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Rarity posted:Oh yeah, someone asked about doing admin for Labour? Whoever it was, are you in Bristol? If so I'll email the organiser, if not I'll see if they fan put you in touch with your local team. That was me, thank you! I am, Bristol West to be exact. Not sure what the best why to pass on details is without getting doxxed? If you have PMs, I guess I could maybe bite the bullet and throw Lowtax some spine coins...
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HorseLord posted:European wiring standards are completely poo poo. The only rooms in the house that have to have an earth are the kitchen and bathroom, but it doesn't matter because the plugs can go in upside down and reverse live and neutral anyway. Lighting and sockets in a room are on the same radial. The sockets themselves take up the same amount of room but are more difficult to wire because they're made up of more parts, which are also somewhat fragile, so half of them get bent inside and you have to slam plugs into them with your palm or sometimes a hammer. You can't hammer the little two pin ones, so if the socket is like this you just have to go find another place to plug it in. (This was the case with my ring main, the first socket from the consumer unit only had one neutral attached, I had no idea until I redid some of the wiring and had it off the wall.) Europlugs have their faults, the new Type N plugs being introduced into Brazil and South Africa are better than both Europlugs and UKplugs, but anything that cares that you're reversing live and neutral should have three pins in a configuration with no rotational symmetry, and anything that doesn't doesn't matter, and the ring main system is just an overly elaborate joke.
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ThisBunkCannotSwim posted:That was me, thank you! I am, Bristol West to be exact. Not sure what the best why to pass on details is without getting doxxed? If you have PMs, I guess I could maybe bite the bullet and throw Lowtax some spine coins... You could always contact her via PM through the UKMT discord - https://discord.gg/QErneZT (plus send lowtax some £££)
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Guavanaut posted:And yet they still haven't managed to stumble on the brain genius scheme that you can have wiring where one of the neutrals falls out and the whole thing keeps going as normal, untestable from the socket, but with 30A going over a 20A rated cable. Is there anything I can look at on Type N? Just from a photo it looks to have the same bendy pin troubles as european stuff. In general I'll say that UK spec stuff wired up radially (like in a new build) is massively better and safer than any of the horrors I've found in europe. I mean seriously, they put power into the house by plugging the solar panels into a normal wall socket. It's a loving nightmare place when you have to do DIY. They also like using what's basically garden hosepipe for permanent indoor plumbing.
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lmao perfection, close the internet, we're done
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Chad is a very muscular and sexy country I hear
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Thanks to whoever recommended donoteat's series Cities Skylines: Power, Politics, & Planning https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwkSQD3vqK1S1NiHIxxF2g_Uy-LbbcR84 It's super interesting and owns
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Eschenique posted:This can't possibly be real. Goddammit for a moment there I almost humanised a tory. Eschenique posted:They're tree kittens This is your monthly reminder that grey squirrels are a pestilence, a pox, a horde of ravening parasites that devastate local woodlands and bird populations. Just like actual kittens, I guess. Also, again, if you ever manage to catch one it's actually illegal to NOT kill it. Anyway how 'bout them super rich huh.
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Braggart posted:Lib Dems in being shortsighted and greedy and taking their support for granted shocker Also my local Lib Dems have been forced to step aside for Anna Soubry because ***remain alliance*** They are, uh, not happy about this
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RockyB posted:Also, again, if you ever manage to catch one it's actually illegal to NOT kill it. Suddenly Hyde Park has become a much darker place
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HorseLord posted:Is there anything I can look at on Type N? Just from a photo it looks to have the same bendy pin troubles as european stuff. In general I'll say that UK spec stuff wired up radially is massively better and safer than any of the horrors I've found in europe. I mean seriously, they put power into the house by plugging the solar panels into a normal wall socket. It's a loving nightmare place when you have to do DIY. The UK plug (either the new square pin or the original thicc round pin) is pretty great for high current appliances, but I do think it'd be cool if they'd gone with the plan of shaver plugs for radios and other light duty stuff. I've never noticed a problem with shaver plug pins bending. And yes, radial wiring, breakers instead of fuses, and proper sockets with RCDs for bathrooms instead of unprotected fuckets that are half measures. e: A release on it. Injection molding solved a lot of problems with bendy complexity apparently. RockyB posted:This is your monthly reminder that grey squirrels are a pestilence, a pox, a horde of ravening parasites that devastate local woodlands and bird populations. Just like actual kittens, I guess. They used the drug act template on squirrels. Guavanaut fucked around with this message at 23:33 on Nov 2, 2019 |
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RockyB posted:Also, again, if you ever manage to catch one it's actually illegal to NOT kill it.
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WINNING HERE.
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MikeCrotch posted:Also my local Lib Dems have been forced to step aside for Anna Soubry because ***remain alliance*** Wait could you explain more? I thought CUK just sort of stopped surely Lib Dems aren't stepping down for CUKs.
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Borrovan posted:gently caress the police quote:The grey squirrel is regarded as an invasive non-native species following its inclusion under Schedule 9 of the Wildlife and Country Act 1981. Under Schedule 9 of the WCA, it is illegal to release a grey squirrel into the wild, or allow one to escape, without a license granted by Natural England. This means if you trap one, you are obliged to humanely dispatch it. That's right, it's illegal to allow the bastards to escape. Now how do we get billionaires added to schedule 9 of the WCA.
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Firos posted:WINNING HERE. please don't demean romania like this tia
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Guavanaut posted:Hey twisto, I have a weird question. Do you know if it's possible to get UK extension leads with both BS 1363 square 3 pin sockets and BS 4573 two pin shaver sockets? I can't see any reason why you couldn't, because they're both legal socket types, but all I can find are the old BS 546 style ones Probably not because until recently you weren't allowed to combine the two on the same circuit, and even though you can now (I think the change was some point in the late 90s - whenever RCDs became mandatory) there's not really a lot of applications for such a thing. You're probably better off just buying a conventional block and a handful of adapters for whatever you want to plug in. This also lets you put an appropriate fuse for the device in, too - anything with a two-pin socket really shouldn't be drawing more than a couple of amps and the 13A fuse most blocks are fitted with is more than enough juice to let the magic smoke out of whatever you want to plug in.
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ThomasPaine posted:please don't demean romania like this tia Remainia.
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Braggart posted:Jaeluni Asjil for Bus Commissar. They have good and practical ideas, and a wealth of experience to draw on. Bus Absolute Dictator of the Universe, please. I have billions of bus ideas (well general public transport ideas).
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Alctel posted:The common factor among all these is first past the post, it's a garbage electoral system that worked fine when you had two parties but breaks down with anything more ana makes it virtually impossible to get a new party off the ground Just FYI Australia doesn't use FPTP, we have preferential voting in the lower house and proportional voting in the upper house. We're just terrible racists and assholes and vote for the same while democracy steadily erodes around us.
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OwlFancier posted:I'm also not really sure that adopting the opposition's policies during an election campaign is necessarily the most effective way to sell yourself as a party. Shh! Cummies thinks he's stealing a march on us!
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Probably not because until recently you weren't allowed to combine the two on the same circuit, and even though you can now (I think the change was some point in the late 90s - whenever RCDs became mandatory) there's not really a lot of applications for such a thing. Jaeluni Asjil posted:Bus Absolute Dictator of the Universe, please.
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Robodog posted:Just FYI Australia doesn't use FPTP, we have preferential voting in the lower house and proportional voting in the upper house. We're just terrible racists and assholes and vote for the same while democracy steadily erodes around us.
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Borrovan posted:Well I can't think of any other unifying common factor that would explain why the UK, USA, Canada & Australia are so universally terrible
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feedmegin posted:If you emigrated there from the UK less than 15 years ago you are entitled to a vote in your old constituency. Munin posted:Definitely. I live in the US after passing through a couple of other places but make sure I get my vote in. One of the things which make it awkward is that postal votes can take ages to get out (and can be to late). Since you have a sister in London though you can appoint her as your proxy and she can vote on your behalf. Thanks both but don't worry, I registered for a proxy vote a couple of months ago! I do think that they have to be able to vote in your most recent constituency though? Or can they do a proxy postal vote?? I just wish I was here to do more campaigning/direct conversation with people. I'll just have to get little sis to be my proxy gobshite refusing to let people get away with terrible opinions. Robot Mil fucked around with this message at 00:22 on Nov 3, 2019 |
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You know I just noticed that ronya is almost an acronym of Corbyn. Makes u think
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I was quite surprised to see this enormous painting of Lenin in the Falmouth branch of The Lounge.
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Guavanaut posted:drat, that's a shame. Power cubes and bodged Europlug adapters with 1A fuses it is I guess. Do you mean the ones that use overhead cables or the ones that don't? I guess I prefer the ones that don't use overhead cables probably mostly for aesthetic reasons (strangely, because normally I am 'function over form' while my arty sister is 'form over function'). But I do remember some major incidents when I worked for a large popular national transport infrastructure company when overhead lines got wrecked in various ways. I don't know too much about the batteries in these buses and how they're charged though. I like this one: source: https://www.nwnewsnetwork.org/post/battery-powered-electric-buses-hit-streets-northwest Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 00:18 on Nov 3, 2019 |
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OwlFancier posted:I'm also not really sure that adopting the opposition's policies during an election campaign is necessarily the most effective way to sell yourself as a party.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Do you mean the ones that use overhead cables or the ones that don't? I like that little bus.
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wings over scotland has always been garbage but idg why they appear to have completely jettisoned the whole indy thing now to focus on out and out transphobia https://twitter.com/WingsScotland/status/1190766009940140033?s=20
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Vitamin P posted:Wait could you explain more? I thought CUK just sort of stopped surely Lib Dems aren't stepping down for CUKs. Nope! The TIGFC and The Independents are still very much going, and are part of the "remain alliance" between them, plaid cymru, greens and lib dems. Essentially there is an agreement that remain parties will not run against each other I avoid splitting the vote. The TIGCUKs have big enough egos that they are refusing to stand aside for other parties. As always with these things they sound great on paper but when you actually have to face the fact of having your party not run in an election so you can tell all your voters to vote for someone who was your total enemy a couple of years ago, it becomes a lot less appealing.
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Vitamin P posted:We literally already did, the swing we achieved in the last election was bigger than 'the Blair effect' swing was, the difference was we were starting from the lovely position Blairism left us in. Sorry, I forgot something when I replied to this post before. By Blair effect I wasn't referring just to an increase in vote share, but also his successes in broadening the appeal of Labour to the establishment, getting business onside and quieting some of the fears of the elite by being aggressively neoliberal. I'm suggesting that we can achieve that without making the compromises New Labour did, because business has no loving choice But I don't think we can emulate his success in getting The Sun onside. Nor should we
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Do you mean the ones that use overhead cables or the ones that don't? That looks, uh, rather unsafe for the legs of any poor pedestrian who gets hit by it. At least it's already saying sorry.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Bus Absolute Dictator of the Universe, please. Yes, I had noticed
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Scikar posted:That looks, uh, rather unsafe for the legs of any poor pedestrian who gets hit by it. At least it's already saying sorry. Other designs are available: Solaris urbino 12:
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I'm tired so I'm going to bed now, but I leave you with two quotes: "Never interrupt your opponent while he's busy making a mistake." - Napoleon Bonaparte "Don't bother interrupting me, I don't make mistakes." - Domino Cummies, to Napoleon
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A friend posted a momentum thing about the NHS on FB. One of his friends made the (not intended sarcastically) comment that they were voting BXP or Tory because 'the NHS is fine, nothing is going to happen to it'. I just felt a bit sick. :smdh:
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