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Robert Merkel
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code monkey, former SE academic. Obsessed with renewable energy.
Don’t burn yourself on the valves.
December 21, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Overwhelmingly, not pro photographers as I understand it. Nikon, Canon and Sony mirrorless these days.
December 21, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Watch out for venue cameras.
December 21, 2025 at 9:48 AM
The term “derp” seems to have gone out of fashion but was devised for pieces like le Grand’s.
December 21, 2025 at 3:27 AM
What’s the inverse of commentator’s curse Greg?
December 21, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Different city but I watched the original video clip for YMCA recently. The smog pollution is just godawful.
December 20, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Oh dear, some people who would have bought Hiluxes are going to be forced into buying BYD Shark 6s. On the humanity!
December 18, 2025 at 9:38 PM
I remember a recommendation from the Victorian Bushfire Royal Commission to spend literally tens of billions of dollars on replacing a particular type of local distribution line, despite being unable to estimate the actual benefits of doing so.
December 18, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Does he also have a stock of second-hand panels and an inverter or two to make the Solar System of Theseus?
December 16, 2025 at 11:47 PM
At least for a colonoscopy you have all the happy drugs for the actual procedure.
December 15, 2025 at 3:42 AM
This thing is like the final boss of rage bait for motorsport social media - EV, specifically a Tesla, TCR, and China. The only thing that could fire them up more is if it was a model Y...
December 9, 2025 at 11:25 AM
If Piastri had won you could have used the exact same headline.
December 7, 2025 at 8:00 PM
But yes I was referring to the Byron train.
December 6, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Image looks like AI slop to be honest.
December 6, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Sure. But doing nothing isn’t really working for small-l liberals either:
December 5, 2025 at 1:57 AM