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There's something interesting to be written about the way the Tory party has evolved from a aristo-bougie alliance focused on paternalistic nationalism and imperialist power projection into a fundamentalist libertarian free-market party. The former, at least, made sure the state was able to defend its trade routes and colonial assets whereas the latter seems happy to flog absolutely everything they have to the highest bidder. Johnson doesn't seem to quite know which party he belongs to in that sense. He clearly wants to invoke the gravitas of the old guard but constantly fails to do so, mostly because he's unwilling to commit to anything that would upset his free-marketeer wing too much. It's indicative of a genuinely fascinating contradiction within the framework of the Conservative Party of the 21st century, and not necessarily one that can be easily resolved. It's frustrating though - an effective and well-resourced socialist movement could get a huge amount of a mileage out of attacking those fracture lines, particularly at the present moment. Good job Labour got rid of the nasty
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HidaO-Win posted:This is going to end the lockdown, then Cummings will smugly claim it was all 5D chess by his giant brain to get the scared chattel back out in the fields. im sick of these time travellers making GBS threads up the thread with their inevitable visions of the future
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May 26, 2020 18:22
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c0burn posted:They've just announced a review of all fines due to childcare https://twitter.com/bbclaurak/status/1265328468067311616?s=20 Nope, denied peasant, pay your fines and get back in the line.
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Gonzo McFee posted:https://twitter.com/Survation/status/1265296371541778432 Ms Adequate posted:On the other hand I can live without the proof that this has dented Tory support by like 3% Glad to see my ridiculously hyperbolic number actually overshot the mark by a full 50%
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May 26, 2020 18:31
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May 26, 2020 18:32
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OwlFancier posted:Kids are already doing a much better job at seeing through it than the old are. Yeah but doesn't the immunity eventually run out? So you'd need an outbreak at least once a year and also another 300,000 deaths? You know the thing the herd immunity crew keep ignoring.
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May 26, 2020 18:34
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Regarde Aduck posted:Yeah but doesn't the immunity eventually run out? So you'd need an outbreak at least once a year and also another 300,000 deaths? You know the thing the herd immunity crew keep ignoring. If it does then one would presume that it doesn't wear out all at once, so it's more like you'd have a running continuous death rate from it like you do other diseases.
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May 26, 2020 18:36
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May 26, 2020 18:41
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Regarde Aduck posted:Yeah but doesn't the immunity eventually run out? So you'd need an outbreak at least once a year and also another 300,000 deaths? You know the thing the herd immunity crew keep ignoring. Hopefully by the time that happens we'd be vaccinating to maintain actual herd immunity.
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May 26, 2020 18:46
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Isn't abolishing representative democracy and having everything in the party decided by OMOV a good thing though? I mean obviously he wanted to do it marginalise the left, but it seems like a bad example to use of how right wing he is.
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May 26, 2020 18:49
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Yeah I'm not really sure how to read that either. I assume he would now prefer to do something else seeing as that does not appear to gently caress over the left.
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May 26, 2020 18:53
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OwlFancier posted:Yeah I'm not really sure how to read that either. I assume he would now prefer to do something else seeing as that does not appear to gently caress over the left. It's actually be a pretty good test of his principles to see if he still wants that, considering Gen Sec is meant to be a non-political position. I mean I don't hold out that much hope, but then the membership did elect Starmer so maybe he would.
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I had sort of skipped over the notion that a blairite would have principles.
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May 26, 2020 18:57
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have this one then https://twitter.com/jamesthesimp/status/1265329959922470918?s=20
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May 26, 2020 18:58
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Oh yeah he's apparently a general piece of poo poo in a lot of ways lol.
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May 26, 2020 18:59
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He was apparently responsible for this amazing bucket of swill.
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May 26, 2020 19:17
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The Deleter posted:I'm not having any fuckin' polls in this thread again, we had enough of that poo poo in December and it was soul destroying. Yeah agreed, unless a poll is exceptionally interesting I'm not going to be giving any shits about "today's poll shows +2 movement in this direction, let's see how it does tomorrow and until then dissect this poll like the empty frog it is"
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Jose posted:have this one then We just need a touch more fascism
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[relevant dril tweet]
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Continuity RCP posted:We just need a touch more fascism
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Whom amongst us could've possibly predicted that a Starmer leadership would be used to ensure the left don't get to sniff the leadership or control of the party ever again? I can only repeat that anyone who voted for Starmer to be leader should feel really bad and will hopefully reflect on this that Labour is dead for the foreseeable future as a method for enacting socialism.
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May 26, 2020 19:46
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OwlFancier posted:Fewer deaths recorded on a weekend afaik. They catch up on those over the next week. Thanks. And is this just because there are fewer doctors about to certify deaths on weekends?
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May 26, 2020 20:11
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Or fewer people to communicate it to the central office. It has not hitherto been very important to record deaths centrally at immediate notice. The deaths are likely recorded locally but nobody forwards the paperwork on.
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https://twitter.com/samcoatessky/status/1265360896185991168?s=21
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When my grandmother died it took a few days to get the death certificate made up and that was done at the town hall, which is also where they kept the archive, and the death could not be recorded officially with the government until we had that. So depending on their methodology they may be a few days behind even optimally, unless they're getting their death stats directly from hospital morgues. As I recall we basically got a chitty from the hospital saying "yep she dead" and had to take that to the town hall to get the proper one made up.
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May 26, 2020 20:24
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Loving the number of northern MP's who are new and Tory getting several thousand emails from their new constituents basically saying "my friends told me you can't trust the Tories to do anything for us and that all they're out to do is protect the rich and powerful, and I didn't believe them and voted for you anyway and not it turns out that they were right."
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I found this video enormously interesting. Anyway, this is 42 mins but he's a good presenter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Jwo5qc78QU I fell foul of the copyright thing - last year I found an old cassette from maybe 30 years ago with an audio recording of a Southbank Show featuring snippets of Hendrix tracks, interviews with musicians from around the same time, band etc. - and checked the relevant archives of Southbank Show and saw it was missing. I converted it to a video (just the audio with a handful of static Hendrix images) and uploaded it and within a few minutes it was blocked! Since then I've discovered that playback of Hendrix material (even 30 second snippets!) is banned in 249 countries! More widely, I do simple websites for friends and family and have the devil of a job convincing them that they can't just lift images off the internet, block copy wiki etc. even if they do give a link back or a reference.
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OwlFancier posted:When my grandmother died it took a few days to get the death certificate made up and that was done at the town hall, which is also where they kept the archive, and the death could not be recorded officially with the government until we had that. So depending on their methodology they may be a few days behind even optimally, unless they're getting their death stats directly from hospital morgues. I had to do the same for my dad, which was when I found out that Portsmouth registry office has a separate entrance and hallway for death registrations
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OwlFancier posted:When my grandmother died it took a few days to get the death certificate made up and that was done at the town hall, which is also where they kept the archive, and the death could not be recorded officially with the government until we had that. So depending on their methodology they may be a few days behind even optimally, unless they're getting their death stats directly from hospital morgues. When my dad died, we couldn't get an appointment to register the death in Gloucester (as the county town where parents lived) for 10 days. Deaths are supposed to be registered within 5 days. Firstly, there was a phone number to make an appointment in a town near where their home was which my mum tried phoning many times a day for days on end but no answer. We later discovered the office it rang into was unstaffed except, apparently, for 2 hours a fortnight, there was no recorded message or anything. Fortunately for mum, my siblings and I are internet savvy and when we found out looked online, had to book the appointment on line and earliest was 10 days. So we couldn't even set a funeral date until after that. Then we had to get to Gloucester. Again, luckily there are drivers in the family because it is just about impossible to get from parents' home to Gloucester by public transport in a single day, let alone home again. Friends were astonished because mostly they live in cities and they can register it the same or next day as the death. City dwellers have no idea how difficult things can be for rural dwellers.
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Ours is in the normal town hall, which is a shame because the town hall does have a crypt, but the crypt is a performance venue.Jaeluni Asjil posted:When my dad died, we couldn't get an appointment to register the death in Gloucester (as the county town where parents lived) for 10 days. Deaths are supposed to be registered within 5 days. Yeah the funeral places won't even look at you until you've got the death certificate. It's weird how arsey some people get at you about the whole thing. Like you ring up the bank and that to tell them the person is dead and they get shirty with you demanding this and that. And you're like "look it makes no odds to me whether you think she's dead I'm doing this as a favour to you" OwlFancier fucked around with this message at 20:37 on May 26, 2020 |
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forkboy84 posted:Whom amongst us could've possibly predicted that a Starmer leadership would be used to ensure the left don't get to sniff the leadership or control of the party ever again? missed these! majestic 
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Wachter posted:Thanks. And is this just because there are fewer doctors about to certify deaths on weekends? We have a skeleton staff of doctors at the weekend and the bereavement department of the hospital is usually closed anyway, so no death certificates at all get done out of hours. The only exceptions are for religious reasons, and only then if we can manage it between emergencies.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:I found this video enormously interesting. There were a bunch of the VIDS shows I uploaded recently flagged for copyright blocks over 90-second clips of films etc, I was fucks sake man, delete the whole upload, re-edit it to blur/mute out the offending material, reupload it. Pain in the arse. Almost every one of the 72 shows has multiple copyright notifications that I can't monetise the item (which I had no interest in doing), but as long as there's no blocks I'm happy*. It's surprising just how 'good' the Google algo is at recognising a bunch of short snippets of media from a significant percentage of global film/tv/music in the short time it takes to process a video. *I lie; one of the last shows I uploaded has a partial play block because of one clip, but its blocked in France only and tough poo poo I guess Frenchies.
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I know the thread isn't a huge fan of George Galloway, but this is a hell of a speech. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTTXh9NG6Dg I'm only half way through, but so far he's shat on British hypocrisy over foreign resistance to occupation, how Labour is now indistinguishable from the Tories (it's dated in 2013), the risk of breaking up the UK because of the lack of a left wing party at the Scottish referendum, the impact of austerity, political corruption, the metaphorical reduction in the stature of politicians, police corruption, newspaper corruption, and now on to the bankers and the scale of tax evasion. It's quite articulate and engaging.
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I recently got a bunch of stuff flagged on youtube that I uploaded over 10 years ago. I made a few Eve Online videos back in 2004-ish, and uploaded them to youtube in 2008-9, I think. They were fine for a decade then a few people started watching them and before I knew it I was getting warnings. It's entirely understandable, because I pretty much used entire tracks start to finish. Zombies by the Cranberries still hasn't been flagged though.
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NoneMoreNegative posted:There were a bunch of the VIDS shows I uploaded recently flagged for copyright blocks over 90-second clips of films etc, I was fucks sake man, delete the whole upload, re-edit it to blur/mute out the offending material, reupload it. Pain in the arse. Almost every one of the 72 shows has multiple copyright notifications that I can't monetise the item (which I had no interest in doing), but as long as there's no blocks I'm happy*. Most of that poo poo should be fine under fair use but of course it is an affirmative defense in the US, i.e. nearly worthless in most practical cases, and many countries don't have a well developed doctrine around fair use in the first place. [edit] What is the status of "fair use" or equivalent in the UK these days anyway?
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Wachter posted:Thanks. And is this just because there are fewer doctors about to certify deaths on weekends? A death is confirmed by a team member of the consultant responsible for care who had seen them in the previous 14 days. This is for several reasons, confirmation of identity, reason for death, whether the death was expected and in keeping with the reason they were in hospital, whether there was any anomalies in the drug chart etc. This is required before releasing the body to the family. At the weekend the doctor witnessing the death was probably on call and just checked for pulse and breathing and not much else.
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Talking of youtube flagging, I had one of the live vids of my old band (from our first ever gig no less) pulled down for ‘hate speech’ earlier this year. The video had been up since November 2010, and contains nothing that I could imagine as being ‘hate speech’ under any definition of the word, unless the title of the song (‘Skullhead’) somehow triggered the algorithm?
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frankenbeans posted:I recently got a bunch of stuff flagged on youtube that I uploaded over 10 years ago. I made a few Eve Online videos back in 2004-ish, and uploaded them to youtube in 2008-9, I think. They were fine for a decade then a few people started watching them and before I knew it I was getting warnings. It's entirely understandable, because I pretty much used entire tracks start to finish. Zombies by the Cranberries still hasn't been flagged though. I assume Little Bees is still fine  Edit: skullhead does sound rather close to totenkopf which obviously has dodgy associations...
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