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Karia posted:I'm actually kinda surprised they're upset by this. I'd assumed that this sort of "changing the character" BS outrage would be asymmetric: they'd be outraged if the woman's outfit covered more, but embrace the change if, say, the developers decided, gently caress it, Jill Valentine is just wearing a bikini now (probably claiming that it shows how confident she is or some crap.) But it looks to me like those shorts are actually shorter than the original skirt. I guess not having any promise of up-skirt shots trumps everything even though the camera would likely prevent it completely? They should sell a Special Gamer Edition that has the skirt, with the order form going directly to tips@fbi.gov
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RareAcumen posted:Oh right, I forgot I needed to be the IOSM about because I googled it but I wasn't sure which website to trust. 5G's still harmless to us since it's not as high on the radiation scale as micro and UV waves right? The frequencies start in the microwave region (which is also where wifi and a lot of existing mobile phone bands are already) and goes up to EHF, which is still miles short of even infrared and visible light. EMF doesn't get dangerous (in under-gigawatt powers) until you go all the way past visible light and into UVB. e: I guess I'm the IoSM for not seeing that I was pages behind... goddamnedtwisto has a new favorite as of 08:59 on Apr 5, 2020 |
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Inceltown posted:You were already the IoSM for posting. Being pages behind is second to that. 
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RareAcumen posted:My dumb rear end was actually talking about microwave oven microwaves, since I thought if it were possible to run it while the door was open then that would be harmful to people. Disclaimer: Neither a physicist nor a doctor Microwave radiation isn't directly harmful (in that it's not ionising, so doesn't cause the sort of damage that leads to cancers and radiation sickness) but standing in front of an open oven could cause burns because the one thing they do very effectively is excite molecules, causing them to heat up, which is how a microwave oven works. What's insidious about the particular frequency used in microwave ovens is - in order to ensure food cooks better - they use the lower frequency/longer wavelength bands which tend to penetrate deeper, meaning that your fat/muscle heats up, but because heat nerve endings are in the top layer of skin you're not actually aware that you're cooking until it's too late. A few seconds to a minute in front of an open door could be fine, but could cause burns and nerve damage depending on a load of different factors (which is why the interlocks on oven doors are generally pretty solidly-built and fail safe). Incidentally this is why nobody really cares about the high-frequency microwaves used for 5G - they're easily stopped by the very top layer of skin so even if they were dangerous they'd only be loving up skin that's already dead. Fun fact - pigeons absolutely love roosting in the feedhorns of line-of-sight microwave antennas, not least because they probably feel quite warm when they get in there, and of course they tend to be quite secluded, high-up locations. When it was first opened, half-cooked pigeons would occasionally rain from the BT Tower in London, which is basically a massive microwave relay station. However as the only people who lives around there were University College London students nobody really cared - they eventually fit the horns with microwave-transparent plastic covers not to stop some Humanities post-grad getting a free meal, but because pigeon poo poo is a really effective absorber of microwaves and it was messing up the links.
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Apr 6, 2020 02:33
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Kaiju Cage Match posted:Were there any stupid conspiracy theories back when 4G was beginning to roll out? Yes, and 3G, and 2.5G, and GSM. If you want to see what they looked like, do a find-and-replace on the 5G ones. I'll assume the exact same things happened with the rollout of the original analogue networks, FM radio, and spark gap apparatus, with the only changes being the fonts (to whatever was slightly out-of-date and hard to read by the standards of the time).
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Apr 6, 2020 15:59
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Six-Of-Hearts posted:Im betting theres been conspiracy theories for every technological advancement. We just hear about these the loudest because of the internet. I vaguely recall hearing disdainful words about beepers and then cel phones as a kid from That uncle. Not quite in the same lane of conspiracy, but the earliest technological conspiracy theory I'm aware of is The Air Loom, where a man was convinced a gang expert in the then-brand-new sciences of pneumatics and magnetics were torturing him and stalking him to observe the effects of their torture. It's interesting that his delusions mirror exactly what we see nowadays in the gang stalking/targeted individuals conspiracy theories with only the technology involved changed. If you read his writings about what he felt was happening it could (apart from the spelling) be straight off a Wordpress site being advertised via replies to Donald Trump tweets. It's interesting that brain dysfunctions seem to follow similar paths despite very different societies.
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Skwirl posted:Boris Johnson is the result of their version of democracy, Elizabeth was a nurse during WW2, not sure I can blame any Brits becoming more monarchist at the moment. Lorry driver rather than nurse, but fair point.
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Apr 16, 2020 09:28
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ookiimarukochan posted:Acutally it was the exact opposite of that but I'm not surprised that the gutter trash that populate the UKMT don't understand it. ...you do know that anybody can just click that little "Rap sheet" button and see those posts for themselves, don't you?
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OwlFancier posted:Presumably a proper front grip is unacceptable for some reason. No, it's the gun equivalent of buying a Vauxhall Corsa, bolting the entire contents of Halfords to it, . Or for a more goon-adjacent simile, it's putting a bunch of colour-changing LEDs and viewing windows all over your otherwise off-the-shelf PC. Basically White Men Hobbies all follow pretty much the same trajectories.
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Garrand posted:TERF really is a perfect analogy because it's a term that was originally created by the terfs themselves but now they hate being called that because people realized that it's bad. Nah, "tanky" comes out of the long-running pro- and anti-Stalin arguments in British socialism that had been swirling since the Spanish Civil War (Animal Farm and 1984 were both written as part of that argument, Orwell being very much on the libertarian side of the argument along with most of the veterans of the International Brigades) - the Hungarian Revolution and its crushing, and the publication of the Secret Speech, became the final straw for a lot of the pro-Stalin camp (remember that Stalin was lionised in British wartime propaganda so a lot of people on his side weren't even particularly aware of him as anything other than Uncle Joe who kicked the poo poo out of the Nazis), leaving only a small rump of authoritarians who were dubbed tankies by the libertarian side; it's never been a term they've applied to themselves. FWIW the term they most commonly use for themselves is in fact just "Marxist-Leninist", the term Stalin himself used but, of course, confusingly also a label that almost all communist groups claim for themselves. They call anyone and everyone *not* okay with running tanks into civilians "Trots" (for Trotskyists) because anyone against Stalin must by definition be for Trotsky, despite *everyone* in British leftism hating the Trots, including the Trots themselves.
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