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baka kaba posted:yeah this is great so far The former empire of Little England sees Ireland as one of the countless random colonies that they ultimately cast aside when it became convenient, whereas the foundational struggle of Ireland was kicking out the English.
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I CANNOT EJACULATE WITHOUT SEEING NATIVE AMERICANS BRUTALISED!
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suck my woke dick posted:The former empire of Little England sees Ireland as one of the countless random colonies that they ultimately cast aside when it became convenient, whereas the foundational struggle of Ireland was kicking out the English. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVzAMmpMra8
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Junior G-man posted:An Irish journalist called Chris Cook wrote up a six piece long read on the inside-no. 10-baseball on Brexit during May's time, and how that played out during the negotiations. It's superb and you should all read it: Seriously, go read this, it's so good. Or bookmark it or whatever you get up to.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Love to know where - as in what departments - you've worked. I set up a database and a basic front end to enter new addresses into it, and a mailmerge document with a macro that automated everything you needed to print off a sheet on the other printer, which was capable of handling label printing, and set it up to use label sheets that had 3 columns. I put links to both on the desktop of the one PC that contained it. My manager (who has carpal tunnel) loved it. Everyone else got mad at it and then refused to use it. Eventually one of them smarmed about having 'accidentally' deleted it. So I restored it from backup and showed my manager how to do that as well. They still refused. The amount of offices I've worked in where middle aged people are blocking modernisation because they don't want to learn new tech is astounding, it's almost everywhere I've worked or temped. And yes, I get it when it's fear of downsizing. But in the case of refusing to learn how to videoconference rather than fly all over the world, it's actively damaging the climate for future generations. But like with the car thing, the old way has become so entrenched that you need to overhaul the entire system to improve it, and people are resistant to systemic change when the system is currently working for them.
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Jedit posted:If we let Cities Skylines players design real cities, every one of them would look like a collection of penises connected with swastikas. Nah, it'd be railways as far as the eye can see. Tearing down the historic inner city to build more railways. All roads replaced by railways. New railways built to improve the links between railways.
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Junior G-man posted:Seriously, go read this, it's so good. Or bookmark it or whatever you get up to. worth pointing out there are no links to the other pages on this site and also you need a login for the main page  so get yr links while you can
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https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/oct/08/boris-johnson-film-script-mission-to-syriaquote:Writing “I cannot abide the apathy of the west”, Johnson adds that he was inspired by the destruction of large portions of the Middle East’s archeological heritage after the Iraq war to create “a glorious wish-fulfilment dream movie, a mixture of Golan-Globus and Raiders of the Lost Ark”.
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sebzilla posted:My partner doesn't drive and it ruled out a lot of potential houses for us. If I couldn't drive either we'd get by with the bus and walking but have to stop doing some of the things we currently do. And being in a band would be almost impossible. I used to argue with my rural-dwelling folks that Londoners walk far more than countryside dwellers. Practically everyone in rural and semi-rural locations with bugger all public transport tumbles out of their front doors into their cars to get to work, the shops, any leisure activities. I think my folks' might if they were extremely active clock up 5 miles a week. When I worked in London, my (and many of the people I worked with) daily commute would easily clock up an hour of walking without much effort: 5 mins to the tube/train, a minute or so the full length of a train, 5 mins walking to change tube/train, almost 10 minutes to get out of underground and cross Victoria station and down to the far end of the next tube/train, another 5 mins to get out of the final station, another 5 minutes walk to work. Then maybe 10 mins walk at lunchtime to get the sarnie or whatever, then reverse to get back home. Where I live now, small town, little public transport especially none after 530pm, it's like prison if you don't drive and taxis to the nearest places with train stations are £45-£50 one way if you can actually find one. Welsh Govt should really look into some kind of publicly organised uber-style offering which would be ideal round here.
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oh no a drop of 0.5 pence whatever will we do
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Not only that, but if there's no money in the ATMs and internet breaks, you won't be able to buy anything even if it's there with cash or cards. I doubt many shops have those little machines anymore for doing paper credit card transactions. This is the voice of experience from another country. no money in the ATMs for 3 weeks and shops not able to take cards. Army stocking the shop shelves every night after curfew but unless you had a cash stash we couldn't buy anything. i know from personal experience asda does because internet went down in one of their shops while I was in it once
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alphabettitouretti posted:https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/oct/08/boris-johnson-film-script-mission-to-syria https://www.standard.co.uk/comment/...e-a4254151.html quote:The sound effects are straight from the Spitfire battles of a prep school dorm: “Dugga dugga dugga thwok thwok thwok” go the helicopters. People are routinely beheaded, in battles jihadis are “spifflicated” with a shovel. Spifflicated? I do like the moment Angelina/Scarlett tells Marmaduke he’s a wimp. Grizzled Marmaduke does, however, save the day in the end. Angelina is too merciful, too feminine to kill the cologne-drenched jihadi so it is left to Marmaduke to finish him off — “Aaargh. Splatteroo”.
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Julio Cruz posted:oh no a drop of 0.5 pence whatever will we do There has been a 20% cumulative drop since the referendum. Pound's hosed, and today may not be 'much' but even half a percent is not something to sneer at.
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sebzilla posted:My partner doesn't drive and it ruled out a lot of potential houses for us. If I couldn't drive either we'd get by with the bus and walking but have to stop doing some of the things we currently do. And being in a band would be almost impossible. A lot of local hospitals, police stations, ambulance stations and fire services have closed down so that they can centralise in cities. That makes sense on a budget sheet, and makes sense to people with a car or money for a taxi. But to me, what would make more sense is in any location where you have more than say 10k people, you have one building that houses a police officer or two, a paramedic and triage nurse, a fire officer and maybe with the spare cash a counsellor or a CAB. Scale up the staff and resources depending on the size of the local population until you hit a certain cap (otherwise you're just repeating centralisation), and then build a second one. Again though, this comes back to how late stage capitalism fucks everything up by being terrified of letting anyone work together lest the insidious hand of communism harm the bottom line. * And I'm not criticising you for that, everyone I talk to does this which makes me feel like I'm the weird one.
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StarkingBarfish posted:even half a percent is not something to sneer at. no it definitely is something to sneer at look at any longer-term chart and you'll see that half-pence fluctuations happen all the loving time e: also while we're at it the value right now is almost exactly the same as it was 3 years ago so talking about "cumulative drops" is just nonsense Julio Cruz fucked around with this message at 14:52 on Oct 8, 2019 |
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Oct 8, 2019 14:47
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Junior G-man posted:An Irish journalist called Chris Cook wrote up a six piece long read on the inside-no. 10-baseball on Brexit during May's time, and how that played out during the negotiations. It's superb and you should all read it:
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Julio Cruz posted:no it definitely is something to sneer at They do tend to keep happening with some regularity when the PM of the UK opens their gob, though 
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Not only that, but if there's no money in the ATMs and internet breaks, you won't be able to buy anything even if it's there with cash or cards. I doubt many shops have those little machines anymore for doing paper credit card transactions. This is the voice of experience from another country. no money in the ATMs for 3 weeks and shops not able to take cards. Army stocking the shop shelves every night after curfew but unless you had a cash stash we couldn't buy anything. I'm pretty sure paper credit card transactions haven't been a thing for like 30 years. I don't even know how you would process a credit card sale these days without an internet connection. Even the really old machines from 20+ years ago would still connect to the internet via dialup. Going through some junk at my old work recently we found a credit card imprinter, I'm a few years away from 40 and had never seen one before. I had no idea what it was.
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Bobby Deluxe posted:I mean that's a great example of thinking the fix is getting a bus*, rather than in the broader sense having more community hubs and less dispersed services. Yes I have this thought too regarding a local 'services' location. I think it should be a little flexible on size of population when you have a very spread out geographical area with a town possibly smaller than 10k as a logical centre.
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marktheando posted:I'm pretty sure paper credit card transactions haven't been a thing for like 30 years. I don't even know how you would process a credit card sale these days without an internet connection. Even the really old machines from 20+ years ago would still connect to the internet via dialup. Every National Trust property has one (because our internet connections are unreliable as all gently caress) e: Also you can do contactless payments offline (for a while) sebzilla fucked around with this message at 14:54 on Oct 8, 2019 |
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It's really funny seeing the pound go up and down with the predictability of the sunrise whenever May or Johnson open their mouths, but it's super loving tedious when people show it as a catastrophic nosedive like it's some kind of incredible gotcha.
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Julio Cruz posted:no it definitely is something to sneer at I am looking at the longer term chart. The problem is that british politicians opening their mouths causes fluctuations that seem to go down more often than up in recent years.
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sebzilla posted:Every National Trust property has one (because our internet connections are unreliable as all gently caress) hosed up. Did you take the card imprints to the bank 1950s style, or was it just so you could put them through when you got internet connection back?
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marktheando posted:I'm pretty sure paper credit card transactions haven't been a thing for like 30 years. I don't even know how you would process a credit card sale these days without an internet connection. Even the really old machines from 20+ years ago would still connect to the internet via dialup. Some store cards (from like when M&S etc. wouldn't take Visa or Mastercard, but you could open a line of credit with them directly and use their card) didn't even have the magnetic stripe.
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Unkempt posted:'Join us'? United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Republic of Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, and Sweden.
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StarkingBarfish posted:down more often than up in recent years. ...uh, no? 
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Guavanaut posted:I definitely remember them from the 90s. Tesco and that were all electronic but if you wanted to use card in the newsagents or even some department stores like Fenwick's the imprinter would come out from under the desk. Weird, a different much less convenient world.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Yes I have this thought too regarding a local 'services' location. I think it should be a little flexible on size of population when you have a very spread out geographical area with a town possibly smaller than 10k as a logical centre. I guess my motivation is this - I have a health issue at the moment which needs investigating. Where I used to live (Winchester), I could have gone to the GP, gotten a health referral, and then on the day of the appointment, walked to the nearest hospital, and depending on how my health declines, gotten a bus or taxi there for less than a fiver both ways for any subsequent appointments. That's a convenience that I think every single person in the country should have. Where I live now (rural Oxfordshire) i can walk to my GP, but if I need hospital treatment or investigation, they are going to send me to Oxford, which is a train and two buses away at a fiver each, which I can't afford (or at least resent paying) and am unlikely to make it to if it's an early appointment. But everyone around here treats it like it's perfectly normal. They're all used to it. They've never known any different and they've never needed to because they all have cars or access to cars. Junior G-man posted:Links still work for me? Bobby Deluxe fucked around with this message at 15:14 on Oct 8, 2019 |
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I want to believe this isn't real but I know in my heart that it is https://twitter.com/pmdfoster/status/1181542541583273985?s=20
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Bobby Deluxe posted:Oh absolutely. I realised as I was writing the bit about scaling up, I was brainspidering my way towards the exact same centralisation I was trying to solve. I have the same problem. I have an ongoing health issue. 2 years ago I was able to get NHS physio from a walk-in centre just 5 minutes walk from home. Now, it has closed down and it would be a whole day out on a bus (that takes an hour to get to the relevant town at £8 return, only runs every 2 hours) followed by a 40 min walk to and then 40 min again from the hospital to get physio. Instead, I am in the fortunate position of being able to pay a local private physio at £40 per hour and I fully appreciate and understand that others are just not able to.
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Julio Cruz posted:...uh, no? That thing that happened a few months before your x-axis starts can't possibly have contributed to a 20% swing at all. No sir. In fact, lol, what currency are you comparing to? dollars? StarkingBarfish fucked around with this message at 15:24 on Oct 8, 2019 |
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Julio Cruz posted:...uh, no? Hmmmmmmmmm interesting start date you've chosen there. Perhaps check back a couple months, say from the start of May 2016?
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Failed Imagineer posted:Yeah I mean clearly the less than 24 hours notice is to see how willing you are to put up with ridiculous impositions on your freedom. 2ndhnd.com for cheap ergo chairs. This guy buys office liquidations for dirt cheap and refurbishes the chairs and sells them on. We bought I think 8 Humanscale Freedom chairs from there and I can recommend those specifically. They're still like £2-300 but they retail for more like £8-1100. They also have Herman Miller and all the other fancy brands on there, but it's a bit variable what they actually have in stock at any time (due to the nature in which they get them).
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OwlFancier posted:I'm not sure "we" really won the second one at least. The country that did is a big supporter of brexit though
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Junior G-man posted:An Irish journalist called Chris Cook wrote up a six piece long read on the inside-no. 10-baseball on Brexit during May's time, and how that played out during the negotiations. It's superb and you should all read it: These are, absolutely a pro-click(s)
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StarkingBarfish posted:That thing that happened a few months before your x-axis starts can't possibly have contributed to a 20% swing at all. No sir. I mean sure but you're talking about "cumulative drops" and "more down than up in recent years", clearly neither of which is actually the case there's been one drop and then since then a load of fluctuations, you know, because fluctuations happen all the loving time except people keep mistaking the latest change of less than a penny for something actually meaningful
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