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ThomasPaine posted:It's crazy that people are catching this just going to the shops once, even with masks and sanitiser. It's what, 3-4x more contagious than flu? With an R of 1-1.5 that suggests that it's not hard to transmit but should be relatively mitigated by keeping your distance, going at quiet times, and doing the hygiene stuff. Unless we've got some very unlucky people itt something in the data just doesn't gel. Unless you're getting right up in people's faces or touching stuff then licking your fingers or walking by someone actively coughing and spluttering shops don't seem too high risk off peak given the stats, and I'd be very surprised if new cases weren't primarily people being dumb and going round each others houses (esp over Xmas) + those exposed working. But I'm not an epidemiologist so who knows. it's one of those things that's a gamble because you are relying on other people's hygiene standards, god the number of times i've seen someone clearly trying to do well but unconsciously moving or letting their masks drop. as i've been saying to my family forever and behaving as if it was true, indoors if there is someone sick without a mask there is no safe distance. we'd be in much better shape if they'd put cops on the loving doors to pass out good masks and stop antimaskers but lol
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Constantly fiddle with my face mask TBH. Either it's riding up into my eyes or it's causing my glasses to fog up, poo poo sucks and I cannot wait for this plague to end. Don't particularly want to but life gets tricky when you can't see anything. Before Christmas I went to the local shop to get a bottle of gin for my sister (which of course I still haven't given her because Christmas got cancelled), was sure I'd bought a 700ml bottle but couldn't see properly and wasn't until I was bagging up that I realised it was half that and I was too embarrassed by my inability to see to ask to change it.
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forkboy84 posted:Constantly fiddle with my face mask TBH. Either it's riding up into my eyes or it's causing my glasses to fog up, poo poo sucks and I cannot wait for this plague to end. Don't particularly want to but life gets tricky when you can't see anything. Before Christmas I went to the local shop to get a bottle of gin for my sister (which of course I still haven't given her because Christmas got cancelled), was sure I'd bought a 700ml bottle but couldn't see properly and wasn't until I was bagging up that I realised it was half that and I was too embarrassed by my inability to see to ask to change it. it's the loving worst mate. i had an idea for some kind of humidity exhaust pipe - like, a clear plastic tube that supplements masks but exhausts somewhere (with a filter) other than your face cause i'm so fuckin sick of it.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:The idea that (outside of the most remote farmhouses) each individual dwelling needs to make its own arrangements to make hot water is one that should have been abandoned around the same time as gas lights. It just makes no sense, on any bloody level. I don't mean that every village needs its own massive CHAP and steam system (although...), but water heaters for heating and hot water only get less efficient the smaller they get, and it takes a *long* distance before the cost of insulating the pipes outweighs the massive efficiency gains you get from having one heater between 10-100 dwellings. Uh, no, piped hot water is a bad idea. A very bad idea. You want a furnace of at least 900C for biomass, and then just use a working fluid and use a heat exchanger for the hot water as needed. I think Alpo Kitinoja was leading the team researching efficiency, at least a few years ago?
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Josef bugman posted:Heya Bud. If you want to talk or just vent about it I am sure we are all here for that. Keep safe! Missed this but just wanted to say thanks! I am actually fine considering and I think past the worst of it (mentally at least), but I'm drat ready for this to be over with and I'm not going to forget a drat thing.
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CoolCab posted:we'd be in much better shape if they'd put cops on the loving doors to pass out good masks and stop antimaskers but lol They actually did that here in Canada. Well, not cops, but store security were stopping people getting in without a mask when the mask rules first came in - now it's usually just somebody who would otherwise be on checkouts at the door, sanitising trolleys and directing you to use hand sanitiser before you enter. I don't think I've seen a single person in a supermarket without a mask (though I have seen a few with their nose exposed). There are a whole load of other stupid ways they're not handling things correctly here (like massive amounts of people still going to work who don't need to) but they do seem to have at least got that one thing right. WhatEvil fucked around with this message at 05:47 on Jan 20, 2021 |
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The Question IRL posted:the court is a Crucible, where the mediocre are very quickly burnt up. Twitter seems to be chock full of barristers behaving like total arseholes. It feels very much like the stereotype of engineers who think because they understand the properties of concrete well it means they understand the entire universe, except with barristers the skill is pontificating. This prick for instance https://mobile.twitter.com/Francis_Hoar As I understand it the organisation that represents barristers' interests is the same as the regulator which I guess is the reason they have brain damage from huffing their own farts too much.
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knox_harrington posted:Twitter seems to be chock full of barristers behaving like total arseholes. It feels very much like the stereotype of engineers who think because they understand the properties of concrete well it means they understand the entire universe, except with barristers the skill is pontificating. Went to a post of his about Covid and how apparently an awful lot of people have become tankies now. Comments are full of incredible rifles who can't comprehend that context exists, for example in explaining why mass lockdowns to deal with the worst pandemic in a century is different from mass lockdowns for no reason whatsoever, and thus the calculus of "is this a tolerable imposition on personal liberty" is radically altered.
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Ms Adequate posted:Went to a post of his about Covid and how apparently an awful lot of people have become tankies now. Comments are full of incredible rifles who can't comprehend that context exists, for example in explaining why mass lockdowns to deal with the worst pandemic in a century is different from mass lockdowns for no reason whatsoever, and thus the calculus of "is this a tolerable imposition on personal liberty" is radically altered. Ugh, these people are the worst. See also the people who sit grinning in a well, actually, saying "so you support free movement/open borders but you want to close the borders because of a pandemic? Interesting!"
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Ms Adequate posted:Went to a post of his about Covid and how apparently an awful lot of people have become tankies now. Comments are full of incredible rifles who can't comprehend that context exists, for example in explaining why mass lockdowns to deal with the worst pandemic in a century is different from mass lockdowns for no reason whatsoever, and thus the calculus of "is this a tolerable imposition on personal liberty" is radically altered. I was going to say that British people need never worry about needless lockdowns because their desires to sit indoors in a pub during summer and to have some sort of family Christmas (outside London) were kowtowed to when a stricter lockdown might have been "needful". Then I remembered that the British state can be pretty lethal when it wants to be. I think I know who would win in British state vs Tim Martin and his band of merry Freemen on the Magna Carta, if they really wanted to keep people indoors for no reason. Not to say that the British state hasn't been lethal during the past year. 100k dead, yeahhh boooyy.
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Ms Adequate posted:Went to a post of his about Covid and how apparently an awful lot of people have become tankies now. Comments are full of incredible rifles who can't comprehend that context exists, for example in explaining why mass lockdowns to deal with the worst pandemic in a century is different from mass lockdowns for no reason whatsoever, and thus the calculus of "is this a tolerable imposition on personal liberty" is radically altered. It's an impressive combination of being wrong about everything and incredibly smug about it at the same time
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TACD posted:RE:boilers, can anyone recommend a page with like a summary of the different main types for a dullard like me? The one in our new flat is busted in some way (caveat emptor lol) and I’m not at all sure what kind it is, how much it would be to fix or if it’s worth getting it replaced. Combi-Boiler - box on the wall with everything in it, does the heating and hot water on demand. A variant of this is the type with an integrated water-tank (Powermax is one make) - they keep the water tank very hot in the thermal store and have a heat-exchanger for domestic hot water. These look like an oversized cyclinder with pipework etc on the outside (there's also one that's in a square case with everything hidden). System Boiler - box on the wall with just the heating bits in it, hot water is done via a cylinder tank usually in an airing cupboard that also has the pump and either a three-way valve or 2 2-way valves. Back Boiler - a system boiler that is designed to sit in a builders opening and has a fire in front. The old ones are open-flue (they get the air for combustion from the room it's in) and need an air vent in the wall, new types are sealed, but need a drain-pipe run to outside to get rid of the condensate (which is awkward as they are usually in the middle of a room). Multi-point water heater - not a boiler, just does the hot water to more than one tap. As for how much, that'll depend on what it is (make/model), what's wrong with it and if anything else needs bringing up to standard.
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These weirdo anti-maskers with the smiley face avatars and "bring back the smile"... they evoke a feeling of recognition of specific archetype. I can't put my finger on exactly who. A specific type of creepily friendly person, with a surface-level smile covering a deep well of aggression. The sort of person who tells women to smile more, and says "cheer up, it may never happen" to any person with resting neutral face. But that's just some of it. Anyone know what I mean?
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Bobstar posted:These weirdo anti-maskers with the smiley face avatars and "bring back the smile"... they evoke a feeling of recognition of specific archetype. I can't put my finger on exactly who. A specific type of creepily friendly person, with a surface-level smile covering a deep well of aggression. The sort of person who tells women to smile more, and says "cheer up, it may never happen" to any person with resting neutral face. But that's just some of it. Anyone know what I mean? Umbridge? Who Rowling doesn't realise was just herself.
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Bobstar posted:These weirdo anti-maskers with the smiley face avatars and "bring back the smile"... they evoke a feeling of recognition of specific archetype. I can't put my finger on exactly who. A specific type of creepily friendly person, with a surface-level smile covering a deep well of aggression. The sort of person who tells women to smile more, and says "cheer up, it may never happen" to any person with resting neutral face. But that's just some of it. Anyone know what I mean? The smiley face thing stems from fad-diet proponent turned ID epidemiology tarot-reader Ivor Cummins. https://mobile.twitter.com/braidedmanga/status/1351842978407587840 He along with haunted testicle Toby Young and the rest of the lockdown sceptics are currently deleting all their old tweets.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:The idea that (outside of the most remote farmhouses) each individual dwelling needs to make its own arrangements to make hot water is one that should have been abandoned around the same time as gas lights. It just makes no sense, on any bloody level. I don't mean that every village needs its own massive CHAP and steam system (although...), but water heaters for heating and hot water only get less efficient the smaller they get, and it takes a *long* distance before the cost of insulating the pipes outweighs the massive efficiency gains you get from having one heater between 10-100 dwellings. The flat we lived in Highgate had a centralised boiler (which I think was under the park area inbetween blocks) for at least 2 blocks of flats, the maintenance thereof was contracted out by the council. I think we got up to something like 24 days over 4 years where there was either no hot water, or no water at all for everyone, often lasting 2-3 days at a time. You'd get a letter 3 days later from the contract company going 'LOL, soz you had to shower at work/couldn't wash anything etc', they were loving useless. It's a good idea in theory, less so in practice.
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Grey Hunter posted:Priti Patel is getting interviewed on the BBC and getting hammered on the governments covid response. She's right. The Tories have got away with killing 20,000+ people a year for the last decade because that number seems small. We should pile it all together in one heap and see if pointing out that they've now killed more British people than the Second World War makes a difference.
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Bobstar posted:These weirdo anti-maskers with the smiley face avatars and "bring back the smile"... they evoke a feeling of recognition of specific archetype. I can't put my finger on exactly who. A specific type of creepily friendly person, with a surface-level smile covering a deep well of aggression. The sort of person who tells women to smile more, and says "cheer up, it may never happen" to any person with resting neutral face. But that's just some of it. Anyone know what I mean? I've not seen the specific people you're talking about, but your description of the type rings all too many bells and reminds me why I basically never drink in city centre pubs any more.
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knox_harrington posted:The smiley face thing stems from fad-diet proponent turned ID epidemiology tarot-reader Ivor Cummins.   The two winters, March-May and November-January. Also when u understand how hemispheres work. knox_harrington posted:He along with haunted testicle Toby Young and the rest of the lockdown sceptics are currently deleting all their old tweets. Goldskull posted:It's a good idea in theory, less so in practice.
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