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crispix posted:Is it good? City builders have always been my favourite video-game. When I'm stuck in traffic I don't get upset and grunt and grumble and swear and bang on the steering wheel and do frustration beeps like many people, I just sit and have a think about how I could optimally redesign the roads its really good, with a really vibrant mod community too
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frankenbeans posted:Hi thread. This is entirely the Govt's fault for loving up restrictions/lockdown. Dividing the country up into small units of naughtiness and having incredibly confusing messages about what each level of naughty is allowed to do makes it hard for people to understand. Also, calling each level a "tier" makes it sound like a level of naughty rather than a "loving stay at home, you arseholes". Take those cunts who went on a skiing jolly to Switzerland and then hosed off when they were told they'd have to isolate for 10 days: for people who've been told to cancel their Christmas plans and stay at home - potentially not seeing relatives they haven't seen for 12 months - they look at those cunts and think "Hang on, why am I stuck at home while these fucks get to go abroad and have fun?", and then that makes it less likely they'll follow future guidance they get from the Govt about staying at home. If Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson had come out 3 weeks ago and said "We're having a national lockdown - schools are closing early for Christmas, stay at home with the people you live with and your support bubble if you have one; we're really sorry, but we need to do this", there would have been outrage, but there wouldn't be people travelling from London to visit the loving Brecon Beacons because there's a bit of snow.
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banished was my favourite city builder game. when you're established as a settlement you get travellers and refugees turning up who sometimes bring a disease with them for that added real world feel
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crispix posted:I suppose pure evil is easily identifiable as far as moral frameworks go I kind of feel like May was what we got when someone wished on a monkey's paw for a politican who keeps their promises. A mindless automaton who wants to deport everyone and have a completely non-specific undefined brexit unable to negotiate or compromise because she promised to deport everyone and have a brexit. Ah ha, says the spirit of the monkey, you never specified what sort of promises the politican would make! gently caress off monkey
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kecske posted:banished was my favourite city builder game. when you're established as a settlement you get travellers and refugees turning up who sometimes bring a disease with them for that added real world feel The best thing about banished was not mining quite enough ore and then watching your entire village self-destruct because tools ran out and nobody could harvest the crops
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I think May would have handled covid a lot better, mind. She was in her element when micromanaging and she was the single person in the commons I saw wearing a mask the other day
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kecske posted:banished was my favourite city builder game. when you're established as a settlement you get travellers and refugees turning up who sometimes bring a disease with them for that added real world feel is there a hyperrealism mod where the diseases come from wealthy noblemen coming over on skiing holidays
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Endjinneer posted:They hosed one of the small chains I know of quite badly. It was a deal involving exclusivity for preferential prices which they immediately reneged on by selling their beer to other places in town. The 2 things I know of Brewdog is that their head honcho goes through PA's like nobody's business because he's a massive 'I'm the BOSS' twat in real life, and the end result of them approaching a place I freelanced at about 5 years ago. They wanted to do an unaged Brewdog whisky, so they approached my place (a multi-award winning drinks branding agency), paid the upfront fee for concept designs, liked what they saw. Then their legal guys came back and went 'once you commit to this, everything else in whisky (and any other spirits we may or may not make in future) is conflict of interest, so sign this exclusivity form, then once you're done with any current spirit branding you essentially only work for us.' Given the multi-million $$$£££ accounts they had with much, much larger drinks concerns who didn't give a gently caress about 'conflict of interest', they were politely told to go do one. And all their beer tastes like rusty water. Still, offering the pubs as vaccine centres is, I agree, better than anything that loving mutant who runs Spoons has or will ever do.
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kingturnip posted:Also, calling each level a "tier" makes it sound like a level of naughty rather than a "loving stay at home, you arseholes". Agreed, adding a new tier was loving idiotic. The three tier system didn't work, so why would anyone expect a 4-tier system to be any better. If anything, it made it more of a joke. We broke the first lockdown when it was working, and it's been varying levels of poo poo ever since.
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frankenbeans posted:We'll probably have a tier 5 within a couple of weeks, this split does defeat the point of the tier system - that the number clearly defines what's on/off in each - by creating a muddle, but must have been considered an easier sell than actually calling the harsher #4 what it really is: a distinct #5
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Guavanaut posted:Then you bring out Wee Free Corbyn to condemn the legitimacy of Irish Republicanism and the whole thing descends into chaos because you're willing to meet a clearly disingenuous press halfway on everything. The papers fling a lot of poo poo, but only some of it sticks. No one believes everything they read; it’s just that everyone believes something. In reality the press attacked Corbyn over his historical position on the IRA, and got absolutely nowhere because he is in fact British. Just as similar attacks on Bernie Sanders over anti-Semitimism floundered over the fact of his ethnicity. Had Corbyn actually been Paddy McCorbyn, then those attacks would have landed, and 2017 wouldn’t have been a record swing.
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Ravel posted:Of all the PMs she's been around, why does the Queen uniquely hate Blair? *Gestures wildly at everything*
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Jose posted:Guess who was interviewed lol Once again Teresa May is the porn star, Theresa May is the politician.
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biglads posted:Changing the subject slightly, there were some posts about Cities Skylines a few pages back. Good game but you can't angle snap buildings and if my mining town in the urals can't have rows of perfectly squared grey tower blocks it's not worthy of its lenin statue
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biglads posted:Changing the subject slightly, there were some posts about Cities Skylines a few pages back. Workers and resources doesn't have the amazing traffic simulation of skylines unfortunately, it seems to actually be a game though which is good. crispix posted:Is it good? City builders have always been my favourite video-game. When I'm stuck in traffic I don't get upset and grunt and grumble and swear and bang on the steering wheel and do frustration beeps like many people, I just sit and have a think about how I could optimally redesign the roads It's very good for building your favourite road network, it's not a particularly in depth game beyond that though, you can make really pretty model cities with it though, check out the Games thread for it if you like.
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OwlFancier posted:Once again Teresa May is the porn star, Theresa May is the politician.
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Some of those do seem a little much, but assuming the courses are effective in the first place it's probably good to have volunteers who can be relied upon not to yell slurs at people coming to be vaccinated or nonce their children, who know where the fire escapes are and can recognise anaphylaxis.
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big scary monsters posted:Some of those do seem a little much, but assuming the courses are effective in the first place it's probably good to have volunteers who can be relied upon not to yell slurs at people coming to be vaccinated or nonce their children, who know where the fire escapes are and can recognise anaphylaxis. Yeah I was gonna say, prevent is a joke but doing basic office staff that isn't related to 'how jab needle' isn't a terrible idea for people who haven't worked for a while.
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Don't the vaccines need special extra-cold storage? "Brewdog have fridges" isn't exactly to spec.
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The pfizer ones do, the oxford ones I believe do not, or not as cold. Plus they probably don't inject them into you at -80C.
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I'd assume the extra-cold one is still best kept as cold as possible while en route to going in someone.
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Jose posted:Guess who was interviewed lol "At the end of the session, Limmud Trustee Carolyn Bogush, who had interviewed Sir Keir during the session, encouraged viewers to “unmute” their microphones to applaud Sir Keir at the end of the session." Please clap.
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OwlFancier posted:The pfizer ones do, the oxford ones I believe do not, or not as cold. I presume with the other one it's the same deal only they use whatever they use for the "about -20C" measure, which used to be water, ice, and ammonium chloride, but is now probably 'a freezer'. *afaik it's now known to be far longer but they didn't want to rely on that.
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big scary monsters posted:Some of those do seem a little much, but assuming the courses are effective in the first place it's probably good to have volunteers who can be relied upon not to yell slurs at people coming to be vaccinated or nonce their children, who know where the fire escapes are and can recognise anaphylaxis. I've done those online courses as I've volunteered to help with vaccinating and they're really not time consuming or difficult.
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Jel Shaker posted:i was fine until after the jab when i started thinking that maybe i’ll get anaphylaxis out of nowhere Then you're probably taking the vaccine in the wrong end.
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TreeTrunks posted:I've done those online courses as I've volunteered to help with vaccinating and they're really not time consuming or difficult. Are they the Hays Online ones? We get to do those annually as teachers and the most time consuming and is clicking next next next through the 150+ slides about safeguarding to be asked really simple questions like 'Which of these should you report to your designated safeguarding lead?'. After you submit the answer, if you don't pass, you can click back and adjust the answers it told you were wrong. You also have unlimited attempts to pass.
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re: 'why does the queen apparently hate blair?' the reporting out there on this focuses on two main things: his handling of diana's death (idk exactly what about that though) and him detailing some private conversations with the queen in his memoirs which is apparently considered a major breach of royal confidence
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Well, it will be new year here in an hour or so so: happy new year, UK goons!
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Sad Panda posted:Are they the Hays Online ones? We get to do those annually as teachers and the most time consuming and is clicking next next next through the 150+ slides about safeguarding to be asked really simple questions like 'Which of these should you report to your designated safeguarding lead?'. After you submit the answer, if you don't pass, you can click back and adjust the answers it told you were wrong. You also have unlimited attempts to pass. Sounds very similar!
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https://twitter.com/IsabelOakeshott/status/1344418384918798339
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Tomoyasu Nigel - Battle Without Honours or Humility
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In our culture we have an aversion to "form filling" because when we're growing up repetitive meaningless tasks are used as a form of punishment. Writing stuff out 1000 times or whatever. If you don't take the time to explain to your volunteers why the tasks are not meaningless, they become indistinguishable from punishment. Everything on that checklist has a valid reason to be there, but unless you explain why it's important all your volunteers get instantly demotivated.
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Endjinneer posted:In our culture we have an aversion to "form filling" because when we're growing up repetitive meaningless tasks are used as a form of punishment. Writing stuff out 1000 times or whatever. If you don't take the time to explain to your volunteers why the tasks are not meaningless, they become indistinguishable from punishment. Everything on that checklist has a valid reason to be there, but unless you explain why it's important all your volunteers get instantly demotivated. It's not hard to deliver an IM injection and there is seriously very little you can do to gently caress it up. You could jam a syringeful of air inside and the worst you'd get is a pissed off patient with a painful arm. Patients get trained to self administer injections all the time. Anyone with a modicum of medical training (doctors, nurses, pharmacists, paramedics etc) will be competent to do this after 5 minutes barring actual problems with physical dexterity if we're talking about old retired staff. Doing some equality training and having a piece of paper isn't going to stop Dr Brexit McGammon (Esq) from going off about immigrants when they vaccinate the public. You have them in a big open area supervised by someone who's actually trained and you tell them to shut up apart from saying "sharp scratch" and "all done".
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lih posted:re: 'why does the queen apparently hate blair?' the reporting out there on this focuses on two main things: his handling of diana's death (idk exactly what about that though) and him detailing some private conversations with the queen in his memoirs which is apparently considered a major breach of royal confidence Blair made the Royals look (even more) like petty assholes when he broke ranks with their official position of "Diana divorced Charles, we're glad she's dead" and eventually they had to make a humiliating climbdown.
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Claudia Webbe seems to be having a pretty Correct run what with this and 'close the schools in January you idiots'. https://twitter.com/ClaudiaWebbe/status/1344303965815660545
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Ravel posted:Of all the PMs she's been around, why does the Queen uniquely hate Blair? Probably because he seems to have given her what for over how to behave after Diana's death. (Well at least according to the film "The Queen" - the one with Helen Mirren playing Brenda. Michael Sheen played Blair.)
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Have u considered that leaving the EU will solve problems not caused by being in the EU?? https://twitter.com/guardian/status/1344650282198831105?s=20
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