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everyones talking about tiktok, snapchat and instagram and im sat here on my bebo like "hello?"
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Put that hello through blingee you coward.
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Aug 9, 2019 18:06
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Heroquest, because go go Glorantha.
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Klepsie posted:All right, all right, it's taken over 15 years of Camrath nagging me but drops of water wear away a stone. Here I am. I am his friend who's been having issues with the mental health system. There have been some developments (also a few of Cam's original details are, innocently, a bit inaccurate). If there is interest, I can expand.
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Aug 9, 2019 18:08
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RIP to any goon with an EX, MK, DE or CV postcode. Western Power got hit hard.
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Aug 9, 2019 18:11
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Azza Bamboo posted:Put that hello through blingee you coward. oh man lmbo, thanks for reminding me. i think i had so many youtube videos set to autoplay simultaneously that it just crashed browsers
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Aug 9, 2019 18:14
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Total Meatlove posted:RIP to any goon with an EX, MK, DE or CV postcode. Just as Javid is at the National Grid lol https://www.twitter.com/GossiTheDog/status/1159866929437433856
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Aug 9, 2019 18:27
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Saj went Howard Roark on the grid because they wouldn't let him build it exactly how he wanted.
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Aug 9, 2019 18:30
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Supposed to fly out to Corfu (Dobby club represent) at 7am tomorrow morning, really hoping this weather doesn't shaft us with a big delay.
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Aug 9, 2019 18:32
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Saj proving that theresa isn't the only tory capable of completely draining the energy from the room
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Aug 9, 2019 18:34
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AceClown posted:Supposed to fly out to Corfu (Dobby club represent) at 7am tomorrow morning, really hoping this weather doesn't shaft us with a big delay. This wouldn't be enough to stop international flights, but I'd be more concerned about whichever airport you're departing from not being utter chaos. Diet Crack fucked around with this message at 19:06 on Aug 9, 2019 |
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Aug 9, 2019 18:38
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Ah, the joy of the electricity system going wrong. It looks like there was a sudden drop in the National Grid system frequency just before 17:00, which coincided with RWE's 660MW Little Barford combined-cycle gas station going unexpectedly and suddenly offline. Drops in frequency are caused by demand exceeding supply, and the usual control mechanisms of part-loaded power stations weren't enough to absorb the drop. I don't think that the entire drop in frequency was caused just by Little Barford, but from a sheer engineering point of view, the large amount of wind and solar generation we've got running during summer daytimes doesn't help, as these don't contribute inertia to the electricity grid that gives time for it to react to changes to load. The frequency dropped to about 48.8 Hz, which is well outside of the usual 49.5 Hz to 50.5 Hz range. Once you get down below that level, automatic low frequency demand disconnection happens. This is to stop the frequency falling further, as power stations start to trip at about 48 Hz, which leads to a cascade failure of the grid and a total blackout. This is widely regarded as a bad thing. The disconnections are random and widespread, depending on the exact settings of the relays in the Grid Supply Points, so there's no rhyme or reason to which areas of the country are disconnected - ideally, you want an even distribution across the country to stop surges. It looks like the system's recovering right now - when I left work, National Grid had turned on an extra 3 GW of generation to give them headroom to play with while they reconnect the load that was shed. No doubt, we're going to see an long and intensive investigation from National Grid that's going to be wonderfully misinterpreted by the media. That said, the grid is designed to do exactly what happened today when there's a major mismatch between supply and demand.
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Aug 9, 2019 18:39
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Diet Crack posted:This wouldn't be enough to stop international flights, but I'd be more concerned about whichever airport you're departing from not being utter chaos. Manchester, so they're probably more used to lovely weather than most I guess.
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Aug 9, 2019 18:40
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RDevz posted:They unplugged the thing This was a very informative post, thank you
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Aug 9, 2019 18:45
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https://twitter.com/DerbyChrisW/status/1159799777158139908
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Aug 9, 2019 18:49
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Probably should have been clearer in the original tweet then, Chris
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Aug 9, 2019 18:51
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Aug 9, 2019 18:53
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BIG NEWS! https://twitter.com/ForChange_Now/status/1159107586588925952
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Aug 9, 2019 18:56
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Aug 9, 2019 18:59
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looks like Radio 4 have managed to commission something even loving worse than Dead Ringers I had it on for a maximum of three minutes and honestly I've been to funerals that were funnier
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Aug 9, 2019 19:01
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Mrenda posted:
Dnd is the name most people recognise, but all in all its a terrible system, there are far better ones on the market, but most people get introduced to dnd and never move on.
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Aug 9, 2019 19:07
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So have we talked about this yet? https://twitter.com/JohnDoe78359022/status/1159848910745198593?s=20
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Aug 9, 2019 19:08
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^^^ A little bit a while back. "Our politics is broken." That should be their slogan. Diet Crack fucked around with this message at 19:11 on Aug 9, 2019 |
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Aug 9, 2019 19:08
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Julio Cruz posted:looks like Radio 4 have managed to commission something even loving worse than Dead Ringers Those Radio 4 comedy shows are absolutely loving dire far more often than not. I just remember some poo poo with Benedict Cumberbatch sitcom about an airline which was insipid. And Count Arthur Strong. Ugh.
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Aug 9, 2019 19:10
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I could put on a brave face when I got work emails from Theresa May, I could swallow the bile when I got them from Amber Rudd, but today is just too much. I didn't apply for this job to get emails from Boris loving Johnson 
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Aug 9, 2019 19:11
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Empty reply, one attachment, hello.jpg
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Aug 9, 2019 19:12
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Time to send some horrible internet links/images *wink wink*
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wassup to the newbieWhatEvil posted:their D&D podcast The Adventure Zone is really great, and also involves their dad Clint McElroy who used to be a radio personality in West Virginia. um excuse me he's still playing the hits!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPaiJms5_ec forkboy84 posted:The entire app is horrible. TikTok is Vine for people without any ideas. https://twitter.com/jbillinson/status/1155610305063456768
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Aug 9, 2019 19:13
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Sykic posted:I could put on a brave face when I got work emails from Theresa May, I could swallow the bile when I got them from Amber Rudd, but today is just too much. I didn't apply for this job to get emails from Boris loving Johnson Tell me about it. I opened it without looking at the subject line and there's his gurning face staring at me.
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Aug 9, 2019 19:13
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Wow £5 a month and you don't even get early access to their upcoming racism scandals or an extra anti-Labour press release a week? What's even the point? OTOH if Mike Gapes went on Reel Politik as a Patreon only episode I'd be tempted to subscribe that month.
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Aug 9, 2019 19:14
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wait didn't Chris Leslie acknowledge the logo was bad in whatever the collective version of a mea culpa is I guess they can't really change it now after Mike Gapes got that job lot of lanyards made
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Aug 9, 2019 19:19
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This essay got featured in Jacobin recently, and I know it's a topic near and dear to a number of minds here... go read it, it's interesting key section that does most of the work: quote:Key here [in Gindin's model of capital allocation] is a particular balance between incentives, which increase inequality, and an egalitarian bias in investment. As noted earlier, the surpluses earned by each workplace collective can be used to increase their communal or individual consumption, but those surpluses cannot be used for reinvestment. Nationwide priorities are established at the level of the central plan through democratic processes and pressures (more on this later) and these are translated into investment allocations by sector. The sector councils then distribute funds for investment among the workplace collectives they oversee. But unlike market-based decisions, the dominant criteria are not to favor those workplaces that have been most productive, serving to reproduce permanent and growing disparities among workplaces. Rather, the investment strategy is based on bringing the productivity of goods or services of the weaker collectives closer to the best performers (as well as other social criteria like absorbing new entrants into the workforce and supporting development in certain communities or regions). My own thoughts... Gindin assumes that the workplaces being distributed from would resent losing their surplus, and the workplaces being distributed to would welcome the center's funding, even if it came with conditions to substantially improve their productivity. But Gindin is proposing just M&A collective-style, enforced by the state, with the weaker collectives having conditions imposed on them in return for investment from the stronger collective. That's indistinguishable from acquisition... management at acquiring firms are not the residual claimants under managerial capitalism and would not be under worker collectives, so they don't have a personal concentrated stake in the loss of the surplus, but they do gain a great deal of power... (much of the rest is not novel to anyone who has read a sketch of market socialism, and is if anything too sympathetic to capital allocation under capitalism)
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Aug 9, 2019 19:19
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Lobster God posted:Tell me about it. "Undemocratic Irish backstop" is quickly becoming my least favourite phrase.
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Aug 9, 2019 19:21
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Is this with the cat on or off of the desk?
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Aug 9, 2019 19:34
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Rarity posted:Realtalk: Rowdy Ringsports and Games are both secret hotbeds of left-wing theory and I love them for it I regularly confuse this thread and that forum due to the crossover.
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Aug 9, 2019 19:42
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Sykic posted:"Undemocratic Irish backstop" is quickly becoming my least favourite phrase. Like England Scotland Wales Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic each vote on what to do and then whichever the majority outcome of those referenda wins.
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Aug 9, 2019 19:54
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Julio Cruz posted:looks like Radio 4 have managed to commission something even loving worse than Dead Ringers Didn't know R4 had the rights to the UKMT Podcast
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Aug 9, 2019 19:57
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RDevz posted:Ah, the joy of the electricity system going wrong. I always know that whenever Something Happens, the UKMT has a relevant expert on standby to give a detailed report that far surpasses anything on the news The only surprised here is that you weren't pipped to the post by resident expert-in-everything goddamnedtwisto
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Aug 9, 2019 20:01
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RDevz posted:Ah, the joy of the electricity system going wrong. Is it true they used to increase supply during Coronation Streets' adbreaks due to all the kettles being turned on
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Diet Crack posted:^^^ A little bit a while back. 
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