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Josef bugman posted:Y'all want to feel old? This no longer happens to me since I went 'i'm old'
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I'm still baffled that I've had mine already when I'm young-ish and not in the 'extremely vulnerable' category, but I guess my local vaccine centre defrosted a bunch more Pfizer ones than they needed by mistake and offered them to whoever the hell would take them. Actually, that would make sense given I got the call on a Saturday morning to go in for an appointment at 2pm the same day.
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multijoe posted:Starmei: Analytical Please, the image clearly says "Hegelian"
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feedmegin posted:Edit: that said I think 5% was lowballing it. They were smart enough to know about different strains of yeast and to have some idea of 'this one makes better wine than the other one', same as with sourdough starters, so I can absolutely see them getting up to like the 10% range at least rather than just letting fruit get mouldy in the sun and see what happens. That's exactly what they did except the Romans realised that sunlight was a bad idea - they built big 3-sided sheds, open to the north, because they realised early on that sunlight was a bad idea (it tends to kill the yeast, which tended to live at the top, but not the other fungus and bugs, which lived at the bottom) but leaving the juice open to the air tended to give more reliable results. They didn't know this until the invention of the microscope, but what was happening was that the natural yeast of the area would blow in, meaning that it effectively homogenised the yeast culture - not leaving them open to the air restricted them to the yeast actually living on the individual vines, which varied massively. This, rather than individual microclimates or soil chemistry, is why certain areas initially became dominant in winemaking, because the local yeast mixture was more conducive to good wine (or at least the other local microorganisms didn't gently caress wines up too much). This is also why there's so much ritual around when and if to remove the skins and pulp from the raw pressed juice, as again the local microbiome could help or hurt the finished product massively and these were workarounds to promote or suppress bits of it. It's not impossible that some areas did have natural yeasts capable of going past 8% but it's going to be hit and miss as hell. Actual deliberate addition of yeast doesn't seem to have started until the Middle Ages with beer makers (and then wineries surreptitiously doing it for years while pretending they weren't) and specifically breeding yeasts for brewing didn't happen until it all got industrialised in the 1800s. (source: some History Channel show I ended up watching in a hotel in Amsterdam because it was pissing with rain and for... some reason... I was having particular problems getting out of bed which is about the only thing I remember from that particular weekend)
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Feb 23, 2021 18:33
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feedmegin posted:I mean, you definitely took the expensive option, but probably also the less COVID-y option? Tubes and buses - outside of the somewhat extended rush hours - are absolutely empty right now.
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Feb 23, 2021 18:36
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Anyone else finding it hard to focus at the moment? I've been like this all month. "Multi-tasking" ha. (Tasks include poo poo-posting here and Facebook, rearranging photos - real and digital, trying to read complex books and failing so procrastinating by reading productivity books and blogs, watching the entire Game of Thrones from S1E1 to S8 E6 - hadn't seen it before, now I have, and now half way through the entire Little Mosque on the Prairie series.) Had a 1 hour zoom meeting this afternoon and have pissed away over 2 hours creating an invoice template for the client as new chargeable client with new project and figuring out how to display what I did and find the dates of the assorted zoom meetings we've had this month (lesson learned - I'll write the times down in future on the spreadsheet). Detail is needed as charity client is hoping for extra funding and it will need to be begged for as it becomes clear why a consultancy wanted £20k to do the work which the charity simply does not have! Once someone had dug out an ancient copy of Office 2002 so I could get into the gubbins, I did screen shots of the Access database to show the project overseer, currently using 200+ tables, nearly 700 queries, and spaghetti junction in 10 dimensions. I'm already doing shed-loads of unpaid website and related work for them. This is a paid project as it's now pretty crucial so dedicated time not volunteer 'when I can be bothered' time is needed.
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Feb 23, 2021 18:47
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Extremely. I really need to get going on some freelance work but even when I do try it's like ten minutes on four hours off, and the clock is ticking away We're all sat in a pressure cooker, it's always going to be hard to get poo poo done. I also don't really sleep without powerful drugs at this point so that doesn't help Anyway, it sounds like you're being productive still, maybe you just need to prune off some tasks if possible and have less on your plate?
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Feb 23, 2021 18:53
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I mean, this was me yesterday:Doctor_Fruitbat posted:Woke up this morning and thought "oh good, it's Sunday" followed by "no wait, it's a workday, can't believe it's only Tuesday". Not really sure what to do about it, but hey, at least we're in it together, or something. E: I've discovered the joys of red wine at least, as I briefly got bored of rum and decided to root around and see what else was in the house.
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Feb 23, 2021 18:58
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Feb 23, 2021 19:12
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Gyro Zeppeli posted:Sweet, got my appointment on Monday to get vacc'd. Turns out I got moved up the list cuz I'm my mother's carer. Josef bugman posted:Y'all want to feel old?  feedmegin posted:Having done home brewing myself - you can only get so far, even with specially cultured yeast, without inventing distilling. Yeast just can't live above a certain ABV. You're not going to get above about what the strongest red wine is today (14% maybe?) because biology  Anyway, thanks to wine chat+long day I've cracked my last bottle of cheap French red from the last time I visited my family, will be a while before I can stock up
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Feb 23, 2021 19:19
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Anyone else finding it hard to focus at the moment? I started a new job in early Jan and while I won't complain for one moment about how extremely privileged I am to move in to a more secure sector the combination of being alone in a job that is relatively isolated already (computer touching), not knowing anyone and also unsure if I'm doing the Right Amount of work for people is causing extreme levels of anxiety which makes focusing hard. With all that anxiety I just keep spiralling in to a bottle of wine most nights which is hardly healthy... So I could do with more help with my mental health but it just feels like help doesn't exist? The NHS in that regard essentially doesn't exist in my area. Sorry, your comment made me vent about myself I know I'm hardly the only person in this position.
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Feb 23, 2021 19:23
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SpicePro posted:I started a new job in early Jan and while I won't complain for one moment about how extremely privileged I am to move in to a more secure sector the combination of being alone in a job that is relatively isolated already (computer touching), not knowing anyone and also unsure if I'm doing the Right Amount of work for people is causing extreme levels of anxiety which makes focusing hard. With all that anxiety I just keep spiralling in to a bottle of wine most nights which is hardly healthy... vent away - I don't mind! Helps to know others are having the same problem! The young mums on my FB (well my niece's - she's got a 5 yr old and many of her friends are similar) are all saying that their kids have just had it with zoom or whatever lessons.
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Feb 23, 2021 19:25
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Regarde Aduck posted:This no longer happens to me since I went 'i'm old' Old enough to contract COVID, but too young to be vaccinated against COVID. Truly the optimal age
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Feb 23, 2021 19:31
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:vent away - I don't mind! Helps to know others are having the same problem! I felt the same way about face to face school as well to be fair (ages 5-18)
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Feb 23, 2021 19:31
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:vent away - I don't mind! Helps to know others are having the same problem! I can't begin to imagine what it must be like to have kids during this time but then again being alone like myself has it's issues. *I'm* done with zoom myself for socialising there is just something uncomfortable about it for me even if I'm with good company. It is quite funny seeing little ones zoombomb parents when I'm in a work meeting though haha (I'm sure they hate it).
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Feb 23, 2021 19:33
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SpicePro posted:I can't begin to imagine what it must be like to have kids during this time but then again being alone like myself has it's issues. *I'm* done with zoom myself for socialising there is just something uncomfortable about it for me even if I'm with good company. A few of us were discussing on FB how since New Year the zoom (or equivalent) socializing is taking a dive. We seem to be withdrawing into ourselves more. The written interactions of status updates and comments on FB or here or whatever are more 'user friendly' right now, taking it at your own pace instead of the immediacy of a live conversations (video or audio). I've a friend who likes to write me long letters (she's not on any sort of social media - very very introverted), another one came this afternoon. Takes me ages to reply (by email, I'm just not that great at letter writing, not to mention remembering to go buy stamps and actually post the wretched things) but she's ok with that.
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Feb 23, 2021 19:38
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When I'm not working, my time is spent drifting between playing games, watching Youtube videos, browsing the SA forums, checking the news and scrolling through Twitter, while also reading a few pages of a book every now and then. With every day the same, concentrating on anything seems... unimportant?
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Feb 23, 2021 19:44
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I've seen a similar decline in social interaction, back during lockdown one I think I had 3 or 4 regular zoom 'pubs' or other gatherings over a few social groups but we are now lucky to have something once a month. I've not even visited my bubble since Christmas but that's mainly due to the fact I've been going in to the office and being face to face with contractors (not had much choice) so I'm unwilling to put my friends in danger (even if the office meetings are distanced and masked). I think I'm turning in to one of those pensioners that talks for a little bit too long to the shopkeep when I visit for some social interaction! TRIXNET fucked around with this message at 19:47 on Feb 23, 2021 |
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Feb 23, 2021 19:45
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Don't forget it is February - every indicator of mental state, even in the best of times, is at its lowest ebb in everyone at this time of year. It's been cold and dark for months, it feels like it's going to be cold and dark for months more. I've had good results by picking the most boring, repetitive tasks that I normally hate doing and just throwing myself into them because it turns out, for me at least, the inability to focus on more complex tasks dovetails quite nicely with things that require almost no focus.
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When lockdown 1 hit I badgered all my friends into getting tabletop simulator and we fairly seemlessly moved from going IRL board game saturdays to discord hangout TTS saturdays, not everyone's hung about since but it's kept a skeleton of normality and social interaction alive. Online gaming in general has just been a godsend over the last years, I end up speaking to a few people now more than I used to between various game evenings
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Feb 23, 2021 19:50
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Don't forget it is February - every indicator of mental state, even in the best of times, is at its lowest ebb in everyone at this time of year. It's been cold and dark for months, it feels like it's going to be cold and dark for months more. I've had good results by picking the most boring, repetitive tasks that I normally hate doing and just throwing myself into them because it turns out, for me at least, the inability to focus on more complex tasks dovetails quite nicely with things that require almost no focus. We had an uncharacteristically warm and sunny day over the weekend and ended up walking about ten miles all around the city, and honestly it was the best day I've had in months. The weather really boosted my mood like no-one's business, and getting the vaccine too made it really felt like, just maybe, we might be on the home stretch. just let me have this
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multijoe posted:When lockdown 1 hit I badgered all my friends into getting tabletop simulator and we fairly seemlessly moved from going IRL board game saturdays to discord hangout TTS saturdays, not everyone's hung about since but it's kept a skeleton of normality and social interaction alive. Online gaming in general has just been a godsend over the last years, I end up speaking to a few people now more than I used to between various game evenings aye, i play apex. we had tabletop games going but man i think it's even harder to be creative in these conditions.
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Feb 23, 2021 19:52
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Me and my friends have a weekly online poker game, $5 buy in. We all play really loosely, have a lot of fun, and for all of us it's genuinely the highlight of our weeks.
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Feb 23, 2021 19:57
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In a way, with the surprisingly successful, rollout of the vaccines, those of us yet to be called up are in a sort of 'waiting room' mentality, idly flipping through ancient copies of Hello or Gardeners World magazines or scrolling through facebook feed. I feel much flatter this week (but not, alas, in the tummy zone) than previously. I'm in Band 7, my sister is in Band 6 (Welsh priorities) so we've decided that whoever gets the call first - she's younger than me but got 'conditions' - we're going to call the place and see if we can go together (otherwise it's 2 x 50 mile round trip instead of 1 x 50 mile round trip).
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Feb 23, 2021 19:58
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:In a way, with the surprisingly successful, rollout of the vaccines, those of us yet to be called up are in a sort of 'waiting room' mentality, idly flipping through ancient copies of Hello or Gardeners World magazines or scrolling through facebook feed. I feel much flatter this week (but not, alas, in the tummy zone) than previously. I'm in Band 7, my sister is in Band 6 (Welsh priorities) so we've decided that whoever gets the call first - she's younger than me but got 'conditions' - we're going to call the place and see if we can go together (otherwise it's 2 x 50 mile round trip instead of 1 x 50 mile round trip).
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Post lockdown is going to be worse than lockdown for me I think. Over the past year everybody I would normally hang out with in person has moved away. Its not noticeable now because we're all stuck at home anyway but when things open up and I have nobody around to do stuff with, that will not be fun.
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The Perfect Element posted:Me and my friends have a weekly online poker game, $5 buy in. We all play really loosely, have a lot of fun, and for all of us it's genuinely the highlight of our weeks. The amount of people I've had ask me to teach them how to play D&D since this whole thing started has really skyrocketed (from its previous base of a big fat stinkin' zero)
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Borrovan posted:When my girlfriend's dad got jabbed (in England, fwiw) he commented that it was strange that he got it before his older wife, and they said he should have just brought her along, they had capacity to spare. Might be worth chancing it anyway, just on the offchance. She tried that when her husband who is 67 got the jab but they said no. Also, because she's under 60, if she didn't have conditions she'd be down for the Oxford jab which is giving her major anxiety. She called her GP to see if he could get her shifted on to the Pfizer but he said no, so she gave him chapter and verse on various things she has to do involving care for various people (she being one of the few car drivers in our local family) and his helpful advice was "Get on to social services then" and "I've nothing to do with how the vaccinations are allocated." She called the mass vacc centre in Cwmbran in the end and the woman was very sympathetic about her anxiety and other things and we THINK she's going to get called to the pfizer centre. Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 20:22 on Feb 23, 2021 |
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Miftan posted:The amount of people I've had ask me to teach them how to play D&D since this whole thing started has really skyrocketed (from its previous base of a big fat stinkin' zero) My missus is starting a second D&D campaign with our mates this weekend, but I just don't have the mental energy for levelling up and all that poo poo. I'm gonna spend that time just noodling bad jazz-fusion solos over Steely Dan/Weather Report backing tracks
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Feb 23, 2021 20:22
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Labour loving about and trying to lose Liverpool is loving incredible.
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ThomasPaine posted:We had an uncharacteristically warm and sunny day over the weekend and ended up walking about ten miles all around the city, and honestly it was the best day I've had in months. The weather really boosted my mood like no-one's business, and getting the vaccine too made it really felt like, just maybe, we might be on the home stretch. Yeah, it's the flimsiest of anecdata but seeing my RVS callouts for people in isolation dropping from every 5 minutes in the middle of January to maybe one every two hours this week has been a small bright spot for me, even if it is removing one of my best ways of getting away from the doomscroll.
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https://twitter.com/NotNihal/status/1364266419970531329 Presented with minimal comment: lol
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Continuity NIP posted:https://twitter.com/NotNihal/status/1364266419970531329 She'd have to quit Labour then wouldn't she. (It's against the Rule Book so if she doesn't quit they'll kick her out. Probably. As she's a lefty.)
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If the SCG had any spine they'd form a Change UK splinter org and put this party out its loving misery
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:She'd have to quit Labour then wouldn't she. (It's against the Rule Book so if she doesn't quit they'll kick her out. Probably. As she's a lefty.) Everyone has to quit Labour anyway, because it's bad & not worth giving money to. multijoe posted:If the SCG had any spine they'd form a Change UK splinter org and put this party out its loving misery Hard agree. Between them & some the unions withdrawing from funding Labour to fund them, we could do some real loving damage. It'd be great.
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Also have been looking through some old PC Review magazine scans and came across this: I'd forgotten about the moustache tbh
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If the Tories win Liverpool, it's the left's fault for not unconditionally supporting sensible centrism 
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Quality Glasgow band Mogwai have a new album out, As the Love Continues, another beezer of a record in a career chock full of nothing else. And as it stands today, they find themselves in the unlikely position of being contenders for the UK #1 Album this week, going by early sales. Which is funny. So if you happen to enjoy rock music it's well worth buying, before Friday. It's a band who once wrote a song called George Square Thatcher Death Party, so you know they are good eggs. Here's a tune from the new record: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=styy5THdQcM & another one, recorded just up the road from where I used to stay in Glasgow I know it's the opposite of important but it really is a very good band. forkboy84 fucked around with this message at 21:57 on Feb 23, 2021 |
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forkboy84 posted:Quality Glasgow band Mogwai have a new album out, As the Love Continues, another beezer of a record in a career chock full of nothing else. Holy poo poo, I didn't know this was happening so thanks. Saw them in Edinburgh doing their Atomic live show with all the visuals back when that came out, and it was one of the more transcendent bits of live music I've ever experienced. Rock Action was also the album that guided me through the end of secondary school, and helped me not study for finals. Will be spinning this all weekend
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