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kecske posted:dont farmers still use bird bangers? Or perhaps some kind of stuffed mannequin on a broom handle. horny is prohibited.
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I've been pretty much disregarding the numbers for ages because (a)they mean nothing to me, & (b)they're obviously bullshit anyway. A number is meaningless, but the real, observable effects are not. A massive field hospital just outside of town, a disproportionate number of hearses on the roads, two bereaved families that I know personally (am a shut in). Those things have meaning.Camrath posted:Rare for me to praise the filth, but good on them for taking the guy alive. Hope he gets the help he obviously needs. Saw a bunch of young black men meeting armed cops to hand over bullets and thought fuuuucckk that. Brave lads, definitely saved his life.
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ThomasPaine posted:Bad time to have my wisdom teeth decide to start growing again and play merry hell There is a good chance this isn't caused by then growing but because of stuff getting stuck around them. Happens to me sometimes and is solved by more careful brushing. An electric toothbrush makes a huge difference for it due to the smaller head and it spinning if you don't have one
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Good thread regarding the fakeness of reported numbers, if anyone tries to tell you that the UK is only doing slightly worse than Ireland, for some reasonThe Question IRL posted:There's a really interesting thread here about Irelands reportednfeath rate for Covid 19 and how it compares to other countries.
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justcola posted:It's hard to really comprehend deaths in the thousands, millions - I can't even look at a picture of more than 12 dots or so and aware of how many there are besides 'a lot'. The magic number is 4. Numbers up to 4 you can count without actively counting, as your brain just knows how many there are just by looking. Anything larger than that you have to actively think about. It leads to a neat trick about counting large groups is just count groups of 4 - you'll find you'll recognize them much faster than groups of 5.
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Farmer who owns the field behind my house spent most of the day doing laps in his tractor yesterday. Wasn't towing or doing anything, just taking a drive. Ruined my sunbathing. And my neighbours dogs were going mental as they couldn't go for one of their many daily walks out there.
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OwlFancier posted:A crying shame that they abandoned british innovation and stopped using the patented box full of shotgun shells with a clock in it that fired one into the air every hour. rally round the family with a clock - it full of shells
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goddamnedtwisto posted:There's one model of starter pistol that was very easily converted to *reliably* fire .22 rimfire (also getting around the ammo availability problem) that was very popular with the scrotes in the 90s and early 00s. Obviously it was only the little target shooting rounds, so you pretty much had to be at point-blank range to kill someone (and even then it was a tossup - my neighbour's ex-husband got shot with one twice at point-blank range - one round bounced off his skull, and one went through his cheek and broke a couple of teeth). https://www.airgunmagazine.co.uk/features/air-cartridge-system-10-years-later/ This might be an interesting read for anyone interested. These were very popular in the 90s and early 2000s, but could be converted to fire live ammunition with varying degrees of success. Pretty much blanket banned with no compensation in 2003, something a lot of shooters are still understandably upset about today.
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Despite how we’ve been running on a skeleton crew of essential personnel that cannot do our jobs from home since the lockdown began, the boomer directorship have decided they all want to come in for a big meeting next week. Their funeral I guess.
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Nothingtoseehere posted:The magic number is 4. Numbers up to 4 you can count without actively counting, as your brain just knows how many there are just by looking. Anything larger than that you have to actively think about. It leads to a neat trick about counting large groups is just count groups of 4 - you'll find you'll recognize them much faster than groups of 5. Any evidence of that? Seems factoid. E: imagining staring at a basket containing exactly 5 apples, frowning until a slow realisation creeps across my face
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Failed Imagineer posted:Any evidence of that? Seems factoid It's called Subitizing. It's the main difference in how humans can count and do math while animals can't.
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Soylent Yellow posted:https://www.airgunmagazine.co.uk/features/air-cartridge-system-10-years-later/ Yeah, I used to own a Brocock Predator. Probably my favourite airgun, and I’ve owned a lot over the years. Super light, had a left handed stock and action put on it by a gunsmith and just so satisfying to shoot. Such a stupid piece of legislation, and emblematic of New Labour authoritarianism.
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Nothingtoseehere posted:It's called Subitizing. It's the main difference in how humans can count and do math while animals can't. Interesting!
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Camrath posted:Brocock Predator mods
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Failed Imagineer posted:Interesting! I said 4, but it's not a hard cutoff more just what everyone can do. If I flash up a image of 4 apples in a basket for .1 of a second, 95% of people will be able to confidently say there was 4 apples. If I do the same for a 5 apple basket, less people will get it right, and they will be less confident in their guess. And so on for larger numbers - for 7 apples most people will just guess something in the 5-9 range etc.
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Nothingtoseehere posted:I said 4, but it's not a hard cutoff more just what everyone can do. If I flash up a image of 4 apples in a basket for .1 of a second, 95% of people will be able to confidently say there was 4 apples. If I do the same for a 5 apple basket, less people will get it right, and they will be less confident in their guess. And so on for larger numbers - for 7 apples most people will just guess something in the 5-9 range etc. I imagine there's a large amount of neuroplasticity involved here. Even as an adult I've found in my years looking at big spreadsheets I've become a lot more proficient at this kind of estimation. But I imagine it's a good baseline for the average person because schools don't really make an effort to develop this
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Gonzo McFee posted:https://twitter.com/DawnHFoster/status/1252931128375336960?s=19 Nothing else highlights the level of political corruption in the UK quite like Osbourne becoming editor of the Evening Standard. Still just gobsmacking, every time I think about it.
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Gonzo McFee posted:https://twitter.com/DawnHFoster/status/1252931128375336960?s=19 somehow kier as labour leader is depressing me more than the roni lol probably shows my brain is broken though he's already so loving useless and he sounds like a particularly boring chair of some dull thinktank extremely sorry for the bad things i said about RLB being uninspiring, how little i knew
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Failed Imagineer posted:I imagine there's a large amount of neuroplasticity involved here. Even as an adult I've found in my years looking at big spreadsheets I've become a lot more proficient at this kind of estimation. But I imagine it's a good baseline for the average person because schools don't really make an effort to develop this Yeah there's an old paper in Nature on this - that the subitizing capacity can be expanded after playing visaul-information dense video games
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Come on now, there's another 5% to be scooped up from the rump of the Lib Dems and then they'll be on... *checks calculator* 37%?! poo poo.
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pitch a fitness posted:Yeah there's an old paper in Nature on this - that the subitizing capacity can be expanded after playing visaul-information dense video games Nature posted:
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lmao https://twitter.com/hazcraig16/status/1252242446479753217?s=20 https://twitter.com/hazcraig16/status/1252243199273373697?s=20 https://twitter.com/hazcraig16/status/1252243879094616064?s=20 https://twitter.com/hazcraig16/status/1252247660171583490?s=20 not sure why but I expected it to take a bit longer before the rightists decided actually polls don't matter after all
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https://twitter.com/britainelects/status/656185120009809920 The more things change.
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What kind of brain thinks "actually I like bland and ordinary and soon everyone else will too"
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OwlFancier posted:What kind of brain thinks "actually I like bland and ordinary and soon everyone else will too" I wonder if he likes jam and manhole covers.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Where did this theory that Starmer is 'forensic' come from? I'm bewildered. He was/is a lawyer, and head of CPS. And suggesting that the head of CPS might not be an indication of competence is unthinkable for the kind of awful nerd who actually likes the system of government we have.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Where did this theory that Starmer is 'forensic' come from? I'm bewildered. Centrist word-of-the-day calendar. I'm seriously thinking of starting some kind of bot that scans for this sort of thing because I'm *certain* they're at best herd animals, but I strongly suspect there's some actually some ringing round and arm-bending going on.
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what's darkly fascinating is watching how the press have to be seen to be reporting the avalanche of news about government fuckery, while diluting the info in such a way that it doesn't make us look like one of those Official Bad Guy countries. so the guardian are rolling coverage of this car crash while also publishing lots of melt opinion pieces calling for unity and calm.
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OwlFancier posted:What kind of brain thinks "actually I like bland and ordinary and soon everyone else will too" begins with "b" and ends with "oomer" Every Sunday thousands of roasts get jammed in the oven on 230c with gently caress all seasoning paired with veg so boiled it's flavourless mush. Starmer is that meal.
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AceClown posted:begins with "b" and ends with "oomer" 
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AceClown posted:begins with "b" and ends with "oomer" See I actually like that but I like that because to me it actually tastes good, I like bland food because to me, it isn't bland. I've never actually gone out to people and said "this tastes like nothing you should love it". Actually saying that "this man is the most uninspiring unappealing man in the world and that's a good thing" is a level of brainworms I can't imagine.
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OwlFancier posted:Actually saying that "this man is the most uninspiring unappealing man in the world and that's a good thing" is a level of brainworms I can't imagine. It's like a throwback to the greyness of John Major
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OwlFancier posted:What kind of brain thinks "actually I like bland and ordinary and soon everyone else will too" I once worked with a guy whose gf didn't like spicy food so she ate steak and chips with no pepper on it for most of her meals. I suspect there are many other people in England who share her affinity for nothing.
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I'm aware that I'm probably gonna get a chorus of "Well DUH" to the realisation I've just had, but the harping on about the exit strategy is appealing directly to his base, who care only about things going "back to normal" - Fubpees, melts who wank to the 2012 Olympics, big brains who believe a million dead Iraqis is a small price to pay for Sure Start, they all just want to go back to not even having to pretend to care about politics apart from putting the tick in the box once every few years without the effects of that tick being thrown in their face and making them feel bad.
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