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It wouldn't surprise me that the rumours of rebels are just rumours. Lungboy posted:The amendment won't be voted on until next tuesday. The talks of dozens of rebels is for the vote on the second reading I think. Maybe. I'm not following things that closely tbh.  Here's Cicero stopping me from using my electronics. Grey Hunter fucked around with this message at 15:14 on Sep 14, 2020 |
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Grey Hunter posted:It wouldn't surprise me that the rumours of rebels are just rumours. I wasnt talking about Tory rebels
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Lungboy posted:Jedward have been a rare high point of 2020. They were a rare high point all along. When the press dubbed them "Jedward" one of them asked why, was it really so hard to say "-ohn and"?
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CyberPingu posted:I wasnt talking about Tory rebels Oh, the kids not spreading it. you may be right, I've not had chance to read anything recent, but viral shedding does seem to be reduced in much younger children. EDIT Okay, I've read the article showing that kids can pass covid around, and man is that a small sample size - while that doesn't automatically discount the paper, it makes me wary - like the "corona survives on surface for x hours" when the load they tested was the equivalent of someone coughing on an item about a hundred times. As someone who works with scientists all the time, reproducibility is both the key and the fields biggest issue atm. Grey Hunter fucked around with this message at 15:43 on Sep 14, 2020 |
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Sep 14, 2020 15:21
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Kanye looking beatific with a red maga halo
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Jedit posted:They were a rare high point all along. When the press dubbed them "Jedward" one of them asked why, was it really so hard to say "-ohn and"? Because Jedward is only 2 syllables but John And Edward is 4. I was thinking about syllables the other day. All policy documents should be delivered in words or phrases of not more than 2 syllables. Day 17 of my 'no sugar* no grains diet'. *except naturally occurring in peas, carrots etc... lemon syllabub looks tasty.  Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 15:32 on Sep 14, 2020 |
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Necrothatcher posted:I think you can safely take the piss out of insanely rich MAGA egomaniac Kanye West without punching down. taking the piss out of him for being a MAGA idiot is fine taking the piss out of him for being black most definitely is not
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Jedit posted:They were a rare high point all along. When the press dubbed them "Jedward" one of them asked why, was it really so hard to say "-ohn and"?
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SpaceCommie posted:I had a quick think about other UK figures they could add and they absolutely are going to have an Owen Jones and or an Ash Sarkar puppet and they're going to be loving dreadful. Owen Jones: small whiny child, but also homophobic somehow Ash Sarkar: a distillation of the comments under all her Twitter posts
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Bobstar posted:Ash Sarkar: a distillation of the comments under all her Twitter posts An incredibly detailed puppet version of Zarah Sultana.
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Bobstar posted:Owen Jones: small whiny child, but also homophobic somehow I think literally no one other than Twitter users and Guardian readers know who either of those people are, so it would be pretty surprising if they have puppets.
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You know it's not going to be BITING satire when Micheal Gove said he was "incredibly flattered" to be a spitting image puppet. Comedy is dead, liberals loving killed it.
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Double posting, but also: Covid home testing report: The instructions are really complicated, the test is very hard to take, and they make you construct your own loving cardboard box to send it back in. I found it all pretty fiddly and frustrating, and feel like people with intellects less towering than my own will definitely struggle to do this properly.
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Preparing for flood season chat: Given that my block of flats is alongside the river and while it has never been flooded in over 30 years (and shows as 'low flood risk' in the flooding maps), came close last October (a week after I completed purchase - haha) and within literally a handspan of breaching the retaining wall less than 10m away, I'm trying to make my flat as flood proof as possible (eg instead of the nice bookcases I originally planned to get, I've had twin track shelving installed today so books and papers can be high up out of the way). Has anyone got any experience of those flat pack self-swelling 'sandbags' that don't have sand in? EG https://hydrabarrier.com/products/hydrasorber I'm on a ground floor and have no spare storage space for 'proper' sandbags. There are a few proper sandbags for the block as a whole to go across the actual building entrances, so these would be like a 'back up plan' if it got bad, especially re the bathroom - some homes were 1m deep in water and people not back in their homes from the October floods before lockdown. I was thinking to put one or two across my front door into the main hallway, and the bathroom door (and slap some heavy weights on top of the bog to hopefully stop sewage backflows coming up that way). (Yes, I was a Girl Guide, why do you ask? Dib dib!)
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The Royal Astronomical Society say they think they've found evidence of microbes in the clouds of Venus, something to do with phosphene. Anyway, that's maybe cool
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Honestly Venus could be a sentient god planet I just don't have the energy to care.
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forkboy84 posted:The Royal Astronomical Society say they think they've found evidence of microbes in the clouds of Venus, something to do with phosphene. Anyway, that's maybe cool Has anyone warned them to avoid earth yet?
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Gonzo McFee posted:Honestly Venus could be a sentient god planet I just don't have the energy to care. A planet with life and no Tories excites me. Gonna go move to the upper atmosphere of Venus. Sure, you'd die pretty quickly and painfully but that's favourable to slowly and painfully here.
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OwlFancier posted:
"I agree with the government's policy of putting sticks in people's spokes, but they're not doing enough."
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forkboy84 posted:The Royal Astronomical Society say they think they've found evidence of microbes in the clouds of Venus, something to do with phosphene. Anyway, that's maybe cool There's probably some extremophiles floating around up there, and they know this because they are releasing phosphine to replace for not having any oxygen to make CO2 with. The really interesting bits are in what this signifies - either life evolved up there (which I'd find insanely unlikely as it's such a hostile enviroment for complex biochemical to evolve from nothing). Or it's the remnants of what life used to live on Venus, before it became ths hell pit it is today. Either way, the value of a venus probe just shot up - if we could get samples of these things, it would be a huge moment in our understanding of biochemistry and the beginnings of life. Do these things even usr DNA or RNA? Are they even carbon based? How do they solve the myraid problems of living, and what do similarities and differences tell us about the origin of life?
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The Perfect Element posted:Covid home testing report: The instructions are really complicated, the test is very hard to take, R4's More or less reported that only around 1/3 of tests posted to people were actually processed. Grey Hunter posted:All I know is my kid has had five days of school in two weeks and is a much nicer person to be around, so I'm willing to take the chance on Covid to be honest. The Covid app research data shows high levels of infection in age groups 0-9 and 10-19. Only 20 somethings have a higher rate, and not by that much. It's not just pubs. And since I have teachers in my family I'm not thrilled about your willingness to risk their lives
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Yeah, kids still transmit the disease, they just don't tend to show symptoms. Hence why piling them back into schools is such an insanely risky thing to do.
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The Perfect Element posted:Double posting, but also: Maybe that is the test, what with one of Covid's symptoms being mental impairment. If you can get all the way to the end you're negative and we can discard your test when you post it back to us.
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The Perfect Element posted:I think literally no one other than Twitter users and Guardian readers know who either of those people are, so it would be pretty surprising if they have puppets. I'm fairly sure twitter melts is going to be their target demo tbh. josh04 posted:An incredibly detailed puppet version of Zarah Sultana. 
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:My sister has to keep the tap in the basin in the upstairs bathroom* dripping slightly because her kitty (who looks like your kitty) will only drink water from that tap and jumps in the basin to do so. (Of course, when sister &co are away kitty will drink from an official water bowl.) I also know the pain of a cat who doesn't believe in your right to go to the bathroom in privacy. My second cat, Lara Crofft Cat does it all the time.What's worse is she is a strong chonk who has learnt to open doors with her teeth. There is no escape from her.  (Lara is the black and white one on the right. Her sister, Amy Whinehouse, is on the left.) Ms Adequate posted:Partly that but I think also, at least partly, because it would ultimately be better for everyone if the UK remained inside the tent pissing out on all the developing countries and so on. There might be some profit to be made divvying up whatever the Tories can sell, but it's still going to be a fractious and unpredictable project, and it'd be much easier for everyone involved if the UK would have done a less insane Brexit where we stayed broadly aligned with EU regulations, bodies, etc. and were able to bring our still-considerable weight to bear in A) Holding our own against other major economic powers (i.e. the US and China) and B) maintaining the exploitation of the less powerful in a steady manner. (The EU to the UK) EU: All this time we thought you were really smart. It turns out you just have a posh accent, but are as thick as the rest of us. The Question IRL fucked around with this message at 16:57 on Sep 14, 2020 |
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forkboy84 posted:A planet with life and no Tories excites me. Gonna go move to the upper atmosphere of Venus. Sure, you'd die pretty quickly and painfully but that's favourable to slowly and painfully here. Venus is an example of a planet that has suffered an extreme runaway greenhouse effect climate, so it's probably ALL Tories.
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Comrade Fakename posted:Venus is an example of a planet that has suffered an extreme runaway greenhouse effect climate, so it's probably ALL Tories. Even the microbes vote Tory here, son.
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forkboy84 posted:The Royal Astronomical Society say they think they've found evidence of microbes in the clouds of Venus, something to do with phosphene. Anyway, that's maybe cool
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Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh graun/politics/2020/sep/14/keir-starmer-to-miss-crucial-brexit-debate-due-to-self-isolation-coronavirus quote:The Labour party leader, Keir Starmer, will miss Monday’s crucial Brexit debate in the House of Commons because he is self-isolating while a member of his household awaits the result of a Covid-19 test. Am I just TOO suspicious?
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The Question IRL posted:There's a reason why cats do that!They are conditioned to seek out moving sources of water to drink over stagnant ones, believing that it will be fresher. I keep seeing this but my cat will quite happily drink horribly stagnant green water out of the small pond in the garden but will completely ignore the bowl of fresh water next to his food
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Bobby Deluxe posted:Fully anticipate people advocating for human bacteria to be shot directly into the biome so that 'both sides can be fairly represented.'
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Doctor_Fruitbat posted:Yeah, kids still transmit the disease, they just don't tend to show symptoms. Hence why piling them back into schools is such an insanely risky thing to do. And isn't it also the case that even for kids, and even for cases without symptoms, it can still totally gently caress your heart (and other organs?) up?
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Lot of people walking out of the supermarket across from my house today with massive bundles of toilet roll under their arms.
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WhatEvil posted:And isn't it also the case that even for kids, and even for cases without symptoms, it can still totally gently caress your heart (and other organs?) up? That's at the thankfully rare extreme end of the wedge, but there's a bunch of very recent (and partially speculative, but still) research claims that there's a far higher chance of it damaging your heart in the long run even in some 'mild' cases.
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Julio Cruz posted:I keep seeing this but my cat will quite happily drink horribly stagnant green water out of the small pond in the garden but will completely ignore the bowl of fresh water next to his food There's a second factor. Which is they prefer moving water, but when it comes to non moving water they favour rain water (even stagnant pond water) over tap water where they smell chlorine. I have gotten one of those cat fountains to see if my cats will go for it.
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