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by schmittel
Fri Mar 29, 2024 10:53 am
Forum: News, Current Affairs & Politics
Topic: Jeffrey Donaldson deletes all his social media
Replies: 1
Views: 22

Jeffrey Donaldson deletes all his social media

61 year old Jeffrey Donaldson from Co Down vanishes from social media and sparks frenzied speculation as to why.... https://twitter.com/AmandaFBelfast/status/1773632046390202509 The longer the DUP take to issue a statement saying these two events are unrelated the more likely it appears they might b...
by schmittel
Sat Mar 09, 2024 12:17 pm
Forum: News, Current Affairs & Politics
Topic: Yes/Yes campaign and misinformation
Replies: 92
Views: 3043

Re: Yes/Yes campaign and misinformation

Actually it now looks like being NO/NO by such a resounding margin that it would be totally ridiculous to blame the result being swung by disinformation from the far right.

Time to get out the popcorn.
by schmittel
Fri Mar 08, 2024 9:16 pm
Forum: News, Current Affairs & Politics
Topic: Yes/Yes campaign and misinformation
Replies: 92
Views: 3043

Re: Yes/Yes campaign and misinformation

And the journal beloved of all woke and hip have confirmed it. I suppose if Gript had run with it they would claim it was misinformation. If it does pass then I could forsee a judicial challenge based on the the government Wasn't the electoral commission meant to ensure we had all the facts? I see ...
by schmittel
Thu Feb 29, 2024 8:49 pm
Forum: The Smoking Room
Topic: Any weird stuff ever happen to you?
Replies: 2
Views: 99

Re: Any weird stuff ever happen to you?

I was talking to a fella at work and he was telling me about seeing weird green lights in the sky when he was young. He didn't see anything source of the lights but it would light up the sky and then go back maintaining a low light. He was out at night working on his family's farm and didn't wait a...
by schmittel
Tue Feb 27, 2024 2:18 pm
Forum: Motors
Topic: Range Rover Classic - Electric Vehicle Conversion
Replies: 45
Views: 27702

Re: Range Rover Classic - Electric Vehicle Conversion

Will you also need to upgrade the brakes and suspension to deal with the increase in weight? Not planning on it. The thinking being brakes and suspension were designed to handle the original Rover V8 engine which was the guts of 180kg, + full fuel tank, exhaust, radiator and a host of other compone...
by schmittel
Tue Feb 27, 2024 1:13 pm
Forum: Motors
Topic: Range Rover Classic - Electric Vehicle Conversion
Replies: 45
Views: 27702

Re: Range Rover Classic - Electric Vehicle Conversion

Red letter day in that I managed to spin the motor this morning!



So now that I understand how the whole thing works outside the car all I have to do next is get it working in the car!
by schmittel
Thu Feb 22, 2024 10:07 pm
Forum: News, Current Affairs & Politics
Topic: The covid scam saved the world
Replies: 4
Views: 195

Re: The covid scam saved the world

I've occasionally thought the same thing.
by schmittel
Wed Feb 21, 2024 8:41 am
Forum: News, Current Affairs & Politics
Topic: Yes/Yes campaign and misinformation
Replies: 92
Views: 3043

Re: Yes/Yes campaign and misinformation

This pretty shocking in my opinion. Whatever your opinions on gript, they are members of the Press Council of Ireland, and the journalist is an accredited journalist attending the press conference in a professional capacity. https://twitter.com/griptmedia/status/1759945399656202670 It certainly look...
by schmittel
Fri Feb 16, 2024 6:07 pm
Forum: News, Current Affairs & Politics
Topic: 2009-2015ish Did anyone predict the housing shortage ?
Replies: 10
Views: 277

Re: 2009-2015ish Did anyone predict the housing shortage ?

Mathematically we have enough houses for our current population.
That fact suggest we have a shortage of efficiently used housing stock rather than a shortage of housing stock.
by schmittel
Fri Feb 16, 2024 6:06 pm
Forum: News, Current Affairs & Politics
Topic: 2009-2015ish Did anyone predict the housing shortage ?
Replies: 10
Views: 277

Re: 2009-2015ish Did anyone predict the housing shortage ?

A shortage suggests more than houses there is a demand side as well that must require these houses. The population has grown by about 16% since 2005 so who would have predicted that? (https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/IRL/ireland/population) Probably anybody who noted that the population in the...
by schmittel
Sat Jan 27, 2024 10:44 am
Forum: Motors
Topic: Range Rover Classic - Electric Vehicle Conversion
Replies: 45
Views: 27702

Re: Range Rover Classic - Electric Vehicle Conversion

So, some stuff arrived: Nissan Leaf motor stack: leaf-motor.jpg All wrapped up in here is a 110kw motor, inverter, PDM with charge sockets/main HV cable, and low voltage wiring harness The brainy bits: controller.jpg On left is throttle pedal, on right is the controller. To all of the above I need t...
by schmittel
Sat Jan 13, 2024 9:50 am
Forum: Motors
Topic: Range Rover Classic - Electric Vehicle Conversion
Replies: 45
Views: 27702

Re: Range Rover Classic - Electric Vehicle Conversion

My plan is in the first instance to get the entire electric motor working on a bench test set up as it would be in car but powered by an alternative HV source - i.e not an EV battery pack. This will help me learn and understand the A - Z of things, and when (if!), I've got that all working I'll inst...
by schmittel
Sat Jan 13, 2024 9:38 am
Forum: Motors
Topic: Range Rover Classic - Electric Vehicle Conversion
Replies: 45
Views: 27702

Re: Range Rover Classic - Electric Vehicle Conversion

Am resurrecting this thread as New Year's resolution is to get this done. Since I last posted not much has happened because I lost the storage space the Range Rover was in and that's where I planned to do the work. Car was brought home and has been sitting in a lean to shed ever since. Not quite out...
by schmittel
Wed Nov 15, 2023 9:06 pm
Forum: News, Current Affairs & Politics
Topic: Israel and Palestine
Replies: 1046
Views: 1714517

Re: Israel and Palestine

marhay70 wrote: Wed Nov 15, 2023 8:17 pm Not going to wash with the places they've alteady taken.
They razed the parliament to the ground two days after posing for photos inside with Israeli flags.
by schmittel
Wed Nov 15, 2023 7:51 pm
Forum: News, Current Affairs & Politics
Topic: Israel and Palestine
Replies: 1046
Views: 1714517

Re: Israel and Palestine

When this is all over Israel willbe under severe international pressure to prove all this infrastructure exists. It's going to be very diffisult for them to replicate what they say exists in the short time they will have before the UN insists on inspecting the area. Their only alternative would be ...
by schmittel
Tue Nov 14, 2023 8:04 pm
Forum: News, Current Affairs & Politics
Topic: Israel and Palestine
Replies: 1046
Views: 1714517

Re: Israel and Palestine

I'm definitely not underestimating Hamas' tunnels, there is no doubt they have a sophisticated tunnel network. But the point of the IDF video is not simply proof that Hamas builds tunnels, it is offered as proof that Hamas build tunnels under hospitals, and hence Israel is justified in shelling thos...
by schmittel
Tue Nov 14, 2023 3:51 pm
Forum: News, Current Affairs & Politics
Topic: Israel and Palestine
Replies: 1046
Views: 1714517

Re: Israel and Palestine

PogMoThoin22 wrote: Tue Nov 14, 2023 10:27 am Already been debunked as an elevator shaft with 3 phase power, more propaganda
Is this legit? Is it just randoms on twitter or have seen anybody with heft debunking it?
by schmittel
Mon Nov 13, 2023 8:11 pm
Forum: News, Current Affairs & Politics
Topic: Israel and Palestine
Replies: 1046
Views: 1714517

Re: Israel and Palestine

Lets call a spade a spade, you are saying Westernised European type countries. which would of course be primarily white and bar Israel of a christian tradition, should be held to a higher standard than lets say African, Middle Eastern or Asian countries. You are basically saying it is ok and hell e...
by schmittel
Sat Nov 11, 2023 9:39 pm
Forum: News, Current Affairs & Politics
Topic: Israel and Palestine
Replies: 1046
Views: 1714517

Re: Israel and Palestine

I disagree with what Israel is doing. I'm not supporting them. For the most part I'm trying to hold in people's consciousness what sparked this conflagration. I'm still shocked to the core by the atrocity. Those men brutally raped women specifically because their core ideology grants them that lice...
by schmittel
Sat Nov 11, 2023 8:27 pm
Forum: News, Current Affairs & Politics
Topic: Israel and Palestine
Replies: 1046
Views: 1714517

Re: Israel and Palestine

I'm not scratching my head really about why so many people are marching for Palestine rather than for the many other places where many people are being killed or have been killed. No one is marching for all the women and children in Afghanistan for example, where the sale of even toddler children i...
by schmittel
Sat Nov 11, 2023 7:45 pm
Forum: News, Current Affairs & Politics
Topic: Israel and Palestine
Replies: 1046
Views: 1714517

Re: Israel and Palestine

I'm sure most of the people there are peaceniks. I do think genuinely that people are horrified at the bombing of Gaza ( though why have they never marched for Yemeni people or the people being massacred by Janjaweed in Sudan etc etc?). Most of the marchers want the bombing to stop. But I do think ...
by schmittel
Sun Nov 05, 2023 5:15 pm
Forum: News, Current Affairs & Politics
Topic: Israel and Palestine
Replies: 1046
Views: 1714517

Re: Israel and Palestine

Likely, as awful as it is for Israel, the only way to stop what's happening now is some sort of negotiation. We can argue forever but the outcome that's not Armageddon can only be negotiating of some sort. This is it in a nutshell. Right now is the culmination of 75 years of tit for tit, incrementa...
by schmittel
Sun Nov 05, 2023 3:42 pm
Forum: News, Current Affairs & Politics
Topic: Israel and Palestine
Replies: 1046
Views: 1714517

Re: Israel and Palestine

US doing their best to ride both horses...

by schmittel
Sat Nov 04, 2023 9:12 pm
Forum: News, Current Affairs & Politics
Topic: Israel and Palestine
Replies: 1046
Views: 1714517

Re: Israel and Palestine

And who is in that room? As you say, the U.S, is probably standing at the door, along with the Brits and most of the Western world but it might surprise you to know that quite a few of Israel's neighbours will be out of it just as soon as it is expedient. Israel is what stands between them and simi...
by schmittel
Sat Nov 04, 2023 5:45 pm
Forum: News, Current Affairs & Politics
Topic: Israel and Palestine
Replies: 1046
Views: 1714517

Re: Israel and Palestine

To be quite cynical, how harshly does history or our present cultures REALLY judge the US for the millions of innocent people in the middle east who died in "the war on terror"? How harshly do people presently judge the German people not 80 years later for the obliteration of millions of ...