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Jedit posted:He probably didn't want to say $161 because it doesn't flow as well. And he also gets to troll nerdlingers like me who would complain about the rounding, so it's a win-win. 
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Samovar posted:Uh, this. This isn't a joke? This is serious? This person thinks that writing this makes them seem sane and not a complete C-SPAM Mod? Alan Duncan HATES Johnson and this is some exaggerated piss taking
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Aug 27, 2019 10:12
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When I studied it I always used "planetary body" in assignments because it bumped up my word count a bit and also because it's all just leftover bits of star of various sizes and behaviours anyway
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Aug 27, 2019 10:14
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Tijuana Bibliophile posted:Moon: The fundamental problem of course is that nature doesn't give a drat about our need to label and categorise everything. "Dwarf planet" is not a bad name though, and just because they're not full planets doesn't mean they're not interesting. Personally I quite like "world" as an inclusive term for any planet, dwarf planet or moon that's sufficiently interesting to talk about. One thing that makes me sad is that they decided not to make Charon, Pluto's largest moon, a dwarf planet so they could be a twin dwarf planet system. That would have been cool. As an aside, this is one of my favourite Wikipedia charts (though it has some formatting issues):  Scale is logarithmic. Paul.Power fucked around with this message at 10:25 on Aug 27, 2019 |
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Aug 27, 2019 10:21
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Lootbox and planet chat happening at the same time as yelling at Alan Duncan Smith. Sometimes I really  UKMT.
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Aug 27, 2019 10:24
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Maybe if the sun wasn't so loving big then it wouldn't so hot right now. Stupid idea piling so much stuff together that the middle starts fusing anyway.
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Aug 27, 2019 10:26
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Guavanaut posted:Maybe if the sun wasn't so loving big then it wouldn't so hot right now. Stupid idea piling so much stuff together that the middle starts fusing anyway. almost 100% of light pollution is caused by the sun u know
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Aug 27, 2019 10:32
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Guavanaut posted:Maybe if the sun wasn't so loving big then it wouldn't so hot right now. Stupid idea piling so much stuff together that the middle starts fusing anyway. https://what-if.xkcd.com/4/
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Aug 27, 2019 10:34
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quote:Away from the Westminster spotlight, north Norfolk MP Sir Norman Lamb has told the Eastern Daily Press he will not stand at the next election to focus on improving mental health care in the country. The former health secretary told the newspaper that parliament had become paralysed by Brexit and he felt he could do more good outside Westminster. TIL Norman Lamb is still an MP
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Aug 27, 2019 10:34
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Tijuana Bibliophile posted:almost 100% of light pollution is caused by the sun u know quote:Throughout the planet, the mole bodies gradually break down into kerogen, a mush of organic matter which would—if the planet were hotter—eventually form oil.  quote:Plumes of hot meat and bubbles of trapped gases like methane—along with the air from the lungs of the deceased moles—periodically rise through the mole crust and erupt volcanically from the surface, a geyser of death blasting mole bodies free of the planet.
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Aug 27, 2019 10:42
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Paul.Power posted:As an aside, this is one of my favourite Wikipedia charts (though it has some formatting issues):    
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Aug 27, 2019 10:47
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To be fair, there's nothing wrong with a log scale as long as you're up front about it (and the Sun would make it hilariously hard to see any of the other lines in the graph otherwise). I doubt any of those lib dem graphs are a) log scales or b) up front about it.
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Aug 27, 2019 10:53
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Islington North: a Lib/Lab/Log marginal.
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Aug 27, 2019 10:55
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Accidentally walked in on my relatives watching Jeremy Vine, and could feel the braincells being leeched from the room - and it's not like I had many to start with.
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Aug 27, 2019 10:56
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god i'd forgotten "it was formed 15 billion years ago, when an early god exploded or something."
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Aug 27, 2019 11:00
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Tesseraction posted:My favourite bullshit microtransaction is the $170 axe in Apex Legends It's funny money where 100 coins is ~ $1. The lootboxes are 700 coins but the smallest amount you can buy is 1000.
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Aug 27, 2019 11:07
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Paul.Power posted:To be fair, there's nothing wrong with a log scale as long as you're up front about it (and the Sun would make it hilariously hard to see any of the other lines in the graph otherwise). I doubt any of those lib dem graphs are a) log scales or b) up front about it. I know it's because I'm a dummy with a humanities background, but I genuinely don't get the utility of logarithmic scales for graphs like this. Like, if the differences are too vast to make a clear visual comparison with singular straight lines then maybe singular straight lines aren't the best way of representing the difference? [E: I realise that "clear" is doing a lot of work here that could also be replaced by "I'm not used to this and therefore it's poo poo"]
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Aug 27, 2019 11:07
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40years ago the brave boys of the hero rescued countless innocent children by blowing up the notorious pedophile Dickie Mountbatten I mean they also blew up a couple of innocent children in the process, but let's look at the big picture here
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Aug 27, 2019 11:10
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Guavanaut posted:Lib/Lab/Log A cursive wall decal
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Aug 27, 2019 11:12
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Niric posted:I know it's because I'm a dummy with a humanities background, but I genuinely don't get the utility of logarithmic scales for graphs like this. Like, if the differences are too vast to make a clear visual comparison with singular straight lines then maybe singular straight lines aren't the best way of representing the difference?
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Aug 27, 2019 11:13
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Overminty posted:It's funny money where 100 coins is ~ $1. The lootboxes are 700 coins but the smallest amount you can buy is 1000. Ooooooh those stingy bastards.
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Aug 27, 2019 11:19
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Niric posted:I know it's because I'm a dummy with a humanities background, but I genuinely don't get the utility of logarithmic scales for graphs like this. Like, if the differences are too vast to make a clear visual comparison with singular straight lines then maybe singular straight lines aren't the best way of representing the difference? Yeah it's just a case of being used to it. Earth is about 10x bigger than Ceres. Jupiter is about 10x bigger than Earth. The Sun is about 10x bigger than Jupiter. It is harder to make small comparisons, like "how much bigger is Mars than Pluto?", but it's not intended to answer that question, or it would be a linear graph, with everything above Earth taken off because otherwise you still couldn't answer that question because they would be too close together.
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Aug 27, 2019 11:21
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In JESUS CHRIST news, Jereme Soule, the composer to the Elder Scrolls and Guild Wars series, has been outed as a rapist and abuser https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1166106560809992192?s=19 and sparked by that revelation, Comrade Quinn has outed one of the Night in the Woods devs (Alec Holowka) as also one https://twitter.com/UnburntWitch/status/1166212005629325313?s=19 The co-creator has responded to say he believes her and is loving livid at Alec https://twitter.com/bombsfall/status/1166249701953478656 So yeah, kinda mad at video games right now.
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Aug 27, 2019 11:24
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I think you should redirect your anger to human beings and not the video games in this instance. It’s always humans who ruin everything.
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Aug 27, 2019 11:29
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Tijuana Bibliophile posted:And if that's somehow not convinced you, just look at this: So how long before Pluto and Neptune intersect and Pluto just becomes another moon?
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Party Boat posted:Alan Duncan HATES Johnson and this is some exaggerated piss taking Thank gently caress for that But less thank gently caress regarding that vidja game stuff. Fuckin' hell what's wrong with some folks.
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Aug 27, 2019 11:31
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Tesseraction posted:So yeah, kinda mad at video games right now. You'd be permanently mad at all forms of media, sports, organized and unorganized religion, education, healthcare, youth groups, social services and governance if powerful people within those being nonces and other types of abusers painted the whole sector. (Okay, it's reasonable to be mad at some of those things.)
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Diet Crack posted:I think you should redirect your anger to human beings and not the video games in this instance. It's a meme about a KC Green frog but yes I am mad and disappointed at the monsters involved, regardless of whether they made content I enjoyed.
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Aug 27, 2019 11:32
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For someone who just plays games but doesnt follow the names? who are those people? I know of Soule from playing the games hes done music for, I think I know who Zoe Quinn is, who is Alec?
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Aug 27, 2019 11:35
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Flipswitch posted:For someone who just plays games but doesnt follow the names? who are those people? Night in the Woods dev, although not the one most people think of, who I posted above responding to the allegations (Scott Bensen)
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Aug 27, 2019 11:36
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Seems a lot of these cases of rape and abuse within the entertainment sector are a combination of 'needing the job' and uncertain settled status, so I'm going to add another few marks in the "gently caress the idea of needing to work for a boss to live and gently caress the migration system" tally.
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Demiurge4 posted:So how long before Pluto and Neptune intersect and Pluto just becomes another moon? Apparently very, very unlikely, short of outside interference. Something to do with orbital resonance and big maths that I don't really understand, that someone who actually knows stuff could explain better than I can. Tesseraction posted:So yeah, kinda mad at video games right now. Bloody hell.  Flipswitch posted:For someone who just plays games but doesnt follow the names? who are those people? Yeah Soule is a composer, Zoe Quinn is a developer and writer who was the primary target that the whole Gamergate thing coalesced around, and Alec Holowka is a designer/composer for Night in the Woods.
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Aug 27, 2019 11:55
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https://twitter.com/mattlodder/status/1166294795117125634 Landlords are bastards and this should probably be spread as far and wide as possible so this oval office gets found.
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Aug 27, 2019 12:04
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Gonzo McFee posted:https://twitter.com/mattlodder/status/1166294795117125634 Anyone managed to doxx this guy?
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Gonzo McFee posted:https://twitter.com/mattlodder/status/1166294795117125634 What a total oval office. Need to ruin people's lives to keep up those sweet sweet intergenerational advantages.
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Failed Imagineer posted:Anyone managed to doxx this guy? Yeah his name is Matt Lodder. Oh you mean the shithead landlord? No idea. On the plus side literally anyone facing an eviction notice for weed on the premises at the moment should be able to point to this reddit thread and say "I was set-up!"
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Aug 27, 2019 12:14
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Frogface posted:If Boris Johnson is prepared to do the right thing for the independence of this country, then we would put country before party and do the right thing. really feel Farage is due another traffic accident
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Aug 27, 2019 12:16
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Tesseraction posted:Yeah his name is Matt Lodder. Not sure if random Reddit posts carry a lot of weight in court or tenant arbitration tbh. It's a nice thought that it could be a false flag to provide plausible deniability to all the smokers out there tho
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Niric posted:I know it's because I'm a dummy with a humanities background, but I genuinely don't get the utility of logarithmic scales for graphs like this. Like, if the differences are too vast to make a clear visual comparison with singular straight lines then maybe singular straight lines aren't the best way of representing the difference? any representation of the solar system requires some of this because it doesn't operate on scales that humans easily comprehend. I agree the logarithmic scale doesn't make sense in that graph though, since you'd expect to be able to tell which thing is, like, twice as large as the next thing without reading the numbers on top. i guess whoever made the graph agrees because they put the numbers on top of their dumb graph
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