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being a drone pilot must surely cause some sort of new mental illness as you play a computer game for hours at a time murdering real people edit: Paul the Apostle pleads his case and testifies of Christianity before King Agrippa II of the Herodians, who responds "You almost persuade me to be a Christian.
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Jose posted:being a drone pilot must surely cause some sort of new mental illness as you play a computer game for hours at a time murdering real people I havent read any proper studies on it so if someone could link any that would be great, but I thought one of the big positives of using drones means it doesn't feel 'real' to the people using them?
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May 10, 2016 22:18
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Does anyone have a trusted poll (well, trusted as a poll can be) for the EU referendum in the last few days? I can't shake the feeling that we're about to sleepwalk into Brexit, with a strident Leave campaign getting the vote out while the broadly satisfied majority stay at home. Wouldn't suprise me if Cameron is keeping back some massive fear-bomb to get the Remain vote out in the last few days. Shame the politics of fear became so unfashionable lately.
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May 10, 2016 22:20
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its a mother jones link but http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/03/drone-pilots-are-quitting-record-numbers basically everyone on the military looks down on them which destroys morale while they work ridiculous hours everyone is quitting
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May 10, 2016 22:22
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Jose posted:being a drone pilot must surely cause some sort of new mental illness as you play a computer game for hours at a time murdering real people It literally does, this has been and is being documented Although I wouldn't really call it a new mental illness so much as a bunch of existing problems in a new context (the new context being that instead of not seeing your wife for a year and then going home and giving her the thousand yard stare for a while before pissing off abroad again, you get to do that every single day)
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May 10, 2016 22:22
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Galaspar posted:Does anyone have a trusted poll (well, trusted as a poll can be) for the EU referendum in the last few days? I can't shake the feeling that we're about to sleepwalk into Brexit, with a strident Leave campaign getting the vote out while the broadly satisfied majority stay at home. Wouldn't suprise me if Cameron is keeping back some massive fear-bomb to get the Remain vote out in the last few days. Shame the politics of fear became so unfashionable lately. Or maybe prominent politicians from around Europe will make a last minute Vow. 
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Jose posted:being a drone pilot must surely cause some sort of new mental illness as you play a computer game for hours at a time murdering real people It was a while ago, but I remember hearing a report on the Americans doing it - a big part of it is that the operators can treat it as a normal day job, because they're not actually in the conflict zone. They can drive in to the base (in the US), put in a day's work, then drive back home to their families and relax in the suburbs. It makes it easier to decompress, and to put distance between their jobs and the realities of what they're actually doing Also remember this was predicted by Toys starring Robin Williams and LL Cool J
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May 10, 2016 22:23
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I suppose there's always the option that the referendum passes, we vote to leave, the tories destroy themselves in the aftermath, the government loses its majority and the ability to pass legislation, including any legislation to actually implement a UK exit, the government gets dissolved and labour wins the subsequent election, then doesn't actually leave the EU because lol not our election promise.
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baka kaba posted:It was a while ago, but I remember hearing a report on the Americans doing it - a big part of it is that the operators can treat it as a normal day job, because they're not actually in the conflict zone. They can drive in to the base (in the US), put in a day's work, then drive back home to their families and relax in the suburbs. It makes it easier to decompress, and to put distance between their jobs and the realities of what they're actually doing everyone in the military hates them for it
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May 10, 2016 22:28
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Motherfuckers don't bitch when I can lase targets for the A10 anywhere in the AO, or tell them where the last fucker is hiding so they can finish the mission. Drone pilot best job in ArmA Especially when you do the entire thing from the front seat of the little UAV tank which I like to call the drone throne.
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May 10, 2016 22:31
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Jose posted:its a mother jones link but http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/03/drone-pilots-are-quitting-record-numbers That's pretty amazing. Half their pilots drop out so they throw a whole $500 at the problem
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May 10, 2016 22:32
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OvineYeast posted:It's basically to do with the spread of the votes, which makes a big difference under FPTP. If your vote goes up in marginals, but down everywhere else, your seats will stay the same even though your total vote goes down. Basically I think it suggests that Labour had a good ground campaign, independent of national factors, though there are other ways you could get a change in the way votes are spread. Does this then mean that in the locals Labour did better in the marginals, and were therefore able to retain so many seats despite a 7% or so drop in PNS? As that would be pretty good news for Labour, given a key criticism of Corbyn/the Labour left is that they will only increase support in strongholds rather than in marginals. I haven't looked into the locals in too much detail, but I do recall Labour doing rather well in marginal areas - including almost gaining a couple of seats in places like West Worthling (basically Tory country).
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May 10, 2016 22:33
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Guavanaut posted:Or maybe prominent politicians from around Europe will make a last minute Vow. I will laugh like a madman if that did actually become the case. Nothing like sweet irony.
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May 10, 2016 22:49
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Looking back it's amazing just how little the Vow even said. Basically just that the Scottish Parliament will remain in place and NHS spending decisions will remain with it, plus a vague promise of new powers.
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May 10, 2016 22:56
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I'm very much opposed to the bottom fifth of the Vow and I think most of Scotland is too.
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May 10, 2016 22:59
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Galaspar posted:Does anyone have a trusted poll (well, trusted as a poll can be) for the EU referendum in the last few days? I can't shake the feeling that we're about to sleepwalk into Brexit, with a strident Leave campaign getting the vote out while the broadly satisfied majority stay at home. Wouldn't suprise me if Cameron is keeping back some massive fear-bomb to get the Remain vote out in the last few days. Shame the politics of fear became so unfashionable lately. Witness and suffer! http://whatukthinks.org/eu/opinion-polls/poll-of-polls/
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May 10, 2016 23:09
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Guavanaut posted:I'm very much opposed to the bottom fifth of the Vow and I think most of Scotland is too. They could have picked better photos
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Namtab posted:They could have picked better photos I think you mean it would have been nice if they had used better photos. The assertion that this was a possibility is a little strong, I fear.
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May 10, 2016 23:20
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Maybe they each got to pick each others.
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big scary monsters posted:Looking back it's amazing just how little the Vow even said. Dave looking like he's prepped for oral sex with pig, ed getting ready for Christmas special with his dog gromit, Nick sweating over his electoral chances
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May 10, 2016 23:49
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I like how ed underlines both parts of his name separately
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May 10, 2016 23:50
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Namtab posted:I like how ed underlines both parts of his name separately it makes it look like they're both doin' lil' kickflips awwww eds still not cool
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May 10, 2016 23:52
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Each part of his name is important
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May 10, 2016 23:57
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They call me "Red Ed" but really *pulls out sk8r boi rockin' sweet board* in the zone, they call me Rad Ed *dons sunglasses, 720s into sunset*
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May 10, 2016 23:59
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Are you rad enough to gleam the cube? ...h-hell yea
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May 11, 2016 00:03
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Only one part of that trio remains, soon we can discard the vow
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Tesseraction posted:They call me "Red Ed" but really Shred ed
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Jose posted:have you ever been to florida? Of course, the weather's nicer for one, the local supermarket chain is owned by its employees and according to a report has apparently never laid anyone off. Ocala National Park is one of the most beautiful places I've ever had the pleasure of visiting. My father-in-law is also buried in the National Cemetery which is sadly the reason I spent most of last November in Florida. More importantly, my visa wouldn't cost anywhere near what we've had to pay for my wife to stay in the UK (Which is currently up to about £8000-£9000) and I could afford a sizable house for about 1/3 of the price of my current place. However, like I said, it's an option. One I'm not going to take yet. That said, they even have decent cider now. The whole worlds gone mad!
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Venmoch posted:Of course, the weather's nicer for one, the local supermarket chain is owned by its employees and according to a report has apparently never laid anyone off. Ocala National Park is one of the most beautiful places I've ever had the pleasure of visiting. My father-in-law is also buried in the National Cemetery which is sadly the reason I spent most of last November in Florida.  Florida is the ultimate "nice place to visit, but wouldn't live there".
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My pop culture knowledge of florida is that it's full of crusty old white american republicans. Imagine a country of a million hitlers who look like your nan.
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Klaus88 posted:
Seriously. I lived there for years, and the schools and health care were poo poo. I can only imagine things have gotten worse under Rick Scott, America's Worst Governor™
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You have Disneyworld and The Fest once a year which I guess would be cool. I'm torn between teaching English in South America or Asia as my leave the country by the end of the year plan.
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Guavanaut posted:I'm very much opposed to the bottom fifth of the Vow and I think most of Scotland is too. I wonder, do referendums (referenda?) have to have only two votes? How easy would it have been to leave it as two, but package it with a multiple choice opinion poll to add context? As in, I am right now voting yes/no because x/y/z, or you have one ballot with idk like six choices in two groups so you can make an accurate choice even though there's only two outcomes. Seems like it would be useful in cases where there's several mutually exclusive reasons for wanting either outcome, such as euref and indyref.
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/10/bbc-told-to-stop-race-for-ratings/quote:The BBC’s founding mission statement, “to inform, educate and entertain”, is to be rewritten by ministers for the first time, The Telegraph has learnt.
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Renaissance Robot posted:I wonder, do referendums (referenda?) have to have only two votes? How easy would it have been to leave it as two, but package it with a multiple choice opinion poll to add context? As in, I am right now voting yes/no because x/y/z, or you have one ballot with idk like six choices in two groups so you can make an accurate choice even though there's only two outcomes. Way back when the SNP did want a 3 option poll with Devo Max as well as independence & no change. Using a ranked preference. The Coalition insisted on s straight yes/no. A referendum is specifically to establish a mandate for a particular action. Isn't your suggestion uust going to muddy the waters? It doesn't matter why people vote Yes in June - whether they're coming from a TUSC or UKIP background they are voting for the government to invoke article whatever of the Lisbon treaty to leave the EU. Everything that comes after that is decided in further general elections
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I for one trust John Whittingdale, famed whore fucker, spanky wanky fan and homophobe, to oversee the quality of the bbcs output. Actually I wouldnt mind a bbc wank channel, could put it in place of bbc parliament.
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Cerv posted:Way back when the SNP did want a 3 option poll with Devo Max as well as independence & no change. Using a ranked preference. The Coalition insisted on s straight yes/no. Yeah referendums generally have to be a distinct binary choice, because otherwise all sides accuse the others of splitting the vote, confusing the electorate, or claiming that because "Michael Gove physically repels me" was the top reason people voted Remain that actually there was a clear mandate to Leave.
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So we've got the tories committing electoral fraud and dismantling the BBC along with the massive u turns by Hunt and Morgan. Should be a good PMQ's.
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Just clicking around the telegraph http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/10/eu-to-launch-kettle-and-toaster-crackdown-after-brexit-vote2/ Jippa fucked around with this message at 08:51 on May 11, 2016 |
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serious gaylord posted:So we've got the tories committing electoral fraud and dismantling the BBC along with the massive u turns by Hunt and Morgan. Should be a good PMQ's. you're optimistic
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