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[Yoni]

I trust that when he's signed the ratification and handed it over to nato....

He has agreed but the Turkish government need to ratify...

 

[Tom]

 

[Embattle]

I really hope this gets going:

Stonehenge tunnel is approved by government

The plans were first approved in 2020 but were later overturned in 2021 after a campaign.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Lamp]

I want to get some ear buds for Android

Borrowed a friend's Apple Airpods Pro 2....they were amazing. Phenomenal noise cancellation and great sound quality. Looking for a pair very similar to those but not Apple. Any suggestions. I really don't wanna pay more than £200 for them.

 

[DaGaffer]

I want to get some ear buds for Android

Borrowed a friend's Apple Airpods Pro 2....they were amazing. Phenomenal noise cancellation and great sound quality. Looking for a pair very similar to those but not Apple. Any suggestions. I really don't wanna pay more than £200 for them.

Bose Quietcomfort II. Bit over your budget (although there are usually deals to be found) but they were the best I've found for comfort and sound.

Having said that I've given up on earbuds altogether because my ears rebel and fill up with so much wax I end up deaf. My doctor banned them as I've had to get my ears syringed 3-4 times a year. I've switched to cans and things are a lot better (not perfect, it's obviously the noise as well us the foreign object stuck in my ear canal that is the problem).

 

[Wij]

Bose Quietcomfort II. Bit over your budget (although there are usually deals to be found) but they were the best I've found for comfort and sound.

Having said that I've given up on earbuds altogether because my ears rebel and fill up with so much wax I end up deaf. My doctor banned them as I've had to get my ears syringed 3-4 times a year. I've switched to cans and things are a lot better (not perfect, it's obviously the noise as well us the foreign object stuck in my ear canal that is the problem).

You can still get syringing done at your GP in Ireland? Hasn't been available in UK for about 10 years. My ears are totally Father Jack. I sometimes like to annoy my son by pressing an ear up against his nose and making him retch at the smell.

 

[Wij]

Also, before Bodhi gets here, I'd recommend Sony over Bose myself.

 

[DaGaffer]

You can still get syringing done at your GP in Ireland? Hasn't been available in UK for about 10 years. My ears are totally Father Jack. I sometimes like to annoy my son by pressing an ear up against his nose and making him retch at the smell.

€60 a go. My doctor doesn't let the nurse do mine because when he does my ears it is, I quote, "extremely satisfying". You could mortar walls with the amount of gunk that comes out.

 

[Bodhi]

Also, before Bodhi gets here, I'd recommend Sony over Bose myself.

No highs and no lows? Must be Bose.

 

[Bodhi]

€60 a go. My doctor doesn't let the nurse do mine because when he does my ears it is, I quote, "extremely satisfying". You could mortar walls with the amount of gunk that comes out.

We have to go to Specsavers, where it is about the same price. I went in to potentially have my left ear done as it's felt blocked since I got back from Vietnam, as if it never really "popped" after the flight from Singapore.

Did a hearing test and the chap said it was clean as a whistle, so obviously the blockage is behind the ear drum, so I've been referred to ENT. Strangely enough a couple of hours after getting back from the appointment it started popping and my hearing improved, still not great though.

 

[Scouse]

King Charles to receive huge pay rise from UK taxpayers

Details published by Treasury show royal family’s grant is expected to increase from £86m to £125m in 2025

www.theguardian.com

 

[TdC]

We have to go to Specsavers, where it is about the same price. I went in to potentially have my left ear done as it's felt blocked since I got back from Vietnam, as if it never really "popped" after the flight from Singapore.

Did a hearing test and the chap said it was clean as a whistle, so obviously the blockage is behind the ear drum, so I've been referred to ENT. Strangely enough a couple of hours after getting back from the appointment it started popping and my hearing improved, still not great though.

I have a similar thing in my right ear and indeed also noticed it after a flight. It appears there are air bubbles on the inside side of my ear drum. I asked my doc how to get rid and he said the doctor equivalent of "yeahhhh good luck mate"

 

[Scouse]

I mean, well, duh!

C of E vicar ‘spiritually abused’ parishioners for 20 years, report finds

Rev Michael Hall, who died in 2021, belittled and humiliated members of his Buckinghamshire congregation

www.theguardian.com

The report said he “emotionally abused people and used scripture and fear of hell to control them

that's the whole point, no?

 

[Scouse]

I have a similar thing in my right ear and indeed also noticed it after a flight. It appears there are air bubbles on the inside side of my ear drum. I asked my doc how to get rid and he said the doctor equivalent of "yeahhhh good luck mate"

Barotrauma m8.

You'll sort it.

 

[Scouse]

Something to kill your time for a bit, for science

The Perception Census

Take part in one of the largest scientific studies on perceptual diversity ever undertaken, brought together by a team of world-leading scientists and philosophers.

perceptioncensus.dreamachine.world

Actually pretty cool

 

[Scouse]

Or, alternatively, watch this:


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=Ah597mW9LXA

 

[Scouse]

What don't you like about the perception census @JBP| ? It's universities collaborating on building a spectrum of how humans percieve the world differently.

Or did yer finger slip on the rating?

 

[old.Osy]

What don't you like about the perception census @JBP| ? It's universities collaborating on building a spectrum of how humans percieve the world differently.

Or did yer finger slip on the rating?

I'm with Jbp on this one - and no, I'm not burying my head in the sand or stimying scientific progress. It's just the research can be used against us, in ways we can't even begin to fathom. Mapping perception will help tune the inputs, and from that to improved advertising or worse is just a step.

 

[Scouse]

I'm with Jbp on this one - and no, I'm not burying my head in the sand or stimying scientific progress. It's just the research can be used against us, in ways we can't even begin to fathom. Mapping perception will help tune the inputs, and from that to improved advertising or worse is just a step.

Jeebuz.

Yes, research can be used in horrible ways. But it can be used in good ways too. Regardless of your input that research is going to end up getting used how it gets used - but the value to YOU is a very interesting journey of discovery on how YOU percieve the world.

That's worth more than some cunt firing adverts at you - which is gonna happen anyway. And it can feed into some really good stuff too.

 

[Wij]

 

[Scouse]

That's a fucking great call that

 

[JBP|]

What don't you like about the perception census @JBP| ? It's universities collaborating on building a spectrum of how humans percieve the world differently.

Or did yer finger slip on the rating?

Slippy finger syndrome I'm afraid, however it's not something I would take part in.

 

[Scouse]

Slippy finger syndrome I'm afraid, however it's not something I would take part in.

Worth a look - it's a series of games that fuck with your mind

 

[Scouse]

Typo sends millions of US military emails to Russian ally Mali

Some of the emails reportedly contain sensitive information such as passwords and medical records.

www.bbc.co.uk

For years...

Yet Edward Snowden can't come home

 

[Scouse]

This is so sad:

Avian flu warning to tourists as birds face 'catastrophe'

Thousands of dead and sick seabirds are being washed up along the UK's coastline as avian flu spreads.

www.bbc.co.uk

Went kayaking round north Anglesey the other week. Not a long kayak, just a few miles out and back along the coast. Saw more dead or ill seabirds on that one trip than I've seen in the last few years. Guillemots, the saddest Cormorant on a beach still alive with it's head bowed with water washing up it. I got really close to a tern and took pictures until I realised I shouldn't be able to get so close to it - when I realised it was sick and just wasn't able to give a shit that a potential predator was coming so close.

Spoiler

Just eyes closed on the rock, not giving a fuck about me

 

[Ctuchik]

Typo sends millions of US military emails to Russian ally Mali

Some of the emails reportedly contain sensitive information such as passwords and medical records.

www.bbc.co.uk

For years...

Yet Edward Snowden can't come home

Of course he can.

Snowden is free to return to USA any time he want. There is literally no one stopping him.

He doesn't want to, but that doesn't mean he can't.

Yes i'm being pedantic.

 

[Deebs]

Fuck me, another weekend where I have not slept for over 24 hours. Don't feel tired at all, been watching shite to pass the time and sorting out my 3 NAS'. Got one of the fuckers with 20 odd hard drives in them, could probably buy 4/5 22TB drives, swap and sell the old ones and save a fortune on the electric bill.

 

[caLLous]

Fuck me, another weekend where I have not slept for over 24 hours. Don't feel tired at all, been watching shite to pass the time and sorting out my 3 NAS'. Got one of the fuckers with 20 odd hard drives in them, could probably buy 4/5 22TB drives, swap and sell the old ones and save a fortune on the electric bill.

I've got the big Lian Li D8000 (I think we've spoken about it before) with 40-odd 4 TB drives in and a case with another 10 in connected to it through a HBA and that's all switched off 99% of the time now - it's made a noticeable difference to the bill. With fibre I more often than not find it easier to re-download what I want to watch than turn the beast on, wait for the 3 HBAs to find all of the disks and then wait for the whole thing to boot. I bring it online to scrub the pools every couple of months but other than that, it's just cold storage now.

 

[Deebs]

I've got the big Lian Li D8000 (I think we've spoken about it before) with 40-odd 4 TB drives in and a case with another 10 in connected to it through a HBA and that's all switched off 99% of the time now - it's made a noticeable difference to the bill. With fibre I more often than not find it easier to re-download what I want to watch than turn the beast on, wait for the 3 HBAs to find all of the disks and then wait for the whole thing to boot. I bring it online to scrub the pools every couple of months but other than that, it's just cold storage now.

That is exactly the same case and I do believe we spoke about it in the past. I also have 2 HPE Gen10 Microservers and a Synology that are on 24x7. Yeh, I am skint and have warmed up the planet.

One of the Microservers will be going offsite as a backup (holds all my docs, pictures etc, no pr0n, that does not need to stored offsite!).

 

[MYstIC G]

Fuck me, another weekend where I have not slept for over 24 hours. Don't feel tired at all, been watching shite to pass the time and sorting out my 3 NAS'. Got one of the fuckers with 20 odd hard drives in them, could probably buy 4/5 22TB drives, swap and sell the old ones and save a fortune on the electric bill.