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I don't know how the contact tracing thing is going to work given that I don't bring my phone anywhere and it's, like, ten years old at least?
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Cool so I'm furloughed but apparently not getting my first payment until the 13th which is really helpful considering I was getting paid weekly
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May 22, 2020 13:57
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Prince John posted:It's hard enough to connect with people properly over zoom though. Having video compensates for this significantly by letting you read people's emotions better and also makes it less likely you'll talk over each other. We've found it pretty nice in our team to see everyone, especially during the period of hardcore lockdown when human interaction was fairly minimal. Zoom even lets you hide your gooncave with a virtual background so it's pretty unobtrusive. yeah, I sort of understand that but it's basically just a group call with 20 people where they tell us things that are so important I can't even remember a single one to give as an example, so there's not much emotional connection going on. although these are the people who voluntarily did a quiz with work people when there was literally no social pressure to do so, so maybe it's the only emotional connection they get I actually wouldn't mind putting it on for my smaller group meetings, and I obviously put it on when I chat to my friends for exactly that reason (plus most of them lived with me for several years so I don't think anything they might potentially see would shock them) also my PC isn't good enough to do virtual background without a green screen and my laptop is v broken so it has to stay very very still or possibly die forever so I can't reposition myself against a wall or something, but fortunately due to the angle of my webcam you can't see the goon caviness of my goon cave so I'm not particularly concerned about that I did have to change out of my pajamas tho
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May 22, 2020 14:00
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happyhippy posted:The story for years was that GW were involved in some way, then Blizzard retconned it that 'nuhuh we thought of it ourselves'. The Warhammer old world is just a rip off of Gloranttha anyway. In aome alternate universe where GW continued Chaosium’s license, about a third of computer games are derivatives of King of Dragon Pass.
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May 22, 2020 14:02
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What disgusting feculant do you people have in your bedrooms/lounges that needs to be hidden by a virtual background?
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May 22, 2020 14:06
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OwlFancier posted:I don't know how the contact tracing thing is going to work given that I don't bring my phone anywhere and it's, like, ten years old at least? Won't work with mine either. I don't take my 'smart' phone out to play because it's dying and when the battery gets below 65% (which it does very quickly) it just stops. That's with the new battery too so I think it's the phone itself. The only reason I have it is to be like a 'mini computer' if I am trying to stay offline but need to check email or whatsapp occasionally (or post on here sometimes). Once I put the laptop on, my day is lost. My everyday normal phone that noone is ever going to want to steal is a Nokia 101 dual sim that I bought abroad maybe 8 years ago and it does calls, texts and FM radio and has a couple of games on it. Does absolutely NOTHING internet, no apps, no camera, doesn't even receive MMS messages
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May 22, 2020 14:06
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stev posted:What disgusting feculant do you people have in your bedrooms/lounges that needs to be hidden by a virtual background? ISIS dildo flag My virtual background is also the ISIS dildo flag tho
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May 22, 2020 14:07
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Just heard on the radio from the lady who organised the first clap for carers saying it should end next week (10th time) and instead the government should give proper recognition to people's efforts using more traditional mechanisms such as wages and providing safe working conditions. I don't think this will happen because as with so many things it has been coopted by the worst people in society, hollowed out and turned into a mockery of what was originally intended
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May 22, 2020 14:09
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May 22, 2020 14:13
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stev posted:What disgusting feculant do you people have in your bedrooms/lounges that needs to be hidden by a virtual background? I do want to play around with the backgrounds because they look fun though, if I turn it on atm its basically just a ghostly image of me on top of whatever the picture is
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May 22, 2020 14:18
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Isn't that... already a cycle lane?
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May 22, 2020 14:20
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XMNN posted:idk the only things I wouldn't really want work to see are usually just some beer cans I haven't put in the recycling yet, but mostly I didn't want to turn my camera on because I had just got out of bed and haven't trimmed my beard in weeks I downloaded some nice backgrounds from airbnb and trimmed out the 'airbnb' logo. Was on a family zoom a couple of weeks back and one extended family person thought I really was up a mountain in a pod and asked quite seriously if I ran holidays. And I also have some nice library ones for when I want to give off a general air of swottiness. As I only moved into my flat just before Xmas and have been doing bits and pieces, with everything on hold since March, my living room is all industrial shelves and temporary 'coffee tables' made out of a stack of collapsible crates and so on until someone significantly more capable than me with a drill and nails can come and erect proper shelves.
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May 22, 2020 14:22
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OwlFancier posted:Isn't that... already a cycle lane? Indeed. And imagine, a whole MILE per week. How's it take that long to put cones down the side of an existing cycle lane? Of course said cones are going to be annoying with the cycle lane generally being full of the crap that accumulates at the side of a road that you sometimes need to try to avoid. The main advantage of cones is that they should stop cars parking in it. The 'cycle lane' from mine into town is parked up constantly.
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May 22, 2020 14:34
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OwlFancier posted:Isn't that... already a cycle lane? I don't think so. There's a couple of places like that near me with no cycle lane markings. I hope the extent of the 'new' cycle lanes which have been announced near me isn't just coning off the side of the road. e: all the conservative councilers here voted against new walking and cycling infrastructure lol. thankfully there's not enough of them to stop it happening. hemale in pain fucked around with this message at 14:44 on May 22, 2020 |
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May 22, 2020 14:41
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Weird markings then. Maybe it was a cycle lane but they took the cycle lane markings down.
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May 22, 2020 14:45
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stev posted:What disgusting feculant do you people have in your bedrooms/lounges that needs to be hidden by a virtual background? I don't turn my camera on because I don't have one. Technically my work laptop does, but I run it through my own monitor and the lid is down.
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May 22, 2020 14:59
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I think it's fine not to use a camera for a long boring work call. I can listen to people talking and do other things perfectly well without having to sit there staring the camera. Also people should use push to talk. I was listening to a sky sports football podcast yesterday and all you could hear in the background was heavy breathing/sighing/coughing from the people not talking but with their mics still active. I'm guessing the ukmt podcast is more professional than that.
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May 22, 2020 14:59
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Jedit posted:"Nationalised." I've nationalised this reply. (Except unlike THE HARD LEFT not without the compensation of a credit to Alice)
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May 22, 2020 15:19
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Jedit posted:"Nationalised." Can you believe that tweet has dozens of replies and not a single one of them is this? e: ^^ well i guess it is now
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May 22, 2020 15:34
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In latest, "the government are shits" news, a friend of mine works on the central .gov.uk website. He told me yesterday that he and all his colleagues are super-worried, as the purpose of the site was changing. Its original purpose was (genuinely!) to help people, and they used analytics etc. to work out what help people were looking for, and then tailored the content to help them as much as possible. However, since lockdown, it's basically turned into another government disinformation engine; they're being told what to write by No10, and are being forced to publish outright lies (I'd list some here, but I don't want it to be traced back to him in case there's any trouble). He's pretty miserable, and says that it's genuinely starting to feel like they're creating fascist progaganda.
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May 22, 2020 15:36
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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 What if this pandemic is what covfefe was all about? Q is real 
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The Perfect Element posted:In latest, "the government are shits" news, a friend of mine works on the central .gov.uk website. He told me yesterday that he and all his colleagues are super-worried, as the purpose of the site was changing. Its original purpose was (genuinely!) to help people, and they used analytics etc. to work out what help people were looking for, and then tailored the content to help them as much as possible. However, since lockdown, it's basically turned into another government disinformation engine; they're being told what to write by No10, and are being forced to publish outright lies (I'd list some here, but I don't want it to be traced back to him in case there's any trouble). They're an information platform for the government, what the gently caress did they think was going to happen when push came to shove? Also get them to whistleblow or unionise and strike over their content.
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I live about a mile from southend seafront- for the third day in a row, tourists are parking up on my street to go to the beach, and every road between the front and here is full, people doing laps to try and find spaces. I think there are limits to how much excuse "the government/media are crap/complicit" can provide, gently caress these complacent idiots Saw an interview where a woman had driven down 3 hours from leicester because she "had to get my energy from the sea". She should park on my road, she can have a couple of used AA's through her front windshield free of charge
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May 22, 2020 15:45
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You what? 
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May 22, 2020 15:46
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goddamnedtwisto posted:I've nationalised this reply. If by that you mean you tweeted it as a response, you're welcome to it. I can't respond to tweets from my phone.
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bornbytheriver posted:You what? you had me at "pick tired limbs and aching muscles" gotta get me in on some of this!!! Edit: Never mind that website redirects to https://tenor.com/view/bogeys-bogies-iain-duncan-smith-ian-duncan-smith-tories-gif-14967074 Well played, well played Edit2: turns out it is real, and pickforbritian.org.uk redirects to that. I misspelled it.  Edit3:  
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bornbytheriver posted:You what? Pick below minimum wage.
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bornbytheriver posted:You what? That's straight up fascist propaganda material, if you didn't realise it. Suffering for the state is just another way to make ordinary people feel like heroes.
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If you're furloughed you can still go pick for britain if your employer allows it. Jose can be our inside man, can't you Jose *daily sport article about someone prolapsing on a farm after getting too busy with the produce*
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bornbytheriver posted:You what? https://twitter.com/IrvineWelsh/status/1263514223876939780?s=20
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the only picking i want to see britain doing is picking a competent government HEYOOOOOOOOOOO
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bornbytheriver posted:You what? I will invent a fully automated fruit picking machine that will murder landowners at an unprecedented rate.
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May 22, 2020 16:00
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Pick your nose.
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lol at their video, all but the first and last one don't sound like they're particularly loving it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RX_9qISj-c also the first one is Frankie dettoris son so probably isn't doing it for the cash
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The Perfect Element posted:In latest, "the government are shits" news, a friend of mine works on the central .gov.uk website. He told me yesterday that he and all his colleagues are super-worried, as the purpose of the site was changing. Its original purpose was (genuinely!) to help people, and they used analytics etc. to work out what help people were looking for, and then tailored the content to help them as much as possible. However, since lockdown, it's basically turned into another government disinformation engine; they're being told what to write by No10, and are being forced to publish outright lies (I'd list some here, but I don't want it to be traced back to him in case there's any trouble). Sounds like the perfect place to hide some genuine advice that only pops up if you're browing from a machine to that's not connected to a government network.
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But how will they ensure that people staying there from different households are social distancing? Oh  Silly me - the answer is ‘loopholes’, because of course it is.
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The Perfect Element posted:In latest, "the government are shits" news, a friend of mine works on the central .gov.uk website. He told me yesterday that he and all his colleagues are super-worried, as the purpose of the site was changing. Its original purpose was (genuinely!) to help people, and they used analytics etc. to work out what help people were looking for, and then tailored the content to help them as much as possible. However, since lockdown, it's basically turned into another government disinformation engine; they're being told what to write by No10, and are being forced to publish outright lies (I'd list some here, but I don't want it to be traced back to him in case there's any trouble). have him leak to the guardian (i know i know, but there isn't much alternative press to go to)
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Red Oktober posted:Silly me - the answer is ‘loopholes’, because of course it is. Buses To Be Considered "Households" To Defeat Coronavirus, Says Minister
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:have him leak to the guardian (i know i know, but there isn't much alternative press to go to) Maybe Buzzfeed or Novaramedia? Though I think I read some of those guys - I forget which one - are getting made redundant. Buzzfeed reported on leaked emails from labour showing how McNicol etc subverted the anti-semitism complaints process almost a year before the labour leaked report. (https://www.buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/leaked-emails-reveal-labours-compliance-unit-took-months-to)
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Red Oktober posted:But how will they ensure that people staying there from different households are social distancing? I mean if you're all trapped together on a farm in the middle of nowhere and can't leave I suppose that makes sense other highlights of that faq are that you will be paid at also no mention of food being covered, which implies it isn't so who knows how much will get deducted for that on top although I suppose you can always pop down to the pub for tea, or maybe walk down to the local Tesco express
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