OwlFancier posted:

lmao @ celebrating the wrong thing but very patriotically

Comrade Fakename posted:

Bad news lads, synthwave is now officially over:

sinky posted:

Angepain posted:

it's exactly the kind of "institutional capture" they claim the Evil Trans Lobby is doing, but it's ok because they're doing it and they must be right

HopperUK posted:

Yeah - same issues on phone over wifi, but mobile data is fine, so I'm guessing it's just EE being a chore again. Thank you though.

HopperUK posted:

Would a DNS issue affect both my browser on pc and my phone, but only over the Wi-Fi and not mobile? I will fuss with it. Rebooting the router just for fun. Ugh. EE broadband is pretty decent but once in a while it just has these weird little fits.

Seems to have fixed it for now. I hate networking stuff, when I am even slightly tired it becomes like witchcraft to me. Thank you chums.

Unkempt posted:

Human brains evolved to make models of the outside world. 'Consciousness' is just the model of the thing inside the model, introspection in a recursive loop. The model trying to model the thing that's doing the modelling.

I grow my own weed, it's great.

Reveilled posted:

"and was sanctioned by the UK government" is the important part of that, though. Spain has previously said that as long as there is a lawful and legitimate separation process they don't have an issue, and that would surely be the case for the rest of the world generally. The problem is that the UK government have intimated that they won't sanction a referendum or a separation, and if we do actually unilaterally declare independence despite opposition from the UK we should expect zero recognition from any other country.

I'll also vote yes for basically the same reasons as forkboy, but I don't actually see a workable path to independence without a serious change in how things are going.

His Divine Shadow posted:

Sounds like that should be made illegal.

His Divine Shadow posted:

What's your point? I know it's lovely here too, and would welcome some reform that's not privatize more.

Doctor_Fruitbat posted:

He appears to be meeting with a sloth in the bottom left.

dr_rat posted:

Last we heard he told Moggs to give the Cyanide capsules out, then when Mogg was done he tried to find Boris, an all anyone could find was an open back door blowing in the wind.

This is why country estates make terrible last stand fortified bunkers.

the sex ghost posted:

dont like it melt simple as

Tesseraction posted:

Do they embed eventually or not at all?

Convex posted:

forkboy84 posted:

Yeah, you still can't have grapefruit or grapefruit juice with antidepressants, be they SSRI, SNRA, TCA or MAOI. They always have a very clear, prominent sticker on the outside of the box of pills saying "avoiding taking with grapefruit juice".

HopperUK posted:

We tell people about grapefruit quite a lot and it's always in the little leaflet things. Almost nobody reads those, and then you get someone who did and is in a spiral of anxiety because the leaflet says they might get a headache. It's understandable but boy, nobody ever worries about things an appropriate amount. I know I don't.

The Perfect Element posted:

Also the default voice for all digital servants is female, which is #problematic!!!

Failed Imagineer posted:

Some Brits really seem to think the Queen is their kindly Nan, it's really quite startling when you realise they're being serious

The Question IRL posted:

My issue with Nuclear Power is if the Nucelar Waste isn't that dangerous, why is it never kept near the production facility?

Sellafield has for decades pumped it's spent waste into the Irish Sea. Which raises a further point, the Irish don't get any benefit from the UK's Nuclear energy facilities....but we do get the cost associated with the waste being dumped near us.

I think the world mass switching to Nucelar power is just going to create conditions where rich countries will dump their waste into poorer ones. Which granted, already happens. Just with much more dangerous materials.

Not to mention that there will absolutely be a race to the bottom in terms of quality of reactors if they start being mass adopted.

big scary monsters posted:

That's not quite true, warm water being dispersed into the ocean can have an pretty significant adverse effect on local marine life (thermal pollution is the phrase to look up). Moreso if you're discharging into a river or lake. Of course, that's as true of any other thermal power plant using steam as it is of nuclear - coal, geothermal, even solar.

big scary monsters posted:

I doubt anyone knows in general. It's going to depend a lot on local coastal topography / bathymetry, local currents, other thermal and chemical discharges in the area, and ecosystem makeup. I'd imagine you'd have to do an impact study on each site and the effects probably range from "negligible" to "Gulf of Mexico hypoxic zone".

e: Thermal pollution isn't the main cause of the latter, of course.

ee: I'm also not trying to make an argument against building thermal plants. There literally is no such thing as green energy, any type of production has some adverse environmental impact. It's really a matter of trying to choose the least harmful options, which will obviously vary from place to place. As Guava says, you can mitigate the harms if there is political will to do so. And you could in theory reduce overall energy consumption...

WhatEvil posted:

Yeah I know. Thing is, storage is definitely a factor in a switch to renewables - because of the intermittent generation you either need storage, or you need shitloads of base generation capacity which can be spun up rapidly to compensate when it's not windy or sunny.

There are new battery technologies being developed all the time. Sodium batteries are one thing that's being worked on. They seem to have the potential to do as well as (or better than in some situations) lithium in terms of energy density, battery longevity (charge cycles) etc. Also the total global reserves of lithium seem to be about 14m tons, whereas the US currently has 23 BILLION tons of sodium reserves.

Yeah, all storage is gonna lose power, but if the alternative is "generating less of our power from renewables" then it's still the best option. If people (in the West at least) are going to be having electric vehicles anyway, may as well use them as storage for local power generation. Also the round-trip efficiency of storage with lithium batteries seems to be about 80% which is around the same as grid-scale solutions like pumped hydro. Again, still better than relying on gas etc. for base loads.

I'm not one of those people who believe that technology will solve everything, but in this instance it seems like part of a good solution.

Barry Foster posted:

Yeah. Again, not to be too black pilled, but it's essentially too late already. It's like we have stage four liver cancer and we're not only refusing chemo and radiotherapy, we're still drinking a bottle of voddy a day. Could a miracle occur and we survive? Sure. Is it likely? No.

I've been spending a lot of time actively working on various ways to come to terms with this, to try and face the End with some sort of equanimity and dignity. I have good days and bad ones. I try not to think about it all the time, but I think it's ultimately easier to face the truth rather than try to ignore it.

WhatEvil posted:

I don't know where you're getting this "large immobile power units" thing from. They've achieved 160wh/kg with Sodium, which, yes, it's a little short of the ~250wh/kg with lithium, but sodium is also muuuuuuuch cheaper than lithium.

I agree that electric cars are a dead end in some sense, we should be replacing private cars with public transport to the greatest possible extent... but nevertheless, we're getting electric cars. Also talk of "replacing all of the IC engines we have will take x resources"... well yeah, but we already replace all of the cars on earth something like every 12-15 years (the average life span of a private car).

keep punching joe posted:

Got this for £340 btw, hope its not shite.

Lenovo ThinkPad A485 - AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 2500U - 8GB RAM - 512GB SSD

Jaeluni Asjil posted:

Is this new or a refurb?

I'm in the market for a new laptop in the foreseeable future, but am a bit allergic to refurbs as our work insists on refurbs and we've had 3 brick on us in the last year (and despite my constant nagging on the subject, my colleagues are not very good at doing backups.)

Mega Comrade posted:

I've got to say my personal experience is opposite to yours .

Owned a few ThinkPads, always been great. HP I'd never tough again, complete turd and constant linux driver issues, my hp devices have always died quickly. They also make the worst printers known to God.

For work I always get saddled with Dell which are poo poo I agree, BUT their business support is phenomenal so I get why companies like them.

fuctifino posted:

This has an odour of hope about it:

https://twitter.com/chakrabortty/status/1559975639662329856

Guavanaut posted:

Could use some creative blurring, Jacob's Ladder or Silent Hill style.

Why go after energy drinks first though? You could do drunken violence, suicide, and liver damage on the alcohol bottles, or labor activists being murdered with chainsaws on coca cola company products, or a human arse hole on most of the papers.

notaspy posted:

Here's a question for any vegans who post here:

Truffles - are they vegan?