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Our latest pod-sode is out for all of you to enjoy, this time even with a Famous Guest Appearance. We mainly talk the Bern, but also Corbyn and more. https://twitter.com/PraxisCast/status/1257329737841676294?s=20 Please enjoy to your ears' content.
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I'm hearing a rumour Johanna Baxter is tipped to be on the shortlist for new Labour GS. She's one of the worst shits Scottish Labour have going.
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May 4, 2020 16:40
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ronya posted:the PM is Actually Boris Johnson; in the current period it might not be too strange to suppose that some advisor has similarly rifled through Gove's bookshelves to put sufficiently right-wing books on it and remove any leftie stuff Gove is the living incarnation of the "if you are not socialist at 20" trope, remember.
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May 4, 2020 16:40
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71 free courses from Harvard (4-12 weeks duration, I believe you can get a certificate). Computer touching, politics, religion.... https://online-learning.harvard.edu/catalog/free Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 16:46 on May 4, 2020 |
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May 4, 2020 16:42
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mehall posted:I'm hearing a rumour Johanna Baxter is tipped to be on the shortlist for new Labour GS. loving lol if we put any of the losers from Scottish Labour near anything that isn't a woodchipper.
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May 4, 2020 16:48
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:This is some of the most pretentious loving poo poo I've ever seen My day on a plate today: 05:50 Pot of coffee 09:00 Banana and instant coffee 12:00 Lunch, some stuff I got for free, surplus rations they deliver to old people basically. Literally meat and potatoes. 14:00 more instant coffee 18:30 Finally home, with pizzas and kebab
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May 4, 2020 16:50
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Putting ScotLab in charge would be the most jokerfied outcome.
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May 4, 2020 16:50
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https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/may/04/cost-of-public-transport-should-be-raised-as-lockdown-ends-ifsquote:Cost of public transport should be raised as lockdown ends – IFS Cool, getting home on time is only for rich people. Who don't use public transport anyway. Must be fun working in these think tanks and just guessing what people's lives are like. Maybe just scrap every oval office having to work 9-5 instead of making them pay more to get to work at some minimum wage bullshit office?
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May 4, 2020 16:50
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forkboy84 posted:but my record collection? That's alphabetical by artist and then chronological by release date of each album This is something I need to get on with a redo now I've started listening to my collection again.
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May 4, 2020 17:02
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justcola posted:https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/may/04/cost-of-public-transport-should-be-raised-as-lockdown-ends-ifs Like anybody's getting on a rush hour tube for fun, they're getting on it because bosses are petty tyrants who insist people be at their dersk at exactly 0900.
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May 4, 2020 17:02
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His Divine Shadow posted:My day on a plate today: My day on a plate so far today (did not sleep well last night, was still awake at 530am). 11:15 coffee #1 + 2 aspirins as bad headache 12:00 coffee #2 + savoury rice 14:00 satchet plain oats porridged with milk (I need it rationed in packets else I gobble it all in one go). 15:00 2 satchets plain oats porridged with milk 15:30 - 16:00 nanna nap 16:00 coffee #3 16:30 protein whey powder with milk (dieting experiment that failed after 2 days but I still have the powder). 17:00 protein when powder with milk Upcoming: a potato+bacon+onion pack thing with 2 eggs 2 small apples that really ought to get eaten today. 1 more coffee
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May 4, 2020 17:31
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goddamnedtwisto posted:(Note that I don't actually *mind* her as a figure on the Labour right, and if they were all like her we would have a much better party, I'm just trying to soften the blow for everyone when it turns out she doesn't storm the lectern at Conference waving the Little Red Book) Yeah it's this. She's one of the "good" Labour Right in that she doesn't seem to have actively undermined the Left, but she's still on the right. It's so depressing that that's the bar to pass, and that like 95% of the fuckers don't even make it. E: My day on a plate, for yesterday. Wake up at 10:30. Snooze in bed and finally crawl out of it at ~11:10. 12:00 - Three slices of cheese on toast, one with marmite, one with some leftover Indian coriander/chilli/garlic chutney on, one with herbs, on white bread. 13:00 - Strong coffee with semi-skimmed milk, plus maple syrup, leaving me unpleasantly wired for the afternoon. 19:15 - Pasta with mushroom and green pepper sauce (from a jar) with added peas, sweetcorn and brocolli (all frozen). 21:30 - The last of a tub of Ben & Jerry's Cherry Garcia, along with the start of a pot of Ben & Jerry's Half Baked, plus trail mix on the top (roasted salted nuts, raisins and smarties). WhatEvil fucked around with this message at 17:41 on May 4, 2020 |
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May 4, 2020 17:34
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goddamnedtwisto posted:I don't know why - other than the fact she was RLB's flatmate - anybody ever thought she was anything more than a bog-standard Labour right figure. There's literally nothing anywhere in her background to suggest it, and I was *deeply* suspicious of the way she ran up nominations from the PLP (never even offering to donate nominations to others and blocking people on Twitter for suggesting she might supply the numbers needed to get Dawn Butler on the ballot. yeah I never got why people were so wild about her for deputy, like she'd really made her mark as a major figure. She'd seemed decent in education and she had a few good speeches, but her biggest thing seemed to be staring down Farage and telling him to meet her in the car park on national TV, which I mean, fair do's
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May 4, 2020 17:34
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do labour routinely announce membership numbers? it seems like they were doing so relatively frequently under Corbyn, but I assume that's because they were going up
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May 4, 2020 17:37
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hemale in pain posted:i'm surprised people are trying to spin that excess hospitals and beds are a bad thing because government bad rather than it being a good thing because there wasn't as many deaths as we feared there could be. They're letting loads of people die in care homes, and at home generally, without them ever being to hospital. This is why the actual death figures are more than twice as much as what the reported official figures are.
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May 4, 2020 17:42
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The only reason I didn't have exactly the same lunch today as I do maybe 13 days out of 14 (it saves wasting time and mental effort wondering what I'm going to eat) is because one of our dogs jumped up on the table while my back was turned and ate half my sweet chilli hummus, Quorn imitation turkey slice, Dijon mustard and extra-mature cheddar cheese sandwich, the little bastard.
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May 4, 2020 17:45
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Pickles's day on a plate: v good noms
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May 4, 2020 17:55
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           I'm doing a social distancing at about 200 metres and entirely no 'rona. maybe 400 metres would be twice as better Payndz posted:The only reason I didn't have exactly the same lunch today as I do maybe 13 days out of 14 (it saves wasting time and mental effort wondering what I'm going to eat) is because one of our dogs jumped up on the table while my back was turned and ate half my sweet chilli hummus, Quorn imitation turkey slice, Dijon mustard and extra-mature cheddar cheese sandwich, the little bastard. Use enough mustard and the cat won't go near, or at least the second time they will be wary. Or hot sauce. My old dear cat used to give me the stink eye whenever he saw me reaching for either
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May 4, 2020 18:22
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DesperateDan posted:Use enough mustard and the cat won't go near, or at least the second time they will be wary. Or hot sauce. My old dear cat used to give me the stink eye whenever he saw me reaching for either I know we're living in strange times but last I checked cats still aren't dogs.
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May 4, 2020 18:33
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justcola posted:https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/may/04/cost-of-public-transport-should-be-raised-as-lockdown-ends-ifs like you finish work at 5, can't get the 5.15 home because it's prohibitively expensive, so you get the 6.15 instead, what are you doing for that extra hour? just hanging around the station or wandering the streets? how is that helping keep people home also, you have to pick a price that is prohibitively expensive to enough people without making a bunch of other people who could afford the higher prices decide it's worth hanging around for an hour for the cheaper train, or everyone just gets the later one anyway also also, it's telling how, even having written off actually doing anything (e.g. making the train companies run more trains, rationing train tickets for people who absolutely have to commute to work) as being too much like communism, their instinct is to raise prices for earlier trains rather than lower them for later ones beginning to think the IFS might be a bunch of cunts
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May 4, 2020 18:35
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XMNN posted:beginning to think the IFS might be a bunch of cunts We prefer the term "cunters", thanks. (Hi to the probably one other person ITT who gets this reference)
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May 4, 2020 18:37
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May 4, 2020 18:40
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goddamnedtwisto posted:I know we're living in strange times but last I checked cats still aren't dogs. Cats, dogs, ferrets, wildebeests, whatever. If they have mucous membranes and a sense of self preservation they ain't getting near my colmans mustard sandwich with ham and cheese and they aren't even looking longingly at whatever I dumped a bottle of encona extra hot on If I'm not near hallucinations, it isn't flavour country yet
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May 4, 2020 18:40
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baka kaba posted:yeah I never got why people were so wild about her for deputy, like she'd really made her mark as a major figure. She'd seemed decent in education and she had a few good speeches, but her biggest thing seemed to be staring down Farage and telling him to meet her in the car park on national TV, which I mean, fair do's I posted about this during the leadership election, but she was not decent in education. She said academies had their place if they could provide a good service to families and children. A lot of people in education that I know were extremely disappointed with her not willing to go hard on academies being poo poo (which they are).
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May 4, 2020 18:43
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Todays meals were: Wake up 10am, 1pm realise I'm hungry, spend a couple of hours cleaning out the chickens and meandering around before realising I've fed everything except myself, crave cake and make a victoria sponge and some bread. 7pm, I have eaten a lot of cake and feel slightly ill. Here's a picture of a butterfly on a grape vine. I really need to tidy up this half of the garden some time. And reroof my shed now the weather's nicer, the felt got torn off when we had the big winds. 
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May 4, 2020 18:49
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baka kaba posted:yeah I never got why people were so wild about her for deputy, like she'd really made her mark as a major figure. She'd seemed decent in education and she had a few good speeches, but her biggest thing seemed to be staring down Farage and telling him to meet her in the car park on national TV, which I mean, fair do's She's said some pretty stupid things in the past about Posting https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/angela-rayner-ban-anonymous-social-media-abuse-labour-facebook-twitter-a8551716.html I definitely sypmathise for Dianne Abbott ever going through her Mentions but that doesn't mean we should make the internet rubbish.
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DesperateDan posted:Cats, dogs, ferrets, wildebeests, whatever. If they have mucous membranes and a sense of self preservation they ain't getting near my colmans mustard sandwich with ham and cheese and they aren't even looking longingly at whatever I dumped a bottle of encona extra hot on 
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May 4, 2020 19:06
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Breakfast: two pepperoni Chicago town pizzas Lunch: boiled bacon mashed potatoes and cabbage Dinner: 2 Southern fried chicken breasts, half a bag of potato wedges Snacks: cake, three weetabix and sugar, 8 cups of coffee Why yes I'm a tubber lubber and im wired!
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May 4, 2020 19:12
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There was talk of various projections of things into the future, how about this one:
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May 4, 2020 19:18
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ASI says holocaust denial is just "a diverse viewpoint" https://twitter.com/matthewlesh/status/1257219805918216192?s=19
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May 4, 2020 19:18
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https://www.thejc.com/comment/comment/one-stupid-tweet-by-owen-jones-confirms-all-you-need-to-know-about-the-hard-left-1.499433 You see, when michael gove collects books by holocaust deniers, it's not antisemitic, becaus he isn't an antisemite. When left wing people do basically anything, it's antisemitic, because they're antisemites.
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May 4, 2020 19:27
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XMNN posted:this plan bears so little relation to reality that it's not even a "perfectly spherical commuters in an evacuated train carriage" grade approximation that I'm sure they haven't even begun to consider it, but I'd like to see one of these fuckers explain what this would actually look like in practice Ironically (given just about everything about this gov's pandemic response so far) this is the type of problem that may actually be better solved by behavioural scientists than classical economists. Eg (timestamped): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8-4JliHzoc&t=1217s blunt fucked around with this message at 20:28 on May 4, 2020 |
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May 4, 2020 19:33
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"Anything right of Tonty Blair" doesn't exclude as many books as this person thinks. Also I love to argue that offering a book to someone from an author who wrote a DIFFERENT book that contained some antisemitism is bad but actually owning books that promote racist views is fine.
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May 4, 2020 19:34
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OwlFancier posted:https://www.thejc.com/comment/comment/one-stupid-tweet-by-owen-jones-confirms-all-you-need-to-know-about-the-hard-left-1.499433 https://twitter.com/alexnunns/status/1257244754930171906?s=19
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May 4, 2020 19:36
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Guavanaut posted:Ferrets are cats. I think we should check the rulings of the international ferret-legging association of west yorkshire on that subject to be honest quote:{Rules and regulations, 137th edition, chapter 3- "equipment and location" subsection B} So that's a maybe?
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XMNN posted:this plan bears so little relation to reality that it's not even a "perfectly spherical commuters in an evacuated train carriage" grade approximation that I'm sure they haven't even begun to consider it, but I'd like to see one of these fuckers explain what this would actually look like in practice I have thought this about the peak/off peak pricing distinction since before the pandemic, or at least the rationale that the higher peak price might deter people who can travel at other times. The sardine-like trains do that on their own! Similarly the posters I've seen in London saying "have you thought about travelling between 10amm and 4pm (or whatever) when it's quieter". Are there really people who can go into town whenever, standing on a train at 0830 muttering "why is it so busy?"
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May 4, 2020 19:43
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It makes a lot more sense if you change the perspective so that peak hours are when the companies can get away with charging more.
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Bobstar posted:I have thought this about the peak/off peak pricing distinction since before the pandemic, or at least the rationale that the higher peak price might deter people who can travel at other times. The sardine-like trains do that on their own! I'm reminded that when my dad was commuting itno London from Hampshire on the regular, the off-peak trains were referred to as 'the gentlemens' train' with the strong implication that only people who could afford to go into work late could ride them. If anything off-peak and peak pricing should be loving reversed. Well, if anything public transport should be nationally owned and free at point of use, but you know.
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May 4, 2020 19:51
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OwlFancier posted:You see, when michael gove collects books by holocaust deniers, it's not antisemitic, becaus he isn't an antisemite. When left wing people do basically anything, it's antisemitic, because they're antisemites. * Builds entire house out of copies of Mein Kampf * It's ok, I used to be a journalist. For The Times.
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Another fun one we haven't talked about on that shelf is The Irony of Virtue, by Ernest Lefever.quote:President Ronald Reagan nominated Lefever for a post as Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs in the Department of State. The 1981 nomination was cited by The Washington Post as an effort to appeal to "ultraconservatives" upset that Secretary of State Alexander Haig hadn't appointed conservative "hardliners" to his policy team. Lefever testified to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that the U.S. should not act to "promote human rights in other sovereign states". Critics drew attention to his involvement with the Ethics and Public Policy Center and criticized remarks that contrasted regimes that supported the United States which he deemed "authoritarian" that should be the targets of "quiet diplomacy" – stating that "[o]ur friends deserve quiet support and public encouragement in their quest for a more humane society" and that we should be "a steadfast ally" without "moral posturing" – while those that opposed the U.S. were deemed "totalitarian" and could not be the targets of change achieved through diplomatic means.
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