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Pesky Splinter posted:Just want to imagine a donkey wearing a labcoat and stethoscope. With another trotting in the distance wearing a nurse's hat. "Looks like we'll have a budget shortfall in Q3 ... Jeff, do you still have that Realdoll?" In other news, shopping centre operator Intu have gone under. E: FFS. 27th June 1844 - Joseph Smith, founder of the Mormons, is killed by a mob while awaiting trial for treason. Jedit fucked around with this message at 10:00 on Jun 27, 2020 |
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smiling giraffe posted:corbo was terrible. im glad the new guy sacked that lady. ban me fuckars 
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big scary monsters posted:I see this misunderstanding very, very often, and in honour of maths chat earlier I want to finally clear it up. Venn diagrams do not work like that. They work like this: Is it the case then that the area/shape-sizes never represents actual values? I mean I guess that would get tricky anyway with more than 2 circles and you'd have to start getting creative with the shapes
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a pipe smoking dog posted:The ESA earth station on Ascension is absolutely tiny though. Its a small prefab building with a single dish. Are you going to pretend that the british equivalent of the Kennedy Space Centre wouldn't be a small prefab building with a single dish? c'mon now
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big scary monsters posted:I see this misunderstanding very, very often, and in honour of maths chat earlier I want to finally clear it up. Venn diagrams do not work like that. They work like this: The venn diagram of people who are pedants about venn diagrams and people who should care less about venn diagrams is just a picture of goatse
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https://twitter.com/wurrance/status/1276799521826062336 Turns out Glinners been throwing his knob out to lots of strangers.
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I'm not sure I've been overall a good poster in this, the serious thread, but I've enjoyed our chats and sharing a common cause with many of you.Ratjaculation posted:Genuinely concerning reading the latest Lowtax poo poo
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Flipswitch posted:https://twitter.com/wurrance/status/1276799521826062336 Lol he's literally going into women's spaces to be a sex pest. Its always a self projection with these people.
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Re Glinner / Blue tick thing (but not about his transphobia) I thought blue tick simply meant that twitter had verified that you were who you claimed to be so how can they remove someone's blue tick unless they find out it's an impersonation? Or have I misunderstood the role and function of the blue tick?
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It also sort of functions as a sort of endorsement, not necessarily intentionally but like, when you create a class of "verified" people it confers authority on them.
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Flipswitch posted:https://twitter.com/wurrance/status/1276799521826062336 Parody account, plus it's gone. e: blue tick also gives you priority replies to other blue ticks and some extra Twitter functionality, iirc.
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BizarroAzrael posted:Glad the forums are still here for this; 
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Did Keir Starmer do some 'young people forum' a few weeks ago or did I dream such nonsense? Watching a bit of this weeks Question Time, its better without a fleet of meat in the audience but still mostly farting about. e:  the gooniest bookshelf of political video conferencing justcola fucked around with this message at 10:49 on Jun 27, 2020 |
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Gavin Williamson has identified the real issue facing today’s teachers and classrooms. Circular tables! https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/face-the-front-and-pay-attention-minister-orders-nation-s-children-mpq792shs Ps 30 kids per classroom to really get that second wave cresting
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Ratjaculation posted:I'm not sure I've been overall a good poster in this, the serious thread, but I've enjoyed our chats and sharing a common cause with many of you. also, "never once been convicted" is some interesting framing to use, rather than "i didn't do it"
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Lowtax admitting to being a virgin is a real Hail Mary attempt to save his Patreon e: wait I thought the post said "with a woman" rather than "to a woman". gently caress me, let the internet mob destroy my post now e2: Petition to change "You just made a post! Hope it didn't suck!" to "Let the poison internet mob destroy my post now"
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justcola posted:Did Keir Starmer do some 'young people forum' a few weeks ago or did I dream such nonsense? Ah, yes, Ender's Game, the book with absolutely no awful Jewish stereotypes in it at all...
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Re Glinner / Blue tick thing (but not about his transphobia) It's literally just a sticker that says twitter thinks you're cool.
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Rustybear posted:Galileo is about using large, slow, E band satellites in a stable MEO orbit to provide secure satnav signals to EU states in the event they can't rely on GPS/GLONASS (which is a legit strategic concern for the EU for obvious reasons). Rustybear posted:But access to the designs is crucially different to access to the service itself; your level of strategic concern over long term access to the service depends on the extent to which you think we'll enter a (winnable!) military confrontation with the EU and USA simultaneously. Back in reality the UKSA is still an ESA delegate and ESA has a huge research center in the UK in Harwell, we're not actually a total pariah. Guavanaut fucked around with this message at 11:06 on Jun 27, 2020 |
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RIP Glinner. He dedicated his life to posting. Ruined his career, lost his wife, lost his kids and was immediately abandoned the second he was no longer useful to those who radicalised him. All for the posts. You gotta respect it.
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Party Boat posted:Lol he went to mumsnet at 3am to whine about it and got roasted Why am I blocked by this sadist lady who I have never previously interacted with
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Pretty unedifying seeing this site’s large adult webmaster pretty much brag about his abusive behaviour. He’s like a case study of the type that preys on the traumatised and the vulnerable; the way he chips away at that poor woman’s self-esteem and tells her she can’t trust her lying mind has actually made me feel a bit sick cos it’s so reminiscent of horrible stories psych service users have told me. I hope she’s safe. Also for Ratj; always enjoyed your posts and thought you often punctured the occasional sliiightly pompous atmosphere here at well-timed moments. Still fuming a lil bit at that Aaronovitch effort and his tweets. Someone (Trin Tragula?) posted an article about alt-right tactics of filling the air with demoralising, choking filth to drown out and dishearten their enemies, and I really think that’s what our Online ‘Centrists’ do. Why else would they post that gloating shite they brand themselves with when it makes them look so baleful and pathetic? They and their fascist mates also love trying to appropriate cultural symbols from Greek masterworks through Sumerian mythology as if to deny people who actually understand them more and more intellectual territory. The culture war feels like it’s pressing in so acutely at the moment, and it leaves me with this constant sense of low grade anger.
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ThomasPaine posted:Why am I blocked by this sadist lady who I have never previously interacted with I have like 5000 people blocked because they said something lovely at some point. It's probably that. https://twitter.com/DaftLimmy/status/1276794436484202496?s=19
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sebzilla posted:Ah, yes, Ender's Game, the book with absolutely no awful Jewish stereotypes in it at all... Also Brave New World and Prelude to Foundation. Both of which I do not doubt are taken wholly seriously.
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Shogi posted:Still fuming a lil bit at that Aaronovitch effort and his tweets. Someone (Trin Tragula?) posted an article about alt-right tactics of filling the air with demoralising, choking filth to drown out and dishearten their enemies, and I really think that’s what our Online ‘Centrists’ do. Why else would they post that gloating shite they brand themselves with when it makes them look so baleful and pathetic? They and their fascist mates also love trying to appropriate cultural symbols from Greek masterworks through Sumerian mythology as if to deny people who actually understand them more and more intellectual territory. The culture war feels like it’s pressing in so acutely at the moment, and it leaves me with this constant sense of low grade anger. It does feel very good to rub your enemies' faces in it. I think the demoralization is kind of a secondary effect.
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ThomasPaine posted:Why am I blocked by this sadist lady who I have never previously interacted with They might have a thing that blocks anyone that follows other users on a blocklist.
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I note that Mumsnet have deleted every post criticising Glinner. lol
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Gonzo McFee posted:RIP Glinner. He dedicated his life to posting. Ruined his career, lost his wife, lost his kids and was immediately abandoned the second he was no longer useful to those who radicalised him. All for the posts. You gotta respect it. Was there anything to say his wife and kids have left him? I love to laugh at glinners misfortune and seeing proof of this would be a cherry on the cake. You can also add in his inability to make his wife nut 👍
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OwlFancier posted:It does feel very good to rub your enemies' faces in it. I think the demoralization is kind of a secondary effect. Never attribute to intelligence that which is adequately explained by malice?
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Shogi posted:Never attribute to intelligence that which is adequately explained by malice? I mean it's certainly the easier option in this instance I think 
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Guavanaut posted:There's no way that the EU enters a winnable fight with both the US and Russia, so what's the real strategic concern there?  but maybe some interventions, especially without the say-so of both Russia and the US, could be good?Like helping Ukraine fight the "rebels" (I think that has mainly US support but still) or helping kurds or whatever. OTOH all wars are bad for some, just looking at how Lybia has gone is enough for an example.
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Jel Shaker posted:Good to see that Ireland came together in the spirit of harmony and lock out the winner of the last election because they’re left wing, a resounding success for the ballot box imo It's part of a much longer discussion but while Sinn Fein were the "winner" of the last election, it's more in the sense that they gained the most ground from this election compared to the last one. They didn't have the most TD's elected (that was FF.) And while they might have won the popular vote, due to poor preparation they didn't run enough TD's. (And ran some questionable candidates. Like Paddy Hoolihan.) Yeah a coalition has been formed by the two centre Right parties and the Greens, but it's already looks so wobbly I think I will fall apart within the year. And already judging by the polls FF have somehow managed to push away their support before they got a chance to do anything. And like them or loath them (and let me be clear. I do not like Leopald. For the reason that the mask slips and it becomes obvious he hates poor people so much) the Government and Leo came out looking strong on Covid-19. They gave clear advice, acted decisively, knew when to be serious and also knew when to try and praise the Irish people for the hard work done. They have so far done a good job with this, and not just "good compared to the USA/UK." Good full stop. I personally think that the re-opening is happening too fast and too many concessions are being made to the Publican Sector and public health will probably suffer. Put a non SF government getting in, isn't surprising. How long it lasts and if we can see a strong Left Government come in afterwards remains to be seen.
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namesake posted:I would suspect that mum42069 is a troll account tbf Maybe she was born 4th April 1969? And likes the american date format? Honestly, you're so cynical!
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Stellar work Keir https://twitter.com/broderly/status/1276774358942470144?s=19
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The Question IRL posted:It's part of a much longer discussion but while Sinn Fein were the "winner" of the last election, it's more in the sense that they gained the most ground from this election compared to the last one. I guess I should ask this in the Ireland politics thread but is the likely response of any collapse going to be gains for FF or FG at the expense of the other for those who generally support the coalition and gains for SF from everyone else?
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Ms Adequate posted:I don't like Venn Diagrams anymore Reynholm meets a woman (played by Belinda Stewart-Wilson aka Will's mum) and is attracted to her and pursues her romantically. Oh, and she's his employee, so there's that as well. At some point she discloses that she hasn't pursued their attraction because she 'used to be a man' (his words) and he seems not to be bothered by it. Pretty sure she refers to it as a shameful secret. Reynholm says he isn't bothered by it and she's overjoyed and they start a relationship. She seems to be interested in typically male activities - there is a whole montage of them drinking, arm-wrestling, watching football. The joke being the usual mashup of transphobic tropes and the only humour coming from double entendres about m/m relationships. They have sex so at least there's no jokes about penises, it just goes down an equally awful route. I'm pretty sure that the main characters find out she's trans and laugh about douglas not knowing. It later transpires that Reynholm thought she said she was 'from Iran' (yes, i know) and upon her saying, while they are in bed watching darts (yep), 'to think I thought you would be bothered that I used to be a man' he realises and is horrified (yes, I know) I might be misremembering (i used to watch IT crowd before I knew better) but I think at one point they show a photo supposedly of her pre-transition and again, the difference is played for laughs after a break for commencial and a bit of a-plot, they are looking round a new lab and douglas is acting completely disinterested in her (you could possibly say that at least reynholm is shown as the bad guy here, but that's like looking for a cubic zirconia in the greater london sewage system). They have a fight, the joke being that she has male strength, and crash through a wall and interfere with the a-plot somehow. At the end of the episode i think he looks at a picture of her and is sad or something but again it's played as a joke at her expense. I remember it being one of the weaker episodes. I mean the theater episode at the start of s2 at least has very good comic timing, even if the content is astoundingly homophobic and outright abusive to disabilities. Unless you're transphobic this whole episode is just... ehh. You could write it off as a product of not knowing any better at the time, except he is still trying to defend it. E: Actually it occurs to me that this might be a good episode for the pod to dissect because there are a ton of microagressions I keep remembering. Bobby Deluxe fucked around with this message at 12:01 on Jun 27, 2020 |
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OwlFancier posted:I mean it's certainly the easier option in this instance I think Nolnah’s razor does have a certain explicative elegance like, just wish I could stop cutting myself on it. All these ‘tactics’ might just be structures hauled up post facto around the behaviours online rightists wanted to present anyway. It would be comforting to believe there was a strategy and not just more directionless hatred shaped into ugly little channels by social Brownian motion idk
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