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blunt posted:They put the colour temperature (and a lil indicator) on the box though. they do but it's like, aspirational just look out at night and see the variation in people's windows, it's not cool daylight white vs warm white, there's a huge range going on (sometimes you see a really nice one too and it's like, drat what are they using) it's not as simple as hot filament makes the glowy anymore so some standards would be nice at least! e- nightmare snipe 
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baka kaba posted:also I just saw this and you might be interested! I prefer sodium cyclamate to sugar or any other artificial sweetener in coffee, because I find it reduces the bad bitterness as well as adding sweetness. The most common complaint about cyclamate (other than that it causes bladder cancer in lab rats due to a metabolic pathway that only exists in rodents) is that the sodium salt has a alight metallic salty taste on its own (don't eat sweeteners on their own then), but that may be why it works so well in my less than fancy coffee.
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that's cool, I need to try that stuff sometime - I don't really use sugar or anything in drinks but I'm never really a fan of like the stevia stuff when I've had it, or in sugar free things. Also gonna try that salt trick next time I have some instant coffee Aldi's been out of coffee beans last couple of times I've been in, pretty much everything else is in stock, I didn't realise so many people were grinding their own while baking bread and eating kidney beans
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I can't stand the taste of stevia. Not sure what it is but it just tastes... off. Something like the early vegan attempts to replicate tastes before they got really good, or like bad vegetables. Cyclamate is interesting because as the first mainstream artificial sweetener it got the full backlash of "it gives these rats cancer if we feed them nothing but sweeteners" from an unholy alliance of natural food types and the sugar industry, but decades of later research has shown it to be safer than any of the other sweeteners, including corn syrup and probably including too much cane/beet sugar. It used to be the go-to for Tesco Value coffee sweeteners, but for some reason they've stopped existing now, so the best current sources are Germany and Spain, the latter in part because of a large study they did into sweeteners in Latin America where they went in with a skeptical lens and came out saying "well poo poo, looks like the cyclamate kids in the 60s grew up with better health outcomes than any of the alternatives."
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XMNN posted:I will never understand people who hate wind turbines and think they ruin views, they've got an eerie alien beauty even before you account for the fact they're saving the planet I mostly agree but if I was in charge I would make it law that all of them in the same sort of view type thing must be synchronised I'd make it a new job people could have, for to keep them looking nice and neat
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The job description could be 'tilting at windmills'.
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I'd like to say I was smart enough to have intended that but it wouldn't be true. I fancy they'd be like sort of a cross between gondoliers and the RNLI, hitting the blades with big sticks where necessary - hitting things with sticks being both probably the earliest human occupation and also (probably not coincidentally) most people's strategy of first resort when troubleshooting urgent problems involving things that are big and threatening or uncooperative. I wonder if any of those countryside alliance loons have ever jammed a big tree trunk or something between the blade of a wind turbine and its tower. It's like something they'd do 
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May 7, 2020 00:42
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Insert tweet of man hitting bin with stick for the NHS here.
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https://twitter.com/leonardocarella/status/1258093730730516482?s=21 Brr. Also, bleak lol: https://twitter.com/hancocktom/status/1257881201794113538?s=21
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Jedit posted:*checks* Hey now, buying the Apple gets you a decidedly mediocre camera and two years of updates for your bar of glass. (Samsung smartphones have overpriced hardware that's always got severe design issues - the Galaxy Fire 7 was not exactly surprising to people who keep up phone internals given Samsung's design, QC and quality of the parts they use. You also get at-best lovely support so you're eager to upgrade when the next flagship comes along and then it, too, stops getting security updates. Buying cheaper devices has meant you might get a device that will not have the latest security updates for a second of its lifetime. Or even just never see the OS version that was latest when it was launched. Apple at least has better than 50% odds of it being designed okay - but see also "you're holding it wrong", "bendgate" and the iPhone 6S battery scandal. Apple's design philosophy prevents them from ever having a good camera, too, but that's the price you pay for having an uncomfortably slim phone. Other than the battery life and being unable to secure a good grip if you have even slight mobility issues. And they too will stop getting updates well before the end of the usable life of the hardware... well, except the battery, which is glued in these days. So you get poo poo that ages to uselessness in a few years by design and both Samsung and Apple put a fuckload of money into lobbying to stop legislation which would guarantee security updates so people could keep their devices longer. Capitalism!) (But seriously don't buy Android devices that aren't Android One certified, ever. I'd much rather have a world where those fuckers are regulated to ensure they get updated but there's at least something you can do to get something that won't get surprise EOL'd.) (I'm a tech nerd and I want harsh regulations on tech companies so they stop innovating so goddamn much, because most of their innovations are new ways to force people to buy new devices.)
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XMNN posted:I will never understand people who hate wind turbines and think they ruin views, they've got an eerie alien beauty even before you account for the fact they're saving the planet They have a nice easy mountain bike trail at Whitelee now too, which is pretty fun to ride between the turbines. Windy though.
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endlessmonotony posted:the Galaxy Fire 7 was not exactly surprising to people who keep up phone internals given Samsung's design the Fire 7 is one of Amazon's tablet line made by Quanta.
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I believe that was a sarcastic reference to the Note 7's defective battery.
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but it's a different product that already exists  E: News this morning of virgin media merging with o2.
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ronya posted:I believe that was a sarcastic reference to the Note 7's defective battery. Y'know you could just say "that's the joke". I mean, you're correct, but also very on brand.
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blunt posted:They put the colour temperature (and a lil indicator) on the box though. Yeah you can get variable CT bulbs, and full colour mixing ones, though I don't see the attraction of those, feels too much like being at work, my house is sensible shades of white  You don't have to put your lumens on the internet if you don't want to, you can keep them on the local network, but then you can't control them when you are out of the house (I have never felt the need to do this). vvv Even when it was the bears... Bobstar fucked around with this message at 08:57 on May 7, 2020 |
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Welp, looks like the government are definitely going to be pinning this one on Foreigners and not their own incompetence at procurement and logistics https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/07/all-400000-gowns-flown-from-turkey-for-nhs-fail-uk-standards
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justcola posted:eee you kept that quiet ey. I do like hearing stories about public figures though, they seem to have this certain charisma that gets to people. I've met Andy Burnham and a few other MPs and most had it. Weird. George W Bush was another one who was apparently intensively likeable in person. Charming, funny, self deprecating, really made you feel like you were important to him. Michelle Obama described him as a "beautiful, funny, kind, sweet man". A friend of mine from uni in the civil service worked closely with David Cameron, and said he was also super friendly, polite, respectful and always had time for her. Although I guess for every Cameron you have a Broon who liked to throw furniture around if memory serves. Edit: Apparently memory doesn't serve, but he did have a temper. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2010/feb/21/gordon-brown-abusive-treatment-staff Prince John fucked around with this message at 09:04 on May 7, 2020 |
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Shadow chancellor Anneliese Dodds has warned the government to “be quite careful” about saying employees who have been furloughed have become “addicted” to the scheme. Ooh calm down, you might have someone's eye out with that vehement opposition to a disgraceful smear on millions of people
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Bobstar posted:Shadow chancellor Anneliese Dodds has warned the government to “be quite careful” about saying employees who have been furloughed have become “addicted” to the scheme.
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Public asked to increase their chance of skin cancer and be attacked by wasps in bank holiday shockerThe Gurndbain posted:Picnics, sunbathing and unlimited rambles will be among the first activities to be allowed when the lockdown loosens, it emerged on Wednesday, after Boris Johnson announced that restrictions would begin to ease from Monday. lol
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We're going to have a million odd dead because people in this country just would not be told that they couldn't go to garden centres to buy more plastic garden ornaments with LEDs in or to the park to drink sneaky tins of special brew while they half-heartedly feed the ducks, aren't we :/
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Danger - Octopus! posted:Welp, looks like the government are definitely going to be pinning this one on Foreigners and not their own incompetence at procurement and logistics idk if this will be the strategy, everybody kinda knows turkey is insane and dysfunctional and the UK government is unlikely to blame them for much considering the numerous economic and security deals we've cut with them.
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crispix posted:We're going to have a million odd dead because people in this country just would not be told that they couldn't go to garden centres to buy more plastic garden ornaments with LEDs in or to the park to drink sneaky tins of special brew while they half-heartedly feed the ducks, aren't we :/ The public isn't asking for this. Business leaders are because they're losing money now and they can replace the staff that die.
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endlessmonotony posted:Hey now, buying the Apple gets you a decidedly mediocre camera and two years of updates for your bar of glass. The latest supported phone for iOS13 is a phone made in 2015?
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Was Del Boy in charge of this? https://twitter.com/guardian/status/1258279345333960704
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justcola posted:Public asked to increase their chance of skin cancer and be attacked by wasps in bank holiday shocker I was more expecting it to lean more into rich people stuff, like nannies and house cleaners. I live in a small flat in a fairly large converted mental hospital with some nice private gardens and people were sunbathing and having picnics two weekends back. Some bellend even fired up a portable barbeque out there. I guess the warning tape all over the communal BBQ pit wasn't enough of a hint. We're all doomed.
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namesake posted:The public isn't asking for this. Business leaders are because they're losing money now and they can replace the staff that die. Some of the public definitely are asking for it and it won't take much to convince a whole lot more in spite of reality that it's nothing to worry about, again My ma said a friend of hers who works in a DUP constituency office is on the phone to old people all day outraged that x is closed when off licences are still open and selling the devil's ale x is mostly garden centres and churches crispix fucked around with this message at 10:27 on May 7, 2020 |
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XMNN posted:if they were actually planning on controlling the epidemic they wouldn't loosen the restrictions while we were still at high infection and death rates And opening schools first! Herding the demographic with the lowest ability to maintain social distancing together.
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crispix posted:Some of the public definitely are asking for it and it won't take much to convince a whole lot more in spite of reality that it's nothing to worry about, again So why blame the small percentage of idiots when the damage is being done by the powerful forces in society convincing the public to die for their profits?
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Send him to the glue factory https://twitter.com/FinancialTimes/status/1258275408237285382?s=19
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namesake posted:So why blame the small percentage of idiots when the damage is being done by the powerful forces in society convincing the public to die for their profits? Like it's not entirely one thing or the other is it
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crispix posted:Like it's not entirely one thing or the other is it You're still blaming the public and not the government or business owners who are the ones really pushing for this
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crispix posted:Like it's not entirely one thing or the other is it You literally did just blame one of them.
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crispix posted:Some of the public definitely are asking for it and it won't take much to convince a whole lot more in spite of reality that it's nothing to worry about, again And then everyone will crowd onto public transport that's running more limited schedules because Business Must Go On and you can't wfh to sell garden centre and DIY products from home! Absolutely throwing people into the fire with this.
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Jose posted:Send him to the glue factory Asked why voters turned away from Labour in droves in the last election, he says: “The leadership of the Labour party was [the] number one [reason], fair or unfair.” at least acknowledges that voters turning away from Labour weren’t being fair in their assessment of Corbyn.
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Jose posted:Send him to the glue factory Does he ever do interviews that aren't behind a paywall?
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