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goddamnedtwisto posted:Yeah this is the completely different "How hosed are we" scale, not the "Will you be able to get a haircut" lockdown scale. Not really. It's not a scale that says "if we don't act, we are hosed". It's a scale that says "we are hosed, because we didn't act". e: 25 is the number of pages ITT at the time of posting jiggerypokery fucked around with this message at 16:45 on Jan 4, 2021 |
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I feel like that isn't what "threat" means. If I kill you I don't get arrested for "threats" I get arrested for "murder". "threat" implies imminent unpleasantness, not presently occuring or previously occured unpleasantness.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:I guess it depends how big your rooms and layouts are. Not sure someone who watches TV in a mirror while sat faced away from it is a good judge for TV sizing
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Yeah if the Joint Biosecurity Centre can't predict emerging exponential threats then what is it actually for?Jaeluni Asjil posted:When I see pictures of living rooms from the 40s 50s, they were quite small really. 
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Guavanaut posted:Yeah if the Joint Biosecurity Centre can't predict emerging exponential threats then what is it actually for? When my mate was a kid they installed central heating in his pre-war mansion flat - his parents put a telly in the fireplace because that was where all the furniture already pointed and otherwise they were left staring at the big slab of plasterboard the council had put in to block them. And yes, they did have one of those VHS tapes of a roaring fire. As tellys got bigger his dad just knocked bigger and bigger lumps out of the fireplace to accommodate them, until someone from the council visiting for an entirely different reason noticed this and told them that a) the chimneys were actually load-bearing and b) the surrounds were lined with asbestos. It was certainly one of the more novel ways to get a new council flat, I suppose, and to share the joy everyone else in the block got one too because apparently the rules with asbestos are that you're allowed to ignore it until you have to do something about it, then you have to do *everything* about it.
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Guavanaut posted:Yeah if the Joint Biosecurity Centre can't predict emerging exponential threats then what is it actually for? It can predict threats. It can say to the government if you don't do a hard lock down before Christmas, then on the scale of 1-5 of how hosed we are, we will go from 4 to 5. On the other hand if you show the slightest competence in preventing more spread our situation will remain bad at 4. A successful vaccine rollout could reduce how hosed we are down to 3.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:When my mate was a kid they installed central heating in his pre-war mansion flat - his parents put a telly in the fireplace because that was where all the furniture already pointed and otherwise they were left staring at the big slab of plasterboard the council had put in to block them. And yes, they did have one of those VHS tapes of a roaring fire. i've got a lovely gas fire that was placed on a suspicious grey material so i had the surveyor check that it wasn't in fact asbestos fun asbestos fact though i went to a national park in australia where one of the trails was fenced off with a big sign that they'd found raw asbestos in the rock
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Ewan posted:I have a 65 inch TV and I do not need to be 6 feet away to see the difference between 1080p and 4k. And I am pretty sure I can tell the difference between 1080p and 720p at 12 feet. As someone notes in the comments, the graph is based off a very pessimistic level for average human eye acuity, possibly derived from the marketing materials for Apple's Retina displays.
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Jose posted:i've got a lovely gas fire that was placed on a suspicious grey material so i had the surveyor check that it wasn't in fact asbestos Cabling is run along the wall now instead, so guess we will never know.  There's some studies out suggesting that the shittier forms of rock wool insulation are just as bad as the better forms of asbestos, so there might be another round of this coming soon.
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https://twitter.com/DanielHewittITV/status/1346125089754984449 Why did melts ever think this guy was an attractive, suave sophisticat? He looks loving gross, and has that same uncanny lack of facial definition that Cameron has.
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Nice that keir starmer is taking the lead from the government on what to do. very opposition, much sensible
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Jose posted:lol i read an article the other day about a guy who pumped $1.4bn into bitcoin That dude is fine.  Always, always take "[x] crashed!!" or "[y] fell 5 points today, the biggest daily fall in [z] years!!!" with a truckload of salt, since usually it's that a stock, crypto or index has just reached an historic (or at least local) high and is just renormalising. That's exactly what's just happened with Bitcoin. At the start of December it was ~$18000 and the "crash" from that tweet put it down from $34k to $28k. Yes, some people will still have lost a lot of money but it's not a crash in any meaningful sense. It's massively up on the month and still higher than it's ever been before 2021. (Note I do not have any BTC or any other crypto's, stocks etc. I just know that whenever you see an "OMG CATASTROPHE" graph like this it's some dickhead who's very selectively zoomed in on part of a graph.)
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CancerCakes posted:Yeah that chart is bs, at this point if you are buying a TV new just match the size of the TV as much as possible to the physical space, inches are cheap. Most of the time you are paying for smart features (avoid smart features where possible) From reading the TV thread over on Inspect Your Gadgets it is more or less impossible to avoid buying a smart TV. Either you buy a PC monitor and use that as a Telly. Or you go to specialised office equipment stores where they sell you things way more expensive than TV's. If you really don't want to deal with Smart TV's settings because the 5G police will sell your data or whatever, you can just not hook it up to your home internet. CancerCakes posted:and oled (of questionable brnefit for most users). The availability of 4k content has exploded in the last year as well, Disney+ and Apple TV seem to have the most. Almost anyone who looks at an OLED will see a huge difference between that and a LED TV. I'd say that all you have to do is go down to a Curries and see the difference yourself, but with a pandemic on that's not a good idea. (Who knows? Maybe Dominic Cummings will have done it and it will be made an official reason to break lockdown by the Government two days later.) The Question IRL fucked around with this message at 17:39 on Jan 4, 2021 |
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Huh, I didn't realise Frank Bough died back in October.
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i have like 20 dollars in bitcoin that will never amount to anything... or will it????
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The Question IRL posted:Almost anyone who looks at an OLED will see a huge difference between that and a LED TV. I got a 48" LG CX oled about a month ago it is absolutely stunning
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The Question IRL posted:From reading the TV thread over on Inspect Your Gadgets it is more or less impossible to avoid buying a smart TV. Either you buy a PC monitor and use that as a Telly. Or you go to specialised office equipment stores where they sell you things way more expensive than TV's.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:(ii) Bubbles - I can't work out if people are really not understanding or deliberately not understanding the concept. https://www.gov.uk/guidance/making-a-support-bubble-with-another-household quote:A support bubble is a support network which links 2 households. You have to meet certain eligibility rules to form a support bubble. This means not everyone will be able to form a support bubble. What they should have said was more along the lines of "Households can't meet each other. You can include one other person in your household if they're alone or need care, but households still can't mix. You can include your parents in your household if they look after your kids, but households still can't mix. The important thing to remember here is no matter how much you want to visit multiple households, HOUSEHOLDS CAN'T MIX" If they'd stuck to saying households instead of bubbles, this would all be a lot less open to rules lawyering. domhal posted:It is with a heavy heart that I must announce the closure of all zoos, safari parks and pirate-themed adventure playgrounds, except for essential visits.
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Guavanaut posted:It seems to be mostly the https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbCZpcy0eAk
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"no sorry we can't replace all the coal power plants that are contributing to global warming and causing awful air pollution because some people think the alternative is a bit noisy and also grannies might not be able to watch Emmerdale" I mean, gently caress me
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Bobby Deluxe posted:But how then to teach our young men to be buccaneers? Strip them of their rights, their community and their passports. Lie for a decade about their income and employment status. Crash their currency and set them loose. Oh to be 21 again.
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Guavanaut posted:It seems to be mostly the What annoys me is that some people just.... don't notice it. I'll go round a friend's house to watch a movie and then they get all annoyed when I want to turn off SUPERMOTIONPLUS setting and when I do it they just go "it looks exactly the same!". Or you get people who don't understand/know about it and claim 'I don't like HD because it looks too real', not realising this is the stupid motion smoothness setting, not the high resolution. I think newer TVs at least now have it turned off by default as they've realised how much people hate it.
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Bobby Deluxe posted:The gov.uk explanation could be better, it doesn't specifically meantion you can't have multiple bubbles: It also explicitly says that whilst you should avoid it you can change your support bubble. Your situation is supposed to have changed to necessitate it but it doesn't say how so I guess you could just say I don't like that person any more and then you can rebubble. But it takes 10 days, you need to leave a 10 days gap between bubbles.
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Ewan posted:Motion smoothing is horrible and makes everything look like a behind the scenes documentary, but is pretty easy to turn off. It's worse when people (usually gamers) do notice the difference but won't turn it off because 'more frames = better'.
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