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Jippa posted:Anyone been out today? I was expecting loads of people but it was very quiet. No real queue at the supermarket. Yes just went for my Government Walk, 1 hour over the fields. I expected them to be rammed but only a handful of people about. Had to walk up through the high street to get to the fields, but not many people around. Still a bunch of numpties who won't give way on narrow pavements though (by which I mean they could easily duck into a shop doorway which they are walking right past when I have nothing but a big shop window to one side and the road to the other). Mind you, the weather has not been as good as it was being made out it was going to be. Quite overcast really. Did not go in any shop. Page snipe: Genome-wide association analyses identify 44 risk variants and refine the genetic architecture of major depression quote:Genome-wide association analyses identify 44 risk variants and refine the genetic architecture of major depression Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 16:49 on Apr 4, 2020 |
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communism bitch posted:Dunno poo poo about what the dude's saying, but interesting: I think he's right, asymptomatic people testing positive doesn't mean that they will stay asymptomatic. But it's unclear what proportion of people have asymptomatic but contagious infections, because there isn't enough testing happening.
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Jippa posted:Anyone been out today? I was expecting loads of people but it was very quiet. No real queue at the supermarket. There's definitely more traffic going past my house today in a touristy area of North Wales. I've heard anecdotally that quite a few people sneaked up here with camper vans and to holiday homes last night, and that quite a few non-locals have been spotted in the local supermarkets complaining that there's no bbq supplies on the shelves.
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Jippa posted:Anyone been out today? I was expecting loads of people but it was very quiet. No real queue at the supermarket. Nah, been at home all day. Started playing pathologic 2.
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The closest figures to the cutoff date for joining the party and being able to vote in this election show the party at roughly 510k members. There were 490k votes. The gap between Starmer and RLB was 140k, and in the highly unlikely situation that each of Nandy's votes would have flipped RLB, that'd only take the distance down to 60k. I don't see how people abstaining from this vote has played any part in it at all. You'd need to net a lot of abstaining potential RLB members to cross that chasm and there's no evidence of the party even being that large let alone that any abstention was so uniformly from the RLB camp. Azza Bamboo fucked around with this message at 16:53 on Apr 4, 2020 |
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Apr 4, 2020 16:51
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OwlFancier posted:It wasn't just opposing corbyn, it was opposing everyone who worked in that campaign. They were all struggling to undo the damage people like him did. Do you not think that is alienating to just pretend you were on the right side all along? Do you not think that is reflected in the massive number of people who didn't even bother to vote in the leadership election? Honestly, I'm sick of infighting. I'm more than happy to wipe the slate clean for Starmer and give him a fair shot. Would I have said the same about Watson or Benn or someone I saw as a wrecker rather than a flake? Probably not, but there you go.
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Apr 4, 2020 16:54
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I'm just tired from 5 years of seeing so much poo poo flung relentlessly at Corbyn from all directions. I don't think many individuals would have had the mettle to see it out and I would not have believed without seeing this time play out just how hopelessly rigged our entire society is towards keeping the left away from power. I suppose that's something
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Jippa posted:Anyone been out today? I was expecting loads of people but it was very quiet. No real queue at the supermarket. Yeah about 2 hours ago, fairly busy up on the High st (East Finchley), shops were alright. Hell of a lot of people up & down my street too, at least people are still distancing.
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I can't say I'm enormously impressed with political positions based entirely around satisfying your own weird emotional hangups but I guess they are inevitable.
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I have been self-isolating since Friday after showing symptoms and I think I'm out of it (except for being unable to taste or smell anything), I don't have a temperature atm and I have not left my room other than to cook. Will I be patient zero for the tory hellhole where I live if I go to the shops on Sunday or work on Monday?
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Apr 4, 2020 17:05
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Honestly there were worse people on the slate, yeah it's not great but it's more the inevitability of him winning that's depressing me right now. Like yay we voted for the "elEctAblE" candidate and where did all these dogs come from when I said that out loud. The trans pledge thing, eh, I hated that he seemed to be hedging there but I don't get the sense that he's gonna both-sides it after a GE win, assuming we get one. If he does, then yeah, that's a card-burning offense obviously. It was a good reason for me to not vote for him personally, but now he's the leader I mean what am I gonna do?
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Jippa posted:Anyone been out today? I was expecting loads of people but it was very quiet. No real queue at the supermarket. It's loving beautiful out in east London at the mo. zentigeist posted:I have been self-isolating since Friday after showing symptoms and I think I'm out of it (except for being unable to taste or smell anything), I don't have a temperature atm and I have not left my room other than to cook.
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Azza Bamboo posted:The closest figures to the cutoff date for joining the party and being able to vote in this election show the party at roughly 510k members. There were 490k votes. The gap between Starmer and RLB was 140k, and in the highly unlikely situation that each of Nandy's votes would have flipped RLB, that'd only take the distance down to 60k. Look at the actual results, there were 552k members and 217k affliated potential votes, nearly 300k people didn't vote. Obviously not going to be uniformly leftwing but DNV got a larger vote share than any of the candidates which didn't happen in the earlier leadership elections with Corbyn. Doesn't mean the left didn't show up but it shows that generally the electorate wasn't happy with the candidates on offer.
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Emily Thornberry currently talking up Starmer because "he's good, he's competent, and he won't over-promise" Wow so inspiring
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"He won't over promise, so I'm not expecting any big position just something like Wales minister please? EFRA maybe? Anything."
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jabby posted:Honestly, I'm sick of infighting. I'm more than happy to wipe the slate clean for Starmer and give him a fair shot. Yeah, as much as I think this was the wrong choice I'm willing to give him his chance. not like theres anything else to do electorally
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El Grillo posted:Guidance is to stay home for at least 7 days after symptoms subside I thought? Temperature is the main reason to keep isolating it seems, I copied this from the NHS site. "If you have symptoms of coronavirus, you'll need to self-isolate for 7 days. After 7 days: if you do not have a high temperature, you do not need to self-isolate if you still have a high temperature, keep self-isolating until your temperature returns to normal You do not need to self-isolate if you just have a cough after 7 days. A cough can last for several weeks after the infection has gone." I can still cough on people so long as I'm not roasting while doing it.
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I wonder if Chuka has dreams of becoming the centrist Dominic Cummings. That's the only godawful explanation I have for his "working with" tweet.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Does anyone know of a free or nearly-free transcription tool for a video? Downloaded (legitimately) a film in Spanish (which I don't know) and so was wanting to get a transcription of it then turn that to English. I haven't been able to find a subtitles file anywhere on line for it. Here you go: English .srt subtitles for El Enigma Agustina. (My secret source was the page you linked! If you're happy to watch it on the Vimeo site, they've also got the subtitles available through the CC button in the bottom-right of the Vimeo video player.)
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namesake posted:Look at the actual results, there were 552k members and 217k affliated potential votes, nearly 300k people didn't vote. Obviously not going to be uniformly leftwing but DNV got a larger vote share than any of the candidates which didn't happen in the earlier leadership elections with Corbyn. Is there a way of looking at how the voting splits among the membership and affiliated membership? It'd be interesting to see how the unions change over time and how the other orgs change.
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People saying stuff like "Complaining things aren't fair isn't going to get you anywhere!" or whatever are missing the point. Somebody else, I think it was Communist Thoughts, said that RLB and Sir Haircut are both the Tories' dream opponents in different ways, and they're right, but only because the Tories own the press. Literally whatever leader Labour have doesn't even matter. It could be the second coming of Jesus and the press would still monster them. RLB wouldn't be a bad leader, I think she'd be quite good. Starmer probably won't be a bad leader as such, but I don't think he'll inspire people. In another country like Canada where the Overton window is a razor-thin slit focused on Liberalism, they'd probably loving love him. He's smart, he's centrist, he has a haircut. But both will/would get hosed by the British papers. That things aren't fair, that things are so nakedly, brazenly hosed up, with people just doing disaster capitalism and other extremely dodgy poo poo and it all just being normalised and in the open is far more important than who the Labour leader is. So I don't know what the path forward is, I can't offer any solutions, but really I think Labour is no more hosed in terms of electoral chances with Starmer than it would have been with RLB, just in a different way. Not saying that I wouldn't have VASTLY preferred RLB to win for a whole host of reasons, just that I don't think Labour is ever going to get anywhere near power until the right wing papers die off. Still going to stay a member for now, though.
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Azza Bamboo posted:Is there a way of looking at how the voting splits among the membership and affiliated membership? It'd be interesting to see how the unions change over time and how the other orgs change. Yeah they're on the wiki pages: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Labour_Party_leadership_election just check results.
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Jippa posted:Anyone been out today? I was expecting loads of people but it was very quiet. No real queue at the supermarket. Exact opposite for me, even the little Co-op that's normally empty (of customers *and* stock) had a 20+ queue outside. Luckily the little Turkish supermarket had no queue and everything I needed, which prompts a small tale of my life. Because of the sunshine I realised how filthy my windows were (thanks all the building sites that are still loving open) so I picked up some kitchen roll and a bottle of window cleaner. Did all the windows, got to the spare room last. On the windowsill in the spare room? An almost-full bottle of window cleaner and a kitchen roll from the last time I did the windows. Next to them? *Another* bottle of window cleaner from the time before that. And yet they let people like me drive, vote and breed (that last purely theoretical, of course).
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Josef bugman posted:Nah, been at home all day. Started playing pathologic 2. Avoiding the clouds of plague gas in that game is very good practice for dodging elderly dog walkers in real life too! Keeping your friends and family alive to the end is best achieved by not visiting them regularly however.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Exact opposite for me, even the little Co-op that's normally empty (of customers *and* stock) had a 20+ queue outside. My great aunt was very much against the idea of window cleaner and advocated the use of vinegar and newspapers. Thing is, I never did find out how she actually used those two things to clean the windows
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crispix posted:My great aunt was very much against the idea of window cleaner and advocated the use of vinegar and newspapers. Thing is, I never did find out how she actually used those two things to clean the windows My dad was the same. It's relatively simple, little bit of white vinegar in soapy water, wipe the windows with a cloth soaked in it, then use newspaper to dry it. There's no magic, bottled window cleaner is just soapy water and white vinegar and the newspaper is just a cheaper alternative to kitchen roll to dry them off. The only reason I don't do it that way is you end up dripping dirty water off the windows onto the sills, the spray bottle is just more convenient and it costs like 2 quid.
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Kegluneq posted:Avoiding the clouds of plague gas in that game is very good practice for dodging elderly dog walkers in real life too! I am on the second day and I am already panicking about not getting anything done and not knowing when I have done "enough" please send help.
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I'll make a small contribution to bird chat. They aren't perfectly focused but these were flying overhead this afternoon!  
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In slightly more cheery news, Lorraine Kelly said "Trans Rights": https://twitter.com/Mermaids_Gender/status/1246475854517096452?s=20
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Prince John posted:I'll make a small contribution to bird chat. They aren't perfectly focused but these were flying overhead this afternoon! Hero bird takes off on a mission to banish the moon back to the night, where it belongs.
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Communist Thoughts posted:Yeah, as much as I think this was the wrong choice I'm willing to give him his chance. Same, for now. Let's see what his policies are, and/or if there actually is some kind of anti-Momentum purge.
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Welp that's about what I expected for tyool quarantine. I'm hoping there might be some room for a retry before the next election, but I doubt it, we'll have to have him fight one and inevitably lose before we get another crack.
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ronya posted:Nandy did not do well enough in the vote to still be a plausible challenger, though Blunkett was an outright fascist at a time when David Davis was acting like the voice of reason. I hope Starmer doesn't pick an authoritarian dickhead, because that was the worst part of the last Labour government and the best thing about Corbyn. crispix posted:My great aunt was very much against the idea of window cleaner and advocated the use of vinegar and newspapers. Thing is, I never did find out how she actually used those two things to clean the windows The vinegar in window cleaner (and cheap chippies) is an industrial vinegar made from methanol or petroleum products, whereas condiment vinegar is brewed, so it's a lot more energy and labor intensive.
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Prince John posted:I'll make a small contribution to bird chat. They aren't perfectly focused but these were flying overhead this afternoon! Great shots! We never really got red kites down in the southwest, so I'm always excited to see them when I'm around Wales/Midlands way
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Guavanaut posted:That's a waste of food vinegar. Almost all food vinegar is just that stuff with some brown colouring in it (non-brewed condiment). White vinegar is still cheaper though because it doesn't have to be food-grade. Hell even most brewed condiment is industrially-extracted acetic acid + colouring, it's just they get the acetic acid from... I can't remember what they call the stuff strained out in brewing, but that stuff. If anything the "proper" brewed vinegars are actually a waste of perfectly good booze, because they'll deliberately let wine or cider go off just so they can bandy around words like "artisinal". goddamnedtwisto fucked around with this message at 18:20 on Apr 4, 2020 |
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Jel Shaker posted:Brewed ants Brants
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Guavanaut posted:That's a waste of food vinegar. She died in 2004 mate
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