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Ratjaculation posted:how did the podcast trial go ladies/gents?
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why is BBC weather so poo poo I know they ditched the met office but how do meteogroup stay in business when it's literally always wrong, it doesn't even get the current weather right let alone its predictions I'm literally right more often by just looking at the sky
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:I always know that whenever Something Happens, the UKMT has a relevant expert on standby to give a detailed report that far surpasses anything on the news Not empty quoting. That was a great write up and just generally really interesting. I'm gobna assume this is only gonna be more common wheb Brexit hits and infrastructure goes even more to poo poo and there aren't EU power schemea for emergency back up?
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Aug 9, 2019 20:17
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From the Change UK Independent Group For Change Now website:quote:Membership of the party is open to all UK residents who agree with its fundamental values and objectives
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Qwertycoatl posted:From the Change UK Independent Group For Change Now website: Yes they do: Corbyn Bad, Remove Corbyn, respectively.
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Aug 9, 2019 20:22
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NewMars posted:Yes they do: Corbyn Bad, Remove Corbyn, respectively. Also, Lib Dems bad.
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Aug 9, 2019 20:28
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XMNN posted:why is BBC weather so poo poo I pay £3 a year for the Dark Sky app, which maps the weather radar onto your current location and tells you exactly when it's going to start and stop raining. It's well worth it and so much better than the crappy radar map on the BBC website that uses different colours of brown and grey for all types of weather and only shows one landmark every 200 miles.
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Aug 9, 2019 20:32
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Mrenda posted:As for RPGs, D&D is too dominant. There's some great RPGs out there, but a lot of people never get past seeing RPGs as a system to shoot pretend arrows and swing imaginary swords. I always preferred the more social/political sides of games but the groups I found just wanted a battlemap and moving about squares. I can tell Josef's on a posting break because I haven't seen LANCER mentioned yet. I'd like to try it, it sounds like it might be less of a clusterfuck than the last mech rpg I played (a game of D20 Modern consisting of a dropship pilot who couldn't fly, a diplomat with no language skills, and a crusty mechanic driving a mech that only came with five bullets for its stupid oversized gun).
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Accuweather is alright too, but Earth is king. https://earth.nullschool.net/ If you can interpret weather data, then have fun! (Don't forget to hit the 'earth' down in the bottom left for the menu)
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Aug 9, 2019 20:36
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Renaissance Robot posted:I can tell Josef's on a posting break because I haven't seen LANCER mentioned yet. Lancer's good, but also really focused on doing it's thing in that all it's mechanics are focused on supporting it's setting. For a setting-agnostic system I like battle century G more.
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XMNN posted:why is BBC weather so poo poo Look at the weather they have to work with.
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XMNN posted:why is BBC weather so poo poo I think they can't predict it as good as they used to be. All the previous decades of data is useless now with climate change.
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Aug 9, 2019 20:52
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Darth Walrus posted:Also, Lib Dems bad. Eh, ok, I'll sign up.
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Why aren't y'all just using the met office yourselves, I bet Jeremy does! Also cheers ronya, that looks interesting for later
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It's raining op
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It certainly is.
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Ratjaculation posted:It's raining op
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Rarity posted:Realtalk: Rowdy Ringsports and Games are both secret hotbeds of left-wing theory and I love them for it The former is primarily due to ZSJ
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National Grid are saying that it was two power stations which tripped in quick succession that caused the problems. Looking at the industry data feeds, it looks like it was Orsted's Hornsea Offshore Phase 1 and RWE's Little Barford. They're a couple of hundred miles apart, with Hornsea feeding into the grid at Killingholme, and Little Barford feeding in at Eaton Socon, so it's probably two unrelated problems and really bad timing. The last time something happened like this was May 2008, when Liverpool got cut off following a unit at Longannet and Sizewell B both tripping for unrelated reasons at the same time.Ratjaculation posted:Is it true they used to increase supply during Coronation Streets' adbreaks due to all the kettles being turned on Yes. The spike in demand is caused by two things: Firstly, lots of people putting the kettle on, and secondly the need to pump water up to the top of hills to maintain pressure in the mains after everyone flushes the toilet. DroneRiff posted:Not empty quoting. That was a great write up and just generally really interesting. The interconnectors to mainland Europe are limited in capacity, and if they're already fully importing when we get a sudden shortfall, they're not able to ramp up imports further to cover demand. The current working assumption is that we'll still be able to buy power from the continent over them post-Brexit on the grounds that the Europeans will want to sell us relatively cheap power that they don't have to pay the carbon top-up tax on, although National Grid are actually ramping up the amount of fast responding reserve they're buying over the next few years. Right now, they should be able to cope with an infeed loss of 1,320 MW which will cover either Sizewell B or two Drax units failing at the same time. That's not enough to cover Hinkley C tripping, which is going to need something like 1,650 MW for a single unit trip. If both of them fail at the same time, due to, say, the substation that takes power from the site failing, that's going to be interesting.
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What does "tripping" mean in the context of power stations? Like I'm imagining a 3m tall MCB and someone wearily fetching the long broom to reset it, but I somehow don't think that's it.
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Aug 9, 2019 21:25
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Diet Crack posted:Accuweather is alright too, but Earth is king.  Woefully unreliable. 
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Bobstar posted:Like I'm imagining a 3m tall MCB and someone wearily fetching the long broom to reset it, but I somehow don't think that's it.
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Aug 9, 2019 21:29
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Bobstar posted:What does "tripping" mean in the context of power stations? 3.7 roentgen
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Aug 9, 2019 21:43
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Bobstar posted:What does "tripping" mean in the context of power stations? When the giant hamster trips in its giant wheel and can't run for a while until they put a giant bandage on it.
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xtothez posted:3.7 roentgen Not great, not terrible
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Manic_Misanthrope posted:The former is primarily due to ZSJ Feel I should take this time to say that everyone who watches wrestling should consider getting into Dragon Gate because it's cool and has the most entertaining music selection (I don't even enjoy J-pop but this does it for me) and also the wrestling is great which is also a bonus None more evangelical than the recent convert.
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Oh also I've been reliably informed that the Vikings didn't appear in Britain until the 8th century, not the 5th, as the BBC history thing says.
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forkboy84 posted:Feel I should take this time to say that everyone who watches wrestling should consider getting into Dragon Gate because it's cool and has the most entertaining music selection (I don't even enjoy J-pop but this does it for me) and also the wrestling is great which is also a bonus does it have that wrassler jpop lady because she seems cool
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Bobstar posted:What does "tripping" mean in the context of power stations? You're not a million miles from the truth. It means that a protection system caused an unplanned automatic shutdown of the generator, and the circuit breaker was opened to disconnect it from the grid, which causes something like this to happen. Restarting it takes anywhere from a couple of hours for a gas or coal plant to a couple of days for a nuclear unit.
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:Woefully unreliable. Check it again on November 1st. The storm is just blowing away the stench at the moment. e: Playing Napoleon Total War and...  
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Coohoolin posted:Oh also I've been reliably informed that the Vikings didn't appear in Britain until the 8th century, not the 5th, as the BBC history thing says. I'd like to consult with a schoolfriend who's a doctorate and now BBC presenter in this era of history, but then I found out exactly how much of a waste she actually had been behind my back so that would be a solid no
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Coohoolin posted:Oh also I've been reliably informed that the Vikings didn't appear in Britain until the 8th century, not the 5th, as the BBC history thing says. But Scandinavians were knocking around all over the place anyway because places like Norway are shitholes with no arable land, so there's a big incentive getting out and about.
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baka kaba posted:does it have that wrassler jpop lady because she seems cool That sounds more like a Tokyo Joshi Pro thing? I don't really watch much joshi (Japanese women's wrestling) because there's only so many hours in the day & so many £ to spend on wrestling subscription services. Dragon Gate is Japanese but it's style is more influenced by Mexican lucha libre and most of the wrestlers are pretty attractive guys so they have a strong following among women. This is a match from a show last month that was real dope for their tag team title though you probably want to skip to about 12 minutes in to get to the actual start unless you can speak Japanese to understand the prematch promo vid. Anyway, watching wrestling is praxis so you should do that. Just not WWE because it's bad.
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I'll just echo what everyone else has said and thank you for the nitty-gritty RDevz.
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Aug 9, 2019 22:36
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Bobstar posted:What does "tripping" mean in the context of power stations? The smoke coming from the chimneys becomes quite a bit more aromatic. Doesn't HMRC destroy seized cannabis by burning it for power generation?
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communism bitch posted:The Romans brought a fuckload of Saxon auxiliaries into Britain in the 3rd and 4th centuries to try and keep control of the province while the western empire was going down the shitter. Left to their own devices most of the Saxons decided to take over the joint and invite a bunch of their mates over in the following couple centuries.
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Soylent Yellow posted:The smoke coming from the chimneys becomes quite a bit more aromatic. Well that's one way to get a high voltage
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So Cassetteboy was at it again. Has this made the rounds here yet? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwiORpBj8P8
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It's funny that some Nazis idolise the Vikings even through there is plenty of evidence a bunch were muslim
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For the non-Civil Servants itt. You'll be pleased to see that I omitted the photo supplied with the original, otherwise I've retained the formatting.Boris Johnson posted:Dear colleagues,
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