You didn't expect this, I guess.
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for ed's shop, it's covered here
Covid-19 - current status information
www.dragonbox.de
he also sounds in a good mood according the latest podcast from 10.4.
Episode 07 - Instandhaltung und Upgrades
In der heutigen Ausgabe unterhalten sich Michael und Sven darüber wie man die alten Geräte in Schuss hält. Ein Blick unter die Motorhaube sollte vor dem Start immer mal wieder nützlich sein. Ausserdem gibt es ein paar Tipps für Upgrades, wenn man zum Beispiel endlich mal was auf dem "Game Gear"...
dragonbox-talk.podigee.io
so "no worries", i would say
λ the β-Redex Reducer
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The news of this thread is so old that people had time to get bored of it causing them to go offtopic and then get bored of going offtopic.
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If it would make you feel any better, I think we could dig up some old dead horses to beat and fire up yet another SoC/keyboard/color discussion for you.
ClockworkCoder
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Good news is scarce these days. Would be good to hear something positive soonish to boost morale
Gren
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I just hope ED is OK, and his shop is still able to do business.
But yeah, some news (however small) would certainly be most welcome at this juncture
My Speccy next is keeping me occupied at the moment......but I get bored of things easily
But yeah, some news (however small) would certainly be most welcome at this juncture
My Speccy next is keeping me occupied at the moment......but I get bored of things easily
λ the β-Redex Reducer
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I am way ahead of you. And yes, it does help.If it would make you feel any better, I think we could dig up some old dead horses to beat and fire up yet another SoC/keyboard/color discussion for you.
But I am getting worried about how ED is doing too. Even if he's still waiting for heat sinks or getting the case painted it would be nice to have a status update. Normally I would not be that worried but with COVID-19 measures wrecking the economy I'm a bit more worried than I would normally be.
comradekingu
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China shuts down, ED turns into a sweatshop cranking out Pyras.
levi
Still fresh, damnit!
ED posted some new books he's selling to the site and notifed twitter today. He's still up and running, just probably coronavirus delays means he hasn't much worth reporting. I note on his site now he's advising that some countries aren't delivering international mail, so you're limited to using couriers, which I'd expect to impact sales for the time being though.
Letalis Sonus
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Ironically, you can kind of observe the exact opposite in Germany.
The people have been consistently losing confidence in the big parties for years, especially the conservatives got the reputation that they would simply die out soon because more members kept dying of old age than new one joined - even the populists from the extremist right wing gained a worrying amount of support due to this loss of confidence in the governments of the past decade. However, ever since the government introduced the restrictions to fight COVID-19, the ruling parties started to get more support in the polls once again, while the suddenly very quiet populists of the extremist right wing turned out to be the biggest losers.
bzar
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Same in Finland. Usually the government parties increasingly lose favor to opposition parties during their term (then next election we get a different kind of government). The current prime minister party especially (Social Democratic Party) has usually been very reliable in this. According to recent polls though, they're again the most favored party. Most talk I hear of our prime minister and how the crisis has been handled on a governmental level is positive. It's only isolated incidences outside governement that get flak. The local populist party, True Finns, got to the most favored party spot before the crisis, but quite quickly came down after it started.
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Let me guess: They keep demanding something in tune of their ideology but then vote against it, backstabbing the working class they are supposed to represent? Yeah, that sounds familiar.
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S. Korean ruling party wins landslide election on strength of virus response
South Korean President Moon Jae-in's ruling party won an absolute majority in parliamentary elections, results on Thursday showed, a landslide victory propelled by successes in the country's efforts…
www.france24.com
levi
Still fresh, damnit!
Just emphasises how this epidemic has another feature of a nature in a (just) war. Doesn't quite work out the same way, or at least bites back quicker if you engineer your own war, as Blair found out, or the Republicans with their War on Drugs, but a just war gives a positive and relatively long-lasting boost to the ruling party.
ClockworkCoder
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Can we bring back a conversation about keyboards, or anything else (tech/pyra related) here? I dont mind the derailment (it's inevitable), but politics and coronavirus make me want to unsubscribe to this thread. Plus there's already good, active threads for those topics.
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Bosbeetle
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How about a debate about how much wood a woodchuck would chuck given a woodchuck would chuck wood?
bzar
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Nah, they just usually get a boost in response to other parties reducing social programs on their turn, then when SocDems gain power they end up not getting much done at all. They're not actively harmful to their ideology, just disappointingly inefficient at going about it. People want quick resolutions, so they end up voting someone else the next time again.
(sorry about contributing to the derailment, let's get back on track)
Supposedly quite the alarming amount: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_much_wood_would_a_woodchuck_chuck#Answers
