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Julio Cruz posted:literally the post above yours: Are you alright? Is it my fault other people in this abortion of a union look at what's happening in England aghast? You're a disengenuous liar Ash Crimson fucked around with this message at 17:48 on Jan 6, 2021 |
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Ash Crimson posted:The majority are in England right? Scottish, Welsh and Northen Irish deaths seem to account for less individually but might be proportional Per-capita infections, and deaths, correlate with population density in/on Great Britain, differences between the nations are within the margin of error once you account for the time lag of infections moving out from the cities. NI is its own thing and for a while it looked like the Republic had them beat but then it turned out the Republic were fiddling their numbers.
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Jan 6, 2021 17:47
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Ash Crimson posted:The majority are in England right? Scottish, Welsh and Northen Irish deaths seem to account for less individually but might be proportional People in Scotland are selfish cunts too, last month we had people travelling from Glasgow to my town en masse as we were Tier 2 and still had pubs open. Everyone should stay the gently caress indoors.
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Jan 6, 2021 17:50
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Per-capita infections, and deaths, correlate with population density in/on Great Britain, differences between the nations are within the margin of error once you account for the time lag of infections moving out from the cities. It wouldn't shock me if the Scottish death toll is higher at this point then the snp are willing to publicly acknowledge
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keep punching joe posted:People in Scotland are selfish cunts too, last month we had people travelling from Glasgow to my town en masse as we were Tier 2 and still had pubs open. The same happened in the lothians tbh
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Jan 6, 2021 17:53
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I only just thought to check but it looks like as of a few days ago COVID has killed more people than the WWII UK civilian death toll (76,000 vs 70,000). Seems like something a journalist or a political opponent would point out if they weren't all completely dead-eyed craven husks.
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Jan 6, 2021 17:57
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Armani Glasses posted:Up here in Aberdeen I work in Starbucks and our two central stores are as busy, if not busier, than before this 'lockdown' was announced. Suddenly families and other folk are out in droves for their "exercise walks" which just happen to all pass by our stores. Its obscene and just makes me think no-one is paying attention at all and we'll see that number will continue to go up, up, up. I'm ashamed we are even keeping the doors open to be honest, and if I could I'd have my store closed until February and beyond, but alas money needs to be made and we'll skirt the line until explicitly told: "Stop"! The virus may take your lives but it'll never take your freedom
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Jan 6, 2021 18:32
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The actual death toll, not the numbers given by the gov is probably in the 90's and will easily exceed 100k deaths before end of Jan just from the amount of people sick now. https://twitter.com/ChrisGiles_/status/1346823375797235715
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Jan 6, 2021 18:35
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So, more civilian dead than World War 2, then
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Enjoying the small minority of people who came back to life in june.
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Armani Glasses posted:Up here in Aberdeen I work in Starbucks and our two central stores are as busy, if not busier, than before this 'lockdown' was announced. Suddenly families and other folk are out in droves for their "exercise walks" which just happen to all pass by our stores. Its obscene and just makes me think no-one is paying attention at all and we'll see that number will continue to go up, up, up. I'm ashamed we are even keeping the doors open to be honest, and if I could I'd have my store closed until February and beyond, but alas money needs to be made and we'll skirt the line until explicitly told: "Stop"! Oh, so it's your fault, is it? (Starbucks coffee, that is; the epidemic is on other people.)
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Jan 6, 2021 18:58
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Ash Crimson posted:Are you alright? This is an extremely lovely post, mate. People are dying by the tens of thousands and you're using it for your bashing-the-English schtick?
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Jan 6, 2021 19:00
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feedmegin posted:This is an extremely lovely post, mate. People are dying by the tens of thousands and you're using it for your bashing-the-English schtick? Do you expect them to able to post otherwise?
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TACD posted:I only just thought to check but it looks like as of a few days ago COVID has killed more people than the WWII UK civilian death toll (76,000 vs 70,000). Seems like something a journalist or a political opponent would point out if they weren't all completely dead-eyed craven husks. it would just make tory support go up since people would now think we are LARPing WW2 and we have to support our government itd be reported like "destiny calls as dead surpass WW2. Can our Churchill rise to the challenge?"
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Jan 6, 2021 19:09
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Communist Thoughts posted:it would just make tory support go up since people would now think we are LARPing WW2 and we have to support our government Don't forget Churchill was booted out at the first election after WW2 ended. (But then they voted him in again after 6 years) Just read this hagiography of him on gov.uk No mention of his dark deeds at all. https://www.gov.uk/government/history/past-prime-ministers/winston-churchill
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Jan 6, 2021 19:14
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england does have 10x as many people as scotland, if you account for that its pretty close which is basically to be expected, the SNP has largely just been producing media content to spin whatever Bojo orders for the UK e: it does bug me that this happens literally every time, every time bojo announces something nicola comes on telly either just before or just after to announce "what shes doing" and its 99% the same because they have no practical devolutionary powers but people really buy the idea that shes "showing bojo the way" or that he follows her lol it really is amazing just how much politics is spin, its like an atom where its mostly nothing Communist Thoughts fucked around with this message at 19:24 on Jan 6, 2021 |
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Jan 6, 2021 19:21
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An electron might be better, no substance, exists in a cloud of possibility, relentlessly negative, spins a lot..
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Jan 6, 2021 19:26
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That nice maths video missed the most important Lionel Hutz answer to the question. John, ran around the track four times? More than Sue!
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OwlFancier posted:An electron might be better, no substance, exists in a cloud of possibility, relentlessly negative, spins a lot..
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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO clapclap time is coming back  https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-55561108 and they're calling it clap for heroes jfc that's so much worse adskfjdlkf
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Jan 6, 2021 20:14
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Guavanaut posted:Badly worded question problem, they were obviously going for addition but hosed the wording. Reminds me of all those "only genius will get this" social media questions like 4 + 2 * 5 - 1 = ? and the correct answer is "define your order of operations binch". Yeah but the real trick about those questions is that the order of operations is first brackets, then left to right.
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Jan 6, 2021 20:16
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Lol @ whoever itt called it "time for tubby clap clap" the first time around, good stuff
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that was me! 
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Don't forget Churchill was booted out at the first election after WW2 ended. (But then they voted him in again after 6 years) My favorite bit about that is in World War Z where on of the characters is talking about WW2 and how Clem Attlee was a third-rate mediocrity whose only claim to fame is beating Churchill in the '45 election because Churchill was insisting we need to finish the war with Japan and the British people didn't want to bother 
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crispix posted:NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO clapclap time is coming back I've not seen a single person who actually thinks this is a good idea, no matter how much the people at the top are plugging it.
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feedmegin posted:This is an extremely lovely post, mate. People are dying by the tens of thousands and you're using it for your bashing-the-English schtick? Oh wait that's who that is? I thought it was just a really poorly-worded post thinking out loud about the effect of devolved powers, not the "Every single person on this side of the imaginary line is superior to every single person on the other side of the imaginary line" person. (People really need to stop changing avs, I almost never remember usernames)
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goddamnedtwisto posted:I've not seen a single person who actually thinks this is a good idea, no matter how much the people at the top are plugging it. it was met with a lot of eye rolling where I was working today. I've heard from nurses who really resent the hero poo poo because dedicated as they are they didn't go into the profession to put themselves at risk of death - they're not field medics 
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feedmegin posted:This is an extremely lovely post, mate. People are dying by the tens of thousands and you're using it for your bashing-the-English schtick? No. Not really
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crispix posted:it was met with a lot of eye rolling where I was working today. I've heard from nurses who really resent the hero poo poo because dedicated as they are they didn't go into the profession to put themselves at risk of death - they're not field medics Like, what I'd do is, while the crisis is ongoing I'd support them with the country's entire and formidable bank of resources. And once things are finished and Covid is firmly in the past, then I'd probably do a one-off event where I ask the country to give thanks, acknowledge that they didn't sign up for that sort of thing and commend them for stepping up when the country needed it, do the clapping bit, and then be done with it. Having it as a single thing that is rooted in like, what's it called... oh yeah sincerity seems like it's a lot more likely to be appreciated, at least if it's been backed up by best efforts to support them. Not surprised in our timeline it's just pissing people off because it's a transparent attempt to avoid giving the needed resources because hey you're being paid in ~the country's gratitude~
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Heroes are what you get when something goes terribly wrong.... never a good sign in my view. I've got nephews & nieces in the health service and they think anyone who claps is a bloody idiot. 
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crispix posted:NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO clapclap time is coming back Slow clap for the dead
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Don't forget Churchill was booted out at the first election after WW2 ended. (But then they voted him in again after 6 years) Not really. Labour got more votes than the Tories in 1951, it was FPTP that ruined everything.
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Total Meatlove posted:Imagine this making sense: You mean quote:But even if you don’t know how to find the transformation, verifying it is easy – or, at least, purely mechanical. The required transformation in our case is given by the friendly-looking formulas If we just replaced all the letters in algebra with fruit emoji I think a lot more people would enjoy maths.
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Total Meatlove posted:Imagine this making sense: Didn't look at the answer, but there is a pretty simple solution I just came up with: just assume that pineapple equals zero and banana equals one, then the equation is reduced to Apple plus multiplicative inverse of Apple equals 4. This in turn reduces to the simple quadratic equation Apple squared minus 4 Apple plus one equals zero. Doing the usual thing will then give you Apple equals 2 plus/minus square root of 3 which you can check works. Please note that an integer solution was not specifically asked for. 
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I realise this is uspol but uh, stick the news on  https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/election-us-2020-55558355
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Don't forget Churchill was booted out at the first election after WW2 ended. (But then they voted him in again after 6 years) I mean it's not entirely surprising the UK Government don't incluse "His hobbies included bricklaying, painting, and gassing Kurds", is it? Churchill was also disliked - hated even - in a big chunk of the country. He only visited the East End the once and beat a hasty retreat from people who didn't really want jollying along but had some pointed questions about the lack of shelters, the shambolic attempts at rehousing bombed-out families, and exactly how he kept his figure on the rations. As far as I know he didn't even set foot in Liverpool or Glasgow, who made London look like the Winnie Fan Club. In all these cases the hatred was not specifically about the progress of the war, although this was of course a big factor - people have long memories, and remember some of the poo poo Churchill got up to as Home Secretary and Chancellor. Patel and Sunak certainly have their problems but they've not yet sent in the Army to British cities (something Churchill was *extremely* fond of, doing it at least 3 times - Tonypandy, George Square, Sidney Street - in his 18 months there) or make several speeches praising Mussolini for his "anti-Leninism". Although give it time. goddamnedtwisto fucked around with this message at 21:06 on Jan 6, 2021 |
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Skarsnik posted:I realise this is uspol but uh, stick the news on Odd how people literally storming the Capitol get much softer treatment than the people who set up a kitchen for homeless people outside the Portland police HQ, I wonder what the difference between those two groups might be. e: Q sweatshirt front and centre in that pic on the Beeb site, nice goddamnedtwisto fucked around with this message at 21:07 on Jan 6, 2021 |
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Just Another Lurker posted:Heroes are what you get when something goes terribly wrong.... never a good sign in my view. Was it Nietzsche who said "Unhappy the land that has no heroes? No, unhappy the land that needs heroes".
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https://twitter.com/bbclaurak/status/1346907138678018051?s=19 Scuffles.
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crispix posted:it was met with a lot of eye rolling where I was working today. I've heard from nurses who really resent the hero poo poo because dedicated as they are they didn't go into the profession to put themselves at risk of death - they're not field medics When it comes down to it I think very few people who aren't damagingly indoctrinated actually want to be a hero. Heroism is usually something that happens on the spur of the moment without thinking about the realistic consequences of say, battling a suspected suicide bomber with a narwhal tusk. Asking people to go forth and be heros is a deeply cynical way of admitting you aren't prioritising their wellbeing, and trying to make a virtue of it.
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