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i'm guessing this has been posted already but i'm reposting anyway. remember that it's our fault amerika exists in the first place so donating a 10er is the least you could do by way of apology. https://minnesotafreedomfund.org/donate
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Prince John posted:I had a feeling this was lurking under the surface of your previous post! amnesty and HRW? iirc both outfits have played important roles in amplifying neocon talking points about venezuela, bolivia, syria and elsewhere. hrw even sabotaged the reconciliation movement between farc and the colombian government. they're spook fronts.
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NoneMoreNegative posted:Also jumping off that arch at the beach? It's approx 200ft to the sea, I looked it up to compare for reference and the Tyne Bridge is 85ish feet road-to-river. XMNN posted:just remembered I saw someone jump off the tyne bridge last summer (probably) trying to kill themselves, and that was scarily high so this is absolutely crazy
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gh0stpinballa posted:amnesty and HRW? iirc both outfits have played important roles in amplifying neocon talking points about venezuela, bolivia, syria and elsewhere. hrw even sabotaged the reconciliation movement between farc and the colombian government. they're spook fronts. hrw is absolutely a joke organisation that is a US imperalist tool https://twitter.com/TamaraTaraciuk/status/1265228438295777280?s=20
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Guavanaut posted:I think twisto suggested that some time back. I think I did call for the forcible depopulation of the North, true. Let's just pretend it was for infrastructure investment purposes. Seriously though a sensible policy to improve London's transport infrastructure is to invest in non-London transport infrastructure. Replacing the loving *awful* urban rail system there* with Overground-style unified, high-frequency metro heavy rail, and regulating/subsidising buses to the same level as they are in London would be *way* cheaper than Crossrail (probably cheaper than the Bakerloo extension for that matter) but over the long term would relieve far more pressure on London's infrastructure. * I really can't believe just how bad it is. I occasionally have to travel for work to a site just outside the centre of town, about 4 miles from New Street. It's a light-industrial and medium-density residential area - it's a lot like pre-Olympics Stratford, lots of Victorian terraces and factories, but no lovely shopping centre. Anyway it gets *one train per hour*. A two-car railbus at that. There is allegedly a bus, but I've never seen any actual physical evidence of it existing (and it of course doesn't actually go anwhere near where I need. It's literally quicker *and cheaper* for me to walk from my office to a car rental place, hire a car, and drive there and back.
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Guavanaut posted:According to Geo Stone, who has a well researched but dark book on the matter of death, jumping from 150 feet (46m) or higher on land, and 250 feet (76m) or more on water, is 95% to 98% fatal. So hopefully the Tyne bridge guy was okay (although you can die from a fall of a few feet if you hit your head) but loving hell jumping off of a 200' arch nope. That dude's dead or taking up a vital ICU bed at the moment, unless he's extraordinarily fortunate. Surely with water the way you hit is going to make a pretty big difference?
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I would assume the 95% fatality rate is indicative that whatever the magic trick for hitting the water right is, most people can't do it.
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actually., you can survive any fall from any height by doing a perfectly timed roll if into water bombing has the same effect
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Surely with water the way you hit is going to make a pretty big difference? At the kind of speeds you're reaching after a shockingly quick time, surface tension is turning that water into concrete, practically speaking.
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lol of course living in the uk is preferable to living under the ccp* how is this even a thing. at least if you get executed for political dissidence here your parents don't get invoiced for the bullet. *maybe unless you're rich or have connections
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Jose posted:the absolute state of blairites 
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I mean they probably would, in the form of taxation which would then be funneled to the serco/capita run office of political stability.
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I've run some tests on a detailed and well-established multiterrain voxel physics simulator and can confirm that water can safely break a fall of at least 256 metres in 9 out of 10 attempts. attempt 7 is an outlier as i missed the jump and landed next to a hissing green monster that exploded
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zhar posted:lol of course living in the china is preferable to living under the tories* how is this even a thing.
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Jose posted:its true i've not lived in china but lots of goons have and they seem to think its alright. genuinely what authoritarian stuff do they have that we don't aside from the uyghur camps but its not like the UK government doesn't have its own camps? for that they get a proper response to a pandemic, functional and good public transport and a not completely hosed housing situation despite the insane population but do you know what they're not? concentration camps being used in to perpetrate a genocide. not in the same ball park, to use a massive understatement. what on earth is wrong with you that you'd even think to glibly dismiss the uyghur camps like that? as for the rest of your post "what authoritarian stuff do they have"? it beggars belief that you couldn't be aware of even a fraction of the police state apparatus. the censorship, the secret prisons, the shame trials, the tortured forced confessions, the list goes on. very loving authoritarian is the answer. you can somehow praise China's response to the pandemic and be unaware that journalists reporting on it have been disappeared? that doctors trying to raise the alarm were threatened into silence? I'll quote prince john's post in case you missed it at the bottom of the page Prince John posted:I had a feeling this was lurking under the surface of your previous post! finally to add one point that might hit home for you. your favourite hobby of copying and pasting links from twitter all day? that's illegal in the PRC. the entire site is blocked unless you use illegal means to circumvent the great firewall. if you were in China now, you personally would be a criminal subversive. but you don't think the government is really authoritarian?
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Surely with water the way you hit is going to make a pretty big difference? Plus there's some people who are just fortunate, we've all heard about the guys who fell from a plane with no parachute and managed to land in just the right place in just the right way that they just sprained their ankle. But with water like Gyro said as you get faster and faster there's a practical limit to just how much water your hydrodynamic cone can move out of the way in time, and with those Olympic high divers you can see how good their form is by the fact that you can fit the splash from entry into a teacup. The splash in that video was not that.
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Think I've got Swimmer's Ear and I can't make an appointment at the local clinic so I have no idea how I'm meant to get some eardrops or whatever to deal with it
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May 30, 2020 21:11
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XMNN posted:love to jump from a cliff into the sea during a pandemic so I end up having to be air anbulanced to a hospital Ditto. My 60th was under lockdown.
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Will they do an over the phone appointment? I get labyrithitis fairly regularly so I just have a big box of cinnarazine in the cupboard, handily. No pain but it stops me falling down the stairs. OwlFancier fucked around with this message at 21:15 on May 30, 2020 |
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I think in pretty much all measures china has us beat. we have rapey detention centres, they have organ factories. We have a failed porn blocking bill, they have an effective government firewall. we have a union of disaffected devolved countries, they have a full on cultural genocide in Tibet. we have police causing outrage by doing things to people caught on camera / at inquest, in china those people would just be disappeared and anyone kicking up a fuss would join them. a lot of people here openly despise boris johnson, they banned winnie the pooh in china for this frankly weak meme: nothing in this country even comes close
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Ms Adequate posted:Think I've got Swimmer's Ear and I can't make an appointment at the local clinic so I have no idea how I'm meant to get some eardrops or whatever to deal with it Can you message your GP (mine has online facility) and ask for a prescription for the spray? I've forgotten what it's called. Otoline or something like that.
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OwlFancier posted:Will they do an over the phone appointment? Me too. I keep stugeron in for the same reason.
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https://twitter.com/DavidCollinsST/status/1266796102688399360 i hope this isn't a tease
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Ms Adequate posted:Think I've got Swimmer's Ear and I can't make an appointment at the local clinic so I have no idea how I'm meant to get some eardrops or whatever to deal with it Phone your GP and get a telephone appointment. If that won't work then dial 111 and explain the situation to them. They can arrange a GP appointment for you (presumably over the phone at the moment).
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Can you message your GP (mine has online facility) and ask for a prescription for the spray? I've forgotten what it's called. Otoline or something like that. Otomize 
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Me too. I keep stugeron in for the same reason. Was weird when I asked the pharmacist about it, I got prescribed it the first time I got it but I couldn't get an appointment the second time, so I just went into the pharmacy and asked if I could just buy the stuff without a prescription and he basically said "yeah, how much do you want, I've got like 80 tablets here" and they were dead cheap so that was nice. I was expecitng it to be expensive. Apparently it used to be used in the navy for seasickness.
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https://www.independent.co.uk/life-...k-a9536811.html Might be able to see the rocket tonight at 10.15 pm.
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Y'all out here acting as if I'm able to make a phone call for anything non-life-threatening lmao e; Found a way to message them online at least, will see if that gives results. Ms Adequate fucked around with this message at 21:36 on May 30, 2020 |
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Ms Adequate posted:Think I've got Swimmer's Ear and I can't make an appointment at the local clinic so I have no idea how I'm meant to get some eardrops or whatever to deal with it Jaeluni Asjil posted:Can you message your GP (mine has online facility) and ask for a prescription for the spray? I've forgotten what it's called. Otoline or something like that. the one I had is called otomize but if you can't get it in good time one of the main ingredients is acetic acid, I don't suggest pouring vinegar in your ear but I remember reading in the US people medicate with an OTC product called burrows solution (presumably if they don't want to pay for the dr). You can get something similar without a prescription here behind the counter like this. e: disclaimer i am not a doctor
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OwlFancier posted:Was weird when I asked the pharmacist about it, I got prescribed it the first time I got it but I couldn't get an appointment the second time, so I just went into the pharmacy and asked if I could just buy the stuff without a prescription and he basically said "yeah, how much do you want, I've got like 80 tablets here" and they were dead cheap so that was nice. I was expecitng it to be expensive. I'll try that next time. I've still got my stash fro Egypt. I had an attack in Stockholm once and got cinnarazine.
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I think it's just the active ingredient in stugeron from the looks of it. And if you can get the generic medicines they're usually a lot cheaper, especially antihistamines, you pay a fortune for piriton but the own brand stuff is the same thing.
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While I'm sure China does the sketchy things all states do, I'm extremely leery of 99.9% of Western takes on how awful they are, and I would categorically prefer to live there than in the USA
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Honestly it's a mild case, just a bit of ache, so that OTC stuff might be sufficient. If they refuse a scrip for something and tell me to jog on I'll get some of that.
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ThomasPaine posted:While I'm sure China does the sketchy things all states do, I'm extremely leery of 99.9% of Western takes on how awful they are, and I would categorically prefer to live there than in the USA yikes
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Ms Adequate posted:Y'all out here acting as if I'm able to make a phone call for anything non-life-threatening lmao I had to text a friend to call my doctor for me because of phone anxiety. Do you have anyone who can do that for you? Wish there was something I could suggest that doesn't involve you doxxing yourself  e: just seen your edit, hope the online thing works out
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ThomasPaine posted:While I'm sure China does the sketchy things all states do, I'm extremely leery of 99.9% of Western takes on how awful they are, and I would categorically prefer to live there than in the USA this is veering on tankie levels of delusion
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Ash Crimson posted:this is veering on tankie levels of delusion Have you ever been to the us?
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Re: phone anxiety how do folks feel about facetime/zoom etc video calls? I hate hate the phone but video calls I discovered I'm absolutely fine with, even to folks I don't know.
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Jose posted:Have you ever been to the us? i have e: i wouldn't go now though when it's under trump
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