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CoolCab posted:what? lol when I was living in Iqaluit 20 years ago 4L of milk was 14 loving dollars. I understand some subsidies got cut and now a cabbage sells for $28. Yeah but think of the electricity you save by not needing a freezer!
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OwlFancier posted:Plus how would you pay for things? What they seem to pay for most with rocks is sex with penguins though, which might get you kicked off base a few months before the boat arrives.
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OwlFancier posted:I think because you actually live on the base you get your room and board supplied for you. There's no economy on the south pole that I'm aware of though they probably have an overpriced tuck shop. They operate on the fish standard. Its 3 hagfish to a cod. vvv Sounds like that can be solved by some overengineered mechanism where you heat the stilts to allow them to be retracted upwards and then raise the station on them. namesake fucked around with this message at 16:16 on Sep 1, 2018 |
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Amundsen-scott is specifically on the south pole and has a number of logistical issues that make it a bit more removed than anywhere in Canada. Not least that everything there gets steadily buried by the snow because it snows but never thaws. They had to keep rebuilding the station because the old ones ended up underground. The current one is on flying stilts, and is designed so that you can put another bit of stilt on the top, then jack the entire station up another storey when the snow gets too high.
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OwlFancier posted:Amundsen-scott is specifically on the south pole and has a number of logistical issues that make it a bit more removed than anywhere in Canada. wikipedia posted:An annual tradition is a back-to-back viewing of The Thing from Another World (1951), The Thing (1982), and The Thing (2011) after the last flight has left for the winter.[24] that owns
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CoolCab posted:what? lol when I was living in Iqaluit 20 years ago 4L of milk was 14 loving dollars. I understand some subsidies got cut and now a cabbage sells for $28. OwlFancier posted:If you go to the south pole definitely watch The Thing before you go, and take a copy of At The Mountains of Madness with you as well.
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There was one of those Brexitometer whiteboards in town today, the ones where people indicate whether or not they think Brexit is going well by putting stickers in columns. As I was doing the needful ('No', in case you were wondering) and chatting to one of the organisers about the logistics of acquiring and storing 16,000 sticky stars, an elderly chap in a motorised scooter puttered up and declared Brexit to be 'Excellent'. My town was overwhelmingly pro-Leave, but he was only the third person to put a sticky star in the Yes box.
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big scary monsters posted:Is there an interesting story behind you ending up in Iqaluit? It's not exactly the first place most people think of moving. my mom was a social worker, plenty of work up there (unfortunately) for amazing pay. i lived there for pretty much all of my teens.
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how many were in the "it's poo poo" box?
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Guavanaut posted:Doesn't that now mean "fascist who does buttcoin/gab/whatever"? Well words can have multiple meanings under ur fascism
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XMNN posted:how many were in the "it's poo poo" box? Couple of dozen at least.
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OwlFancier posted:Amundsen-scott is specifically on the south pole and has a number of logistical issues that make it a bit more removed than anywhere in Canada. Wasn't there a thing a while back that one of the scientists down there had cancer and they had to airdrop chemo drugs to them in the middle of the night?
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Middle of the night is a long time down there because the day is literally a year long.
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OwlFancier posted:Amundsen-scott is specifically on the south pole and has a number of logistical issues that make it a bit more removed than anywhere in Canada. So is all the water on earth going to eventually end up down there or what's going on? Something has to be going back somewhere
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Dabir posted:So is all the water on earth going to eventually end up down there or what's going on? Something has to be going back somewhere It snows but doesn't melt, it does however get blown around a lot, most of the snow is evacuated by wind and the new base is actually designed to funnel the wind under it to blow the snow clear. The problem is that if you build anything on the snow, the wind constantly piles snow up against it and buries it. So any permanent structure is going to collect snow and eventually end up buried unless you keep clearing it or build it on stilts. So when they built a cool space dome in the 70's to house the base, it ended up buried and actually cracked the foundation after a couple decades, hence the need for the replacement.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Wasn't there a thing a while back that one of the scientists down there had cancer and they had to airdrop chemo drugs to them in the middle of the night? Yeah, they airdropped in testing equipment to confirm if she had breast cancer, as well as the initial stages of treatment if she did. She did her own biopsy, then did some self-surgery as well as part of her treatment.
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Teddybear posted:Yeah, they airdropped in testing equipment to confirm if she had breast cancer, as well as the initial stages of treatment if she did. She did her own biopsy, then did some self-surgery as well as part of her treatment. That is loving hardcore.
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Teddybear posted:Yeah, they airdropped in testing equipment to confirm if she had breast cancer, as well as the initial stages of treatment if she did. She did her own biopsy, then did some self-surgery as well as part of her treatment. 
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https://twitter.com/emilydugan/status/1035497076480765953 So if your immigration case goes viral, officials are authorised to act outside the rules and just grant you a visa/citizenship/etc. within 24 hours. If you're unlucky enough to not get publicity, then you get hosed. A tacit acknowledgement that the decision-making process is hosed and even the British public would be horrified if they treated these 'high profile' cases like they do everyone else.
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CoolCab posted:what? lol when I was living in Iqaluit 20 years ago 4L of milk was 14 loving dollars. I understand some subsidies got cut and now a cabbage sells for $28. I knew a guy who was a sysadmin at the British Antarctic Survey there for a winter. He basically got given a section of a freight container and told to pack it with his needs for the next six months (mostly booze). Walmart or whoever aren't flying food to the Antarctic in planes to sell in supermarkets; you can't even fly people in the worst of winter. There are only a few dozen people down there and they're getting rations like it's the military, it's not like you can pop down to your local Tesco for a pint of milk.
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I watched a documentary about Antarctic research station a while back. I don't think it was amundsen-scott but the one they focused on looked very very nice inside and they even employed an elite chef to make amazing food to keep spirits up. It was fascinating to watch because this guy was obviously working with new deliveries only once every couple of months and a high probability of goods getting damaged in transit or getting delayed, so he was making near Michelin quality meals with 90% tinned/packaged food and a severely limited number of ingredients. Apparently it's a blast when the deliveries do arrive because they have fresh veggies etc for a week or two, and the booze gets restocked.
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jabby posted:https://twitter.com/emilydugan/status/1035497076480765953 Well organisations like Amnesty International always knew that the rules in despotic regimes were there to be bent by bad media coverage. I suppose this is a tacit admission that is what we are. It is clear what our duty as clicktivists is...
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jabby posted:A tacit acknowledgement that the decision-making process is hosed and even the British public would be horrified if they treated these 'high profile' cases like they do everyone else.
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Barry Foster posted:There was a really good youtube video on this, but I'm phone posting. You're probably already referencing it but I'll try and find the link Excellent video and presenter. Thanks. Have also added Hannah Arendt books to amazon wishlist. Not heard of her before. "Banality of evil" - I might have heard that expression before, but never knew the origins.
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ThomasPaine posted:I watched a documentary about Antarctic research station a while back. I don't think it was amundsen-scott but the one they focused on looked very very nice inside and they even employed an elite chef to make amazing food to keep spirits up. It was fascinating to watch because this guy was obviously working with new deliveries only once every couple of months and a high probability of goods getting damaged in transit or getting delayed, so he was making near Michelin quality meals with 90% tinned/packaged food and a severely limited number of ingredients. Apparently it's a blast when the deliveries do arrive because they have fresh veggies etc for a week or two, and the booze gets restocked. Was that the Halley VI? It's the one built on an ice shelf and is raised on legs with skis so the entire thing can be moved. There was a BBC4 documentary about it earlier this year. Thanks to global warming it's been abandoned this winter and the entire ice shelf might be breaking off.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Excellent video and presenter. Thanks. Lindsay rules
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Yeah I'm not Khan's biggest fan but he's played this one absolutely perfectly. The one thing these types* is always vulnerable to is gentle mockery, because their self-image as brave warriors fighting the good fight has no defence against it. The 'Fault-Right'
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OwlFancier posted:If you go to the south pole definitely watch The Thing before you go, and take a copy of At The Mountains of Madness with you as well. The Thing is great but how has there been so much south pole chat without anyone mentioning the brilliant documentary* Encounters at the End of the World? * well it's Werner Herzog, so more "documentary"
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Guavanaut posted:Isn't London fairly safe as big cities go anyway? London is ridiculously safe as far as big cities go, yes. The murder stats aren't really high either - the tabloids are just extrapolating localised highs in a wrong way and they make it look high when it's really not.
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Pochoclo posted:London is ridiculously safe as far as big cities go, yes. The murder stats aren't really high either - the tabloids are just extrapolating localised highs in a wrong way and they make it look high when it's really not. Tabloids being disingenuous about crime statistics, you say?  Also it may have been another forum but I'm pretty sure it was in A/T, a few years ago some goon did a long thread about working at Scott-Amundsen. Must be deeper in the archives than a frozen mi-go by now, though.
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Pochoclo posted:London is ridiculously safe as far as big cities go, yes. The murder stats aren't really high either - the tabloids are just extrapolating localised highs in a wrong way and they make it look high when it's really not. It's one of those weird things where because the murder rate is so remarkably low for a major city, any cluster of deaths tends to be reported on massively giving people the impression that it's much more dangerous than it is. See also cyclist deaths, which have been constantly falling for decades in London, but two clusters of deaths either side of the buildout of the superhighway system led to the perception that cycling is much more dangerous than it is.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Excellent video and presenter. Thanks. Banality of Evil (Eichmann in Jerusalem is the official title) is mostly Arendt reporting on Eichmann's trial in Israel. Still a good read.
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ToryFest looking good this year https://twitter.com/BeardedGenius/status/1035815533558542336?s=19
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Kegluneq posted:ToryFest looking good this year Lol at the double Toploader action, I'm happy to have a justification for sending them to the wall (other than their music of course)
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goddamnedtwisto posted:
the beauty of the civil service (apart from working with great people from all walks of life for the betterment of the UK) is you can move jobs as much as you like. personally I spent about a year at each grade before applying on promotion to the next one up in a different dept. conversely I have friends who have worked their way up in the same directorate of the same dept! others have spent time abroad in washington. its the career that puts you in control
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Breath Ray posted:the beauty of the civil service (apart from working with great people from all walks of life for the betterment of the UK) is you can move jobs as much as you like. personally I spent about a year at each grade before applying on promotion to the next one up in a different dept. conversely I have friends who have worked their way up in the same directorate of the same dept! others have spent time abroad in washington. its the career that puts you in control And enabling the social injustices and human rights abuses of our Tory government is just a bonus! Kegluneq posted:ToryFest looking good this year A double dose of Toploader is exactly what Tories deserve tbh
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Rarity posted:And enabling the social injustices and human rights abuses of our Tory government is just a bonus! you'd be surprised how much scope there is to influence ministers. its all part of being an impartial and objective professional. some call us heroes, but to me its just another working day
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Kegluneq posted:ToryFest looking good this year Oh my god HedgesFest is real! Except what's Jay Foreman doing in that lineup?
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Oh my god HedgesFest is real! Being paid, presumably.
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Rarity posted:A double dose of Toploader is exactly what Tories deserve tbh  or  ?
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