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Nutapii posted:With the exception of some council areas, there's no seating in the centres. I know it's the hostile architecture that's been done to death, but it also means if you're meeting someone or just wandering about you basically have to go in to the shops/cafes. Or standing about on the pavement, presumably in a mid-90s leather trenchcoat scaring folk, idk.  mid-90s leather trenchcoats optional e: Also the Charles Wilson 304/305 computer room at Leicester University, which seats 82 but isn't public access. Guavanaut fucked around with this message at 22:16 on Jul 21, 2020 |
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Nutapii posted:With the exception of some council areas, there's no seating in the centres. I know it's the hostile architecture that's been done to death, but it also means if you're meeting someone or just wandering about you basically have to go in to the shops/cafes. Or standing about on the pavement, presumably in a mid-90s leather trenchcoat scaring folk, idk. Isn't this against accessibility legislation? (The lack of seating, not the trenchcoats)
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namesake posted:High streets died because they were stolen by private companies (sometimes literally) and redesigned to be horrible and uncomfortable places to be unless you're spending lots of money. Turning them into housing is not the worst idea but it'd be better to turn them back into public spaces through making them nice places to idle in - more green open spaces with comfortable group spaces free to access, more arts and musics venues run by local authorities to display local talent and run youth and education services from with accessible transport to and from it to all parts of the city. If we're going to have urban centres rather than micro-districts then all parts of the urban society, all communities in it, need to be able to access them easily and want to go there. Yeah the article saying 'it would support cafe culture!' was a giveaway there, anyone who has the time and inclination to do "cafe culture" already has the chance to, we're not short on Neros and Costas, and there's the inherent assumption that whatever the gently caress they think "cafe culture" is is actually worth anything. Use the existing public, newly non-commercially viable, space that's already a communal hub as workshops, venues, skills-growing spaces and local galleries etc with public housing above and hell yeah. The writer was saying 8 flat blocks with a franchised coffee shop and franchished mini supermarket sitting beneath each block.
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I've been part of some good social groups centered around small independent coffee shops that you could probably call 'cafe culture', that all inevitably drifted into the wind when the place closed. They weren't the Wiener Kaffeehaus philosophy or anything but they were tied to the place and built friendships. I don't think you'd get the same sort of thing with lovely chain coffee houses, because lovely chain coffee houses aren't going to have a beanbag corner other than for twee bullshit reasons rather than running out of furniture. Cafe culture is a legit thing in the same way that pub culture is, and Nero and Costa are to that what Wetherspoons is to pub culture but worse.
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Vitamin P posted:I don't really get the decency? Surrender to Amazon and turn every single space that has any gentle communal value into identikit rentier private housing flats is garden variety Telegraph stuff. You can't force people to buy local though. In my town we have a high street with some independent shops - most selling extremely expensive clothes, a couple of bookshops, some chains (Boots, Smiths, Card Factory, and a couple more), a shed load of charity shops (some of which are never going to reopen again post covid) and some expensive coffee shops. Quite a few have closed permanently in the last few months but shops closing down has been a feature of our high street, and many others, for a few years now. Most of the jobs available locally are part-time, national minimum wage and the public transport is so dire (pre covid - even worse now) that it is virtually impossible to get to a job elsewhere unless you can afford to do driving lessons, buy and run a car - or have wealthy parents who will shell out for you. Property is very expensive (cheapest flats - and there are few - for sale require 11 years full-time salary at national minimum wage), The town is absolutely dead after around 600pm except for a handful of desultory shoppers in a couple of the supermarkets that are open til 8 or 9pm. Most of the families drive to bigger towns eg Cwmbran or at a stretch Bristol (the dreaded Cribbs Causeway) to do a family-sized shop. Most of the olds I know (and I live in a block of 19 over-55s flats with almost all the flats occupied by over-80s) get social interaction via their churches and at a variety of different coffee mornings, 'pensioners lunches' (specials on Fridays for example) and so forth. Bringing housing into the High Street would improve things. No one said it must be identikit low quality or very expensive 'affordable' housing - that is something that needs to be done in local consultation (and yes, I agree that might be where everything stalls). I think the thing I liked about it is the idea of bringing housing into high streets. We'll never be going back to the old-time high streets and really do need to rethink the ideas. There have been a few mutterings lately in our town about having shared work spaces (not offices, but 'workshop' type spaces) but they've never really got off the ground. Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 22:51 on Jul 21, 2020 |
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Junior G-man posted:Latest pod is fresh from the rendering oven! It's genuinely a cool one as we (well, Miftan) managed to snag Josh Sawyer, Lead Designer for cool games like NWN2, Fallout New Vegas, and Pillars of Eternity 1 and 2 for a good chat about colonialism, empire, and politics in video games. Did you ask him about Chris Avellone? Also,  at Hadley Freeman’s article in the Guardian.
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kustomkarkommando posted:You have to send weekly turnover figures to the HMRC which isn't an issue if you're 100% VAT compliant but well *cough* a good few restaurants arent That sounds extremely plausible, thanks!
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WhatEvil posted:Not me but I did just see this recently and start playing Geoguessr again. It costs like £2/month for unlimited play. I don't even know why the heck it popped up, I'd never even heard of it - big marketing push maybe Yeah it looks like it could be a laugh though, I could see places starting to look a bit familiar - even that tree-lined road has a look to it, seems very well maintained. It was a bit weird seeing him get that stuff but being "hmmmm" about the Vietnam one with Vietnamese script all over all the shops How much of the world do they actually have on there anyway? From him talking it sounds like it's reliant on Google Street View but even places that have it aren't necessarily on there yet? Guavanaut posted:Leicester has some not terrible seating areas at the top of High Street for the five days it isn't raining. Also a fountain near the Town Hall (which is not the City Hall) with some non-hostile benches. That looks like he made his own portable bench
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Marmaduke! posted:That sounds extremely plausible, thanks! It's a running joke in certain industries like chip shops as it's impossible for HMRC to second guess e.g. how many chips in a portion. It can even catch the owners out when they go to sell the business, as the books don't reflect how much money they're actually making, reducing the asking price. Leads to euphemistic wording like "the accounts do not reflect the full potential of the business" in the sales docs.
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Prince John posted:It's a running joke in certain industries like chip shops as it's impossible for HMRC to second guess e.g. how many chips in a portion. It can even catch the owners out when they go to sell the business, as the books don't reflect how much money they're actually making, reducing the asking price. Leads to euphemistic wording like "the accounts do not reflect the full potential of the business" in the sales docs. When my parents sold their business we were all convinced the guys who bought it were assuming there was a good 10-20% coming off the top of everything compared to the accounts. They had all these big ideas for expansion with new loans and lease-hire but we never had the margins to run like that. Three years on no expansion but at least they've not gone bankrupt.
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sassassin posted:When my parents sold their business we were all convinced the guys who bought it were assuming there was a good 10-20% coming off the top of everything compared to the accounts. They had all these big ideas for expansion with new loans and lease-hire but we never had the margins to run like that. I'd like to hear more about this business
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This made me laugh way more than it should have. Now my head hurts. Stupid migraine.
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city centres should be gauntlet style beer garden trap zones with various unattainable reward bags i dont really see any other way
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Guavanaut posted:Leicester's in that mid-sized weird zone where you get both. There's a literal High Street high street which I guess still has pubs and shops (I've not been in months because of that last one looks a lot like cardinal place by victoria station in london's swinging westminster. there are quite a lot of blocks of flats going up there but hard to know who lives in them. its definitely not civil servants despite the many ministries nearby. nightlife is picking up beyond civil servant pubs as there is one of those pour your own wine bars but it must be deserted at the weekend. there was a club called qube where i saw cyril hahn a few years ago but thats closed now. still i suppose they have the parks nearby
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so what did russia actually do? I'm struggling to find examples.
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Crossposting from the Milhist thread because this sounds amazing:quote:"Diana: Warrior Princess is an indie role-playing game written by Marcus Rowland and initially published by Heliograph Incorporated, based on an article describing the setting which originally appeared in Valkyrie magazine. It is distributed as a PDF via Steve Jackson Games. It describes a fictionalised version of the twentieth century as it might be seen a few thousand years from now.
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gh0stpinballa posted:so what did russia actually do? I'm struggling to find examples. The report is about how corruption involving wealthy/criminal Russians was so deep, widespread, and institutionally tolerated in the UK that the intelligence services didn't even bother examining the Brexit referendum despite blatant red flags like the Electoral Commission's findings on Arron Banks (which explicitly recommended a police investigation). Being able to tell what they did would require anyone with the necessary official capacity to care what they did. Long story short, Brexit was probably another in a long train of well-documented examples of money laundering and undue political influence by Russian oligarchs, but we don't and can't know for sure because the authorities stopped caring about that poo poo over a decade ago.
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stev posted:The recent "Let's Get Going" Brexit ads are really really poo poo. And reek of propaganda. that's literally what they are, it's vague sunny bright future stuff with a friendly "it's time to start getting ready everyone" message like everything's fine and under control, and now businesses just have to dot some i's and cross some t's it's not really aimed at the businesses who are probably fully aware of how hosed they are at this point, it's trying to frame that as the reality of the situation in the mind of everyone else. So in January they'll be all "lazy businesses that couldn't be bothered to prepare!!! It's all their fault!" they've been doing the same thing with the lockdown's over ads. It's time to get back out there everyone! IEnjoy your summer! Do What You Love, you know you want to... go on. GO ON. But like... be safe and... do they even mention coronavirus anymore? Shhhh everything's fine now
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gh0stpinballa posted:so what did russia actually do? I'm struggling to find examples. What we already knew: lots and lots of social media manipulation and funding causes that undermine the UK or at least disrupt the status quo. As said, we don’t know the exact damage caused because our intelligence services decided that it wasn’t anything to do with them as they do cool James Bond stuff and the 60’s never ended what’s a social media????
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i mean were the rooskies more influential than what the status quo already did to pervert democracy and drive the brit lumpen to the right? seems like our own tabloid culture, right wing domestic oligarchs owning all the media and owning all the government already does a fine job of that anyway. and like if MI6 had found any evidence that russia was doing something...what do you do with that? slap em with sanctions they evade easily but that make ordinary russians lives harder, sketch out a sternly worded UN resolution? and why is the US being held up as a good way to deal with it? their opposition party has gone completely insane chasing russian ghosts while their entire country collapses, russiagate has been the biggest waste of time in western politics ourside of maybe the remain campaign or the corbyn and bernie "movements". idk maybe it would be better to say fair cop, this is our chickens coming home to roost, and just move on.
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Camrath posted:Saturnine? I’m about 2/3 of the way through it myself. Good hamms.  Ratjaculation posted:(hell, I would) e: I guess you could sell labour at below cost instead, but I heard all the money is in video games these days Borrovan fucked around with this message at 08:04 on Jul 22, 2020 |
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Guavanaut posted:Leicester's in that mid-sized weird zone where you get both. There's a literal High Street high street which I guess still has pubs and shops (I've not been in months because of We also still have a big covered market with blokes yelling "BANARNERS FREE FOR A POUND!" and that also would be hard to turn into living space but I guess you're not ready for that conversation
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Imagine a future when a guy can set up in your crapper and yell about the price of his bananers, this is the future conservatives want.
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NotJustANumber99 posted:shame you logged off I enjoyed this post.
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Regarde Aduck posted:What we already knew: lots and lots of social media manipulation and funding causes that undermine the UK or at least disrupt the status quo. TBH the problem is almost the exact opposite - with the end of the Cold War the intelligence agencies all redefined themselves as being anti-terrorist agencies so as to keep and expand their budgets, and just kinda forgot that state actors exist.
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Ms Adequate posted:We also still have a big covered market with blokes yelling "BANARNERS FREE FOR A POUND!" and that also would be hard to turn into living space but I guess you're not ready for that conversation Did this guy drive around the country selling bananas.
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Absolutely love how the graun ends this article. Zero mention of the antisemitism report or the fact that the 'whistleblowers' that broke NDA were named in it as deliberately acting to stall efforts to tackle it. https://www.dumptheguardian.com/politics/2020/jul/22/corbyn-era-labour-figures-may-challenge-antisemitism-settlement
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What we really need in this point in time is to intensify the war on drugs by banning *checks notes* laughing gas? Alright then https://twitter.com/RosieDuffield1/status/1285848461657681920 e: https://twitter.com/AyoCaesar/status/1285849720972353536
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Rustybear posted:it's really weird to see a thread full of lefties demand that the secret police vet political candidates and campaigns more. i much preferred when the left was agitating to abolish MI5 not give them more funding I think it's more "what even is the point of them if they can't do that"
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TheRat posted:What we really need in this point in time is to intensify the war on drugs by banning *checks notes* laughing gas? Alright then My only problem with this is that it the canisters are littered everywhere, and its gotten notably worse but thats still an absolute drop in the ocean compared to cig butts, and the monumental environmental damage a single one can do (iirc; one cigarette butt can contaminate 50m3 of water.
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