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Pissflaps posted:This is why Corbyn needs to contest a general election. lol Pissflaps complaining about somebody else being bad to have to listen to.
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forkboy84 posted:Do you not just have a footbridge to get across the Tees? There's quite a few bridges, some of them very fancy like Newport bridge which has a massive pulley system on it to lift the middle up.  Though it doesn't work any more. I think there's a footbridge at Stockton. A tramline would be nice, we used to have trams in the town center a long time ago. OwlFancier fucked around with this message at 19:06 on May 4, 2017 |
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UKMT poster spotted in the wild https://www.facebook.com/theguardian/videos/678643438990089/
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For all Hillary's faults at least she had it together enough to win a primary election against a radical outsider. I honestly hope the Labour establishment has spent a bit of time thinking about how it can contest leadership elections with ideas and decent candidates, rather than submitting terrible ones and complaining at the party members for making the "wrong choice" afterwards.
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May 4, 2017 19:06
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OwlFancier posted:There's quite a few bridges, some of them very fancy like Newport bridge which has a massive pulley system on it to lift the middle up. You're not far south enough to qualify for central government funding for a tram line. (Incidentally, I'm surprised that the Tories were able to find someone who could do a worst job as Transport Secretary than Alistair Darling)
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May 4, 2017 19:05
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forkboy84 posted:Do you not just have a footbridge to get across the Tees?
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Guavanaut posted:VD usually. I assume the Flapster was replying to me. They test for tuberculosis, leprosy, gonorrhoeia and syphilis, and when I did it also AIDS but they've removed that now.
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vodkat posted:UKMT poster spotted in the wild https://www.facebook.com/theguardian/videos/678643438990089/ he's right tho
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TinTower posted:You're not far south enough to qualify for central government funding for a tram line. When you want a job done badly, you bring in Chris Grayling.
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May 4, 2017 19:11
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forkboy84 posted:
There are a number of bridges that span the Tees.
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May 4, 2017 19:15
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Guavanaut posted:The hyperloop can reach speeds of 750 mph, allowing it to cross the Tees in 0.3 seconds. You can't do that with a footbridge. It can also collide two trains with a closing speed of over a thousand miles an hour if it loses vacuum, a failure mode even Southern can't replicate.
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May 4, 2017 19:27
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Cerebral Bore posted:lol Pissflaps complaining about somebody else being bad to have to listen to. Buddy a few of us wouldn't have had to if you hadn't just quoted him. Put him on ignore!
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The one the lib dems build in Teesside will be a tram with a vacuum cleaner on the front.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:It can also collide two trains with a closing speed of over a thousand miles an hour if it loses vacuum, a failure mode even Southern can't replicate. I think you'll find mutually assured destruction has been a hallmark policy of the British government for sixty years.
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This 8th of June vote for the new coalition: - Don't Know - Not Sure - White Van Man and the newly added: - Tin Man For a Britain that is not literally Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior Pochoclo fucked around with this message at 19:40 on May 4, 2017 |
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goddamnedtwisto posted:It can also collide two trains with a closing speed of over a thousand miles an hour if it loses vacuum, a failure mode even Southern can't replicate. Also if your capsule gets a hole in it it'll depressurise to vaccum, meaning oxygen masks would be useless.
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jabby posted:Also if your capsule gets a hole in it it'll depressurise to vaccum, meaning oxygen masks would be useless. so when do G4S sign the building and operating contract...? communism bitch fucked around with this message at 19:45 on May 4, 2017 |
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May 4, 2017 19:43
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jabby posted:Also if your capsule gets a hole in it it'll depressurise to vaccum, meaning oxygen masks would be useless. There are a lot of other issues with hyperloop, but the low pressure ones like that have been solved by aerospace. Guavanaut fucked around with this message at 19:54 on May 4, 2017 |
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And if a aeroplanes engines fall off you'll fall 30,000 feet and explode on landing. Don't be luddites.
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May 4, 2017 19:47
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Hoops posted:And if a aeroplanes engines fall off you'll fall 30,000 feet and explode on landing. Don't be luddites. Probably not into a city, though. Also actually if the engines fall off the plane can probably glide to a landing better because it's now lighter.
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May 4, 2017 19:51
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Pissflaps posted:This is why Corbyn needs to contest a general election. Jeremy isn't going to win because the public is ideologically right wing. You love polls, you saw the poll that had 24% openly identifying as 'ethnic nationalists'. A further 25%, classed as the common sense voter, were found to have almost identical issues. These people are not going to vote Corbyn whether he was amazing at his job or not. The country doesn't want a left wing government. Frankly, I feel your issue boils down to wanting a centrist government with a red logo. You could vote Tory or lib dem but you want the red one. And you're angry that the red one is being silly and not being centrist.
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It's funny how some people focus on stuff like that and not on, say, underground trains being giant metal snakes barrelling at high speeds at you with no barrier inbetween. Just stick out a leg and boom, it loving explodes in a shower of gore. No safety measures stopping you from doing that. No way to stop it. And still millions of people take the tube every month.
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May 4, 2017 19:53
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OwlFancier posted:Probably not into a city, though. Regarde Aduck posted:Jeremy isn't going to win because the public is ideologically right wing. You love polls, you saw the poll that had 24% openly identifying as 'ethnic nationalists'. A further 25%, classed as the common sense voter, were found to have almost identical issues. There's a lot of easy answers like 'the papers' (but why are those the papers that sell) or 'lack of education' but it feels as if there is a core tribal reason.
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Regarde Aduck posted:Jeremy isn't going to win because the public is ideologically right wing. You love polls, you saw the poll that had 24% openly identifying as 'ethnic nationalists'. A further 25%, classed as the common sense voter, were found to have almost identical issues.
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Pochoclo posted:It's funny how some people focus on stuff like that and not on, say, underground trains being giant metal snakes barrelling at high speeds at you with no barrier inbetween. Just stick out a leg and boom, it loving explodes in a shower of gore. No safety measures stopping you from doing that. No way to stop it. And still millions of people take the tube every month. Well there's your own motor control stopping you, and, again, if you do train your leg off, it's only your leg. It's your own daft fault. 1000km/s collisions under major cities might be more concerning.
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If people aren't voting in their best interests the best hing you can do, rather than talking about them being stupid ignorant racist cunts on the internet, is try to get involved in some grass roots activism and show your principles by example and hope to win people over. Without the money, power, or other resources of a major political party it's about the best thing you can do. But it takes a lot of time, a lot of patience, and a huge resistance to burnout because political activism is often soul destroying stuff.
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Regarde Aduck posted:Jeremy isn't going to win because the public is ideologically right wing. You love polls, you saw the poll that had 24% openly identifying as 'ethnic nationalists'. A further 25%, classed as the common sense voter, were found to have almost identical issues.
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It'd be pretty cool if there was an opposition proposing similar economic ideas to the BNP without the terrifying authoritarianism and ethnic nationalism, but I don't think people are only answering that they hate immigrants on a poll because Corbyn Bad.
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Guavanaut posted:They worked on Concorde (except that time it hit a hotel) and that cruised at 72mbar outside pressure, a lot closer to the hyperloop's 1mbar than to sea level pressure. I hate to break it to you but the oxygen masks on Concord wouldn't have worked at anything like it's normal cruising altitude. The only thing you could do if it lost pressure was descend as fast as possible and hope you hit thick enough air before you died of hypoxia. In a hyperloop the problem would be even worse, although somewhat mitigated by the fact that you could re-pressurise the whole tube fairly quickly in an emergency. jBrereton posted:Plenty of them are fairweather ethnonationalists who would hold a different position if there was more than a joke opposition, imo. This is rubbish. People didn't suddenly start hating immigration and believing that we should look out for Britain first when Corbyn became leader. jabby fucked around with this message at 20:10 on May 4, 2017 |
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jBrereton posted:Plenty of them are fairweather ethnonationalists who would hold a different position if there was more than a joke opposition, imo. that's nice but your argument isn't being supported by reality
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If you think of the "common sense" people as basically politically ambivalent, the reason they're trotting out the government's line, which is anti-immigrant and right wing, is because the opposition is unable to form and expound upon their own narrative without someone loving it up, cf. Abbott or the amount of rollbacks on policy as McDonnell or Corbyn says something in the morning about fuckin trains or tax or whatever and scuttles back on it by the end of the day. And I say that as someone who went out and did their Labour voting duty today.
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jBrereton posted:If you think of the "common sense" people as basically politically ambivalent, this is the mistake
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Maybe they also just think that blaming foreigners is correct and are actually racist?
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OwlFancier posted:Maybe they also just think that blaming foreigners is correct and are actually racist?
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When the headlines today are all "EU threatens Election says May" and "Hands off our election Brussels!" and not "May talks fantastically stupid conspiracy poo poo" I don't know why you'd think any leftist message is going to get out there.
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Fans posted:When the headlines today are all "EU threatens Election says May" and "Hands off our election Brussels!" and not "May talks fantastically stupid conspiracy poo poo" I don't know why you'd think any leftist message is going to get out there.
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jBrereton posted:If you think of the "common sense" people as basically politically ambivalent, the reason they're trotting out the government's line, which is anti-immigrant and right wing, is because the opposition is unable to form and expound upon their own narrative without someone loving it up, cf. Abbott or the amount of rollbacks on policy as McDonnell or Corbyn says something in the morning about fuckin trains or tax or whatever and scuttles back on it by the end of the day. Then it depends what you mean by 'more than a joke opposition'. If you mean Corbyn and McDonnell might have a shot at convincing people of left-wing ideas if they were better at their jobs, sure. If you mean that bringing back Miliband and his racist mugs would get people to be less nationalist by pandering to their nationalism, you're off your rocker.
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