mehall posted:

Catte tax

Bundy posted:

Hey folks, while I was away on holiday I noticed someone that volunteers for a CLP or Momentum I think looking for computer touchers? I can't seem to find it now but I'm a Python dev/SQL DBA if there's something I can help someone with.

Comrade Fakename posted:

The plan in Momentum is to focus on marginals, but if you fill out the volunteer form (https://forms.gle/rSApq7hYfYSKzKzg6 you can ask about it in Slack.

Speaking of the Momentum Slack, we should have our own Elite Goon Cru within it. So I’m going to post in the #random channel “We’ve got the Tories on the run!”. Find that post and send me a DM asking me if I have stairs in my house. After 24 hours, I’ll make a group chat of everyone who contacted me.

Guavanaut posted:

I've always been confused why it's always weed out of all drugs that is pushed for legalization. Sure, it seems dumb as hell to ban it, and its prohibition is racist and sectarian against Rastafari, and it's a giant waste of money, but in terms of lives saved if I was forced to pick one and only one between legal weed or returning to the British system on cocaine and heroin I'd have to go with the one that doesn't end up with people injecting drywall.

Hell, if I was forced to pick one and only one between legal weed or MDMA being available at Boots and mental health professionals plus cultural elders being able to dispense LSD and psilocybin at their discretion I'd still go with the latter.

I'm still pro legalization overall, and I hope it's the first crack in the dam, it just seems very culturally strange that that's the one drug that we've staked the drug war battleground on.

Definitely release the Nonce Andrew files tho.

Steve2911 posted:

Even when I work at home I have trouble keeping my mind on work and end up finding distractions for myself (like browsing UKMT at 9.05am).

Rarity posted:

Lol if you don't do this at work as well

CGI Stardust posted:

ed: fine. birbs it is then. swallow


v good, give her pets

go to the form in the post below, pick the 'support' role (other roles also available), sign up to the slack that'll get sent to you and ask around, and finally see if Comrade Fakename will let you into the Goon Chat by PMing them

mehall posted:

E; you paid birb tax as I hit quote apparently, but I've posted another kitten pic already.

Jose posted:

lol

https://twitter.com/Nigel_Farage/status/1191098062208425985?s=20

Jose posted:

https://twitter.com/SolHughesWriter/status/1191284392720838659?s=19

quote:

4.3.12 We should not automatically assume that contributors from other organisations (such as academics, journalists, researchers and representatives of charities and think-tanks) are unbiased. Appropriate information about their affiliations, funding and particular viewpoints should be made available to the audience, when relevant to the context.

Braggart posted:

I'm starting to think that nobody should ever trust Donald Trump even if they're really sure they can ride the tiger. Even if you're exactly as evil as he is and your goals align, he will betray you sooner or later out of greed, mendacity or just forgetfulness. And The Donald never forgives anyone he's decided to hate, even if he can't remember why. The Donald is always correct, according to The Donald

goddamnedtwisto posted:

It's considerably safer and less addictive than caffiene, alcohol or nicotine, and by far the most commonly-used illegal drug - something like 30% of adults in the UK will have tried it at least once. The arguments for it being illegal hold no water while you can get a bottle of Smirnoff, a six-pack of Red Bull, and 20 B&H at any corner shop in the country. That's why it's at the vanguard of anti-prohibition arguments, because it shows the ridiculousness of prohibition. Even if you're making a harm-reduction argument legalising cannabis makes the most sense just because almost all of the harm it causes is directly as a result of it being illegal., and the sheer scale of its use means that you can make a solid utilitarian argument that if you only get to unban one drug cannabis would be the one to go for.

Ratjaculation posted:

Also I am unwell and am sat in bed with a hot water bottle

Someone bring me a toastie

OwlFancier posted:

"Flexible working" in my experience is "you are expected to work whenever we tell you to"

Borrovan posted:

I like having flexible working hours, because it means that as long as my work keeps getting done & I turn up at the office every once in a while & answer my phone & emails nobody really cares if I feel like sleeping in some days or piss off to run errands or hit the gym in the middle of the day. It's great for parents & the disabled too.

Trouble is that when people say "flexible working hours" these days they generally mean flexible demands, imposed upon the worker by the boss at their absolute discretion with no realistic way to refuse. We seriously need some more modernised workers' rights right loving now, before the notion of "flexible hours" becomes so poisoned that people are actually fighting to have to go sit in an office all day (why would you want this!) and all those that can't for whatever reason get left behind.

Also before people start insisting I have to actually go to work every day because gently caress that, frankly

WhatEvil posted:

Lol that you think it's only £350k.

https://twitter.com/TomDavidson09/status/971789350609522689

Guavanaut posted:

I've always been confused why it's always weed out of all drugs that is pushed for legalization. Sure, it seems dumb as hell to ban it, and its prohibition is racist and sectarian against Rastafari, and it's a giant waste of money, but in terms of lives saved if I was forced to pick one and only one between legal weed or returning to the British system on cocaine and heroin I'd have to go with the one that doesn't end up with people injecting drywall.

Hell, if I was forced to pick one and only one between legal weed or MDMA being available at Boots and mental health professionals plus cultural elders being able to dispense LSD and psilocybin at their discretion I'd still go with the latter.

I'm still pro legalization overall, and I hope it's the first crack in the dam, it just seems very culturally strange that that's the one drug that we've staked the drug war battleground on.

Definitely release the Nonce Andrew files tho.

thespaceinvader posted:

You're only just starting to think that nobody should trust the obviously purely self-interested conman?

Where have you been for the last *checks* ugh four years?

Guavanaut posted:

What toastie do you want?

Aphex- posted:

The trick with working from home is to do all the work you need to do for that day on the day before, so you can then just play BF5 all day in your pants.

Borrovan posted:

Totally off topic, a company is loving with some comrades of mine & it's become apparent that they're committing a criminal offence under the Companies Act - does anyone know who the appropriate public authority to shop them to is? Guessing the pigs wouldn't gaf

Borrovan posted:

Totally off topic, a company is loving with some comrades of mine & it's become apparent that they're committing a criminal offence under the Companies Act - does anyone know who the appropriate public authority to shop them to is? Guessing the pigs wouldn't gaf

Braggart posted:

The Donald is always correct, according to The Donald

quote:

It can be difficult to remember given that he routinely appears on television with toilet paper on the soles of both his shoes and at least one of his hands stuck in a big jug of peanut butter, but Donald Trump’s opening position in all things is that he has never been wrong. He has been wronged, and is in fact wronged constantly—by terrible nasty TV actresses and fake cable news anchors and the other antagonists he’s collected over a lifetime of nonstop blowsy public feuding. But that is just the price he pays for always being right and never being afraid to speak out on whatever he has just seen on television. He carries that weight lightly, give or take the fact that he whines about it constantly.

...


A jarring number of professional political analyst types still persist in seeing some sort of strategy in this, which is both their job and self-evidently ridiculous. There is no deft feinting or tactical distraction involved when Trump returns from a trip abroad and says something like “no one ever knew that there even was such a thing as France, but that’s something that I’ve been seeing and we’re going to look into it.” He is not constructing a Reality Distortion Field or subtly signaling to his base. He just forgot there was a France and therefore just assumed there wasn’t one.

...


On Wednesday, days after Dorian had flattened wide stretches of the Bahamas, veered back out to sea, and then turned back towards the Carolinas, Trump invited the assembled media into the Oval Office, to show them a map of the storm’s course that a staffer had printed and matted for him. The image is obviously different from the one that the White House showed the public last week from a similar President Trump Points At A Map And Says “We’re Seeing It And It’s Unbelievable” press availability, most notably because someone, it’s hard to say who it might be, just kind of used a Sharpie to draw a second, poignantly misplaced testicle onto the phalloid shape of Dorian’s ultraviolent progress. In doing this, Trump or someone else who is also quite obviously Donald Trump simply corrected the National Hurricane Center’s forecast, which called for the hurricane’s track to pass hundreds of miles east of the Alabama border so that it more closely comported with his Executive Forecast.

jabby posted:

It's really quite amazing that the Telegraph is still taken so seriously when it has a piddling readership of 385,000.

Compare that to the 2.5 million who watched Labour's first campaign video on Twitter alone, within the first 24 hours.

Borrovan posted:

Totally off topic, a company is loving with some comrades of mine & it's become apparent that they're committing a criminal offence under the Companies Act - does anyone know who the appropriate public authority to shop them to is? Guessing the pigs wouldn't gaf

Braggart posted:

So that's...

Drags in adding machine

...£1.69 per reader per year just for Matt.

Worth it

Borrovan posted:

Totally off topic, a company is loving with some comrades of mine & it's become apparent that they're committing a criminal offence under the Companies Act - does anyone know who the appropriate public authority to shop them to is? Guessing the pigs wouldn't gaf

Rarity posted:

https://twitter.com/BigPaulieDoyle/status/1190995516424904705

WhatEvil posted:

His drawing isn't terrible but it's also just completely devoid of any imagination, insight or character.

Fake edit ^ Yeah, sterile is a good word for it.

Just when you compare his art etc. to somebody like John Cullen:

https://twitter.com/nellucnhoj/status/1061623788960473089?s=20

Or his imagination, character and wit to somebody like, well, Azza Bamboo, it's utterly flabbergasting that he makes as much as he does.

Azza Bamboo posted:

Tesseraction posted:

lmao

goddamnedtwisto posted:

It's considerably safer and less addictive than caffiene, alcohol or nicotine

CGI Stardust posted:

go to the form in the post below, pick the 'support' role (other roles also available), sign up to the slack that'll get sent to you and ask around, and finally see if Comrade Fakename will let you into the Goon Chat by PMing them

Tesseraction posted:

Just a reminder to our lurkers in this most volatile of times. We post low content posts like this all the time and you mustn't worry that you aren't contributing anyway.

Jose posted:

apparently the BBC just said labour shouldn't politicise the NHS just now based on the number of tweets i'm seeing commenting on it

Bobby Deluxe posted:

It reminds me of a discussion yeats ago in the Ctrl-Alt-Del thread years ago - someone posted a CAD comic with the text removed and asked if you could guess what the characters were doing, and then did the same with a few others like Penny Arcade, PvP and VGCats.

At least with VGCats and PA, the characters facial expressions and poses expressed what they were saying, but with CAD you had no idea because it was all expressionless poo poo. The same thing is happening here. There's nothing interesting or visually unique going on.

WhatEvil posted:

Well here's this one:

https://twitter.com/AzzaBamboo/status/1179080831601643521?s=20