Tricone RC
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How does the World view America these days?
Tricone RC replied to Rubin Farr's topic in General Banter
Many of the various bits of Canada are honestly not that different to the corresponding adjacent bits of the US. Take Ohio, and swap its guns and some of its racist coppers for half decent public health, and you have southern Ontario. Ditto for the Midwest and southern MB/SK; for the Anglophone Maritimes and NE New England. -
Now That Trump's President... (not any more!)
Tricone RC replied to Nebraska's topic in General Banter
Had an enlightening chat with some right-on centre-right types re Trump's climate change denying tweets. They scoffed at Orange Man's dumb tweets - yet, those same people have told me before about how much they hate the idea of a carbon tax, or basically anything that might slightly stand in the way of economic growth for the benefit of the environment. I pointed this out, and only got huff-and-puff gammon responses about how the market will magically fix everything So basically their environmental stance is a fag paper apart from Trump's, but they get to pat themselves on the back because they express that stance in a less vulgar manner. It suddenly dawned on me that there are a lot of people who fall into that camp. -
His real name is Wagon
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But what should squee do for the adaptation, and the general backwardness of the act?
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IMO at least he had the balls to spell out his intentions openly. It's not like client poaching isn't a thing that happens all the time... Me: I have permanently dilated eustachian tubes (congenital), but lately I've also had an ear infection. I can taste and smell my own infected middle ear. It smells like cat shit. Smell is there constantly. I can now also infer what cat shit tastes like
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Nice, hopefully it'll be leaked and then he remakes it so we get two versions* *jk but it was neat having two versions of Variance
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what happened here
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Saad al-Hilli's death was a Mossad hit
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“Class is part of the failure of sexuality,” says Bataille; however, according to la Fournier[8] , it is not so much class that is part of the failure of sexuality, but rather the rubicon, and eventually the meaninglessness, of class. If socialist realism holds, we have to choose between Debordist situation and predeconstructivist textual theory. However, a number of dematerialisms concerning socialist realism may be revealed.
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I thought there was quite a populist whiff about En Marche... Definitely centrist, but still a strong sense of new blood replacing a moribund establishment, kinda thing, no?
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That describes 99% of my old friends and relatives in my hometown. It's just a bubbling pot of anger in "the provinces", partly just a social thing at feeling ignored by London, partly justified anger at economic subservience to the SE, partly a semi-nativist lashing-out against a gradual feeling of a loss of identity - which I think is a bit silly and naive, but in the most part I honestly don't think it's racist. In a parallel universe where June 2016 was actually a general election under PR, then those votes would all have gone to some populist a la Macron. So a lot of people just wanted to stick it to the London poshos instead of literally leaving the EU. That bodes well for Remaining but also means that, even if Article 50 is revoked, there will have been an utter failure to calm the seething anger that underlay it. It'll eventually resurface, just as it has been in France recently
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What outcome would be best for IDM? If the UK does leave and Corbyn gets in, he might be able to nationalise Planet Mu and usher in a new golden era of beeps and squonks
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Mouldy basement. My kid has developed asthma, docs suspect the two are linked. Basement is unfinished, with walls of lovely fossiliferous limestone bedrock which unfortunately is rather porous. Can only do so much to reduce basement moisture without properly finishing the basement with impermeable barriers etc, which I can't afford without taking out a whopping loan. Mould was under control until this winter, but dehumidifier plus regular scrubbing isn't cutting it anymore. Probably going to have to flog the house and go into renting for the sake of my kiddo's health. Won't actually lose money on the house, but I love this house and I really wanted to stay here long term
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You'd be surprised...
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I think it's theorised to be partly molten. You can tell a surprising amount about internal structure from the planet's inertial coefficient, which you can measure from an orbiting spacecraft For a magnetic field you seem to need a molten outer core plus sufficient rotation, although there's only a handful of planetary examples and very little experimental info to base a hypothesis on. Mars doesn't have a planetary field despite apparently having a molten core and an Earthlike rotation - maybe the core is not sufficiently molten, or not sufficiently conductive to act as a dynamo (lots of oxygen or sulphur in with the iron), or something about the core's geometry prevents the required currents from developing - or we just might not understand any of that shit well enough to really get it yet (entirely possible)
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InSight will be pretty neat, the first proper geophysical info on Mars that we'll get besides from what you can work out from orbit, we'll get some idea about heat flow through the crust and be able to detect seismic events, so we'll know a lot more about how active (or inactive) the interior of the planet is, as well as learn more shit about its internal structure which can then be compared against Earth and the Moon My old Masters' supervisor co-designed a seismometer to be used on a European Mars lander back in the mid-2000s, I imagine he's a tad jealous right now
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A path to salvatorin
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salmon
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An Earth-like planet in orbit around a super-long-lived red dwarf would, all else being equal, actually be more habitable than Earth. The length of time in which the planet's surface was habitable would be 10x longer than it will be with Earth Would make for a good story but that idea may not hold up to reality given some other factors that (we think) make Earth particularly habitable. This is of course very much speculation either way. Also the summary says it's "the most metal-poor thin disk star system by a considerable margin." So we have to ask ourselves, is living without silver and gold and aluminum and etc. really living???!?!!? Seriously though, it makes for some interesting ideas (a story I've been background working on for a while is based on a planet like this, with almost no metals, it leads to some interesting particulars for a civilization to deal with) In the context of stellar physics, "metal" normally just means "everything that's not hydrogen and helium". Hence most very old stars have a very low "metallicity", since only H and He were produced by the Big Bang and all higher elements needed to be produced by an earlier generation of stars before any later stars could really contain them in any significant amounts. A super low metallicity star isn't likely to have any planets at all to start with So you shouldn't expect planets around the *really* fucking old stars, but by 13Ga there could already have been a few generations of short-lived giant stars to pump out a supply of "metals" for red dwarfs to hoover up
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An Earth-like planet in orbit around a super-long-lived red dwarf would, all else being equal, actually be more habitable than Earth. The length of time in which the planet's surface was habitable would be 10x longer than it will be with Earth
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Well colour me interested. Sounds like a return to form (by which I mean a return to the 90s, thus ticking all the right nostalgia boxes) Yeah I've quite liked the eno/hyde stuff but apart from that I've been out of the loop since they did Barking (which was ok but not incredible)
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aphex twin is one of Bennnn Jordan's aliases right?
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Cessna Caravanz and a dead tractor
