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so they did publish the report after the leak they weren't going to? https://twitter.com/SamCoatesSky/status/1267783989881954304?s=20
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:I think the most important thing is try and build a routine - nothing over demanding: personal care (diet, exercise, hygiene), home environment (washing up, cleaning), mental health (read a book - something lightweight, connect with friend or family or even a stranger, take a break from news) forkboy84 posted:Fortunately for me I'm exceedingly comfortable with my own company so I've been well equipped for the long hours alone. I'm learning Russian with Duolingo, oh my
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Jun 2, 2020 12:47
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Jose posted:so they did publish the report after the leak they weren't going to? How is "other" so high in this report? Assuming people of Chinese/Japanese origin are being grouped under "Asian" (which is always a tricky subject in this country), you've got white, black (which presumably covers African and Caribbean heritages), Asian, and mixed races, I'm struggling to see a fifth category that can account for more deaths.
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Jun 2, 2020 12:54
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Mute or unfollow FB friends (or even 'unfriend' though as I had a major cull a couple of years ago, I don't do that often these days). I know some have done the same to me because I have some friends who only want to see 'happy' posts or 'the govt needs our support in this trying time' views - I do make an effort to sprinkle happy posts in, but also do 'news' posts because I know I have a fair proportion of friends and family who just believe the BBC and either The Times or The Graun and who think they are honourable and trustworthy. Most of the time I avoid making overt political posts because you end up preaching to the converted and p'ing everyone else off. I'm in the process of winding down my Facebook, I've realised that I'm scrolling scrolling scrolling, very little interesting content, boomer memes (well-meaning, I'm not friends with any really terrible boomers), I'm making sure I have contact details for people I actually care about (so we can keep talking on WhatsApp, take that Facebook!), then it's off to deactivationville. The only positive thing I've seen recently is people whose politics I didn't know, sharing good and correct things. That always makes me smile. Now I'm shopping for Dyson knockoff stick vacuum cleaners. It's all go today!
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Jun 2, 2020 13:00
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EvilHawk posted:How is "other" so high in this report? Assuming people of Chinese/Japanese origin are being grouped under "Asian" (which is always a tricky subject in this country), you've got white, black (which presumably covers African and Caribbean heritages), Asian, and mixed races, I'm struggling to see a fifth category that can account for more deaths. Deep in the Appendices there's an explanation that Arabic people go in 'Other' so I imagine that's a large part of it.
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Jun 2, 2020 13:01
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EvilHawk posted:How is "other" so high in this report? Assuming people of Chinese/Japanese origin are being grouped under "Asian" (which is always a tricky subject in this country), you've got white, black (which presumably covers African and Caribbean heritages), Asian, and mixed races, I'm struggling to see a fifth category that can account for more deaths. | would guess perhaps a lot of europeans might write their nationality in? E: Or that ^ I guess it says something about me that I haven't really noticed any change in my mental health at all and my biggest complaint is I can't go to the beach during the lovely sunshine. OwlFancier fucked around with this message at 13:06 on Jun 2, 2020 |
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Jun 2, 2020 13:01
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Jose posted:why is the new speaker allowing this vote on ending remote voting go ahead? The Speaker's job is to facilitate parliamentary business. There's a motion, it's been properly moved, now you have a vote. There's no convention dating back to 1604 about "if ye plague be in ye streetes, the Speaker of the Commons maie doo whatever ye gently caress he wantf to".
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Jun 2, 2020 13:05
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CGI Stardust posted:I've found having a routine helpful. Previously whenever I got stuck inside, I turned into a capital-G Gamer or compulsive social media refresher; stopping that at the moment by having a schedule of stuff to do a little of each day even if feeling a bit poo poo, just so I can have a checklist of ways in which progress is still happening somewhere. Also mostly avoiding news, it's generally lovely and doesn't help. I'm probably talking with friends actually more (Discord, phone etc) since we're all stuck around. It's not easy. It took a couple weeks (could've been more, time no longer makes sense) just to wrap my head around the alphabet. And I don't really think Duolingo is the best way to learn grammar so I'll probably need to get a textbook at some point. I've been enjoying Alex Navarro's lockdown Euro Truck Simulator streams because he ofte puts on Russian language radio which is surprisingly helpful. Trying to think of an example that catches me out. Любит is like but some times it's люблю and hosed if I can work out which should be used when. That said, I've been doing it for 3 months and I'm only doing 15-30 minutes a day and I was shite at languages in school and I certainly can sense improvement. So I guess it's no harder than any other language really, once you wrap your head around the alphabet. Easier than learning a load of Kanji or whatever. And it is surprising me how satisfying it has been.
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EvilHawk posted:How is "other" so high in this report? Assuming people of Chinese/Japanese origin are being grouped under "Asian" (which is always a tricky subject in this country), you've got white, black (which presumably covers African and Caribbean heritages), Asian, and mixed races, I'm struggling to see a fifth category that can account for more deaths. quote:The Other ethnic group also had higher mortality rates from both all causes and COVID-19 than the White group. The rates in the Other ethnic group are likely to be an overestimate due to the difference in the source of allocating ethnicity codes to the mortality data and the population data used to calculate the rates. This may explain the high mortality rates in the Other group, which cannot be interpreted and requires further investigation. pp46
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goddamnedtwisto posted:I've also ordered this, which ticks a lot of boxes for me - those wooden mechanical model kits are satisfying as hell to put together, it's a weird musical instrument, and if I get it really badly wrong I can just burn the fucker. Hi Hurdy Gurdy buddy  , it is fun to build and nice to have a project that does not involve a screen. I also have the train to build once I am done with this one, which includes 2m of track. My fiancee was not aware of this when she allowed me to purchase it.The hurdy gurdy is a cool instrument and I wish real ones were not so expensive. The Ugears one is playable but it sounds... interesting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vi3u3H3JxCE It is, however, nice to see that Julian Assange has a new hobby. While I have been on furlough I have been trying to continue making some CG things, I did have big plans to put a new piece of art on Instagram every day during lockdown but gently caress that. I make two or three things a week and have been keeping them to myself. I need a nice overcast day so I can start doing some photogrammetry in the garden. When I get to building the model train I think I am also going to recreate all of the pieces in CG and blow it up or something. My fiancee still having to work from home helps a lot, it has helped keep a routine and stopped me from just staying in bed all day like I sometimes want to.
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Jun 2, 2020 13:07
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josh04 posted:"extrovert" and "introvert" were invented by Myers-Briggs to sell more personality tests, don't believe the hype. It seems to be one of the ideas that had even a little merit. Some people really need other people to feel alive. Others end up utterly worn out after social contact and want nothing more than to be alone with a book. And anecdotally there seems to be little middle ground.
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Jun 2, 2020 13:08
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floofyscorp posted:Deep in the Appendices there's an explanation that Arabic people go in 'Other' so I imagine that's a large part of it. ronya posted:pp46 OwlFancier posted:| would guess perhaps a lot of europeans might write their nationality in? Makes sense, I couldn't read the report so thanks!
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Jun 2, 2020 13:08
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Regarde Aduck posted:It seems to be one of the ideas that had even a little merit. Some people really need other people to feel alive. Others end up utterly worn out after social contact and want nothing more than to be alone with a book. And anecdotally there seems to be little middle ground. The way I always look at it is "is socializing something you put effort into to get something out of, or is it something you do to wind down" Is it a hobby or relaxation, basically?
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EvilHawk posted:How is "other" so high in this report? Assuming people of Chinese/Japanese origin are being grouped under "Asian" (which is always a tricky subject in this country), you've got white, black (which presumably covers African and Caribbean heritages), Asian, and mixed races, I'm struggling to see a fifth category that can account for more deaths. floofyscorp posted:Deep in the Appendices there's an explanation that Arabic people go in 'Other' so I imagine that's a large part of it. Also the 'Other Asian' category almost unbearably broad and includes groups like Pasifika who are extremely vulnerable. Saros fucked around with this message at 13:19 on Jun 2, 2020 |
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Jun 2, 2020 13:17
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Regarde Aduck posted:It seems to be one of the ideas that had even a little merit. Some people really need other people to feel alive. Others end up utterly worn out after social contact and want nothing more than to be alone with a book. And anecdotally there seems to be little middle ground. I definitely think it's an idea with merit! Eg years ago, a very good friend's fiance ran out on her stealing £5k in the process. It was just a couple of days before her birthday. She was majorly upset obviously. So I organized a little meal out - just 3 or 4 of us (because that's what I would have preferred). Some time later she said 'Why didn't you organize a big bash in the pub to cheer me up?'. Similarly, when I was having a bad time near a birthday, she said 'let's just go to the pub and have a drink' and she had fixed about 40 people to be there (because that's what she would want)! I hated it. I just wanted to retreat into a corner with 2 or 3 friends to be miserable in peace! I'm like a wild animal that just wants to retreat into a cave until I'm recovered. My sister is constantly trying to get people together (not in a romantic way) because to her, the height of misery is to be on your own. She said to me her and her husband have agreed that when one dies, the other is to get on with finding another partner because they want the other one to 'be happy and not on their own'. Yikes! It takes me years to get over someone regardless of who broke it up! (I'm a firm believer in 'get totally over the old before on with the new' unlike some people I know who are 'finding the new' (aka cheating) while still hanging on to the old incase it doesn't work out with the new.) I find big social events absolutely draining. I don't know what to say to people, there's only so much "and how do you know the bride" or "did you take the A45 or the B52 to get here" or "what do you do for a living" I can take! Extrovert friends on the other hand positively thrive at big social events and find flitting from group to group and having inane conversations gives them energy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62eTq8ErUOQ
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CGI Stardust posted:I've found having a routine helpful. Previously whenever I got stuck inside, I turned into a capital-G Gamer or compulsive social media refresher; stopping that at the moment by having a schedule of stuff to do a little of each day even if feeling a bit poo poo, just so I can have a checklist of ways in which progress is still happening somewhere. Also mostly avoiding news, it's generally lovely and doesn't help. I'm probably talking with friends actually more (Discord, phone etc) since we're all stuck around. E: for example house is дом - "Dom" like domicile. Bicycle is вепосиред or "velocipede". Radio is радио - "radio". It's all loving English lol communism bitch fucked around with this message at 13:31 on Jun 2, 2020 |
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Jun 2, 2020 13:27
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Jose posted:why is the new speaker allowing this vote on ending remote voting go ahead? it'd be an unprecedented power grab to block it. like on what grounds could he do that. the motions been laid, now parliament can vote it down if they don't like it. democracy!
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Jun 2, 2020 13:28
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Hope those lines are 2m sideways or can the virus not move sideways? https://twitter.com/JeffSmithetc/status/1267747799984222208?s=20
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Jun 2, 2020 13:30
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Jun 2, 2020 13:32
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Except for that vote not so long ago when everybody was like why have so many Labour MPs abstained this is terrible and it turned out technical issues?
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Jun 2, 2020 13:32
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floofyscorp posted:Deep in the Appendices there's an explanation that Arabic people go in 'Other' so I imagine that's a large part of it. Also Latin American/hispanic.
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Jun 2, 2020 13:33
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communism bitch posted:E: for example house is дом - "Dom" like domicile. Bicycle is вепосиред or "velocipede". Radio is радио - "radio". It's all loving English lol I think you'll find that's mostly Latin/Greek... 
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communism bitch posted:The other 5% is gibberish to English speakers but who needs to know how to say "bread" in Russian anyway. 
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communism bitch posted:who needs to know how to say "bread" in Russian anyway. Хлеб и воля
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I did russian at school it was good, and the alphabet is similar enough to Latin/Greek that i found it no problem I also did german which is obviously very easy vocab wise (and imo the vocab is usually going to be enough in practice, who cares if you conjugate your verbs right or forget what gender beer is) did Arabic for a module in first year and the alphabet (or abugida or whatever it is e: abjad, according to Wikipedia) wasn't too bad, apart from the lack of vowels, vocab was mostly alien but I think I coped Ik, but I absolutely could not get my head around the right-to-left thing. also can't remember any grammar so clearly that didn't sink in at all doing Japanese on Duolingo atm and the vocab is again very unfamiliar, and the orthography is like a cruel practical joke, but from reading around I think the grammar is probably surprisingly straightforward which should hopefully help if I ever get far enough to actually get into it XMNN fucked around with this message at 13:59 on Jun 2, 2020 |
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Jun 2, 2020 13:41
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Yikes! It takes me years to get over someone regardless of who broke it up! (I'm a firm believer in 'get totally over the old before on with the new' unlike some people I know who are 'finding the new' (aka cheating) while still hanging on to the old incase it doesn't work out with the new.) My ex was like this, she just couldn't be alone at all. When we broke up she moved in with a friend, and then in with a new boyfriend after a while. To my knowledge she has never lived alone in her life (we moved in together when we were like 16-17)
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Hope those lines are 2m sideways or can the virus not move sideways? glad I'm not the only one with moron bosses and coworkers who are trying to kill me e: is there anything actually stopping parliament doing away with 90% of its members and then ending elections? and don't say convention XMNN fucked around with this message at 13:53 on Jun 2, 2020 |
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XMNN posted:glad I'm not the only one with moron bosses and coworkers who are trying to kill me Isaac Asimov wrote a short story called Franchise: quote:Plot summary source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franchise_(short_story)
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Jedit posted:If all the things that I didn't think would happen right now, construction on the Hinckley C reactor sleeve has begun. I did wonder what all the cranes were for
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XMNN posted:I did russian at school it was good, and the alphabet is similar enough to Latin/Greek that i found it no problem Funnily enough I found Arabic easier than Welsh! I've no problem with Arabic writing (as long as it's 'printed' not handwritten or calligraphy which I can have a hard time making out) and I like the grammatical structure which allows me to guess at some words. I think this is because my background with maths, music, physics lends me towards the symbolic. However, as you say, lack of the short vowels means if it is a word I don't know then I have no idea how to pronounce it. The problem I find with Welsh is that the letters - vowels - have different sounds to the English so I have to get my head round assigning a different sound to the same symbol. But because I live in Wales and road signs etc are in both, and because I haven't really heard spoken Welsh (noone speaks it round here), I pronounce the Welsh words in my head with English sounds, so I have to shake all that out of my brain at some point. I can now recognize 'the imperative' - if a word ends with -wch it generally means you're being given an order! I did start using Duolingo to try to brush up my various languages. I have French, German, Norwegian to approx GCSE standard with the advantage of having lived in Germany in my youth for a while, and I did French for 7 years because Welsh primary schools in the 60s had compulsory French - not Welsh! And I found that if I set Duolingo to treat Arabic as my native language, then I could find a passable English/Arabic top up. I've also tried using mnemosyne. I did find though that just a pile of random nouns and weird sentences (Duolingo has some extremely odd sentences) wasn't very helpful. I'm one of the saddos that enjoys grammar.
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Wachter posted:I did wonder what all the cranes were for The first part of the sleeve weighs 170 tons and the crane shifting it is the tallest in the world, apparently. (I had a briefing with EDF today, they are very proud of it.)
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Jose posted:completely unsurprising I've seen a take on twitter in a few places that part of the anti Corbyn vitriol was due to his being perceived as a voice for BAME people and minorities, and the this made the racist commentariat middle classes very uncomfortable.
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So are they bringing another reactor online then?Coohoolin posted:I've seen a take on twitter in a few places that part of the anti Corbyn vitriol was due to his being perceived as a voice for BAME people and minorities, and the this made the racist commentariat middle classes very uncomfortable. I don't think that's so much a twitter take as blindingly obvious, they were falling over themselves to poo poo on Abbott when she was shadow home sec.
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