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Brendan Rodgers posted:There's no way that meteor thing is right. Out of the current human population, 10k of us will die to meteors? We get a K/T-boundary size meteor hitting the earth approximately every 27 million years, so across a 70-year lifespan every human on earth has a 1-in-386,000 of being killed by one (presumably the person who compiled the list used a slightly different measure for the likelihood of impact and/or lifespan). Also I had my first AZ dose yesterday (brazenly jumping the queue by spending 4 hours in high-viz doing a job that could easily done by a bit of paper stuck to the wall) and today I feel like I've got one of those teenage hangovers where you're convinced you're alright until the moment you move. Unfortunately for this thread it means I've run out of the rest of SA to read so I'm back.
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peanut- posted:We have moved beyond Churchill and found the new nadir of the culture war Mayer, M., 1966. They Thought They Were Free
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I am glad you are back twisto.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Unfortunately for this thread it means I've run out of the rest of SA to read so I'm back. Sorry for our loss. just kidding, glad you’re back and congrats on your jabbing!
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Brendan Rodgers posted:There's no way that meteor thing is right. Out of the current human population, 10k of us will die to meteors? It's facebook garbage op, it not having any relation to reality is completely normal.
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peanut- posted:One of the Forgotten Weapons videos on the SA80 told me that the design team was 26 people, of which literally none had ever fired a rifle before. The one on the L96A1 is also great, where a couple of guys in a garage designed and built a legitimately brilliant sniper rifle for sport shooting and then the government gave them a contract to supply the entire british military without checking whether they had a factory to actually fufill the orders. This does seem to be a recurring theme of british history when you think about it.
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fridge corn posted:Not all domestic abuse is physical gently caress off, fridge corn.
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https://twitter.com/NotNihal/status/1372584862000017418 Up the NIP! (as long as they don't platform TERFs and fash).
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Angepain posted:We've consulted our best soothsayers and 2024 is going to be interesting I can't tell if this means the Irish Reunification is going to go very well or very badly.
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Everyones a pedestrian but not many people are motorcyclists, that list seems dubious. like ok maybe motorbike accident includes people crashed into by the motorbike but wouldnt they be considered pedestrians? Makes no sense. What if a horse, a bicycle and a motorbike had a coming together and crashed into a pedestrian just as they were fleeing a bee dog fight only to be struck by a meteorite?
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learnincurve posted:Hello I’m poor, on benefits and need the extra loan and bursary money so she can go to university and also eat food. Breath Ray is a piece of poo poo who most everyone has on ignore for good reason. You're a great parent and I hope I can do as well by my kids.
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fridge corn posted:Not all domestic abuse is physical This isn't funny
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I listened a new Adam Curtis interviewon Chapo today where he discussed Can't get you out of my Head. What is the threads opinion on the series? I think his points on individualism are quite prescient, and there's nothing in todays media really talking about culture, other than how big your flag is, and how often we should gently caress it. I remember there are posters quite down on Curtis for not coming out with solutions or remedies for society, but watching the dirst part if the series now, it feels more wider in scope and a bit more optimistic than Hypernomalization. On Chapo he talked about how culture is a nursery for radicalism and that all of our individual lifestyles mean we are too scared to want any new type of radicalism, becauss it means losing our comforts. Does anyone else talk about it? Is there more to read in this idea?
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nary a day goes by when i'm not tickled by the fact that this is what so many cunts spent 5 years sabotaging corbyn's leadership for. just keith doing nothing lol. just looking pink, beady, confused and moist
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crispix posted:nary a day goes by when i'm not tickled by the fact that this is what so many cunts spent 5 years sabotaging corbyn's leadership for. just keith doing nothing lol. just looking pink, beady, confused and moist They just want power. Nae loving clue what to do with it when they get it but they just know they need it.
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crispix posted:nary a day goes by when i'm not tickled by the fact that this is what so many cunts spent 5 years sabotaging corbyn's leadership for. just keith doing nothing lol. just looking pink, beady, confused and moist they got to keep their jobs they dont give a single poo poo about hte country lol
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Mar 19, 2021 12:11
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Just some light bantz about abuse, deprivation and just trying to survive
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Gonzo McFee posted:They just want power. Nae loving clue what to do with it when they get it but they just know they need it. well they need it so they can be sure someone else can’t do anything else with it
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Mar 19, 2021 12:27
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If they weren't MPs there might be a risk they would have to get a real job.
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Mar 19, 2021 12:28
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The Perfect Element posted:Other than suffering from a minor case of embarrassment, she is unscathed. Me and my SO was once conned by an italian when we where over there, but his con was dependant on me having cash and we only had 20 euros on us. Afterwards we felt pretty dumb because we realized almost immediately after he left. We had been at a park and it started raining so we looked for shelter near a gas station. The con went like, he came up and asked where we were from. When we said Finland he launched into a few finnish words and said his wife was from a finnish city (and not the capital but a smaller city) and proceeded to say he was out of gas money and he was a clothes designer and could he trade these clothes for some gas money, he wanted like a 100 euros but being finnish we don't carry much cash even abroad. Anyway he took the 20 euros and we got a lovely pleather coat and a bag out of it.
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gh0stpinballa posted:This is actually quite an interesting take. I'm something of a Mafia amateur historian, I'd never considered this angle before. Only thing I'd say is the Sicilian Mafia at one time very much viewed itself as a shadow state, or state within a state I guess. An informal instrument of local government. I don't know too much about Highland clans, I would assume the English chose favourites and used them to suppress other more troublesome clans though, again as an instrument of local government in a sense. The clans weren't exactly united as a polity, so there were both pro- and anti- Jacobite clans fighting in the '45 rebellion for instance, but they all shared the ability to raise significant numbers of fighting men very quickly, and so the whole system needed to be dismantled regardless of whether any individual clan was loyalist or not. The state demands monopoly on the use of force, and having a sleeping independent army in your hinterland is just too destabilising for any state to bear. Thinking of things in terms of "The English" is also probably a misleading perspective, too. There's an occasional Braveheart-esque desire to put the Scottish and Irish experiences in the same category of English colonialisation and oppression but (say this very quietly now) plenty of us Scots were and always have been pretty happy and complicit with English suzerainty. The Irish and Scottish experiences really don't compare at all and talking about "The English" as if they're the brutal, oppressive plantation exploiters doesn't really track with Scottish history the way it does in Ireland. English overlordship was always much smarter in Scotland, smart enough that they knew to leave powerful, loyalist, lowland Scots in charge, so when you see big uprisings (like the '45), bear in mind it's not some outburst of Scottish nationalist fervour against the English tyrants but something much messier and internecine.
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His Divine Shadow posted:I developed fever chills last night and slept under several blankets, then around 3-4 in the morning I was burning up instead. Now I am feeling just sorta drained all over. Injection site is sore as well. I sure hope the 2nd jab isn't worse... Iirc if you've actually had the 'roni the first injection can have the extra unpleasant side effects. So could be that? Edit: the Campbells were famously pro-government so yeah there was definitely side picking going on there from the government
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Lungboy posted:https://twitter.com/NotNihal/status/1372584862000017418
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I had a few people try cons while I was in Thailand on holiday, but they were all pretty much identical to scenarios my guide book said were cons. Fair play to the dude in full army get-up on a hot Bangkok day, following me around for 30 minutes trying to persuade me to take his 'excellent tour' of the city. I did get told to get off my train at the wrong station, after dark, by a Buddhist monk, though. What a oval office.
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Brendan Rodgers posted:There's no way that meteor thing is right. Out of the current human population, 10k of us will die to meteors? That's not how probability works any given human has a 1 in 7 million chance of dying in a meteor incident which if that was a completely independent chance for everyone then it would be about 10k people but, barring a person being struck by a small meteorite and dying from the direct impact, in a large scale incident many people will be affected so the probabilities are linked.
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NotJustANumber99 posted:What if a horse, a bicycle and a motorbike had a coming together and crashed into a pedestrian just as they were fleeing a bee dog fight only to be struck by a meteorite?
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Lungboy posted:https://twitter.com/NotNihal/status/1372584862000017418 They have driven minorities out of their party for speaking against platforming TERFs and Fash, or more specifically for doubting the wisdom of their leader when he said that it's the only way to defeat them.
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kingturnip posted:I had a few people try cons while I was in Thailand on holiday, but they were all pretty much identical to scenarios my guide book said were cons. Fair play to the dude in full army get-up on a hot Bangkok day, following me around for 30 minutes trying to persuade me to take his 'excellent tour' of the city.
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TACD posted:would you rather be struck by a bike-sized horse or a horse-sized bike Bike-sized horse. I've been headbutted by a miniature Shetland pony, and it was mildly painful but mostly adorable. Also, they have a far lower top speed. 
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SHOW YOURSELF DAWN YOU COWARD WE KNOW YOU'RE HERE! https://twitter.com/DawnHFoster/status/1372655182295793664
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Rumda posted:They have driven minorities out of their party for speaking against platforming TERFs and Fash, or more specifically for doubting the wisdom of their leader when he said that it's the only way to defeat them. Our leaders are a trans woman and a gay man, we're not driving minorities out.
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I still enjoy that that photo was taken a few miles away from me.
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Lord of the Llamas posted:SHOW YOURSELF DAWN YOU COWARD WE KNOW YOU'RE HERE! Why do goons always assume every Twitter bit started here? The Kelly cartoon is well known
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forkboy84 posted:Why do goons always assume every Twitter bit started here? The Kelly cartoon is well known ukmt exceptionalism
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His Divine Shadow posted:I developed fever chills last night and slept under several blankets, then around 3-4 in the morning I was burning up instead. Now I am feeling just sorta drained all over. Injection site is sore as well. I sure hope the 2nd jab isn't worse... Yeah I have this after my 1st AZ shot earlier in the week. Woke up freezing cold, then a couple of hours later boiling, kept alternating for about 10 hours with a bit of a headache too. Paracetamol helped, and I was mostly fine after 24h or so.
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forkboy84 posted:Why do goons always assume every Twitter bit started here? The Kelly cartoon is well known yospos was using it way before we were, too
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Every time I read someone's vaccine side effects I'm thinking about how they compare to mine and then how those compared to my actual covid symptoms. (And then how *those* compared to other people's). I know it probably doesn't work like this but I can't help feel relieved when I see someone who had worse vaccine side effects than me because that feels to me like if they had got Covid it would have been one of those really bad cases? And it's a relief to think they've been saved that. A kind of benevolent shadenfreude, I guess, it's not good anyone's suffering, but at least that means they're safer now and hopefully the side effects are a sign of the kind of bullet they've dodged by doing the right thing.
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Yeah I have no idea of the biology but the fact I had basically zero side effects makes me intuitively wonder whether I would have probably been asymptomatic or just a little under the weather if I'd got actual covid
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The talk of side effects makes me antsy, because I rarely feel ill so I basically can't handle it at all when it happens. Who knows though, I might have no particular reaction to the vaccine.
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Rumda posted:That's not how probability works any given human has a 1 in 7 million chance of dying in a meteor incident which if that was a completely independent chance for everyone then it would be about 10k people but, barring a person being struck by a small meteorite and dying from the direct impact, in a large scale incident many people will be affected so the probabilities are linked. Related; how many people do you know who have died in a nuclear war? Or, this time last year, from COVID?
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