This conspiracy speaks to me as I've just started playing Fallout 4, a game where you can make an automated machine gun turret out of parts taken from a radio, a street lamp, and a baby crib.
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This spare iphone's battery is even worse than my broken one was. It shuts down completely at 37%...
If I replace the battery should it work like normal right away? Or is there some sort of breaking-in period where I have to cycle it a few times? Because I leave tonight and would really like a working phone.
not a good time to do iphone surgery then
even battery calibration will take the whole day
I'd pop down to the street and consider a second-hand device. or even a new one, since your phone(s) are borked anyway
Oh no
Battery calibration being fully cycling it?
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ElldrenIs a woman dammitceterum censeoRegistered Userregular
This conspiracy speaks to me as I've just started playing Fallout 4, a game where you can make an automated machine gun turret out of parts taken from a radio, a street lamp, and a baby crib.
Yeah but who even bothers with machine gun turrets
DynagripBreak me a million heartsHoustonRegistered User, ClubPAregular
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aside from the nose bleeds, the haze of drugs, a highly regimented med schedule, and the soon to be copious amount of blood drawn, being on medical leave isn't that bad. I do say this before I've been stuck with needles yet, of course.
aside from the nose bleeds, the haze of drugs, a highly regimented med schedule, and the soon to be copious amount of blood drawn, being on medical leave isn't that bad. I do say this before I've been stuck with needles yet, of course.
Russia's not participating in the Eurovision Song Contest, after Ukraine denied entry permits for the russian contestant (because by entering Crimea without going through Ukraine is breaking Ukrainian law)
The ESC offered them to either switch to someone else, or to participate via satellite feed, but Russia wasn't keen on either of those, since it wasn't an accident that she in particular got chosen. That's not even "oh I bet every russian election no matter how inconseqeuential is not on the up and up" thing, the relevant russian TV channel just picks their candidate.
The ESC is, obviously, annoyed with Ukraine and with confrontational politics sneaking into the song contest, which is the diametric opposite of the entire idea behind it.
Which I can agree with somewhat, but then again, this has been the only reason I have cared at all about this year's Eurovision
Yes it's Ukraine's fault that Russia is illegally occupying their territory and sponsoring a civil war in their country
no, which is why no-one said anything to that effect
but it is Ukraine blocking the russian contestant, and not vice-versa, so they are the ones politicizing Eurovision song contest.
If only because of the russian fig leaf that hey, this nice lady in the wheelchair had the best song, we were toooootally ready to forget all that stuff for a brief moment, but nooooo
aside from the nose bleeds, the haze of drugs, a highly regimented med schedule, and the soon to be copious amount of blood drawn, being on medical leave isn't that bad. I do say this before I've been stuck with needles yet, of course.
Bitch unless they take more then 250mLs or it's not just blood, you ain't got nothing to complain about.
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DynagripBreak me a million heartsHoustonRegistered User, ClubPAregular
the best part is I have to minimize caffeine and I can't even have scotch. No scotch!!! what cruel hell have I fallen into
I feel like some of the more spears-and-shrunken-heads remarks are more understandable in light of the fact that when he was a sprightly young man in his forties, the empire did in fact have still have headhunters in the corners
dayak trackers fought on the British side during the Emergency, to predictable effects:
A photograph of a Marine Commando holding two insurgents’ heads caused a public outcry in April 1952. The Colonial Office privately noted that “there is no doubt that under international law a similar case in wartime would be a war crime”. (Britain always denied it was technically at “war” in Malaya, hence use of the term “emergency”).
Dyak headhunters from Borneo worked alongside the British forces. High Commissioner Templer suggested that Dyaks should be used not only for tracking “but in their traditional role as head-hunters”. Templer “thinks it is essential that the practice [decapitation] should continue”, although this would only be necessary “in very rare cases”, the Colonial Office observed. It also noted that, because of the recent outcry over this issue, “it would be well to delay any public statement on this matter for some months”. The Daily Telegraph offered support, commenting that the Dyaks “would be superb fighters in the Malayan jungle, and it would be absurd if uninformed public opinion at home were to oppose their use”. The Colonial Office also warned that, in addition to decapitation, “other practices may have grown up, particularly in units which employ Dyaks, which would provide ugly photographs”.
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DynagripBreak me a million heartsHoustonRegistered User, ClubPAregular
aside from the nose bleeds, the haze of drugs, a highly regimented med schedule, and the soon to be copious amount of blood drawn, being on medical leave isn't that bad. I do say this before I've been stuck with needles yet, of course.
Any idea what's going on with you?
that my antibodies get confused and attack various regions of my brain instead of doing their god damn job. which specific regions/receptors are TBD.
Leads to amazing work ethic and focus, right up to the point when my brain ignites and then smolders out, as I collapse in exhaustion.
aside from the nose bleeds, the haze of drugs, a highly regimented med schedule, and the soon to be copious amount of blood drawn, being on medical leave isn't that bad. I do say this before I've been stuck with needles yet, of course.
Any idea what's going on with you?
that my antibodies get confused and attack various regions of my brain instead of doing their god damn job. which specific regions/receptors are TBD.
Leads to amazing work ethic and focus, right up to the point my brain ignites and I collapse in exhaustion.
Sounds fun... on opposite day.
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DynagripBreak me a million heartsHoustonRegistered User, ClubPAregular
aside from the nose bleeds, the haze of drugs, a highly regimented med schedule, and the soon to be copious amount of blood drawn, being on medical leave isn't that bad. I do say this before I've been stuck with needles yet, of course.
Bitch unless they take more then 250mLs or it's not just blood, you ain't got nothing to complain about.
they've been emphasizing the large number of vials, that I should drink lots and lots of fluids, and to not look in any mirrors or think about vampires, so...
aside from the nose bleeds, the haze of drugs, a highly regimented med schedule, and the soon to be copious amount of blood drawn, being on medical leave isn't that bad. I do say this before I've been stuck with needles yet, of course.
Bitch unless they take more then 250mLs or it's not just blood, you ain't got nothing to complain about.
they've been emphasizing the large number of vials, that I should drink lots and lots of fluids, and to not look in any mirrors or think about vampires, so...
If you were a vampire you would not have to worry about mirrors!
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The bathtub lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over. But it can't. Not without your help. But you're not helping.
I know from experience, that fucker weighs like 500 pounds and I don't want to throw out my back.
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The British made extensive use of dogs in the campaign: guard, ambush, pointer and especially tracker dogs (Symposium, pp. 38-39). They also recruited Dayaks from Borneo as scouts with whom they formed close bonds (the relationship originated in the Second World War when the Japanese massacred Dayaks, pushing them into the arms of the British who offered protection). The Dayaks had natural jungle sense but no human could rival the olfactory sense of a dog. Alsatians and Labrador Retrievers were popular and some dogs gained great repute for the ability to detect and point to CT camps at considerable distances. A typical sub-unit comprised one British officer, ten Dayaks and eight dogs. The CT recognised the abilities of the tracker dogs and used techniques such as crossing water obstacles to try to throw the scent. The relationship with the head-hunting Dayaks only backfired once in 1952 when a Royal Marine unit somewhat over-enthusiastically embraced the practice, provoking a public relations backlash and a prohibition on head-hunting. The offending photograph appeared in the 10 May 1952 edition of the Daily Worker, the newspaper of the British Communist Party, keen to expose brutal, British imperialism. This then provoked a riposte from the right-wing Daily Telegraph. There was not consensus on this matter: some argued that Western values should not be imposed on the Dayaks who should be allowed to continue lopping off the heads of enemies as was their custom.
it is entirely inconsequential but I find it really interesting because it is very much like a microversion of what the situation was with Crimea, just about a crappy song contest instead of geopolitics
it's like when your opponent makes the move you can see will end in checkmate in a few turns, you are grudgingly impressed a little through your annoyance.
Here it was probably about avoiding seeming like the only one with a grudge, by boycotting the Eurovision in Kiev, or something like that. Force Ukraine to either respond, or to swallow an obvious insult.
With Crimea it was how the NATO nations have in the past kind of played themselves into a corner where the only international law argument we could make was "but it's bad when you do it!"
which, although entirely true, is a much weaker argument. I mean not that they avoided sanctions, but still.
The British made extensive use of dogs in the campaign: guard, ambush, pointer and especially tracker dogs (Symposium, pp. 38-39). They also recruited Dayaks from Borneo as scouts with whom they formed close bonds (the relationship originated in the Second World War when the Japanese massacred Dayaks, pushing them into the arms of the British who offered protection). The Dayaks had natural jungle sense but no human could rival the olfactory sense of a dog. Alsatians and Labrador Retrievers were popular and some dogs gained great repute for the ability to detect and point to CT camps at considerable distances. A typical sub-unit comprised one British officer, ten Dayaks and eight dogs. The CT recognised the abilities of the tracker dogs and used techniques such as crossing water obstacles to try to throw the scent. The relationship with the head-hunting Dayaks only backfired once in 1952 when a Royal Marine unit somewhat over-enthusiastically embraced the practice, provoking a public relations backlash and a prohibition on head-hunting. The offending photograph appeared in the 10 May 1952 edition of the Daily Worker, the newspaper of the British Communist Party, keen to expose brutal, British imperialism. This then provoked a riposte from the right-wing Daily Telegraph. There was not consensus on this matter: some argued that Western values should not be imposed on the Dayaks who should be allowed to continue lopping off the heads of enemies as was their custom.
if you put special forces into the jungle/the desert/the whatever along with locals who are keen on [any number of weird-ass shit you can do with dead enemies] the odds of said special forces becoming huge fans of that practice is p much 100%
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I am actually somewhat glad Summer doesn't read these forums.
Not because I choose to hide anything from her, but this place is basically my neighborhood bar where I hang out with 980 Clif Clavens of which i am one and like maybe 2 Sam Malones or 80s Kirstey Alley but seriously mostly Clif Clavens.
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Let's play Mario Kart or something...
I am actually somewhat glad Summer doesn't read these forums.
Not because I choose to hide anything from her, but this place is basically my neighborhood bar where I hang out with 980 Clif Clavens of which i am one and like maybe 2 Sam Malones or 80s Kirstey Alley but seriously mostly Clif Clavens.
Some are genuinely funny. Others are an old man shouting at clouds, or foreigners.
Some of these are absolute gems.
"How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to pass the test?" Asked of a Scottish driving instructor in 1995.
And some of these seem almost too clever not to be entirely on purpose
21. "Get me a beer. I don't care what kind it is, just get me a beer!" On being offered the finest Italian wines by PM Giuliano Amato at a dinner in Rome in 2000.
22. "I would like to go to Russia very much – although the bastards murdered half my family." In 1967, asked if he would like to visit the Soviet Union.
29. "Young people are the same as they always were. They are just as ignorant." At the 50th anniversary of the Duke of Edinburgh Awards scheme.
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About blood, sort of.
I listened to a documentary about the Finnish doping during Lahtis 2001.
At some point two of the contestants had to get 500ml of some IV substance in order to pass the doping test and they had 8 minutes to do it. So they essentially squeezed an IV bag into them in that time. That must hurt.
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This conspiracy speaks to me as I've just started playing Fallout 4, a game where you can make an automated machine gun turret out of parts taken from a radio, a street lamp, and a baby crib.
Oh no
Battery calibration being fully cycling it?
The country's old racist drunk grandad
Yeah but who even bothers with machine gun turrets
I can download the boarding pass to the ipad just in case. Otherwise I should be okay without the phone during the first day in the worst case.
And just hope that there's nothing wrong with the repair and new battery physically of course.
What a hassle.
Any idea what's going on with you?
no, which is why no-one said anything to that effect
but it is Ukraine blocking the russian contestant, and not vice-versa, so they are the ones politicizing Eurovision song contest.
If only because of the russian fig leaf that hey, this nice lady in the wheelchair had the best song, we were toooootally ready to forget all that stuff for a brief moment, but nooooo
Bitch unless they take more then 250mLs or it's not just blood, you ain't got nothing to complain about.
dayak trackers fought on the British side during the Emergency, to predictable effects:
that my antibodies get confused and attack various regions of my brain instead of doing their god damn job. which specific regions/receptors are TBD.
Leads to amazing work ethic and focus, right up to the point when my brain ignites and then smolders out, as I collapse in exhaustion.
Sounds fun... on opposite day.
they've been emphasizing the large number of vials, that I should drink lots and lots of fluids, and to not look in any mirrors or think about vampires, so...
If you were a vampire you would not have to worry about mirrors!
I know from experience, that fucker weighs like 500 pounds and I don't want to throw out my back.
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
another description of the controversy: http://smallwarsjournal.com/print/12513
it's like when your opponent makes the move you can see will end in checkmate in a few turns, you are grudgingly impressed a little through your annoyance.
Here it was probably about avoiding seeming like the only one with a grudge, by boycotting the Eurovision in Kiev, or something like that. Force Ukraine to either respond, or to swallow an obvious insult.
With Crimea it was how the NATO nations have in the past kind of played themselves into a corner where the only international law argument we could make was "but it's bad when you do it!"
which, although entirely true, is a much weaker argument. I mean not that they avoided sanctions, but still.
"somewhat over-enthusiastically"
Not because I choose to hide anything from her, but this place is basically my neighborhood bar where I hang out with 980 Clif Clavens of which i am one and like maybe 2 Sam Malones or 80s Kirstey Alley but seriously mostly Clif Clavens.
Let's play Mario Kart or something...
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Summer Glau?
Some of these are absolute gems.
And some of these seem almost too clever not to be entirely on purpose
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
All the prep things kept impressing upon me "don't bring any fun stuff to the embassy"
You can be Niles
The wife always fancied him, for some reason.
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I remember Paul and Phil and Harry the Hat.
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I listened to a documentary about the Finnish doping during Lahtis 2001.
At some point two of the contestants had to get 500ml of some IV substance in order to pass the doping test and they had 8 minutes to do it. So they essentially squeezed an IV bag into them in that time. That must hurt.
It's no Community, and I say that as a Frasier fan.