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Microplastics posted:Neanderthals (or rather, their dna) play a minor side role in a great scifi book I just finished reading called Seveneaves. It's a pretty epic tome clicking in at 900 pages but it is just fantastic. I enjoyed the final section of that book a lot more than the earlier parts tbh and wished there'd been more of it! If you enjoyed the somewhat bleak 'the world going to poo poo and people trying to do something, anything' vibe of Seveneves tho, then if you haven't already I'd strongly reccomend reading Stephen Baxter's books Flood and the sequel Ark, and then a short story collection Landfall that adds some more around the edges. Parts of them are very, very bleak though, fair warning.
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I post in the biosphere collapse thread, I can handle bleak thank you very much  (thanks for the recommendation I'll check it out!)
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Jesus Christ. Nightmare fuel https://twitter.com/StuartKenny33/status/1616191332392763393
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smellmycheese posted:Jesus Christ. Nightmare fuel Why was it important that they have sex twice?
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Failed Imagineer posted:Why was it important that they have sex twice? So they each get a turn
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Failed Imagineer posted:Why was it important that they have sex twice? Blobby Blobby
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This has just come across my radar. If you don't have sufficient photo ID to vote in person, you can now apply online for a Voter Authority Certificate. You just need a digital photo and your NI number. Please spread the news far and wide, as I doubt the government will be advertising this service
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smellmycheese posted:Blobby Blobby  If anyone wants to make a cursed :blobbyyes: then that would be something
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fuctifino posted:This has just come across my radar. If you don't have sufficient photo ID to vote in person, you can now apply online for a Voter Authority Certificate. You just need a digital photo and your NI number. Thanks. Could be useful if there's a snap election - just applied for a new passport and put my current one in the post. I am now valid ID-less for the time it takes to get a new passport (says 'up to 10 weeks' on the passport site). I've applied online but if my existing one gets lost in the post, I'm doomed. (I have sent it signed for).
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EmptyVessel posted:Don't know about the smarter, they do have a larger average brain size but that's a poor proxy for measuring intelligence. They were probably cognitively different (different but equal imo), e.g. their sites are far less structured than contemporary early anatomically modern ones. Moderns tend to have discreet areas for different things (make tools here, rubbish goes here, food prep here etc.) while Neanderthals seem to have just done anything anywhere in a big mess. (so yes, proto-goons If you were of a mind to, you could probably make a bit of cash writing a book called "neanderthal mindset" where you try to come up with ways in which you can be a big strong early hominid by not cleaning your room and keeping everything on the floor in a big pile. fuctifino posted:This has just come across my radar. If you don't have sufficient photo ID to vote in person, you can now apply online for a Voter Authority Certificate. You just need a digital photo and your NI number. I drove past a big billboard mentioning the need to have ID to vote today, funnily. E: sorry I just saw this in the bad food thread and you have to see it too. https://twitter.com/Snack_Memories/status/1616250615352393730 phillip schofield and what loving tory psychopath wanted to eat ice lolly david cameron??? OwlFancier fucked around with this message at 18:19 on Jan 20, 2023 |
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At least they decided not to ask the public ‘top or bottom half?’
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Ha ha. Sunak’s been done for not wearing a seatbelt. Second police fine in a year Edit: LOL 
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I wish he had been done in by not wearing a seatbelt
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Who doesn't wear a seatbelt? For one thing the car screams at you if you forget and like, it's the easiest thing in the world to wear?
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EmptyVessel posted:Don't know about the smarter, they do have a larger average brain size but that's a poor proxy for measuring intelligence. They were probably cognitively different (different but equal imo) This is also why Michael Gove hates group tests and loves The Bell Curve, because he is a cephalopod and a racist. OwlFancier posted:If you were of a mind to, you could probably make a bit of cash writing a book called "neanderthal mindset" where you try to come up with ways in which you can be a big strong early hominid by not cleaning your room and keeping everything on the floor in a big pile. OwlFancier posted:and what loving tory psychopath wanted to eat ice lolly david cameron??? radmonger posted:At least they decided not to ask the public ‘top or bottom half?’ 
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OwlFancier posted:Who doesn't wear a seatbelt? For one thing the car screams at you if you forget and like, it's the easiest thing in the world to wear? Lots of people don’t wear them in the back, especially posh cunts being driven around. The fault here really lines with the absolutely abysmal Downing St film team - who as well as being grossly over staffed are absolutely terrible at their jobs. Any camera op/ director who works for broadcast would have spotted that it was a bad idea not have it on.
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"Like most victims, Julie knew her killer." *Sunak gets out of the back of the car without incident and closes her local hospital*
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I was going to ask if the queen ever got nicked for it but then I remembered you're literally not allowed because the person of the sovereign exudes an anti cop force field.
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EmptyVessel posted:
Naah, Neanderthals are endlessly fascinating! I love that there was this bizarre era tens of thousands of years ago where Homo Sapiens, Neanderthalis, Erectus (snigger), Denosivian, Floresiensis and probably a whole bunch of other human species all shared the world together. Must have been like Dungeons and Dragons, with humans, elves, dwarves, gnomes and hobbits all chilling out in taverns together, probably.
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smellmycheese posted:Ha ha. Sunak’s been done for not wearing a seatbelt. Second police fine in a year And the crony donors are falling over themselves to be the privileged one to pay it for him.
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I'm sure I remember from when I did lessons that the driver of the car is responsible if any of the passengers are not wearing seat belts.
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OwlFancier posted:I'm sure I remember from when I did lessons that the driver of the car is responsible if any of the passengers are not wearing seat belts. Passengers under 14.
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Skarsnik posted:Shouldnt he have been in a booster seat? I think he's over 12.
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Sir Sidney Poitier posted:Passengers under 14"
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Pistol_Pete posted:Naah, Neanderthals are endlessly fascinating! funny how the most savage of the lot made it out though
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OwlFancier posted:Who doesn't wear a seatbelt? For one thing the car screams at you if you forget and like, it's the easiest thing in the world to wear? I think it's fair enough an easy mistake for him to make. You only have to put your seatbelt on in a private jet when the captain turns the light on. He just forgot he was still in his limousine is all. Especially easy when you can only see sky out of the windows no matter which you're in.
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Jel Shaker posted:funny how the most savage of the lot made it out though
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Guavanaut posted:"Like most victims, Julie knew her killer."
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Police investigating rape claims in England believe victim-blaming myths, study finds https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jan/20/police-investigating-claims-in-england-believe-victim-blaming-myths-study-finds quote:The damning year one report from Soteria Bluestone exposed persistent failings in the criminal justice system, including a failure to track repeat suspects, “explicit victim-blaming” and botched investigations. It found that among the victims potentially seen as not credible were “those who made repeat/multiple allegations, sex workers, those with mental health or substance abuse issues, intoxicated victims, victims who give ‘inconsistent’ or ‘incomplete’ accounts, and victims who may have lied in the past (in almost any area of their life)”. 
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cat botherer posted:Police investigating rape claims in England believe victim-blaming myths, study finds Wild to think that the police wouldn't believe a member of the public who's lied about literally anything, ever, and yet still feel happy working with other police officers.
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smellmycheese posted:Ha ha. Sunak’s been done for not wearing a seatbelt. Second police fine in a year what is a conditional offer of fixed penalty is it just "if you don't pay up promptly and voluntarily-ish number goes up"?
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Google Jeb Bush posted:what is a conditional offer of fixed penalty yeah and you get in more trouble. Its the same old blackmail they try on everyone and actually if sunak challenged it he'd win. But politically probably a bad idea.i guess?
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I assume so, if you get caught speeding they might make conditional offers of going to a training course rather than taking points on your license, or you can try and contest it in court lol.
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OwlFancier posted:I assume so, if you get caught speeding they might make conditional offers of going to a training course rather than taking points on your license, or you can try and contest it in court lol. My dad had to do one of those courses in his 70s, and my mum used to mock him as being a 'boy racer'. Then she got caught and had to do one too.
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