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NotJustANumber99 posted:work event? Hmmm, the AIs are in on it! Which site are you using for this? I tried to make a gbs ai art thread but it failed miserably because we crashed it instantly
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jiggerypokery posted:Which site are you using for this? I tried to make a gbs ai art thread but it failed miserably because we crashed it instantly https://pixray.gob.io/text2image/ But it gets pretty overloaded, you find yourself in a queue a lot. Not an expert. edit. Lol theres literally a later version linked on that site: https://replicate.com/pixray/text2image
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Prole posted:Same here. I'm happy to take someone's word for it if they say they know. But it's a bit too fash for me regardless of its "actual meaning" tbh. No accident, if that's the case. And there's still the Thin Blue Line and Polish nationalist symbol. The symbol is closer to the Taser company logo than the BFU so i'm leaning towards it being official.
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Giles, Mr Coren sir, this is a Wendy's https://twitter.com/Nadine_Writes/status/1482457675208212483
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I've... seen things you people wouldn't believe. Swing sets on fire off the shoulder of the cabinet office. I've seen... cocaine shimmering near the Downing Street gate. All of these... moments. Lost, in time...until Sue Gray reveals the outcome of her investigations.
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I am torn between the notion that white culture being destroyed by eating the terrible black fried chicken being possibly the stupidest thing I have read in at least two weeks, and the notion that I can destroy the white race by eating fried chicken giving me a passable excuse to eat more of it.
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Can’t believe the gall of an English person accusing a foreign cuisine based around fried food of introducing sloth and degradation to the UK…
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Guavanaut posted:He talked an awful load of shite about coal too. I know you won't get someone to understand something when their paycheck depends on not and all that, but it was not uncommon to get Arthur saying "clean coal is the safest form of power and every child within 20 miles of a nuclear power station got leukaemia" one day and then Anne saying "remember to donate to the miners' raffle for supporting all the miners who got black lung or lost fingers" the next. Yeah, there's an interesting alternative history in what happens with the mines if the miner's won that strike. Which, to be clear, they needed to for the same of the trade union movement, but brushing that aside the mines closing was inevitable and whenever it happened it'd be a loving devastating blow for the communities with coalfields. Undoubtedly it could have been done better and way more support for those areas. Ah but for the Argentines invading the Falklands...
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A very staid, very button-down, very corporate-type colleague of mine, around 20 years ago, confided offhand that she had been at a dinner party the previous weekend, that included Giles Coren. Hmm? sez I, not overly interested, just being polite really. Her verdict, unasked-for, but she just had to get it out, she was so incensed, verbatim: "An utter oval office." (Sorry, no deets.)
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Is it just me or are we halfway through January without a major snow day?
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Me, every day for the rest of my life: is it just me or is the climate a bit different
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Dabir posted:Is it just me or are we halfway through January without a major snow day? No. Well I mean define major. The A9 was shut south of Inverness a couple weeks ago. There was snow lying at sea level.
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Dabir posted:Is it just me or are we halfway through January without a major snow day? Yeah, barely been below freezing at all. Just goes to show, all those doomers fretting over the gulf stream dying were talking a load of shite.
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The past few years, every time it's snowed here I can't help wondering if it's the last one I'll ever see and I just don't know it yet. Really hope we get one soon.
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I thought fried chicken was a Jewish diaspora cuisine.
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I had the vague idea that southern fried chicken was, like barbeque, largely derived from recipes made by enslaved people in the american south, but I can't remember where I got that idea from exactly. There were apparently recipes in england for it from at least the 18th century, though not quite US style. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsyjNef2ydQ
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Last year it didn't come down heavily until late January but at least we had something in December. I'm probably worrying about nothing but I really hope we get some soon.
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We went a lot of years with minimal snow when I was a kid, it does just vary.
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We weren't teetering on the line between climate disaster and climate collapse when we were kids though.
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Yes but I don't think the specific presence or absence of snow signifies very much on its own, and whether or not we see snow does not determine how doomed or not we all are, so I don't really pay it much thought. Sometimes you get snow, sometimes you don't, a couple of years ago we got buckets of it in march, it varies. A year without much snow isn't unusual in my lifetime. I don't think I saw proper snow at all between the ages of maybe four and... ten or twelve? If anything I would suggest the big volcano that went bang in the pacific might mean colder temperatures in the immediate term, depending on how much dust it puts into the atmosphere, which is an entirely different kind of climatological problem that causes famines and poo poo. OwlFancier fucked around with this message at 04:06 on Jan 16, 2022 |
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It's just a stupid dividing line I draw in my head I guess. It's symbolic. Last year, the spiderweb on the outside of my window froze in the first week of January. I got some pretty good photos, I think. 
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jaete posted:yeah i know what you mean m8, pictured: literally me (before covid) The gently caress are you doing in the UKMT, I ask, from the shores of The Lake, and slowly transforming into  .
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Dabir posted:It's just a stupid dividing line I draw in my head I guess. It's symbolic. You call that a web? Spider should be loving ashamed of himself
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Probably started and then said bugger that.
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OwlFancier posted:Yes but I don't think the specific presence or absence of snow signifies very much on its own, and whether or not we see snow does not determine how doomed or not we all are, so I don't really pay it much thought. Something I've found interesting is wind speed. I cycle a lot so I've always got an eye on the weather and wind speed/direction since that determines a lot of my routes. If I think back to 2014/15 I can remember regularly having days in the summer of wind speeds under 10mph, even a few under 5mph. The summer for the past few years has usually been 10+, normally in the 15-18mph area. Total anecdote but it is something I've noticed. That and I don't need my winter kit outside of January and February now.
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Strom Cuzewon posted:Who is Sue Gray? Right on the chin
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OwlFancier posted:Probably started and then said bugger that. Poor English spider didn't stand a chance after being introduced to the cuisine of the Dark Continent
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:You call that a web? Spider should be loving ashamed of himself Bigger than any web I've ever seen you spin  A year ago today there was heavy snowfall round where I live:  And today there's freezing fog. So sometimes it's a case of local climate, sometimes it's just whether the meteorological stars align. e: yes, the snow was so heavy it caused everything to rotate 90 degrees mrpwase fucked around with this message at 09:08 on Jan 16, 2022 |
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The big brains at the Observer are stunned to learn that an internal government inquiry has a scope so limited that it is unlikely to conclude anything of value. Just wait until legendary troubleshooter Sue Gray hears about this procedural injustice, she will surely be aghast Concerns grow that scale of ‘partygate’ is now too great for Sue Gray’s inquiry
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Dabir posted:It's just a stupid dividing line I draw in my head I guess. It's symbolic.  what have you been giving them
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Amazing that waiting for a report is somehow sorry of acceptable. Very strong leadership to wait for the headmistress to decide if you did something wrong. Looking forward to the media being very proud of themselves for getting rid of Johnson and replacing him with someone who definitely wouldn't have led us through the pandemic in a disastrous fashion.
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Finally Andy can win the AO.
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It's the perfect damage control and it annoys me that they get away with it. *something untoward happens, questions are asked* "I'm shocked to learn that this has happened but I can assure everyone that no laws were broken and the proper procedures were followed, and the matter is being investigated" *questions keep getting asked* "I can't comment until the investigation concludes" *investigation finds no wrong doing, further questions are asked* "~ the matter is settled ~" Can't wait for step #3 myself. E: and this is exactly how corbyn should have handled the antisemitism bollocks
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domhal posted:Finally Andy can win the AO. If he wins it aged 34 and from outside the top 128 it would be an incredible achievement.
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It's an interesting example of cultural osmosis/selection bias when people (outside of Scotland and the higher parts of England and Wales) are surprised by a lack of snow in December and early January. Seasons in the British Isles are like a month or more behind those on big landmasses because of the Gulf Stream - white christmases have always been the exception rather than the rule *even in areas that see a lot of snow*. Almost all of the worst, country-shutting-down snowfall has come in January and February, sometimes even in March and April. We just all believe that snow comes in December because Prince Albert and Bing Crosby, both born in the middle of massive, cold continents, told us it does and because most of us remember one time that it did, then get completely blindsided when snowmaggeden happens nearer to Easter than Yule.
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We had a white xmas just this most recent one.
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NotJustANumber99 posted:lol at the tennis man Finally something interesting happened related to tennis. But seriously, when the story broke I went and googled Djokovic not knowing much about him. The first result was this article with quotes from his parents. It was just complete crazy town talking about all these conspiracies that everyone hates serbians and he is being held prisoner etc. I see now why he wouldn't be vaccinated.
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Starmer on BBC to talk about Johnson and he’s spent half of the interview on the ropes about that photo of him allegedly breaking rules lmao. He’s so bad at this. If he didn’t sound and look so perpetually scared he’d be able to brush it off, but instead this is well on its way to being another ‘these politicians are all as bad as each other’ affair.
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Speaking of "what's been unusual in the weather lately,", this Met Office State of the Climate 2021 report is a good read. Or here's a single image summary.
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