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Angepain posted:it's time for Angepain Stares Into The Abyss Of Scottish TERF News again: everyone's favourite Reasonable Objector To Trans Ideology Joan Mcalpine MSP has decided the best time to hold an event in the Scottish Parliament about https://mobile.twitter.com/HarryJosieGiles/status/1192165987287617536 I too lost a trans friend to suicide in Edinburgh in January. I don't know whether she was the same person. Sad to say, there is a decent chance that she wasn't. Fight the gender fascists 
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I've not The Walking Dead for a while, but their makeup team has truly perfected the art.
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Jose posted:the state of this *extremely aaronovitch voice* if you don't look like this you're fake jews 
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RockyB posted:Well this is just precious Ellie Mae O'Hagan doesn't write for the Guardian much but when she does it seems to end up being pretty correct
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OwlFancier posted:I mean hell if you really want to you can use literally the same rail gauge as the normal rail network for your elevated network, a lot of US cities do that. As does every UK light rail system - almost all the trams too. Of course we gently caress it up by having eleventy billion different loading gauges so you can't even use Victoria Line trains on the Northern Line, plus having a shitload of different electrification systems. We need a Bozza signal* to summon him for this discussion. * SEE WHAT I DID THERE
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alphabettitouretti posted:https://twitter.com/StevePeers/status/1192209502545891331 In fairness Raab is one of the few instances where I'd be ok with the Lib Dems taking his seat cause he is a next level oval office
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Rarity posted:Ellie Mae O'Hagan doesn't write for the Guardian much but when she does it seems to end up being pretty correct Yeah she owns. Also has a Welsh accent so I stan.
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Tesseraction posted:*extremely aaronovitch voice* if you don't look like this you're fake jews  goddamnedtwisto posted:As does every UK light rail system - almost all the trams too. Of course we gently caress it up by having eleventy billion different loading gauges so you can't even use Victoria Line trains on the Northern Line, plus having a shitload of different electrification systems. We need a Bozza signal* to summon him for this discussion.
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Guavanaut posted:Why are most of the city trams DC when DC motors have for most of their history sucked rear end and DC is a pain to voltage convert? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMEPnKYX5C0&t=55s
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Purple Prince posted:This manifests as ethno-nationalist garbage a lot of the time but the debate over "what is British culture?" seems like a valid question and I'm not sure either of the main parties really do a good job in answering it. Is it? Like, I'm inclined to take a descriptivist approach to this: British culture is whatever British people do when they get up in the morning. Not sure what it helps to ask political parties to worry about whether they're doing it correctly.
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Maugrim posted:I've never done strategic studies but I read a chess book once so I'm with Ms A Horsie to over there. King me 
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https://twitter.com/theprolestar/status/1192415472693714946?s=21 He also just said that people should vote for the Tories They’re not even trying to hide it anymore https://twitter.com/sayeedawarsi/status/1192410887480643584?s=21 Hahahah
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Tesseraction posted:*extremely aaronovitch voice* if you don't look like this you're fake jews Oh hey I've only done like 1 or 2 of those things! e thanks to whoever bought me the av! 
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Jose posted:the state of this ...Is Aaronovitch stating that because he didn't do those things in the last message he himself isn't Jewish, even though he is ethnically Jewish?
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ukle posted:Taking it away from Politics, but if you are in Yorkshire keep a very close eye on your local travel, and if you work / live in low lying land check the local flood gauges now. https://flood-warning-information.service.gov.uk/warnings
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Samovar posted:...Is Aaronovitch stating that because he didn't do those things in the last message he himself isn't Jewish, even though he is ethnically Jewish? Yes, he's saying that because he isn't a "proper Jew" he cannot possibly comment *against* allegations of anti-Semitism against Labour, and neither can Michael Rosen. Retweeting and otherwise publishing those concerns, however? Fine.
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Why the gently caress does she stay in that godforsaken party???
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Tesseraction posted:lmao nice avatar binch 
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Pablo Bluth posted:Everyone should have the official flood warning site in their bookmarks for times like this. I live up a hill 
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I mean stating the obvious here but there should be no way it's possible to defect from Labour to the Tories. Every time that happens I just think of why my political beliefs are what they are and can't imagine how you throw your lot in with that lot having nominally been part of the Labour party. Again it says obvious things about their conviction and it's nothing about being a hardliner or extreme or brainwashed and inflexible or any of the things that get thrown around it's having a moral base for what you believe enough to make it your job.
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Guavanaut posted:The problem with overhead light railways in the middle of cities is where do you put them so they're reaching places that public transport should without huge bridges going everywhere. I guess you could put them at surface level and then have the roads on top of them, but that just sounds like 'underground with more steps'. The problem with buses is that they're restricted by existing traffic, which makes them less attractive as traffic goes up - this is what's killing a lot of systems in the US for example. Bus lanes are a very temporary patch for this problem (as anyone - for example me - who just took 45 minutes to travel four miles despite the entire route being bus-laned can tell you), for them to make a real difference they have to be completely segregated and by that point you might as well chuck in a tram because otherwise you're just carrying a shitload of batteries everywhere for no reason. Leeds, which kicked off the discussion, is a pretty extreme edge case because it really doesn't have the density to support even a tram system and then battery/trolley hybrids might work, but it's a lot of money for really marginal gains.
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Yeah, they don't want to disperse the racist demographic more than it already is with BXP.
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Samovar posted:...Is Aaronovitch stating that because he didn't do those things in the last message he himself isn't Jewish, even though he is ethnically Jewish? Seemingly he's doing this to restrict the number of people who are allowed views on Labour's antisemitism, which is pretty gross because antisemites don't usually make that distinction, and will just attack cemeteries for having "foreign writing" and people for "looking like a Jew". (And ethnicity itself is a giant  , especially when combined with religion. Like we're fairly sure that some Jewish groups were of Greek rather than Levantine origin, and converted to Judaism during the Second Temple Era, but a modern day descendant of them doesn't magically go back to being Greek if they aren't raised Jewish, because ethnicity is in and of itself largely cultural and historical rather than genetic.)
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Aphex- posted:Why the gently caress does she stay in that godforsaken party??? Because killing the poor is more important.
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The poll of polls is interesting at the moment https://www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-interactive/2019/oct/31/uk-general-election-2019-poll-tracker Labour rising (as per 2017) while the Tories are plateauing. Currently a hint (but nothing solid) that their polls are starting to bundle a little bit at the lower end, pulling them to plateau and potentially signalling a downturn. Depends on how many more car-crash interviews we can give them.
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HauntedRobot posted:I mean stating the obvious here but there should be no way it's possible to defect from Labour to the Tories. Every time that happens I just think of why my political beliefs are what they are and can't imagine how you throw your lot in with that lot having nominally been part of the Labour party. Again it says obvious things about their conviction and it's nothing about being a hardliner or extreme or brainwashed and inflexible or any of the things that get thrown around it's having a moral base for what you believe enough to make it your job. Their political beliefs are that they should be elected. Labour was the most convenient vehicle for that to happen.
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Can anyone clarify; I know 34 of Johnson's new hospitals are purely hypothetical designs but of the remaining 6 how many are actual new hospitals and how many are extensions/rebuilds of existing hospitals?
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Guavanaut posted:I think more than anything, British culture is defined by what people from the outside see it as, and cutting off the alienation caused by capitalism without some island in the North Atlantic having to define itself by unified traits but rather by finding commonality in communities would be better. This is a Good Post, thanks. I don't disagree with the goal of defining ourselves by our community rather than by shared traits, but that seems incompatible with the nation state international system we currently live within. Like, if you point at most countries there are clear norms and customs shared by a majority of the population, often with one or two large minority groups with different sets of customs. In the UK we have 3 nations with different customs shunted into a single Kingdom, and even in the biggest of those countries people from Cornwall have radically different customs and views to people in London. The UK seems to be a nation of a million different minority groups, and there's nothing wrong with that but as you say the only solution seems to be to base our identity on commonalities within communities. But that is moving towards more of a confederated anarchist or communist ideal, which is not how the global system is set up to work. So how do we move from a nation state model to an internationalist socialist model here, in Europe, and globally? E: Asking because while I consider myself a socialist these types of concerns with statehood and culture sometimes feel like they're threatening to pull me onto the High Tory train (which shares many concerns albeit from the opposite side of the class war). Purple Prince fucked around with this message at 15:11 on Nov 7, 2019 |
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Jedit posted:Their political beliefs are that they should be elected. Labour was the most convenient vehicle for that to happen. Yeah, the whole point of Blairism was letting a bunch of temporarily embarrassed millionaires get into politics when the Tories would have laughed in posh braying at them and told them to jog on with their two pennies to rub together.
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Guavanaut posted:Why are most of the city trams DC when DC motors have for most of their history sucked rear end and DC is a pain to voltage convert? A few reasons - until very recently DC motors were much more easily throttle-able than AC, an important consideration for short-distance systems. Also if you're stringing up naked cables all over the place in close proximity to humans you want low(er) voltage for safety, so the advantages of AC evaporate. Pus I *think* (but I'm not entirely sure) that regenerative braking on AC systems is, if not impossible, extremely tricky, so you're wasting an awful lot of energy in a system with frequent stops.
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team overhead smash posted:Can anyone clarify; I know 34 of Johnson's new hospitals are purely hypothetical designs but of the remaining 6 how many are actual new hospitals and how many are extensions/rebuilds of existing hospitals? It's not specified but the figures are set aside for "new hospitals or refurbishment of currently existing ones" which is deliberately vague and means it could be 6 refurbs. There's not enough money for 6 new.
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Braggart posted:Horsie to over there. Sure, just step this way... 
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Rarity posted:Tess please warn us before inflicting content like that on the thread the gently caress are yo-- *hits page up* 
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Tesseraction posted:It's not specified but the figures are set aside for "new hospitals or refurbishment of currently existing ones" which is deliberately vague and means it could be 6 refurbs. There's not enough money for 6 new. lmbo nice av binch
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team overhead smash posted:Can anyone clarify; I know 34 of Johnson's new hospitals are purely hypothetical designs but of the remaining 6 how many are actual new hospitals and how many are extensions/rebuilds of existing hospitals? As far as I am aware non of them are actually new hospitals.
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