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goddamnedtwisto posted:It's for coking coal, which is even more intriguing because that's about the lowest profit margin on coal you can get (you need a shitload of energy, plus expensive scrubbers, to turn coal into coke and it leaves a shitload of extravagantly toxic residue and there's just not that big a market for coke in western Europe any more). I'm deeply suspicious that this is the beginning of a process of "removing red tape" so we can become the China of Europe by just not giving a poo poo about pollution. Is it a strategic asset thing? Like I could have some sympathy for the argument that we should maintain the institutional knowledge and minimum amount of infrastructure required for an end-to-end steel making process entirely within the UK.
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a pipe smoking dog posted:has anyone had any luck buying glasses online? My frames are hosed and in an attempt at fixing them I manage to gently caress them even more by getting superglue on the lenses. I've got my prescription but it doesn't have my "pupillary distance" (how close together/far apart my eyes are) and I don't want to go into an opticians if they're even open because the idea of having someone get that close to my face is loving terrifying. You can measure that yourself pretty much the same way they do at an opticians - stand about 5 feet from a mirror wearing your old glasses, look yourself in the eyes (this might be the trickiest part for some) and use a dry-wipe marker to mark the centre of your vision in each eye, then measure the distance between the dots The tricky part (and the bit where having a helper do it for you really helps) is keeping your attention on the distant you rather than on the approaching pen (bring the pen up at an angle rather than going straight in), and even if you get the distance perfect the glasses will still be a little imperfect because the new frames will sit slightly differently on your nose and most faces are asymmetric, but in an emergency it'll have to do.
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Vitamin P posted:This misuse of Captain Britain imagery must not stand, OG Cap Brit rejected Excalibur and that's why he became a hero The ironic thing is, at the moment Brian Braddock (the on-again/off-again Captain Britain) has a beard and looks more like a younger, swoller Jeremy Corbyn than he does Sir Keir Ktammer*.  Source: Avengers (2018) # 11. * = In the tradition of Stan Lee I did the double Initial thing for Keir.
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peanut- posted:Is it a strategic asset thing? Like I could have some sympathy for the argument that we should maintain the institutional knowledge and minimum amount of infrastructure required for an end-to-end steel making process entirely within the UK. This would make more sense if the Tories hadn't let the UK steel industry go to the wall
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peanut- posted:Is it a strategic asset thing? Like I could have some sympathy for the argument that we should maintain the institutional knowledge and minimum amount of infrastructure required for an end-to-end steel making process entirely within the UK. Maybe, but there's dozens, if not hundreds, of other things we'd have to protect or re-learn for that. I think the simplest explanation is just that this is marginal farmland that just happens to be on top of a particularly good deposit and the landowner wants to extract more rent from it, mixed with Owning The Libs and Bold International Britain.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:https://www.gumtree.com/p/property-...65cK8sJYV2Oge94 Thought I'd seen this somewhere: https://www.vice.com/en/article/bvxpb4/hover-bed-notting-hill-london-rental-opportunity
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MikeCrotch posted:This would make more sense if the Tories hadn't let the UK steel industry go to the wall We still have a steel industry, it just consists of hacking bits off the Imperial German fleet at Scapa Flow. (I joke but we do actually have a small steel industry, mostly high-quality specialist alloys - but these don't use much, if any, coke because they start with recycled steel and iron and use arc furnaces and graphite to much more precisely control the process. It sounds ridiculous but it's taken the Chinese almost 3 decades of research to crack the steelmaking process required to make ballpoint pen nibs, and there are hundreds of these weird little specialist processes and companies that specialise in them)
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goddamnedtwisto posted:You can measure that yourself pretty much the same way they do at an opticians - stand about 5 feet from a mirror wearing your old glasses, look yourself in the eyes (this might be the trickiest part for some) and use a dry-wipe marker to mark the centre of your vision in each eye, then measure the distance between the dots I feel like the tricky part would be reaching the mirror
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Skarsnik posted:I feel like the tricky part would be reaching the mirror You mark it on the glasses, should have made that clear.
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You can also just have a friend measure the distance with a wooden ruler, it's about the only optometry measurement (other than number of eyes) that can be done without any special equipment.
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I got a pair from glasses direct and just left the pupilary distance as 'i dunno' They've been great for what it's worth
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When I get the vaccine its going to be optician, barbers, and pub. In that order. Bought glasses online a few years back and seem to remember some tool that used your webcam to do the measurements for your pupils and the like.
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Jesus Christ just lol if you didn’t have a crisis about mortality in like may, get over it and not give a gently caress about dying anymore. Being able to work from home hosed some of you up almost as much as not being able to did the rest of us.
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MikeCrotch posted:He was on stage clapping when ex-MP Laura Smith called for a general strike at 2018 The World Transformed He's got my vote
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The Question IRL posted:The ironic thing is, at the moment Brian Braddock (the on-again/off-again Captain Britain) has a beard and looks more like a younger, swoller Jeremy Corbyn than he does Sir Keir Ktammer*. I've been reading through *all of Marvel from Fantastic Four #1 for nearly 2 years and am nearly up to 1990. I already want to go back and reread the Alan Moore Captain Britain stuff (The Daredevils in particular was a cool book because as well as including Moore's Cap and Miller's Daredevil you get Alan Moore writing about stuff. Like him going to a convention or him reviewing fanzines which was so loving cool). *All in this case basically meaning main 616 continuity that is on Marvel Unlimited or I can find  of. And that isn't super powering, for instance Werewolf By Night in the 70s quickly became a must skip. See, he turns into a dog and he's called Jack Russell, geddit?
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crispix posted:what on earth was happening inside that first lady's head when she went to a petrol station
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Feb 4, 2021 12:23
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Grey Hunter posted:Starmer has never been the person to lead Labor into the next election Well yeah, the Australian Labor Party's leader is some chap called Tony apparently  (Though google suggests he's not going to be leading that party into its next election either...)
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a pipe smoking dog posted:has anyone had any luck buying glasses online? My frames are hosed and in an attempt at fixing them I manage to gently caress them even more by getting superglue on the lenses. I've got my prescription but it doesn't have my "pupillary distance" (how close together/far apart my eyes are) and I don't want to go into an opticians if they're even open because the idea of having someone get that close to my face is loving terrifying. As said, Glasses Direct will let you try at home then send back. If you check MoneySavingExpert they often have voucher codes for Glasses Direct too so you get 2 pairs for £15 or whatever the deal is.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:We still have a steel industry, it just consists of hacking bits off the Imperial German fleet at Scapa Flow. Reminds me how it's easier to build space rockets than it is to make high-performance jet engines due to the bonkers metallurgy involved. Fighter jet engine manufacturing is one of the areas China is still far behind both NATO countries and Russia.
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feedmegin posted:Well yeah, the Australian Labor Party's leader is some chap called Tony apparently I'm dyslexic. These things happen.
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MikeCrotch posted:Reminds me how it's easier to build space rockets than it is to make high-performance jet engines due to the bonkers metallurgy involved. Fighter jet engine manufacturing is one of the areas China is still far behind both NATO countries and Russia. 
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MikeCrotch posted:Reminds me how it's easier to build space rockets than it is to make high-performance jet engines due to the bonkers metallurgy involved. Fighter jet engine manufacturing is one of the areas China is still far behind both NATO countries and Russia. otoh they stole the f35 design, looked at it and went "this is loving stupid" and made it better
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a pipe smoking dog posted:has anyone had any luck buying glasses online? My frames are hosed and in an attempt at fixing them I manage to gently caress them even more by getting superglue on the lenses. I've got my prescription but it doesn't have my "pupillary distance" (how close together/far apart my eyes are) and I don't want to go into an opticians if they're even open because the idea of having someone get that close to my face is loving terrifying. Hi, I worked as a qualified Ophthalmic tech for 10+ years (left the trade because of increasing automation making it dull). Part of my qualification is dispensing based. Option 1) Contact your Opticians and request the information. They should have it recorded, and they have to release it as it's part of your personal data. Option 2) Get another person to make the measurement. It's very easy! Take your specs off, have them stand at arm's length with a ruler, look at them as best as you can in ONE EYE (This is important, as if you look at their other eye, your pupils move!) They then place the ruler against your face above your pupils, and measure the distance between the INSIDE edge of one pupil to the OUTSIDE edge of the other. Mirrors don't work, as they fool your focal length. You also can't do it with your specs on, because your specs cause a natural prismatic shift that can cause a huge variation. You also can't measure yourself, because you need to look at both eyes, which results in you naturally shifting your pupils, as described above. Option 3) Let me know your RX, height, ethnic origin, and give me a photo of your face (happy to do it over PMs). From that, I can take a good guesstimate. (I was good at it enough at one point to eyeball PDs for patients like kids, who are awful to try and measure up.) Option 4) If your RX is low (+/- 0.50 with a cylindrical power close to 90 degrees) You can take a punt at around 62mm, which is about average for distance vision in an adult bio-male, or 60mm for bio-female. If you have any questions at all, I'm more than glad to help.
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Convex posted:Well yes, old people do not like change regression is change. change we can believe in.
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Thanks for all the glasses advice. I've got a massive head so I was genuinely concerned that if I just guessed it I'd end up with a comically small pair of glasses. I'll get the missus to help me out later, and as my eyes aren't all that bad hopefully we'll get close enough that it shouldn't cause any problems.
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a pipe smoking dog posted:Thanks for all the glasses advice. I've got a massive head so I was genuinely concerned that if I just guessed it I'd end up with a comically small pair of glasses. As long as you're not exceeding +/-1.50 in either eye along the 180 axis (Horizontal), the prismatic effect of being a few mm out really isn't that bad. You might get occasional headaches from wearing if you're way out, or a little bit of double vision because you're essentially wearing lenses with prisms. The closer to correct, the better, though. I would say that getting a full check up, etc once things go back to normal (lol) should be near the top of your priorities. Fun science fact: one of the ways to correct inward or outward turning eyes in kids is to deliberately prescribe lenses with prisms counter to the direction of their eyes. That forces the still-young muscles to over-work, and eventually naturally corrects the problem.
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crispix posted:change these days young ones these days isn't like it was in my days them days good old days, we had good, proper change back then them days Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. Anything that's invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.
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Young people have undisciplined eye muscles nowadays from looking at the reddits instead of unshielded lathe equipment. 
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Guavanaut posted:Young people have undisciplined eye muscles nowadays from looking at the reddits instead of unshielded lathe equipment. You probably wouldn't be surprised, but young kids (4-6) who are glued to screens all day rather than having varied activities have some really hosed up eyes by the time they're teens.
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Gort posted:Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things. This is why I will be refusing the covid vaccine.
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https://twitter.com/shirleymush/status/1357245641680953346?s=21
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Police state labour leader whose job it is to do police states attacked by liberal publication whose job it is to undermine labour leaders, it's like two nonces brawling in a waste lagoon.
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peanut- posted:Genuinely why are we opening a coal mine. Is it profitable? I grew up in the North East and there are still a LOT of gammons who think if you opened up the pits again then all of the communities that had the heart ripped out of them by Thatcher would magically heal themselves overnight. Same for a lot of historically coal-reliant areas like parts of Wales. The kind of people Boris is targetting will lap this up. When Blair hosed the party's working class roots out of the window it enabled Cameron to come along with a two tier party identity for the conservatives - a public facing identity of being 'the party of hard working people' with a substantial wink to their business / turbowealthy donors. Things like this, the coal mines, the red wall stuff is just trying to capture the vacated working class roots of the Labour party. Thanks to Keith, it's working. And on the flip side you have a Labour party which is so utterly devoid of [zizek]ideology[/zizek] and is propped up by (probably tory) focus groups, and desperately trying to work out if it should throw flags or immigrants at the oncoming train. It's like playing Civ on easy and realising your opponent's entire army is engaged in a bunch of border skirmishes, so you march in and take their capital leaving them scattered. There was a brief  of some kind of Lab Dem fightback when keith threw a bone to the unions over British Gas, but doubtlessly the focus groups shouted at him until he went back to flagwanking. Love to pay what would be a month's rent elsewhere ten years ago to be killed by a falling bed. Jamie, if you're listening I am ordering 7 Normal Island tees and intend to just rotate them daily from now on.
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