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Tesla are running a programme in California for Powerwall owners to sell power back to the grid. It will be interesting to see how much owners make as they will be able to sell excess solar AND arbitrage buy charging at night / when power is cheap and selling at peak prices.

https://www.tesla.com/support/energy/tesla-virtual-power-plant-pge-2022

This will become the norm towards the end of the decade here.

I held onto my GSK shares... Their IPO of Haleon has been a disaster and I have seen a fair chunk of profit turn into an unwanted loss.

Janet Jackson had the power to crash laptop computers

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20220816-00/?p=106994

'A colleague of mine shared a story from Windows XP product support. A major computer manufacturer discovered that playing the music video for Janet Jackson’s “Rhythm Nation” would crash certain models of laptops. I would not have wanted to be in the laboratory that they must have set up to investigate this problem. Not an artistic judgement.'

Serves them right for bad music tastes...

"He is probably engaged with ministers"

Maybe Lord Lucan is discussing it with a House of Lords committee... or even over tea with the Queen?

Book Ban Backfire: Texas School District Forced to Pull the Bible

https://www.thedailybeast.com/book-ban-backfires-with-texas-kellar-independent-school-district-forced-to-pull-the-bible-anne-frank-book?ref=home

#crazy

'You have a chance to kill orcs with your text written on an artillery shell that will be fired at Russian soldiers.
You will receive a photo of your signed shell or a video of it being fired. Or you can even sign a T-72 tank.'

https://signmyrocket.com/

Warning of coup potential in Brazil

https://theweek.com/jair-bolsonaro/1014346/brazils-bolsonaro-is-trailing-in-the-polls-critics-say-he-could-be-plotting

Just what anyone with an interest in South American mines wants to hear...

Did you mean to post that on the BP board?

"Putin’s ‘Loyal’ Friends Host Rendezvous With His #1 Enemy"

https://www.thedailybeast.com/loyal-russian-allies-host-military-exercises-with-america?ref=home?ref=home

I pay a lot of attention to geopolitics when I invest, as I want to be able to sell when I want and to be able to receive dividends when they are declared. Clearly there is some political risk in this investment here [Kazakhstan is part of the Russian-led military alliance, the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO)]. The article provides some comfort.

Got 2 thin lambswool jumpers from M&S for £22 - bargain as dry cleaning my existing jumpers is £6 a go.

I am sure they will cost much more when it gets colder...

But were they using sterile mice or mice with a wild mouse microbiome?

https://txtify.it/https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/new-mouse-model-predicts-two-clinical-trial-failures-in-humans--66223

Now that makes sense - controlled by space lasers?

Saggy arms; some say she is falling down... Have you seen her exposing her biceps?

In London us champagne socialists aim to retire in our forties so we have to graft harder when we are young.

I am allergic to "more graft" - unfortunately the allergy is not covered by the NHS.

"Personally, don't have an explication for the share's current poor form."

Simple - the company is currently losing money, is expected to do so in the near future and has said it will be raising money before it breaks even.

Maybe the correct question is why is did so well in the past [hint, retiring in the Bahamas and 50 to 100 billion barrels of oil in place in the ground might have had something to do with it].

'If anyone needs cheering up today Michael Gove's Easyjet flight from Athens was delayed by 30 hours because of Brexit travel chaos.'

https://twitter.com/KatyJayne101/status/1559214145349853184

NARF = CYBA

https://www.lse.co.uk/rns/CYBA/change-of-name-h5s7tge4gtvtumh.html

I thought the intersections seemed a bit skinny to mine at some depth. But it might help them find more impressive results.

The 'Gatwick Gusher' sounded good to many people but when it turned out to be the 'Dorking Dribbler" the share price collapsed.

The CONservatives just cannot stop propping up the housing market

https://txtify.it/https://www.ft.com/content/281fbba6-28e2-42d4-b241-0f215995f0d1

A new lender has been granted a licence by UK financial regulators to
offer mortgages with fixed rates of up to 50 years in a move aimed at
helping borrowers manage soaring inflation.

Perenna, a UK-based specialist lender, is initially planning to
provide home loans that lock in rates for 30 years, before rolling out
products with even longer terms.

Its approval comes as the Bank of England raises interest rates in an
attempt to tackle rapid inflation, which has reached a 40-year high of
9.4 per cent in Britain.