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forkboy84 posted:The main reason we need to keep fluorescent lights is that LEDs don't make for very good weapons in deathmatch wrestling, where as long fluorescent tubes are great. P sure you can get polycarbonate LED lightsabers that will break your opponent's skull first these days.
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Guavanaut posted:The only possible advantage of incandescents (other than tiny signal lights which still have niche uses) is when you need a lot of waste heat for any amount of light. So keeping your shed from freezing in winter, hatching eggs, growing sensitive plants outdoors when they're small, etc. Incandescents are better for planted aquariums since any old Incandescent will put out the necessary spectra for photosynthesis and heat the tank up to boot. For LEDs you need to be careful as the cheap and cheerful ones might not have the necessary wavelengths.
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CGI Stardust posted:£6 million for the tumour-detection AI that has 100% accuracy at identifying images containing a measuring tape or ruler Only applicable to white patients. If you're black or Asian it might misdiagnose your head as a tumour.
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Darth Walrus posted:Eh, I think it's the other way around - since Starmer's continuity Cameron, a bunch of Eastern Europeans are nervous about him joining those papers in bashing them for cheap pops. I wouldn't go around pissing off the people who have easy access to man-portable anti tank weapons to be honest.
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Tesseraction posted:*holding chin thoughtfully* Isn't that someone who has a total lack of insight into their own (lack of) capability?
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Gonzo McFee posted:https://twitter.com/BBCNewsPR/status/1634248119415353344?s=19 Wonder how'd she feel if she got lamped and was told 'first time's free'.
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Mar 10, 2023 23:18
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Failed Imagineer posted:To my knowledge, the answer to domestic violence is not usually more violence, and I don't think it's even very good at changing people's minds about violence I think you'll find that the commentator suggested that just once is fine and not violent at all. It's only a problem if you make a habit of it.
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Mar 11, 2023 00:34
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smellmycheese posted:Cocaine one of the few things immune to inflation. Price of a gram pretty much static for 40 years. Quality is another matter SMH we should have kept foreign reserves in the white powder instead of the petrodollar.
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Mar 11, 2023 20:33
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OwlFancier posted:I mean that is a good idea for datacenters, they generate a huge amount of heat so finding ways to use it is a good idea. The next time Eve Goons have a gigantic mashup with the rest of the nerds some swimming pool in London is going to turn into a hotpot.
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Mar 14, 2023 12:17
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The Perfect Element posted:I wish that ghosts and other supernatural phenomena did exist, because it would be exciting and spooky, but they don't. You just need to get the BBC and tabloids to publish some stories confirming ghosts exist and they will soon enough. They managed to create antifa super soldiers, EU immigrants and refugee boats out of thin air, your nan's tortured soul would be a walk in the park by comparison.
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Mar 15, 2023 10:19
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Anyone who suggests cats as a humane solution to a rodent infestation has not seen the corpse of a pregnant mouse at the end of a 3m trail of blood and a proud kitty sat on the other end. They're effective, mind you, but they're about as humane as the plod.
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Mar 20, 2023 12:06
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Guavanaut posted:Also because the corruption is kept well veneered from ordinary life. Or at least was. Corruption for me but not for thee. Imagine if you could just slip the the DWP assessor  to pass your application.
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Mar 26, 2023 12:25
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Jel Shaker posted:best one i’ve heard is a guy who managed to get an intact lightbulb up there There was a copy pasta from one of the other subs (GiP?) about a bored Marine who managed a live 40mm grenade/mortar round.
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ThomasPaine posted:Where was that fighting spirit five years ago! He saved it for Keith's Final Solution to the Corbyn Question.
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A tank of algae like that will need feeding and constant water flow otherwise you'll end up with dead and rotting zones inside. Also there is always the possibility of contamination and you grow something other than nice green algae, much of which will make that tank look utterly horrid. You also can't seal off the tank to make a closed system (which can survive), otherwise how would you get the clean air out? fuckingusername posted:I don't make a habit of posting but this is twice in two weeks that my other half has dropped my toothbrush in the lav and I have to express my frustration somewhere. My local Boots is an absolutely terrifying place Might be a bit of a silly question but why is the toothbrush being moved over the lav in the first place? Surely you brush over the sink or if you're a multi-tasker you'd sit on the lav for a casual piss/poop/wank while brushing
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Mar 31, 2023 22:21
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fuckingusername posted:Unfortunately our bathroom is without exaggeration slightly smaller than some first class aeroplane cubicles (or so I have been told). The tooth brushes are stored in a cupboard over the lav. Get one of those toothbrush holders and suction it to the mirror/wall above the sink? Unless the mirror is above the lav as well 
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Microplastics posted:Put your other half's toothbrush in the lav. Eye for an eye Brush for brush leaves the whole world caries.
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Mar 31, 2023 22:37
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fuckingusername posted:I'd be staggered if that poll turned out to be correct. A Labour majority seems relatively likely but not that large. Unless Sunak gets papped eating a bacon sandwich on camera or something. It'd have to be a steak sandwich for im.
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Sir Sidney Poitier posted:So he's going to be a tory oval office until 3 months before the election, at which point he'll have a total turnaround. He's going to be Adolf Hitler until 3 months before the election at which point he goes mask off and full Imperium of Man.
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Camrath posted:Though admittedly my absolute favourite subject was chemistry taught by the great Dr Szydlo. Which if you think about it is just cooking on a very small scale.. Was there every a high school chemistry class that didn't immediately devolve into attempts to make explosives.
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Camrath posted:To pretty good results actually- we eventually iterated designs for self-igniting Molotovs and thermite grenades. And yes, we did test them out successfully- frankly it amazes me that we made it to adulthood with all our fingers and no criminal records. Someone is making the entry "useful for the revolution" next to your name in goons.xlsx.
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Diet Crack posted:
Wasn't there a chair like this in an Iain Banks novel?
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Darth Walrus posted:It's certainly not something to celebrate, but it's an inherent cruelty of hereditary aristocracy. You read any ancient Chinese literature, for instance, and it's astounding how utterly casual they are about total family exterminations as an appropriate way to deal with badly-behaving nobles. If you were utterly incompetent and let the rebels walk all over you without putting up much of a fight you got to retire to become the Marquis of Bumfuck in perpetuity. Being overly competent or irritating is what got your family exterminated. Which probably explains the state of the aristocracy these days.
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Tesseraction posted:Once again my moral stance against the death penalty has found the weak link in the chain. No need for the death penalty when you everyone has 10 fingers. One finger per offence. You can do it 4 times before it starts to become a problem 
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Guavanaut posted:About as hosed up as pugs. Somewhere some aristo bloodline obsessive is probably trying to crossbreed them. Crossbreeding aristos makes them less idiotic though. Do we really want competent aristocrats?
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Bobby Deluxe posted:But more satisfyingly: Pffft that's chump change for an oligarch.
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Jakabite posted:Forums drama is so upsettingly opaque if you don’t spend your entire life posting across multiple specific threads. It’s like trying to play Elden Ring and understand what the fucks happening. Someone should make the Saclopedia a wiki and keep it updated for once. Really weird when you're reading a thread with a couple of camps feuding and suddenly everyone gets together to laugh at some other weirdo instead.
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Pistol_Pete posted:Good to hear that while our geopolitical opponents are so dangerous that they're threatening the Western Way of Life, they're simultaneously so corrupt and incompetent that their nukes will fizzle out on the launch pads like faulty fireworks Even if it's all true, and 99% of their nukes don't work because of corruption, all it takes is for one to go off to cause the US to massively overreact. Or would the US be happy to not retaliate with a barrage of (totally functional) nukes and let Washington DC/New York being nuked slide. Now if that one functioning Russian nuke landed in London/Paris/Berlin they might not kick off thermonuclear armageddon. They might even send Putin a thank you card.
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A Buttery Pastry posted:The thing that would have to not work would be the missiles themselves. Like, the outcome of "Russia attempts a first strike but none of its nukes work" would be the US bombing Russia (and likely its other geopolitical rivals) into the stone age before it lost its capability, then looking very silly when all the nukes just plow into the ground. A side order of nuclear winter and 50% reduction of the global population would do wonders for climate change. Ecosphere remains hosed though. And that's assuming the US nukes work as planned and decades of cost cutting and austerity haven't led to the silo doors not being oiled.
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Darth Walrus posted:GRRM worked on setting and backstory. Hence all the royal incest. I bet GRRM intended for "two fingers" and "three fingers" to be some Petyr Baelish character instead of whatever we ended up getting 
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Failed Imagineer posted:I'm willing to believe the reality is more nuanced than that mental headline but still, wa wa wee wa I incurred some brain damage for my curiosity but the article is slightly more nuanced and the ex-gf left because she was unable to handle the stress of it all. Still a bit of a dick move but not unexpected and probably better than having a mental breakdown and doing something stupid. I guess the general thought is where is the balance to be had? Used to be it would all be bottled up until it boiled over in some dramatic fashion, but it sounds like these days it's entirely acceptable to check out and abandon your (former) loved one.
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Guavanaut posted:The actual balance is that it's something that men (e.g. Boris Johnson) always did far more often than women, but now that a woman has done it (even after a long discussion) the Mail is interested. While I would agree with you in principle. She did freely give an interview to the Daily Mail so her decision making process is already highly suspect.
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Apraxin posted:https://twitter.com/guardian/status/1649424034407280646?cxt=HHwWjMCz7fKa9-MtAAAA Don't worry we have free speech and totally don't jail protestors like those China and Russia places.
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verydarkblue posted:Had not heard of Fiesta Cat before now. I usually work in plush or fleece for bodies but I'll definitely look into it. Voodoo dolls of reknowned assholes. Wonder how quickly the police would appear if you had a string of lynched plushies of Tories outside your door.
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Guavanaut posted:It underscores how pathetic it was for factions of the 'soft left' to be handwringing about how The Big Lie sounds a bit like an antisemitic conspiracy theory if you have an in depth knowledge of those when Johnson was running around screaming "I am the fuhrer" with his cock hanging out of his trousers. The actual fuhrer should just have blamed everything on Eva Braun and Himmler instead. He'd probably have been NATO secretary General.
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MeinPanzer posted:Anyone else observing the MAB? Thoughts? Why not do the reverse and max out all the student's scores? Devalue the university's degrees and gently caress them over.
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Reveilled posted:I don't think that's right, people in the past placed importance on ceremony just as we do today. They may not have needed the town crier tweeting out announcements on who was carrying what relic to the masses, but I expect the various dukes and earls of medieval England would have cared a great deal about who was carrying the Rod of Many Parts and the Biggoron Sword and so on, because those would be political decisions. Doing a proper coronation would have been an important part of cementing your legitimacy as king because "able to organise a public ceremony" is a key attribute of a good king. In a sense your own coronation is the first big test of your abilities as a king. Also gathers all your potential rivals into the same spot so if you wanted to indulge in a little house cleaning and extermination as a treat you could.
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Guavanaut posted:Quiche is gross. Also French, which is the traditional place that failed British kings run away to. Coronation Pink Slime from the USA.
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big scary monsters posted:Half the world's royals are going to be at the coronation, this could be a real bumper weekend for small businesses in London who sell guillotines. Corbyn should show up with a hammer and sickle and challenge the King's Champion for the Divine Right of
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Looks like the outfit from this classic
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