a terrible aversion to transcoding. I know the loss of quality is probably not that huge (depending on the original codec) but I just can’t bring myself to get past it.

As a result I have a tiny arm based box with a 2tb SSD and I’m happy out.

That non stacking thing annoys the piss out of me haha. It’s such a small thing and it’s deliberate to make the tin look bigger but it just means they’re taking up more space in the cupboard for lack of stacking or falling over if you do.

Also not a huge Heinz fan. Like they’re not bad don’t get me wrong but definitely agree on the watery-ness.

The most popular one here is probably Bachelor’s which has a thicker, richer sauce though I’m fond enough of the Lidl own brand one. That is definitely partly down to price. They’re ridiculously cheap and very decent with a fry especially if you warm them slowly to soften them.

I thought Heinz was the gold standard in the UK. I must try the Branston ones. Flippin’ love that pickle.

Don’t think I’ve ever seen them in the supermarket in Ireland but my sister’s visiting from the UK on Sunday so I think I’ll place an order.