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Jaeluni Asjil
Apr 18, 2018

Sorry I thought you were a landlord when I gave you your old avatar!
Ready Player One - what a silly film.
Glad I'm doing work while it's on in the background.
It's like an episode of Transformers gorn mad. (Onna stick).

Global Structure of the Kerr Family of Gravitational Fields
Brandon Carter
Phys. Rev. 174, 1559 – Published 25 October 1968

The Kerr family of solutions of the Einstein and Einstein-Maxwell equations is the most general class of solutions known at present which could represent the field of a rotating neutral or electrically charged body in asymptotically flat space.

Separate:

In 2022, it was mathematically demonstrated that the equilibrium found by Kerr in 1963 was stable and thus black holes—which were the solution to Einstein's equation of 1915—were stable.

Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 03:06 on Jan 24, 2024

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fuctifino
Jun 11, 2001

https://twitter.com/breeallegretti/status/1749921632095756457

quote:

Tory WhatsApp wars latest:

Big backlash to Simon Clarke going over the top.

Paul Holmes, a PPS, says: “This weekend I went out canvassing and it was the worst weekend I've had. Why? Because OUR VOTERS were saying they were fed up with us being divided and talking to ourselves. Stop it.”

James Sunderland, also a PPS, tells critics to “get behind the PM or get lost”.

Jackie Doyle Price suggests some colleagues aren’t “behaving like grown ups”.

Jerome Mayhew calls Clarke’s intervention “profoundly self-defeating”.

Andrew Percy says he asked to be added to the group of Tory MPs “because of what I saw coming tonight” and that “we are months from an election. The idea another leadership psychodrama will help any Tory MP is for the birds!”

Andrew Bowie, a minister, begs critics to “get a loving grip”. He asks: “Can we, for more than five minutes, dispense with the civil war and leadership speculation.”

Liam Fox, a former cabinet minister, tells those positioning for a tilt at the leadership post-general election: “Some may think they will be giants in opposition. They would soon find they are ignored, impotent and unimportant.”

The troops are rallying behind Sunak…

Simon Clarke hits back at critics: “Personal insults don’t change the facts.”

He denies positioning ahead of a future leadership election, telling Tory MPs’ WhatsApp group that he’s “speaking out because the stakes for our country and my party are too high to stay silent”.


:allears:

Jaeluni Asjil
Apr 18, 2018

Sorry I thought you were a landlord when I gave you your old avatar!
Simon Clarke chat:
Anyone else watched Cobra Series 3? Take note and be warned Mr Clarke!

Angepain
Jul 13, 2012

what keeps happening to my clothes
as i understand it the tory party spends half its time having indignant flamewars in a selection of whatsapp group chats and the other half leaking the whatsapp chats to journalists. they should just invite the journalists and be done with it

grobbo
May 29, 2014
https://twitter.com/Redpeter99/status/1750038154118074742

Wrap it up, Sunak. You can't compete against the impressive mandate of Some Guy We're Imagining Right Now

Doctor_Fruitbat
Jun 2, 2013


https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/jan/24/royal-mail-could-save-650m-by-switching-to-three-day-a-week-service-says-ofcom

Wow, a whole £10 per person! And all we need to do is absolutely gently caress postal deliveries into the earth? Sign me up!

sebzilla
Mar 17, 2009

Kid's blasting everything in sight with that new-fangled musket.


Ah, the triumphant return of Any Other Leader. Big shock they'd cross the floor like that.

keep punching joe
Jan 22, 2006

Die Satan!
The nebulous meaning of 'core conservative values', like those of the personal liberty everyone can be gay and smoke opium as long as its on the dl, or the bring back hanging long live the empire type?

dadrips
Jan 8, 2010

everything you do is a balloon
College Slice

grobbo posted:

https://twitter.com/Redpeter99/status/1750038154118074742

Wrap it up, Sunak. You can't compete against the impressive mandate of Some Guy We're Imagining Right Now
Would dearly love to see the absolute number of people in the red areas, versus the vast tracts of emptiness in the blue areas

Maps of conservative support the world over are basically "places where nobody lives and nothing of consequence happens"

smellmycheese
Feb 1, 2016

grobbo posted:

https://twitter.com/Redpeter99/status/1750038154118074742

Wrap it up, Sunak. You can't compete against the impressive mandate of Some Guy We're Imagining Right Now

The man is literally shrinking and transforming into a corncob



Edit - for clarity. That isn’t shooped, that’s from todays Grauniad

Tesseraction
Apr 5, 2009

Imagine how bullied that hypothetical kid would be by the other kids in detention.

Azza Bamboo
Apr 7, 2018


THUNDERDOME LOSER 2021
Conservatives love detention: send the children to the barges.

PriorMarcus
Oct 17, 2008

ASK ME ABOUT BEING ALLERGIC TO POSITIVITY

smellmycheese posted:

The man is literally shrinking and transforming into a corncob



Edit - for clarity. That isn’t shooped, that’s from todays Grauniad

It's easy to imagine Rishi is on a lower step here but I promise he isn't. He's on the same step as the guy to his screen-left.

Azza Bamboo
Apr 7, 2018


THUNDERDOME LOSER 2021
A visual metaphor: When conservatives hope he'll step down, he steps up, and still comes short.

Tesseraction
Apr 5, 2009

Very funny that Rishi does look like the Year 7 student that would be sent to detention.

Noxville
Dec 7, 2003

grobbo posted:

https://twitter.com/Redpeter99/status/1750038154118074742

Wrap it up, Sunak. You can't compete against the impressive mandate of Some Guy We're Imagining Right Now

Love the lack of definition of what 'core conservative values' are, let everyone project their ideal onto this imaginary guy even if it clashes with everyone else's imaginary guy.

Red Oktober
May 24, 2006

wiggly eyes!



Brexit party furiously take notes

Angepain
Jul 13, 2012

what keeps happening to my clothes
Core Conservative Values:

  • More money for us
  • gently caress you
  • Racism
  • Restore the full extent of the British Empire
  • Kill the poor
  • Blowjob from dead pig

NotJustANumber99
Feb 15, 2012

somehow that last av was even worse than your posting

PriorMarcus posted:

It's easy to imagine Rishi is on a lower step here but I promise he isn't. He's on the same step as the guy to his screen-left.

That's the guy kicking off at the moment, Simon Clarke, who's 6'7". Rishi is pocket sized but that scumbag is a particularly large one.

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

Noxville posted:

Love the lack of definition of what 'core conservative values' are, let everyone project their ideal onto this imaginary guy even if it clashes with everyone else's imaginary guy.

The funny bit is that that's what starmer's trying to be but he still falls short of the imaginary tory.

TACD
Oct 27, 2000

grobbo posted:

https://twitter.com/Redpeter99/status/1750038154118074742

Wrap it up, Sunak. You can't compete against the impressive mandate of Some Guy We're Imagining Right Now
I don’t think it’s real (poll is here). TBH I’m more relieved that the random line break at the start of the blue key text isn’t real.

E: unless there’s a newer version with the toggle at the top I can’t find 🤷🏻

TACD fucked around with this message at 11:23 on Jan 24, 2024

Runcible Cat
May 28, 2007

Ignoring this post

OwlFancier posted:

The funny bit is that that's what starmer's trying to be but he still falls short of the imaginary tory.

Well dur he's lefty woke socialist Labour isn't he.

Darth Walrus
Feb 13, 2012
https://x.com/yvettecoopermp/status/1749946156979814752?s=46&t=ARI_L-v32Oind1-d9B3a3Q

Labour now cracking down on ninja zombies. TBF, I heard that Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z wasn't very good.

smellmycheese
Feb 1, 2016

Yvettes thirst to get cracking on crackdowns is palpable

Bobstar
Feb 8, 2006

KartooshFace, you are not responding efficiently!

How many kinds of knives do you know
In a Zombie Ninja Garden?

killerwhat
May 13, 2010

Jedit
Dec 10, 2011

Proudly supporting vanilla legends 1994-2014

OwlFancier posted:

The funny bit is that that's what starmer's trying to be but he still falls short of the imaginary tory.

Yeah, it's a pity if it's not real because a real poll showing the utter destruction of Labour if the election was between Starmer and "Starmer, but he's wearing a blue rosette" would highlight both how broken British politics is and how Starmer is just utterly poo poo.

Necrothatcher
Mar 26, 2005




Darth Walrus posted:

https://x.com/yvettecoopermp/status/1749946156979814752?s=46&t=ARI_L-v32Oind1-d9B3a3Q

Labour now cracking down on ninja zombies. TBF, I heard that Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z wasn't very good.

absolute performative bullshit - the overwhelming majority of knife crime is done with kitchen knives. Banning one particular kind of exotic weapon isn't going to do poo poo.

Gort
Aug 18, 2003

Good day what ho cup of tea

Jedit posted:

Yeah, it's a pity if it's not real because a real poll showing the utter destruction of Labour if the election was between Starmer and "Starmer, but he's wearing a blue rosette" would highlight both how broken British politics is and how Starmer is just utterly poo poo.

I guess you'd need a poll between Sunak and "a new Labour leader who followed core Labour values" as well. I dare say the latter would win handily because everyone has their own idea of what "core Labour values" are.

Then replace "core Labour values" with "Tony Blair's values" and "Jeremy Corbyn's values" for a laugh in a followup question.

Puntification
Nov 4, 2009

Black Orthodontromancy
The most British Magic

Fun Shoe
Zombie knife sounds very goofy, are youths coating their blades in exotic poisons that raise undead wraiths?

kecske
Feb 28, 2011

it's round, like always

iirc only silver weapons work against the undead

Darth Walrus
Feb 13, 2012

Puntification posted:

Zombie knife sounds very goofy, are youths coating their blades in exotic poisons that raise undead wraiths?

It means that you have a hell of a time melting them down - they just turn up again in your evidence locker the very next day, only there's twice as many of them.

Azza Bamboo
Apr 7, 2018


THUNDERDOME LOSER 2021
Lol if the undead organise better than the living.

forkboy84
Jun 13, 2012

Corgis love bread. And Puro


I mean to be fair, I've seen photos of what people are calling zombie knives & they basically look like machetes but part of the blade is serrated. It seems like something that you probably don't need in London.

sinky
Feb 22, 2011



Slippery Tilde

Darth Walrus posted:

It means that you have a hell of a time melting them down - they just turn up again in your evidence locker the very next day, only there's twice as many of them.

Use a Bound Dagger so the evidence disappears in 120 seconds.

Jaeluni Asjil
Apr 18, 2018

Sorry I thought you were a landlord when I gave you your old avatar!
What is a zombie knife?

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/what-is-zombie-knife-weapons-ban-illegal-idris-elba-b1074822.html


Has anyone else ever noticed that when the meedja wants you to be sympathetic to someone they will refer to them as grandmother, grandfather, mother, father.
But if they don't want you to be sympathetic even though you might be those things, they don't make it prominent.

Guavanaut
Nov 27, 2009

Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998



Toilet Rascal
Just replace 'zombie' and 'ninja' with 'scary' because that's all it means.

Or 'hero', as with the turtles.

Necrothatcher posted:

absolute performative bullshit - the overwhelming majority of knife crime is done with kitchen knives. Banning one particular kind of exotic weapon isn't going to do poo poo.
Yup, same as how NYC figured out the same was true about stop and search, you get better results with community centers and early response to domestic incidents.

As if crime prevention isn't the point.

Communist Thoughts
Jan 7, 2008

Our war against free speech cannot end until we silence this bronze beast!


keep punching joe posted:

The nebulous meaning of 'core conservative values', like those of the personal liberty everyone can be gay and smoke opium as long as its on the dl, or the bring back hanging long live the empire type?

It means white

fuctifino
Jun 11, 2001

I bit the bullet last night in a rare window of lucidity and finally got around to writing my will. MoneySavingExpert recommended freewills.co.uk for a free service. It's a really easy menu driven system, and it only took me a few minutes to complete. My will is currently being checked over by their inhouse solicitors, and although they will happily send you a PDF for free, I paid £30 for an official looking bound copy printed on parchment paper. £30 compared to the hundreds that I'd have paid a local solicitor seemed like a bargain.

Once it's signed and witnessed next week, my brother will be disconnected from ever receiving a penny from me :toot:

I guess a load of you also don't have wills. With it being this easy and this free, I thought I'd pass on the link and give some of you a nudge

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Darth Walrus
Feb 13, 2012
The amusing thing about 'ninja swords' is that, like most pieces of ninja lore, they started out as theatre props. Real ninjas did exist, but they either used simple peasant weapons or the standard military weapons of the samurai clans (because the most prominent ninja organisations literally were just samurai clans who specialised in asymmetrical warfare and sold their services to any interested warlords). Easily-identifiable specialist equipment like their own special swords would go against the whole point of having anonymous spies and saboteurs. Ninjato, the straight shortswords associated with ninjas in more modern works, appear to have been completely fictional, and based on misdrawings of samurai wakizashi (the shortswords the samurai caste used as sidearms, which were both practical and readily-available for real ninjas).

This is also, for the record, the origin of those 'black pyjama' ninja outfits. Those were actually the outfits used by stagehands in Edo-period theatre, to keep them invisible while rearranging sets between scenes. Having the stagehands turn out to be ninjas and assaulting the main characters was a popular way of breaking the fourth wall as a surprise during a performance.

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