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If a 20 megaton bomb drops. Make sure to put on your SPF 45 And call the local shop to verify its limited hours. At least now I know even if a nuclear holocaust happened there would be people Yelling THE ECONOMY MUST GO ON!
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justcola posted:Can't wait for leavers to start eating rotten food because its good actually, wheres your blitz spirit. Opening up truck doors to fruit that has been liquefied and lapping up the juice like hogs. I wonder why the EU doesn't just drag it's feet and let Britain starve because of interminable customs queues. They can send peacekeepers and annex the choiciest parts after we descend into a rerun of 1990s Yugoslavia.
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keep punching joe posted:Sad to see Wigtman is a TERF, was one of the better greens. Genuinely disheartened to see that, but at least the Greens dealt with it quickly.
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sebzilla posted:Zarah Sultana has given JRM a copy of A Christmas Carol, eagerly awaiting the antisemitism takes.
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it's a fairly old standard practice at this point to make sensitive documents uniquely identifiable in every way you can think of, starting with wording. How do you get sacked for this in 2020? how little do the tories care about anything that neither their mps or pet journalists know this?
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Guavanaut posted:When Israel legalizes cannabis early next year will it be antisemitic to continue to support prohibition? Are they likely to do that? It would be pretty funny seeing certain politicians and commentators wrap themselves into awkward contradictions if that happens.
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Pet question - is it normal to leave dogs out in the garden until 8-9pm at this time of year? Someone on our street's dog is always whimpering and I feel quite uncomfortable listening to it, but not sure whether it constitutes neglect or it's just normal for dogs to whine like that.
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Comrade Fakename posted:Are they likely to do that? It would be pretty funny seeing certain politicians and commentators wrap themselves into awkward contradictions if that happens. The UN has just downgraded cannabis on the Single Convention too, which means that members aren't prohibited by international law from legalizing (not that that stopped Canada and Uruguay, but it's official now).
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Failed Imagineer posted:I get that this is not real advice, but is there any logic to "the taller the building, the safer you are"? For either Brexit or nuclear war I suppose It's not very subtly suggesting that the government don't want to spend time and resources looking after civilians after a nuclear war and would much rather you all died in a collapsed building. This isn't that far from the truth of actual civil defence planning from at least the 60s until the late 70s and early 80s. While it's not actually written down anywhere at all, there's a very large disparity between the projected casualties and the projected amount of food and supplies that the RSGs would have to coordinate the delivery of - the very obvious conclusion being that there would be no attempt at all to treat casualties at all. I mean in a lot of ways that's probably the only possible way of planning - with basically all food and fresh water contaminated to a greater or lesser extent, attempting even the most basic first aid on the >50% of the population likely to be suffering from some kind of injury is just going to burn out whatever resources you have *and* only prolong suffering. The most insane thing about British nuclear planning is that we even had any. That any sane person can look at the results of the Transition To War exercises - even the ones where we put our thumbs massively on the scale - and think "Yes, this is an acceptable outcome" and then base policy on it is psychotic on a scale even Brexiteers couldn't handle.
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This is a minor story, but it's a blatant political appointment, and anyone Michael Gove is a fan of should be booted into the North Sea, not given a job like this:quote:Dame Rachel de Souza will become the next children’s commissioner for England from next year after MPs narrowly approved her appointment. Basically, a Yes Man who doesn't know much about the job. I can see why Gavin Williamson was keen on her.
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Convex posted:Pet question - is it normal to leave dogs out in the garden until 8-9pm at this time of year? Someone on our street's dog is always whimpering and I feel quite uncomfortable listening to it, but not sure whether it constitutes neglect or it's just normal for dogs to whine like that. Depends on the dog I guess? Some of them are very furry and don't mind the cold but if it's whining then it's probably not happy.
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When your worldview is so derived from ideology that it becomes impervious to observed fact. Whatever traffic there is here, it'll be twice as bad over there. Food spoiling here? Goes off twice as fast over there. It's the Brexit law of twiceness. Everything in Europe is twice what it is here. Corollary number 1: We can only be winning if things are bad here. If things become good, they will be twice as good in Europe and we will be losing. Corollary number 2: The worse things get here, the more we are winning. Victory is in our grasp if we can only make things horrible enough.
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that loony lefty remoaner rag the daily mail scaremongering about brexit 
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OwlFancier posted:Depends on the dog I guess? Some of them are very furry and don't mind the cold but if it's whining then it's probably not happy. Thanks, it's not that cold here so it could just be lonely. If it starts getting really cold then I'll have to rething!
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Chair & Secretary of 1 branch and Secretary of another branch of next door CLP all suspended. So far 20 CLPs have had officers suspended. Seems like MPs are beginning to come out of the woodwork in support of "Save Our Socialists". Momentum have set up a support unit run by legal advisers. Save our Socialists have arranged a zoom support call on Sunday at noon: https://www.facebook.com/events/2784916841751921/ quote:Are you a suspended officer of the Labour Party? Or a party officer concerned that you may be suspended? Join our legal advice session with leading barrister Mark McDonald QC Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/saveoursocialists/ It's public so you might be able to read its posts without a FB account.
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We've got a good old fashioned cash for favours scandal https://twitter.com/nicktolhurst/status/1339973435787755520
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Convex posted:Thanks, it's not that cold here so it could just be lonely. If it starts getting really cold then I'll have to rething! It probably is, a lot of dogs don't like being separated and they may deliberately be trying to get the dog used to being left alone for a while, mum's dogs won't let her leave the room and she has yet to develop the patience to try and actually train them to accept that she may need to be apart from them at times. If it's still doing it or if it's starting to look actually uncomfortable then yeah, maybe. But they will often create at the slightest thing. OwlFancier fucked around with this message at 20:24 on Dec 18, 2020 |
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Lungboy posted:We've got a good old fashioned cash for favours scandal https://twitter.com/nicktolhurst/status/1339973435787755520 corruption - in MY british government?
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Late, but:Guavanaut posted:e2: ^^^ re 'anti-steampunk', easily the worst thing about steampunk is that it completely ignored the 'punk' bit in most incarnations. Like there's so much interesting 19th century working class politics, half of the figures involved literally wrote the book on it, and Kropotkin specifically had a steampunk idea of liberation through automation in the 1890s, but no, let's all give ourselves fake imperial titles and have zeppelin cavalry. https://twitter.com/GrindaViking/status/1339323111775367181 Perhaps steampunk could be relabeled simperialism. OwlFancier fucked around with this message at 20:44 on Dec 18, 2020 |
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It's only corruption if it comes from the Labour region of politics, otherwise it's just sparkling opportunity.
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Bobby Deluxe posted:It's only corruption if it comes from the Labour region of politics, otherwise it's just sparkling opportunity. The tories ARE the party of opportunity..
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Lungboy posted:We've got a good old fashioned cash for favours scandal https://twitter.com/nicktolhurst/status/1339973435787755520 of course its grayling and he got caught lol
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luke akehurst is definitely one of the most unpleasant people in the labour party https://twitter.com/lukeakehurst/status/1339938025783128067
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 OwlFancier posted:Perhaps steampunk could be relabeled simperialism.  I think it was probably the steampunk/dieselpunk renaissance in the mid-00s, combined with the internet producing a lot of content that proved Sturgeon's law, combined with me having just read a bunch of 19th century anarchist pamphlets from Project Gutenberg around then, but yeah, hardly any of what called itself steampunk focused on the radical social change advanced steam technology could bring, most of it was just simping to the established order of the late Victorian, which is a big shame given the amount of social dynamic you could play with. That's probably why I like the later Frostpunk expansions so much, that's much more like what 00s steampunk should have been like, but I'm not sure the wider mood was there in the 00s. Jose posted:luke akehurst is definitely one of the most unpleasant people in the labour party
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Sounds to me like Saudi Arabia should be buying Russian and Chinese guns if they're so scary
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Jose posted:luke akehurst is definitely one of the most unpleasant people in the labour party lol I love how they always immediately retreat to "how dareth you, for i have been offended and labelled the most shameful of things".
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The intense need for a new cold war is amazing Other countries!!! Sell weapons!!!!! To other countries!?!?!? Jesus christ!
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Have you considered that entirely irrespective of whether your criticism of my political beliefs is accurate, it hurts my feelings, so please do not do it, I am a professional politician.
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keep punching joe posted:Sad to see Wigtman is a TERF, was one of the better greens. The problem with the Scottish Parliament is "one of the better ones" is typically not that great, given that it's a disproportionately high second tier of government, the list system allows "oh he's sound though isn't he" to get an elected seat without a constituency, and the turnouts lower than the UK ones. If you're too ambitious to be on a council but not good enough at networking to get a safe seat with $party$ then it's a good spot. It's not that I'm against devolution or independence, but that the present conditions necessarily bias the parliament to good SNP MSPs and Tim Nice but Dim for every other party. OwlFancier posted:Perhaps steampunk could be relabeled simperialism.
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Man this tory money scam is real bad.. BUT HAVE YOU HEARD THAT JEREMY CORBYN IS AN ANTI SEMITE?
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Nutapii posted:The problem with the Scottish Parliament is "one of the better ones" is typically not that great, given that it's a disproportionately high second tier of government, the list system allows "oh he's sound though isn't he" to get an elected seat without a constituency, and the turnouts lower than the UK ones. If you're too ambitious to be on a council but not good enough at networking to get a safe seat with $party$ then it's a good spot. It's not that I'm against devolution or independence, but that the present conditions necessarily bias the parliament to good SNP MSPs and Tim Nice but Dim for every other party. This is bollocks though, as far as the Scottish Greens go. They aren't ever going to win a FPTP seat so their best can & do sit at Holyrood, people like Patrick Harvie & Ross Greer & Alison Johnstone & John Finnie, & at until today I'd have happily included Wightman in that category for his fantastic campaigning worth on issues as diverse as land ownership across Scotland & attacking short-term landlords (AirBnB type poo poo) in Edinburgh. And I'm quite confident in saying that of any party with representation above local council level the Scottish Greens are the least worst by some margin.
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OwlFancier posted:https://twitter.com/GrindaViking/status/1339323111775367181 It’s a nice word, but the idea that Cyberpunk 2077 doesn’t engage with the political elements of small-c cyberpunk is an absolutely bonkers absurd assessment that for some reason has been repeated by pretty much every commentator I’ve heard on the game. Politics practically drip off this game, it would probably be the most explicitly left-wing game I’d played in years if I hadn’t also played Disco Elysium. Like, the very first time I left the player character’s flat I saw a news report about a group of terrorists that called themselves a “trade union” that had caused work stoppages leading to the tragic loss of profits to corporations.
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Comrade Fakename posted:
Another terrorist group called "Mother's against drink driving" is ruining corporate profits my stopping drunk drivers from driving!
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the first conversation i overheard that stuck with me in cyberpunk was a man in a bikini complaining to a cis woman about how hard it is to be a woman, ending with the cis woman going "i was born a woman y'know" or something similar as an own its not really a left wing game at all, maybe it is in the text logs cause i dont read those theres one zone thats been overrun by haitians and its basically a gammons vision of our nightmare multicultural future
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They create a lot of individual bits of the world which are anti-capitalist but then you do most of your work for the cops with no commentary or option to choose not to. It not only doesn't make sense politically but it doesn't make sense in the story - you're a mercenary criminal, why is such a large chunk of your side activity working for the cops in a pretty buddy buddy way? The game is very confused. If anyone's considering playing it I'd recommend against for now even on a banging PC. It just isn't finished. The vast majority of the mechanics either barely work, feel half finished or just Aren't Fun. It's riddled with bugs too, even outside of performance stuff. Stealth was clearly meant to be a very key part of the game but LOS is unclear, you randomly stand up whenever you touch a friendly NPC, and the levels just don't seem very well designed for it and all. Not to mention that half the core mechanics (lethal/non-lethal kills, bodies, to name two) are literally irrelevant or broken. It's like some PS2 poo poo half the time. As you can tell I am not happy that it's turned out this way.
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Jakabite posted:non-lethal kills
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