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BIG HEADLINE posted:
Closer to a lower class Londoner, but good try
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Aug 31, 2017 04:48
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hiddenmovement posted:Closer to a lower class Londoner, but good try Murdoch's accent is very lower class Australian, despite his wealth. So close.
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Aug 31, 2017 04:56
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I wonder what it's like to live in a world where Australian and working class london accents sound the same to you.
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Aug 31, 2017 05:00
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El Pollo Blanco posted:I wonder what it's like to live in a world where Australian and working class london accents sound the same to you. That seems pretty lame as far as alternate universes go
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Aug 31, 2017 05:06
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Aug 31, 2017 05:12
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They both say oi mate
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Aug 31, 2017 05:15
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El Pollo Blanco posted:I wonder what it's like to live in a world where Australian and working class london accents sound the same to you. I wonder what social class the first exiles to Australia were primarily drawn from.
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Aug 31, 2017 05:20
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what's this I'm hearing about the Orange Dam in Port Arthur?
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Aug 31, 2017 05:26
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boner confessor posted:sure if you imagine the worst case scenario then the scenario you have in mind seems pretty bad but remember humans evolved in the tropics The Ice Age steppe was the largest biome in the world, stretching from Spain to Alaska. How does that qualify for not very common? The genus Homo originated in Africa. Bur by 1.8 million years ago the genus had spread across the old world. We're still not sure where H. hidelbergensis (last common ancestor of sapiens, neanderthal and denisovans) originated, but there's lots of speculation it was Eurasia. There has definitely been a lot of gene flow between populations across the old war, humanity's story is not just the story of Africa that paleoanthropologists thought it was in the 90s.
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Aug 31, 2017 05:31
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Uglycat posted:what's this I'm hearing about the Orange Dam in Port Arthur? Trump went back down?
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Aug 31, 2017 05:33
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Party Plane Jones posted:All of my family managed to avoid the wars of the 20th Century. My great grandparents were too dead for WW2, my grandparents too young and too Canadian for Korea, my parents too young for Vietnam (or at least every draft but the very last). Canada fought in Korea. I read a good book about the Commonwealth Division, but I can't remember the title of the book off the top of my head. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1st_Commonwealth_Division
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Aug 31, 2017 05:37
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https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/903031743808229377
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Aug 31, 2017 05:37
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Prester Jane posted:Gonna be interesting to see what happens to Trumps poll numbers over the next two months. Eventually Trump is going to realize taht people are paying more attention to all the flooding and disaster relief than they are too him, and that is going to make little baby Donnie jealous af. He is going to try to make himself the center of attention again, and in the process he is almost certain to lash out at the victims of Harvey in some way. Trump isn't the biggest show in the US at the moment and that is not a situation he can accept. Trump may require effulgent praise in order to function, but he would much rather be despised than ignored. Ignored is a a far worse fate than hated for Trump. DJT: "ILL SHOW THAT STORM! ILL SHOW EVERYONE!!" Aide, with bald patches from pulling out hair and sallow skin and dark eyes from no sleep: "How do you plan on doing that sir?" DJT: "WE ARE GOING TO GET TREMENDOUS RATINGS! JUST GREAT! WE WILL TAKE THIS...*shows a tornado in a bottle* BUT MAKE IT BIGGER!"
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Aug 31, 2017 05:37
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Hastings posted:DJT: "ILL SHOW THAT STORM! ILL SHOW EVERYONE!!" In truth, I suspect he'll allow the storm to hold everyone's attention as he quietly contemplates suicide.
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Aug 31, 2017 05:43
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https://twitter.com/BoingBoing/status/902920096305340416
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Aug 31, 2017 05:58
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For what it's worth the state senator who was granted this favor is a Democrat who won 72-38. This will siphon off 1,000 people (not voters, people) from a republican who won by 10,000 votes.
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Aug 31, 2017 06:06
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Deteriorata posted:I wonder what social class the first exiles to Australia were primarily drawn from. prisoners, alcoholics, and both
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Aug 31, 2017 06:19
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It's starting to sound like that Arkema chemical plant - the one that's ready to explode "soon" - maybe hasn't done as much as they could have, going by what I heard on Maddow tonight. Seems (obviously, in hindsight) that there are compounds that will neutralize the peroxides and other nasty poo poo and thus mitigate the danger of explosion if they go outside a safe temperature range. The fact that their CEO is conceding explosion is pretty likely to happen suggests that "for some reason", they didn't do that. ...considering the unregulated corporate love-fest that Texas is, I'm going to go ahead and guess that that's because Texas law/regulations don't require them to.
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Aug 31, 2017 06:21
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The 6ft of standing water in the plant might hinder things slightly. Just a thought.
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Aug 31, 2017 06:25
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mynnna posted:It's starting to sound like that Arkema chemical plant - the one that's ready to explode "soon" - maybe hasn't done as much as they could have, going by what I heard on Maddow tonight. Seems (obviously, in hindsight) that there are compounds that will neutralize the peroxides and other nasty poo poo and thus mitigate the danger of explosion if they go outside a safe temperature range. The fact that their CEO is conceding explosion is pretty likely to happen suggests that "for some reason", they didn't do that. You can plan and plan and plan but the universe will poo poo all over it. I'm the first person to berate anyone on chemical safety and I don't even think any amount of planning or fail safes could prevent whatever happens. That's... Just too much water. Well other than not building a chemical plant in hurricane country of course.
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Aug 31, 2017 06:30
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mynnna posted:It's starting to sound like that Arkema chemical plant - the one that's ready to explode "soon" - maybe hasn't done as much as they could have, going by what I heard on Maddow tonight. Seems (obviously, in hindsight) that there are compounds that will neutralize the peroxides and other nasty poo poo and thus mitigate the danger of explosion if they go outside a safe temperature range. The fact that their CEO is conceding explosion is pretty likely to happen suggests that "for some reason", they didn't do that. Most chemical plants are run on just-in-time delivery so they may not have enough stuff in inventory at any given time to deactivate compounds. Which is kind of a general chemical plant thing, since they're not run with the expectation that the safety systems will all fail simultaneously and force the majority of people out of the plant.
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Aug 31, 2017 06:40
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Lightning Lord posted:They're still media. THE NUMBER ONE CABLE NEWS IN MERICAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!(that is some how still the plucky under dog that Oblamao's MSM is constantly trying to crush) (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Aug 31, 2017 06:40
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PhazonLink posted:THE NUMBER ONE CABLE NEWS IN MERICAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!(that is some how still the plucky under dog that Oblamao's MSM is constantly trying to crush) the jews are an inferior race, they are weak and we will crush them easily the jews secretly dominate the world, they are strong and we must do everything necessary to defeat them
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Aug 31, 2017 07:02
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William Contraalto posted:Most chemical plants are run on just-in-time delivery so they may not have enough stuff in inventory at any given time to deactivate compounds. Which is kind of a general chemical plant thing, since they're not run with the expectation that the safety systems will all fail simultaneously and force the majority of people out of the plant. Maybe chemical plants in areas at risk of flood should have a plan for not blowing up in floods
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Aug 31, 2017 07:03
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Reminder, The Koch Bro's bread and butter are chem plants.
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Aug 31, 2017 07:05
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Pellisworth posted:prisoners, alcoholics, and both Both the future US and Australia were used as penal colonies, it's just the American colonies were able to shake off the stigma by successfully rebelling. Also, in all but repeat offending cases, the sentence was more of an voluntary and non-permanent 'exile' than anything else, where they kind of hoped the misery of an economy-class sea voyage from Britain to the Americas or Australia either killed you outright or dissuaded you from *ever* wanting to do it again. BIG HEADLINE fucked around with this message at 07:12 on Aug 31, 2017 |
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Aug 31, 2017 07:08
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Heck Yes! Loam! posted:I'm sure many on the "left" will find her impure. I hope she picks Duckworth as her running mate. I'm a few pages late, but Kamala Harris is... Well, she's "progressive", but she's also a prosecutor, which means that every now and then she tries to lock as many people up as possible and punish them unduly once they're locked up. For example, pushing jail time for parents of students who are repeatedly truant, or trying to deny surgery to a trans inmate (when both the law and precedent contradicted every excuse she gave for it, which makes it seem like spite, cruelty, and/or transphobia, especially given some of the excuses she gave). Also, there was the whole Backpage thing, which... Well, someone else can probably explain that better. She also opposed some attempts to rein in the police here and hold them accountable. Suffice to say, while I would vote for her over a Republican, she's far from my first choice, and I hope the primaries offer better choices. There are legitimate reasons for leftists to not particularly like her. Of course, there are also people who dislike her because they're racist and/or sexist and try to hide that under leftist criticisms, despite not calling other politicians out for similar things. Those people are awful. Roland Jones fucked around with this message at 07:14 on Aug 31, 2017 |
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Aug 31, 2017 07:11
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Prester Jane posted:Gonna be interesting to see what happens to Trumps poll numbers over the next two months. Eventually Trump is going to realize taht people are paying more attention to all the flooding and disaster relief than they are too him, and that is going to make little baby Donnie jealous af. He is going to try to make himself the center of attention again, and in the process he is almost certain to lash out at the victims of Harvey in some way. Trump isn't the biggest show in the US at the moment and that is not a situation he can accept. Trump may require effulgent praise in order to function, but he would much rather be despised than ignored. Ignored is a a far worse fate than hated for Trump. On the other hand, people not paying attention to him could cause his poll numbers to tick up slightly.
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Aug 31, 2017 07:22
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El Pollo Blanco posted:I wonder what it's like to live in a world where Australian and working class london accents sound the same to you. America doesn't really have strong class associations with particular accents (with a few exceptions), so Americans often don't pick up on things like that.
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Aug 31, 2017 07:53
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random question but someone in this thread mentioned another thread on SA about Youtube business practices and how it was driving creators to Patreon and so forth. Does anyone have a link to that?
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Aug 31, 2017 07:59
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Gum posted:Maybe chemical plants in areas at risk of flood should have a plan for not blowing up in floods https://goo.gl/maps/JbjUBricZJA2
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Aug 31, 2017 08:05
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mobby_6kl posted:They do have backup generators and other preventative measures but everything got flooded too. In any case, the plant is in the middle of nowhere so when it does blow up it will be just like the 4th of July. Ok, maybe chemical plants in areas at risk of flood should have a plan for not blowing up in floods that actually works
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Aug 31, 2017 08:07
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Look man it isn't like there is any industrial safety case study in recent memory involving generators getting flooded.
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Aug 31, 2017 08:18
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Idiot question: Why do generators always go in basements? Why not a rooftop shack?
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Aug 31, 2017 08:21
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Gum posted:Ok, maybe chemical plants in areas at risk of flood should have a plan for not blowing up in floods that actually works Given all the talk about how historic the flooding from Harvey is, I'm tempted to cut businesses in the area at least a little bit of slack.
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Aug 31, 2017 08:22
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The Lone Badger posted:Idiot question: Why do generators always go in basements? Why not a rooftop shack? 1) Industrial-grade ones weigh a lot. The 'a lot' cannot be over-emphasized here. Putting them on the roof would require reinforcing the entire building and roof to take the weight. 2) It's easier to service them when they're lower to the ground. 3) It's easier to *fuel* them when there's ground-level access. With generators that use diesel/gasoline, ground-level basement ones can be fed from the pumps on a tanker truck because the fluid only has to follow gravity. Put them on the roof and suddenly you need an intricate and complex series of ancillary pumps that can fight gravity and go up to the storage tanks that feed the generator...which will weigh as much or more than the generator and require more building/roof reinforcement. Plus, that'd make for some ultra-crowded roofs as HVAC units generally go up there, and the biggest ones need to be carried in by heavy-lift helicopters or heavy-duty cranes.
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Aug 31, 2017 08:31
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The Lone Badger posted:Idiot question: Why do generators always go in basements? Why not a rooftop shack? Easy access to various utility hookups and it keeps them largely out of the elements. However many places do have the generators mounted up high in flood prone areas. A good example is the bioresearch facility in galveston. Its problem is more that it may not have enough fuel to keep said generators running and getting enough fuel to them will be interesting since they are on the roof of an 8 story building.
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Aug 31, 2017 08:31
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It is possible to place generators so that they are well safe from any reasonable flood waters, but this requires some foresight in plant design and a reason to do it. And, after all, it isn't like the issue of low lying generators powering critical safety equipment being at risk during floods has been on the minds of regulators in recent years. Nope. This one really came out of the blue. Seriously though, after Fukushima every person even remotely related to plant safety has had it beat into them that this is a failure mode that needs to be accounted for. If this failure mode wasn't originally forseen it certainly was since 2011, but the safety requirements of chemical plants are much more lax than for nuclear power plants so there was probably no legal or regulatory impetus to redesign things, which costs money.
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BIG HEADLINE posted:1) Industrial-grade ones weigh a lot. The 'a lot' cannot be over-emphasized here. Putting them on the roof would require reinforcing the entire building and roof to take the weight. Similarly, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFAvOcuJyHY&t=84s
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