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No clapping here tonight except the old harridan at the end of the street watching for those who were outside and not clapping. We had fireworks last week and they're the one thing I would be glad to see banned as much of an anti fun person that makes me. They terrorised one of my dogs right through her life, poor bugger.
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happyhippy posted:They should be Blizzard rich a decade or two ago if they weren't so paranoid of computer games stealing their precious metal model selling. Didn't Blizz allegedly approach them initially to make WoW with the warhams IP? I know they were very late to that party and failed. Still, Total War: Warhams is doing pretty well. Really though if they'd milked their IP they could've done the marvel cinematic universe before marvel did (and better).
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May 22, 2020 01:30
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My street hasn't clapped once. It's full of migrant run takeaways and every day the italians, Spaniards, and Turks who work next to one another keep the doors wide open and blast europop while they have loud conversations, it's great. Reminds me of where I came from.
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May 22, 2020 01:30
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winegums posted:Didn't Blizz allegedly approach them initially to make WoW with the warhams IP? I know they were very late to that party and failed. Still, Total War: Warhams is doing pretty well. I don’t know if it was ever confirmed, the story is that Warcraft and Starcraft were licensed games until GW pulled out and blizz put a new coat of paint over them and put them out.
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May 22, 2020 01:39
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Jose posted:in case anyone had any hopes about biden beating trump he's picked the least inspiring democrat primary candidate who as someone who actually followed them the only thing i remember is she was physically abusive to staff if they forgot to get a fork with her salad Alternatively, a new national poll's just come out which gives him an 11-point lead over Trump in a head-to-head. Which is far from an excuse to put the champagne on ice (Clinton showed similar national polling leads at times in 2016 and still lost in the electoral college), but it's a very good point to be starting from. Biden's also performing strongly in the limited state-level polling that's been done since he emerged as the clear front-runner; he's showing with leads over the margin of error in Florida, Arizona, Michigan and Pennsylvania, all of which Trump won narrowly in 2016.
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May 22, 2020 01:44
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Trin Tragula posted:Alternatively, a new national poll's just come out which gives him an 11-point lead over Trump in a head-to-head. Which is far from an excuse to put the champagne on ice (Clinton showed similar national polling leads at times in 2016 and still lost in the electoral college), but it's a very good point to be starting from. Biden's also performing strongly in the limited state-level polling that's been done since he emerged as the clear front-runner; he's showing with leads over the margin of error in Florida, Arizona, Michigan and Pennsylvania, all of which Trump won narrowly in 2016. He is, however, doing dogshit among independents and swing voters, which is what he's basing his entire campaign on winning.
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May 22, 2020 01:51
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Trin Tragula posted:Alternatively, a new national poll's just come out which gives him an 11-point lead over Trump in a head-to-head. Which is far from an excuse to put the champagne on ice (Clinton showed similar national polling leads at times in 2016 and still lost in the electoral college), but it's a very good point to be starting from. Biden's also performing strongly in the limited state-level polling that's been done since he emerged as the clear front-runner; he's showing with leads over the margin of error in Florida, Arizona, Michigan and Pennsylvania, all of which Trump won narrowly in 2016. When he slurs his way through the debates as trump calls him out on all his corruption that he's too senile to respond to his campaign is sunk
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May 22, 2020 02:05
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Sleepy Joe will not pull out young people in anything approaching important numbers. He's also just an establishment choice who even if he won will just promote the same neoliberalism that has put America where it is. Essentially the US is one election cycle ahead of us.
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May 22, 2020 02:05
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Sleepytime Bear is going to get Mondale'd. He's even openly telling people not to vote for him.
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May 22, 2020 03:02
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ro5s posted:I don’t know if it was ever confirmed, the story is that Warcraft and Starcraft were licensed games until GW pulled out and blizz put a new coat of paint over them and put them out. SC was definitely originally made as a licensed 40K game, that's why the humans have power armor and the zerg are just 'nids. GW spent a very, very long time tripping over their own dicks by doing things like that, but in the past few years they've finally eased up and as a result, their settings (Which are among the most perfect for videos game ever invented) now have a number of actually good to great games; Total Warhams, Mechanicus, Battlefleet Gothic Armada, Vermintide, Blood Bowl, and more. A far cry from when you could choose from Space Hulk: VotBA and Shadow of the Horned Rat/Dark Omen. e; Sniffin' Joe is going to get completely bodied, and even if he does somehow eke out a win it's going to be on the back of the most desultory support ever and the party will be fractured and paralyzed, letting the next GOP fascist win massively in 2024.
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May 22, 2020 04:00
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Joe Biden is known in the UK for two things: 1: being Obama's invisible VP 2: plagiarising a Neil Kinnock speech
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May 22, 2020 06:48
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Red Oktober posted:Man, Gillian Anderson’s performance in A Streetcar Named Desire is so uncomfortably good. It’s streaming for free for a week from today on the NTLive YouTube. Go watch it. YEah its good, better almost than the Marge Simpson/Ned Flanders production.
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May 22, 2020 07:06
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Quite loud claps last night, I assume because they all forgot last week and were feeling guilty. Someone has told trumpet player to gently caress off because they have gone from playing every single evening at 8 pm to not at all for a week now. And finally, I can only imagine someone else's clock was off by an hour-and-a-half because we got a solid 5 minutes of fireworks at 9:30 pm. P.S. I went to the shop during the day to get essential supplies and nobody gave a gently caress about social distancing, and the shopkeep, usually very good about telling people off for being poo poo, looked to have thrown the towel in.
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May 22, 2020 08:12
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winegums posted:Sleepy Joe will not pull out young people in anything approaching important numbers. He's also just an establishment choice who even if he won will just promote the same neoliberalism that has put America where it is. This is the main thing. Whoever wins the US loses, nothing will change except the rich will get richer.
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May 22, 2020 08:33
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Biden may appoint slightly less lovely Supreme Court justices, but given the naked corruption of the House during Obama's compromise appointment I'm not even sure of that.
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May 22, 2020 08:43
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Yeah, while we have the same political pressures from the media the US does, at least the last few years have shown our parliament is not as corrupt as the US system - we have the same problem a lot of the world has that our left is fractured into several small parties unwilling to cooperate with each other, and a strong united right. FPTP then ensures though 60% voted against Johnson, he still wins. That's my only real hope with Starmer is that he's right enough that the Lib dems and others will be willing to make more deals with him, allowing a labour lead hung parliament. Then Corbyn rips off the mask and reveals it was him all along. The latter is about as realistic as the former TBH.....
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May 22, 2020 08:56
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The Lib Dems will never collaborate with a Labour that will lead in a meaningfully different way from the Tories.
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May 22, 2020 08:59
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The lib dems have a number of seats so small that you need to read a bunch of books by Richard K. Guy (who also died this year  ) to calculate them.Whether the SNP will cooperate in exchange for Scottish Issues is more relevant than the party of Interim Leader Ed Davey.
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May 22, 2020 09:04
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Flipswitch posted:No clapping here tonight except the old harridan at the end of the street watching for those who were outside and not clapping. Nextdoor is a garbage fire of curtain twitching mediocrity, but I've hope for my neighbourhood because someone posted 'not as much NHS clapping this week :|' and every single reply was 'yes because it's an empty loving gesture, pay them more through increased taxes'
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May 22, 2020 09:11
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https://twitter.com/Tabby_Kinder/status/1263363887270891520 Just brazenly funnelling money to Tory donors.
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May 22, 2020 09:24
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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...s-idUSKBN22X2WA (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has instructed civil servants to make plans to end UK's reliance on China for vital medical supplies and other strategic imports in light of the coronavirus outbreak, The Times newspaper reported on Friday bit.ly/2AIukv1. The plans, which have been code named ‘Project Defend’, include identifying Britain’s main economic vulnerabilities to potentially hostile foreign governments as part of a broader new approach to national security, the newspaper reported, adding that the efforts are being led by Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab.
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May 22, 2020 09:25
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Jippa posted:https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...s-idUSKBN22X2WA So nothing from the EU, nothing from China, how many other markets does the UK cut itself off from? If Trump gets in again, one wrong word and he'll cut off the US. It would be good if UK could expand its manufacturing base for lots of reasons - jobs, self-reliance etc - but that takes years to develop and won't happen when the tories' principal aim is to find ways of shovelling taxpayers' money into their own or their cronies' pockets.
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May 22, 2020 09:27
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May 22, 2020 09:28
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I'm johnny knoxville and this is ventilator challenge
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May 22, 2020 09:40
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Isn't this coming at the stage when the medical profession has said that what we need isn't more ventilators but more oxygen generators? China's got that market pretty much in the bag, they're about £150 for a not especially medical grade one that will still keep someone alive. Very interested in how the UK will beat that by funneling public money to Tory donors with industry experience in 'having houses' and 'vacuum cleaner'.
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May 22, 2020 09:44
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Guavanaut posted:Biden may appoint slightly less lovely Supreme Court justices, but given the naked corruption of the House during Obama's compromise appointment I'm not even sure of that. The battleground in the 2020 US elections is not the White House, it's the Senate.
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thespaceinvader posted:The Lib Dems will never collaborate with a Labour that will lead in a meaningfully different way from the Tories. Yeah, but I can dream can't I? OwlFancier posted:If only someone had suggested some sort of national industry for producing medical supplies. Yes, but this will be a state funded, for profit organisation! Think of how much MORE cash can be shovelled into private pockets under the banner of "increased NHS funding"
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May 22, 2020 09:50
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https://twitter.com/cyclist_rob/status/1263370355919519744 Hilariously the government is just straight up paying the Guardian to run propaganda articles. Another waste of taxpayer money when a) they could run the same content in the Torygraph, BBC or Times for free just by 'leaking' it to them and b) nobody reads the Guardian. Please hire me to streamline the governments PR budget.
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May 22, 2020 09:51
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Grey Hunter posted:Then Corbyn rips off the mask and reveals it was him all along. "and I would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for you meddling libs!"
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May 22, 2020 09:59
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Sleepy Joe is probably going to announce Robert Kennedy or Corn Pop as his running mate. Given his very obvious rate of mental decline and that Trump is boasting about poisoning himself it's possible it could be a very different election in November
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crispix posted:Sleepy Joe is probably going to announce Robert Kennedy or Corn Pop as his running mate. Given his very obvious rate of mental decline and that Trump is boasting about poisoning himself it's possible it could be a very different election in November 
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May 22, 2020 11:07
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Labour councillors all being like this oval office is a real issue https://twitter.com/Simon_Vessey/status/1263765602797326336?s=19
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crispix posted:Sleepy Joe is probably going to announce Robert Kennedy or Corn Pop as his running mate. Given his very obvious rate of mental decline and that Trump is boasting about poisoning himself it's possible it could be a very different election in November Essentially the only things we know about Trump's inner circle at any given time is that they have no qualms about lying to him and are unwilling to murder him. There's no way any of those lizards are actually giving him the lethal meds.
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May 22, 2020 11:18
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https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/may/21/nhs-doctor-enough-people-clapping A pretty good summary of why the clapping is terrible
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https://twitter.com/rafaelbehr/status/1263751586335133697?s=19
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https://twitter.com/PeterKGeoghegan/status/1263753836293955589 aaaa AAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
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May 22, 2020 11:53
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I love how Independent Sage put out a report about why schools shouldn't open on June 1st and not a peep on the BBC News website. http://www.independentsage.org/
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Sad Panda posted:I love how Independent Sage put out a report about why schools shouldn't open on June 1st and not a peep on the BBC News website. Looks like they forgot to add a communications expert because their website is baaaaaad. (This isn't supposed to be a glib comment. You're not gonna convince the people you're trying to convince by putting out badly formatted walls of text on a monotone website).
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May 22, 2020 12:04
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I own the same t-shirt as Jeremy Corbyn! https://twitter.com/joejglenton/status/1263781407383486464
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"Nationalised."
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