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goddamnedtwisto posted:Given one of the main safety features of submarine nuclear reactors is that if poo poo goes badly wrong they'll be safely at the bottom of the Norwegian Sea, I'm not 100% happy with them being the go-to solution for land-based generation. e: A 7483 is a 4-Bit Binary Adder with Fast Carry.
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Red Oktober posted:I'm looking for event space for the brewery I want to launch, and let me tell you, glancing at your phone to see messages saying "StoreFront has sent you a message" makes me double-take every time. I just sent my laptop off for repair to these assholes: http://www.stormfront.co.uk/ Fuckers promised I'd have it back by the 20th. Worse than the other Stormfront IMO.
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Guavanaut posted:They still didn't manage to wreck one of them despite nearly 60 years of treating them with the same respect that a pissed up rugby squad treats a chained up bicycle in a city centre, so I'm confident enough. Boringly at some point the RN dropped the department-specific ranks meaning that the OR atom-wranglers on our subs are boring old ratings rather than being stokers, as propulsion specialists have been called for as long as propulsion didn't involve big bits of cloth. Actually it was probably exactly because of that, the image that there's some sweating shirtless bloke shoveling uranium into a reactor at the back of HMS Valiant didn't go along with the great New Elizabethan vibe of our nuclear subs.
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Very tiny shovel for putting neutrons into the reactor.
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They still didn't have an official blood alcohol level for working on them until the Armed Forces Act 2011, and even then on the submersibles it was apparently more of a culture thing than an official thing. Those reactors have had CERA piss in their cooling loop. e: Sorry, yes, MEA (P) Piss. The (P) stands for Piss. Guavanaut fucked around with this message at 01:26 on Aug 29, 2020 |
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Guavanaut posted:Those reactors have had CERA piss in their cooling loop. Is that what michael's been doing for money lately
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Angepain posted:Is that what michael's been doing for money lately That and his band, Juno Reactor
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lol, this just came up in my list of suggested follows.
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Jose posted:the cowards deleted this tweet but its the opening paragraph of the article Her partner is John Woodcock, the Labour MP who was suspended over sexual harassment accusations and then left before the investigation could conclude. So she knows what she's talking about.
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Tarnop posted:I haven't encountered them before they recently started posting in this thread but that's quite the rap sheet. Nah they were posting in this thread a lot before, also. I have them ignored from then, I recommend it.
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Gonzo McFee posted:Her partner is John Woodcock, the Labour MP who was suspended over sexual harassment accusations and then left before the investigation could conclude. So she knows what she's talking about. The incestuousness of the Establishment never fails to disconcert me. Also, Woodcock and Hardman 
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WhatEvil posted:Nah they were posting in this thread a lot before, also. I have them ignored from then, I recommend it. Yeah I worded this badly. I haven't encountered them before, but I assumed from people's reactions that they were here before I started following the thread
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jaete posted:yes global warming is cheaper than no global warming, what a good argument You realise that a reply doesn't always mean I endorse the reasoning, gas turbine is cheaper in the long run than a nuclear reactor, that doesn't mean I agree with it.
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why the gently caress is anyone still building manned planes. aren't missiles and drones cheaper and better?
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Only for bombing poor nations using 80's era Soviet weapons. Also Lockheed can't charge 140 million dollars for a drone.
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hemale in pain posted:why the gently caress is anyone still building manned planes. aren't missiles and drones cheaper and better? Some might say too good.
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Guavanaut posted:lol, this just came up in my list of suggested follows. so beloved he has to pay to get people to remember/follow him
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Did he draw that cartoon of himself? :/
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I love how now people are just like "huh I guess Arthur Matthews must have been the funny one behind Father Ted" Way to destroy a legacy buddy!
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Darth Walrus posted:They're apparently looking to divert resources to the BAE Systems Tempest, which will definitely not be an even more hilarious boondoggle, honest. we can't have anything nice and all our infrastructure is decades old but we are investing in robot swarm laser planes? e: in order to.... bomb farms from totally controlled airspace? Communist Thoughts fucked around with this message at 10:05 on Aug 29, 2020 |
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crispix posted:Did he draw that cartoon of himself? :/ It was created by fellow brainworm patient, animator Nina Paley, after the guy who drew his original avatar denounced him. The full picture is worth a look just for how it symbolically depicts him using women as a shield.
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I still don't get how Nina went from "being a woman is not about ovaries or childbirth, it's a social thing" to "trans women are Israeli Jews doing apartheid on cisjordan" rather than considering science for a second.
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Communist Thoughts posted:we can't have anything nice and all our infrastructure is decades old but we are investing in robot swarm laser planes? They're estimated to be in service by 2035 at best, so who knows what we'll be sending them up against and how badly they'll be obsolete by then.
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I guess we all thought this was taking the piss out of smokers at the time, but she was actually terrified about where people pee.
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Communist Thoughts posted:we can't have anything nice and all our infrastructure is decades old but we are investing in robot swarm laser planes? How else are retiring politicians and civil servants going to get their BAE Systems directorships? There's also an ingrained mindset in a lot of industries that if a new thing isn't bigger, more complex, and more expensive than what it replaces, it's a step backwards. Introducing new equipment that isn't hideously overcomplicated, overweight, overbudget and overdue would be a betrayal of Our Boys. Most of the ground attack missions taking place in the Middle East could probably be performed perfectly well by 40s era turboprop planes with updated electronics costing a fraction of the price of an F-35. It's never going to happen, because the Daily Mail would throw a hissy fit over us having a 3rd world airforce.
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Soylent Yellow posted:There's also an ingrained mindset in a lot of industries that if a new thing isn't bigger, more complex, and more expensive than what it replaces, it's a step backwards. Introducing new equipment that isn't hideously overcomplicated, overweight, overbudget and overdue would be a betrayal of Our Boys.
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These exist already, there are even armed Cessna variants. Then again these are basically what most drones are.
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https://twitter.com/BaptisteOduor/status/1299094561483042821
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There were articles a few days ago about how dom cummies wants to scrap all the tanks. Maybe they'll get rid of the ships as well.
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sinky posted:There were articles a few days ago about how dom cummies wants to scrap all the tanks. Read this as "dum commies" and thought it was gonna about be about a stalin-like purge of the military
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Saros posted:These exist already, there are even armed Cessna variants. Then again these are basically what most drones are. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embraer_EMB_314_Super_Tucano This kind of thing as well. Also makes me wonder how many patrol frigates could have been built for the cost of the Queen Elizabeth class aircraft carriers.
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Soylent Yellow posted:Most of the ground attack missions taking place in the Middle East could probably be performed perfectly well by 40s era turboprop planes with updated electronics costing a fraction of the price of an F-35. It's never going to happen, because the Daily Mail would throw a hissy fit over us having a 3rd world airforce. They already are and will continue to be. The US are planning to keep their B52s in service for another couple of decades while the U2 stealth bombers are to be retired. There's not much point in sending a multibillion pound super-top secret and very slow aeroplane on a mission halfway round the world past the radars of dozens of countries just desperate for a chance to spot you so that you can drop a pitifully small number of bombs on someone in a hilux. Send the airborne Bedford lorry instead.
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Is the Byline Times any good? I'd like to support some left-wing journalism but there's a whole sprawl of not very impressive publications and if I'm gonna subscribe, I want it to be actually decent.
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Pistol_Pete posted:Is the Byline Times any good? I'd like to support some left-wing journalism but there's a whole sprawl of not very impressive publications and if I'm gonna subscribe, I want it to be actually decent. It's liberal rather than left, but they do seem to take their jobs as journalists reasonably seriously.
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Pistol_Pete posted:Is the Byline Times any good? I'd like to support some left-wing journalism but there's a whole sprawl of not very impressive publications and if I'm gonna subscribe, I want it to be actually decent. open democracy is pretty good as is declassified declassified is almost entirely about nasty poo poo the government get up to for example https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2020-08-27-ministry-of-defence-blacklists-british-journalists-who-report-on-uk-military/ starmer throwing all minorities under the bus clearly working https://twitter.com/LeftieStats/status/1299647987589627905?s=20 Jose fucked around with this message at 12:25 on Aug 29, 2020 |
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Imo Hitler was far more patriotic than Angela Merkel, guess which one I'd be more likely to vote for
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Oh. Oh good. https://twitter.com/guardian/status/1299577473508794368?s=19
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i have some recollection that morning star (old union rag) has some weird terfy issues or am i misremembering
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Yeah they had to retract a massively transphobic cartoon a few months back, and keep running 'feminists with legitimate concerns'.
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