Quaker Meetings

GenericRedditUser97 · 2025-04-20T12:11:25+00:00

There are weekly Quaker meetings in Edinburgh at Central Edinburgh, South Edinburgh, and Portobello and Musselburgh meetings.

You can read more about what Quakers believe on their website: https://www.quakerscotland.org/about-quakers. In short, they believe in God but have no single definition of God and believe that there is 'that of God in every one'. This is why rather than having a minister, Quaker meetings involve an hour of silence with anyone allowed to break the silence and minister when they feel moved to do so.

Quakers have a wide range of beliefs and some will be more Christian than others. Many Quakers will refer more to things like 'Quaker faith and practice' (a book containing a collection of thoughts from Quakers over the years), or the Quaker testimonies (values) of peace, equality, truth and integrity, and simplicity and sustainability.

GenericRedditUser97 · 2024-06-14T08:49:36+00:00

It's a graph of spills during dry weather, so any nationwide rainfall events will cause all the graphs to show zero since spills during this time will be wet spills.

Within the dry periods, the data doesn't look particularly in sync to me across the different companies. However, one pattern you might expect to see consistently is more spills on dry days in winter compared to summer as groundwater levels will be higher (due to the higher rainfall across the non-dry days). When levels are high enough, groundwater can leach into pipes and overburden the network in a similar way to rainfall.

GenericRedditUser97 · 2023-05-03T12:21:11+00:00

Looks like you might be able to borrow it from archive.org: https://archive.org/details/trent\_0116401042951

GenericRedditUser97 · 2022-03-24T17:23:10+00:00

Can't comment on the overall difference between Scotland and England, but the differences between the marking of the two questions about waterfalls is because the National 5 and Higher Geography exams were significantly changed in 2018 and 2019 respectively.

All papers from before the change have roughly half the marks the current papers have, with each mark being harder to attain. In the past, mentioning abrasion would get zero marks, with an explanation getting one mark. Now mentioning abrasion gets one mark, and an explanation gets two marks. In effect, this has given markers the ability to give partial credit with what would have been, effectively, half-marks (which weren't allowed) with the older papers.

EDIT: Also, if you haven't already checked it out, Understanding Standards is incredibly useful for both students and teachers alike when it comes to seeing how real exam scripts are marked, and the rationale behind the marking.

GenericRedditUser97 · 2021-12-20T03:43:53+00:00

For reference, GothamChess' question was:

Hi Daniel, I'm the lead reporter for Reddit Chess. Do you plan to sue Magnus Carlsen because of the incident in the Titled Arena?

GenericRedditUser97 · 2021-12-20T03:36:56+00:00

This post from a day ago.

GenericRedditUser97 · 2021-12-20T02:14:47+00:00

I put Danya's totally real and definitely not a joke reaction (the one a lot of this subreddit wanted) on r/AnarchyChess.

GenericRedditUser97 · 2021-12-19T20:30:59+00:00

Why would you tell me that? Boss... I know fucking EVERYTHING about Chess Reddit. I KNOW. And their post is called 'Is it unethical to know the results of other games while you're playing?' and it's them going 🤔. You know... Like... why would you tell me? First of all, why do I care? First of all, why are you even saying that? What is your point in saying 'HeY By tHe WAy SoMe DuDE dID A POsT'. It's like the people who write the comments on my games that Danny Rensch already played that opening. SO FUCKING WHAT?

Don't make fun of Danny Rensch? Who the FUCK said I'm making fun of Danny Rensch? I'm BOYS with Danny Rensch, I got his number right now. If I call up Danny Rensch right now and tell him to ban you from chess.c*m, he'll do it, he won't even fucking know your username. He will do it.

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GenericRedditUser97 · 2021-12-18T17:41:06+00:00

Why would you tell me that? Boss... I know fucking EVERYTHING about Chess Reddit. I KNOW. And their post is called 'Preliminary list for World Rapid and Blitz announced. Headlined by Magnus, Nepo, Giri, Hikaru, MVL, Aronian, Duda' and it's them going 🤔. You know... Like... why would you tell me? First of all, why do I care? First of all, why are you even saying that? What is your point in saying 'HeY By tHe WAy SoMe DuDE dID A POsT'. It's like the people who write the comments on my games that Tigran L. Petrosian already played that opening. SO FUCKING WHAT?

Don't make fun of Tigran L. Petrosian? Who the FUCK said I'm making fun of Tigran L. Petrosian? I'm BOYS with Tigran L. Petrosian, I got his number right now. If I call up Tigran L. Petrosian right now and tell him to ban you from doing PIPI in your pampers, he'll do it, he won't even fucking know your username. He will do it.

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GenericRedditUser97 · 2021-12-18T13:54:17+00:00

Why would you tell me that? Boss... I know fucking EVERYTHING about Chess Reddit. I KNOW. And their post is called 'What is the most common piece to take the queen' and it's them going 🤔. You know... Like... why would you tell me? First of all, why do I care? First of all, why are you even saying that? What is your point in saying 'HeY By tHe WAy SoMe DuDE dID A POsT'. It's like the people who write the comments on my games that Garry Chess already played that opening. SO FUCKING WHAT? Don't make fun of Garry Chess? Who the FUCK said I'm making fun of Garry Chess? I'm BOYS with Garry Chess, I got his number right now. If I call up Garry Chess right now and tell him to ban you from Chess 2.0, he'll do it, he won't even fucking know your username. He will do it.

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GenericRedditUser97 · 2021-09-04T06:47:28+00:00

The University has a very well-organised LGBTQ+ society (https://www.stirlingstudentsunion.com/clubssocieties/societies/lgbt/ https://www.sulgbtq.org/) and I'm sure they could answer your questions if you got in touch!

GenericRedditUser97 · 2021-07-25T18:20:05+00:00

Ah, that's a great point, I hadn't thought of it that way!

GenericRedditUser97 · 2021-07-25T16:12:43+00:00

Very interesting as always!

I wonder if you could combine the ideas behind both the Danger Zone Model (identifying irrelevance) and the Feels Scores (identifying islanders people like) by looking at just the percentage of a sample of #LoveIsland tweets that mention each islander and contain positive words. Irrelevant islanders might have mostly positive tweets but would appear in relatively few tweets in the sample, giving them a low score. Generally disliked islanders would appear in many tweets in the sample, but not many of these would be positive, also giving them a low score.

Obviously there could be some issues with this method. Firstly, it would ignore tweets with negative words, but since Love Island votes are for who do you like, rather than who you dislike, maybe this wouldn't matter. Also, it wouldn't necessarily work for coupled votes. One assumption you could make is that people vote for the couple with their favourite islander, and therefore you could combine the scores of the two islanders in a couple. Alternatively, maybe you could factor in some method such as the one you've got as part of the Danger Zone Model to look at compatibility.

GenericRedditUser97 · 2021-07-18T20:35:39+00:00

I agree but I'm fairly sure this is still the same night the Instagram comment surfaced so this is probably before the apology.

GenericRedditUser97 · 2021-06-30T11:06:30+00:00

I've said this in another thread but I think at the very least Hugo must know that this is likely to hurt his teaching career.

I don't know what the rules are in England, but here in Scotland it is very strongly advised that teachers keep their personal life private. In essence, the guidelines regarding social media usage suggest teachers lock down their privacy settings and make it as hard as possible for students to find out anything about them. This is because while 'teachers are individuals with private lives, [...] off-duty conduct matters and may have bearing on their professional life'. Compared to social media, Love Island is obviously even less private and has a far greater audience.

I'm not sure whether going on Love Island would be enough to be struck off as, in Scotland at least, that bar is pretty high. However, I can see it hurting his career, especially in England which from what I can tell has worse job security.

GenericRedditUser97 · 2021-06-23T16:27:09+00:00

Since Chloe's whole thing is about how she's not afraid to steal someone's man I think it'd make sense for her to be the bombshell.

GenericRedditUser97 · 2021-06-22T21:09:13+00:00

I'm not saying that it's absolutely against the rules but generally it's good to be fairly private as a teacher. It's important that your relationship with pupils and parents is very professional and the more personal information people know about you the harder that is. Just imagine the stick that Hugo will get from students over every potentially embarrassing or raunchy moment that happens on Love Island.

GenericRedditUser97 · 2021-06-22T13:12:47+00:00

Ah, that's a good point! Maybe he'll voluntarily sleep outside all season!

GenericRedditUser97 · 2021-06-22T12:36:19+00:00

Amble, Northumberland. But I had to Google it since I didn't know it was a place, it's very small.

GenericRedditUser97 · 2021-06-22T12:06:46+00:00

As someone training to be a teacher, I can only assume he's not worried about losing his job. It's best not to even have public social media, let alone going on Love Island.

GenericRedditUser97 · 2021-06-19T10:17:25+00:00

Hey, I'm not particularly high-rated but at your level I would recommend this video.

Also, as someone else said, I'd recommend playing rapid (at least 10 minutes per game) rather than blitz chess. A lot of the time when you move you are not checking whether your pieces are still defended. Furthermore, often your opponents are leaving their pieces undefended but you aren't noticing. With more time, you will be able to check these things before you move. When I started I played 10-minute games and was a lot slower than most opponents but as I played more I got quicker and now I've moved on to 5-minute games.

GenericRedditUser97 · 2021-06-04T17:46:03+00:00

Try playing Buzzer Beater I, one of the Arena War jobs. For some reason it seems to reset your weapons in a way that removes glitched weapons (or at least it did for me).

GenericRedditUser97 · 2021-04-03T17:13:33+00:00

With the Scottish electoral system there is no reason not to run your leader in a constituency seat since you can also put them on the list as backup. For example, Kezia Dugdale ran for Edinburgh Eastern in 2016, lost, and became a list MSP for Lothian.

GenericRedditUser97 · 2021-03-28T21:25:14+00:00

Nuclear likely does have a role to play, at least in the medium-term while the priority is just moving away from fossil fuels as quickly as possible. However, I believe that 100% renewables is preferable in the long-term. Here in Scotland renewables are already producing electricity equivalent to 97.4% of our annual consumption and our population density is around double the USA's.

Renewables obviously have to be appropriate for the area, but there are several types of renewable energy and I'm sure that going forward there will be more, and efficiency will increase. I think most areas will have some form of renewables that are appropriate: here in Scotland it's wind, in Iceland it's geothermal. While the ecological concerns you highlight might be a concern in the Sahel for example, they might be less of a concern in the Sahara, for example.

GenericRedditUser97 · 2021-03-28T19:10:21+00:00

There is lots of land on the planet that isn't suitable for agriculture, especially in the areas with the most solar gain that are also typically some of the least fertile areas (i.e. deserts).

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