>>431509

Shut the fuck up, 'mong. Making people think about something will not solve the problem, unless you are one of those dumb cunts that believe in "the secret" crap.

>>431511
On the contrary, making them think about the problem is an absolute prerequisite for solving it.

>>431511>>431508
Are you being deliberately obtuse? I explained in >>431312 the practical results of protest quite clearly. You're the only one inferring any psychic mumbo jumbo. I wasn't even really sticking up for XR, it's just an explaination of how protest works. For example in the US conservatives formed the Tea Party movement, spent years campaigning and marching on the basis that their head of state wasn't enough of a brainless tosser and in the end it paid off because they convinced enough people that was what the country needed. That's how raising awareness works, it's not a Jedi mind trick, it's just publicity.

>>431513
But if you come across as a bunch of dicks, people won't care.

>>431514
You say that but, as with beauty, dickishness is in the eye of the beholder. I'm sure a lot of people in Hong Kong think the anti-Beijing demonstrators think they're dicks, but the demonstrators see themselves as the only feasible means by which Hong Kong can cling onto autonomy. Most people thought Suffragettes weren't just dicks but genuinely mental when they started their protesting, but in the end they got their way and only internet edgelords think it's a problem these days. Obviously you have to find a balance between civil disobedience and destroying public goodwill, but I think it's clear that XR are in this for the long haul and are having to figure this balance out as they go. Their reaction to the train incident has seemingly been one of contrition, which is no mean feat given the footage looked like something out of Left 4 Dead. I'm sure they have their own internet edgelords who want the attackers thrown into a Black Hole of Calcutta style compost bin, but Twitter warriors aren't my concern.

>>29088

Now I'm not in any way berating you or implying that your inflexible stance on such a trivial and overblown issue is unnecessarily divisive, all I'm saying is you probably don't get invited to many parties.

>>29089
I'm sure that used to be Tim, not Tom. I remember sending it to a friend named Tim because it was his name. It's that there Mandela effect.

>^{stooooop IIIWW}
>For the umpteenth time

Fucking hell, the news needs to stop filming outside Parliament.

>>29090

Your mate Tim was probably sat there thinking "why the fuck has he sent me this? Does he think I'm Tom? Should I change my name to Tom so he notices me?"

Poor Tim.

>>29091
If they'd just hurry up and stop it already he wouldn't need to be there shouting in the first place.

Also very good for certain cuts of beef like brisket or skirt steak. The taste and tenderness is hard to replicate with other methods of cooking.

>>13085

Have you ever tried to cook something on the hob for eight hours?

Add some lentils, OP. It's a better way of adding some body to a curry than cornstarch.

>>13085
Another advantage is that it uses substantially less energy. The ceramic pot/insulation and lid mean that it loses remarkably little heat.

I always felt my curries were lacking a certain thickness/creaminess until I discovered cashew paste, but then tikka masala is my favourite. Soak some cashews in about the same volume of milk for a couple of hours, blend well, then chuck in the curry towards the end of cooking.

>>431486

>>431486

I've heard a pretty compelling theory that the sort of switches you like probably depends on what you grew up on. Medium-old fuckers like myself who learned to type at school on old IBMs will end up preferring a tactile/clicky switch that's trying to be like a buckling spring, while someone a little younger who likely grew up on rubber domes will be more inclined towards a Topre or something like that. It's an interesting idea but I don't know how much weight it holds. All I know is I like really very tactile switches.

The 60% thing is weird, I've not made my mind up yet. I'm comparing one to a TKL right now and size wise, I'm not actually sure it's worth the trade offs, it's really not that much smaller than a TKL, but even though I'm now used to using function layers for arrows etc, I don't think I'll ever fully get over the instinct to reach for the nav cluster every now and then. I still sometimes find myself looking for the numpad on the TKL, but I really can't justify a full sized keyboard these days. The fact most 60%'s are ANSI and getting ISO keycaps is a fucking nightmare is the real sticking point for that size for me.

The more I think about it, the more I think that a TKL with blank keycaps emulating the Das Ultimate, with Box Royal switches (VERY tactile) is exactly what I want in a keyboard. But I haven't tried the Topre domes yet, that might change my mind, there must be a reason people pay so much for them. Never tried ALPS either, just haven't had the opportunity or motive.

I also want to get a 60% board with a raspberry pi or similar hidden in the case, with a detachable screen, so I can pretend I'm a cyberpunk hacker every now and then. That'd be a fun project. Something like the picture but a lot less cosplay-ish.

>>431484
> look at how your wrists bend when you're on the home row in a proper typing position, they're bent in at an angle.
Exactly why I asked.
> The idea behind a keyboard like this, both in size and the arrangement of keys in a grid rather than your normal stagger
Why they arrange it in a stagger anyway?
>>431487
> so do what you like lad.
Not to you and your band, mate. To Warner, though I doubt they care.
>>431493
I 'grew up' [0] with Model M and a lot of its replicas of various levels of shite. I still like my Dell KB-216 way too much for some reason.
Same for the keyboard of my laptop. Both are nothing like Model M.

[0] I got introduced to computers somewhat late in my life.

>>431497

>Why they arrange it in a stagger anyway?

Typewriters needed staggered keys to make sure the metal bars they triggered were spaced far enough apart that they didn't interfere with each other, and we've not really bothered changing it for computer keyboards since.

There's a lot of little things that make the standard keyboard an imperfect device - they're not really that ergonomic, some keys take up a lot more space than they need to (caps lock is in a needlessly prominent position, the right shift on ISO keyboards is too big, etc) and the most popular* keyboard languages, QWERTY/AZERTY are not really designed for fast typing anyway.

*not counting chinese

>>431499
That makes sense. I forgot about typewriters and their peculiarities.

>>431499
>QWERTY/AZERTY are not really designed for fast typing anyway.
I know it's not what you're saying, but it's awfully close to the "QWERTY is designed to slow you down" myth.

>>431468
I WISH TO DECLARE MY LOVE FOR THIS THREAD AND ALL ITS PARTICIPANTS

>>431475
Best wordfilter ever.

>>431476
Try it the other way around.

>>431477
The Mrs didn't take to kindly to it.

>>431501

Did you have the one with the flanged base?

>>85584
The EU has shown they've been more than reasonable. If a referendum bill is put forward and held up at the last stage for the EC to do their thing, but the statutory periods run past the Halloween deadline, they'd certainly react a lot better than they have done. Remember, the main objection from the European side was that we were asking for an extension without any hint as to what we were seeking the extension for. Indeed, I believe both Juncker and Tusk have explicitly said as much.

>>85580
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-49302778
Looks like fake ferries are last month's game. Time to get our proposal in for the .gs fisheries protection fleet. I'll bung Boris a few quid. No need to even pretend we've got any boats, crew or experience, naturally.
(although there are a few tempting options over on apolloduck.com )

>>86481

We lost three cod wars against Iceland, a country with a population of 360,000 and no actual navy. If Boris decides to deploy his "fisheries protection fleet", I can only imagine that London will end up being destroyed in a nuclear attack.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cod_Wars

>>86482
We should definitely build more boats though.

Are Western freedoms even worth it if we don't get bangers like this?

>>4833

That's largely down to the aesthetic of how it's presented, I think, which takes on that silly /boo/ tone. It's the grainy amateur footage, giving the impression it's genuinely something outside the realm of human knowledge and control accidentally caught by random recording -- something horror films exploit all the time.

>>4835
No, you're making assumptions about me that are wrong and I hate that. Frankly, you're so busy assuming so you should have been able to figure that out.

I think aliens are frightening because once aliens exist and/or are on Earth then we're no longer the dominant species. Intellectually speaking, anything that can make its way here in due order is probably far smarter than ourselves. Alien contact would completely alter humanity's place in the universe and these aliens aren't going to be like my old pals Garus and Tali or sexy, sexy Lwaxana Troi, we've got no idea what they're going to be like. They might be alright, but something totally alien and so advanced as to be hopping from solar system to solar system could have motives and machinations completely beyond our understanding. What if they take all the tortoises? Or try to greet us by bombarding the planet with gamma radiation? What if they just sailed on by and ignored us? This shit's scary. Signs flipped my lid as a kiddy, but the aliens in that are basically dumb animals, we have machine guns and Brimstone missiles to deal with that sort of thing. But what kind of firearm do you use against the species that leaves an untranslatable message before hurling itself into the Sun? There isn't any weapons system that can kill cripping existential distress.

>>4836

I did say something "genuinely outside our understanding or control", but point taken.

I can say for myself it's largely the presentation of those documentaries, with their eerie music and such, that makes the prospect of meeting alien life seem scary.

The truth is more along the lines of what you describe. We would have absolutely no idea what to expect, and nothing to compare it to in our history. Some people look at the meeting of different cultures during the European conquests, but even that's humans meeting humans on the planet earth.

It's interesting that all our science fiction seems to focus on face to face meetings with alien life. I could have this totally wrong, but it seems more likely that there'd be extremely distant communications, first.

>>4836
>what kind of firearm do you use against the species that leaves an untranslatable message before hurling itself into the Sun?
You probably don't need to as it just hurled itself into a sun

>>4832
>I wish I could find it, but I'm sure I've read somewhere that the FBI encouraged rampant speculation about the JFK assassination and UFOs in the 1960s to draw attention away from Cointelpro -- a true conspiracy involving propaganda and outright murder of U.S. citizens.

My understanding is that the JFK conspiracy was fanned by the KGB and UFOs were a cover for the B2 programme.

>>4833
I used to be the same but then memes happened so I'd probably just laugh at an alien these days.

>>4836
If you apply some logic then you can easily enough work out how they'd behave. Interstellar aliens would have to be curious and pro-social to even get to our level and they wouldn't be some sinister uniform civilisation but lots of divergent personalities with mundane objectives.

I think the fear is explainable in just how they represent a hostile tribe. Hence their almost synonymous identity in our imagination with demons.

Is it really that difficult to suspend disbelief and simply say hello instead of hello sir/madam? It's not asking to know 2+2=5, rather simply to play a game like any other social happening such as 'fine thanks, you?'.

and on the other hand is it so difficult to allow minor slip ups and confusions for people who don't really have a frame of reference when dealing with such novelty?

fuck, maybe the propaganda is getting to me.

I have seen various posts of acrobatites who profess to believe that if a man gets off with a girl and then finds out she's got a cock between her legs, he's got to sleep with her anyway or it's transphobic. Is this a real thing? It's hard to imagine the mental contortions required to make that make sense in the context of ultra-sensitive consent seekers. If someone decides during sex, at any point and for any reason, that they want to stop, that's the end of that... right?

None of this weird shit has permeated my social circles. I pray it never will, bunch of weird fucks.

>>20464

It depends on the oppression modifier.

Trans women get a +8 to oppression while an ideal straight white male has no modifier. When you're comparing consent you have to add up the individual oppression modifiers for each participant to see who has the right to say no. If a less oppressed individual refuses to engage in sexual behaviour with a more oppressed individual then the less oppressed individual is prima facie guilty of some form of abuse, whether that be straight up sexual abuse or racist sexual abuse or in the named example, trans sexual abuse.

You were doing good with the definition of consent but you just haven't kept up to date with this really important real life stuff. You can find a full list and description of oppression modifiers at lgbtqqia.com/mornington-crescent

>>20466
I don't even know if you're serious or not.
Mirth anyway.

>>23113

>Most of that about Doom isn't true, you know. Enemies on harder difficulties deal double damage, they also increase in speed (which is arguably an arbitrary way to make them harder to kill), and the hardest difficulty has double ammo, not less.

ITYTD had double items and the player takes half damage.

NM had double items, fast monsters, respawning monsters, and cheat codes were disabled.

HNTR, HMP and UV all had "normal" game parameters. Doom never increased the damage the player took on any difficulty.

The middle three represent easy, normal, and hard. The first and last represent mentally challenged baby mode and not even remotely fair mode, respectively- Most players don't consider NM to be a real difficulty choice, it's more of a distinct challenge mode. Indeed, the initial release of Doom as shareware didn't have it, so arguably it was DLC.

I spent an entire summer when I was unemployed making Doom maps. I know my Doom and I am prepared to defend my honour on the internet even at these small hours.

>ITYTD had double items and the player takes half damage.
Another way of putting this is that every mode other than ITYTD deals twice as much damage.

>The middle three represent easy, normal, and hard. The first and last represent mentally challenged baby mode and not even remotely fair mode, respectively
Agree with all this, at least.

Any of your Doom maps still knocking around? I haven't fired up a WAD in a long time, would be a nice excuse.

>>23115
I've spread a few WADs in my time IYKWIM.

>>23112
I can easily lose a whole weekend on KSP. Looking forward to version 2.

>>23107
> Numa Numa
Do I get to play as Dan Balan in it?
Awright, back to the topic. Negative. I never got around to install it, life gets in the way.
Mind you, I had a similar feeling about the P:T initially. It was just too odd and made little sense. Then it clicked; now it's one of my favourite games.

>>431480
Only girls in Soviet Russia and Yanks use periods.

>>431478>>431481
I bet these posts sounded really cool in your head, where they ought to have remained.

>>431485
Those are different people, though.

>>431489
I think the point stands.

>>431481
But in Soviet Russia period uses you.
I'll get my coat.

N1 M42 WONT NO WOT HIT EM

>>64185
It's the first time in a while something on the internet has been so edgy that it's made me actually say "oh wow" out loud.

Shared on Facebook by someone who, unsurprisingly, is a massive Corbyn fan and on the dole.

What a shit meme. It's not even in the right font.

>>64187
Image macro. Not meme. Image macro.

I had a very long dream this morning, but the most memorable moment of it was when I was a bit rude to Cillian Murphy about Peaky Blinders to which he bluntly and understandably told me "get your pen then". "Good advice" I thought on waking up.

Think he said pen, missed a trick otherwise.

Expecting six parcels to be delivered today. Came home from work to find three outside my front door. Nice one, FedEx.

>>431471
Extra points if on the tracking it said "Left safe".

There's a couple of women walking outside with prams, taking pictures every time there's a car parked on the pavement and they can't fit through. No doubt they're going to post them on a local Facebook group.

>>431495

You mean, crossing the road and getting between the cars?

>>40859
The Charlie Dimmock of Auchwitz

>>40853

She may well have gone to seed, but I'd still let her water my butternut squash, IYKWIM.

>>40862
Is that Len Goodman?

It's that time of year again, lads, and I've moved to somewhere that has grass and greenery and all that. So I'm on the hunt again, after five years of missing out. Earlier this month I had some brown birch boletes, which were nice in texture but unremarkable in taste.

Today I was wandering along and saw this, at least a hundred of them in a 15m ring, and I thought I'd hit the field mushroom jackpot. It turns out they're yellow stainers, though, which are not deadly poisonous but cause stomach upsets in most people. However, some people can eat them with no apparent ill effects.

Well, I've got a bag full of the fuckers so I'm going to find out. I should know within 2 hours tops, I'll either be shitting my guts out and cradling my stomach like a stab wound, or I'll be plating up another serving to go alongside the handful of shaggy inkcaps I also found. Wish me luck, .gs.

(I'll take my camera with me from now on, get proper shots of what I find.)

>>13098
Godspeed, you dicky tummy adventurer

I went out picking at the weekend. Got loads of the buggers. But I only have a small flat, so there's not mushroom to store them.

>>13100
I saw a load of leucocites in Victoria Tower Gardens today. Made me smile.

>>13099
I'm still alive and my arse is behaving. I am immune!

This must be what being a superhero feels like.

How do you manage pride and selfishness?

>>29012

Easy, they just sort of come naturally to me.

I've never really dated anyone before. I going for walks good enough? I don't particularly like cinemas or bars, nor restaurants. Walking the dog or whatever might be ultimately boring and un-exciting but at least you could keep the person talking about themselves. I don't know; ijust feel as though doing what i usually do probably isn't enough, but i don't want to pretend to be something i'm not. Maybe I could do new things with whoever - but how many times can you actually go to the zoo or a garden center (if that's even suitable)? Fuck knows, man, i'm just prepairing to make a fool of myself.

>>29015
Take someone for a walk on a date and they'll think you're going to rape them.

>>29016

Not once they see him ambling alongside with a hefty bag of dogshit swinging in step with his movements, then it'll just be funny.

>>28861

I'm younger than you, and it's not the same thing... But I messed up my penis as a teenager and for a good decade it would only get hard in parts/lumps unless I massaged it to help the blood get to the parts it was supposed to go.

My condition eventually got better.

Yesterday I bought eggs for the first time in ages and i think it's because of this thread.

>>28877
Big Egg shilling on .gs, m8. What a world.

>>28879

Big Egg shelling

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwGix7Lcldo

>>20454
It's the Mail, so probably force of habit.

>>20454
I heard about it on the BBC's Global News Podcast and it seemed that no one was terribly sure what was actually going on.

Apparently the first thing the absolute lad who made a break for it did was go to the pub and sink five pints, so I'm thinking the beer ran out and that was the final straw.

>What the fuck is it with Austrians?

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/joseffritzl/1937916/Josef-Fritzl-The-Nazis-were-to-blame-for-my-Austrian-incest-dungeon.html

>In a bizarre attempt to defend his conduct he said Hitler’s Germany had instilled “a high regard for decency and uprightness” in him.


Next thing we'll know, they were all just following orders.

>>20454
They sound a bit complicit in the whole thing.

>The father of a family that spent nearly a decade living in a secret room in a Dutch farmhouse once belonged to the Rev Sun Myung Moon’s controversial Unification church and was trying to found a cult of his own, Dutch media have reported.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/18/father-family-dutch-farmhouse-cult-moonies

The plot thickens.

>>4403
Personally I dislike most cars with needlessly large light clusters like that. That huge lump of red plastic isn't particularly elegant.
And don't get me started on that Geordi La Forge thing on the old Honda civic.

Did about 200 km long round-trip in this car with a workmate yesterday's night, sort of emergency situation.
The average speed was about 90-100 km/h and it didn't really register, even on the local shite roads.
The downside is that now the roof of most sedan cars feels too low, even when there's more than enough space between it and my head. Same for the size of the windscreen.

>>4409
Where are you from, lad? Giving distances in km, talking about "sedans", but also using the term "windscreen".

>>4410

Also having an 'emergency situation' that requires them to speed around in an unmarked white van - very Bydlo.

>>4410
Some third-world der Arshloch der Welt as our teuton invaders duly noted once, mate.
My English is fucked, yes.
>>4411
It wasn't unmarked sadly, otherwise we'd fly 120-130 km/h.

Hooray, we just need to bung the DUP several billion pounds, take the ERG out on a cruise down the Thames River over Saturday and then... no wait, IIIWW's still fucked.

We're all dead and this is Hell.

>>86917
The DUP seem like loathsome miserable people.

>>86918

You now understand why the Empire oppressed the Irish without a hint of remorse for hundreds of years and we were all better off for it.

>>86917
The DUP have really stumbled into an amazing game with this. Between Northern Ireland seemingly unable to form an executive and their sway over Westminster they have simultaneously locked out any Nationalist voice while dictating the IIIWW process themselves and bringing home the bacon. There's urgent need for government in Northern Ireland but I guess not even they could've predicted how long this would go on.

Not that I really blame them for being prickly. They don't want a hard border over the Irish sea just as the nationalist community don't want one with the Republic only they don't have as many people fighting their corner and seem to be passed over as an inconvenience in Great Britain. It's perfectly legitimate, being British they don't want to be ruled from Dublin or end up as a proto-colony of the EU and unlike IrishPassportlad they're not willing to sacrifice their identity for money.

>>86920
>they're not willing to sacrifice their identity for money.
Thankfully for them, they're willing to sacrifice all sorts of other things for money, like their integrity.

I find it funny that the complexities of the departure and the general shitshow that arises from a lack of functioning government haven't really bothered them but even the slightest hint of a woman getting an abortion and suddenly they're desperate to get around the table.

>>7808
Is THAT what you're doing with your VR wankmachine? That's sick that is.

Well I don't know about you lot but I'm winning the Euromillions tomorrow anyway, so it won't matter.

>>7810
I would really like some money.

>>7811
If I win, I'll split it with both you lads.

>>7812
I knew my quality posts would pay off in the end.