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Also the partial vaccination of the population makes it magnitudes riskier in terms of mutation since its the ideal mix of selection pressure and available hosts If we want to make a dominant variant that's fully vaccine resistant - which we know from experiment is possible - this is the way to do it. That doesn't become the apocalypse but the gov is still trying to put out the fire with petrol 2 years in and its tiring to hear people buy it again every couple months out of hope I think we're just gonna have to get used to a bit of plague/lot of plague depending how things shake out
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Jul 21, 2021 14:40
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Doccykins posted:welp thats everyone in the chamber for PMQs off for an early recess Calling it a pingdemic is loving infuriating. It's blaming the app for having to follow basic, "try not to kill other people" processes. All these businesses complaining that if all their staff get pinged they have to shut shop.
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Jul 21, 2021 14:42
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Barry Foster posted:It's just loving endlessly maddening. Vaccines are not a magic bullet and dropping all NPIs in the midst of a huge wave of infections is insane. Insane I don’t really buy that Delta is significantly different than past variants, just more infectious and coupled with the change of behaviour as people get vaccinated and start to act as though all that bad stuff is behind us is leading to uncontrolled spread.
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Edit ^^^ could've sworn I'd read that outcomes tended to be worse too? Because it's able to reproduce so much more quickly than wild type, possibly other reasons too It's like, vaccines are kevlar, and that's good - great even! - if you're at risk of taking a shot or two But that doesn't mean it's a good idea to just walk into a loving hail of machine gun fire
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Doccykins posted:welp thats everyone in the chamber for PMQs off for an early recess Will anyone even notice he’s gone?
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Jul 21, 2021 14:44
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Broken record I know but * Enforced hotel quarantine for all entering the UK * Enforced stay at home order for at least three weeks * Enforced mask use for those who need to leave their home * Once cases are manageable actually properly contact trace/isolate people who test positive I honestly don't see any way out of this mess without locking down the country for a month and locking down the border until the rest of the world is vaccinated. Every attempt to half arse and mitigate/manage infection rates seems doomed to fail.
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Jul 21, 2021 14:46
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Is it cool to be accelerationist again yet? I think that's the only option we're getting anyway. If society collapses before they try to make me go back to office, that would be fine with me to be honest. What would you even miss?
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Jul 21, 2021 14:51
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I'd miss Greggs southern fried chicken.
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Jul 21, 2021 14:58
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On the current topic I am going to have to self isolate for 10 days as my housemate has been told they have it. My parents were going to be visiting next week as well. They still are coming down but I might not be able to meet up with them if I have caught it. Fortunately I have been double jabbed, parents have too, and I haven't spent much actual time with my housemate. So here's hoping I am fine.
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IllusionistTrixie posted:Calling it a pingdemic is loving infuriating. It's blaming the app for having to follow basic, "try not to kill other people" processes. I agree - it's weird to me that the narrative has shifted from "cases are high, getting higher, almost the very highest, the apps instructions must be followed to protect everyone, it's necessary and important to test, trace, isolate - it's a pandemic dontchaknow" to "oh that drat app pinged me, it's an unnecessary inconvenience to everyone, a joke to smirk about. Can't wait to uninstall it but I guess i probably shouldn't" It's like nobody is bothering to make the connection any more? I realise that hospitalisations and deaths are way down given the cases, and this is obviously a good thing, so you can kinda get the idea that we can be a bit less immediately concerned maybe? but the disconnect from the app "pinging" people with identified cases is really bothering me.
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Payndz posted:Was looking at Kieth's wikipedia page to find out when he got his knighthood (it was under the coalition, quelle surprise) and also spotted two amusing bits of trivia. The first was that he had violin lessons with Fatboy Slim, and the other... founder of specialist publication, wet egg monthly
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Pistol_Pete posted:The sun might be shining outside, but it's never sunny in this thread I mean, should it be? The big thing is that it's impossible to hope for much at the moment. Everything good being built is apparently written in sand whereas everything bad is marble.
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DaWolfey posted:I agree - it's weird to me that the narrative has shifted from "cases are high, getting higher, almost the very highest, the apps instructions must be followed to protect everyone, it's necessary and important to test, trace, isolate - it's a pandemic dontchaknow" to "oh that drat app pinged me, it's an unnecessary inconvenience to everyone, a joke to smirk about. Can't wait to uninstall it but I guess i probably shouldn't" It's like nobody is bothering to make the connection any more? I mean, I'm assuming that's an entirely deliberately constructed media narrative because it makes the conversation about the app rather than about what people were doing that led to potential exposure and what risk there is for people in pubs, schools, workplaces etc.
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Jul 21, 2021 15:07
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Pistol_Pete posted:The sun might be shining outside, but it's never sunny in this thread Boundless optimism in the face of objective reality is the reason we're staring down the barrel of *checks notes* lockdown number four (or is it just an extended lockdown one - except with public holidays and sports events as a treat).
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Jul 21, 2021 15:08
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Dabir posted:I'd miss Greggs southern fried chicken. Society is the only thing stopping you from having fried chicken every day. Why should a private company control the flow of southern fried chicken? After the collapse we will seize the fryers for ourselves.
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Been asked to reset a voicemail PIN for someone in the public sector. ATOS wants £90 to do it. gently caress ATOS.
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Jul 21, 2021 15:09
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Pistol_Pete posted:The sun might be shining outside, but it's never sunny in this thread Yes and i enjoy it because nothing makes my eyes roll more than over-exhuberant joy and hope.
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Payndz posted:(Looking at his past, it seems that proximity to the Establishment breaks your brain: he went from being Mark Darcy to... I would say Judge Dredd, but Dredd has a backbone, pretty much on becoming DPP. I don't know exactly when he joined the Trilateral Commission, but he was tweeting about attending their functions as far back as 2017.) winegums posted:There's no ideology or vision, politics is just a series of single policies and the party that wins politics is the one that's the most Electable whilst having stand-alone policies that focus group well. I have concluded that I should stop trying to talk to people. It's bitterly disappointing because that brother was far more anarchist leaning than me when we were younger, he was the one who got me into Mark Thomas, and now he thinks Starmer is a good idea. Jaeluni Asjil posted:About time anti-Palestinianism was treated just the same way as anti-semitism.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Shouldn't read twitter comments. On that topic, this is just naked racism from self-proclaimed Antisemitism expert Ian Austin. Course, everyone in the media will just ignore it and continue going to him for quotes about why the Left are the real racists. https://twitter.com/lordianaustin/status/1417581840832024586?s=21
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Noxville posted:On that topic, this is just naked racism from self-proclaimed Antisemitism expert Ian Austin. Course, everyone in the media will just ignore it and continue going to him for quotes about why the Left are the real racists. Wow, that's genuinely appalling. An NHS app question : I had to get a new phone cos my old one completely died. I have had to reinstall the app, but so far as I can tell there's nothing linking the app on my old phone to this one. So any potential covid contacts I may have had are just lost, I guess?
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Jul 21, 2021 15:27
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Pistol_Pete posted:The sun might be shining outside, but it's never sunny in this thread It's plenty sunny here in the desert of the real bro Just not the good kind like you want
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Noxville posted:On that topic, this is just naked racism from self-proclaimed Antisemitism expert Ian Austin. Course, everyone in the media will just ignore it and continue going to him for quotes about why the Left are the real racists. 
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The Tories trying to make corncobbing illegal: https://twitter.com/Pomegranate2021/status/1417753223755075585
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Private Speech posted:The Tories trying to make corncobbing illegal:  https://twitter.com/bbclaurak/status/1174318564397985793?s=20
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Trickjaw posted:gently caress, my clp fun continues. I've had call from centrall office (so they said) telling me I was excommunicated from the Labour party, asking me in the same breath to canvass? It's one of you, isn't it? Please? I do not know how you resist the urge to just tell them to gently caress themselves, you're a chiller person than I. Butternubs posted:Is it cool to be accelerationist again yet? I think that's the only option we're getting anyway. Dunno about cool but I do think it's basically the rational choice for anyone left of Ed Miliband. Like the idea that accelerationism is bad is formed around the idea that things would have to get a lot worse & people would suffer. Well, I'd be one of the ones suffering as an unskilled mentally ill mid 30s wastrel & I'm not particularly sure that slowly managed decline is actually less cruel than knocking it all down in the medium to long term.
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Bobby Deluxe posted:Judge Kraken, secretly cloned from Tonty Blair but gone badly swollen due to Andrew Adonis trying to interfere with the clone. Don't dis Kraken. He failed because he was weak, but he wanted to do his best and ultimately took responsibility for his actions when he failed. Starmer will be blaming the toxic legacy of Joe Dredd that forced him to side with the Dark Judges until the end of time.
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Ahh but LauraKs posts are in the public interest, which is exempted.
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Bobby Deluxe posted:Judge Kraken, secretly cloned from Tonty Blair but gone badly swollen due to Andrew Adonis trying to interfere with the clone. Edit: 
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Jul 21, 2021 15:38
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Trickjaw posted:Dan, I know you're off the pop, but the moment you aren't, I'll buy you a drink. those were vicious rumours, I will drink the posh irn bru or old jamaica ginger beer or even those fentimans posh things
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Twitter would be a lot more bearable if you could just settle flamewars through buying red text avatars.
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keep punching joe posted:Twitter would be a lot more bearable if this was a real feature https://twitter.com/wormwood_stars/status/1417567477467320325?s=20
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Communist Thoughts posted:
Welcome to 99% of human history. The idea that more covid is gonna lead to accelerations or the Tories collapsing or something is profoundly ignorant. We're just have a slightly higher baseline death rate and occasional new strains spread around knocking people down for a week or two. Human society has usually functioned under much higher disease burdens than covid even before vaccination. Even robust border controls in Australia aren'tas effective as previously. This doesn't make reopening when did the right call, but covid is endemic now, and states are going to have to get used to that idea. Delta is slightly better at spreading through vaccines but not really any different for hospitalizations, its just roll the dice 50000 and you roll alot of 1s.
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https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2021/jul/21/highways-england-may-have-to-reverse-act-of-cultural-vandalism Another successful government project
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quote:Richard Marshall, HE’s historical railways estate director, said: “The bridge was deteriorating, and no weight restriction was in place, meaning it could be used by vehicles of any weight. The support provided by infilling the arch removes the risk of the bridge deck failing.”
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Jul 21, 2021 19:22
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It seems Highway England are trying to do some mass vandalism. https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2021/jul/21/highways-england-may-have-to-reverse-act-of-cultural-vandalism
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Anyone else use Thunderbird email? Whatever options I pick in account settings, it is refusing to download purported Junk Email from my webmail accounts! I just had to sign in to one of my webmail accounts via browser from my work laptop and found loads of items in the Junk folder that (a) I haven't seen and (b) aren't junk. Any clues as to what is going wrong? (I have 18* email accounts so really don't want to have to sign in to them all individually!) *via Thunderbird. I have more than that. Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 19:32 on Jul 21, 2021 |
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:I have 18* email accounts 
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