There was one about ten years or so ago that was around 4 - 4.5 I think, it happened in the middle of the night and I found myself on my feet as what felt like the whole world shook for a brief while, and then I went back to sleep when it stopped. I thought tbh it was a very strange lucid dream I had had in the morning until I saw the news, because there was just no frame of reference for my brain to really process it, especially from sleep in the dead of night.

In the daytime I maybe would have guessed but it would have been more scary also because of it.

Using that as a frame of reference I genuinely think that the big quakes some countries get must be just unbelievably scary. The idea the mass of the earth can just shiver, is something you can think of intellectualy but not actually viscerally understand until it happens to you.

Arrogance and ego can massively nerf intelligence.

Nepal has some fun ones as well.

Annual temp of Norway though is a bit different from the tropics which is going to sit around 25-30 C, add in a well insulated place and humidity and I feel its less fun. I don't think the ground insulation or not is going to take away heat fast enough. You're still going to need some form of AC.

When the last time house prices fell I was sitting in a pub with a work friend. All those first time buyers or ones who had saved for a second home to make a little as a landlord many found themselves in suddenly negative equity.

Anyway two of his friends who were obviously very well off spent that whole evening taking calls from and phoning up people like that, offering them a price and saying the money would be in a bank in x time once the contract was signed. They could afford to sit on the property until things came back or it recouped by renting.

I reckon they bought about twenty - thirty odd houses in the space of a couple of pints. Their phones never stopped ringing.

There is a Liberal party in the UK up until around a decade ago they were actually relevant. Then they joined in a coalition with the tories to get one of their own as deputy pm, screwed the sort of people who would vote for them by letting tuition fees for universities go through, and fucked themselves into irrelevancy by doing so.

People apparently used to enjoy a good public hanging, bring the kids have a picnic...

True but still when I read it I was like 'aw ffs'.

It such a meme its going to be hard to launch anything anyway.

Why would I say invest in Google iot core (which they won't develop much anyway until it generates money) and risk losing my infrastructure with little warning, when MS has an option and you know they will develop and grow the hell out of it?