In other news today...
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
TL;DR; Reports of purges and executions of NK officials involved in nuclear negotiations with US appear to be at least partially untrue.
.. so far...
Some of these grisly stories about executions in North Korea have turned out turned out not to be true – although with a ruler who shares the penchant of so many tyrants for suddenly turning against those closest to them, any statement offered by the North Korean government that Mr Kim Hyok-chol has not been executed should probably be followed by the word “yet”.
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Even the Green New Deal can't save us
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Here's another take:
Meanwhile, Xbox creator Seamus Blackley, has his own take on the announcement. "I seriously and honestly have no comment. I have no idea what a comment would even be on this. I’m frankly thinking of just going and drinking heavily at this point," he said on Twitter.
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I'm safe
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
I'm safe
6 coffees a day for 6 months gave me a pre-stroke condition and general organism exhaustion diagnosis. But you do you.
I was also drinking heavily and going down a depression/anxiety spiral, but that's beside the point.
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@MrL They probably did the tests on 'instant coffee', which is only vaguely coffee-like rather than actually being coffee. I could drink that by the pint all day if I wanted, with no adverse effects. The decent, freshly ground coffee I actually drink, I start to feel palpitations if I have more than three of a morning.
Edit: From the article, they asked UK residents how much coffee they drank. From my experience, instant 'coffee' is indeed what most people consider coffee in the UK.
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@Seppen said in In other news today...:
From my experience, instant 'coffee' is indeed what most people consider coffee in the UK.
Suddenly brexit makes a lot more sense.
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@Seppen said in In other news today...:
instant 'coffee' is indeed what most people consider coffee in the UK.
British people have no sense of taste
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
British people have no sense of taste
It actually gets worse. Nescafe was in the past the biggest selling 'coffee' in the UK. Now it's McDonald's 'coffee'. My home city recently opened a new theatre and entertainment complex, including a cafe. It won an award for it's coffee. I've been there once. It was at least proper ground coffee rather than instant, but it didn't taste of coffee at all. It was so unbelievably bitter-tasting that I can only assume it was 'vintage' coffee, roasted and ground back in the 19th Century. I didn't get past one sip.
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@Seppen said in In other news today...:
Nescafe was in the past the biggest selling 'coffee' in the UK. Now it's McDonald's 'coffee'.
Is McDonald using instant coffee too
My home city recently opened a new theatre and entertainment complex, including a cafe. It won an award for it's coffee. I've been there once. It was at least proper ground coffee rather than instant, but it didn't taste of coffee at all.
At least you know why it won an award
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@TimeBandit I have no idea if McD's use instant. I have been in a McD's exactly once in my life, and that was in France. The only thing I bought from there was a beer.
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
Is McDonald using instant coffee too
They do not, at least not in the US. They get green coffee beans shipped in then roast and brew on-site.
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@Seppen said in In other news today...:
From my experience, instant 'coffee' is indeed what most people consider coffee in the UK.
My countrymen are a bunch of heretics.
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
Even the Green New Deal can't save us
new-report-suggests-high-likelihood-of-human-civilization-coming-to-an-end-in-2050
"The climate change analysis was ... backed by the former chief of Australia's military."
I wasn't convinced before, but now I am.
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@jinpa They won the war against the ozone layer, so I think he knows what he's talking about.
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I'm posting this because of the nonsense at the end about the odds of this. Somebody who's supposed to be an expert on calculating odds doesn't appear to have a clue, although it's probably just the BBC journalists getting it wrong.
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@Seppen said in In other news today...:
I'm posting this because of the nonsense at the end about the odds of this. Somebody who's supposed to be an expert on calculating odds doesn't appear to have a clue, although it's probably just the BBC journalists getting it wrong.
Cigrettes for a dollar! I woudln't of given them up if they were that cheap! However... what kind of nutcase spends more on a mushroom burger than cigrettes? The 70's were a strange place but we forgiven them most follies because of disco.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
However... what kind of nutcase spends more on a mushroom burger than cigrettes?
You are aware how much of the price of a pack of cigarettes is excise duty (or equivalent) these days, no?[1]
And how much excise would have (not) been charged at the start of last century? Not as much I'm guessing. Compared to a burger[2]?
[1] In the UK, last time I calculated it (2017/18), a pack of 20 retailing at £8, was £1.41 before any taxes, £5.26 excise, with £1.33 VAT on top.
[2] An Avocado Ranch Portobello Mushroom from https://smashburger.co.uk/menu is £6.95
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@PJH said in In other news today...:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
However... what kind of nutcase spends more on a mushroom burger than cigrettes?
You are aware how much of the price of a pack of cigarettes is excise duty (or equivalent) these days, no?[1]
[1] In the UK, last time I calculated it (2017/18), a pack of 20 retailing at £8, was £1.41 before any taxes, £5.26 excise, with £1.33 VAT on top.
Is this a discussion about banning excise or me lamenting about how much a packet of fags costs?
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Is this a discussion about banning excise or me lamenting about how much a packet of fags costs?
Yes.
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@Seppen said in In other news today...:
Now it's McDonald's 'coffee'.
Their coffee is surprisingly good here. (Ever since they started the McCafe push)
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@dcon said in In other news today...:
Their coffee is surprisingly good here.
I'd be very surprised if it was good.
But I hate all coffee, so to me, good coffee is an oxymoron.
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@jinpa said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
Even the Green New Deal can't save us
new-report-suggests-high-likelihood-of-human-civilization-coming-to-an-end-in-2050
"The climate change analysis was ... backed by the former chief of Australia's military."
I wasn't convinced before, but now I am.
That's because they have a nuke poised to launch at both the arctic and Antarctic ice on that date? "See, told ya!"
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@dcon said in In other news today...:
@Seppen said in In other news today...:
Now it's McDonald's 'coffee'.
Their coffee is surprisingly good here. (Ever since they started the McCafe push)
They're known to source ingredients locally, and the selection of products available is definitely adjusted per country as well. I'm not surprised they'd similarly change the composition of common products. If everyone in the UK expects/wants instant coffee, then freshly ground coffee (which is much more expensive) will probably not do well.
Similarly, I've heard continental Europe generally brews their coffee much stronger than the US, and I'd expect a firm like McD's to adjust for that.
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@Seppen ... But that is the right number, isn't it? 60×60×60=216000, and 3×3×3/216000=8000.
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@pie_flavor said in In other news today...:
@Seppen ... But that is the right number, isn't it? 60×60×60=216000, and 3×3×3/216000=8000.
Only if you ignore the fact that 20-40-60 is surely one of the more likely things you'd try if you were just fiddling. I'm actually surprised it took that long for someone to try such an obvious sequence. I guess it's a bit out of the way and probably hasn't had that many visitors. If I'd gone there I'd have tried 60-40-20 and 20-40-60 for sure. I suspect that this point was made by the expert they asked, but ignored by the journalist because it takes away the sensational nature of it.
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@Seppen said in In other news today...:
Only if you ignore the fact that 20-40-60 is surely one of the more likely things you'd try if you were just fiddling. I'm actually surprised it took that long for someone to try such an obvious sequence. I guess it's a bit out of the way and probably hasn't had that many visitors. If I'd gone there I'd have tried 60-40-20 and 20-40-60 for sure. I suspect that this point was made by the expert they asked, but ignored by the journalist because it takes away the sensational nature of it.
"The fact that the combination was in a specific pattern and did not appear to be a random combination of numbers could also factor into a calculation of the odds, he added." An understatement, to be sure, but it didn't sound to me like it was ignored by the journalist.
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@jinpa Well ok, ignored is a bit strong. But downplayed for sure.
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@TimeBandit Today is 6 June 2016...
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@Tsaukpaetra It's a BBC Future article from the past.
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Have not read it. Reposting because someone linked it and was upset.
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@dcon said in In other news today...:
Their coffee is surprisingly good here. (Ever since they started the McCafe push)
I have visions of something to do with antivirus...
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@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
Similarly, I've heard continental Europe generally brews their coffee much stronger than the US, and I'd expect a firm like McD's to adjust for that.
I used to work at Ericsson some time back, and while I never went there, apparently there was a coffee corner in a new York office with several strengths of coffee. Them being: normal, strong, extra strong, swedish. Us Swedes apparently drink some gut searing strong coffee.
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@pie_flavor said in In other news today...:
3×3×3/216000=8000
I take it that putting the arguments to divide in the right order isn't your strong suit?
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@Seppen said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit I have no idea if McD's use instant. I have been in a McD's exactly once in my life, and that was in France. The only thing I bought from there was a beer.
There's so many WTFs in that sentence. After your coffee rants, why would you buy a "beer" in McDonald's? Why in France, of all places, where there's an infinite number of better options to eat or drink than McD.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
good coffee is an oxymoron.
QFT, there's no need to hide this behind so many
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@boomzilla The Nope thread is
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@boomzilla We got those every summer where I grew up. And our farmhouse was old and pretty leaky, so I'd get home after school and have thousands of ladybugs in my room and I'd have to spend the first 30 minutes after school sucking them all up with the vacuum cleaner hose.
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Check the video, she spin like crazy
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@Seppen said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit I have no idea if McD's use instant. I have been in a McD's exactly once in my life, and that was in France. The only thing I bought from there was a beer.
There's so many WTFs in that sentence. After your coffee rants, why would you buy a "beer" in McDonald's? Why in France, of all places, where there's an infinite number of better options to eat or drink than McD.
France is shit at beer, so might as well get shit beer at the donk at half the price?
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
Check the video, she spin like crazy
More background info because single-scene videos suck:
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@JBert Best comment:
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CIA did Chernobyl. You heard it first here folks.
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@TimeBandit An interesting concept, to be sure.