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gh0stpinballa posted:thermostat e: 83F is what it would be in my house if I didn't undertake emergency interdiction on the thermostat. Then probably 83C. Guavanaut fucked around with this message at 22:22 on Jan 16, 2020 |
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a lot of MPs listed ijn the replies https://twitter.com/CrankyOutrider/status/1217889522815504384?s=20
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https://twitter.com/DanBoeckner/status/1217751492901257221?s=20
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He looks like he's just seen some very disenchanting words for genitalia.
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Adrian Chiles' entire career has been one long nervous breakdown
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Here's a few suggestions:OwlFancier posted:I assume the british antarctic bases are still using 40 year old equipment which needs 40 year old programming languages to function.
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I assume that's why physics had the micro too, given that they mostly used it to plug the light gates into.
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OwlFancier posted:I assume the british antarctic bases are still using 40 year old equipment which needs 40 year old programming languages to function. wonder when antarctica becomes a legit option for data centers? and how long before it's the only option available. this will be my steaming hot take of choice whenever possible benefits of the climate crisis are discussed
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Tijuana Bibliophile posted:wonder when antarctica becomes a legit option for data centers? and how long before it's the only option available. https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2010/07/23/the-data-center-at-the-south-pole quote:What's it like to operate a data center at the South Pole?
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Bobstar posted:I object! Granted on the duty-free thing. Otherwise; Whenever I've gone there I've been herded into boring tiny waiting areas with nothing to do or see or even buy, once there wasn't even a vending machine. Even wandering around the concourse before that, it's just a dreary place that seems to lack anything to actually do, even compared to little regional airports I've been elsewhere. I don't know why the Dutch are so terrified but I go through more security checks there than anywhere else. Seats there are uniquely uncomfortable for some reason? (It's never my last stop so train links and seats at baggage claim aren't a plus for me but fair enough!)
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sebzilla posted:Goondolences. When I was a kid I thought that was the most annoying, obviously put-on thing adults did. Now that I am myself in my 30s, I have learned my folly, lol
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2010/07/23/the-data-center-at-the-south-pole
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Guavanaut posted:Harvesting neutrinos sounds like a couple orders of magnitude more frustrating than herding cats. you're saying this like we were still stuck in the ante-blockchain era
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OwlFancier posted:I have to wonder why people have such strong feelings one way or another about the labour leadership candidates cos I know basically gently caress all about any of them. I think he played a pretty big role in Labour moving to second referendum position, he might well be a 'strong leader' in the competent behind-the-scenes politicking work us plebs don't see. From a non-Westminster perspective he's done some Human Rights resume building but that's about it, the anti-brexit stuff is the closest he's come to meaningful leadership. I know it's form letters but it feels so tedious that Labour send all this stuff when you rejoin, their algorithm or just email history must know full well I'm only rejoining for the leadership selection and will send them a snarky bitch email resigning membership about free speech again the moment it's done. There's enough people that give Labour money each month but deliberately reject membership that it should be a thing in their system.
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Tijuana Bibliophile posted:you're saying this like we were still stuck in the ante-blockchain era
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Guavanaut posted:Harvesting neutrinos sounds like a couple orders of magnitude more frustrating than herding cats. Very true, but how else are we going to armor our starships?
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Surely that would be neutrons, armour plating that only occasionally intersects with solid matter seems dubious. Which of course means that BAE will somehow get a contract to put it on the new aircraft carrier. OwlFancier fucked around with this message at 00:36 on Jan 17, 2020 |
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Jan 17, 2020 00:34
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Guavanaut posted:Harvesting neutrinos sounds like a couple orders of magnitude more frustrating than herding cats. still, we will be bound for the reload
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https://twitter.com/rlong_bailey/status/1217948213405196289?s=21 An obvious pickup for RLB, but still an important one. Also gives some context to her latest column about the importance of expanding British democracy.
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ShaneMacGowansTeeth posted:still, we will be bound for the reload this is a reference I did not expect to see today
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Guavanaut posted:A currency based on something that scarcely interacts with reality sounds very Brexit. neutri-coin, awarded to miners that log separately confirmed individual neutrino detections. or rather, doesn't
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Aramoro posted:Was it even a question that Momentum would back the Continuity Corbyn Candidate? I voted no on the deputy mostly as a protest against the way Momentum approached this whole thing. They're pissing off a lot of their members with this undemocratic poo poo, and something is going to have to change soon. "Do you agree to rubber stamp the decisions we made on your behalf" is not a reasonable way to run that poll.
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Might be being a bit obtuse here but I don't really see the need for Momentum to make decisions democratically, because its only source of actual power is having a bunch of members. Someone kind of needs to direct the left bloc, and the Momentum leadership stepped up, but as soon as they start making decisions that members disagree with (or the organisation otherwise outlives its usefulness or becomes toxic) the members will stop following it & it no longer has any power. Any vehicle whose only source of power is a whole bunch of people completely voluntarily choosing to follow it is intrinsically democratic, regardless of how it makes decisions or is structured. That doesn't mean that they were in the right here, where the "correct" deputy endorsement was ambiguous, but certainly wrt RLB I can't see the benefit of having a big ol' "campaign-within-a-campaign" song and dance when it's really obvious who the socialist choice is. E: grammar Borrovan fucked around with this message at 11:22 on Jan 17, 2020 |
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Nah you're right, either the leadership has the authority to decide who to back or they don't, this kind of post facto consultation is the worst way to handle it. Basically I think things like the election loss and UNISON backing Starmer have a lot of the left spooked about how fragile their control of institutions still is so are yelling about needing to have the final say about everything rather than letting representatives say for them.
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OwlFancier posted:What the hell makes starmer a "strong leader" he's not led anything yet. he led the CPS and was director of public prosecutions for 5 years, which - IIRC - is more of an established 'leadership' role than any of the other candidates have had. no track record of political leadership (again, none of the others do either). i know you're all going to call me a centrist melt for this, but I really struggle to see RLB as having broad electoral appeal. starmer, for all his faults, was supposedly coming up on the doorstep a lot in those 'traditional labour' areas as someone people would like to see as leader (versus Corbyn, at the time). edit: Vitamin P posted:I think he played a pretty big role in Labour moving to second referendum position, he might well be a 'strong leader' in the competent behind-the-scenes politicking work us plebs don't see. From a non-Westminster perspective he's done some Human Rights resume building but that's about it, the anti-brexit stuff is the closest he's come to meaningful leadership. he did more than this as DPP. Here is his predecessor praising the job he did. Within my professional remit, the guidance on assisted dying he led the development of was a very sensible framework within the constrains of the existing law - that alone I think was a good piece of legal policymaking. oxford_town fucked around with this message at 11:49 on Jan 17, 2020 |
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oxford_town posted:he led the CPS and was director of public prosecutions for 5 years, which - IIRC - is more of an established 'leadership' role than any of the other candidates have had. Bluntly the concern is that he's institutionalised into the Westminster system and the dominant mode of politics in the UK which means he'll get monstered by the press while refusing to properly challenge the structures which undermine Labour and it's a repeat of Ed Miliband while also allowing if not overseeing a purge of left radicals from the party which is its only chance of survival going forward. His gestures to the right show he's not willing to fight against them and as we've seen the right wing cannot be negotiated with, one side has to be in control.
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Did the commons vote on an NHS amendment for more funding yesterday? A lot flying round on social media about my uometown mp making a maiden speech about funding the nhs then voting against this exact thing but I can't find a reliable source which I want before I give him grief about it.
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Borrovan posted:Might be being a bit obtuse here but I don't really see the need for Momentum to make decisions democratically, because its only source of actual power is having a bunch of members. Someone kind of needs to direct the left bloc, and the Momentum leadership stepped up, but as soon as they start making decisions that members disagree with (or the organisation otherwise outlives its usefulness or becomes toxic) the members will stop following it & it no longer has any power. Any vehicle whose only source of power is a whole bunch of people completely voluntarily choosing to follow it is intrinsically democratic, regardless of how it makes decisions or is structured. I think the main reason to do it is to keep people onside really, rubber stamping/block voting etc don't really do that. Labour have 5 years of wilderness to roam around in and they really need to start pulling in the same direction. The elect-ability or not of any leadership candidate right now is entirely pointless as they're not going to be tested until 2025. That why I feel the momentum strategy of 'our way or the highway' is not going to work to turn the party around at this stage. Not that it matters too much up here, I'll be surprised if we're still in the UK in 2025.
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OwlFancier posted:What the hell makes starmer a "strong leader" he's not led anything yet. It's the knighthood.
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Borrovan posted:Might be being a bit obtuse here but I don't really see the need for Momentum to make decisions democratically, because its only source of actual power is having a bunch of members. Someone kind of needs to direct the left bloc, and the Momentum leadership stepped up, but as soon as they start making decisions that members disagree with (or the organisation otherwise outlives its usefulness or becomes toxic) the members will stop following it & it no longer has any power. Any vehicle whose only source of power is a whole bunch of people completely voluntarily choosing to follow it is intrinsically democratic, regardless of how it makes decisions or is structured. You realise this is as much an argument for there being no need for internal democracy in the Labour party, right? I mean, its power is in being a mass movement. If its members disagree with the choices the leadership make they can always go join a different party... Momentum's value is in being a coordinating body for the left. That's the point of it, to organise the radical wing of the party into a voting bloc that can effectively influence the party as a whole. With that in mind, what does it mean to "stop following it"? It means to split, splinter, to cease being effective. Or set up a competing organising body. Borrovan posted:That doesn't mean that they were in the right here, where the "correct" deputy endorsement was ambiguous, but certainly wrt RLB I can't see the benefit of having a big ol' "campaign-within-a-campaign" song and dance when it's really obvious who the socialist choice is. Contrariwise, if RLB is so naturally the choice, if there's no chance that she would lose the vote, why delegitimise her by making it a coronation? A vote might be a opportunity for division and in-fighting, but it's also a chance to formally secure full seal and sanction for Long-Bailey. Not holding one robs her of that. From a cynical, machinist point of view, a choice where your preferred option can't possibly lose is the best possible time to hold a vote, because all it's going to do is make your position unassailable. You get to enjoy all the pageantry of democratic involvement without any of the downsides. This is a cock-up for a candidacy that really cannot afford too many cock-ups. namesake posted:Basically I think things like the election loss and UNISON backing Starmer have a lot of the left spooked about how fragile their control of institutions still is so are yelling about needing to have the final say about everything rather than letting representatives say for them. Definitely. oxford_town posted:i know you're all going to call me a centrist melt for this, but I really struggle to see RLB as having broad electoral appeal. starmer, for all his faults, was supposedly coming up on the doorstep a lot in those 'traditional labour' areas as someone people would like to see as leader (versus Corbyn, at the time). Uh. So, having done a fair bit of door-knocking myself, the number of voters who can name a member of the shad cab is a tiny fraction. The number that could name one that isn't McDonnell or Abbott is a vanishing fraction of that. The idea that there exists out there a statistically significant portion of the electorate that a) know who Starmer is and b) like him well enough that him being in charge would flip their vote stretches credulity past breaking point. And, like, nobody knows what a Starmer leadership looks like. That they might vote for whatever imagined version of that is in their heads doesn't mean they'll vote for the actual thing, which is inevitably going to be much messier and more compromised.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Want to escape Brexit Britane? absolutely insane that a field guide responsible for the safety of antarctic expeditions, for which a required prerequisite is 'being a loving extremely experience mountaineer', gets paid only 24k a year while some dumbass marketing manager is on 3x that
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oxford_town posted:he led the CPS and was director of public prosecutions for 5 years, which - IIRC - is more of an established 'leadership' role than any of the other candidates have had. You're talking about electoral appeal as if pure electoralism is a useful or even viable approach for Labour as things stand. The fundamental problem we saw is a loss of faith that parties and governments can help people, coupled with the press making it clear that their goals are nakedly partisan. 'Which candidate looks electable' is the wrong question. The main objective should be to help people outside government and convince them that elections can be useful in the first place.
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ThomasPaine posted:absolutely insane that a field guide responsible for the safety of antarctic expeditions, for which a required prerequisite is 'being a loving extremely experience mountaineer', gets paid only 24k a year while some dumbass marketing manager is on 3x that Labour cannot be paid its full value comrade.
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Tijuana Bibliophile posted:wonder when antarctica becomes a legit option for data centers? and how long before it's the only option available. No where is safe https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/may/19/arctic-stronghold-of-worlds-seeds-flooded-after-permafrost-melts
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oxford_town posted:i know you're all going to call me a centrist melt for this, but I really struggle to see RLB as having broad electoral appeal. starmer, for all his faults, was supposedly coming up on the doorstep a lot in those 'traditional labour' areas as someone people would like to see as leader (versus Corbyn, at the time). Honestly I'd have been tempted to back a unity candidate for the single loving week after the election before the Labour right pulled their knives out & started making up counterhistories, but it's fairly clear that anyone but a socialist will just capitulate further and further to the right and the press, since they won't be happy with anything short of the second coming of Blair. gently caress that. Also, what Kogahazan said. KOGAHAZAN!! posted:You realise this is as much an argument for there being no need for internal democracy in the Labour party, right? KOGAHAZAN!! posted:Contrariwise, if RLB is so naturally the choice, if there's no chance that she would lose the vote, why delegitimise her by making it a coronation? A vote might be a opportunity for division and in-fighting, but it's also a chance to formally secure full seal and sanction for Long-Bailey. Not holding one robs her of that. Although yeah as Aramoro said, this was probably a bit of a gently caress up just because it could piss off the members. I just don't accept the validity of the "Momentum is undemocratic" arguments, regardless of its structures and processes
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