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Crankit
Feb 7, 2011

HE WATCHES
how and where do you find heatmaps of corona variants?

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Darth Walrus
Feb 13, 2012
https://twitter.com/dawnhfoster/status/1398029148757573640?s=21

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

Why does it look like a loving supercar, is it one of those 150mph obamabuses?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNixDlRoMvA

You know what I think is a really good thing in a vehicle? When you can't tell which direction it's likely to start moving in.

Also good of them to put the paup shin intake feed blades so you just get sliced up and fed through the grinder rather than damaging the suspension.

OwlFancier fucked around with this message at 23:01 on May 27, 2021

namesake
Jun 19, 2006

"When I was a girl, around 12 or 13, I had a fantasy that I'd grow up to marry Captain Scarlet, but he'd be busy fighting the Mysterons so I'd cuckold him with the sexiest people I could think of - Nigel Mansell, Pat Sharp and Mr. Blobby."

Crankit posted:

how and where do you find heatmaps of corona variants?

I don't think there's heatmaps for variance (only total cases on the government tracker) but the FT has got variance rates by MSOA from somewhere so the breakdown in numbers must exist somewhere.

Niric
Jul 23, 2008

Why does the front (?) look like an angry cat?

therattle
Jul 24, 2007
Soiled Meat

smellmycheese posted:

This is a great tip! Thankyou!

Seconding the thanks for Hush, TACD.

Failed Imagineer
Sep 22, 2018

Lady Demelza
Dec 29, 2009



Lipstick Apathy
I thought it was like a patriotic dazzle camo that was messing with my eyes, but nope, it really is that shape. How have they manage to make it look like it's been in a terrible accident before it's maiden voyage? Is that level of window tint legal? Why don't they want you to see in?

DrSnakeLaser
Sep 6, 2011



OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

They should give it the ball wheels from i robot so it can drive sideways.

Guavanaut
Nov 27, 2009

Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998



Toilet Rascal
They should give it the balls so it can store pee and drown Luke Akehurst.

happyhippy
Feb 21, 2005

Playing games, watching movies, owning goons. 'sup
Pillbug
Somewhere in the Alps they are missing a ski lift

crispix
Mar 28, 2015

Grand-Maman m'a raconté
(Les éditions des amitiés franco-québécoises)

Hello, dear
send it on a trip down the falls road imo

crispix
Mar 28, 2015

Grand-Maman m'a raconté
(Les éditions des amitiés franco-québécoises)

Hello, dear
i'd rather sit in the back of an old electric milk float than that thing

i miss milkmen and milkfloats. early mornings you would hear woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooom *tinkletinkletinkle* ... woooooooooooooooooooooooooooom *tinkletinkletinkle* ... *tinkletinkletinkle* ... wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooom*

Trickjaw
Jun 23, 2005
Nadie puede dar lo que no tiene



crispix posted:

i'd rather sit in the back of an old electric milk float than that thing

i miss milkmen and milkfloats. early mornings you would hear woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooom *tinkletinkletinkle* ... woooooooooooooooooooooooooooom *tinkletinkletinkle* ... *tinkletinkletinkle* ... wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooom*

You... OK there Crispy?

smellmycheese
Feb 1, 2016

happyhippy posted:

Somewhere in the Alps they are missing a ski lift


https://twitter.com/gtiso/status/1397804732987576321

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

I wonder sometimes how AI vehicles are going to interact with highly pedestrianized areas. Because we already had that conflict with the advent of motor vehicles, it led (in the US) to making the road literally legally reserved for vehicles. The UK is a bit more fluid about it but there is going to be some hilarious liability issues when you have to automate the emergency stopping procedure.

I can only imagine there is a spectrum of possible outcomes ranging from "vehicles literally incapable of stopping reliably, vehicle space aggressively segregated from pedestrians to overcome this" through "vehicles and pedestrians can intermingle but people keep getting flattened by bad code or mechanical failures" all the way to "vehicles are so good at stopping people eventually just start walking in front of them because gently caress you robot you aren't allowed to run me over"

goddamnedtwisto
Dec 31, 2004

If you ask me about the mole people in the London Underground, I WILL be forced to kill you
Fun Shoe
This is far too good to confine to just the cute thread:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPQlMmMDm-A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9xaikDoY2I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTm_-jtRW4g

This dude has a whole channel of him playing classic rock tunes while his birb freestyles over them and it is giving me the most amazing joy, not least because the bird seems to pick an appropriate voice and cadence for each style.

Azza Bamboo
Apr 7, 2018


THUNDERDOME LOSER 2021

OwlFancier posted:

I wonder sometimes how AI vehicles are going to interact with highly pedestrianized areas. Because we already had that conflict with the advent of motor vehicles, it led (in the US) to making the road literally legally reserved for vehicles. The UK is a bit more fluid about it but there is going to be some hilarious liability issues when you have to automate the emergency stopping procedure.

I can only imagine there is a spectrum of possible outcomes ranging from "vehicles literally incapable of stopping reliably, vehicle space aggressively segregated from pedestrians to overcome this" through "vehicles and pedestrians can intermingle but people keep getting flattened by bad code or mechanical failures" all the way to "vehicles are so good at stopping people eventually just start walking in front of them because gently caress you robot you aren't allowed to run me over"

An automatic car will flatten a lollipop man and it'll be in the news for a day or two and that's about as far as it'll go in the public hivemind.

Jaeluni Asjil
Apr 18, 2018

Sorry I thought you were a landlord when I gave you your old avatar!

goddamnedtwisto posted:

This is far too good to confine to just the cute thread:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPQlMmMDm-A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9xaikDoY2I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTm_-jtRW4g

This dude has a whole channel of him playing classic rock tunes while his birb freestyles over them and it is giving me the most amazing joy, not least because the bird seems to pick an appropriate voice and cadence for each style.

Thank you for that :)

ed: what is 'the cute thread'?

goddamnedtwisto
Dec 31, 2004

If you ask me about the mole people in the London Underground, I WILL be forced to kill you
Fun Shoe

Jaeluni Asjil posted:

Thank you for that :)

ed: what is 'the cute thread'?

https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3769444 955 pages of life being a bit less poo poo.

WhatEvil
Jun 6, 2004

Can't get no luck.

sebzilla posted:

They're popular at XXXmas

I just want you to know that I appreciated this excellent joke.

Also twisto the parrot thing is amazing.

Grey Hunter
Oct 17, 2007

Hero of the soviet union.
Accidental destroyer of planets

Why would you cover something that is experimental and fast with sharp edges? It should be an egg to at least give the people at the first bus stop it plows into a chance.
Oh wait, its to remove people who are so poor they need to take the bus. Got it.

Flayer
Sep 13, 2003

by Fluffdaddy
Buglord
It looks like it has a layer of armour. I suppose the thinking is to protect those inside the bus.

il_cornuto
Oct 10, 2004

Yes but it ends up looking like they are pretty sure it's going to smash into something at some point.

Butternubs
Feb 15, 2012
It looks terrible from an aerodynamic perspective, there's a reason road cars are all smooth. How fast do they think this bus will be going? Will they need a lot of downforce? seems inefficient.

e: It's one of these: https://aurrigo.com/autoshuttle/

Butternubs fucked around with this message at 09:02 on May 28, 2021

Pistol_Pete
Sep 15, 2007

Oven Wrangler
It's supposed to look unique, I guess.

The design doesn't look very cost effective, though - it looks like they'd need to replace huge sections of the exterior every time it was in a collision.

The Perfect Element
Dec 5, 2005
"This is a bit of a... a poof song"

Lady Demelza posted:

Is this Kent? A friend of mine turned up for his first jab earlier in the week and they couldn't find him in the system. They sent him home because they didn't have spares. He wasn't the first person to turn up with a booking that hadn't gone through. And he had the same problem trying to rebook, because the website recognised he'd already made an appointment, and wouldn't let him start again. It's a weird glitch and I wonder if it's affecting the same centre.

Oh lord, that's not very reassuring.

I called 119, and the call journey is incredibly confusing, but eventually got through to a chap who told me that he only deals with enquiries, and can't access any booking information. He advised I redial, and select the options I already selected when I called in the first place. When I explained I'd already done what he'd said he was just like 'idk it's confusing isn't it, maybe you'll get through to someone else next time.'

Don't know what to do Tbh, it's a 2hr round trip which I really don't wanna do if they're not gonna stab me in the arm half way through.

Doctor_Fruitbat
Jun 2, 2013


It looks like the London 2012 logo in bus form.

Dell_Zincht
Nov 5, 2003



TACD posted:

JFC what a thoroughly cursed Guardian header image



keep punching joe
Jan 22, 2006

Die Satan!
Meanwhile in China they are reintroducing trolley-busses (but autonomous).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOX6ghH6FS8

crispix
Mar 28, 2015

Grand-Maman m'a raconté
(Les éditions des amitiés franco-québécoises)

Hello, dear
over here, the hoodie-youths would only draw the lines for the computerised-automobile into a big willy but i should imagine in china they don't have hoodie-youths on account of they have more beatings and killings

Darth Walrus
Feb 13, 2012

crispix posted:

over here, the hoodie-youths would only draw the lines for the computerised-automobile into a big willy but i should imagine in china they don't have hoodie-youths on account of they have more beatings and killings

Please, any sensible authoritarian state knows to outsource at least some of the beatings and killings to the hoodie-youths.

escapegoat
Aug 18, 2013


Hope he washed his hands.

crispix
Mar 28, 2015

Grand-Maman m'a raconté
(Les éditions des amitiés franco-québécoises)

Hello, dear
i'll bet drawing the lines into a willy would make that computerised auto-automobile go haywire

crispix
Mar 28, 2015

Grand-Maman m'a raconté
(Les éditions des amitiés franco-québécoises)

Hello, dear
in belfast they have purple things that look like trams but are buses driven by people

i heard they got them second hand off liverpool



they have fewer seats than real buses and offentimes get stuck on corners causing traffic jams but it's a much less expensive way to get that actual-city-with-a-real-tram-system look than they came up with in edinburgh

crispix fucked around with this message at 10:49 on May 28, 2021

keep punching joe
Jan 22, 2006

Die Satan!
You know what else they have in Belfast? Absolutely mad cunts.

https://twitter.com/rtenews/status/1398149905093365760

Clarence
May 3, 2012


If the paint job is supposed to represent the Union Flag, then the diagonal red stripes are in the wrong place. :colbert:

Maybe it's trying to show it's in distress?

crispix
Mar 28, 2015

Grand-Maman m'a raconté
(Les éditions des amitiés franco-québécoises)

Hello, dear
i think it's meant to be like on the tail fin of a plane type thing

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Jel Shaker
Apr 19, 2003


looks modular, but also looks like it can only seat like 6 people at once

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