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feedmegin posted:'More or less' is doing a lot of lifting there, it isn't, but this particular Tracy is a dude yes. It's another one of those weird things where we see it as an Americanism, but it's actually older than the existence of the US and is in fact another example of them having stuck to the original tradition more than we did. quote:as a boys' name (also used as girls' name Tracy) is pronounced TRAY-see. It is of Irish and Gaelic origin, and the meaning of Tracy is "warlike". Surname dating from before the Norman conquest. As a semiprime, 57 is a Blum integer since its two prime factors are both Gaussian primes Brendan Rodgers fucked around with this message at 15:59 on Dec 15, 2021 |
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surname sounds suspiciously non-English for a Toryquote:A spokesperson for Kawczynski said he had “broken no rules with regards to second jobs, and lol, gotta work with what you got i guess
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Holy poo poo, that is so pathetic lol.
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most importantly he prioritises his work as MP for the constituency of Shrewsbury and Dammam
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The Harry Potter books were originally aimed at 12-year-old boys, who are not known as the most enlightened demographic. Hardly a surprise that they might turn their nose up at a book written by a smelly girl.
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n-n-notice me... Senpai bin Saud
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Rename me genuinely pro saudi
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Someone needs to let Tory MPs know that school is free
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feedmegin posted:'More or less' is doing a lot of lifting there, it isn't, but this particular Tracy is a dude yes. Is it? Based on this data, in the last five years (2016-2020) 410 baby girls in the US got names Tracy, while 245 boys got the same name. A 2/3rds-1/3rd split feels like a fairly solid "more or less unisex" to me. Edit: Reworded, I can see how it'd be misread in it's previous wording. Reveilled fucked around with this message at 16:59 on Dec 15, 2021 |
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Reveilled posted:Is it? Based on this data, in the last five years (2016-2020) 410 baby girls in the US got names Tracy, while 245 boys got the same name. A 2/3rds-1/3rd split doesn't feel like "more or less unisex" is a stretch. E: nvm I misread your post and I agree
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I tend to prefer SFF stories written by women since in my personal experience they seem to do a much better job of actually writing interesting female characters. I remember reading two novels which seemed to have very similar premises and protagonists (female pilot with dark past is part of a team investigating some ancient alien technology on behalf of mysterious aliens who are humanity's benefactors). The first was Pathfinder by relatively unknown novelist Laura E Reeve, while the other was Stealing Light by moderately notable author Gary Gibson, and goddamn if it wasn't like night and day how clearly better written the woman in the former novel was. She struggles with alcohol and has difficulty forming relationships, but is able to generally put on a mask of detatched competence to cover up her troubles. Not exactly top tier literature, but one definitely got the impression the author was writing from experience and creating a well-rounded believable cahracter. I think I got maybe ten chapters into the second novel before chucking it because it seemed more like the author's wank material with how often the protagonist was thinking about sex, having sex, or masturbating. The chapter I gave up on was I think a discussion about the capabilities of the ship the character was going to fly that had basically nothing to do with sex whatsoever before it ended with the protagonist grabbing the crotch of the man she was speaking with.
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Streeting has had a haircut and is moving in a decidedly forensic direction. Would be hilarious if the Labour right decide to copy the tories with a leadership coup as well. https://twitter.com/AaronBastani/status/1470892414873309187?t=9YWwcekv2FegFFuax8Pk-A&s=19 I would like to submit 'McShitler' for the consideration of the Midnight Society.
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lol at the tory dude on the front bench with a mask usefully under his chin I guess maybe thats where his lizard gills actually are and I'm the fool
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Well poo poo https://twitter.com/guardian/status/1471150598116593671 Previous high was 68k in January
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NotJustANumber99 posted:lol at the tory dude on the front bench with a mask usefully under his chin We're nearly 2 loving years into this poo poo and so many ppl don't wear masks properly it's the simplest thing ever,
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Tesseraction posted:Well poo poo https://twitter.com/guardian/status/1471150598116593671 and we're only in the loving foothills of this thing
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so I was reading up on the Cardiff Three having watched A Killing in Tiger Bay on iPlayer and guess who crops up in the wiki article: just Keith things, refusing to prosecute a pile of horribly corrupt coppers because "oh they lost* the documents we sent, guess there's nothing we can do" *the documents were in fact located still in the box they were sent in 6 weeks later
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Right folks, shut everything right the gently caress down until April (which has been my thinking for a while now), one final shopping trip for xmas on the 23rd and that's me done. I'm fairly content with solitude so it works for me. 
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Barry Foster posted:and we're only in the loving foothills of this thing yeah doubling every 2 days we are going to hit some epic figures soon.
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Just Another Lurker posted:one final shopping trip for xmas on the 23rd and that's me done. Amazon have very kindly done all my Xmas shopping trips for me, not because I am avoiding people or anything like that - just lazy
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Welp gently caress.
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Otoh going purely by cases is pretty simplistic. Deaths/hospitalisations are still a fraction of what they were last winter, and that's the important figure. If they start spiking again then sure, it's time to worry. But so far, they aren't increasing proportionally with new cases, probably due to vaccine protection (and perhaps also omicron being a bit less deadly, if more contagious). As long as the NHS is coping with the numbers, knee jerk calls for harsh lockdown measures are probably at best overzealous.
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On the other hand, when schools are closed cases drop so maybe they oughta do that a while.
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It's too early to say how bad omicron will be. What's key is we don't know if it's more transmissible than delta, which was already ridiculously transmissible compared to the original strain, we don't know how effective it is at breakthrough infections outside of knowing it can infect the previously infected, we don't know whether it has a different incubation period. Not to say we need to slam the lockdown button but cautious optimism should be shelved for now.
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ThomasPaine posted:Otoh going purely by cases is pretty simplistic. Deaths/hospitalisations are still a fraction of what they were last winter, and that's the important figure. If they start spiking again then sure, it's time to worry. But so far, they aren't increasing proportionally with new cases, probably due to vaccine protection (and perhaps also omicron being a bit less deadly, if more contagious). As long as the NHS is coping with the numbers, knee jerk calls for harsh lockdown measures are probably at best overzealous. Yeah but do you wait for the NHS to be overwhelmed or act preemptively? Even if it is milder and more people are vaccinated we must be at risk of a large admissions spike just off the back of the infection rate.
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Andoman posted:yeah doubling every 2 days we are going to hit some epic figures soon. 
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I wonder how many people would actually take notice if they banned mixing at Christmas again. Probably not many?
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stev posted:I wonder how many people would actually take notice if they banned mixing at Christmas again. Probably not many? All spirits to be drunk neat? Sounds like a hell of a party.
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Tesseraction posted:It's too early to say how bad omicron will be. What's key is we don't know if it's more transmissible than delta, which was already ridiculously transmissible compared to the original strain, we don't know how effective it is at breakthrough infections outside of knowing it can infect the previously infected, we don't know whether it has a different incubation period. Not to say we need to slam the lockdown button but cautious optimism should be shelved for now. We definitely do know it's more transmissible than Delta - Japanese study suggests about 4.2 times more, we do know it has an incubation period of about 7-10 days, more like wild type than delta, and we definitely know it's very effective at breakthrough infections because of how it did in SA It may be less severe, but given the sheer number of cases it's going to cause/is causing as we speak, it's still extremely bad news
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Andoman posted:Amazon have very kindly done all my Xmas shopping trips for me, not because I am avoiding people or anything like that - just lazy Ah, i meant for fresh food, i have a fridge but no freezer so it's just a hit & run job to Tesco at 8am and i'm done. 
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Some extremely light caveats on that number - the logistical issues with testing at the end of last week and the beginning of this mean that this is just the highest amount of reported cases in one day, not the highest amount of new cases on a single day - although that does mean the (very high) numbers for the last few days were also under-reported.
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sebzilla posted:All spirits to be drunk neat? Sounds like a hell of a party. Many years ago when I was a very silly undergraduate I played a game of ring of fire with neat spirits only being one of the rules. It was very, very silly, and looking back I am quite surprised that the guy who got the king's cup and ended up downing near a pint of mixed up whisky and vodka and rum didn't die.
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Tesseraction posted:It's too early to say how bad omicron will be. What's key is we don't know if it's more transmissible than delta, which was already ridiculously transmissible compared to the original strain, we don't know how effective it is at breakthrough infections outside of knowing it can infect the previously infected, we don't know whether it has a different incubation period. Not to say we need to slam the lockdown button but cautious optimism should be shelved for now. I thought we did know a lot of these things? There's this from the New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/article/omicron-coronavirus-variant.html It's a good and balanced article and worth a read. The main takeaway from it, IMO, is this: quote:Researchers are creating mathematical models to figure out what Omicron will do in the months to come. These models, by necessity, are based on assumptions about the variant, and those assumptions may need to be altered as more evidence comes to light. But scientists can already see that Omicron is very transmissible and adept at evading immune defenses. It seems to be saying that even if we don't know *precisely* how much more transmissible it is, and how well it can evade immune defenses (previous covid infection or vaccine), that it's prudent to take action right now. Waiting until we know these things will be too late. I can't remember where I saw it but there was a quote from some WHO doctor or epidemiologist that was like: quote:You must take actions that seem disproportionate. If you wait until they seem proportionate, it will be too late.
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stev posted:I wonder how many people would actually take notice if they banned mixing at Christmas again. Probably not many? Tories will ban race-mixing for Xmas. Tory Xmas party largely unaffected
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Some extremely light caveats on that number - the logistical issues with testing at the end of last week and the beginning of this mean that this is just the highest amount of reported cases in one day, not the highest amount of new cases on a single day - although that does mean the (very high) numbers for the last few days were also under-reported. Yeah the cases by specimen date tells a slightly less extreme story than the cases by date reported.
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