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Ireland votes to remove blasphemy from Constitution by 64.85% to 35.15%
https://www.rte.ie/news/2018/1027/1007130-blasphemy-referendum/?fbclid=IwAR0rEBqc--f-Vd3FTsYiWe2AXC7ZRNzJtvavuYnpxZsBfopE9wJLmHwqDSA -
It is a good day today. We’ve managed along with my partner to finalize a deal which will let us breathe and gain the peace of mind which we need so very much after bad streaks in recent years.
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Its been a week here, skin is peeling of my shoulders and I’m officialy an african with blue eyes. I also have indigestion from all the great food theyre serving to which I cant say no...and my feet are burnt. One more week of this „nightmare” and I can finally go back to normality. I’m half way through Frank Herbert’s „Dune” which I never read who knows why. Oh and I hate „Ouzo” with its aniseed taste @MigL
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(without surprise) I understand that you are more interested in enjoying holidays than book talking. Yet you mentioned it, so I jumped in with my (rather not valuable) "input". Perhaps you will see what I meant if/when you get to IV. "God Emperor of Dune", V. "Heretics of Dune" and VI. "Chapterhouse: Dune"..
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I found something interesting this evening while our 3 year was playing in the sand at a beach party with one of my flashlights which has a strong magnet in the tailcap. Earlier today we went for another car trip around the towns and beaches in the Kos island and my partner complained that her feet got horribly dirty. Weirdly black dirty...we just assumed its the volcanic dust but its in fact incredibly fine iron fillings. And when I say fine, its so fine it got through the first O-ring of my double O-ring whaterproof flashlight. Once its on the magnet it behaves like regular iron fillings on a magnet but when I got it off, man I’ve never seen iron pieces so fine - pure dust. Suddenly I realized that theres a reason for poor electrical infrastructure around here - transformers on poles shooting sparks everywhere, abandoned cars on sides of roads, etc. This stuff must get into everything eventually, I hope our devices will survive. Tomorrow I’ll take my son and we’ll gather some more to bring back home
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Its Sarurday evening, my partner left me home with our 3 year old devil incarnate. Help.
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@MigL, its my way of expressing Im having fun, I though u knew, you’re disappointing me you ol’ single malt drinking old man.
He’s asleep now and we’re having a quarrel about whether I should check up on my twins or not.
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Just a warning - testing using a new PSU how not yet tested LED emitters do amperage wise on a Friday evening while drinking whiskey does not render viable results and renders precious LED’s dead. Learning is expensive.
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3K USD would be a little too much for me to break in gear over a Friday evening. I don't know how your laws in Canada are but here you really don't want to drink and drive, you loose your license for at least a few years if not for life and if you cause an accident its 10 years with no bail I think.
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Just a warning - testing using a new PSU how not yet tested LED emitters do amperage wise on a Friday evening while drinking whiskey does not render viable results and renders precious LED’s dead. Learning is expensive.
Chinese workers are grateful and ask for more....
LED strips typically have built-in resistors on the tape. But they require correct polarization.
It's wiser to use too high value resistor, at the beginning, and have too little current, then decrease its value.
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@Sensei, they weren’t strips, they were Osram CSLNM1.TG one square milimeter emitters on MCPCB’s that I was testing for temperature to set the current accordingly on the driver. Unfortunately a new power supply unit that I got played some tricks on me so poof!
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Months of being cautious, refraining from social happenings and travel, washing my hands 50 times a day and wearing a mask to the toilet and there we go - we both got Covid me and my partner. We are 4-5 days into it, the test results came in today. She's got a moderate fever (38,5C) and lost her taste and smell, I only lost my strength and I'm sleeping 2 hours during the day 3rd day in a row. We are both caughing a little, our 4.5 year old kid seems completely fine. Christmas is going to be really awesome this year, what a f joke 2020 is. I'm pissed as hell, the vaccine is just a couple weeks away and we didn't make it.
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@MigL, Ispoke to a virologist today, apparently I should get vaccinated as soon as possible regardless whether I have the anti bodies or not. Plus there is the new mutation in the UK which the current 3 vaccines should be working against at least for now.
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Starting on Dec 26 my province ( Ontario ) is going under full lock-down, for at least a month. As far as I know, the mutations have had little effect on the spike configuration of the Coronavirus, so the vaccines should still work.
Man, I can't wait for my vaccine injection !
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@MigL We are at locdown here untill January 17th at least. I hope you get your vaccine soon, it looks like there is a chance we will be getting the Pfizer vaccine in January here. I would much prefer to get my immunity from the vaccine and not from Covid but it is what it is.
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Our 18 month old became recently as distructive as a black hole. He grabs things, imediately runs away at light speed laughing like an evil space lord and boom - the object is gone into oblivion. He fell asleep, we wanted to watch a movie but I can’t get the amp to work... aparently the evil space lord took care of that too.
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Our 3 year old just spit straight in the face of a border guard who took his little backpack filled with hotwheels for checkin.
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Say an undercover government agent attends an anti government protest shouting and pretending to be them. Is this a provocation or is there a different, more accurate word?
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I think I know now where my confusion came from. In English, provocation is the act of provoking (at least a couple of dictionaries from the top of google say so) wheres in my language not quite. "Provocation" has a more clear political meaning in Polish to a point. Its defined as a sneeky act done by an agent to do damage etc. Both words "Provocation" and "Prowokacja" are translated to each other directly but the carry a little bit different meaning.
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Same in French; "une provocation" has the sneaky political meaning as well as the more general meaning.
In any case , in English the sneaky political meaning of "a provocation" is quite an important one and certainly is clear when used in context.
I seem to remember from my time in France when Polish people would manage to escape from the Soviet bloc that there was a connection between the Poles and the French that was perhaps partially reflected in the language)
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https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2007/08/23/quebec_police_admit_agents_posed_as_protesters.html
Seems a propos to this little thread (both terms are used ,but not in the "strong" sense of causing actions to take place (allegedly).In fact they claim to have refrained from joining in the ongoing action and so had their cover blown.
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September 1st rings in my mind since childhood as the end of summer and beginning of school/work, leaves getting yellow etc. Twice in my life I went on a business trip in the middle of my winter to a place where they had summer, I hope this year I’ll make a trip like that for leasure not work.
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So we went to the "Equality Parade" here today downtown Warsaw with our 2 year old. 30C mid day, a very nice combination of various political/LGBT movements forming a great party like function with trucks playing music, body painted attractive people dancing, etc. Our 2 year old decided that he's going to take charge of the whole thing. He especially wanted to go up dancing with all the girls in bikinis and boys with six packs in one of the trucks...his hysteria stopped one of the trucks and one of the dancer girls had to come down to calm him down which ofcourse didn't work out. So we had a fight me and and my girl and we left pissed all three of us walking with the stroller to the car. Family life is such a blessing.
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The Notre-Dame cathedral is burning down right this minute. It is sad to watch an 850 year old monument go up in smoke. Apparently the big wooden steeple which was 70 meters high was constructed with lots of lead elements so as soon as the structure caught minor heat it all went like domino. I’ve been to Paris twice and never had a chance to see the cathedral, stupid me.
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What a beautiful, warm rainy Friday we are having here. I am feeling good first time in months, hope everyone is going to have a great weekend!
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Win10 update killed all my browsers. Newtork is there, pings go through, all the browsers are dead. Its a known and defined problem apparently but nothing worked including reinstalling network drivers from USB (yes I flushed DNS and did all the CMD procedures) I had to rollback to previous OS version. I don't even know which update did it, I don't have time to look now. Beware of the latest Win10 updates!
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" Win10 update killed all my browsers. Newtork is there, pings go through, all the browsers are dead. It "
You should try going to website by IP, entering f.e.http://127.0.0.1 (install XAMPP if you don't have Apache installed locally *) or f.e. http://151.101.113.67
(CNN IP Address)
This way you will verify whether it's DNS issue, or TCP/IP packets are blocked (firewall?),
whether it's Internet related problem or it's even local HTTP server not working..
*) in folder C:\xampp\htdocs\ make index.php file with contents "<?php printf("OK!" ); ?>" (The simplest possible PHP script).
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Wow, Mars looks so beautiful tonight - like a giant orange star brightest in the night sky. It’s almost as though Mars is playing some twisted joke on Americans with that orange color.
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Also looking forward to: Friday's total lunar eclipse will be longest blood moon visible this century, until 2123
The red moon will pair well with Mars, which reaches opposition just before the eclipse and will also appear orange or red in colour.
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You know you’re getting old when just yesterday you got spam about dating girls in your mailbox and now it’s either toe fungus medication or viagra.
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Wow, spamming an anti-spamming status update on a science site is something isn’t it. BTW JulyS was pitching to @StringJunky not me
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"Déjàbrew" (noun) - Slowly remembering things you did while drunk.
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"The Red Pill" a documentary about a men's rights movement. A very eye opening documentary made by a feminist.
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A friend is considering cheaply selling his house because he'a convinced that it'haunted by ghosts. Man I wish I had the money right now.
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About half of the threads in the new content feed are spam bots posting spam. Is there something that can be done?
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Ah, life...5 hours in family court again this morning. 7th year of unwinnable mayhem continues.
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All US citizens please accept my condolences. Also, I heard there's a huge party at Putin's place tonight. We are all officially screwed.
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Every time I read "we're praying for the Manchester attack victims" a small part of me dies.
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I am proud of myself and my partner. We hae a 6 month old, after my partner obviously refused to drink, one of the guests at a gettogether at our place last night stated that brestfeeding doesnt make sense after 6 months as the mothers milk becomes null nutritionally. Both me and my partner managed not to engage in conversation which would inevitably result in me having an episode.
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I just brushed my teeth with Bepanthen baby cream. Parenting is such a blessing.
