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This nice website shows where the National Grid gets its power on a day by day basis, going back a decade. You can see the pretty impressive rise in wind power over the last ten years, the near elimination of coal, gradual decline in nuclear, and a big jump in gas use in mid-2015 that continues to this day.
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Total Meatlove posted:Imagine this making sense: You mean quote:But even if you don’t know how to find the transformation, verifying it is easy – or, at least, purely mechanical. The required transformation in our case is given by the friendly-looking formulas If we just replaced all the letters in algebra with fruit emoji I think a lot more people would enjoy maths.
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kingturnip posted:Isn't most facial recognition software OwlFancier posted:It also can't recognize juggalos. Also lots of people wearing masks nowadays A very real problem is that while recognising a face from a database of a couple hundred people of interest is not that hard, recognising one from a database of thousands or millions is very slow and much more likely to throw up many false positives. When Facebook gives you a photo tag suggestion they aren't checking every person who uses Facebook, just your friends and maybe their friends. So if the polis have you down as on a list of known local troublemakers they can probably pick you out from crowd surveillance footage, but I doubt it would be feasible to reliably identify every person in that crowd even if they had an up-to-date database of every face in the UK. big scary monsters fucked around with this message at 02:17 on Jan 8, 2021 |
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I'd suggest wear your mandatory mask and maybe a trucker hat. Sunglasses if you're paranoid or hungover. Of course there are imaging systems that can just see through most fabrics but they're expensive, potentially dangerous, the resolution is usually bad, and I doubt anyone is deploying those in the open outside of a warzone or a research setting. The risk assessment forms are a huge pain.OwlFancier posted:And put a rock in your shoe.
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I remember a time when I maintained that there was no difference between freeze dried instant coffee and stuff fresh ground from the fanciest bean. Then I had a partner who showed me my error, and ruined two scoops out of the jar, some boiling water and a splash of milk for me forever. Now I'm beset with scales, thermometers, bizarrely shaped glassware and exotic beans. Cherish your ignorance and unsophisticated palates, because once you open that particular vacuum-sealed packet you are looking into the bitter, black abyss for the rest of your life.
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peanut- posted:In a fit of new year stupidity I signed up for a vegetable box delivery. Anyone know what a human does with a celeriac? goddamnedtwisto posted:That's a skidplate. *This* is a skidpan:
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Oh definitely, but the conversation nobody wants to have is that the best way to do that is to increase the death rate, not decrease the birth rate. The Tories have been doing some sterling environmental work over the last decade if that's the case.
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Jan 10, 2021 01:37
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NotJustANumber99 posted:But really we need rid of slow to evolve meat bodies and rely on technology. Look at me versus the iphone. Its advanced amazingly and I got fat and boring. I know, they've had those glow-in-the-dark pigs and mice for ages now why can't I get a glow-in-the-dark child if I want? Inject those jellyfish genes into my balls and let's go.
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I'm pro glowing children, pro glowing families.
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NotJustANumber99 posted:I long for the first child with copyrighted dna strands I want to say that already happened to someone thanks to biological patents but maybe I'm thinking of one of the bad Michael Crichton novels.
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Adoption is pretty hard AFAIK, you (quite properly) have to go through a bunch of stuff to prove your suitability and ability to care for a child. Making your own is something you can easily bang out in ten minutes.
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crispix posted:well no not if you're gay that's what i was talking about really But I agree with you on adoption tbh, it seems a lot better to take in an existing unwanted kid than put out another. I have a couple of adopted cousins - my aunt and uncle had a couple biological children, then fostered and eventually adopted children from "difficult" backgrounds and really put a lot into giving them as good a start in life as they could. I have a lot of respect for that.
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Darth Walrus posted:I've been to San Francisco. Trust me when I say that they're only 'noble' in the British aristocracy sense. Which is the best pinniped? I'm going with bearded seals.
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Darth Walrus posted:Consider for a moment who you're asking that question of. Walruses do seem cool but I've never met one so I'm postponing judgement for now.
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Real Cool Catfish posted:https://mobile.twitter.com/jdpoc/status/1349442897507217412 https://twitter.com/LochfyneLangous/status/1349449819677458435 By the by, I did some work on one of their fish farms once - the langoustines were delicious but the health conditions of their farmed salmon were some of the worst I've seen. Quite a shame if they close regardless of the owner's views on Brexit - fish farms provide a fair few jobs in some very remote communities. Some are seasonal or temporary positions, but a lot of the farm workers I met had been there many years and apart from the on-site scientists and sometimes the managers it's a job you can get without a degree and pick up a bunch of skills and training over time. big scary monsters fucked around with this message at 02:51 on Jan 14, 2021 |
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Jan 14, 2021 02:48
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Nah that has to be a joke. "SENSIBLE SPENDING" superimposed on footage of the Millenium Dome and "PROVEN LEADERSHIP" while he shakes hands with Gaddafi are too much. Also lol "we've tried it both ways" with Khan and Johnson, and Blair at his most Gollumesque in slomo at the end there.Tijuana Bibliophile posted:thought i'd share this official uk.gov facebook ad big scary monsters fucked around with this message at 00:34 on Jan 17, 2021 |
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Might be a bit late for that tbh. Looking forward to him sending the Met Police into whatever country the US decides to invade next though.
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lmao if famous Scot Anthony Charles Lynton Blair finally chooses this moment to go into Scottish politics. With that great statesman Richard Leonard gone, maybe it's time for a new figurehead, and who better to represent Scottish Labour than an Edinburgh private school boy who has lived his entire adult life in England?
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Jan 17, 2021 03:09
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Noble free speech warrior and truthsayer Toby Young unjustly deplatformed by vile, censorious bigot Toby Young.
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Failed Imagineer posted:Not sure if it totally maps but I imagine putting "QC" in your loving twitter name indicates the same level of donkeybrained as "PhD". I will not have you besmirch the good name of Dr Robert "Rob" Zands PhD like this.
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Does anyone have Corbyn's original quote on "kinder, gentler politics"? I want to know what the context was at the time, but all I can find is half a decade of journos bringing it up trying own left wingers for bullying them.
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therattle posted:https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-politics-34392427 ronya posted:technically he never said 'gentler' Thank you both! 
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hooman posted:"Oh I did it for my children and my childrens children." I'm optimistic that his children's children's children might benefit. A future where the UK is just a small island with no real power in Europe or the wider world is surely better than one where the UK gets to keep on pretending it's still an empire and throw its weight around through force of tradition. Bit of a long term plan though.
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OwlFancier posted:Lest we not also forget that you are vastly in the minority in being willing to do that, and the people who care far more about nationalism than anything to do with a left wing government is the group of people you will be escaping to, and the people who will be actively looking to sabotage any left wing government to get another referendum. Given that's also been the group in power in the UK since time immemorial it doesn't seem like there's much to lose, and at least with Scottish independence you get to see red-faced men crying in the street as the union flags are ceremonially burned and people are thrown in jail just for saying they're English.
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When you think about it a lot of countries around the world would probably have been a lot better off if they had just immediately thrown in jail everyone who said they were English. England not least. Britain for the Britons, Angles out.
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Guavanaut posted:Funnily enough F works better for temperatures in northern coastal Europe, where they're normally between 0 at lowest and 100 at most and 50 is mild, than they do for the US where it goes from -20 to 120 or more and the one advantage of being able to use it like a percentage scale goes out the window. It's simple: 278.15°K and below is time for woolly jumpers, 288.15°K is t-shirt weather and 293.15°K is taps aff. Only mad dogs and Englishmen go out above 308.15°K.
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namesake posted:The pre-assumption of this logic is that the Scottish area is different from any other group of non-Tory voting seats, like Greater Manchester and Liverpool which frequently votes uniformly one way and doesn't get that party into government. If Greater Manchester had had a popular independence movement for the last 50 years or so and regularly elected Mancunian Independence MPs then it probably wouldn't seem so outrageous - who knows, maybe the NIP will be there in a few decades. You don't have to like the SNP - we all know ITT that they're pretty poo poo - or think that Scotland out of the UK would be a good thing overall. But the SNP's entire raison d'être is Scottish independence and they've been the largest party in the Scottish Parliament since 2007 and returned the most Scottish MPs since 2015. That's about as legitimate as our parliamentary system can really get. I don't know what more you could ask for to legitimise an independence movement, the return of the Jacobite pretender and an armed uprising?
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namesake posted:Bourgeois parliamentary systems are not particularly legitimate as they are centres for the ruling class to organise their own affairs but even in this matter it's not a real vindication. Tory parliamentary majorities in the UK are seen as signs of oppression while SNP parliamentary majorities in Scotland are seen as signs of liberation - that cannot be explained by bourgeois electoral logic and that is my point. Maybe I misunderstood, your last post seemed more like it was talking about drawing legitimacy from within the parliamentary system. If you're after abandoning that and ending bourgeois rule as a whole then of course that would be preferable - I'd imagine there are plenty of people here who're pro-independence because that's all that's on offer, but would rather just not have nation states at all. Your question of whether an independent Scotland is actually any better is reasonable and I don't know the answer. But I think, lacking a working class revolution, it's still a legitimate choice to consider.
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I visited Ely the one time and my impressions were: lol this is not a city; why did they build this town on a swamp; I think Dave Greenfield of the Stranglers lives here?* *apparently he doesn't any more, died of covid
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Jan 24, 2021 02:29
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How is it legal to give someone a warning over sick leave? What the gently caress.
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Maybe it's an entirely standard thing and I just never really noticed it in my employment contracts, but that all seems completely deranged. Just choosing to be ill for 9 days or fewer for my employer's convenience.
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Just saw Norwegian news talking about "the English virus", sad to see divisive scotnat language making headway even here.
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Failed Imagineer posted:Took me a while to realise Q Shaman was supposed to rhyme with QAnon, because American is the worst language I honestly cannot figure out how that is meant to work.
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I threw a Burns night a few years back where I got vegan haggis for the vegetarians/religious folk. All my guests, including the carnivores, liked them better than the meat ones.  Have to say I still prefer the real deal but the veggie ones are really good too. Also when I was last back I was surprised to find Glasgow has a bunch of really good vegan restaurants these days. Had a fantastic vegan fish and chips in Stereo before a gig there.
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:Bums Night Wow more like burned night 
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Guavanaut posted:Dude wrote a poem ranking meat puddings. Burns would definitely have been repeatedly banned for horny posting in D&D.
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CoolCab posted:i will either escape this horrible place or some day you'll find me in some long forgotten victorian sanatorium, bound in straightjacket screaming until i am hoarse about how peas already came pretty loving portable and WHY DO THEY NEED MASHING??? makes them look like neon green baby vomit Mushy peas aren't just mashed up, they're soaked and cooked with baking soda. That's the secret to their deliciousness.
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Guavanaut posted:You finally really did it, you maniacs! You finally identified as an attack helicopter! Ah, drat you! There was that scifi story a year or so back that caused a huge outcry, "I Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter". Lots of people decried it as a transphobic attack more or less based on the title, and got the magazine to retract it (including at least one extremely online author who later admitted not to actually having read it). It eventually emerged that the author was herself trans but not publically out. You can read it here if you'd like. e: To be clear the story is intentionally a little uncomfortable in places, and the title is a provocation, but I think it's fairly obviously not transphobic. big scary monsters fucked around with this message at 09:43 on Jan 26, 2021 |
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The Question IRL posted:Real talk, my wife wanted a Beyond Burger last night so I went down to the Tesco to get them for her. I found them in the frozen foods section. I guess I should have read the cooking instructions, but I've cooked them from frozen a number of times and they were pretty good and I didn't die.
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