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DesperateDan posted:Doing your own fruit wines out of cheap fruit juice beats beer brewing on terms of cost and effort- literally throw all the ingredients in a suitable container, leave in a warm dark place till it stops bubbling, put in bottles and await liver disease. Lol you're literally making prison wine.
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Soylent Yellow posted:It's rather telling that livestock is slaughtered with quicker and more reliable methods than people. The US execution methods (lethal injection, as well as the older mostly discontinued methods like the electric chair and gas chamber) just have so many potential points of failiure built into them that I can only assume they're deliberately needlessly complex. I think this is in part due to proponents of the death penalty having a compulsion to add a sense of theatre to the process. Something as quick and simple as a captive bolt gun or nitrogen asphyxiation wouldn't satisfy this need. Inert-gas asphyxiation is cheaper, more humane, and much safer and more reliable than any execution method in use anywhere in the world. The cruelty is the point.
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Bobstar posted:Know much about assisted suicide methods? I've only really read about one, which was drink an anti-emetic and then a poisonous something. Wondering if there are others. I'm skating very, very carefully around this because English law is extremely dodgy about providing info about suicide methods, so I'll just say yes, this is something that has been thought about and methods exist. Assisted suicide methods tend to be proper medical processes though. Partly because if you're getting an actual doctor to do it you might as well go all out, partly because someone with, say, advanced ALS will not have the dexterity to handle a DIY method - that's the whole point of the "assisted" bit.
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XMNN posted:https://twitter.com/SteveBakerHW/status/1253717250785325057?s=20 Also the fact that the economy has been overdue a recession for some time now, given that all of the supposed gains since the GFC were just central banks bukkakeing money into FIRE with every measure of actual economic health lagging badly. If it wasn't this, the MBS/Putin beef and price war on oil would have put at least the US into a nasty recession as its entire energy sector poo poo the bed.
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May 1, 2020 18:11
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Blasmeister posted:Feel like tests not performed by medical personnel aren’t gonna be worth poo poo. We’ve seen how far up your nose you need to shove that thing, how many people are gonna do that themselves properly. I'm going to say anyone who's not that guy who used to hammer nails into himself in the old Jim Rose Circus could do both tests properly. Apparently the idea was floated at the press conference that they may be able to test the entire population of the UK over the course of a month, which while insanely improbable for all sorts of reasons, is actually an interesting idea in theory. Maybe not the entire country, but if you were to blanket-test selected postcodes to get an actual baseline of the infection rate it would mean we weren't still fighting entirely in the dark. You could even get, I dunno, 10k volunteers properly spread around the country and test them weekly? Surely that would give us a much more sensitive early warning of the infection rate going exponential again? I'm working on the assumption that test-and-trace would require us to be dealing with at most high-thousands of infected people to even stand a chance of not being completely swamped, and that's probably going to need months more lockdown, which I just can't see as being feasible.
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May 1, 2020 18:22
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I've no idea if it's good parenting or bad but one of my neighbours has just shouted at her kid "If you keep that up the coronavirus will get you!".
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May 2, 2020 14:56
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Guavanaut posted:Also if women and LGBT folks don't want to join your social movement because you refuse to seriously tackle sexual harassment and worse within your upper ranks then you done hosed up. I'm by no means an expert but I'd say the problem* with non-hierarchical groups is an amplification of the willful blindness you often see as the first stage of the (bad) response you get in all groups. I think it just comes out of common natural reactions people have to unpleasant news. Also of course the problem of non-hierarchical groups really quickly becoming hierarchical - and incredibly strictly so - through non-institutional structures is one that's very well-documented. * by "problem" I don't mean it's unique to, or uniquely bad in, such groups, just that they're more vulnerable to it. "Us" and "them" - and believing that bad things are things done by "them", not "us" - seems a very well-worn path in the human psyche.
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May 3, 2020 03:25
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Brendan Rodgers posted:I'd be amazed if there was less than a couple hundred thousand. They don't all have to be boots on the ground activists or media personalities. How many radical feminists do you think there are in the UK? TERF doesn't just mean transphobe, it's a very specific group with a very specific hatred - the bloke down the pub making "chicks with dicks" cracks, the Christian fundamentalist talking about what God intends, and the Twitter bluetick egged on by Mumsnet aren't TERFs *even if they use arguments coming from TERFs*, they're just common-or-garden bigots. It just so happens, in the UK at least, that radical feminists of a certain age happen to have a fairly strong media presence, so TERFism seems like a far stronger strand of transphobia than elsewhere.
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May 3, 2020 09:43
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Cerv posted:I think the human rights act already offers better protection for minorities status really. proscribing existing welsh names wouldn’t fly. put them on the blockchain. Have you met my son 1BitcoinEaterAddressDontSendf59kuE?
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May 3, 2020 12:20
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Jedit posted:I have personally met Richard Head, so they're not all myths. Have we already forgotten the thrilling two months when Dick Braine was leader of UKIP?
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May 3, 2020 13:34
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BisonDollah posted:Has anyone here played 'Not For Broadcast'? It's in early release, you play the vision mixer for the nightly UK news as Lefty Farage's party has just won an election and plans to destroy the 1%. It is very funny. Yeah I've got it, only played the two broadcasts so far and I'm a little worried that it's gonna be going radical centrist on me and helping the pissed-up bloke talking about taking all the rich people's money will somehow be the "wrong" choice.
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May 3, 2020 14:57
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Guavanaut posted:Tuck you in, warm within One of the very best Discworld throwaway lines is about their version of the Sandman, who puts people to sleep with a sock full of sand.
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May 4, 2020 10:51
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Guavanaut posted:I always assumed that's how our version of the sandman worked, because the canonical version where he puts people to sleep by sprinkling sand in their eyes was obviously written by someone who has never been to the beach. It's because you'd close your eyes if someone threw sand at them. That's what makes Dale Gribble such an effective fighter.
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May 4, 2020 12:14
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baka kaba posted:RLB always said Rayner was to the right of her, their joint run for leader and deputy was meant to be a unity compromise thing to give them broader appeal I don't know why - other than the fact she was RLB's flatmate - anybody ever thought she was anything more than a bog-standard Labour right figure. There's literally nothing anywhere in her background to suggest it, and I was *deeply* suspicious of the way she ran up nominations from the PLP (never even offering to donate nominations to others and blocking people on Twitter for suggesting she might supply the numbers needed to get Dawn Butler on the ballot. I suppose not taking part in the Chicken Coup was a big plus for her, and fair play to her, but that's pretty much it. (Note that I don't actually *mind* her as a figure on the Labour right, and if they were all like her we would have a much better party, I'm just trying to soften the blow for everyone when it turns out she doesn't storm the lectern at Conference waving the Little Red Book)
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May 4, 2020 15:45
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justcola posted:https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/may/04/cost-of-public-transport-should-be-raised-as-lockdown-ends-ifs Like anybody's getting on a rush hour tube for fun, they're getting on it because bosses are petty tyrants who insist people be at their dersk at exactly 0900.
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May 4, 2020 17:02
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DesperateDan posted:Use enough mustard and the cat won't go near, or at least the second time they will be wary. Or hot sauce. My old dear cat used to give me the stink eye whenever he saw me reaching for either I know we're living in strange times but last I checked cats still aren't dogs.
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May 4, 2020 18:33
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XMNN posted:beginning to think the IFS might be a bunch of cunts We prefer the term "cunters", thanks. (Hi to the probably one other person ITT who gets this reference)
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Julio Cruz posted:I assume it's cause their delivery depot is somewhere close to the Dartford crossing. Luton and Harrow are both like 20 minutes from the M25. Dalston's the real outlier there, it's pretty deep into London compared to the rest. e: Tooting too. goddamnedtwisto fucked around with this message at 14:58 on May 5, 2020 |
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From an email from Sadiq Khan: [quote]Alarmingly, the Resolution Foundation estimate unemployment rising to levels last seen in the 1980s. With a benefits system already buckling, we will need a new settlement that offers proper security for all. This should include ideas like a universal basic income, which is gaining support around the world and would ensure everybody can at least survive. /quote] Lol that Captain Milquetoast is outflanking Starmer from the Left now too.
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May 5, 2020 14:59
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keep punching joe posted:If you're a nanny you should maintain a distance of 2 meters for any household occupants that you aren't caring for. Feel like the novelty of using the hoover and interacting with their offspring has worn off for the Aga-owners.
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May 5, 2020 16:39
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A new bit of Unbuilt London I never knew about - Brutalist Whitehall, basically a proposal to wipe out everything between Downing Street and Parliament and replace it with Brutalist low-rises, from the architect of the Royal Festival Hall.
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May 6, 2020 07:53
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sinky posted:Boris is only 5ft 9 Is he bollocks, I'm 5'9 (5'10 on a good day) and I was a good 2 inches taller than him when I was working at the Torygraph in the 90s (in the kitchen before anyone updates wall.xls too quickly), and unless coke has HGH in it he's not got any bigger since then.
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Comrade Fakename posted:Adding goddamnedtwisto to wall.xls for failing to poison Boris Johnson. I was a porter, poisoning him would have been complex. I *could* have run him over with the cleaning trolley I suppose. Funny thing though, he was about the only person working (in a suit) there who I wouldn't have happily murdered. He was the only one of the senior editorial staff to regularly eat in the normal staff canteen rather than the executive dining room on the 11th floor, and he knew the names of every single one of the staff in that canteen and chatted happily with all of them, a stark contrast with most of the journos who were at best indifferent but mostly loving arseholes to anyone they considered "below" them. Anyone baffled how he got where he was in life (and how he's got the love life of a character from a French farce), that's the missing piece (obviously sitting on top of a massive pile of privilege) - the dude is charming as hell IRL (as are most career politicians near the top - ultimately that's the only actual skill you need). That's the only reason I knew who he was before HIGNFY et. al. made him BORIS LEGERND - he was literally the only non-service staff member there to actually introduce himself to me in the couple of months I worked there., on like my second or third day. I know it's all an act, but gently caress me it's a really convincing one, and I can see why people fall for it.
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justcola posted:eee you kept that quiet ey. I do like hearing stories about public figures though, they seem to have this certain charisma that gets to people. I've met Andy Burnham and a few other MPs and most had it. Weird. I've mentioned it quite a lot over the years, mostly as an answer to the obvious "How the hell does he keep getting bigger jobs?" question . It's about the most interesting of my (small, but eclectic) store of celebrity stories that I'd be willing to commit somewhere that libel laws could conceivably apply. If you want another PM story, a friend of a friend worked at Lambeth Council in the housing department when John Major was a councilor there in the 70s, and they'd worked together on a couple of things - maybe only a couple of weeks total spread out over a couple of years. When he did that cringeworthy documentary where he went back to Brixton, he happened to run into her off-camera and not only remembered her name but also a conversation they'd had about her family almost 30 years before. Like I say it's a skill you find in almost all successful politicians, because ultimately appealing to people is the only way they can progress. Michael Gove, for all his skinsuit qualities, is also apparently actually quite likeable in real life - I struggle to believe it too, but people who've worked with him say that he's actually very easy to get along with.
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Sloth Life posted:Today traffic was basically back to normal. Lines at the lights, twats pulling out and all. Weird because I was in the City of London this morning and it was quieter than Sunday, apart from around Liverpool Street, and the A13 was quieter than I've seen it since lockdown began.
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communism bitch posted:lol we're gonna have 40,000 dead before the end of summer aint we We've passed 50k already.
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crispix posted:So which cabinet minister's sprog had their finger in the pie of the home made app Cummings' mate's brother, wasn't it? Certainly someone involved with leave.eu.
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Guavanaut posted:What would happen if we all just started using Ireland's app instead? The app still has to be official, and ideally interface with health authorities to automatically arrange testing, otherwise it's just a poo poo Tinder to FIND HOT SINGLE VIRUSES NEAR YOU NOW.
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https://twitter.com/bengoldacre/status/1258378643979620353 BAME people more at risk *even when accounting for all other risks associated with BAME populations* and smokers being safer than never-smokers being safer than ex-smokers are probably the weirdest takeaways from this. e: corrected the order of risk for smokers. goddamnedtwisto fucked around with this message at 14:47 on May 7, 2020 |
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blunt posted:* Smokers being safer than never smokers being safer than ex-smokers. Yeah, corrected that, alas brainfarts aren't being tracked as a risk factor. I wonder what the difference between people with high blood pressure and those who have normal blood pressure thanks to medication is (particularly as I'm in the latter group)? Might suggest whether the blood pressure itself is the important part or whether it's actually that the cause of the blood pressure is the protection.
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Failed Imagineer posted:Same offer, but I'll just laugh at your inability to economy pick while I atonally shred with no backing track Same same offer but this will be the lesson: 
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OwlFancier posted:I thought the idea was that it obviously makes you more at risk if you catch it because your lungs are hosed but that something about it seems to prevent people from catching it at all. Either behaviourally or whatever. The interesting thing to me is that smokers in general, as well as the actual health problems that smoking cause, tend to be more at risk of catching any bugs going round simply because the actual act of smoking (putting your hand next to/touching your face repeatedly) increases your chances of infection. This suggests that the protective action - whatever it is - is actually even stronger than the stats suggest. If the nicotine patch trial goes nowhere, it might also be interesting to compare it to ambient pollution levels (controlled for social factors that tend to go along with living in polluted areas obviously) to see if it might be something to do with irritation of the lungs, or even carbon monoxide levels in the blood. Anyway here's my theory - smokers are making more trips out of the house (to buy fags, and often to smoke them) but otherwise are more socially distanced (both from going out for a fag, and because they're all so damned cool that people are intimidated by us - erm, them), meaning that they're being exposed to very small amounts of the virus and are actually being effectively vaccinated.
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Guavanaut posted:There's also Jake Brakes, which use the engine as an air compressor to provide enhanced engine braking when a heavy truck is rolling downhill or needs to slow down, with the side effect (before newer exhaust flow controls) of sounding like a WWI biplane struggling to climb. That wouldn't be a jake brake - they wouldn't actually be that noisy on a much smaller-displacement car engine, and I don't think you could even make them work on a four-stroke engine, for that matter, at least without completely replacing the valvetrain. What you're hearing is open pipes with a chipped engine to run over-rich, giving the classic fart-cannon note because half the combustion is happening in the headers rather than in the cylinder. The hilarious thing is if they're actually turbo'd (and the rally cars Scooby owners are all trying to emulate are turbocharged) that they're both completely loving the turbo (and probably the intake manifold if they're doing the other fuckhead mod of a loud pop-off valve - the FST-OOO noise you hear when they close the throttle) *and* losing a shitload of power.
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OwlFancier posted:And you can achieve the same effect by just sticking a trombone out the window and giving the slide some welly as you drive. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jx8XXaLxt4Q This is the only acceptable exhaust mod. Want a loud exhaust? Buy an Italian motorbike like God intended. The noise*must* be legal, the factory says it is!
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https://twitter.com/Independent/status/1258656804143276032 Would you call it a "tragic gardening accident"?
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Necrothatcher posted:So he didn't spit on the officer. If he had there would have been an assault charge. Yeah the fact they tacked on an "unnecessary travel" charge kinda suggests they were looking to throw every last thing they could at him, and they'd have definitely put assault in there if they had even the tiniest chance.
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Brendan Rodgers posted:What if conscientous objection hit a kind of critical mass? If millions of soldiers on all sides refused to get on the plane, and took the punishment for it, and in the process made the war unviable. It would come at personal cost, but I think notions of "cowardice" have changed since WW1 and each following war changed things further, with the draft becoming unthinkable in many countries. There will still be more than enough people willing to shoot "cowards" to stop this becoming likely within our lifetime. Besides, warfare has changed so completely in the last 50 years that any war that would actually need the sort of "warm body with a rifle" numbers that would make conscription an issue would be pretty much a world-ender before the first conchies were even put on trial.
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