BloodOmen
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If there was a gofundme page to help a guy buy the guns necessary to shoot all the people involved in this, I'd chip in:
www.theguardian.com
UK scientists to launch outdoor geoengineering experiments
Blocking sunlight could temporarily slow the climate crisis but the technologies remain highly controversial
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georgie
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Saw that doing the rounds yesterday and wondered if it might even have been a comedy bit or something.
I guess not. (link to the bit in the video where he explains)
View: https://youtu.be/AMNMYHF7MfA?si=51mE5NkfFi-4qOXO&t=1365
Bodhi
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If there was a gofundme page to help a guy buy the guns necessary to shoot all the people involved in this, I'd chip in:
UK scientists to launch outdoor geoengineering experiments
Blocking sunlight could temporarily slow the climate crisis but the technologies remain highly controversial
Whoever is behind this needs to be made to watch Highlander 2.
Both for punishment and to show why it's a terrible fucking idea.
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Or the Matrix, or any of the other things.
The fact that my taxes are going towards this boils my piss. If I ever get terminal cancer...
BloodOmen
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Lol, whats that I hear? greedy CEOs rubbing their hands together hoping blocking the sun works so they can sell sunlight to people?If there was a gofundme page to help a guy buy the guns necessary to shoot all the people involved in this, I'd chip in:
UK scientists to launch outdoor geoengineering experiments
Blocking sunlight could temporarily slow the climate crisis but the technologies remain highly controversial
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Nah. Humans being wankers and thinking that it's "OK" to deliberately play with the atmosphere so we can continue to burn fossil fuels.
Of course, it will 100% come with unintended consequences, aside from the consenquences that they already know will happen (which is why they can actually do an "environmental impact assessment" - they already know there will be negative impacts). But we won't do this by consent. If we don't do it, some other country will. And it'll affect us all.
I genuinely wish death on these type of people.
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Ooof. Ten years:
www.bbc.co.uk
For me, I know that some weirs are designed very dangerously - there's a horseshoe-shaped one near Llangollen that would be very hard to escape if you went in it at any sort of flow because it would pull you towards the middle. However, loads of others are just "playtime fun" - with the expectation if you fell off your paddleboard you're just going to get a dunking, and carry on.
Some of the points about not having life jackets and not everyone wearing wetsuits? They were paddleboards, so in many ways no lifejackets and wetsuits would actually be the preferred option. I guess people offering guided paddleboarding will now all just default to "must have life jackets" and "must have wetsuits" rather than them being optional, which would be a crying shame.
Dumb mistakes. High consequence.
Nerys Lloyd: Paddleboard company owner who caused four deaths sentenced to 10-and-a-half years in prison
Nerys Bethan Lloyd's paddleboarding group in Pembrokeshire in 2021 had no safety briefing, and Lloyd rejected safer routes for being "too boring".
www.bbc.co.uk
For me, I know that some weirs are designed very dangerously - there's a horseshoe-shaped one near Llangollen that would be very hard to escape if you went in it at any sort of flow because it would pull you towards the middle. However, loads of others are just "playtime fun" - with the expectation if you fell off your paddleboard you're just going to get a dunking, and carry on.
Some of the points about not having life jackets and not everyone wearing wetsuits? They were paddleboards, so in many ways no lifejackets and wetsuits would actually be the preferred option. I guess people offering guided paddleboarding will now all just default to "must have life jackets" and "must have wetsuits" rather than them being optional, which would be a crying shame.
Dumb mistakes. High consequence.
SilverHood
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I'm not familiar with paddle boarding in rivers, but I looked at pictures of the weir in question during heavy rainfall. Would wetsuits and life jackets actually have made a difference here?Ooof. Ten years:
Nerys Lloyd: Paddleboard company owner who caused four deaths sentenced to 10-and-a-half years in prison
Nerys Bethan Lloyd's paddleboarding group in Pembrokeshire in 2021 had no safety briefing, and Lloyd rejected safer routes for being "too boring".
For me, I know that some weirs are designed very dangerously - there's a horseshoe-shaped one near Llangollen that would be very hard to escape if you went in it at any sort of flow because it would pull you towards the middle. However, loads of others are just "playtime fun" - with the expectation if you fell off your paddleboard you're just going to get a dunking, and carry on.
Some of the points about not having life jackets and not everyone wearing wetsuits? They were paddleboards, so in many ways no lifejackets and wetsuits would actually be the preferred option. I guess people offering guided paddleboarding will now all just default to "must have life jackets" and "must have wetsuits" rather than them being optional, which would be a crying shame.
Dumb mistakes. High consequence.
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For me it doesn't look like a big problem.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_URLfTTqqs
But this vid tells a bit about why some weirs are shite:
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4p2wOMjhdg
Basically: Weir design...
SilverHood
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Yeah, I get the physics of it. It occasionally makes the news here when someone gets caught in them, but they tend to be referred to do as low-head dams instead of weirs. If you're being sucked under by the backwash, a life jacket isn't going to save you? It might even make it worse? Having read the details on the BBC website, , 4 of the 7 of had life jackets, but it doesn't do a breakdown of who was wearing them. Ten years seems fair. She totally failed to prepare those in her charge for what was coming and they died because of it.
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Lamp
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If you want to see an absolute legend at work, watch this guy
View: https://youtu.be/T00zEt1-3VA?si=V2aPMzyHC9XsRvMi
View: https://youtu.be/T00zEt1-3VA?si=V2aPMzyHC9XsRvMi
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So I've gone and got myself addicted to a crappy tower defence game "Gods of Defense" I bought it a few years ago and randomly installed it.
The problem is, I have 3 levels to go, that have had me stumped for days, and the game is obscure that I cannot find any guides for it.
The problem is, I have 3 levels to go, that have had me stumped for days, and the game is obscure that I cannot find any guides for it.
Gwadien
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Don't.
I've done the same thing with 'Rogue Tower' It's so basic and shit but its addictive.
Don't.
I've done the same thing with 'Rogue Tower' It's so basic and shit but its addictive.
Tom
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Ooof. Ten years:
Nerys Lloyd: Paddleboard company owner who caused four deaths sentenced to 10-and-a-half years in prison
Nerys Bethan Lloyd's paddleboarding group in Pembrokeshire in 2021 had no safety briefing, and Lloyd rejected safer routes for being "too boring".
For me, I know that some weirs are designed very dangerously - there's a horseshoe-shaped one near Llangollen that would be very hard to escape if you went in it at any sort of flow because it would pull you towards the middle. However, loads of others are just "playtime fun" - with the expectation if you fell off your paddleboard you're just going to get a dunking, and carry on.
Some of the points about not having life jackets and not everyone wearing wetsuits? They were paddleboards, so in many ways no lifejackets and wetsuits would actually be the preferred option. I guess people offering guided paddleboarding will now all just default to "must have life jackets" and "must have wetsuits" rather than them being optional, which would be a crying shame.
Dumb mistakes. High consequence.
I've long been of the opinion that all weirs, if no longer in use (which is most of them), should be demolished. They are historical industrial modifications that serve no purpose other than to make it harder for migratory fish to breed, and also to make humans go "ahhhh" at the pretty waterfall. Get rid.
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My first ever job was working for a guy who lived on a canal boat, he was eccentric as hell but had so many stories to tell, never paid for a holiday, just upped anchor and went cruising the rivers. Oh and he had cats.
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Ours are semi outdoor cats, so wouldn't cope with it. Big boat, lots of solar, electric motors, multi-fuel generator and a dog.
BloodOmen
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Reminds me of Aldershot town the day after all the squaddies hit the town for a drinking session, I am of course talking over 30 years ago, I was working at McDonalds part time whilst going through college.