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smellmycheese posted:So the Sub the billionaires paid millions to go to the bottom of the ocean in is a cobbled together piece of poo poo operated by a Logitech Mad Katz game controller lmao should have gone in the older brothers sub instead as that one has the official controller that came with the box
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Apraxin posted:Bill Cash, Nick Fletcher, Adam Holloway, Karl McCartney, Joy Morrissey, Heather Wheeler, plus one more who i haven't seen listed for some reason It was the teller for the Nays, so either Alan Campbell or Lilian Greenwood - the Guardian hosed up and listed them both as against the motion. E: and they shouldn't be blamed for it, someone is appointed to do the job and their vote has to go that way.
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smellmycheese posted:So the Sub the billionaires paid millions to go to the bottom of the ocean in is a cobbled together piece of poo poo operated by a Logitech Mad Katz game controller lmao Hey I have that controller! Good construction but it's wireless only and I wouldn't trust its connection as far as I can throw it. That explains everything, they tried a tricky maneuver around some rocks and it lagged out and they crashed right into them Should have gone for the wired one idiots lol
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Jun 20, 2023 08:30
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Could you imagine if the battery in the controller went dead they forgot to take a spare battery My kingdom for an AA~
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Jun 20, 2023 08:32
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All this focus on using a game controller when it's what the US navy uses - albeit not an off-brand one.
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Jun 20, 2023 08:35
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:One of my most lefty friends in her 40s lives in Torquay. And my favourite socialist uncle and his partner live there too! So it's not all bad.
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Microplastics posted:Could you imagine if the battery in the controller went dead they forgot to take a spare battery When my gamepad runs out of battery, I usually die just in the game
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Adam Neville wrote a rather good horror novel, Lost Girl, much of it set in a post-apocalyptic Torquay. In a world ravaged by global warming, the centre of Torquay has become a shanty town, run by murderous criminal gangs and with hordes of climate refugees crammed into sweltering lodging houses. Meanwhile in the privately policed, gated suburbs, elderly homeowners draw their curtains against the heat, crank up the air con and uneasily pretend that everything is still normal. It was all painfully plausible, I have to say.
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Sir Sidney Poitier posted:All this focus on using a game controller when it's what the US navy uses - albeit not an off-brand one. There’s a vast difference in criticality there. One is using it to look around while on the surface. The other is using it to control the entire sub while at 4000m.
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Jun 20, 2023 08:47
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lmao what the gently caress is the point in being a billionaire if you’re still going to get crushed in some ratchet homebrew submarine instead of funding something proper https://twitter.com/conzmoleman/status/1671027991915245569
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His Divine Shadow posted:That's a "harakrank" here, or Harkrank in "high swedish". It's a dialectal word, the word even has it's own article here Yeah, I've only heard it used with that prefix. Makes sense that "krank" would mean stinging insect though, sounds like it
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My abiding memory of Torquay is that it markets itself as “The English Riviera” so I drove in expecting, if not quite Nice or Cannes, then a pleasant stretch of sand and a charming seafront. And it doesn’t even have a loving proper beach lol.
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Seriously though, isn't a (reputable, wired, with spares nearby) gamepad a very reasonable choice? I'm sure there are industrial alternatives but I'm not at all sure they'd be more reliable
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forkboy84 posted:This is why football is essential. Like half the places in England I can name are because of hearing their name in the classified football results at Saturday dinner time That's right. I was born in Leedsnil, for example.
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TACD posted:lmao what the gently caress is the point in being a billionaire if you’re still going to get crushed in some ratchet homebrew submarine instead of funding something proper Is that guy in the video the billionaire? Sounds absolutely ludicrous.
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No that’s presumably the guy who wrote the “this sub is a cobbled together piece of poo poo” article everyone is quoting
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Z the IVth posted:Ah, the reverse Byford Dolphin. Googled it, have read about it before. Very disappointed.
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Thought this was cool. I would've liked to have seen what the ripples looked like. This was the atmosphere that had been pushed up into the top of the sphere as high pressure water made it's way in and it's this air letting go that's the reason for the below reaction, if it had been water only it would have been far less violent. https://www.pmel.noaa.gov/eoi/nemo1998/education/pressure.html quote:To test the windows the bathysphere, unoccupied was lowered to 3,000 feet. When the great steel ball was hauled up, Beebe wrote.
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“Why our Xbox operated metal tube which we intend to take billionaires down to 4000m hasn’t been classed or assessed by reputable maritime agencies”. From their own website lol https://oceangate.com/news-and-media/blog/2019-0221-why-titan-is-not-classed.html Edit. Ha ha. This is Star Citizen stuff. “Our designs are simply too ahead of their time for maritime inspectors to understand” 
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smellmycheese posted:“Why our Xbox operated metal tube which we intend to take billionaires down to 4000m hasn’t been classed or assessed by reputable maritime agencies”. The free market handled this admiradly IMO
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For those of you puzzling about the submarine's construction, here's an incredibly helpful explainer image, courtesy of the Daily Mail:
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The bit that gets me is there only seems to be a window on the toilet end, so unless you’re using the facilities you’re only going to be seeing everything through a camera, in which case why the gently caress go down there at all just send a camera
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It's important that the toilet has a window so you can let some fresh air in when it gets smelly
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Tijuana Bibliophile posted:Seriously though, isn't a (reputable, wired, with spares nearby) gamepad a very reasonable choice? I'm sure there are industrial alternatives but I'm not at all sure they'd be more reliable We used an x box controller for controlling autonomous vehicles because the squaddies or whoever would be using it would have instant familiarity with it.
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Pistol_Pete posted:But we've got to Get The Tories Out and not worry our heads about what would come next! Get The Tories Out has been one of the most damaging political slogans of our time, a mantra that allows people to just completely switch off their brain and let any possibility of hope evaporate from our electoral system.
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History Comes Inside! posted:The bit that gets me is there only seems to be a window on the toilet end, so unless you’re using the facilities you’re only going to be seeing everything through a camera, in which case why the gently caress go down there at all just send a camera Ah, its not quite a mile down, I was hoping for a 'Mile Low Club, only for pooping'
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NoneMoreNegative posted:Ah, its not quite a mile down, I was hoping for a 'Mile Low Club, only for pooping' How low can you 'go'
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Couldn't even manage a Stingray, Thunderbird 4 for or even a Gup-C, pah
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Failed Imagineer posted:Has this ever happened tho? Massive bellend "Sir" Bob Geldof is still an Irish citizen to my knowledge, although I think he was stripped of the Freedom of Dublin honour for being a cock so that's something. Oh, it's super unlikely. Basically from my research into the area (from a previous job) the Government (and in particular the Minister for Justice, I think) has the power to remove Irish citizenship from someone. I suspect it can only be done to someone who applied for Naturalisation and not someone who applied for Citizenship in other ways but I think the general principle is that the Government can create laws to remove Irish Citizenship from someone if they so wish. Now the example of when they used this was on a person who was convicted of Terrorism charges and even then they had to put forward arguments for it. (And, one could note it was probably intended that only certain kinds of Terrorism offences would get this reaction. They haven't tried removing the Irish passports of people convicted of being in the IRA.) It was more for the cheek of someone applying for Irish Citizenship, remaining as a British MP (and member of the British Government) and then taking a British title of nobility. All things that, when you look at what is required to take Irish Citizenship and what you are supposed to swear to, is a bit of a thumb in the eye. Like I know it would never happen, but I would find it funny if it did.
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Microplastics posted:How low can you 'go' Gazing on the desolate majesty of The Titanic while curling out a morning steamer
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His Divine Shadow posted:Thought this was cool. I would've liked to have seen what the ripples looked like. This was the atmosphere that had been pushed up into the top of the sphere as high pressure water made it's way in and it's this air letting go that's the reason for the below reaction, if it had been water only it would have been far less violent. I can only imagine what possessed the author to approach that thing with his bare hands. If I had what was essentially a bomb sitting on the deck of my ship I'd put it back in the (shallow) water for a good long while until it stopped shooting pressure jets out. Now imagine a human body being squeezed through one of those cracks like a tomato paste from a tube and you have the Byford Dolphin.
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Oh I think this must've been in the 50s or 60s and health and safety meant using asbestos filters on your cigarette
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Pistol_Pete posted:Oh god, the smug sneering from the pompous old Guardian commenters whenever someone suggests that this might not be the case. I mean, he's only said explicitly that he's not going to do anything good, words backed by his entire behaviour and career to date. But we've got to Get The Tories Out and not worry our heads about what would come next! And this is why revolutions fail - speaking from experience. Everyone joins for one big push to get shot of whoever but then it all falls apart when there is no united plan going forward. First elections after 2011 revolution in Egypt there were over 130 political parties on the ballot and almost all single issue with little agreement on many important other issues. And we all see how that ended up. GTTO while great in theory but without paying attention to what comes afterwards will just get us the Tories again for another 1000 year reign because Tories are known bastards and no one expects them to behave for the good of the country so they never have to explain anything.
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smellmycheese posted:Gazing on the desolate majesty of The Titanic while curling out a morning steamer "wow, the beauty of it... I feel so... humbled" *pinches off another nugget*
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The Question IRL posted:It was more for the cheek of someone applying for Irish Citizenship, remaining as a British MP (and member of the British Government) and then taking a British title of nobility. All things that, when you look at what is required to take Irish Citizenship and what you are supposed to swear to, is a bit of a thumb in the eye. Thanks for the summary. Yeah if there's any bollocks out there who needs to be disenfranchised from Irish citizenship it's JRM. Maybe I'll put the question to MaryLou when she calls to my doorstep at election time.
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Tijuana Bibliophile posted:Seriously though, isn't a (reputable, wired, with spares nearby) gamepad a very reasonable choice? I'm sure there are industrial alternatives but I'm not at all sure they'd be more reliable Sure, but I've used that very controller and it's a piece of poo poo. Unreliable, and the analogue sticks are unreliable for precision. Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance's sword controls are nigh on impossible because the stick does not track correctly. If they're dead because the controller shat itself that'll be rather damning. Although I'm guessing this cheapskate idiot didn't bother with a black box either. If you want to trigger your claustraphobia check out how loving micro the inside of this deathtrap is btw https://twitter.com/FnpMarieOH/status/1670931677013524487 I tensed up seeing two people in it.
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Sir Sidney Poitier posted:All this focus on using a game controller when it's what the US navy uses - albeit not an off-brand one. NASA too https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/sep/23/game-controllers-nasa-space-robots
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The genius critical minds of our best billionaires on display as they decide descending to the deepest depths of the Atlantic in a metal tube accessorised with bits from B&Q, Camping World and Game Spot is a smart and rational idea.
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Tesseraction posted:Sure, but I've used that very controller and it's a piece of poo poo. Unreliable, and the analogue sticks are unreliable for precision. Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance's sword controls are nigh on impossible because the stick does not track correctly. I think we should have more shoddily made deep sea submersible that cam only be used by the ultra wealthy
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