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Who is your first pick in the deputy leadership race? This poll is closed. |
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| R. Allin-Khan |
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| I. Murray |
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| P. Flaps |
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177 | 47.20% |
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This was my favourite bit: quote:He said other queries included... ...a man who asked: "My wife doesn't think her job is essential but I do and she's working from home. Is there anything I can do?"
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Wait what? Why would it matter if her job is essential or not if she's working from home o_O
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Mar 28, 2020 15:50
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It's your responsibility to have a shed to wank in, sir.
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Mar 28, 2020 15:51
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thespaceinvader posted:Wait what? Why would it matter if her job is essential or not if she's working from home o_O he doesn't want her in the house so he called the police because he's a loving idiot
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Mar 28, 2020 15:52
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thespaceinvader posted:This is one of the things my conspiracy theorist/catastrophising brain is SUUUPER concerned about. People in this country have been LIGHTNING quick to start informing on their neighbours, making draconian interpretations of the rules to beat people with, etc etc etc. This happened in Egypt when Morsi (Muslim Brotherhood) became president. Reports started coming in from all over Egypt about members of the public enforcing laws that hadn't been made, particularly women against women - for example covered women attacking uncovered women and telling them they must cover, cases of covered teachers cutting off the hair of uncovered girls. It wasn't a law, hadn't been hinted as a law, but here we were, members of the public enforcing the not-law. (NB it wasn't all one way, after the 'not-a-coup' when CC got in, similar stories of girls wearing hijab having them ripped off and so on.)
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Mar 28, 2020 15:53
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thespaceinvader posted:Wait what? Why would it matter if her job is essential or not if she's working from home o_O "My marriage only works because my wife is at work all day, help polis"
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Mar 28, 2020 16:00
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Sounds like the public are trying to enforce the fake lockdown. Silly mites. We appear to be back to speed running herd immunity don't they know? 15% mortality speed run. No vents. No masks. 3 months. (I don't know how speed run titles are formatted)
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Mar 28, 2020 16:01
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There are similar stories about people ratting out their neighbors to the police in France. It's not very surprising to have a number of people (I'm being vague here because I honestly have no idea how prevalent it is) be ready-made collaborators for a potential fascist regime.
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Mar 28, 2020 16:02
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In all fairness, the government line has been "YOU MUST NOT LEAVE YOUR HOMES! (lol, not really)". I can understand people picking up the loud bit but not the quiet bit.
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Mar 28, 2020 16:11
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The lockdown works well enough for it's purpose - which is is reducing human/human contact. While better guidance on what work should be closing is needed (since that's the main way people meet people other than ones they live with) there's vastly less contact that there was - modelling shows reducing social contact by 90% and by 50% lead to roughly same level of cases overall, just over a shorter time frame for the 50% case. It doesn't have to perfect, it just needs to be good enough.
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Mar 28, 2020 16:11
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Tsietisin posted:Is he one of the Tesco own security or the agency they have instead? Agency I'm pretty sure, why?
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Mar 28, 2020 16:11
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Err there's this BBC article: BBC News - Coronavirus: UK wary of international market for ventilators As expected it's largely uncritical of the government, but there's this little sentence: BBC posted:The government has also said a mix-up meant it missed the deadline to join an EU scheme to obtain extra ventilators. So, uhh, are we just memory-holing certain statement by the downing street spokesman, something along the lines "we're leaving" and what suspiciously sounded like "the EU" and "so we won't be joining this scheme"? A Mixup posted:The UK government has been accused of ‘putting Brexit over breathing’ after it confirmed it had opted out of an EU joint procurement scheme for urgently needed medical equipment to combat the coronavirus pandemic.
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Mar 28, 2020 16:13
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Is there some helpline or something to ask if the thing you want to do is a stupid idea or not? Been meaning to ask for ages but has become particularly relevant these days.
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NotJustANumber99 posted:Is there some helpline or something to ask if the thing you want to do is a stupid idea or not? Go on dragons' den
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Mar 28, 2020 16:21
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"Landpeople" Lol Landlords aren't people
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Mar 28, 2020 16:24
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I speak for the landpeople, we seek peace with the seapeople and the airpeople, let us unite to overthrow the tyranny of capitalism.
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I thought it was going to reference as someone living on a boat.
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Mar 28, 2020 16:27
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OwlFancier posted:I speak for the landpeople, we seek peace with the seapeople and the airpeople, let us unite to overthrow the tyranny of capitalism. Long ago the four nations lived in harmony. But then the Firepeople attacked.
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Using an experimental artificial intelligence device which I have dubbed "the Wayforward Machine", I have managed to generate fragments of a television screenplay which will be broadcast in the year 2053 by Ukrainian cable television. From what I can tell, the series is called імунітет стада (Herd Immunity). It follows a handful of individuals during the outbreak of Coronavirus in the UK, weaving a story about government incompetence, human selfishness and many small acts of heroism. This is the longest coherent fragment: Episode 1- Cause. Final scene. Location: Snowdon, summit. Time: Day, Saturday March 21st 2020 Weather: Sunny Happy crowds of children and adults on the mountain top, enjoying the good weather. The scene is in slight slow motion with a warm yellow filter, but the sound track is muted and echoing. An old couple pass a thermos cup of coffee back and forth. Children play tig. A group of men hug for a photo at the summit, arms over each others' shoulders. Drawn out shot of many hands touching the summit cairn. A runner passes through the crowds, breathing heavily, making plumes of vapour in the air which catch the sunlight. All sound fades apart from the sound of his breathing. Fade to black. Episode 2- Effect. First scene. Location: NHS Nightingale. Time: Night, Saturday April 4th 2020 Weather: Pouring rain A stretcher pushed by paramedics hurtles across a deserted car park, splashing through deep puddles and swerving around piles of abandoned building materials. It crashes through double doors, then swerves around a man in high vis on a ladder who is pushing cables behind a ceiling tile. The camera follows the stretcher along a corridor as it swerves past other medics, workers and more heaps of building materials, before crashing through another set of doors. The camera stops following the stretcher and slowly rises to the roof of a gigantic room, revealing row upon row of hospital beds.
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Mar 28, 2020 16:33
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Communist Thoughts posted:Sounds like the public are trying to enforce the fake lockdown. Silly mites. Gotta find someone to push the blame onto though, and when everyone gets to roleplay informing on their unpatriotic neighbours during the blitz... 
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Mar 28, 2020 16:40
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Alright, Sebastian.
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Mar 28, 2020 16:41
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I have never been more loving angry at people then folks who go to the bat for lovely landlords because "BUt the Governemaaaant". These utter shits who seem to believe themselves so much smarter by deep throating a loving boot.
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Mar 28, 2020 16:44
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goddamnedtwisto posted:https://twitter.com/SexWorkHive/status/1243615207894679560 thread's a goldmine: https://twitter.com/sliderulesyou/status/1243546428246556675
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yaffle posted:Agency I'm pretty sure, why? I used to work in head office for the agency company. God they are a complete bunch of Arseholes.
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https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-52033324quote:Officers highlighted someone saying they were out to buy a bag of crisps - something that's obviously not an essential shopping trip.  Jaeluni Asjil posted:This happened in Egypt when Morsi (Muslim Brotherhood) became president. Reports started coming in from all over Egypt about members of the public enforcing laws that hadn't been made, particularly women against women - for example covered women attacking uncovered women and telling them they must cover, cases of covered teachers cutting off the hair of uncovered girls. It wasn't a law, hadn't been hinted as a law, but here we were, members of the public enforcing the not-law. (NB it wasn't all one way, after the 'not-a-coup' when CC got in, similar stories of girls wearing hijab having them ripped off and so on.) Interesting on the women bit, I wonder if there's been any kind of study like in The Authoritarian Personality but accounting for gender. What's the gender neutral version of lord/lady, is it just booj? Endjinneer posted:Using an experimental artificial intelligence device which I have dubbed "the Wayforward Machine", I have managed to generate fragments of a television screenplay which will be broadcast in the year 2053 by Ukrainian cable television. From what I can tell, the series is called імунітет стада (Herd Immunity). It follows a handful of individuals during the outbreak of Coronavirus in the UK, weaving a story about government incompetence, human selfishness and many small acts of heroism. This is the longest coherent fragment:
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So hey I drive a taxi cab on odd nights for a bit of pocket money every now and again, and the local council was all "Hey fella, we need some off-hours public transport, you've got hella PVG and patient transport qualifications and word is you've already had the ol' Macaroni, fancy coming out and being a taxi?" Was informed it'd be key workers on account, plus a few shopping drop-offs and a bit of shifting NHS things around - blood samples, minor equipment, that kind of thing. So I thought fuckit, gets me out the house. Did 22 runs last night. 2 nurses, 1 postal trunker driver. 19 of them a dude in hoodie, jogging bottoms, white athletic socks and blinding white Adidas trainers. To a man they'd get in, give me some twaddle about "aye ah'm uhhh muh maw's carer uh'm goin' to go uhh gie her a hand" - while the bottles and cans in their bag clanked and rattled - and away we'd go. Through silent, deserted streets, past countless shuttered businesses and fenced-off gathering spots. Deer are already starting to shift back into the city centre, the urban foxes are wandering around with impugnity, the rats are straight up chilling on corners, the usual horde of seagulls scavenging for kebabs are absent. Radio 4's on, talking about rising death counts, border restrictions, tougher curfews. The taxi reeks of antibac, and I'm wearing a mask. And every single one would go a bit quiet, look around, and go: "Uhhh ye reckon this coronavirus thing is fur real?" And then when I go "Yep, it's for real, it's coming, and you're gonna see some weirder poo poo yet, fella" every single one of them would then tell me they reckon it's man made, that you can sip hot water every 15 minutes to wash the virus into your stomach acid and man ah ken ah shouldnae be oot but it's just a coupla bevvies and a few burners wae the boys, eh? And then one guy tried to stick his hand in my mouth as a "wacky" joke. I am sorry to report his run terminated before he reached his destination, and he may have received some mild injuries. Don't think I'll go out tonight. Stay safe, wash your hands, don't get too doomy.
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Guavanaut posted:
Unfortunately, women are some of the biggest enforcers of regressive culture on other women, eg with FGM. It's often girls' mothers who enforce it. A friend (muslim, fully covering but not Egyptian) was talking to a female medical professor from one of the universities - I think she said Alexandria - and the prof was telling her how essential it is that a girl be 'cut'. (Friend's daughter was about 6 years old at the time). Friend was horrified. (Btw FGM is not a requirement of Islam, it's much more of an African thing and coptic christians, ethiopian jews and african animists all do it it too.) Same if you read accounts of honour killings in the UK, very often the mothers or mothers-in-law are heavily involved in the planning if not the actual deed. I'd be interested to see any research on authoritarianism and gender as well if there is any! Oh hah a minute of googling and I found this paper: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0146167212449871?journalCode=pspc quote:Gender Inequality and Gender Differences in Authoritarianism
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Welp, just left the estate to brave the shops and there was a body bag being loaded into a black van by the cops a few doors down.
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Guavanaut posted:What's the gender neutral version of lord/lady, is it just booj? Also is the lord in landlord describing a title or an action? i.e is it the action of them lording over you, and if so, can we use boojing for that too?
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goddamnedtwisto posted:https://twitter.com/SexWorkHive/status/1243615207894679560 They could sell bonds.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:I'd be interested to see any research on authoritarianism and gender as well if there is any!
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:This happened in Egypt when Morsi (Muslim Brotherhood) became president. Reports started coming in from all over Egypt about members of the public enforcing laws that hadn't been made, particularly women against women - for example covered women attacking uncovered women and telling them they must cover, cases of covered teachers cutting off the hair of uncovered girls. It wasn't a law, hadn't been hinted as a law, but here we were, members of the public enforcing the not-law. (NB it wasn't all one way, after the 'not-a-coup' when CC got in, similar stories of girls wearing hijab having them ripped off and so on.) Can confirm. I was in Egypt around that time and there was a lot of tension and suspicion in the air. It probably didn't help that I was taking photographs of power infrastructure between bouts of getting pissed on a boat with a gently caress off huge gun on the back of it. Which in all likelihood probably didn't work.
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Mar 28, 2020 17:06
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OwlFancier posted:Also is the lord in landlord describing a title or an action? i.e is it the action of them lording over you, and if so, can we use boojing for that too? Larding over someone. Landlard. House of Lards. Lard Protector of England, Scotland, and Ireland.
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Mar 28, 2020 17:11
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Parents decided to 'nip to the shops for a few things' today while on their daily mandated walk despite planning a 'big shop' (that they still plan on doing) this Monday. We already have a house full of food. Very cool. If I die know I died in service of them not going short on milk for 2 days. They seem to vaguely get that this is serious but they really don't get it, and probably won't till we start seeing mass graves. Ultimately they're more a threat to themselves than they are to me but how difficult is it to live off what we have for a few weeks, christ. Love too be part of naively entitled millennial snowflake generation.
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Mar 28, 2020 17:12
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:FGM is not a requirement of Islam
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Endjinneer posted:Using an experimental artificial intelligence device which I have dubbed "the Wayforward Machine", I have managed to generate fragments of a television screenplay which will be broadcast in the year 2053 by Ukrainian cable television. From what I can tell, the series is called імунітет стада (Herd Immunity). It follows a handful of individuals during the outbreak of Coronavirus in the UK, weaving a story about government incompetence, human selfishness and many small acts of heroism. This is the longest coherent fragment: Nightingale's not going to be ready by the 4th of April. They can't even get the oxygen plant in until the week after that. Actually I think it's probably more accurate to say Nightingale won't be ready *as a hospital* next week. This does not mean that people won't be being sent there, but...
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Cefte posted:This is an elision. It's absolutely couched as obligatory in classic texts of Shafi'i school jurisprudence, such as Umdat as-Salik, so there are localities such as Indonesia where 'moderation' is counted as FGM IV. Other Sunni schools count it only as recommended. And, of course, there's a lot of good work out of al-Azhar against it. Interesting.
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Disgusting Coward posted:And then one guy tried to stick his hand in my mouth as a "wacky" joke. I am sorry to report his run terminated before he reached his destination, and he may have received some mild injuries. I was  reading your post and then at this point I was full  How does anybody go through life thinking they can do something like that without catching a beating?
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