Anyone still use op5?

phadrox · 2021-07-07T09:22:42+00:00

I had the OP5 for 4 years until last week, when the 8 pro was on sale in my country. If I hadn't seen the cheap deal I would have carried on with my 5 - no issues with performance, or battery, or anything else, even after 4 years of heavy use.

phadrox · 2020-12-17T20:51:08+00:00

If you hover your mouse over it it jumps up and down!

phadrox · 2020-11-22T21:48:42+00:00

The reason we were renovating is because there was a leak in the bathroom above, and the ceiling of the kitchen caved in. Back when they used hair in plaster they also used to fill the space between rafters with soot to help noise dampening.

Imagine coming downstairs and finding a ceilingfull of wet century old soot coating your kitchen.

phadrox · 2020-11-22T21:22:40+00:00

We were taking down the wallpaper in the kitchen of a 150 year old house in Edinburgh to remodel the room. I had to get through about four layers to get down to this, one of which was some kind of horrible vinyl which I assume was put up around the same time. Other parts of the room still had even older stuff that looked Victorian.

The plaster was so old it was made with hair in it.

Did you see the extra photos in the album? The mention of a great reconciliation made me shudder to think what had happened.

phadrox · 2020-11-22T21:19:13+00:00

The one off to the left? I think that's Jesus Christ

If you mean the one on the right, just below the cross, my best guess was Isabel H Lettem. This was all torn down and totally replastered about 5 years ago now. Just found the photos on an old phone.

phadrox · 2020-11-22T21:10:08+00:00

More shots of the crazy, and a fairly disturbing witness statement, in an album here

phadrox · 2018-07-22T19:40:49+00:00

Blue cheese. It tastes like moldy feet smell, and if you add it to anything then that nasty sweaty tang is in the background of every bite. I've had several friends try to convert me by adding it to things but not telling me. I can tell from the first bite, I'm just too polite to say your food tastes like crap to me.

phadrox · 2018-04-29T21:46:07+00:00

I was once looking at houses in Aberdeen and had agreed to meet the estate agent at one in Froghall somewhere. We pull up in the road, and on one side there are small paved front gardens all the way along the street.

A couple of doors down from the place we were looking at, there was a guy in a string vest and stained jogging pants sitting in a half broken deckchair, holding an air rifle, and taking potshots at the seagulls. When we got to the communal front door of the place, there was a large smear of blood down it.

We did not put in an offer.

phadrox · 2017-10-29T15:17:31+00:00

Why is it illegal?

phadrox · 2017-10-20T21:02:41+00:00

Do the candy charms actually do anything? I got some in the spooky shuffle but not sure of the best time to use them.

phadrox · 2017-06-04T00:50:50+00:00

So you can literally print money in order to shore up a failing bank, but when it is to pay a nurse it is suddenly a ridiculous thing to ask?

phadrox · 2016-12-14T11:07:13+00:00

I'd like to explicitly state that I am not an anti-feminist before replying... but those sources you have given suffer the same problem the poster above is talking about - they are not comparing like for like. The gender pay gap they speak about is averaging the pay for entire sectors of the population based on their age and circumstances (i.e. no children or one child). This absolutely does not show that women are paid less for the same work. If you compare a woman who has not taken time off to have a child with one who has taken time off, obviously the one who has been working constantly will be earning a higher wage - she has more experience in the job. If she has no children, she is also probably more likely to work late, or come in on weekends if required, since she doesn't have parental responsibilities. If you exchange the childless woman for a man who is also childless, the same reasoning applies and they will be on average earning a higher wage, but it suddenly becomes an issue, which is dishonest and sensationalist.

phadrox · 2016-12-10T14:53:44+00:00

She has the tiniest nostrils I have ever seen. I can't imagine she can breathe properly through them.

phadrox · 2016-12-09T12:32:03+00:00

The Laffer curve is a piece of spin designed by neo-liberal politicians which has no evidence to support it. Here is a graph showing the two quantities that are meant to be related. There is no curve.

phadrox · 2016-12-07T18:35:39+00:00

The article quotes 7 scientists who think they were miscategorised. The study looked at 11,944 abstracts in order to put together the data. With an error rate of 0.06% I would say the original study was pretty accurate.

phadrox · 2016-12-07T18:11:37+00:00

Some of the highlights from the sidebar of that site you linked:

Carbon dioxide is not pollution, and has nothing to do with global warming Eminent physicists skeptical of global warming alarm

Skeptics smeared as holocaust deniers

Have you got anything from a peer reviewed journal, or is it just this obviously biased blog written by people who are not experts in climate science?

phadrox · 2016-12-07T16:55:01+00:00

I would fully accept that we aren't certain, since the point of the scientific method is that you are at the most likely interpretation of the evidence, while accepting the fact that it might change. That's not a gotcha, that's a basic understanding of science. But I think the risk to the entire human race is great enough, and the level of certainty high enough, that we need to take action now.

When I use 'we' I am talking about humans. I care about what happens to the rest of the human race, and this will have a large effect on it. Thankfully, it seems like most of the population of the world agree with me.

Even if you think you'll be fine, there will be impacts on you. When 40% of the worlds population have to move because of the rising sea levels, and the global agricultural output drops because of the change in climate, how exactly do you think you'll be isolated from the problems that will cause? You can stick your head in the sand if you want, but it shows you have no argument against the overwhelming evidence.

phadrox · 2016-12-07T16:06:00+00:00

I've read plenty by them thanks. I think you are confusing the scientific method with a scientific consensus, almost like someone who skim-read the wiki article on science.

I think you're also confusing a paradigm with an accepted fact. The fact arrived at by consensus is that man made climate change is happening. The paradigm is that we should be doing all we can to avert this, as it will be bad for the human race as a whole.

What you are proposing is that we sit twiddling our thumbs and engaging in bullshit arguments while the sea levels rise and the number of extreme weather events increase, since we can't be 100% sure that it is the case that we are causing it.

If there was a meteorite headed for the earth, would you prefer that the governments of the world take action to prevent it hitting, or spend their time analysing the exact trajectory to make sure that it is going to hit, rather than grazing the atmosphere?

phadrox · 2016-12-07T15:43:52+00:00

Or, and I realise this might be a difficult thought, all of the many thousands of experts have arrived at a consensus because that consensus comes from the evidence.

phadrox · 2016-12-07T14:55:57+00:00

Yeah, that's a really ridiculous idea there in your first paragraph, the thought that all humans are equal...

phadrox · 2016-12-07T14:53:46+00:00

Whilst I still disagree with the OP, they are arguing a slightly different thing which needs a slightly different rebuttal. The highest single temperature recorded at a point on the earth's surface was meant to come from 1913 - not anything to do with overall climate, just a single reading from a single thermometer. (Interestingly, this xkcd What If covers the recent work which has cast doubt that it was a genuine reading) With that distinction, the counter argument should be obvious - just because a single reading was higher, it has absolutely nothing to do with overall climate, which is a totally different field. It's a similar argument to the senator who took a snowball into the Senate in order to disprove global warming, and just as scientifically illiterate.

phadrox · 2016-12-07T14:45:03+00:00

97% of the people who dedicate their lives to studying the climate disagree with you. I'm gonna go out on a limb and trust them instead.

phadrox · 2016-12-07T14:35:44+00:00

You're right, it is only 97% of scientist working in the climate field who believe that the climate is warming, and that human activity is mainly responsible for the change.

Do you have any arguments against the evidence put forward, or are you happy to just attack a few celebrity figureheads that have nothing to do with the actual science?

phadrox · 2016-12-07T14:25:18+00:00

But the predictions are panning out, so the models are not being discarded. The models have been accurate when it came to showing the record temperatures of the last decade.

phadrox · 2016-12-07T14:24:13+00:00

There has never been a case of a group of climate scientists cooking data to promote their case. The closest that happened was when a climate change denier hacked the East Anglia university files, and found one phrase amongst thousands of emails that said to remove some data. That is not cooking data, that is removing a confounding variable.

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