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However much this thread in-fights at times, I'm sure we can all unite in this being the worst thing to come out of Brexit right now https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-50205950 Also, I stumbled upon a clip that I'm amazed didn't do the rounds at the height of Yewtree and the like. John Peel impersonating Jimmy Savile on The Goodies in 1973. It's like a Russian Doll of noncery/open secrets  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NM3byeb2ECI&t=9s (just the first bit) e: Dammit I'm mainly just a lurker and I get taxed? 288 is an untouchable number, you can't touch it. 
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Owen Jones has written an article about the self-defeating disaster that is the People's Vote campaign: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/oct/28/peoples-vote-labour-brexit-second-referendum The comments below the line are beautifully salty, without being able to address any of the points he actually makes.
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franco posted:However much this thread in-fights at times, I'm sure we can all unite in this being the worst thing to come out of Brexit right now https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-50205950  @ that cat's huge hairy balls
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Pistol_Pete posted:Owen Jones has written an article about the self-defeating disaster that is the People's Vote campaign: Guardian Pick: "Jeremy Corbyn went on holiday during the referendum campaign"
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Look I'm sure that person actually believes that and we're not going to comment on whether it's true, we are reporting accurately what the commenter believes.
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Tarnop posted:Guardian Pick: "Jeremy Corbyn went on holiday during the referendum campaign"
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CGI Stardust posted:Thought you were joking, but no, both the Guardian Picks are aggressively anti-Corbyn, maybe for "balance" "Opinion remains split over Corbyn. In half of our Picks, the readers hate him; in the other half, they REALLY hate him."
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I'd genuinely rather read YouTube comments than guardian comments. At least on balance most of those are positive rather than the most aggravatingly stupid being carefully curated to the top. I think most of the moderate posters long got ran off the guardian website, like dyed in the wool FBPEs wouldn't post on Sun articles. But at least on the Sun or Mail comments aren't being signal boosted as a BEST PICK to enhance an editorial line that refuses to actually rebut fake news like the holiday claim. E: Speaking of editorial lines, just look at the state of this:  This is actually better than it was last night, when it was specifically 'Momentum stitch ups aren't working'. The article itself it alright if a bit wet, but it explicitly describes a properly functioning democratic selection process where people are allowed to *gasp* actually vote for the candidate they prefer. The response to which is the guardian headline screaming 'Jeremy Corbad FAILING at even properly running roughshod over the wailing masses'. RockyB fucked around with this message at 09:23 on Oct 29, 2019 |
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In Graun world, giving Owen Jones column inches is balance, because rabid liberalism is just common sense and self-evidently the default position. It's not the comments on that page that are the outlier. Never noticed the "Guardian picks" before though, I thought it was the done thing to at least pretend vox pops haven't been carefully curated to manufacture consensus. Also congrats Guava, my predicted text doesn't want me to use the word "Guardian" when your name is an option. Take this as you will
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Borrovan posted:In Graun world, giving Owen Jones column inches is balance, because rabid liberalism is just common sense and self-evidently the default position. It's not the comments on that page that are the outlier.
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Jedit posted:OK, then - if neoliberal economics will "gently caress like bunnies" to make money, why is there a housing shortage that will take 200,000 new builds a year to fill? In short, because ‘loving like pandas’ makes more money. Truly unregulated capitalism usually tops out at delivering goods to like 80 or 90% of the population; see British India for the last time that was tried for essentials like food. Outside perfectly frictionless spherical competition, the profit-maximizing price will be one some people cannot pay. Assuming you consider that a problem, there are about a billion possible solutions, from a Singapore-style National Housing Service to doing something wonkish with a perfectly timed change in stamp duty. Neoliberal economics is all about it being really cool and clever to pick the solution that requires the minimal possible effort. Post-neoliberal economics is recognizing that people and institutions are not able to be consistently that clever; sometime a less subtle approach is needed.
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seizure later posted:didn't the vote require you to have photo ID with you, the exact thing Labour says is a terrible idea because it disenfranchises lots of people? If you can afford to pay to be a member of a political party then you're more likely to have photo id I'm guessing. General election voting is different - you want even the terminally destitute to be able to vote. My CLP is voting on whether to trigger reselection soon (on David Lammy) and they said i need my membership card and photo id. It does seem rather unlikely that someone would be able to nick a membership card and turn up to a meeting without bumping into the person you're impersonating, though. Like "voter fraud" it must surely be near non- existent?
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Beefeater1980 posted:The big question about housing is, if nobody gets to be a landlord and make money off renting privately (which would probably be a good thing), who gets to live in a smart detached house and who gets to live in Apt. 42 Suicide Towers? Do you have the government/ council become the monopoly landlord? The current system makes it clear who holds responsibility for what when the state owns the housing, too, though? The idea is literally everybody lives in a council house. There's already stuff in place that covers all of this.
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Pochoclo posted:No I mean the other way around, did they need to translate it into Welsh? Like does anyone at all in Wales go and look at a menu and go "me...nu???? oh, it's a bwydlen, gotcha thanks!" gently caress off
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:Like "voter fraud" it must surely be near non- existent? The usual solution is just asking people politely not to vote if they're not a member in good standing, but I can see that creating problems in front line politics.
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feedmegin posted:The current system makes it clear who holds responsibility for what when the state owns the housing, too, though? The idea is literally everybody lives in a council house. There's already stuff in place that covers all of this. I'd be happy enough with what we had before the Thatcher sell-off: roughly 60% of the population owns their home and the other 40% live in council houses with lifetime tenancies that they can usually pass on to their kids. The provision of mass council housing acts as a vital safety valve to keep overall property prices nice and low; if you can't or don't want to own you just stick your name on the council housing list and get given a place shortly afterwards and private rentals are shrunk down to a few special cases like student accomodation or short-term lets. I mean that alone would be a massive improvement on the current shitshow.
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feedmegin posted:The current system makes it clear who holds responsibility for what when the state owns the housing, too, though? The idea is literally everybody lives in a council house. There's already stuff in place that covers all of this. That’s true, I guess it’s more that the rules designed for a system where some part of the population lives in a council house temporarily (at least in theory) might need some tweaking to be right for a situation where everyone does permanently.
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OwlFancier posted:It would, but I think we really should attempt to destroy housing as a commodity, because otherwise they're just gonna do the thatcher sell off again. 100% tax on capital gains from selling a home would go a long way. In fact, even a 20 or 30% surtax would probably do the job because all you need to do is to make it unprofitable to borrow money to buy a second house. It’s not just housing though, it’s land in general. Also office space. If you want to see somewhere that’s even more crazily biased in favour of landlords than the UK, Exhibit A is Hong Kong, where businesses have to turn over management accounts to their landlords and commercial and residential leases are all short-term. The effect of this is that landlords extract literally all surplus economic value from the system instead of just a part. It’s insane.
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Jippa posted:https://distincttoday.net/2019/10/27/mi5-warns-universities-their-research-could-be-at-risk-from-beijing-spies-hidden-among-students/ Are you posting this because you agree with it or because it's totally ridiculous? Newton's second law isn't a state secret.
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Jippa posted:https://distincttoday.net/2019/10/27/mi5-warns-universities-their-research-could-be-at-risk-from-beijing-spies-hidden-among-students/ id kill to get more russian grad students the ones out of moscow esp can be really brilliant
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bump_fn posted:id kill to get more russian grad students the ones out of moscow esp can be really brilliant GGG hired a physics grad from Moscow Tech to do technical programming on their game Path of Exile, and he's been absolute genius who's done poo poo way above what their budget/size should have allowed for.
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Where's the best place to buy PC's or components these days? Used to use Novatech but they seem out of stock of half the stuff these days.
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:Turns out the recent break-out of Fubpeeism isn't down to brainworms or even brainspiders, but brainticks Brainbugs E: actually ticks are arachnids, so still brainspiders
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Jippa posted:https://distincttoday.net/2019/10/27/mi5-warns-universities-their-research-could-be-at-risk-from-beijing-spies-hidden-among-students/ quote:Some UK universities had twice a many students from China as they did from northern Ireland (statistics are pictured above) quote:UK Spy agencies have even warned campuses to segregate IT network access between foreign partners.
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Tesseraction posted:https://twitter.com/JenniferMerode/status/1188772918777597952 It's wonderful that the SNP and Lib Dems rescued us from the mess created by that awful indecisive coward Corbyn. (Yes I'm really far behind in the thread. I'm still going to subject you all to my anti-Corbyn hot takes.)
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Guavanaut posted:So will this be in the form of separate network ports with white and coloured labels? They'll have a separate WiFi named "Yellow Peril".
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OzyMandrill posted:Where's the best place to buy PC's or components these days? I've always gone to Scan or Novatech, usually splitting between the two when buying for a build. Scan are pretty good ime.
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Failed Imagineer posted:Brainbugs They're only brainspiders if they have brainspinnerets, for weaving webs in your skull.
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Kassad posted:They'll have a separate WiFi named "Yellow Peril". And it tries to install a virus called opium.exe for old time's sake
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OzyMandrill posted:Where's the best place to buy PC's or components these days? Ebuyer or Scan usually, sometimes Aria. You can also use https://uk.pcpartpicker.com and they'll do a price comparison on parts for you like this https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/product/RGyV3C/msi-geforce-gtx-1660-ti-6-gb-ventus-xs-video-card-gtx-1660-ti-ventus-xs-6g-oc
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Pounding my clipboard Election elecTION ELECTION https://twitter.com/adambienkov/status/1189132079163949058?s=21
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