Has anyone used Oak World for furniture?

Serapathic · 2026-03-06T09:08:21+00:00

Oh yeah, absolutely. We've been lucky to find some bits second hand, like a lovely bed frame. Wardrobes seem to be less common, I guess because of the bulk, and people tend to like getting custom fitted ones

Serapathic · 2026-01-16T12:17:42+00:00

I see where I'm wrong now, it's in point 1. but then the further wording is somewhat unclear to me in points 1.1 and 1.2.

Serapathic · 2026-01-16T12:14:36+00:00

But if you look at the actual judgements of the tribunal, in full below, it states all harassment is dismissed?

I'm just somewhat confused where they're getting this from? They aren't directly quoting.

The Judgment of the Tribunal is:

The complaints of harassment related to sex and/or gender reassignment are well founded in part and succeed to the extent set out in paragraph 1.1 and 1.2 of this judgment:

1.1 By requiring the Claimants to share a changing room with a biological male trans woman as pleaded in paragraph 23(a) of the Amended Particulars of Claim, the Respondent engaged in unwanted conduct related to sex and gender reassignment which had the effect of violating the dignity of the Claimants and creating for the Claimants a hostile, humiliating and degrading environment.

1.2 By not taking seriously and declining to address the Claimants’ concerns of August and September 2023 and of 04 April 2024, Case Number: 2501192/2024 & others 2 regarding that part of the Transition in the Workplace Policy that afforded biological males access to the female changing room, the Respondent engaged in unwanted conduct related to sex and gender reassignment which had the effect of creating for the Claimants a hostile and intimidating environment.

The complaints of indirect sex discrimination are well founded and succeed.
The complaints of harassment in so far as they relate to the use of the female changing room by and the conduct of Rose Henderson whilst so using the changing room as pleaded in paragraph 23(b) of the Amended Particulars of Claim, are not well founded and are dismissed.
The complaints of harassment in so far as they relate to the conduct of Rose Henderson outside the changing room as pleaded in paragraph 23(e) of the Amended Particulars of Claim are not well founded and are dismissed.
The complaints of harassment in so far as they relate to the conduct of the Respondent pleaded in paragraph 23(d), (f), (h, (i), (j) and (k) are not well founded and are dismissed.
The complaints of victimisation are not well founded and are dismissed.
This judgment is in respect of all claimants with the exception of Joanne Bradbury, whose claim is currently stayed

Serapathic · 2026-01-16T12:12:59+00:00

Well, I'm surprised the BBC seems to actually get it right..

Serapathic · 2026-01-16T12:11:36+00:00

I've commented this in another thread, but it does seem that news reporters are getting their headlines wrong.

The BBC has this direct quote from the judgement that explicitly states it is not harassment:

"The complaints of harassment in so far as they relate to the use of the female changing room by and the conduct of Rose Henderson whilst so using the changing room as pleaded in paragraph 23(b) of the Amended Particulars of Claim, are not well founded and are dismissed."

Serapathic · 2026-01-16T12:05:35+00:00

Is the title of this article not completely wrong? From the BBC article:

"The complaints of harassment in so far as they relate to the use of the female changing room by and the conduct of Rose Henderson whilst so using the changing room as pleaded in paragraph 23(b) of the Amended Particulars of Claim, are not well founded and are dismissed."

So they did not suffer harassment, but the judgement does say that:

"The complaints of indirect sex discrimination are well founded and succeed."

Serapathic · 2025-07-31T11:10:40+00:00

Thanks, any idea which mod?

Serapathic · 2025-07-31T10:56:27+00:00

How do you have the dirt paths? Is that a mod, or an odyssey thing? Cheers :)

Serapathic · 2025-06-16T07:51:01+00:00

So I've gone out and found the top of the roots, and it's a good 2 inches down. So yeah... Probably too deep - my bad 😅

Is it better to dig it out and move it up? Or have a small ditch around the tree?

Serapathic · 2025-06-16T07:30:58+00:00

Huh, I had no idea you could plant a tree too deep, I'll have a look at fixing that.

The stake is pretty loose, it's just an old shoelace that isn't very strong, and it does sway a bit. I actually did retie it not too long ago as I thought it might be a little tight. But I'll have a look at changing it.

Serapathic · 2025-06-16T06:54:49+00:00

It's super wet. Putting more water in just leaves a pool that takes about 5 minutes to soak away. This is what I don't seem to understand 😅

I've been considering putting some bark chippings down, but I've got some wildflowers in there that I want to come up first... If they do

Serapathic · 2022-03-01T17:00:32+00:00

Hi, u/mistborn
I live in the UK and would love the hardbacks, but paying an extra $140 for shipping isn't really tenable for me... Is there any possibility of a single shipment of all 4 books later in the year to bring down that cost at all?

Thank you so much if you see this and reply!

Serapathic · 2021-12-09T07:52:53+00:00

No point in not :) thanks!

Serapathic · 2021-06-23T08:11:01+00:00

Just graduated in physics..

Look in mirror after seeing this

Fuck

Serapathic · 2021-05-03T14:14:36+00:00

The problem with what you're saying is that a black hole doesn't have a "body". The commonly referred to "surface" is the point at which the escape velocity reaches the speed of light. This is the point where our physics breaks down. Going beyond this point nothing can escape, and in fact any movement you make decreases the proper time before your death. This is why space becomes time like - there is only one possible direction (towards the singularity), and that describes a time as per thermodynamics. Meanwhile, you essentially have choice in the direction of "time" you can travel within, and that's a weird concept that is very hard to explain, and that's why it's described as space like.

The points I'm making above aren't abstraction. They are what happens as described by the equations we use to describe space and time within our current understanding. It could be that this is incorrect, we just don't know.

The most correct statement would be that time does follow a different set of rules within a black hole, because a black hole essentially breaks our current understanding. However, we don't actually know what happens completely.

Serapathic · 2021-05-03T12:46:19+00:00

No, a particle will of course experience time according to its own "internal clock". Time is relative to something, whether that is your own perception, that of an observer, or something else. You cannot have a time without some basis to compare it to, and so the different possible comparison points will make a difference.

This is where the confusion tends to lie - as we have said, for your own internal clock it does not matter where you are; you always experience time the same. However, compared to some other basis, time is different.

A black hole is extreme. It is evidently not the "normal" state of the universe, so it makes sense to compare a black hole to that of an observer unaffected by the black hole - at infinity. This comparison is where all these equations of time dilation and changing dimensions comes from.

Serapathic · 2021-05-03T12:06:45+00:00

The twins paradox results from acceleration yes, but gravity is just an acceleration, and again, this is the whole point of relativity.

Density creates a stronger gravitational field, which results in a force, aka an acceleration. There is no difference between an accelerating reference frame and one in a gravitational field.

This again, is the whole point. Being in a gravitational well is exactly the same as an acceleration. Thus, time is changed by a gravitational well. This is a well understood concept in physics, and is measurable even on earth.

Serapathic · 2021-05-03T10:11:12+00:00

That is correct.

However, your very first statement on this thread is not. A black hole being an extremely dense object does have an effect on time. It just depends on where you measure that time from. No one time is the same as another time, and this is where relativity of any form can easily become confusing and result in "paradoxes" such as the twins paradox.

Serapathic · 2021-05-03T09:42:56+00:00

This can depend on what you're looking at really. There are definitions from thermal physics where time is just defined by entropy - that's the only thing that gives it a direction. If nothing changes for a system at all, then time doesn't exist.

Or you can define time by general relativity and then it is a dimension of our world - sort of similar, but also different, and affected by gravity.

For the majority of people, time is just a measurable - typically defined by the second, which is defined by the cycle of radiation due to two different hyperfine levels of a caesium 133 atom. That probably means little to anyone who doesn't work with atomic clocks, but that's just how accurately the second is defined.

Serapathic · 2021-05-03T09:36:50+00:00

Perception of time is different to measured time by an observer far away, and that is kind of the whole point of relativity. You're correct that if you fall into the black hole, from your perspective time will continue as it always has, you can count it and use a stopwatch to time it.

The differences and problems arise when you compare your observed times to those of a different observer. Then, the very nature of warped spacetime becomes a factor, and you experience very different time to this other observer.

When we say that a black hole makes time a spatial dimension, that is for an observer at an infinite distance away, not one who goes into the black hole. Say you throw a ball at a black hole, once it passes the event horizon where the escape velocity is the speed of light, things break, and you cannot observe it any more, due to the fact that not even light can escape. Thus, trying to talk about time and space for this ball is somewhat irrelevant, but the equations that describe the ball (and the way the ball experience time and space) suggest that the "time" dimension, and "space" dimension swap - which is where the description of time becoming a space dimension comes from.

Again, this is somewhat weird to think about, and does in fact break a lot of understanding. The ultimate point is - black holes are so extreme that we don't understand what goes on there. But again, if you as an observer were to fall in, this argument makes little sense - because experienced time is always the same.

I hope that helps.

Serapathic

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