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Darth Walrus posted:This guy's the head of the government's legal team. Losing senior expertise in all our international legal disputes with hard Brexit right around the corner seems like it might be a tad consequential. If their objective is to have the worst possible brexit outcome, which to all evidence it appears to be, then I don't see how the resignation hurts them at all, the conservatism of the last several years has been entirely about simply causing as much damage as possible to literally everything possible and stealing as much money as possible. Yes it harms the country but the country isn't the goverment, the government will simply sail out of their jobs into some other role because that's how it works for rich people. Turns out you never run out of other people's money when it comes to jobs for the rich. OwlFancier fucked around with this message at 13:03 on Sep 8, 2020 |
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Could we maybe compromise? Have someone set up a website where people could just send money to Tory donors directly, without having to go out and breathe pandemic.
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Bobby Deluxe posted:I got a numpadless mechanical keyboard and a seperate USB numpad, which I put on the left of the keyboard in case I need it. My laptop has a US & Arabic (double alphabet keys) so while I have set the system to UK, some of the peripheral keys don't behave well and some of the lettering is in different places eg to get £ I have to press shift+3 which shows hashtag (or 'pound' to US persons). To get @ I have to press shift ', to get " I have to press shift 2. I have to use the right hand alt + \ key to get \ to appear. And I'm continually forgetting what I have to press to get the hashtag so I often end up just copying and pasting it from somewhere else, then another day I'll remember it on autopilot! Now I'm going to waste half an hour trying to figure it out again.* (My party piece was managing to achieve 20wpm touch typing in arabic on a keyboard that had NO arabic labels on it. Can't do it now and my keyboard does have arabic labelling). * found it! It's on the key labelled \ so if I just press that key without the right-hand alt I get # I'm going to write a little sticky note and stick on my laptop now. Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 13:09 on Sep 8, 2020 |
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radmonger posted:Could we maybe compromise? Have someone set up a website where people could just send money to Tory donors directly, without having to go out and breathe pandemic. That's what Housing Benefit is already, going by that tweet Jose posted on the last page.
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Mebh posted:Or just slowly slouch ever more and more over the course of the day in your chair, then slouch more in your chair all night to play video games and repeat until your spine is so bent that you look like a horseshoe. Everytime I walk past an old person hunched right over it reminds me to improve my posture and have my feet on the ground when I'm sat down (I tend to have them in a sort of praying/foetal position when sat down) Plus I use the numpad for excel and MS Flight Simulator so I can't ditch that just yet. Problem with the dining chair I have is its just a wee bit short for my desk, but I'm sure minor changes I could do now aren't worth bothering with to prevent agonising arthritis and back pain later in life. because of robots
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Jose posted:Boris getting some pushback on this latest move Just lol at the UK trying to criticise China in 2020
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justcola posted:Everytime I walk past an old person hunched right over it reminds me to improve my posture and have my feet on the ground when I'm sat down (I tend to have them in a sort of praying/foetal position when sat down) If any of you youngsters out there are looking for a lucrative career 20 years from now - any of the professions involving manipulation of muscles etc will do it - the amount of neck and back problems that will face people in future is going to be huge.
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Lol Brendan Lewis was asked if the government plans break international law, and instead of weaselling out of it he just said yes it does but it's fine.
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The world is in a very good place when countries just admit international law is meaningless. Definitely a good stance for a weak country with no actual power to take.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:If any of you youngsters out there are looking for a lucrative career 20 years from now - any of the professions involving manipulation of muscles etc will do it - the amount of neck and back problems that will face people in future is going to be huge. An ex was going to go into Occupational Health for this reason (don't know if she ever did) It's good to learn though - I used to think there wasn't any support for post-grad courses (an MA) but you can get it as a loan now. And if you're cool enough to go back to your original university, some offer a 10% discount on courses (but you can still apply for a full loan so can keep a hundred quid or so each term) The NHS also provide bursaries, so if you wanted to consider retraining they offer a wee bit of money towards that https://www.gov.uk/nhs-bursaries/what-youll-get There's also something called an Advanced Learner Loan https://www.gov.uk/advanced-learner-loan (one day I will go through all the .gov website and see all the various bursaries and support you can get but not told about. I still can't work out if the following is the HMRC payment from summer I wasn't eligible for or another thing for instance: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/claim-a-grant-through-the-self-employment-income-support-scheme )
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Just also remember that 99% of things that bill themselves as "chiropractic" is woo woo horseshit.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:My laptop has a US & Arabic (double alphabet keys) I usually have my keyboard set to US, because having ' and " on the same key makes more sense and is faster for me than ' and @ and 2 and ". Mac keyboards get it right.
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ShaneMacGowansTeeth posted:Looks like the epicentre is in the hellmouth triangle between Maidenhead, Slough and Windsor They've since then adjusted the epicentre to be much closer to Milton Kenyes: 
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Guavanaut posted:reporting u too the home office for arabic numerals I see what you did there... الله أكبر But shouldn't that be Hindu numerals? At least infamous terrorist الجبر uses letters not numbers. (Apologies for anyone whose viewing system does not show arabic characters!)
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peanut- posted:https://www.2ndhnd.com/ Seconding these guys. They are excellent. We bought like 8x Humanscale Freedom high-back chairs with headrests from them for £150 each (absolute bargain, they go for like £600+ new) and they were all in really good shape - they buy old office furniture in job lots and reupholster/refurbish it. I think the reason we got them for that price was because we were buying 8, though. Still, they have the ones without headrest for £159 and they are *truly excellent* chairs. I highly, highly recommend them. They are extremely adjustable and are rated as "24 hour" chairs. https://www.2ndhnd.com/products/humanscale-freedom-med-back-chair-new-grey-fabric?_pos=3&_sid=9d233a14f&_ss=r
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There's a slogan around my work place that says "Free To Work Safe. If It's Not Safe Don't Do It" which reminded me of that Scarfolk Council (I think that's it) slogan of something like "If you're thinking about doing it. DON'T!" Also made me laugh because when I saw it on Friday I was preparing to work inches from a rail that has 750 v DC running through it.
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chestnut santabag posted:They've since then adjusted the epicentre to be much closer to Milton Kenyes: Oh nice, that's like, 3km from where I used to work. With any luck, the place has been swallowed by the earth.
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WhatEvil posted:Seconding these guys. They are excellent. We bought like 8x Humanscale Freedom high-back chairs with headrests from them for £150 each (absolute bargain, they go for like £600+ new) and they were all in really good shape - they buy old office furniture in job lots and reupholster/refurbish it. I tried a Zento Smart Chair at work once and it was incredible, but I can't even get my boss to sign off on a stapler, there's zero chance of £800 for a single chair.
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Here's a fun list of EU-law based employment rights and government indications that they want to change them, by Landau Law:Brexit and employment rights posted:Working time- This is an EU-based right. The UK has its well-known opt-out provisions in relation to the 48-hour working week. A future Government (especially Conservative one) is likely to favour employers having a more flexible approach and so remove this limit altogether. The rules which say that travelling time can count as working time may also be changed. I mean, a particular depressing kind of fun anyway. Private Speech fucked around with this message at 15:00 on Sep 8, 2020 |
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Trying to get a respiratory condition diagnosed this year is really loving fun. "You're coughing heavily at night? Probably covid, better have a test." "Oh it's negative? Hopefully it'll go away on its own in a few weeks." "It's the same after three months? That's long enough that you should have another test." "The cough is far worse and you're struggling to catch your breath? Only covid could explain this change in symptoms." 
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:I see what you did there... الله أكبر This is one of those odd things that's hard to pin down. And a lot of people aren't aware that moden arabic doesn't actually always use "arabic" numerals as your average european person would understand them. e: some arabic countries do use them, I was a bit inaccurate there ٠ ١ ٢ ٣ ٤ ٥ ٦ ٧ ٨ ٩ <- those are the ones used in (most) contemporary arab countries Something something I can't really express myself properly and need edits. Private Speech fucked around with this message at 15:23 on Sep 8, 2020 |
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Private Speech posted:This is one of those odd things that's hard to pin down. And a lot of people aren't aware that moden arabic doesn't actually always use "arabic" numerals as your average european person would understand them. ^^^ yes a lot of stuff nowadays uses western-style 'arabic' numerals  (ie what we use.) - ok I think I misunderstood what you were trying to say there. The Arabic 'arabic' numerals don't look like the western (what we use) 'arabic' numerals. Ie we use 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 and many arab countries use what you wrote (and bizarrely my keyboard set to Arabic is refusing to type the arabic numerals LOL). Also, I think some of the difference in number style with some languages that use arabic script (eg urdu, pashtu etc) is that they aren't in fact Arabic, just using the alphabet (as say German uses the same alphabet as UK but it's not the same language).Most confusing if you are a westerner not paying attention is when they use ٥ for 5 and ٠ for 0. That's given some interesting electricity bills for some people! Easiest way to remember the difference between ٧ (7) and ٨ (8) is to think "7 Up". Also so much arabic printing is tiny so spotting the difference between say ٢ (2) and ٣ (3) without your glasses can also be a bit of a problem! Oh and reading ٦ (6) as 2 if you're not careful! If I'm reading arabic stuff online, I normally have to magnify the browser considerably. I can read arabic printing (and horribly mispronounce it if I don't know the word) - though I might not know the vocab, and some of the less ornate calligraphy, but most handwriting, forget it! Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 15:30 on Sep 8, 2020 |
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It's always strange reading datasheets written in a non-Latin alphabet and then seeing Western/Hindu-Arabic numerals come up, usually in a completely different font.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:- ok I think I misunderstood what you were trying to say there. The Arabic 'arabic' numerals don't look like the western (what we use) 'arabic' numerals. Ie we use 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 and many arab countries use what you wrote (and bizarrely my keyboard set to Arabic is refusing to type the arabic numerals LOL) Yeah, I know a bit of Arabic myself, so I was aware of that, and really what I wanted to post. But, from googling around now, some Arab (for a given definition of "Arab", since I think it's mostly North Africa) countries do use ordinary (western Arabic) numerals. Hence western Arabic. But then IIRC their modern form comes from Venetians, so perhaps they aren't really Arabic. But, then again, supposedly the adoption of the modern form of Hindu-Arabic numerals in the contemporary Arab world came after. Either way yes, if you go to Saudi Arabia or somewhere near you will see the Hindu-Arabic (i.e. eastern Arabic) ones a lot, and the ones used in Europe mostly only in imported "western" (as in, in the usual contemporary sense, technology and such) contexts. So the ones used by what we would understand as Arab people today are the Hindu-Arabic, not the western Arabic, and when talking to a person from there would be considered the true "Arabic" ones. It's very confusing. All I was going for originally was "ha modern Arabs don't use the same numerals as we do". Which I obviously know you know, I didn't really mean you. Private Speech fucked around with this message at 16:01 on Sep 8, 2020 |
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OwlFancier posted:If their objective is to have the worst possible brexit outcome, which to all evidence it appears to be, then I don't see how the resignation hurts them at all, the conservatism of the last several years has been entirely about simply causing as much damage as possible to literally everything possible and stealing as much money as possible. One important thing about that, though, is that you want to make sure you have an exit route and that your own colleagues aren't trying to screw you over in order to secure their own exit route with a hostile foreign non-state body. Not having reliable legal advice for your government means that you're less sensitive to approaching threats, and that infighting within your government is encouraged because the structure of government itself will not protect them if they suddenly find themselves needing to lawyer up. You can protect yourself to a certain extent by undermining the rule of law within your own country, but that makes fleeing to other countries more challenging by giving them material with which to gently caress you over if they so choose.
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Jose posted:Well done extinction rebellion to being cop friendly It's ok just wait a few years and there'll be none left.
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So when is the best time to begin stockpiling? I'm thinking the end of October to maximise time before things spoil but before Christmas hoarding begins. Once the Christmas shoppers have stripped everything it'll be too late before Brexit hits, and at this point I think that the EU is going to strictly enforce things at the borders on a basis of 'you made your bed, now lie in it' at the stroke of midnight.
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Doctor_Fruitbat posted:So when is the best time to begin stockpiling? I'm thinking the end of October to maximise time before things spoil but before Christmas hoarding begins. Once the Christmas shoppers have stripped everything it'll be too late before Brexit hits, and at this point I think that the EU is going to strictly enforce things at the borders on a basis of 'you made your bed, now lie in it' at the stroke of midnight. Given the long life of most tinned stuff, just throw a few cans in whenever you shop. My golden rule for stockpiling is stuff that can be eaten straight from the can with no heating and no hydration (even if it tastes like poo poo maybe I'll keep the co-op spaghetti rings after all. No way I'll be eating those unless it's that or trying to catch a pigeon outside). Also, for me, gnothe seaton and all that, no NICE food such as canned custard or canned rice pud because that way the madness of going out in a mammoth tinned custard binge lies. (lesson learned from my Y2K stockpile. 6 months worth of canned custard lasted about 3 days).
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