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Bumfluff posted:My school does VB in KS3 and C# in KS4 so I use smallbasic for 7s and not done any home programming with 8s this year yet. (We do this as the main ks3 cs teacher before me knew a bit of VB, and my hod who is also a specialised cs teacher but prefers maths (is department of maths and computing) likes C#.) Reckon hod wants to change to python soon and I'm all for it. https://get-help-with-tech.education.gov.uk/digital-platforms you could flag that up to SLT/IT staff. There's government funding to get your Office 365 running properly such as scheduling meetings and locking down privs properly. Ours is definitely good enough though I'm always in touch with the IT support about tweaks to improve things. If your school have the money, https://www.clouddesignbox.co.uk/ seem great. One of them is in the Teams for Education group happily answering all my random queries despite us not paying anything.
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TheRat posted:The norwegian government has very strict rules on noise from wind parks, and there's still been a bunch of scandals with the private owners of wind parks trying to pay people to sign contracts forbidding them from complaining about it, or parks just breaking the rules anyway. It becomes a constant, distant humming sound. I live in wind power central in Finland, those things are everywhere and mostly they are fine. But there have been complaints here from people going insane from the low level noise. It's not something you notice at once, infra sound can have wonky effects on people. The main problem is they've built certain plants far too close to inhabation, like 1km when it should me a minimum of 3km from a house. Keep it to more than 3km and there shouldn't be issues.
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Jan 4, 2021 19:07
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He's a bloated alcoholic struggling to deal with bright lights pointed at him in his sober moments.
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He definitely does seem to have gotten more... boris-like over the past year. Which I don't understand why cos he hasn't been doing anything and he was DPP so he already knows the terrible secret of the home secretary.
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Convex posted:He is a soft boiled egg in a person suit, the nervousness is just his inherent wobbling from having a liquid yolk This immediately got me thinking of a song by Everything Everything called "No Reptiles" which has the line "No reptiles, just soft-boiled eggs in shirts and ties".... so I looked up what the lyrics mean, and it turns out it's basically exactly what you're talking about : It's actually kind of nice to think that there are reptiles controlling everything but in reality it's just these wobbly soft-boiled egg people. I think the more general theme of the song is something lots in this thread will connect with: quote:It’s written as if I’m rejected from society just about to do something awful. I wrote that at a time when I was feeling quite separate from, even against, society as a whole. I was feeling quite hateful towards my own country and my own place in the world, and feeling like I didn’t really like Britain or what it stands for. I don’t necessarily feel like that all the time, but I do sometimes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2RR8kEv-Y8
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OwlFancier posted:He definitely does seem to have gotten more... boris-like over the past year. Which I don't understand why cos he hasn't been doing anything and he was DPP so he already knows the terrible secret of the home secretary. You'd have thought catching Covid-19 would have made him wise up to how serious it is, but like with Trump it looks like Damascus conversions are rare.
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His Divine Shadow posted:I live in wind power central in Finland, those things are everywhere and mostly they are fine. But there have been complaints here from people going insane from the low level noise. It's not something you notice at once, infra sound can have wonky effects on people. The main problem is they've built certain plants far too close to inhabation, like 1km when it should me a minimum of 3km from a house. Keep it to more than 3km and there shouldn't be issues. I live in rural western norway, and while it might be NIMBY I think it's incredibly depressing to see what it does to the nature I grew up hiking in. I find a hydropower drat much less intrusive than endless rows of giant buzzsaws
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Sanitary Naptime posted:Guess who got access to video editing software Lol. I was worried he wasn't gonna get a Pointless answer but he got there in the end
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WhatEvil posted:This immediately got me thinking of a song by Everything Everything called "No Reptiles" which has the line "No reptiles, just soft-boiled eggs in shirts and ties".... so I looked up what the lyrics mean, and it turns out it's basically exactly what you're talking about : It's actually kind of nice to think that there are reptiles controlling everything but in reality it's just these wobbly soft-boiled egg people. quote:He said that far from being fed up with hearing wild conspiracy theories about themselves, many of the Bilderbergers actually thoroughly enjoy it. He also said that, in all honesty, neither Bilderberg nor Bohemian Grove attract the calibre that they used to. The current members are getting older and older, and the prospective newcomers – the world leaders of tomorrow – don’t seem all that interested in getting involved. WhatEvil posted:It’s written as if I’m rejected from society just about to do something awful. TheRat posted:I live in rural western norway, and while it might be NIMBY I think it's incredibly depressing to see what it does to the nature I grew up hiking in. I find a hydropower drat much less intrusive than endless rows of giant buzzsaws 
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WhatEvil posted:This immediately got me thinking of a song by Everything Everything called "No Reptiles" which has the line "No reptiles, just soft-boiled eggs in shirts and ties".... so I looked up what the lyrics mean, and it turns out it's basically exactly what you're talking about : It's actually kind of nice to think that there are reptiles controlling everything but in reality it's just these wobbly soft-boiled egg people. This is really interesting, thanks! I don't think I've heard it before, or at least I don't consciously remember it.
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https://twitter.com/PaulEmbery/status/1346153400476573698 uh? pardon?
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Jan 4, 2021 19:26
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Lefties hate the Union Jack because they hate Britain.
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Lol that song is just a long form UKMT post, wonderful E: hes right you know, I get pissed off every time I see the Butchers' Apron
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I didn't notice it until he pointed it out but actually yeah does he lug it around with him? Where is he recording anyway? Sounds like a prison cell.
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TheRat posted:I live in rural western norway, and while it might be NIMBY I think it's incredibly depressing to see what it does to the nature I grew up hiking in. I find a hydropower drat much less intrusive than endless rows of giant buzzsaws yeah it's NIMBY as gently caress sorry that your nice hikes are having to take second place to the hundreds of millions of people who'll be flooded out of their homes if sea levels continue to rise, I guess
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https://twitter.com/ElleDuffy_/status/1346158910525345796 lol
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There's something else in that video that pisses me off more (It's Keith)
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He's also wearing the flag with the way his suit is colour coordinated. Is that something these people actually do?
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Julio Cruz posted:yeah it's NIMBY as gently caress  Not to mention, I find giant windfarms beautiful, both on an aesthetic and human level. They're one of the few kinds of large-scale building projects that doesn't stoke the species-shame I feel constantly
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If you don't like looking at wind farms that's a problem with your aesthetic sense not the wind farms. Basically u like big green thing on a stick that waves around in the wind, but not big white thing on a stick that waves around in the wind???? gently caress offfff wind farm is just a more useful forest
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It's a shame we can't/don't have wind turbines made of some kind of organic material that could encourage the growth of epiphytes and form its own ecological niche. I'm sure there's a lot of reasons not to do this - like those materials not existing, and structural/tensile strength, and durability, but still the concept gives me a Kim Stanley Robinson vibe and I want the eco-future before I am an old man goddammit!
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I gotta say, I didn't expect this to be the thread where wanting to preserve nature in the face of limitless global growth would be met with harsh hostility
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OwlFancier posted:If you don't like looking at wind farms that's a problem with your aesthetic sense not the wind farms. People wouldn't care if they looked like this, despite that being an order of magnitude or so less efficient. 
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OwlFancier posted:If you don't like looking at wind farms that's a problem with your aesthetic sense not the wind farms. I mentioned the Dagenham turbines and they're kinda freaky - the extremely flat terrain around there (and low-rise buildings making it impossible to see the bottom of them) makes it impossible to judge their size (which is huge, like jumbo jet wingspan huge). This size and the fact it means the blades seem to be spinning far too slowly gives them a really weird, ominous look, especially because the distance means they don't "move" right when you move around. Then when you get up close, they're in the mostly-demolished old Ford plant and general wasteland along the Thames, and it does kinda make it look like they're somehow responsible for all the destruction around them.
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TheRat posted:I gotta say, I didn't expect this to be the thread where wanting to preserve nature in the face of limitless global growth would be met with harsh hostility why is it more important to preserve the nature of your hike than it is the icecaps at the north pole, or the African farmland threatened by encroaching desert, or the hundreds of thousands of miles of coastline around the world?
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TheRat posted:Oh isn't it just lovely That is actually beautiful, sorry about your brain-wrong
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sorry global poor, we can't do anything about the impending catastrophe because some moron in Norway is upset we might ruin their view
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Whether or not they're beautiful, wind turbines look better than traditional power stations by quite a margin, and unfortunately we've got to have something blotting the landscape.
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https://twitter.com/DavidLammy/status/1346142295188533248 If it was anyone else I'd suspect this was a masterful bit of shitposting, but Lammy is loyal to the core.
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TheRat posted:I gotta say, I didn't expect this to be the thread where wanting to preserve nature in the face of limitless global growth would be met with harsh hostility What’s your alternative method of energy generation then?
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Jakabite posted:What’s your alternative method of energy generation then? They did mention hydro earlier, while berating wind for destroying nature and wildlife, which... erm...
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Jakabite posted:What’s your alternative method of energy generation then? Boiling ones piss
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TheRat posted:I gotta say, I didn't expect this to be the thread where wanting to preserve nature in the face of limitless global growth would be met with harsh hostility What do you think green energy is for?
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WhatEvil posted:What do you think green energy is for? In our particular case, exporting to the EU because we already cover our own needs through hydropower.
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TheRat posted:Oh isn't it just lovely Yes?
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