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Jose posted:just throw the whole loving party in the bin This rules. Love my cowardly unprincipled worthless oval office filled Labour Party
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gh0stpinballa posted:similarly fascinated by the cold war. you got any book tips or links to share? Extremely  - can recommend quite a bit of nukey nukey reading:Hennessy's Secret state as goddamntwisto mentioned as well as his 'The Human Button' radio 4 documentary Churchill's Bomb by Graham Farmelo War Plan UK by Duncan Campbell if you can find a paperback copy or order one from a local bookshop for a more US flavour Command and Control by Eric Schlosser is a recommendation I had from this thread in a previous incarnation and can pass that on Atomic by Jim Baggott E: if you're after Cold War stuff One Minute to Midnight by Michael Dobbs is a good primer on the Cuban Missile Crisis For China, I've wanted to get my hands on a copy of Paper Tigers by Jeffrey Lewis if anyone has and can recommend - have read (inhaled in one and a half sittings) his Clancy-esque 2020 commission report on the North Korean nuclear attacks on the United States and he's pretty good on Twitter around the North Korea situation Doccykins fucked around with this message at 23:48 on Oct 5, 2020 |
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I recently watched the Command and Control documentary that I think was recommended ITT at some point. It was interesting, maybe a bit long for the level of detail it has. But it's worth watching at least the start of for the interviews with the incredibly dead-eyed missile crew chief who calmly explains how he was perfectly prepared to kill tens of millions of people back than, and he'd be prepared to do it all over again today. Also the other characters in the fuelling team who were basically just excited to be playing with explosives, and the Titan II was the biggest explosive there was. big scary monsters fucked around with this message at 00:17 on Oct 6, 2020 |
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I feel like I shouldn't have forgotten about the fact I needed to arrange leaving gifts for someone in the team until I'd already had 3 beers. Ah well, more fool everyone else for leaving it to me.
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Jose posted:just throw the whole loving party in the bin NGL the Labour Party in YOOL2020 is extremely disappointing.
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Ok I'm a terrible, bad person. I sincerely hope the covid takes him, especially since I found out today that a friend (only just 40 years old) had it in February and is still having hospital follow ups for assorted lung, blood clot and other side-effects. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-election/trump-coronavirus-covid-walter-reed-white-house-return-discharge-b817876.html quote:... If you ask me, the fucker is high on steroids and that is why he is feeling well (unless he is totally lying about that which wouldn't surprise me either.)
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you're not a terrible or bad person and it's quite normal to want such a naked piece of poo poo to die in agony, op
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Ok I'm a terrible, bad person. I sincerely hope the covid takes him, especially since I found out today that a friend (only just 40 years old) had it in February and is still having hospital follow ups for assorted lung, blood clot and other side-effects. wanna watch him desperately try to breathe lol https://twitter.com/brenonade/status/1313256208363552769 also wanna see katie hopkins owned on twitter? https://twitter.com/kayaburgess/status/1313104752826347525 OwlFancier fucked around with this message at 05:21 on Oct 6, 2020 |
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I don't normally go on twitter but I did this morning and this tickled me https://twitter.com/jodyaberdein/status/1313092452266504195
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:I don't normally go on twitter but I did this morning and this tickled me That is a tweeter who knows their spreadsheets. Don't ask me how I know 
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I like to think I'm good at Excel but I bet some people would scream at my VBA. I have macros that temporarily store information by formatting some cells bold.
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:I don't normally go on twitter but I did this morning and this tickled me Copy_of_Track_Trace1_thisone.xlsx
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keep punching joe posted:Copy_of_Track_Trace1_thisone.xlsx This, but every person who works on it apoends their initials to the filename, stretching off to infinity. Also every now and then an extra "Copy_of_" gets added to the start. I will kill
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Oct 6, 2020 08:38
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I will not and you can not make me. But I am going to inflict it on the relevant PYF threads.
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Hmmm no. Worth noting that both the Confederate states and ISIS make the cut, but UK is not a notable enough world power to feature
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Also nazis are not fascists and are in fact internationalist communists.
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OwlFancier posted:Also nazis are not fascists and are in fact internationalist communists. Yes, but this was already confirmed by some of our finest horseshoe theoretical physicists
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I also want to register my complaint at Italy, Ireland, and Mexico for using flags that are too similar.
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What do people think of the Covid-19 app? I installed it the other week but as I only have to go to an office once a week I don't have it on most of the time. Some people I know have been saying they have received notifications they've been near someone with Covid but have ignored it as they couldn't see anyone else around at the time. There's also the question of security, as apparently it's not very secure And after the recent Excel gently caress-up I'm not too sure it even does what its meant to And unless I log in somewhere else it keeps me logged in where I've been, so does that mean it still thinks I'm there or does it just go off Bluetooth? And if the latter, why log-in anywhere anyway? I uninstalled it this morning, for now, but think I'd rather avoid pubs and cafes and places you have to sign in than have it on my phone. Am I one of the people who don't wear masks and think all this is a deepstate plandemic, or by not using the app am I actually an intellectual?
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lmao we now have almost as many covid patients in our hospital as we did at the peak, difference is the hospital was much emptier last time due to no surgeries and people staying at home and not coming to A+E. We ran out of beds last week and are going to have to turn a fourth general medicine ward to covid today. With numbers of new cases in North West not dropping its only going to get worse too.
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Good job the government made the most of lockdown to drive down the case numbers and build a world beating track and trace system. Oh.
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justcola posted:Some people I know have been saying they have received notifications they've been near someone with Covid but have ignored it as they couldn't see anyone else around at the time. The notification doesn't mean you're standing next to someone with covid right now. It means your phone has been within x distance of someone who later had a positive test for y minutes. You should listen to the notifications. justcola posted:There's also the question of security, as apparently it's not very secure Says who? And in what way? The apple/Google apis it uses are very clever and I haven't seen any suggestions of security issues by anyone who understands the algorithms. justcola posted:And unless I log in somewhere else it keeps me logged in where I've been, so does that mean it still thinks I'm there or does it just go off Bluetooth? And if the latter, why log-in anywhere anyway? I don't know this for a fact. But I'd assume if you've checked in anywhere and haven't checked out it'll err on the side of caution and warn you if someone tests positive who was in there after you. The Bluetooth based checking is a separate system. And it doesn't know your location. So there'd be no way really for the Bluetooth system to opt you out of the sign in system.
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justcola posted:What do people think of the Covid-19 app? I haven't installed it and probably wont. I don't go to pubs or restaurants or sports or gigs or really do anything. I shop but assume that i'm in and out too fast for it to bluetooth pair me with any lurgy havers. I work for myself and am miles behind and its costing money and can't afford for a further enforced break of two weeks solely because an app made by people that have proven themselves totally useless time and again says so. If I get ill of course I will.
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keep punching joe posted:Good job the government made the most of lockdown to drive down the case numbers and build a world beating track and trace system. I think this is a problem for any sort of extra restrictions now in march the trade off was "stay inside for a few months and we'll use the time to get everything sorted out and go back to something approaching normal" what's the trade off supposed to be now? "stay inside for another few months and we'll continue to do nothing useful with your sacrifices, then we can do this all a third time in another six months"? also they'll blame you for the virus whether you follow their instructions or not
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I just don't go anywhere except work and occasionally outside to the forest where I don't see anyone else most of the time. Which is also how I normally live so I can basically keep doing that indefinitely.
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Going on for 5 days without test results now. The cough I had last week has cleared up but there is apparently no way to chase them. Guess I just wait until the app says I can go outside again in three days?
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OwlFancier posted:aaaaaa.xlsx Just lol if you don't name every file with a different combination of swear words, god drat amateurs
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OwlFancier posted:I also want to register my complaint at Italy, Ireland, and Mexico for using flags that are too similar. One of my favourite Twitter things is fake Irish Republicans using the Cote d'Ivoire flag. It's a good flag though, much love to my tricoloured brethren
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Heisenberg1276 posted:The notification doesn't mean you're standing next to someone with covid right now. It means your phone has been within x distance of someone who later had a positive test for y minutes. You should listen to the notifications. I meant in terms of the notifications that if people are ignoring them, this doesn't bode well for how successful the app is intended to work. I think people should pay attention to the notifications but from what I've heard it's more based on how convenient it is at the time for people receiving them. And my IT pals suggesting it has flaws in and shouldn't be used by those in jobs in the security sector. But again, I'm not sure if this is just wishful thinking or of any substance. quote:I don't know this for a fact. But I'd assume if you've checked in anywhere and haven't checked out it'll err on the side of caution and warn you if someone tests positive who was in there after you. As far as I could see there wasn't a way of checking out besides going elsewhere and checking in? Though I didn't look around the app too much, maybe that'd be an option. But you're saying they have two separate systems in the app anyway in order to ensure people are contacted if there was a chance? I wish I paid as much attention to how phones work as I understand other technology, sheesh.
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sebzilla posted:Please enjoy this extremely cursed image JeremoudCorbynejad posted:I don't normally go on twitter but I did this morning and this tickled me
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forkboy84 posted:This rules. Love my cowardly unprincipled worthless oval office filled Labour Party
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Failed Imagineer posted:One of my favourite Twitter things is fake Irish Republicans using the Cote d'Ivoire flag. It's a good flag though, much love to my tricoloured brethren 
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There was a lad on the radio the other day who said he received notification that hed been near someone but no idea who and had to self isolate for 14 days or something, but he got the notification on the 11th day, so he only had 2 or 3 left to do and had unknowingly been getting on with his life in the previous 11 days
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OwlFancier posted:I also want to register my complaint at Italy, Ireland, and Mexico for using flags that are too similar. Azerbaijanis have been losing their poo poo at Penelope Cruz on her Instagram page because she plays a Colombian character in her new film and the background is the Colombian flag colours and guess what country Azerbaijan is at war with the shares the same colours
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NotJustANumber99 posted:There was a lad on the radio the other day who said he received notification that hed been near someone but no idea who and had to self isolate for 14 days or something, but he got the notification on the 11th day, so he only had 2 or 3 left to do and had unknowingly been getting on with his life in the previous 11 days I woke up this morning to a notification. It's pointless, it gives no information at all
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:If you ask me, the fucker is high on steroids and that is why he is feeling well (unless he is totally lying about that which wouldn't surprise me either.) He probably is: https://twitter.com/lepas/status/1313202536141279232?s=19 https://twitter.com/dril/status/223751039709495298?s=19
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