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Bug Squash posted:Gaddafi was a big supporter of anti-apartheid work. Mandela's autobiography details a meeting where he gives them a big load of guns for the cause. e: 140 Gaddafi loyalists were extrajudicially executed in a single incident in September 2011. Guavanaut fucked around with this message at 11:16 on Sep 9, 2019 |
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Sanitary Naptime posted:Good morning all. Seems optimistic that the runtime won’t be all taken up by whatever madness happens in politics at the moment. I think you should probably wait until things calm down a bit. That said, I listened to your second episode (excellent, btw), and on there you threatened a couple of times to do a Toby Young episode. Anyway, I’d like to put my hat in the ring for whenever you get around to that - Toby lives nearby me and literally created his Free School (and arguably the entire free school movement) in order to avoid sending his children to my old secondary (comprehensive) school. Also, I just took delivery of a Blue Yeti microphone, so the sound quality should be okay.
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Guavanaut posted:Didn't that turn out to be the Iranians and the intelligence community made up a whole thing about it being Libya because Ronnie Reagan wanted it to be? Gaddafi also wanted the notoriety that came with accepting blame I think
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Guavanaut posted:Didn't that turn out to be the Iranians and the intelligence community made up a whole thing about it being Libya because Ronnie Reagan wanted it to be? Not as far as I'm aware, no, I think that must be some other bombing. It came after the US shot down a Libyan passenger plane, and was explicitly a revenge bombing.
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Remember when Tony Blair convinced Gadaffi to give up all those WMDs he never had. That was bizarre.
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Bug Squash posted:Not as far as I'm aware, no, I think that must be some other bombing. It came after the US shot down a Libyan passenger plane, and was explicitly a revenge bombing.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Hmm, why would illegal taxi drivers in China have a much lower rate of reported offences? JFC people and dismissing statistics. Uber’s hilariously evil business practices aside, if you think app-based ride hailing , where every ride is traceable, is more likely to have unreported crime than some dude in a Xiali who picks up a customer from the roadside, you’re hugely wrong. Not every taxi driver on the planet is a London cabbie, and not all regulation has the intention or effect of improving standards. I’m also not aware of any evidence that people are reluctant to report crime on minicabs or ride hailing cars - which makes sense, because it would be insane to not report someone assaulting or mugging you just because it was an Uber or Ola driver or whatever. I mean if you want to argue against the gig economy go right ahead, there are plenty of good reasons, but “more safety” isn’t an accurate reason to prefer licensed taxis.
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I'm getting confused. This is the Lockerbie bombing yes? I thought it was pretty well established that was Libyan agents. Controversy existed on whether the ones brought to trial were the ones who did/ordered it though. If there's been a major reversal in this outside conspiracy theories I'd very much appreciate a link about it.
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Bug Squash posted:I'm getting confused. This is the Lockerbie bombing yes? I thought it was pretty well established that was Libyan agents. Controversy existed on whether the ones brought to trial were the ones who did/ordered it though. About as well established as the chemical weapons in Iraq
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Bug Squash posted:I'm getting confused. This is the Lockerbie bombing yes? I thought it was pretty well established that was Libyan agents. Controversy existed on whether the ones brought to trial were the ones who did/ordered it though. The US shot down so many people's passenger planes in the 80s that there's credible motive from multiple actors, it just so happened that Britain didn't want to rock the boat with Iran at that particular point in time, and it was convenient for both Reagan and Gadaffi to claim Libyan direction of the plot.
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Lockerbie was a false flag operation, I've never met a Scottish person. FAKE NEWS
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So in one of John Simpson's books he says it was widely believed in the Gulf, just as a statement of fact, that it was the Iranians who did the Lockerbie bombing (perhaps subcontracting the job to the Syrians, who perhaps set up the Libyans as patsies). Of course, just because its widely believed in the Gulf doesn't mean its true, conspiracy theories are fairly rampant there.
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Ratjaculation posted:Lockerbie was a false flag operation, I've never met a Scottish person. FAKE NEWS On the other hand, almost everyone I've met is a scottish person, so statistically, most people, including the lockerbie bombers, are probably scottish.
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Beefeater1980 posted:JFC people and dismissing statistics. Uber’s hilariously evil business practices aside, if you think app-based ride hailing , where every ride is traceable, is more likely to have unreported crime than some dude in a Xiali who picks up a customer from the roadside, you’re hugely wrong. Not every taxi driver on the planet is a London cabbie, and not all regulation has the intention or effect of improving standards. All that traceable ride data is in the hands of a psychotic company who has absolutely no desire to portray themselves in any negative light whose preferred method of dealing with driver crime is for their riders to rate the drivers a one.
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Comrade Fakename posted:Seems optimistic that the runtime won’t be all taken up by whatever madness happens in politics at the moment. I think you should probably wait until things calm down a bit. Haha oh my, sure thing well let you know when that ones coming. We reckon it’ll be fairly quiet and we’re recording tomorrow night tbh, can’t see many more big resignations or massive developments in case everything goes tits up and we get a badly timed election through magic. Worst case scenario we end up recording two episodes this week 
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chestnut santabag posted:All that traceable ride data is in the hands of a psychotic company who has absolutely no desire to portray themselves in any negative light whose preferred method of dealing with driver crime is for their riders to rate the drivers a one.
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I think there was something in the Hollywood rumour mill about Gaddafi being connected to Dan Schneider and the other Nickelodeon paedophiles, who were piggybacking off the CIA torture network in Libya. Saw it somewhere in our Hollywood sexual abuse megathread.
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Guavanaut posted:Al-J did a documentary about it a few years ago and it's something that keeps coming up in the papers with varying degrees of credibility. Thanks for taking the time to write this up. The Libyans still seem the most likely culprits. But, the Iranian theory isn't manifestly wrong like the usual conspiracy theory stuff. Discussion of this is pretty tangled with the usual 'lol US bad' chat, so it's probably not worth diving any deeper here.
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Guavanaut posted:So what you're saying is that we should nationalize Uber and make the anonymized data public and the code open source? Well of course. (They already operate at a loss subsidising their rides so they're basically a public utility already )
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How anyone could consider this utterly moronic, blithering idiot, to be suitable material to run a tap let alone a government, I fail completely to understand.quote:Boris Johnson is reportedly ready to send a second letter to the EU - alongside the formal request for a three-month Brexit delay required of him by the Benn bill - explaining that he does not actually want any delay after 31 October. https://twitter.com/BBCPolitics/status/1170829010487730176?s=20
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Worth it just for the Chernobyl referencequote:We begin this editorial with an apology to you, our faithful readers. In March, we described the Brexit situation, then careening through its third year and nowhere close to resolution, as an “omnishambles.” https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/editorials/article-how-bad-is-boris-johnson-we-cant-even-find-the-words/
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Private eye did a massive report on the lockerbie bombing and it was 100% not the Libya, and almost certainly the Iranians.
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Guavanaut posted:So what you're saying is that we should nationalize Uber and make the anonymized data public and the code open source? You joke (I think) but I actually suspect that’s the logical endpoint of ride-hailing. It’s network effects all the way down. E: you can see this from China and other countries where private car ownership isn’t well established; the ready availability of ride hailing had caused China’s car market, which was what all the auto manufacturers have been counting on, to implode. All the OEMs are worried, and they’re right to be. Beefeater1980 fucked around with this message at 12:03 on Sep 9, 2019 |
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Jose posted:christ his expressions throughout this this clip makes more sense if you imagine he's just poo poo himself and is desperately trying to think of how to get out of this press conference without anyone noticing
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Beefeater1980 posted:You joke (I think) but I actually suspect that’s the logical endpoint of ride-hailing. It’s network effects all the way down.
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Beefeater1980 posted:JFC people and dismissing statistics. Uber’s hilariously evil business practices aside, if you think app-based ride hailing , where every ride is traceable, is more likely to have unreported crime than some dude in a Xiali who picks up a customer from the roadside, you’re hugely wrong. Not every taxi driver on the planet is a London cabbie, and not all regulation has the intention or effect of improving standards. All rides are traced by a company that has a proven track record of actively obstructing investigations into criminal activity by it's drivers and entire business model in most of the world is based on breaking the law? Oh that's fine then. The gig economy is evil but Uber are evil in ways that Victorian robber barons can only dream of.
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Guavanaut posted:It's what I'd like to happen. Or more likely, they should be run by the municipalities rather than nation-states. Not only because of my like of municipalism and the right to the city, but because logically most people are going to be taking Ubers within a particular county or municipality, the average Uber journey is 5-7 miles. Also traditionally it was the municipality that ran the trams or buses and gave out the taxi medallions, so it'd make more sense than National Uber or Uber England or whatever. The scale effects are relevant to this though. As of today, what Uber competitors like DiDi in China and Grab in SEA do is to sign partnerships with the big oil companies to get cheap petrol for drivers. That cuts operating costs massively. Uber doesn’t make that an automatic right and preserves it for a favoured few drivers of course because, as mentioned, hilariously evil. But it is at least in theory a viable model for a state-run company - so long as it can leverage that scale.
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uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh https://twitter.com/lewis_goodall/status/1171010813240512512
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Beefeater1980 posted:You joke (I think) but I actually suspect that’s the logical endpoint of ride-hailing. It’s network effects all the way down. is there much of a network effect, really? there's nothing stopping drivers or customers from having ten apps on their phone. the value-add to drivers of being able to suggest customers who will bring them closer to a particular point is an end-of-shift thing ride-sharing customers like the network effect too but they are, by definition, always going to be a penny-pinching demographic a weak network effect is still consistent with some monopolization -- but it would imply very narrow margins
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