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Very poor design. Far right chap (pun intended) will get neck only half cut through disappointing the Tricoteuses and crowd. Try again. E: Inventing history snipe - 1733: DuFay demonstrates electric charges in glass and amber rods, Franklin suggests principle of electric flow. Kay invents flying shuttle for weaving. Also the War of Polish Succession begins. EmptyVessel fucked around with this message at 22:07 on May 4, 2017 |
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OwlFancier posted:Technically that is also true of the hell bed and the car supermarket and the underground delivery network. I might go and eat there once just to see the descending plates, depending on how good the food were and if they dozen staff they had were treated well. And depending on where the hell they'd even locate a megarestaurant like that. Probably somewhere like Dubai, so I wouldn't. endlessmonotony posted:We do know what pressure changes do to the human body. It's mostly useful for treating divers. Other than the 700mph gust of wind. That might be a problem.
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endlessmonotony posted:We do know what pressure changes do to the human body. It's mostly useful for treating divers. That involves pressure going up, with a difference significantly more than 1 atmosphere. Explosive decompression from 1atm to vacuum is perfectly survivable, stands to reason the other way around would be too.
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May 4, 2017 22:08
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OwlFancier posted:Technically that is also true of the hell bed and the car supermarket and the underground delivery network. Car supermarket, sure. The hellbed and the underground delivery network would have a lot of technological issues left to solve to actually work as advertised. To be fair the delivery network does have precedent in pneumatic mail so they could figure out how to protect the packages... but there's no way Dahir Insaat has that kind of science knowledge.
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What the hell is a hellbed?
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May 4, 2017 22:10
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i am irrationally upset by this. 15 is not 1 million
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Guavanaut posted:That's the other way around. Sudden repressurization isn't nearly as dangerous. jabby posted:That involves pressure going up, with a difference significantly more than 1 atmosphere. Explosive decompression from 1atm to vacuum is perfectly survivable, stands to reason the other way around would be too. I wasn't implying it'd be as dangerous as what happens with divers - in fact, in depressurizing and repressurizing from/to 1 atmosphere I'd be more worried about debris... but not like being exposed to vacuum for a short time is very dangerous either, especially if the depressurization takes more than a few seconds.
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May 4, 2017 22:11
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jabby posted:What the hell is a hellbed? A bed that when it detects an earthquake, drops the occupant into a small, sealed metal chamber containing supplies.
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jabby posted:What the hell is a hellbed? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zMOWg6Adok
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Oberleutnant posted:If people aren't voting in their best interests the best hing you can do, rather than talking about them being stupid ignorant racist cunts on the internet, is try to get involved in some grass roots activism and show your principles by example and hope to win people over. Some woman today: "I don't want to vote Labour because Labour make it so you get more benefits than you do working, and I think that's wrong." Also that woman today: "I'm going to have plenty of time for voting soon at least, I'm being made redundant." jBrereton posted:End of the day you had Chaka Umunna talking sense about this last night on C4 news, and if the party is failing to deal with the press, that is a failure of the party apparatus. I haven't heard about this at all but Teresa May being a mentalist has been all over the papers. The papers are fundamentally right-wing, and Blair only got around that by offering loads of concessions to Murdoch.
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i mean surely after going through 14 necks the blade will have slowed down a bit. not sure if enough to make it not kill you, i'm no murder scientist. make it a bit higher maybe? i'm the ideas guy
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May 4, 2017 22:24
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Jesus Christ. Also: https://twitter.com/stephenkb/status/860240177222090752 Who actually comes up with these rumours? How do they get their information? Why do they bother releasing it?
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You ain't seen nothing yet, BAE systems' latest product: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NyTNOgttfE
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May 4, 2017 22:23
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spectralent posted:Some woman today: "I don't want to vote Labour because Labour make it so you get more benefits than you do working, and I think that's wrong." Or for people who are too disabled/terminally ill to work, but gently caress people who are against them having independence. There is the issue of the part-time/low income trap, where you're worse off on a bad contract than on JSA, and that is poo poo, but surely the solution to that is to have a top up that you can claim in those cases, not to make the unemployed worse off.
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Angepain posted:i mean surely after going through 14 necks the blade will have slowed down a bit. not sure if enough to make it not kill you, i'm no murder scientist. make it a bit higher maybe? i'm the ideas guy Blade is too short at right end to cut through the entire neck. That hellbed needs to become a 'must have' for the rich, and then we need to remotely trigger them all at the same time.
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EmptyVessel posted:Blade is too short at right end to cut through the entire neck. Those hellbeds apparently run at $3000 so I think being able to spring that much for a doom cube makes being rich a sort of pre-requisite 
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jabby posted:Well yeah, a hyperloop train can be back to normal pressure in less than a few seconds assuming you just blow some emergency hatches off the tube and open it to atmosphere. That would also be the solution to the 'train crashes/gets stuck' problem. Yeah, but if you blow the hatch, the train then accelerates very, very quickly away from the blown hatch. A fairly tight-fitting object in a tube with a pressure differential between one end and the other is more commonly known as a "bullet". Blow one on the other side to even it out you say? Well unless you're incredibly lucky with the positioning of the car - that it's exactly between the two hatches - what you've now got is an object travelling very quickly about to hit one atmosphere of air coming towards it at about 700 miles an hour, which will have a number of ramifications for the structural integrity of your train, which can be most easily summed up as "totally loving it up". Also all the squishy humans in it have just been accelerated at dozens of G in one direction and are about to change direction very, very quickly. This is considered a bad thing for comfort and continuing to have all your internal organs where they're supposed to be. Of course all this hatch-blowing also means that the self-same air is now seeking out all the rest of your trains. By the time it reaches them it will have still be doing 700mph but will have bought a *lot* of backup with it and the people in the next train it finds will find out that "fluid hammer" is not just the name of a particularly specialist sexual practice. End result of trying to save one train from the sort of tiny welding and fabrication problems that any manufactured system has? The death of every single person traveling on the system, and the system itself being completely destroyed. This is what engineers describe as "suboptimal".
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jabby posted:Who actually comes up with these rumours? How do they get their information? Why do they bother releasing it? have you ever experienced the peak of lunacy that is Transfer Deadline Day, at least five years ago? The rolling news feeds were full of not very much from journalists and then variations of "I saw x at a chip shop in y, could he be signing" and poo poo of that ilk. Of course, as soon as one fan attacked a reporter with a dildo, it's all quietened down
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jabby posted:Jesus Christ. The parties are allowed people to 'observe' the count and they can generally get an idea of how its going.
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May 4, 2017 22:32
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https://twitter.com/stephenkb/status/860244656495448065 FFS. I know these have been not greatly advertised but these are for positions that are likely to hold considerable power.
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May 4, 2017 22:38
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Polling station was abandoned when I voted.
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serious gaylord posted:The parties are allowed people to 'observe' the count and they can generally get an idea of how its going. The count doesn't start till 10am tomorrow. Returns from GOTV around Nottingham today seemed pretty good, obviously there is a lot of Nottinghamshire outside of Nottingham though. Currently it's Labour controlled but not Labour majority. MikeCrotch fucked around with this message at 22:41 on May 4, 2017 |
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Guavanaut posted:Has that ever been true? I guess it might be for single parents with a dozen children, but wasn't there a thing that showed that the number of those cases in the entire country was countable on both hands? Said woman provided the answer here, too: "You watch all these programs like benefit street..." In short, yeah, these cases are astonishingly rare, but they're always the example cases that're showcased in national media and TV programs, so they're the cases everyone thinks of as "the typical benefits case". quote:Or for people who are too disabled/terminally ill to work, but gently caress people who are against them having independence. I'd fully agree but I was doing the admin stuff for my runner.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Yeah, but if you blow the hatch, the train then accelerates very, very quickly away from the blown hatch. A fairly tight-fitting object in a tube with a pressure differential between one end and the other is more commonly known as a "bullet". The mass of the cars would mean they wouldn't accelerate to any significant degree in the couple of seconds it would take for air pressure to equalise. Also you can just open the hatches more slowly if you want to slow down the repressurisation. Also we're way down the rabbit-hole here.
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hand-fed baby bird posted:Polling station was abandoned when I voted. We watched maybe 5 people show up over an hour, all of them either old or personal friends of our candidate. Turnout was 34% last time, so I daresay it might be lower.
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MikeCrotch posted:The count doesn't start till 10am tomorrow. Depending how quick their data collection outside the polling is processed (checking poll cards against historical voting records) they can get a vague idea of whose supporters have come out.
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Guavanaut posted:Has that ever been true? I guess it might be for single parents with a dozen children, but wasn't there a thing that showed that the number of those cases in the entire country was countable on both hands? Presumably she's thinking of tabloids screaming about "unemployed man lives in a 12-bedroom mansion paid for with YOUR TAXES" and "benefits mum has 17 children by 20 DIFFERENT MEN" and unwilling and/or too stupid to realise that cases like these make up a vanishingly small minority of benefits claimants.
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ukle posted:https://twitter.com/stephenkb/status/860244656495448065 I'm in the West Midlands and no effort at all has been made here to tell us what powers and responsibilities our new mayor will have.
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My wife was voter number 16 when she voted at 19:30. There's about 250 potential voters here. Tbf it was only for the metro mayor whatever the gently caress that is
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https://twitter.com/britainelects/status/860248375056375808https://twitter.com/britainelects/status/860248375056375808 Might as well pack it up guys.
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Guavanaut posted:Has that ever been true? I guess it might be for single parents with a dozen children, but wasn't there a thing that showed that the number of those cases in the entire country was countable on both hands? Child Tax Credit drops by 41p per £1 of gross income over a limit according to a website I just found. By the time you've also lost a bit on Working Tax Credit (not sure on the rate) and paid taxes, maybe pension contributions, maybe student loan repayments, it's pretty easy to have a pay rise and actually not see much increase in disposable income, if any. Of course, eventually you hit a point where you're not getting the benefits at all and then it's all gravy but there's definitely a point (which I'm in right now) where a salary hike looks great but actually doesn't help all that much. It's not quite as bad as being better off on benefits, but I can see where people get the idea from.
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I've been getting regular emails about it from Labour but, well, they would send me them.
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ukle posted:Had only Labour (great guy), Conservative (brown noser with property companies) and Green to choose from for the CC elections. Also heard the same from 2 other people in different area i.e. no LD but a green candidate. Have the Lib Dem's just given up on County Councils that they stand no chance in now? Its odd given the Greens are trying yet the LD's just not bothering. Depending on the area, some Lib Dems have stood down for the Greens for the County Councils as a thank you for Richmond.
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Turnout is likely to depressed anyway due to the number of elections there have been recently & are upcoming. It was only 38% last time around for the locals, it was looking pretty poor round my area which isn't a great sign for Labour. Oh also, I met Keir Starmer canvassing today and can confirm he is posh as gently caress. Some woman on the doorstep tried to sell him an LED lightbulb scheme.
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ukle posted:Had only Labour (great guy), Conservative (brown noser with property companies) and Green to choose from for the CC elections. Also heard the same from 2 other people in different area i.e. no LD but a green candidate. Have the Lib Dem's just given up on County Councils that they stand no chance in now? Its odd given the Greens are trying yet the LD's just not bothering.
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sebzilla posted:Child Tax Credit drops by 41p per £1 of gross income over a limit according to a website I just found. By the time you've also lost a bit on Working Tax Credit (not sure on the rate) and paid taxes, maybe pension contributions, maybe student loan repayments, it's pretty easy to have a pay rise and actually not see much increase in disposable income, if any. Of course, eventually you hit a point where you're not getting the benefits at all and then it's all gravy but there's definitely a point (which I'm in right now) where a salary hike looks great but actually doesn't help all that much. Creating that distinction between good people benefits and bad people benefits is part of the whole reason behind tax credits in the first place though, which is why they were a cornerstone of Reaganomics, to drive a wedge between the deserving and undeserving poor. Which explains why Blair was such a fan.
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MikeCrotch posted:Turnout is likely to depressed anyway due to the number of elections there have been recently & are upcoming. It was only 38% last time around for the locals, it was looking pretty poor round my area which isn't a great sign for Labour. Plus it's meant local parties are broke as gently caress. They've had to deal with the 2015 election and the 2016 campaign for brexit and were in the middle of local elections campaigns and now there's a general.
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Serotonin posted:My wife was voter number 16 when she voted at 19:30. There's about 250 potential voters here. The metro mayor controls the purse-strings for the councils under their purview. Functionally, the post is a Conservative power-grab designed to let them control councils that would otherwise be safely Labour or Lib Dem. If you live in an area with a Conservative mayor, expect your local government quality to deteriorate rapidly.
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