Ortlieb bags seem pretty good in my experience. I have the backroller XL which is a pannier bag with a shoulder strap rather than a backpack. Plus they are made in Germany and not just a German company with outsourced production.

I did see that, is that the same values this entire wall would use though? Looks like the actual numbers come from a single misting nozzle. When you get to the bit below…

On another study, “Experimental study of cooling effects of a passive evaporative cooling wall constructed of porous ceramics with high water soaking-up ability” DOI, shows an evaporation rate of 20.7 kg/day for an area of 1.1m², converting to l/h/m², it is around 0.784 l/h, where it had max-min air temperatures at 36.4 and 26.2 °C, relative humidity (RH) at 72% and mean wind speed at 0.6 m/s

That wall is way more than 1.1m² and 72% RH is pretty high. Of course a lot of water evaporating means its providing quite a bit of cooling which is nice. Going by the wet bulb temperature, at 72% RH you are getting up to about 5°c of cooling, that certainly sounds like it would be noticeable, of course it would be pushing humidity even higher in the area too.

As a cool water feature, looks great. Even better with some more plants growing on it or the ones there will get bigger in time so that the wall is mostly green. If you want to run it fully off rainwater, hope you have a fairly big reservoir.

Or you can go for the increasingly common attitude I see around the UK these days - why should I bother reducing my water usage at all when the water company lost more than me in leaks and dumps sewage in the sea. Totally get the anger to water companies, but wasting water doesn’t seem like the solution to that.

Trying not to think about cycling home from work later… Maybe I should pack swim wear and jump in the sea

Using DDG browser on CalyxOS currently. Might try Firefox now I have a faster phone. It was pretty slow on my old tablet

Hesitant on giving advice on what worked for me because I doubt its easily replicable. But fuck it let’s try.

Leave school with shit results, have your parents divorce because of you and sell the house you live in leaving you to having to find somewhere to rent on way below poverty wages. Rent a single bedroom in a shared house with communal bathroom and toilet, there is no living room or parking but that is OK because you can’t afford a car anyway and have to walk/cycle everywhere. Start drinking with the other guys living there. Some pubs in town are expensive so drink several pints before going out and only get a single round at the pub.

That was a significant improvement compared to school.

Can’t relate. Just get told to stop.

Well I ride my bike across their car park

10 times for me. There is a gym I have to go through on my way to and from work.

Can’t read it, some full screen overlay blocks it.

Return to the age of sail!

I am not creating an account to view that

Sounds good to me!

Yeah bikes and scooters are easier to take inside. Which is a far better security option than locking it up.

So if all the single men become gay the problem will solve its self!

Don’t a lot of instances just bother with laws in the host country though?

Wetherspoons gets a lot of shit online - to be fair the owner is a bit of a cunt, but many pub landlords are cunts too. So what difference does it make?

But its the only place I can get a pint for £1.99

That just gets a bad reputation because of non AI slop on social media.

Apparently fluid or gas filled blisters are a sign of it. Had those in the area around an insect bite a few weeks ago. Initially swollen then the swelling went down and the blisters formed around the bite area.

Not sure if that was a flesh eating bacteria or something like it or not, but it went away on its own after a week or so. Got to a few cm across at the worst point.

Its a scooter, anyone can just pick it up and walk off with it. If you want security you probably need a motorcycle chain and lock. Don’t get cheap ones, cheap locks are terrible.

Recently opened a cheap lock by using the key from another lock and just jiggled it as I turned until the lock opened. Another lock I was able to pick with a single flat head screwdriver.

I am not good or experienced with lockpicking. Literally the only locks I have ever picked and without even using proper tools. But then if you leave it for long enough someone could always drill the lock too. Best you can really do is make it draw too much attention for the value of what they could steal.

Evaporative cooling means water is evaporating. With such a large area, potentially a fair bit of it.