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    TeWaio

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    • RE: Climate Change #3 & Other Environmental Issues

      @No-Quarter Hah yeah that was me, one of the funner moments on the Fern over the years, if only for the "wait a minute...!" factor.

      @Rembrandt Well, the climate is definitely getting warmer, and atmospheric CO2 concentration is definitely going up. Historically we know those two things are linked from sampling the temperature vs CO2 relationship going back millions of years via drilling ice cores in the Arctic. So we're on fairly solid footing so far, scientifically.

      Whether or not human activity is a) totally responsible for this, or b) just helping it along, or c) has had no impact whatsoever, is up for debate. But given the amount of fossil fuels burnt since the industrial revolution (that took millions of years worth of stored CO2 and whacked it into the atmosphere in very short order, geologically speaking), it's highly probably somewhere between a) and b).

      The extent to which people are responsible is sort of a side issue, as the change is happening regardless. The debate then becomes how much effect a massive societal change to curb emissions would have on the entire climate system. If we ban flying, redistribute all the wealth, halt economic growth etc, and we still get 80% of the warming we would've got anyway, then it's probably not worth it. Instead we should crack on as we are with capitalism / economic growth and bet on technology allowing us to innovate our way out of the negative effects of climate change. That it the ideological/political fork in the road, and the left wing vs right wing solutions are obviously dramatically different. This is why it's such a politically charged issue (and why we're discussing it in the TSF politics forum).

      Clearly it also depends on the extent of the damaging effects. No one has a definitive answer to that either, as the system is so ridiculously complex to model accurately. But most would agree it makes sense to err on the side of caution, as huge sea level rises / more frequent catastrophic natural disasters will have a big negative affect on society. 50cm sea level rises versus 20m is quite a big difference etc. The presence of possible feedback loops in climate, e.g. the melting of Arctic permafrost releasing methane and runaway warming, makes this even more unpredictable. That example is just one thing that we know might happen, there will also be "unknown unknowns" that (by definition) no one's considered.

      Whatever happens, the poor will be affected more than the rich, developing world more than developed, East more than West etc. Which again makes it very political, especially as developed countries got to grow fast in the 20th century without caring about emissions, but now the developing world can't, or shouldn't, do the same? Again, you can take the view of making everyone more wealthy via economic growth, and using that to fuel development of technology to mitigate the effects is better than making everyone poorer by throwing human progress into reverse, but that's a political debate. You can probably tell which side I am on, and it's not Extinction Rebellion's.

      Extinction Rebellion are a political / religious movement more than environmental. The idea "humanity has sinned and must repent or be destroyed" is an ancient, powerful story that has deep psychological appeal to humans, as any theologian could tell you. The whole shouty concept of "this is SUCH an emergency there is no time for nuance or debate and you must do as WE say" is really damaging and insidious, particularly the way it is being indoctrinated to children/adolescents. It is causing deep rooted psychological issues in young people, and doesn't help the above logical debates that need to take place in a rational society.

      Whatever happens, people aren't going to "extinct", billions almost certainly won't die. But mass migration / hardening of borders is already happening, and will probably get worse. It will be the biggest challenge that humanity will face for decades/centuries to come IMO. NZ is very fortunate in its isolation, in this regard.

      posted in Politics
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    • RE: CWC Final - Black Caps v England

      Just got a late ticket through a work connection yussssss

      posted in Sports Talk
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    • RE: Recipes, home grown goodness, BBQing and food stuff

      How to smoke a brisket.

      Step 1- Go to butcher and get biggest one they have.
      Step 2- When you get home drop it from a unnecessary height on to the table so it makes a loud bang, scares the shit out of everyone and establishes your dominance as a hunter gatherer.
      Step 3- Slap meat further establishing your dominance.
      Step 4- Pour drink.
      Step 5- Tell wife to come look at your meat. Chuckle at your comic genius.
      Step 6- Trim brisket. Pretend you know what you're doing. Pour another drink.
      Step 7- Season brisket with some spicy combination that has salt pepper and garlic slapping meat several times for good measure.
      Step 8- Inject it with salted beef broth.
      Step 9- Try wrapping with plastic wrap. Fail miserably because plastic wrap is stupid and whoever invented it deserves a slow painful death. Ask wife for help and somehow yet again she coaxes it into doing what she wants.
      Step 10- Place in refrigerator for 24 to 48 hours.
      Step 11- Fast forward to somewhere between 6:00 and 8:00 in the morning.
      Step 12- Remove brisket from refrigerator slap meat one more time for old times sake. Remove plastic wrap and place brisket in smoker at 225°.
      Step 13- Crack beer because it would just be irresponsible to start drinking hard liquor before noon.
      Step 14- Fall asleep watching TV in recliner.
      Step 15- Wake up in a panic! Rush outside and check pellet level in Hopper and temperature of brisket.
      Step 16 - All is well and it's past noon! Pour drink.
      Step 17- When brisket stalls out around 160-165 degrees wrap it in foil or butcher paper. Do not let your wife see you do this or she'll ask you to do something dumb like wrap Christmas presents. Turn smoker up to 275 degrees.
      Step 28 - More drinking! Also since you can't slap the brisket when the wife walks by sneak a good one in on the derriere. This is romantic, she will think it is romantic promise. You are Romeo god of love and smoker of delicious meats.
      Step 49- Time to prep cooler for resting the brisket. Gather up all of your wives very best high quality towels. You know the fancy ones that are for decoration yeah those ones. They hold heat the best. Layer those in the cooler.
      Step 94- When brisket hits 203° in the point end toss it in the cooler and throw more towels on top.
      Step 622- Inform everybody that the brisket is done and revel in the looks of disappointment on their faces when you tell them that it has to rest for at least an hour in the cooler and a half an hour on the cutting board. Keep them from starting a mutiny by not just pouring yourself a drink but poor drinks for everyone!
      Step 1,346 - Cut and serve brisket make sure to show everybody how moist it is by squishing it and watching juices run out.
      Step 2,359 - Gorge till you put yourself into a meat and alcohol induced coma.
      Step 6,888 - Buy the wife new towels. Possibly remodel a bathroom if she wants.

      posted in Off Topic
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    • RE: CWC Game #4 Black Caps v India

      India breathe a sigh of relief

      posted in Sports Talk
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    • RE: GOT - there will be spoilers

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      posted in Off Topic
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    • RE: Message to World Rugby

      And schedule games so people can watch 2 or 3 on the trot, rather than having six sequentially kick off 30 mins after each other. How anyone watches rugby in a pub without fisticuffs is beyond me.

      posted in Sports Talk
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    • RE: Coronavirus - New Zealand

      @Baron-Silas-Greenback said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:

      Going by social media, the NZ public has been totally convinced that the Wu Flu is the worst thing ever.
      People are really stupid ... or I am stupid but like all stupid people I dont realise I am stupid. Either way I am in the vast minority in thinking this lock down needs to end asap.

      I am fast heading back into Hooroo territory of just not caring about the stupid masses and will just look after myself and those I care about. I feel my merciless capitalist self starting to rear its head again,I think I have just lost faith in humanity. They deserve to be dirt poor and working long hours to just pay back their debts. Stupid serf bastards. Civil servants (except nurses and doctors ) can all fuck right off. Selfish pricks.

      That rant was quite therapeutic.

      From what I can see, people LOVE the idea of being locked down. "There is a big scary thing but the government will fix it all if we do as we're told." Makes me think the world is going to get so much more authoritarian in the future. Governments everywhere are pressing for unprecedented powers, and finding that they're pushing on an open door. The only place I can find anyone properly questioning the cost/benefit of lockdown is the Fern FFS. It's getting quite exasperating.

      posted in Coronavirus
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    • RE: US Politics

      I think it was totally the right call by Trump (and I'm no fan). WHO's entire point of existence is to take leadership during the early stages of a (potential) pandemic, and they bottled it.

      As @Kirwan says, being weirdly obsessed with what people call it in case racism vs actually getting the advice/science right shows they are more interested in playing politics:

      WHO:
      Jan 14: No clear evidence of human-to-human transmission of coronavirus
      Feb 7: Masks don't necessarily protect you
      Feb 22: No benefit to stopping international travel

      When they made those statements they would have had access to better scientific knowledge about the virus than any other organisation globally. Yet they continued to downplay it, just as the Chinese govt did. If they would rather suppress science to curry favour with China then that's fine. The US gives more than twice the funding to WHO than China does. They made their bed and can now lie in it.

      https://www.who.int/about/finances-accountability/funding/revised-2019-invoice/usa_en.pdf?ua=1

      https://www.who.int/about/finances-accountability/funding/revised-2019-invoice/chn_en.pdf

      posted in Politics
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    • RE: Theory about historically successful teams

      @Catogrande said in Theory about historically successful teams:

      @MajorRage Don't be too downhearted mate. As long as you and Mrs MR put in a shift each week you should be able to unlearn your nipper of some of the crap that gets fed to them.

      Here's a really special case at my kids' senior school (up to GCSE) from the science teacher - "There is enough energy in a ham sandwich to allow a person to climb Mt Everest"!

      Said "science" teacher also put a scare into the kids about bird flu telling the class that she had bought some tamiflu on the internet and that it is running out because the Government was stockpiling it for "essential occupations".

      Reminds me of this, a poster from the Carbon Trust UK, which is funded by government grant money!

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      Someone else crunched the numbers, but very quickly:

      The photocopier in that photo (Canon 6255i) uses 0.9 W on standby mode, as per the manual.
      Assuming its used 9am-5pm, that's 16 h per day on standby, or 14.4 Wh
      A cup of tea is 300 mL, cold water is 5°C, tea has roughly the specific heat capacity of water, 4.184 J/g°C, and a density of 1 g/mL

      Q=mc∆T, = 3004.184(100-5) = 119,244 J

      1 Wh = 1 J/s * h -> 1 Wh = J*(h/s) = 119,244/3,600 = 33.123 Wh

      So a photocopier left on standby overnight uses the same energy it takes to make 43% of one cup of tea, not 30. Dipshits.

      posted in Sports Talk
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    • RE: Springboks v All Blacks

      @rancid-schnitzel said in Springboks v All Blacks:

      In spite of the lineout debacle last time, I thought Karl Marx was pretty damn impressive. Showed it tonight. Boks pack in general was very good. Incredible defence and commitment.

      He was especially strong down the left wing..

      posted in Rugby Matches
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    Latest posts made by TeWaio

    • RE: Coronavirus - UK

      @MiketheSnow said in Coronavirus - UK:

      @TeWaio said in Coronavirus - UK:

      @MiketheSnow no, what makes you ask that?

      I was being sarcastic

      MSM can and always do find an outlier to confirm their opinion.

      Could easily have posted a picture of a cigarette smoking, alcohol drinking, pie eating, 85 year old,20 stone tub of lard to show BMI is not perfect and exact.

      But as a general yardstick for a population it’s pretty spot on.

      No need to be snarky, I literally said in my post:

      "I know BMI works reasonably well for the population at large"

      ..hardly worthy of being compared to MSM. I was mostly looking for any excuse to post a picture of my man crush Eddie.

      posted in Coronavirus
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    • RE: Coronavirus - UK

      @Bones He seems shorter because of his proportions, and that you often see him next to other world class strongmen who are mostly 6'6"+ (Brian Shaw is 6'10", The Mountain 6'9")

      posted in Coronavirus
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    • RE: Coronavirus - UK

      @MiketheSnow no, what makes you ask that?

      posted in Coronavirus
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    • RE: Coronavirus - UK

      I know BMI works reasonably well for the population at large, but it's still fun to point out
      how it falls down when people have very high muscle mass:

      Eddie Hall, at 6ft 3in and 161kg, former world's strongest man, currently has a BMI of 44.4!

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      posted in Coronavirus
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    • RE: World Test Championship

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      Not my work, shared in a cricket group chat

      posted in Sports Talk
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    • RE: World Test Championship

      I fully expect everything to conspire in the most unlikely of circumstances to screw NZ cricket over again.

      Disclaimer: I was at Lords for the 2019 CWC final.

      posted in Sports Talk
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    • RE: Road Cycling

      @scribe said in Road Cycling:

      I did 2.5 hrs on a turbo trainer once whilst training for an Ironman (pre Zwift days). Never again. That was after reading about a Female pro who used to do all of her Ironman training indoors. Crazy play.

      I am trying to tick off all the route badges...longest one I've done so far was 4hrs. I find Zwift immersive enough I don't get too bored esp if have a podcast on.

      The three route badges I have left will all be 4-6hr rides though, not looking forward to that. Will do them with mates and jump on a conf call to chat/suffer together at least.

      Also a rocker plate makes long Zwifts much more comfortable.

      @WillieTheWaiter love the FTP flex. I've actually found Zwift to be really accurate vs what I do on the road. What set up do you have? I find if you calibrate regularly the numbers/results I am getting at least are bang in line with what happens outside.

      posted in Sports Talk
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    • RE: Coronavirus memes

      @taniwharugby said in Coronavirus memes:

      Plenty of threads this could go in...

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      It's also wrong, 3 out of 4 the Mandalorians in season 2 didn't always wear their masks, and even the fourth (Din Djarin) took his off on two occasions. The non mask wearing rate rises to 4 out of 5 if you consider Boba Fett a Mandalorian.

      posted in Coronavirus
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    • RE: Coronavirus - Overall

      @booboo said in Coronavirus - Overall:

      Wasn't sure where to put this, here, "UK", or "Conspiracy Theories".

      Decided here as, although it is essentially from the UK perspective, it is a universal issue.

      It's a discussion on lockdown scepticism and various conspiracy type mindsets justifying said opinions.

      Great article thanks for sharing.

      Conspiracy theories being a product of despair at the real situation is an excellent conclusion

      Quite long.

      https://quillette.com/2021/01/16/rise-of-the-coronavirus-cranks/?s=09

      posted in Coronavirus
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    • RE: US Politics

      Harvard stidents are now petitioning the university to rescind the degrees of prominent conservative alumni like Ted Cruz and Kaylee McEnany.

      posted in Politics
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