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Comrade Fakename posted:Well, first, lol that you’re actually a full member of the SNP, that’s just embarrassing. But it’s not like we’re doing background checks on slack members. As I said, you don’t have to be a member of Momentum or Labour. And nationality doesn’t matter. Though I would definitely keep your questionable voting choices to yourself. I can't vote (hence the nationality issue), and I can't really help campaign in my Tory/SNP marginal without being a member, so. And tbh just lol at anyone with a labour membership having a go at someone being in the SNP. At least my membership dues are being used to actually win seats from the Tories.
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baka kaba posted:but also boo who called it that it's a female orange tip
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Private Speech posted:Bit late but: It's been in their terms and conditions for ages now - at least a couple of years.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:It's been in their terms and conditions for ages now - at least a couple of years. That might be the case, but is it actually enforceable? I honestly have no idea.
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Private Speech posted:Bit late but: Do whatever you want on the internet. It’s the internet.
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Firos posted:Virgin has gone into voluntary administration. gently caress Branson. Hopefully all the workers get decent severance packages out of all of this. Here's an article from the ABC about Virgin Australia if anyone is interested ABC News posted:
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Private Speech posted:That might be the case, but is it actually enforceable? I honestly have no idea. I suppose technically they could go after you for breach of copyright though I don't know how litigious they are. There are 'fair use' clauses so I guess it would depend how much of it you quote. I'm not an expert. Same if you find an image on google and paste it into your blog. Even if you include a reference, if you don't have permission, the owner can come after you and at the very least insist you include a reference, perhaps insist you remove it, or go after you for copyright breach.
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# ? Apr 21, 2020 02:21 |
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All this cooking chat is making me very sad that I still cannot smell anything post-Covid and can’t tell what anything tastes of beyond sweet/sour/salty/bitter/umami. I have lost loads of weight, because I can’t be bothered to cook anything.
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# ? Apr 21, 2020 02:23 |
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2020/apr/20/just-not-true-were-too-lazy-for-farm-work-say-frustrated-uk-applicants lol ofc quote:British applicants for jobs harvesting crops have said farmers have made it virtually impossible for them to secure the work despite a national appeal for a “land army” to save the UK’s fruit and vegetables.
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baka kaba posted:^^^ Oh yeah haha, so I discovered that recipe and then like a week later Andy made it on BA (which I watch religiously). As you say his version is more like a pasta soup and it's also slightly fussier/more expensive with a tin of tomatoes. It comes out great using just tomato paste. Will def check out that cauli soup, I'm a big fan of cauliflower and just bought a stick blender recently.
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For people asking for simple recipies to follow under lockdown, the Guardian is here to help! They've provided a list of 'easy' Asian food that you can cook from "pantry staples". https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2020/apr/21/isol-asian-cooking-pantry-staple-chinese-recipes-from-an-unemployed-chef Here goes! Simple prawn toast: For the prawn paste 120g raw prawns, shelled and deveined 40g minced pork 5g ginger, grated 1 tsp cornstarch 2 tsp fish sauce ½ tsp white pepper ½ tsp salt 20g guanciale or fatty pancetta, very finely diced 20g dill, finely chopped ½ lemon zest For the confit garlic 2 tbsp olive oil 2 cloves garlic, finely minced To serve 4 slices white bread 2 cups vegetable oil lemon cheeks
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https://twitter.com/rebeccaballhaus/status/1252357380743901185
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I clicked on that recipe just to find out what lemon cheeks are but they don’t even explain it
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# ? Apr 21, 2020 07:16 |
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I love cooking, especially with some music on and maybe someone to talk to. I think once you've learned how long it takes to cook ingredients and what flavours go with what you can just make it up as you go along. Sometimes its not great, but learning from mistakes is a more memorable lesson than reading second-hand info on 'OOO DON'T DO THAT' I used to hate cooking on benefits as every recipe was like 'leave this for 45 minutes to reduce' and I wouldn't have enough energy on the gas metre for such fanciness. I think just learning how to make a decent tomato sauce is valuable as you can make chili, bolognaise, curry, whatever with it. I don't like fussy cooks who start prepping a meal and finding out they don't have some ingredient and get into a tiz, the pretentious cook. I think these spoil cooking for others as they have a lot of gadgets and go out of their way to source things like organic smoked garlic or have 4 different kinds of salt, which is fine, but when they're cooking they seem to get very highly strung. Cooking should be fun. quote:IN SEASON NOW Pick 3 things and just heat it up together with some salt, pepper and lemon juice, maybe it'll be alright.
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# ? Apr 21, 2020 07:21 |
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I've been playing Deus Ex all day. The loving cartoon villainy by the UK government is startling even when I've just been playing a game about the more evil double Illuminati using 6G and nanomachines to create an artificial plague to establish the New World Order! At least they have goals they can't accomplish without their stupid schemes and actual sensible motivations!
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# ? Apr 21, 2020 07:26 |
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Maybe it's just because once you hit a trillion dollars you finally stop chasing the high score, but: Say what you will about Bob Page, at least he has an objective beyond number go up
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endlessmonotony posted:I've been playing Deus Ex all day. I bought the pack recently. Did a run through the original, human revolution, and just finished mankind divided. Debating a run of invisible war. Hardly the worst way to pass a quarantine
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I liked invisible war, it's a lot more like the original than the newer ones are.
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Gianni, you're doing a heckuva job
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Invisible War was a huge letdown because it followed up one of the best games of all time, but - even though it's pretty clunky - it's definitely not a bad game per se.
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big scary monsters posted:Is that Luxembourgish? I don't think I've heard it before but it looks and sounds exactly like French, German and Dutch had a really messy, drunken night together and this was the result. Yep, the PM's text, and the blue jumper lady's speaking is Luxembourgish, my awesome and totally useless second language. Your description is pretty much bang on. Maugrim posted:E: you will notice the sink overflow has been blocked with sealant. We did this ourselves a few years ago, after discovering that it was not overflowing to anywhere; the water was pouring straight into the cupboard under the sink. This has been a typical experience in our house That sounds like the doom house I lived in while a student in London. The first time it rained heavily, water cascaded down the inside walls of the 3-level house, pouring out of the light switches on the ground floor. We assumed this was what caused the wooden floor to buckle and warp, but nope, that was the wash basin in the downstairs toilet, whose actual plughole (and overflow I guess) simply wasn't connected to anything. It just flowed out unnoticed behind the fitted cabinets and under the floorboards
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# ? Apr 21, 2020 08:26 |
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That's not uncommon in parts of rural Southern Africa, where a trench is dug in the earth that the building rests on, and filled with pea gravel or marble sized stones, and then the basin empties into that. Like a soakaway but with no or very basic pipework. It's crude, but it works (until it rains a lot). London, as the capital of property innovation, has managed something far worse.
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# ? Apr 21, 2020 08:36 |
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Are you sure that was a house and not an umbrella corp bioweapons lab trying to create a deadly fungus?
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Anyone who hates spending too much time cooking should really invest in a slow cooker. They're cheap (i got mine for like £25) and you just chuck in all the ingredients in it in the morning and it's done by dinner time. Sometimes you should brown the meat before putting it in but apart from that, that's all there is to it. I've made some really tasty curries, goulash, pulled pork and loads more in it.
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Aphex- posted:Anyone who hates spending too much time cooking should really invest in a slow cooker.
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Bobstar posted:Yep, the PM's text, and the blue jumper lady's speaking is Luxembourgish, my awesome and totally useless second language. Your description is pretty much bang on. Til that Luxembourg has it's own language. I'd always assumed they just spoke German or Flemish or whatever.
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# ? Apr 21, 2020 08:52 |
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Where the absolute gently caress are you bread bakers getting your flour from?!
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# ? Apr 21, 2020 08:54 |
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Kegluneq posted:Where the absolute gently caress are you bread bakers getting your flour from?! At least two of my local shops have it but are keeping it behind the counter to restrict the amount people buy, which adds an extra frisson to shopping.
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Kegluneq posted:Where the absolute gently caress are you bread bakers getting your flour from?! My online Tesco order at the start of March replaced the 1kg bags of bread flour I ordered with 2kg bags instead so I'm still getting through that.
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# ? Apr 21, 2020 08:56 |
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The majority of the european continent speaks some mutant variant of italian or german or both. Except for a few places and people that have their own entirely different language group. But it's mostly either german noises and/or roman noises with a silly accent. English more silly than most. Oh and slavic languages depending on where you stop colouring it in as europe and start colouring it in as asia.
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# ? Apr 21, 2020 08:59 |
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If this crisis has taught me anything it's both how utterly disorganised I am - I got an Asda click-and-collect slot a week out and realised I had absolutely no loving clue what to order, having long lapsed into a "pick up whatever thing I ran out of the day before on the way home from work" shopping cycle - and also how ready I am for the grimdark future because I already have a mental map of all of the local shops and who's likely to have what in stock at any given time, so I look like a magician by always being able to lay my hands on hard-to-get luxuries like, erm, flour and bog roll.
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Just make sure you buy your flour from a reputable dealer who won't cut it with cocaine
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ASDA had plenty in stock last week
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Guavanaut posted:I get what you're saying, but the wording here tickled me. Ha! Yeah luckily you're not the one cooking so you can forget about it until you get the wonderful smell of your future dinner filling the house. I'd never had goulash before owning a slow cooker and it owns. Like someone said earlier, smoked paprika rules.
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(First of all, I know that 6G in the game refers to a security clearance and the 6G networks are merely their version of an intranet running over the communications infrastructure.) Bill Gates (except not) has an evil plan involving 6G and nanomachines and having the vaccine for a pandemic be means of total control over the population and the only ones fighting for the common people are secessionists who fetishize Texas and the 2nd amendment. Meanwhile, the last voice for truth on the internet is known only by his pseudonym and by his revelations on the true nature of the plots within plots in the world governments, especially UN, and within the US, FEMA. Are global politics right now just bad Deus Ex cosplay? Did we jump at the first chance we got to live in a dystopian future? Where are all the cool cyborgs? I mean, other than me, I guess. I'm only one because it was the only way to treat my illness, though. I'd have been totally fine if life didn't devolve into a nightmare. I never asked for this.
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# ? Apr 21, 2020 09:06 |
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Flour is the only thing I notice my supermarket has completely run out of. The entire shelf section is completely empty apart from all the white flour. I never use it personally but it really sticks out seeing bare shelves every week. Do you think it's the only thing that has actually massively increased in demand because everyone is obsessed with that bake off show?
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I have enough flour for a dozen good loaves but only about 3 packs of easy yeast left, haven't seen any in months and I'm not about to go pissing about with making raisin yeast juice yet Oh it looks like someone got stabbed or assaulted up the road at last night's totally socially distant house/street/alley party. If/When the bored detective turns up later I wonder if they will have any ppe?
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# ? Apr 21, 2020 09:10 |
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Deus ex is a conspiracy theory gumbo and it works because conspiracy theories are, in a way, grounded in reality. They're a response to people realising there's something wrong with the world but not having the right framework to process it through, so they throw in stuff they're more familiar with like biblical good/evil dichotomies and comically evil baddies from mass media. They're broadly right about the themes of power, control, hostility to human welfare and life, things just getting worse, but they're wrong on the specifics of why it's happening and how (and who's doing it, to the extent it's at all directed by conscious human action)
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OwlFancier posted:Deus ex is a conspiracy theory gumbo and it works because conspiracy theories are, in a way, grounded in reality. They're a response to people realising there's something wrong with the world but not having the right framework to process it through, so they throw in stuff they're more familiar with like biblical good/evil dichotomies and comically evil baddies from mass media. I've seen it put as "conspiracy theories are understanding the world sucks but being unable to accept people being as petty and stupid as they are".
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Maybe, though I'd also say a key element is that they almost always hinge on there being a plan, it might be an evil plan, but it's all planned out, someone's in control, someone's in a big evil office somewhere pulling all the levers to make the bad things happen, rather than them being emergent behaviour from a bunch of other stuff. It's generally a very person driven understanding of the world rather than a systems driven one.
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