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Jippa posted:I am currently trying to browse SA at 288 kpbs. Is there an easy way of stopping gifs loading? uBlock Origin has a "block large media elements" setting you can flip on by default https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Per-site-switches#no-large-media-elements stopping the autoplay isn't enough, you need to prevent them from downloading at all
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Aug 12, 2019 08:42
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I am going to a funeral today, and am currently in BIG TROUBLE for suggesting a 22 year old man should have more organisation for his own grandfather’s funeral than knocking on my door three hours in advance and asking if I’ve got a black jacket he can borrow (I don’t). The youth of today, honestly. Some people. This country.
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Aug 12, 2019 08:45
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A lot of people don't deal well with death.
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Aug 12, 2019 08:47
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Especially those directly afflicted.ronya posted:it does also reflect that miners did not want state aid for a dignified transition out of a sunset industry, no matter what claims made in hindsight may say
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Aug 12, 2019 08:52
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OwlFancier posted:A lot of people don't deal well with death. No it’s 100% that he’s a lazy useless prick who is totally unprepared for his mum having more poo poo going on this weekend than having to dress her adult son. Also I was just filming my dog investigating a giant pickled gherkin that has mysteriously appeared outside my house overnight and happened to catch a tesco delivery driver messing with her satnav as she pulled away from the kerb. I was already composing the complaint letter in my head when I realised I was about to take a swing at tesco and achieve nothing but getting some lass fired. Keep an eye on yourselves folks, you might accidentally be a massive self-righteous oval office without realising.
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Aug 12, 2019 09:07
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Sanford posted:Keep an eye on yourselves folks, you might accidentally be a massive self-righteous oval office without realising. Sanford posted:he’s a lazy useless prick 
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Aug 12, 2019 09:31
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ronya posted:including one's own pension and union funds, unfortunately... and its own internal legitimacy if it rejecting balloting its members. This isn't rhetorical, it was Thatcher's answer to the flying pickets and secondary strikes - rather than relying on police confrontation alone, the government could also sequester union funds for illegal strikes, and still enjoy legitimacy for doing so because the strikers did not want to risk losing a ballot. The effectiveness of this measure was much underestimated initially on the left. It would turn out that the unions and union officers themselves also required the law's protection of private property to keep the lights on and the strike going, and conversely ad-hoc working-class illegalism is very hard to sustain if there's no legitimacy granted by a ballot Really admire the way you turn even the most firey impassioned things to bloodless wonkspeak. A real skill.
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Guavanaut posted:That's also assuming that this was even a genuine option on the table. The Conservatives weren't transitioning away from coal in favor of some grand environmental commitment to nuclear or tidal, they were transitioning to cheap coal from overseas, which was then dropped for popup turbine plants during the natural gas boom. The 'dignified' transition would have been the dole queue. the conduct of organized labour in Australia today regarding the siren song of the environmental slant was not the 1980s take, however, which was more immediately concerned about creating new jobs and undoing the immediate pollution of the coal areas, rather than an energy transformation. The 1980s take of enterprise zones and UDCs was the policy initiative that existed at the time. What this meant was replacing culturally masculine hard physical roles that create a commodity upon which the nation's heavy industry mythologically depends, into Gateshead MetroCentre where culturally feminine light-industry/retail roles focus on servicing commuting shoppers arriving by car - selling consumption, not a commodity. This is the transition offered in the era -  quote:"[This] is the kind of entrepreneurship which is back in Britain now"... and needless to say it was not a palatable vision
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Aug 12, 2019 09:38
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Sanford posted:I am going to a funeral today, and am currently in BIG TROUBLE for suggesting a 22 year old man should have more organisation for his own grandfather’s funeral than knocking on my door three hours in advance and asking if I’ve got a black jacket he can borrow (I don’t). The youth of today, honestly. Some people. This country. Yeah, that sounds like a dick move man, sorry. Just help the guy find a jacket.
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Aug 12, 2019 09:41
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Okay you've edited it out.
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Josef bugman posted:Ended up having a mini breakdown talk to my friend and ended up saying stuff like: "Partially because nothing I do DOES matter. I am not "enough". I've not got the store of self belief or self righteousness or anything to really be sure I stand on anything." and "I am scared that if I do all I'm doing is setting myself up to hurt either others or myself and so I need to keep telling myself I'm a worthless piece of poo poo because then I can't get hurt by anyone. If I hurt myself enough I can not be hurt by anyone else." Let's both find it? Sanford posted:I am going to a funeral today, and am currently in BIG TROUBLE for suggesting a 22 year old man should have more organisation for his own grandfather’s funeral than knocking on my door three hours in advance and asking if I’ve got a black jacket he can borrow (I don’t). The youth of today, honestly. Some people. This country. Consider that a 22 year old man may very well have never needed a loving black jacket in his entire adult life, abd that this is more than likely the first death he's dealt with as an adult, and society has more than likely not even CLOSE to equipped him with the emotional health and tools to deal with it properly, and maybe try some empathy whilst you're at it?
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Aug 12, 2019 09:49
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Mm, not everyone has their lives punctuated by deaths from an early age, it was quite surprising to me to run into people my age who had never really had to deal with it before.
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ronya posted:the conduct of organized labour in Australia today regarding the siren song of ahahaha Me: Arthur. Arthur! You can't just point at any problem and claim it's solvable with coal! Arthur Scargill: *points at climate crisis* solvable with coal Got to love that one-track mind, and he wasn't even in the RMT
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NotJustANumber99 posted:I don't suppose anyone knows how to help/recover a uk individual currently suffering from psychosis in a large spanish city who is on their own and with no travel insurance? The UK embassy are apparently pretty poo poo. quote:If you’re an EU citizen, you and your family are eligible for medical care, so that you don’t have to return to your country of origin for treatment. However, you should get the European Health Insurance Card (EHIC) in your country, or any equivalent document proving that you have medical insurance in a member state, since this will entitle you to prompt medical care wherever you are. Don't know if this is of any help - relates to Madrid. Probably similar in other locations: http://www.comunidad.madrid/servicios/salud/buscador-centros-sanitarios Can confirm from other experiences that British Embassy bears striking resemblance to chocolate teapot.
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ronya posted:the conduct of organized labour in Australia today regarding the siren song of   (Economic Analysis of Various Options of Electricity Generation: Taking into Account Health and Environmental Effects - Nils Starfelt and Carl-Erik Wikdahl) Although true to his profession he continues to dig deeper: quote:but we do know that the incidence of cancer and leukaemia - particularly among children - is 10% higher in or around nuclear power stations  (Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Oak Ridge National Laboratory e: I should credit Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory for the banana source too) quote:and we know from experts such as Robert Gale - who treated the victims at Chernobyl in 1986 - that more than 100,000 will die over a 30-year period.
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thespaceinvader posted:Consider that a 22 year old man may very well have never needed a loving black jacket in his entire adult life, abd that this is more than likely the first death he's dealt with as an adult, and society has more than likely not even CLOSE to equipped him with the emotional health and tools to deal with it properly, and maybe try some empathy whilst you're at it? This is a very good post. If I was in his position I would probably have done the same at his age except maaaybe not asked for help so last minute, but that's also part of being emotionally unable to deal with it. At 22 I couldn't even afford a black jacket/suit.
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Wait, he said "the incidence of cancer and leukaemia - particularly among children - is 10% higher in or around nuclear power stations" Yeah, okay, I can believe that the incidence of cancer is higher in children if you're putting them inside the containment building. Let's not do that.
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Aug 12, 2019 10:00
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0930 Maths 1100 History 1315 Reactor shielding duty 1400 English
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I wonder if children growing up next door to nuclear power stations might have any other factors in their life, such as being from poor families because all the rich fuckers are terrified about living next to nuclear power stations.
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Guavanaut posted:Wait, he said "the incidence of cancer and leukaemia - particularly among children - is 10% higher in or around nuclear power stations" Also makes the fairly major statistical mistake that loving EVERYONE MAKES of not including the prior incidence in the statistic. 10% higher sounds like a lot but incidence of cancer and leukaemia (which is a subset of cancer so weird to include separately) in kids is loving tiny, so an increase of 10% is pretty minuscule - the incidence of cancer among children in Britain is something like 0.1859%. Meaning that a 10% increase in incidence among kids in and around power stations (how far around) would amount to that risk goign up to something like 0.197%, which is probably within the bounds of 'eh, it's probably by chance' if it even happened at all.
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Aug 12, 2019 10:05
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OwlFancier posted:I wonder if children growing up next door to nuclear power stations might have any other factors in their life, such as being from poor families because all the rich fuckers are terrified about living next to nuclear power stations. So then by the 80s you've got people shouting on the TV about how the electromagnetic rays are causing higher levels of cancer in malnourished areas. Which then amplified the terrified rich fuckers effect.
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Necrothatcher posted:Yeah, that sounds like a dick move man, sorry. Just help the guy find a jacket. Yeah sorry, put on edge by him complaining that “his loving mum didn’t even sort his clothes out” and that my wife and I offered to take him with us two weekends in a row to get sorted out for today. Don’t turn down offers of help for almost a fortnight then start making out like its your mum’s fault you’re not ready. Add in that he didn’t bother to visit his grandad for the last three years of his life and I’m standing by “he’s a prick”. STILL TOOK HIM INTO TOWN TO BUY HIM A JACKET DIDN’T I
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The electromagnetic waves definitely destroy something and that's house prices. So really I'm right on board with nuclear power because it's apparently a real life Magic Circle Against Bourgeoisie.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Don't know if this is of any help - relates to Madrid. Probably similar in other locations: poo poo do I need one of those? I don't even know what my health insurance bullshit is like in the EU because I'm only technically an EU citizen. I've always gotten NHS stuff for the same price as a British citizen whenever I needed it.
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Miftan posted:poo poo do I need one of those? I don't even know what my health insurance bullshit is like in the EU because I'm only technically an EU citizen. I've always gotten NHS stuff for the same price as a British citizen whenever I needed it. Get one anyway. It's free. Obviously it'll be useless after Brexit!
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Formal clothes at funerals loving suck anyway. Why is it a thing? Why can't we just wear what we want and celebrate a person's life? I'll never understand it. My extended family isn't particularly big into formalities etc, but when my Nan died I still felt obliged to buy a suit from Matalan just for that one day. She wouldn't have cared a jot - would have told me to wear what I wanted.
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OwlFancier posted:The electromagnetic waves definitely destroy something and that's house prices.
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Bardeh posted:Formal clothes at funerals loving suck anyway. Why is it a thing? Why can't we just wear what we want and celebrate a person's life? I'll never understand it. My extended family isn't particularly big into formalities etc, but when my Nan died I still felt obliged to buy a suit from Matalan just for that one day. She wouldn't have cared a jot - would have told me to wear what I wanted. Because nobody wants to be the one oik who turns up in a a dragon shirt no matter how objectively sick the flames are, when everyone else turns up in black. So everyone wears black. And telling people specifically not to wear black/formal is, in a sense, giving them something else to worry about. It's a funeral, you wear black, is understood and expected, so people do it.
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Bardeh posted:Formal clothes at funerals loving suck anyway. Why is it a thing? Why can't we just wear what we want and celebrate a person's life? I'll never understand it. My extended family isn't particularly big into formalities etc, but when my Nan died I still felt obliged to buy a suit from Matalan just for that one day. She wouldn't have cared a jot - would have told me to wear what I wanted. When my dad died he had said 'no black' - he wanted joyful colours. We did put that in the notice of the funeral but 95% of people still turned up in black. I wore red.
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Bardeh posted:Formal clothes at funerals loving suck anyway. Why is it a thing? Why can't we just wear what we want and celebrate a person's life? I'll never understand it. My extended family isn't particularly big into formalities etc, but when my Nan died I still felt obliged to buy a suit from Matalan just for that one day. She wouldn't have cared a jot - would have told me to wear what I wanted. I'm going to specify business casual pastels for mine just to see what people turn up in. This also means I'll have to not be dead for my funeral, which could present difficulties, but I'll leave that to the planner.
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Guavanaut posted:Narrator: This did not happen. There is a fringe scientific view (radiation hormesis) that small amounts of radiation are actually good for you. You’d think Chernobyl would be a large enough involuntary experiment that that could be proven or disproven definitively. Anyone know if it has been studied? it would be kind of the opposite of darkly hilarious if it turned out the net effect of Chenobyl was to prevent a few thousand Finnish children of dying of leukaemia.
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You do enough funerals and you start to observe that they aren't actually about the dead person, they're about everyone else, and for a lot of people they're something to just get over with as simply (and inexpensively) as possible. Organizing a funeral is not a pleasant thing because everyone is going to judge, or pointedly try not to judge, your ability to do so, so you try to do something that everyone will understand and consider acceptable, and you can't change everyone's expectations, and the corpse doesn't get a vote in it, ultimately. You have their instructions (if you're lucky) but ultimately it's you that's making the decision. Funerals are the product of inertia, like lots of things in life. You can't really change them.
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radmonger posted:There is a fringe scientific view (radiation hormesis) that small amounts of radiation are actually good for you username / post combo
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thespaceinvader posted:incidence of cancer and leukaemia (which is a subset of cancer so weird to include separately) They're very different things, trust me.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:When my dad died he had said 'no black' - he wanted joyful colours. We did put that in the notice of the funeral but 95% of people still turned up in black. I wore red. When my Gran died it was all joyful colours too, except amazingly pretty much everyone followed it. My Dad wore the loudest jacket I've ever seen and it was a really nice day. Sad obviously but I think the no black rule really helped.
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radmonger posted:There is a fringe scientific view (radiation hormesis) that small amounts of radiation are actually good for you. You’d think Chernobyl would be a large enough involuntary experiment that that could be proven or disproven definitively. Anyone know if it has been studied? Hormesis is still something of a fringe view, but the LNT is quickly falling out of favor because it doesn't seem to be borne out by evidence in places with naturally high background radiation (Cornwall, Colorado, that seaside place in Iran). HJB posted:They're very different things, trust me.
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Guavanaut posted:It's normally caused by a bone marrow cancer though isn't it? There's a lot of underlying similarities of course, but given one is fully treatable I'm loathe to treat it as a subset of the other.
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HJB posted:They're very different things, trust me. I mean, I assume from context that you have personal experience, and I don't want to step on that but... https://www.leukaemiacare.org.uk/support-and-information/information-about-blood-cancer/blood-cancer-information/leukaemia/ Leukaemia is a cancer which starts in blood-forming tissue, usually the bone marrow. It leads to the over-production of abnormal white blood cells, the part of the immune system which defends the body against infection. HJB posted:There's a lot of underlying similarities of course, but given one is fully treatable I'm loathe to treat it as a subset of the other. There are a bunch of fully treatable cancers though? It's not like cancer is one monolithic disease, it's one of the most varied things to be given a single name in all of (human) disease, except maybe the common cold. Even within a single type of cancer such as breast cancer there are some which are largely treatable and some which are very much not. Jaeluni Asjil posted:When my dad died he had said 'no black' - he wanted joyful colours. We did put that in the notice of the funeral but 95% of people still turned up in black. I wore red. I've never been to a 'no black' funeral, but I rarely wear actual black anyway, I'm usually in muted colours - my normal (and only) suit is dark grey, and I don't really own many bright-coloured ties, so it'll be dark blue probably. The only concession I've really made to dressing for funerals is getting a proper winter coat that's funeral-appropriate from the charity shop, because the last one I went to was in Lincolnshire in February and I froze my goddamn (metaphorical, if only getting rid of the fat on my chest was that easy) tits off. Fortunately it's warm and formal enough to be useful elsewhere too.
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