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jfc https://twitter.com/patrickkmaguire/status/1336665434117038086?s=20
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lmaaaaaaoooooo competent leadership my rear end
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Dec 9, 2020 15:09
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Arsenal are doing a better job fighting to stay in Europe
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Dec 9, 2020 15:10
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Friend of mine who is an irredeemably centrist liberal type started bemoaning how anonymous and charmless Starmer is and how there's no opposition last night. Completely unprompted on my part too. I think they're cottoning on to what a nothing he is.
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Dec 9, 2020 15:11
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See I would just competently call Reiss Nelson a racist, sack him, be reluctantly forced to unsack him due to his contract, ban him from playing, and then ban all the fans from discussing football.
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Dec 9, 2020 15:14
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As a spurs fan I am all for this.
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Dec 9, 2020 15:15
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Guavanaut posted:See I would just competently call Reiss Nelson a racist, sack him, be reluctantly forced to unsack him due to his contract, ban him from playing, and then ban all the fans from discussing football. Mesut Ozil discussion is forbidden.
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Arsenal are already rejecting divisive punch-and-judy football-as-usual and actively engaging with other teams to try and find mutually-beneficial solutions rather than endlessly focusing on childish gestures like "winning", not sure what else he can add to them. (This post bought to you from the smug temporary sunlit uplands of 8th place)
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Dec 9, 2020 15:30
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"Just put all your team on the right wing and score own goals"
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Dec 9, 2020 15:35
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Camrath posted:Did you get the ‘hmm, tastes like normal fudge’ *five seconds later* That's the one! Daaaaamn!
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Dec 9, 2020 15:56
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Dec 9, 2020 16:02
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I've felt the opposite - when I've listened to Chapo in general it just doesn't seem interesting or funny. I've heard some of the individual members being quite good on other shows though. With TF Riley often has interesting stuff to say and Milo is really funny, but for a long run Alice seemed intent on just constantly speaking over everyone else with rewarmed jokes. She's calmed down a bit recently and it's got a lot better again for it IMO. I do really like the Milo and Nate Britainology episodes, and wish Riley would do some more commie book clubs. Also seems like Hussein is on it less and less and when he is he doesn't say much (I saw that PiP's own Rob is on 10,000 Posts this week though).
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Dec 9, 2020 16:11
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Guavanaut posted:The logical position is that everyone capable of becoming pregnant should be offered an IUD free of charge at the earliest sensible opportunity, like 16-21. Colorado had a program that did exactly that and prevented at least 100,000 abortions. Speaking as someone who suffered extremely badly from an IUD which I had age 19 and bled very heavily for a year with my GP keep saying 'it will settle down' (I spent my second year at uni crawling from loo to loo in severe pain instead of lectures) until I begged her to take the darn thing out and then some 25 years later had an internal problem directly as a result that cost my work health insurance about £3k or more to get sorted privately because my GP was 'its your hormones deary' (but it wasn't) IUD are not a panacea. (And I'm a reasonably intelligent and articulate person with a Dr title which means GP treat me as 14 instead of 3). God help those who aren't. I'd have probably died otherwise.
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Dec 9, 2020 16:12
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There probably isn't any single panacea, I've known plenty of people that have had horrendous side effects with hormonal birth control too, which is a reason why I think Colorado went with something that non-hormonal, effective, and doesn't require any change in behavior. Doctors believing patients is a separate but related issue. The only other way you could do it is vasectomize all babies with a vas deferens and reverse it on request, and good luck getting that past the pro-lifers, at least this would just be a letter that gets sent out offering an option.
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Dec 9, 2020 16:29
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Speaking as someone who suffered extremely badly from an IUD which I had age 19 and bled very heavily for a year with my GP keep saying 'it will settle down' (I spent my second year at uni crawling from loo to loo in severe pain instead of lectures) until I begged her to take the darn thing out and then some 25 years later had an internal problem directly as a result that cost my work health insurance about £3k or more to get sorted privately because my GP was 'its your hormones deary' (but it wasn't) IUD are not a panacea. Women just need to have options (ideally at least 2-3 different ones), and for it to be as easy as possible for them to speak to someone qualified about those options, so that they can make up their own mind. It can be very difficult for some young women to access contraceptive services, either through their GP (particularly if there's a non-zero chance they'll be recognised and questions will be asked) or through other local services, like sexual health clinics. But really, the people trying to reduce young women's body autonomy don't actually care about the wellbeing of those young women. They're just spiteful quasi-religious 'moralists' who get off on controlling other people's lives.
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Dec 9, 2020 16:32
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It’s really shocking how women are still treated when it comes to reproductive agency. I wanted to get a vasectomy and it involved asking my GP, who referred me to a specialist, who basically asked “you sure?”, made me watch a hilariously old educational video, and then scheduled the surgery. My partner wants a tubal ligation and has gone into the doctors’ office several times armed with a literal binder full of stats and facts to bolster her case and to rebuff the claims of “oh but you’ll change your mind” and still gets talked down to and basically told to take the coil (which she doesn’t want) or nothing. The doctors even had the gall to ask her what her partner (i.e. me) would think of her getting sterilised as if that should have any loving relevance at all.
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I was going to say maybe one is more permanent than the other but a quick google seems to quote similar reversal success rates for the two procedures.
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TACD posted:The doctors even had the gall to ask her what her partner (i.e. me) would think of her getting sterilised as if that should have any loving relevance at all. Isn't it much safer for a man to have a vasectomy than the equivalent for a woman? Major surgery versus minor op kinda thing?
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TACD posted:It’s really shocking how women are still treated when it comes to reproductive agency. see also the strange fixation a number of terfs/conservative transphobes have on how medical transition is bad, with a particular focus on those assigned female at birth, as it makes you infertile, which is of course the worst thing a woman (or someone they think of as a woman) could be
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JollyBoyJohn posted:Isn't it much safer for a man to have a vasectomy than the equivalent for a woman? Major surgery versus minor op kinda thing? Even if it was, the furthest I'd think it appropriate to push would be "has your partner considered vasectomy?" and even then there's a whole bunch of reasons why that might be irrelevant.
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Guavanaut posted:Even if it was, the furthest I'd think it appropriate to push would be "has your partner considered vasectomy?" and even then there's a whole bunch of reasons why that might be irrelevant.
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TACD posted:It’s really shocking how women are still treated when it comes to reproductive agency. I wanted to get a vasectomy and it involved asking my GP, who referred me to a specialist, who basically asked “you sure?”, made me watch a hilariously old educational video, and then scheduled the surgery. Part of that is because a vasectomy is a minor surgery* requiring only local anaesthetic and only a small incision in a very conveniently-placed bit of skin, compared to tubal ligation which requires two abdominal incisions under general anaesthetic, with far less chance of complications, and is also much more easily reversible**. I don't doubt that some part of the difference in attitude is patriarchal, but you're comparing apples and oranges (or plums and... actually I can't think of a funny fruit-based name for an ovary) from a strictly medical point of view. * Especially in your case! Geddit?!?!?! ** including spontaneously, which is why I'm here. Seriously, I have siblings that are 9, 10, and 11 years older than me. My parents joked that it was because they got a telly after my sister was born, but TV was particularly boring in the seventies. I only found out the real story many, many years later.
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Doctor_Fruitbat posted:We really need a new media format, we're still on discs when barely anything has an optical drive anymore. Just put everything on a Switch cartridge with a USB-C connector and that's physical media sorted for another decade, you could even put them in your phone. I think the balkanisation of streaming services has stopped physical media from dying out completely, much in the same way that piracy has seen a massive resurgence. Blu rays don’t tend to suddenly vanish from your catalogue because a licence agreement has expired.
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Dec 9, 2020 17:58
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Rights holders are working on it, I'm sure.
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Dec 9, 2020 18:00
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Guavanaut posted:Rights holders are working on it, I'm sure. One of the early DVD postal rental services did actually have a disposable DVD system, where the disk would stop working after a certain number of plays, worked out IIRC. e: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexplay I recalled half-correctly - it self destructed within 48 hours of exposure to air, whether or not you played it goddamnedtwisto fucked around with this message at 18:04 on Dec 9, 2020 |
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Dec 9, 2020 18:01
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This is going to be more "As per Section 17, Part (d) of the Terms and Conditions you agreed to, Amazon® CrimeBot™ can enter your house and use reasonable force to retrieve the Blu Ray disc upon non-payment of the recurring protection fee. You may be charged automatically for any damage to the disc or Amazon® CrimeBot™. Amazon® CrimeBot™ is the intellectual property of Amazon.com, Inc. and/or its affiliates and the naming is not indicative of any criminal element to our legal agreement you accepted."
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Dec 9, 2020 18:08
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goddamnedtwisto posted:One of the early DVD postal rental services did actually have a disposable DVD system, where the disk would stop working after a certain number of plays, worked out IIRC. The most direct-to-e-waste production I've seen. Well that and the pre-charged disposable lithium batteries which use rechargeable li-on cells inside you can get at poundland. e: And yes I know there are non-rechargable lithium batteries, these are not that, b/c the non-rechargable ones have much more lithium and are a lot more expensive (though you do get impressive energy density for that). Private Speech fucked around with this message at 18:14 on Dec 9, 2020 |
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Dec 9, 2020 18:10
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a local rental place still manages to do a brisk business in movie and game rentals, surprisingly. i wonder how theyre doing during the pandemic
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Dec 9, 2020 18:12
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To the person who sent me a PM: Trying to reply using phone isn't happening cant get the cursor in the right place. Will try and remember to reply next time I'm using computer not phone (not today) How people function with just a phone I do not know these itty bitty screen keyboards are a pain and the constant errors by the soddin auto incorrect do my head in. [/Whinge]
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Dec 9, 2020 18:15
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Anyone got genius Christmas present ideas? Feeling particularly clueless this year.
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Dec 9, 2020 18:18
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I've been making do with MakeMKV, which happily rips any commercial Blu-ray, and sticking it in my cloud storage, but I'll need to buy an actual NAS at some point if I want to ramp it up to my full collection.
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Dec 9, 2020 18:21
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I still actually buy dvds from time to time. I have stubborn feelings about Owning Things, and blu ray drives are expensive and apparently a bastard to get working on linux. i am fully aware this is a very grumpy and goon way of living. admittedly during the pandemic I have finally relented on joining some streaming services but i would like to not join twenty-seven different ones for each thing I want to watch (also not give money to Amazon if I don't have to). harumph bah humbug get off my lawn
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goddamnedtwisto posted:One of the early DVD postal rental services did actually have a disposable DVD system, where the disk would stop working after a certain number of plays, worked out IIRC. That guy I linked the other day did a handy explainer of them https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccneE_gkSAs
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Dec 9, 2020 18:23
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Private Speech posted:The most direct-to-e-waste production I've seen. By no means am I defending such a dumb idea are they really more of an e-waste problem than regular dvds? I mean regardless of if a dvd can be played for 5 days or 5 decades it's still going to last 1000 years before it's had a remote chance of disintegrating. I admit having it playable for longer makes a hell of a lot more sense but I guess what I'm saying is our e-waste problem is loving mind-blowingly huge. Torrenting is a moral choice, save the planet! TRIXNET fucked around with this message at 18:31 on Dec 9, 2020 |
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Dec 9, 2020 18:26
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Gort posted:Anyone got genius Christmas present ideas? Feeling particularly clueless this year. Planning to low-key fret about it til Xmas Eve and then buy some worthless tat (to accompany the actual things 'er indoors asked for). Also I bought her a pair of trainers from Lidl which are bright blue-red-yellow with a big Lidl logo, digging the ironic branding
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Gort posted:Anyone got genius Christmas present ideas? Feeling particularly clueless this year. I would try buying things the recipient is likely to enjoy, OP. Like one of my Christmas presents is a 3D-printed replica of the frame that was around the peephole in Monica's apartment in Friends, for my niece-in-law who loves the show, and that's (IMO) a pretty genius Christmas present because it's definitely something she'd never think to buy for herself (especially as "official" ones cost like 20 quid) but for someone who doesn't like Friends it's a pretty poo poo idea. My normal present-selection method is actually a bit dangerously close to product management - I try to boil the personality and interests of the person I'm buying for down to 3-5 words. If I can't manage that because I don't know them well enough then vouchers, if I can I then try and pick something that hits two or three of those words (you'd be surprised just how far you can get by just typing them into Google or in my case since I picked up the 3D printing bug into Thingiverse). Of course taking that too far is how you get those "I'm a WELDER born in MARCH and I love BOLTON and if that offends you KISS MY rear end" t-shirts, but with a bit of discernment it's generally a fairly painless way of finding pressies that aren't just completely generic. One drawback I've had this year is of course I've not spoken to people anything much as like as normal so every time I have a great idea I have to double-check I didn't buy them the same present last year. The hit rate was like 60% this year, lol.
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Failed Imagineer posted:Planning to low-key fret about it til Xmas Eve and then buy some worthless tat (to accompany the actual things 'er indoors asked for). Oh poo poo I never even knew that was an option, I know someone who would have gone mental for those.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:One of the early DVD postal rental services did actually have a disposable DVD system, where the disk would stop working after a certain number of plays, worked out IIRC. Also DivX
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:To the person who sent me a PM: i'm not sure what phone you have but if you want to try, the awful apps might be a good way to use the forums on mobile. as for xmas presents, i'm a big fan of giving stuff i make or stuff that will be used (food, cosmetics, whatever) so that someone isn't forced to keep something around forever. but not everyone will respond well to that.
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