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Comrade Fakename posted:This is actually extremely good news. Not because of Keith’s dogshit strategy, but because the Guardian has unambiguously come out against it, and a bit more ambiguously, though still significantly, against Starmer himself. my brother has been very "what other option is there?" recently and even he thinks this is extremely poo poo
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OwlFancier posted:The neutrino observatory was rendered obsolete by the invention of toby young, who has a head so thick and a braincase so cavernous that it excludes all other emissions and neutrino collisions can be observed as they manifest in him tweeting. Wait, this implies Toby Young might have a use?
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:When I graduated (81) I wanted to work in Antarctica but they didn't recruit women then
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because they "didn't have suitable toilets". THAT was shocking lack of vision. I could have been down there, counting muons or neutrinos or something.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Want to forsake this benighted land? I suppose if you're going to overwinter in Antarctica you probably aren't doing it just for the money, but the flat rate £24,685 salary +10% bonus seems pretty bad for highly skilled work, spending a year entirely cut off from the world living in a metal shack in a frozen desert. Though on the upside your food and accommodation are paid and you've got plenty of time to organise an Antarctic workers' union.
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Guavanaut posted:Gender neutrino bathrooms. Perhaps the most important thing to know about neutrinos is that they come in three types, or flavours: electron neutrino (νe) muon neutrino (νμ) tau neutrino (ντ) Plus, matching anti-neutrinos.
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Neutrino oscillation is a woke fantasy  My fantasy is the US military budget but for an Atlantropa project full of piss to scupper Luke Akehurst in the middle of.
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big scary monsters posted:I suppose if you're going to overwinter in Antarctica you probably aren't doing it just for the money, but the flat rate £24,685 salary +10% bonus seems pretty bad for highly skilled work, spending a year entirely cut off from the world living in a metal shack in a frozen desert. Though on the upside your food and accommodation are paid and you've got plenty of time to organise an Antarctic workers' union. I read this book about 30 years ago: The Birth of the People's Republic of Antarctica. Can't remember a thing about it. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/845616.The_Birth_of_the_People_s_Republic_of_Antarctica Blurb: In this book the author has written a stunning lament about the beastliness in man and the violence in nature, about the darkness of hope abandoned and the blood-price of hope regained. The power of his novel is its informed irony for what has been, and its measured fury for what may yet be. It is bewitching work of profound and prophetic vision. It's not really metal shacks anymore and there's not a lot to spend your money on. Halley Vi webcam. They jack up these pods to keep them above the snow. I don't think anyone overwinters at this one though. https://www.bas.ac.uk/data/our-data/images/webcams/halley-vi-webcam/ I used to have a webpage with different webcams on it and there was one pointing at Mawson. One day I looked at it (such is the exciting life I lead) and there was a penguin's face looking directly into the camera which was pretty funny.
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Guavanaut posted:Neutrino oscillation is a woke fantasy Could reverse that: Sweden is one of the top 10 arms exporters and US social policy is poo poo. So Asshurts probably meant to say Scandanavian military and US social & economic policy.
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I guess the crucial question is what the prices are like at the bar there. As you say, you aren't spending your money on much else.
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I've seen The Thing and read At The Mountains Of Madness and frankly I still would quite like to go to antarctica tbh. Both seem appealing prospects.
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big scary monsters posted:I suppose if you're going to overwinter in Antarctica you probably aren't doing it just for the money, but the flat rate £24,685 salary +10% bonus seems pretty bad for highly skilled work, spending a year entirely cut off from the world living in a metal shack in a frozen desert. Though on the upside your food and accommodation are paid and you've got plenty of time to organise an Antarctic workers' union. Well as you mention food and accomodation (and equipment) is free so it's not really all that bad. Though from what I've seen in a documentary the food is pushing use-by dates far past whats reasonable, along with unironically reusing leftovers in different meals over consecutive days. Obvious reasons but it's not great I imagine. Private Speech fucked around with this message at 02:16 on Feb 3, 2021 |
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There are the ancient, unknowable horrors from beyond the stars to consider. And also I know someone who worked a few seasons at McMurdo and their internet use was limited to a couple of text-only emails once a week.
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big scary monsters posted:There are the ancient, unknowable horrors from beyond the stars to consider. Yes I've seen BBC news occasionally as well.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Could reverse that: Sweden is one of the top 10 arms exporters and US social policy is poo poo. So Asshurts probably meant to say Scandanavian military and US social & economic policy. I doubt the var of piss could even point to Scandinavia on a map (he'd probably hit Rochdale). He comes across as one of those liberal cunts who thinks that the USA is something to aspire to, rather than - as most of the world sees it - something to nuke until nothing but glass or molten rock remains.
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big scary monsters posted:There are the ancient, unknowable horrors from beyond the stars to consider. And also I know someone who worked a few seasons at McMurdo and their internet use was limited to a couple of text-only emails once a week.
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Guavanaut posted:If their internet capacity has progressed at the same rate as the rest of the world and they're up to IRC and phpBB forums now then that sounds better than social media videoconferencing world. Fairly sure it's still over shortwave - too high a latitude for satellite, line-of-sight microwave is out for obvious reasons, and I seriously doubt anyone's arsed to lie an undersea fibre to them (and even if they did it still only ends up in Patagonia, not known for being a hotbed of connectivity). I'd be astonished if they have more than a megabit to play with and obviously that's shared between dozens of people and actual science works probably takes a chunk of that anyway. e: Huh, turns out they do have intermittent sat comms to McMurdo at least - they don't mention the pole but I'm fairly certain it's out of reach, not impossible they could actually have microwave from McMurdo to the pole though. goddamnedtwisto fucked around with this message at 03:03 on Feb 3, 2021 |
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The Question IRL posted:https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/northern-ireland-ports-brexit-eu-loyalists-b1796317.html gently caress whoever created that abbreviated headline for the URL with a splintered broomstick.
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Cap'n chat: Been reading up a bit, he was tested negative for covid-19 when going to Barbados, regularly while out there, and on returning. So I reckon he picked it up this side after coming back. He went into hospital January 12th before being diagnosed with pneumonia and I reckon he probably picked it up there - positive test came about 10 days later. (Was it on here someone said the doc didn't want their gran going into hospital because hospitals were super-spreader?) My FB actual friends newsfeed on it hasn't been too bad - just sharing news items mainly (apart from that thing I posted earlier from one of the former military brats groups I'm in), not much evidence of vexillosexuality or papaverphilia amongst them (though the latter gets a major outing in Novembers). So anyway, it's shameful the UK is in such a state he felt compelled to do it, but he did do it. So well done to him. Just feel a bit sad that the flagshaggers and tories will soil it and without a doubt Johnson will go up 5% in the polls next week on the back of it.
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What even would an equivalent British military of that size do? Patrol the Falklands? Cover Gibraltar in tinsel? Fortify Saint Nicholas of the Cats? The Question IRL posted:https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/northern-ireland-ports-brexit-eu-loyalists-b1796317.html Oh....
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Been busy getting focus groups to tell me what my views should be so I can authentically hold them.
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I'm still impressed at how many people are defending him. Maybe this is the governance they want. Tories for infinity, enriching themselves with the faint hope that they too can tory a little someday. Then an opposition that basically agrees with the same policies but does a little less torying. In the name of balance it comes along for 4 years every 20 and doesn't outstay its welcome.
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Yes but remember what Blair did. Works better than Ipecac.
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The thing about flag-wanking is that it is a popular stance among the general public, because most voters like that style of patriotism and like it when that's reflected by their politicians. I don't really mind left patriotism, so long as you actually use it to push left wing values. But Starmer is completely devoid of ideas to differentiate him from the other flag wavers. That's the critical problem here.
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Is this sort of unconscious sycophancy just a UK thing or present the world over? Just curious if other countries look at this kind of thing going on over here and just roll their eyes. Like everyone is tripping over themselves to praise him for "everything he did" when the reality is that he did a quaint but nice thing that the media machine grabbed ahold of and whored into a "good brand" that you were evil if you didn't provide fawning praise to. Like, we all know there's some smug gits at the top of the newspaper business having a meeting about how much money/viewers/readers the "Captain Tom" campaign they started has produced.
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A month in and they realise this is exactly the disaster they were warned about over and over again. Now they’re desperate to jump all over the vaccine import stuff to prove it’s the EU’s fault. https://twitter.com/bbclaurak/status/1356867587406241793?s=20
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peanut- posted:A month in and they realise this is exactly the disaster they were warned about over and over again. Now they’re desperate to jump all over the vaccine import stuff to prove it’s the EU’s fault. "I poo poo the bed! You should really change the sheets."
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Not So Fast posted:The thing about flag-wanking is that it is a popular stance among the general public, because most voters like that style of patriotism and like it when that's reflected by their politicians. I don't really mind left patriotism, so long as you actually use it to push left wing values. goddamnedtwisto posted:Fairly sure it's still over shortwave - too high a latitude for satellite, line-of-sight microwave is out for obvious reasons, and I seriously doubt anyone's arsed to lie an undersea fibre to them (and even if they did it still only ends up in Patagonia, not known for being a hotbed of connectivity). I'd be astonished if they have more than a megabit to play with and obviously that's shared between dozens of people and actual science works probably takes a chunk of that anyway. 14.4kbps should be good enough for the Internet of Avoiding Zoom Meetings.
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Kin posted:Is this sort of unconscious sycophancy just a UK thing or present the world over? Just curious if other countries look at this kind of thing going on over here and just roll their eyes. Most people everywhere are patriotic or nationalistic to some degree, it's innate to the human species. But the UK and the US seems to take it further than others. Also brexit is affecting me now, the only store I know of in Finland with UK/Aus/US food is basically out of everything I wanted to buy (malt vinegar, marmite and vegemite).
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Guavanaut posted:He's not found out what his authentically held values are yet. Surely the luxury yacht wankers just give £ridiculous/month to Inmarsat for something that Just Works over the vast majority of the ocean rather than potentially missing an important trade/merger/Bulgarian sex-slave auction because the ionosphere isn't playing ball?
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:british newspapers complete 100-lap wank I assume Boris would celebrate Cpt Tom's life, but he's too busy celebrating his mother. I also saw a few stories about other elderly people doing similar things, but they were neither white enough nor military enough for any of our fash press to give a poo poo about.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Surely the luxury yacht wankers just give £ridiculous/month to Inmarsat for something that Just Works over the vast majority of the ocean rather than potentially missing an important trade/merger/Bulgarian sex-slave auction because the ionosphere isn't playing ball? stev posted:This one looks like a magician competing on Britain's Got Talent.
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stev posted:Honestly I don't have anything against him personally but the fawning is just ridiculous. It's Poppywatch in human form. Indeed, I think he's a perfectly fine man and i'm glad he got to do his trip to barbados If only he had said "btw the tories suck rear end" during one of his TV interviews could you imagine the breakneck whiplash from the press as they did a full 180 and found out he did warcrimes
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Kin posted:Is this sort of unconscious sycophancy just a UK thing or present the world over? Just curious if other countries look at this kind of thing going on over here and just roll their eyes. Here in China it’s practically obligatory (and in the case of some stories it really IS obligatory!) Most people everywhere I’ve lived like to hear positive stories about people they can relate to. Goons are pretty unusual in NOT having a reflexively cheerful and upbeat (and naive) reaction to this kind of thing, and that gets us marked as miserable cynics by most normal folk.
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His Divine Shadow posted:Most people everywhere are patriotic or nationalistic to some degree, it's innate to the human species. But the UK and the US seems to take it further than others. Patriotism and nationalisim is a huge component to the UK. Look at how people were going nuts over the signing of “Rule Britannia.” Last year. Hell if you even take this thread as a microcosm of it think back to the debates about big N, Nationalism visa vie Scotland. Or even the Podcast with it’s opening theme tune(s). I don’t know what pieces of music are used but I recognise that they are designed to appeal to a part of the brain reserved for national anthems. (I really could feel a difference when they put the Deus Ex theme in it’s place on one of the more recent podcasts.) Speaking of good socialist media, season 2 of Snow Piercer is on Netflix. Andre mused the idea of naming his potential son Trotsky, which I found funny. (Should have gone with Lenin.)
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