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- 2020-12-19 11:49am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: COVID-19 ongoing thread part 2
- Replies: 737
- Views: 267950
Re: COVID-19 ongoing thread part 2
Big UK briefing. Christmas relaxation cancelled. New more infectious variant on the loose centered on Kent and London. Doubling time seven days, previous top level restrictions relatively ineffective. After that area had rising cases under tier 4 which worked elsewhere it was thought people were bei...
- 2020-12-17 04:46am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: REP. ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ believes the Democratic Party needs new leadership
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4334
Re: REP. ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ believes the Democratic Party needs new leadership
Analysis I was reading on Reddit suggested that the speaker needs to be an "aggro-tank-sheild" - someone capable of making deals with opposition inside and outside party, but taking the blame as an individual. In that regards Moscow Mitch is excellent, he takes the blame and the republican...
- 2020-12-16 03:54pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Uk court allows heathrow 3 to go ahead on technicality.
- Replies: 0
- Views: 9139
Uk court allows heathrow 3 to go ahead on technicality.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-55322340 Heathrow's proposed third runway expansion was previously ruled verboten under the UK's obligations to meet it's carbon emission reduction commitments. The SC have ruled that as it was initally planned under a lighter set of targets (before things got wor...
- 2020-12-16 06:30am
- Forum: User Fiction
- Topic: Reincarnation: May Come with Teething Problems
- Replies: 42
- Views: 32817
Re: Reincarnation: May Come with Teething Problems
I'm sorry to disappoint but that is actually the end of the story. There may be a sequel, but that'll be a while as it's only at the early stages of planning. I can hardly claim disappointment after a week of solid reading of good stuff. Never played exalted, but the setting and interlinks all seem...
- 2020-12-14 12:03pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Brexit and not very united kingdom politics II
- Replies: 808
- Views: 392495
Re: Brexit and not very united kingdom politics II
Small houses and only so much pasta people are willing to eat.Raw Shark wrote: ↑2020-12-13 01:11pmPeople stopped doing that over there?Crazedwraith wrote: ↑2020-12-13 12:54pmWhat's the betting everyone will now stockpile just like the start if the year,
- 2020-12-10 06:49pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: UK to heavily restrict access to puberty-blocker medication for trans youth
- Replies: 50
- Views: 18415
Re: UK to heavily restrict access to puberty-blocker medication for trans youth
To reduce the size of the quote and to point out the offensive part. But since you ask: At some point you loose sympathy when you start oppressing others (and frankly TERFS DESERVE to be fired. If you're a bigot you should loose your job.) That still leaves the problem of how the bigots are suppose...
- 2020-12-10 06:46pm
- Forum: User Fiction
- Topic: Reincarnation: May Come with Teething Problems
- Replies: 42
- Views: 32817
Re: Reincarnation: May Come with Teething Problems
This timeline means that Alina's previous life will not happen. Paradox incoming.
And Alina seems to be getting more careless and direct in her actions as she ages
And Alina seems to be getting more careless and direct in her actions as she ages
- 2020-12-10 05:00pm
- Forum: Science, Logic, And Morality
- Topic: Pursue Slavers or Rescue Slaves (RAR!)
- Replies: 26
- Views: 22543
- 2020-12-08 01:31pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Federal Law Enforcement Use Unmarked Vehicles To Grab Protesters Off Portland Streets
- Replies: 148
- Views: 71665
Re: Federal Law Enforcement Use Unmarked Vehicles To Grab Protesters Off Portland Streets
I wonder why they started using it? Either they were worried protesters had countered the "mainstream" teargasses (that the smoke moves differently" line in the article, or the perception it's "stronger stuff" ) Or they've used up their stocks and this company had a load to ...
- 2020-12-05 05:05am
- Forum: Science, Logic, And Morality
- Topic: Pursue Slavers or Rescue Slaves (RAR!)
- Replies: 26
- Views: 22543
Re: Pursue Slavers or Rescue Slaves (RAR!)
They've been launching attacks for a couple of decades now, sacking fishing villages and carting off much of the population and loot as well as attacking the Republic's shipping. That makes me wonder why we've not seen large scale relocation from fishing villages to fortified harbour towns. Village...
- 2020-11-30 06:53am
- Forum: User Fiction
- Topic: Reincarnation: May Come with Teething Problems
- Replies: 42
- Views: 32817
Re: Reincarnation: May Come with Teething Problems
Well this looks fun
- 2020-11-27 03:56pm
- Forum: Science, Logic, And Morality
- Topic: Pursue Slavers or Rescue Slaves (RAR!)
- Replies: 26
- Views: 22543
Re: Pursue Slavers or Rescue Slaves (RAR!)
Hmm. Do we think we can outlast them economically? It's not just the cost of the ongoing naval war which we both must bear, the other war that has their army elsewhere, they must be struggling to expand (or maintain?) their slave economy they need to supply the war effort. It seems that once they st...
- 2020-11-27 03:00am
- Forum: Science, Logic, And Morality
- Topic: Pursue Slavers or Rescue Slaves (RAR!)
- Replies: 26
- Views: 22543
Re: Pursue Slavers or Rescue Slaves (RAR!)
It's also possible that they enemy nation has some basic intelligence about the new class of ship (that it exists), and the slaver is dropping the slaves to make there escape, so they can return home and confirm the intelligence is true. What value does that intelligence hold? Knowing full capabili...
- 2020-11-20 04:33pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: COVID-19 ongoing thread part 2
- Replies: 737
- Views: 267950
Re: COVID-19 ongoing thread part 2
More UK medical staff have died of covid then UK soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan
- 2020-11-20 04:28pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Third Cinci council member arrested this year
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3600
Re: Third Cinci council member arrested this year
Jesus. What a mess
- 2020-11-18 08:55am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Brexit and not very united kingdom politics II
- Replies: 808
- Views: 392495
Re: Brexit and not very united kingdom politics II
Same in Wales. Places where you spend significant time like a cafe or restaurant will take your details for track and trace, and some prefer that to be the person scanning a qr code tied to the NHS app, but a paper form is always available.
- 2020-11-13 02:47pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Brexit and not very united kingdom politics II
- Replies: 808
- Views: 392495
Re: Brexit and not very united kingdom politics II
Fuckity bye Cummings. I should hate him really, but I've got a perverse admiration for someone so willing to burn it all down and throw excel at problems. Current speculation is either boris's latest squeeze dosent like him or with biden's support for Ireland the UK is scrabbling for a much softer b...
- 2020-11-07 05:18am
- Forum: Science Fiction
- Topic: The Prefecture of Kinboshi (RAR!)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 10738
Re: The Prefecture of Kinboshi (RAR!)
Are the population taken able to read the instruction manuals? Are they assigned randomly or 'correctly'- eg farmers and farm familiar communities in the agosphere, factory robot programmers in industrial balloon. Either way, China immediately denounces this secret Japanese colonisation effort and d...
- 2020-11-06 06:57am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Has the US Response to 9/11 Brought About the Exact Destabilization the Attack was Meant to Cause?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5024
Re: Has the US Response to 9/11 Brought About the Exact Destabilization the Attack was Meant to Cause?
Internet are my reply last week. The way I see it is that the two party system will always have a pressure to congeal, then freeze into sharp ideological opposed crystals. This is diffused by internal tensions and faction priorities shifting in prominence. The slow churn of a slushie maker that stop...
- 2020-11-05 10:05am
- Forum: Science, Logic, And Morality
- Topic: Pursue Slavers or Rescue Slaves (RAR!)
- Replies: 26
- Views: 22543
Re: Pursue Slavers or Rescue Slaves (RAR!)
My overall order is to protect my people from slavers by harrasing and preventing them from taking people now and in future. Abandoning them to the storm is not protecting them. Abandoning them to destroy a single slave ship is not a long term solution. My sailors will talk. Morale will be ruined. T...
- 2020-11-05 04:33am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Brexit and not very united kingdom politics II
- Replies: 808
- Views: 392495
Re: Brexit and not very united kingdom politics II
I follow the UK space industry with interest, and we have that launch for polar orbits, but it's a rounding error in a country that doesn't make much stuff. Every large construction company I know has been shedding people and cutting wages. We expect the industry to be hit hard when people delay inv...
- 2020-11-02 04:34am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: SUPERTHREAD: 2020 United States Elections
- Replies: 2322
- Views: 771023
Re: SUPERTHREAD: 2020 United States Elections
https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1322976702419636225?s=20 Joe Biden @JoeBiden It’s long past time we take action to end the scourge of gun violence in America. As president, I’ll ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, implement universal background checks, and enact other common-sense ...
- 2020-11-01 07:32am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Brexit and not very united kingdom politics II
- Replies: 808
- Views: 392495
Re: Brexit and not very united kingdom politics II
Well, you will. In Wales we're halfway through our shorter and earlier one. I'd rub it in more but that would contravene social distancing. Tbh the results in Wales of our regional lockdowns are poor. Either we're not hitting the vectors accurately, we are but the autumn winter weather and behaviour...
- 2020-10-31 10:07am
- Forum: Pure Star Wars
- Topic: The Mandalorian Discussion Thread (spoilers and such)
- Replies: 602
- Views: 248914
Re: The Mandalorian Discussion Thread (spoilers and such)
I thought the multi decade old cannon was he goes in wearing it, and comes out wearing it as a acid damaged set of ribbons afterwardsbilateralrope wrote: ↑2020-10-31 12:06amHe went into the Sarlacc with his armor on. So I'd expect him to come out also wearing it.
- 2020-10-24 07:16am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: COVID-19 ongoing thread part 2
- Replies: 737
- Views: 267950
Re: COVID-19 ongoing thread part 2
Wales is in two week firebreak starting last night. The goal is two week tight lockdown to reset infection rates and give us a clear two month run up to Christmas and holiday. Bit of a fuss here over one aspect of it. Big supermarkets sell lots of stuff here. Tesco's does everything from TVs to scho...