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CyberPingu: Sep 15, 2013; If you're not striving to improve, you'll end up going backwards.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-55088995

quote:

A charity set up by the Daily Mail to buy protective equipment for NHS staff donated 100,000 face masks suspected of being made by workers in a controversial Chinese labour programme.

# ¿ Dec 1, 2020 17:48

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# ¿ May 10, 2024 03:35

CyberPingu: Sep 15, 2013; If you're not striving to improve, you'll end up going backwards.

Bobstar posted:

I think it's the thing that makes everything look like a soap. Has something to do with high frame rates.

I saw someone arguing that we should stop living in the past regarding frame rates, and embrace the new look. To which I say, films are meant to look cinematic. It's like arguing that theatrical lighting is heightened and stylised, and would be better if it was naturalistic. It wouldn't (unless that's the effect you're going for).

Motion smoothing can gently caress off.

It makes the background look like a still picture.

# ¿ Dec 1, 2020 17:55

CyberPingu: Sep 15, 2013; If you're not striving to improve, you'll end up going backwards.

Yeah my biggest concern is that once the first person gets vaccined then every dumbass thinks that things are back to normal because "vaccine is available "

# ¿ Dec 2, 2020 10:29

CyberPingu: Sep 15, 2013; If you're not striving to improve, you'll end up going backwards.

forkboy84 posted:

https://twitter.com/e_Liam_/status/1333650598768599040?s=20

Keith is a slur now

"difficult or Foreign sounding names"...

# ¿ Dec 2, 2020 11:19

CyberPingu: Sep 15, 2013; If you're not striving to improve, you'll end up going backwards.

# ¿ Dec 2, 2020 11:23

CyberPingu: Sep 15, 2013; If you're not striving to improve, you'll end up going backwards.

Bobby Deluxe posted:

Can't wait for Jan 2021 to find out that we have agreed to buy the vaccine but sadly there is no way to import it.

All those vaccines sitting in a lorry queue in Kent.

# ¿ Dec 2, 2020 11:59

CyberPingu: Sep 15, 2013; If you're not striving to improve, you'll end up going backwards.

Bobby Deluxe posted:

I've spent most of this year in pain from wisdom teeth and a cracked tooth on one side. Been waiting since mid February to hear back from the NHS emergency place, but the dentist I'm registered with cheerfully informed me they could do it the next day if I pay private because 'there's not much on at the moment.'

For every hard working front liner in the NHS, there's armies of workshy jobsworths who wouldn't lift a finger unless spire paid them to do it. The reason the emergency care places are overloaded is because those pricks won't take on the extra work during a loving health crisis.

gently caress dentists, and gently caress whatever special status they get to be exempt from the nhs supposedly being free at the point of service.

# ¿ Dec 2, 2020 12:35

CyberPingu: Sep 15, 2013; If you're not striving to improve, you'll end up going backwards.

Lord of the Llamas posted:

My printer is printing the black very faded but colours are fine. The black cartridge is full so it's not that - any ideas?

Print heads might need cleaned.

# ¿ Dec 2, 2020 12:41

CyberPingu: Sep 15, 2013; If you're not striving to improve, you'll end up going backwards.

Lord of the Llamas posted:

How do I do that?

Google "<model of printer> how to clean print heads"

# ¿ Dec 2, 2020 12:51

CyberPingu: Sep 15, 2013; If you're not striving to improve, you'll end up going backwards.

Lord of the Llamas posted:

All I got was some Rick Astley youtube video.

Well? Did it work

# ¿ Dec 2, 2020 12:53

CyberPingu: Sep 15, 2013; If you're not striving to improve, you'll end up going backwards.

goddamnedtwisto posted:

My no-brand 3D printer gives me considerably less poo poo in every possible way than any document printer I've ever owned, and the poo poo it has given me is fixable in minutes with my "Do I look like I care about the difference between cross-head, Philips and JIS screw heads?" level of mechanical competence.

I'm gonna just start 3D printing all of my correspondence now - I've got some nice marble filament, maybe I can start a trend for communicating through stone(ish) tablets.

Less moving parts in a 3D printer funnily enough.

# ¿ Dec 2, 2020 14:36

CyberPingu: Sep 15, 2013; If you're not striving to improve, you'll end up going backwards.

https://twitter.com/AnsgarTOdinson/status/1334015546979803137

A guy at work said some 5G conspiracy nuts had torn down a tower near his house in Cornwall

# ¿ Dec 2, 2020 17:14

CyberPingu: Sep 15, 2013; If you're not striving to improve, you'll end up going backwards.

Guavanaut posted:

I wonder why 5G got all the conspiracies. Like yeah there's the people who said it about mobile phone masts in general and power lines and radio masts and the telegraph and pencils and whatever, but 3G and 4G didn't get the same high grade nonsense as 5G.

So about half 7 then?

I think it's because it struck in the same year as Covid and people though that 5G was spreading it.

# ¿ Dec 2, 2020 18:08

CyberPingu: Sep 15, 2013; If you're not striving to improve, you'll end up going backwards.

stev posted:

I know they licence books and games a lot more than they used to but it always amazes me how profitable the figures continue to be. Who are these adults who have the time, money and space to build and paint armies and landscapes in TYOOL 2020?

People have a lot of time this year, more than most years tbh.

# ¿ Dec 3, 2020 11:10

CyberPingu: Sep 15, 2013; If you're not striving to improve, you'll end up going backwards.

Communist Thoughts posted:

Once I got into an argument in the 40k thread where a dude was legit comparing the hobby to horse riding and motorcycles to demonstrate it was cheap.

Cheap is relative to your income :eng101:

# ¿ Dec 3, 2020 12:42

CyberPingu: Sep 15, 2013; If you're not striving to improve, you'll end up going backwards.

Jose posted:

Lol at everyone who praised the big centrist hope for the future

https://twitter.com/joncstone/status/1334801988480086016?s=19

Don't France do this every time a summit is about to happen.

Also

https://twitter.com/deanvannguyen/status/942736571438116864

# ¿ Dec 4, 2020 11:22

CyberPingu: Sep 15, 2013; If you're not striving to improve, you'll end up going backwards.

OwlFancier posted:

I wonder if macron just sleeps in a big crib except instead of bright plastic things he just has sabers stuck on the side so he can rattle them when he's feeling cranky.

Pretty sure its a waterbed filled with migrant tears

# ¿ Dec 4, 2020 11:42

CyberPingu: Sep 15, 2013; If you're not striving to improve, you'll end up going backwards.

Its truely amazing that it's been 4 years since the Brexit vote and 2 Tory governments have had 2 elections, multiple extensions and have still left it until the last hour to not gently caress this up*

*When I say amazing, it's not that amazing. Its amazing that people keep voting for these chuckle fucks but that's what you get when 50% of the voting public has brainworms

# ¿ Dec 6, 2020 10:36

CyberPingu: Sep 15, 2013; If you're not striving to improve, you'll end up going backwards.

Private Speech posted:

Also they could've had another extension if Boris wasn't thirsting for Brexit so much.

Didn't the EU say no more extensions?

# ¿ Dec 6, 2020 10:54

CyberPingu: Sep 15, 2013; If you're not striving to improve, you'll end up going backwards.

In theory could they still pull the plug on Brexit and walk it back?

Political discourse aside

# ¿ Dec 6, 2020 11:01

CyberPingu: Sep 15, 2013; If you're not striving to improve, you'll end up going backwards.

sebzilla posted:

https://twitter.com/UKLabour/status/1335516833412214784?s=19

Ugh.

They just don't learn do they?

# ¿ Dec 6, 2020 11:01

CyberPingu: Sep 15, 2013; If you're not striving to improve, you'll end up going backwards.

Niric posted:

What's that, Brexit deadline is coming up and the EU hasn't capitulated? Better stir up some culture wars poo poo to distract everyone

"Millwall fans who booed footballers taking a knee in opposition to racism should “always be respected”, the cabinet minister George Eustice has said"

Otoh, put them in jail. Then march them through the streets and allow people to throw tomatoes at them

# ¿ Dec 6, 2020 12:41

CyberPingu: Sep 15, 2013; If you're not striving to improve, you'll end up going backwards.

OwlFancier posted:

especially in a thread full of people who know political poo poo?

Let's not get ahead of ourselves here.

# ¿ Dec 6, 2020 12:49

CyberPingu: Sep 15, 2013; If you're not striving to improve, you'll end up going backwards.

Regarde Aduck posted:

How would 'no deal' be trumpeted by the press as 'fine'?

It's going to be chaos.

Tories control the press...

Or rather, the Tories have enough friends in high places in enough of the press to make it seem like it's good for them.

# ¿ Dec 6, 2020 16:04

CyberPingu: Sep 15, 2013; If you're not striving to improve, you'll end up going backwards.

crispix posted:

That old Jermany Crobins man grows anti-semitic vegetables in his allotment, i heard

Totalitarian vegetables?

How much did it cost Neil?

# ¿ Dec 6, 2020 17:12

CyberPingu: Sep 15, 2013; If you're not striving to improve, you'll end up going backwards.

Mebh posted:

Update on my electrics situation. Three sockets had a loose neutral and one which was downstairs behind the heaviest cabinets and our entire covid/brexit food store had fused and burnt out as live /neutral had come loose and touched. Fun.

Lol I had something like that recently.

The switch for our power shower had wiring issues, the guy who lived her previously had put the wrong cable internally and it had been slowly overheating.

When the leccy took the casing off the switch the inside was totally melted and had been dripping molten plastic inside the wall. It was a loving miracle it didn't burn the house down.

# ¿ Dec 7, 2020 08:42

CyberPingu: Sep 15, 2013; If you're not striving to improve, you'll end up going backwards.

My wife used to work in a hotel chain that had an employee point system but it was based on feedback from the customers.

One of the restaurant staff took this to a new level by going round each table and going

"Hey, so I get points if you leave good feedback on this form. I need another 15 to get an iPad. Would you mind?"

He got his iPad.

# ¿ Dec 7, 2020 09:53

CyberPingu: Sep 15, 2013; If you're not striving to improve, you'll end up going backwards.

Olpainless posted:

I guess a lot of these could quickly devolve into a popularity contest as well, right?

The guy who has won manager of the year award at our company has won it 5 years on the trot because he manages the largest department and everyone basically just votes internally

# ¿ Dec 7, 2020 10:01