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https://twitter.com/GeorgeWParker/status/1303265637289074691
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# ? Sep 8, 2020 10:41 |
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justcola posted:As I am working from home a lot more now, where is a good place to get a decent chair? A dining room chair with a cushion on it isn't that great - and I thought with all these businesses not using their offices if there was a good place to pick up second hand furniture that has coagulated years of slime all over (or maybe a new chair come to think of it) https://www.2ndhnd.com/ Bought a Steelcase Leap from these guys a few years ago and it's great. When I got it it was impossible to tell that it wasn't brand new (I doubt it had ever actually been used).
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# ? Sep 8, 2020 10:44 |
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Jedit posted:The Tories have realised that they no longer even have to half-arse it. They're literally just handing out millions to their mates under the guise of procurement with no expectations that anything will be done. Yeah it's become completely out in the open and the media helps them because the media has massive normalcy bias. The last thing they will ever do is point out the country has become a corrupt tinpot oligarchy because that would make them courtiers of it. They want to be the free press of an advanced democracy, so a lot of it is them lying to themselves.
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# ? Sep 8, 2020 10:49 |
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peanut- posted:https://www.2ndhnd.com/ Thanks, I'll take a look! I thought I might be able to get one of those radiator beds for cats and mount it on one of the arms, though hopefully this wouldn't be unbalanced if I got up. Death Stranding but you're working from home and balancing cats on your arms
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# ? Sep 8, 2020 10:50 |
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Why are journalists still using terms like "massive ructions" as though Parliament is still working normally and as though the last 4 years of illegally proroguing parliament, lying to the house and all the other poo poo hasn't happened?
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# ? Sep 8, 2020 10:54 |
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Because "entirely inconsequential resignations which will in no way impede the government in its quest to do the stupidest thing possible" doesn't sound interesting.
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# ? Sep 8, 2020 10:57 |
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Jose posted:The big brained centrists like no deal brexit now Politicsball.txt. The important part is winning the game, not the people that winning or losing the game affects.
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# ? Sep 8, 2020 10:58 |
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OwlFancier posted:Because "entirely inconsequential resignations which will in no way impede the government in its quest to do the stupidest thing possible" doesn't sound interesting. It does somewhat undermine the scandal when the government's response is "good we hate these people and want them to quit"
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# ? Sep 8, 2020 11:01 |
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drive-by meltdown skip this post COVID is on the up again as literally everyone with a brain predicted and the messaging about it is driving me fully insane literally in the same loving news article it will be like, paragraph summary: "cases are rising because the public isn't careful enough. we all need to follow precautions or your grandma will die" literally the next loving paragraph: "we really need to get back to normal. send your kids to school, get back in the office, go to the gym and spend money and if people lose their jobs it's your fault for being a coward" just zero attempt to make this poo poo fit together, anything and everything is the public's fault for not following contradictory orders. i hate this loving country and its lazy government and arselick media i hate it i hate it so much. really nice practice run for blaming us for starving after Glourios No Deal Brexit because we didn't Pick Strawberries For Britain or some bullshit
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# ? Sep 8, 2020 11:01 |
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vaguely posted:drive-by meltdown skip this post Were already into the "didn't harvest enough wheat you scroungers, sez obese PM" stage and we haven't even done brexit yet
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# ? Sep 8, 2020 11:05 |
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Jose posted:The big brained centrists like no deal brexit now OwlFancier posted:You can see where vanguardists get the idea from. *5 minutes later* We regret to inform you that the true vanguard of the masses is a nonce. justcola posted:As I am working from home a lot more now, where is a good place to get a decent chair? A dining room chair with a cushion on it isn't that great - and I thought with all these businesses not using their offices if there was a good place to pick up second hand furniture that has coagulated years of slime all over (or maybe a new chair come to think of it) justcola posted:Also - is there a double-size chair or something I can use with two seats? My cat likes to sit next to me and feel this would save on sitting on the keyboard or directly behind me.
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# ? Sep 8, 2020 11:06 |
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justcola posted:
I have to change which chair I use every week - what is comfortable one week causes my back to spasm the next. No one chair suits all the time. As to kitty: there are things called 'love seats' which are extra wide chairs/mini sofas for lovey dovey couples to snuggle on eg you and your kitty. eg: https://loaf.com/products/love-seats (Not used, no connection etc, just to illustrate!)
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# ? Sep 8, 2020 11:08 |
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justcola posted:centrist based accelerationism in order to get a leader in who agrees with everything the government are doing anyway. Don't know if my brain is big enough for that kind of 4D chess. I have an ikea Markus I like which is not exactly cheap but a really good chair without fully breaking the bank.
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# ? Sep 8, 2020 11:13 |
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vaguely posted:drive-by meltdown skip this post Jenrick, this morning: "We have to keep hammering the message home. Of course the people in those age categories are unlikely to become extremely unwell as a result of having the virus. "But they are able to pass it on to others," he said. "There's a responsibility on younger people to not just stay at home, obviously to go out and go to work and to enjoy pubs and restaurants, but to do so in accordance with the guidelines."
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# ? Sep 8, 2020 11:16 |
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Mate I don't enjoy pubs and restaurants normally I aint starting cos it's more likely to kill me.
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# ? Sep 8, 2020 11:18 |
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All office chairs are trash and the dining table chair is likely better for you of you are sitting with good posture and periodically stand up and stretch. Also try and move to standing for at least an hour a day. Keyboard and mouse position are perhaps even more important because they determine your body position - the amount of time your hands spend outside the line of your shoulders should be minimised. If you are right handed and use a keyboard with a numpad trash it, the size of it will be forcing your mouse arm too far out and will cause shoulder issues.
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# ? Sep 8, 2020 11:23 |
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she seems remarkably unscathed by the Island
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# ? Sep 8, 2020 11:24 |
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https://www.reyooz.com/ takes things from office clear outs and sells them on (used to be given away for cost of shipping but that’s changed recently). I got a great standing desk from them for feee (£25 carriage) a while back.
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# ? Sep 8, 2020 11:25 |
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All these MPs are Waaaaay too normal. I think cause fusing together different MPs is a fools game when most British posh people at this point you can only recreate by fusing the same people together for several generations.
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# ? Sep 8, 2020 11:26 |
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I hope everyone is excited by the Leveling Up Task Force
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# ? Sep 8, 2020 11:30 |
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'Bulldoze everything flat' counts as level, yeah?
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# ? Sep 8, 2020 11:43 |
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Lungboy posted:"There's a responsibility on younger people to not just stay at home, obviously to go out and go to work and to enjoy pubs and restaurants, but to do so in accordance with the guidelines."
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# ? Sep 8, 2020 11:46 |
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CancerCakes posted:If you are right handed and use a keyboard with a numpad trash it, the size of it will be forcing your mouse arm too far out and will cause shoulder issues. You'll pry my numpad from my seized up hand!
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# ? Sep 8, 2020 11:51 |
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Bobstar posted:You'll pry my numpad from my seized up hand! I got a numpadless keyboard recently and I don't miss it. Trash the pad
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# ? Sep 8, 2020 11:56 |
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Numpads are worth it if you do a lot of calculations/spreadsheet work by touch. Really it's's the arrow keys and page up/down they could scrap, it's all on the numpad.
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# ? Sep 8, 2020 11:58 |
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You could just move the keyboard further left. I usually sit with the right edge of the keyboard centerline with the monitor.
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# ? Sep 8, 2020 12:01 |
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Guavanaut posted:Numpads are worth it if you do a lot of calculations/spreadsheet work by touch. Really it's's the arrow keys and page up/down they could scrap, it's all on the numpad. Those keys are vital for people without a mouse wheel.
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# ? Sep 8, 2020 12:02 |
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OwlFancier posted:You could just move the keyboard further left. e: ^^^ They're also all on the numpad if you turn num lock off.
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# ? Sep 8, 2020 12:04 |
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There's a short story by Frederick Pohl about over-production and compulsory consumption quotas. The higher your social status, the less you have to use. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midas_World In the story, the plebs are required to buy lots of unnecessary stuff because it keeps being made. The higher your social status, the less stuff you have to buy. quote:...
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# ? Sep 8, 2020 12:12 |
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:I hope everyone is excited by the Leveling Up Task Force Going around in circles looking for fights is basically how we ran the empire, so we should be good at levelling up.
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# ? Sep 8, 2020 12:14 |
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An earthquake with a magnitude 3.3 has been felt across several towns in Englandquote:Carly Jan Smith, 31, in Dunstable, said it was "really strong" and lasted for about two seconds. Her whole room went from "side to side", she said. TFW you're so thick you don't even realise you're telling everyone how thick you are
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# ? Sep 8, 2020 12:17 |
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https://twitter.com/Milo_Edwards/status/1302979227369734145
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# ? Sep 8, 2020 12:19 |
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OwlFancier posted:You could just move the keyboard further left. I usually sit with the right edge of the keyboard centerline with the monitor. Or swivel your chair a few degrees right and your hand will be on the mouse without your elbow or shoulder changing angle. Assuming that you have a swivel chair, that is.
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# ? Sep 8, 2020 12:24 |
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Or just slowly slouch ever more and more over the course of the day in your chair, then slouch more in your chair all night to play video games and repeat until your spine is so bent that you look like a horseshoe.
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# ? Sep 8, 2020 12:29 |
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https://twitter.com/bureaulocal/status/1303291381767712769?s=19
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# ? Sep 8, 2020 12:29 |
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Guavanaut posted:Numpads are worth it if you do a lot of calculations/spreadsheet work by touch. Really it's's the arrow keys and page up/down they could scrap, it's all on the numpad. Which I do, because it turns out the keyboard is a reskinned US layout, so they didn't leave space for the \ key. Which is not great if you intend to learn to code, or you play older games which map functions to it.
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# ? Sep 8, 2020 12:30 |
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I'm probably the only person in the thread who still uses retail shops. Anyway, waiting for the bus home I decided to pop into Game as it's the father's birthday coming up in a week. They had moved it. Now Game has moved inside Sports Direct, a natural fit. Did Mike Ashley just buy up Game when I wasn't looking? Inverness High Street is such a graveyard now
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# ? Sep 8, 2020 12:35 |
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OwlFancier posted:Because "entirely inconsequential resignations which will in no way impede the government in its quest to do the stupidest thing possible" doesn't sound interesting. This guy's the head of the government's legal team. Losing senior expertise in all our international legal disputes with hard Brexit right around the corner seems like it might be a tad consequential. Resignations matter because they remove talent and make it more difficult to hire new talent. The degree to which a resignation matters depends on the degree to which that skillset is useful to the government. So, sometimes they're acceptable losses because you're restructuring the government in a way that no longer requires that kind of expertise, and because they're standing for principles you no longer care about, but creating too much of a brain-drain usually ends in you getting utterly rinsed as foreign and non-state actors take advantage of your utter dogshit institutional incompetence.
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# ? Sep 8, 2020 12:45 |
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forkboy84 posted:Did Mike Ashley just buy up Game when I wasn't looking? Yep. Happened last summer.
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# ? Sep 8, 2020 12:47 |
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floofyscorp posted:Yep. Happened last summer. Well that explains a lot
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