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andrewducker- 1. How's your sense of scale? Mine certainly can't cope with astronomical numbers
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- 2. Any model of sex work short of full decriminalisation puts sex workers' lives at risk
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- 3. Mothers Fleeing Ukraine With Children Are Asked For Father's Consent In "Nightmare" Home Office Visa Process
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- 4. Cosplayers being arrested is hilarious
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- 5. Lia Thomas: Trans swimmer didn't have unfair advantage, data shows
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- 6. Observations of motherhood
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- 7. Are we looking at the collapse of Russia?
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- 8. Is anyone *surprised* that the British army is full of far right awfulness?
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- 9. Is it time to install solar power at home?
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- 10. U.N. Investigator Accuses Israel of Apartheid, Citing Permanence of Occupation
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- 11. Dual 75" 4K - the home computing setup I need!
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Date: 2022-03-28 01:51 pm (UTC)2. Keeping those lives at risk is the whole point of not changing the rules or of changing them in bad ways, isn't it.
3. Well, that's terrifying in several flavours of fascism.
5. Truth is being targeted for willful drowning, with malice aforethought. We can see that clearly.
7. I'm not sure, but I worry that a Russian collapse, if it happens without any kind of moderating influences, will lead to an even worse premature-death toll.
8. No, because Canadian armed forces are being targeted for the same kind of subversion.
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Date: 2022-03-29 02:17 pm (UTC)https://www.carbonbrief.org/solar-wind-nuclear-amazingly-low-carbon-footprints
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Date: 2022-03-29 05:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-03-29 08:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-03-29 12:03 am (UTC)3. absolute bs. bs during normal times but especially so during wartime.
6. this was lovely to read.
7. somewhat related: a fellow grad student of mine who happens to be Russian was complaining on FB about sanctions on Russian scientists the other day, saying the sanctions would do more harm than good. I can see where she is coming from and I am concerned for how this will impact her work, which is in an understudied branch of our field.
10. about damn time.
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Date: 2022-03-29 07:53 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-03-29 11:00 am (UTC)Any approach to sex work that does not prioritise helping women not to have to be sex workers is exploitive.
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Date: 2022-03-29 11:59 am (UTC)43" seems to be the smallest standard size, which would be far too close on my desk.
I see that Samsung do the 32" QN32Q50RAFXZA which is better, but still too big really.
(I have actually just moved from a 17" 1280x1024 to a 22" 1920x1200 and haven't yet attempted to have both on my desk.)
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Date: 2022-03-29 02:14 pm (UTC)(I have a 65" TV. It's awesome, but we sit a long way back from it.)
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Date: 2022-03-29 02:21 pm (UTC)One of the best things about switching to working from home in the last couple of years has been the opportunity to use that monitor for my work as well as my out-of-hours activity. If and when I move back to the office, I'll find the monitors I last had there to be a great disappointment.
¹ I like the general concept, that is. There are a number of things I'd change about this particular monitor, unrelated to the display quality – it takes about 30s to restore from power-saving mode, and its audio has a long fade-in that makes me miss important beeps. I suspect both of these have to do with it being a hasty adaptation of a product originally intended as a TV.
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Date: 2022-03-29 05:58 pm (UTC)Maybe because when I read a book (for example) I only focus on a page about 3-5 times down the centre. No doubt due to being longsighted my whole life and every focus has always been extra effort. I don't like to wear my now-necessary varifocals to code for that reason - focus area is too narrow, even for my special "office glasses" (ludicrously top of the range ultra custom Roderstock lenses).
Big or multiple screens never worked for me. I suppose for those with normal eyesight where focussing is less energetically expensive, they might be great!