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by madd0ct0r
2020-12-19 11:49am
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: COVID-19 ongoing thread part 2
Replies: 737
Views: 264335

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...
by madd0ct0r
2020-12-17 04:46am
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: REP. ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ believes the Democratic Party needs new leadership
Replies: 5
Views: 4274

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...
by madd0ct0r
2020-12-16 03:54pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: Uk court allows heathrow 3 to go ahead on technicality.
Replies: 0
Views: 7827

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...
by madd0ct0r
2020-12-16 06:30am
Forum: User Fiction
Topic: Reincarnation: May Come with Teething Problems
Replies: 42
Views: 32413

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...
by madd0ct0r
2020-12-14 12:03pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: Brexit and not very united kingdom politics II
Replies: 802
Views: 385399

Re: Brexit and not very united kingdom politics II

Raw Shark wrote: 2020-12-13 01:11pm
Crazedwraith wrote: 2020-12-13 12:54pmWhat's the betting everyone will now stockpile just like the start if the year,
People stopped doing that over there?
Small houses and only so much pasta people are willing to eat.
by madd0ct0r
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: 18153

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...
by madd0ct0r
2020-12-10 06:46pm
Forum: User Fiction
Topic: Reincarnation: May Come with Teething Problems
Replies: 42
Views: 32413

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
by madd0ct0r
2020-12-10 05:00pm
Forum: Science, Logic, And Morality
Topic: Pursue Slavers or Rescue Slaves (RAR!)
Replies: 26
Views: 22318

Re: Pursue Slavers or Rescue Slaves (RAR!)

The_Saint wrote: 2020-12-10 04:31am Following Zor's clarification post all I can think of is a low-tech / low-kardashev-scale version of the Idiran-Culture War. Anyone else feeling this?
You should check Zors fantasy epic.
by madd0ct0r
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: 71077

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 ...
by madd0ct0r
2020-12-05 05:05am
Forum: Science, Logic, And Morality
Topic: Pursue Slavers or Rescue Slaves (RAR!)
Replies: 26
Views: 22318

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...
by madd0ct0r
2020-11-27 03:56pm
Forum: Science, Logic, And Morality
Topic: Pursue Slavers or Rescue Slaves (RAR!)
Replies: 26
Views: 22318

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...
by madd0ct0r
2020-11-27 03:00am
Forum: Science, Logic, And Morality
Topic: Pursue Slavers or Rescue Slaves (RAR!)
Replies: 26
Views: 22318

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...
by madd0ct0r
2020-11-20 04:33pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: COVID-19 ongoing thread part 2
Replies: 737
Views: 264335

Re: COVID-19 ongoing thread part 2

More UK medical staff have died of covid then UK soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan
by madd0ct0r
2020-11-18 08:55am
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: Brexit and not very united kingdom politics II
Replies: 802
Views: 385399

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.
by madd0ct0r
2020-11-13 02:47pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: Brexit and not very united kingdom politics II
Replies: 802
Views: 385399

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...
by madd0ct0r
2020-11-07 05:18am
Forum: Science Fiction
Topic: The Prefecture of Kinboshi (RAR!)
Replies: 5
Views: 10653

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...
by madd0ct0r
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: 4981

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...
by madd0ct0r
2020-11-05 10:05am
Forum: Science, Logic, And Morality
Topic: Pursue Slavers or Rescue Slaves (RAR!)
Replies: 26
Views: 22318

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...
by madd0ct0r
2020-11-05 04:33am
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: Brexit and not very united kingdom politics II
Replies: 802
Views: 385399

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...
by madd0ct0r
2020-11-02 04:34am
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: SUPERTHREAD: 2020 United States Elections
Replies: 2322
Views: 762555

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 ...
by madd0ct0r
2020-11-01 07:32am
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: Brexit and not very united kingdom politics II
Replies: 802
Views: 385399

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...
by madd0ct0r
2020-10-31 10:07am
Forum: Pure Star Wars
Topic: The Mandalorian Discussion Thread (spoilers and such)
Replies: 602
Views: 240380

Re: The Mandalorian Discussion Thread (spoilers and such)

bilateralrope wrote: 2020-10-31 12:06am
Batman wrote: 2020-10-31 12:03am Um-we already know? He got eaten by the Sarlacc?
He went into the Sarlacc with his armor on. So I'd expect him to come out also wearing it.
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 afterwards
by madd0ct0r
2020-10-24 07:16am
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: COVID-19 ongoing thread part 2
Replies: 737
Views: 264335

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...