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Fully automated luxury communism is the book but it isn't a concept he came up with. It's a very old utopian idea. Gay space communism is the delicious memeification of it and I wondered if anyone here can take some credit
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sinky posted:Tory owns an actual slavery era sugar plantation Probably inherited it
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Whole world is laughing at us lol https://twitter.com/joncstone/status/1345680621146931200?s=19
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sinky posted:Tory owns an actual slavery era sugar plantation isn't Drax a bad guy out of a James Bond book/movie? Moonraker?
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goddamnedtwisto posted:(Incidentally this is why all superhero movies are poo poo, and I will not be taking questions on this) you're completely right about this btw, and wrong-brained fans getting what they think they Want but not what they Need ruins almost every franchise in the end
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Recoome posted:isn't Drax a bad guy out of a James Bond book/movie? Moonraker? That was based on his dad I think.
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Recoome posted:isn't Drax a bad guy out of a James Bond book/movie? Moonraker? yeah Moonraker, but also Drax the Destroyer in Guardians of The Galaxy was played by the lovely Dave Bautista, who went on to be a big hench-guy in the last Bond. good opinions on twitter too i think
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Jose posted:Election maps is unsurprisingly a melt To be fair I think he is only 17 and at that age i thought Tony Blair was good.
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With the world beating track and trace system: What's happening with it? I don't venture out much, but I've not seen any signs for it anywhere, places that had it have now taken them down, nobody I know talks about the app besides one or two people ITT saying they ignored it as they have been playing disco elysium all month. Seems especially ridiculous now that we're getting 50k new cases a day and schools are being forced open tomorrow and children don't have to wear masks. Even during the famous Blitzkrieg they had fun masks  I know the answer to all of this is that the government are malicious, greedy poo poo heads that think this won't affect them personally so why bother, but the difference in reality and public relations is getting so extreme I'm struggling to comprehend how bad things are. I'm seeing it dribble down a bit in my managers at work stopping furlough from tomorrow and bringing everyone back to the office, people refusing to believe coronavirus is real etc etc. Its as if aliens had visited Earth and started to hoover up people and in response people just shrug and start talking about Strictly Come Dancing
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Jose posted:drat who could have predicted this Ooooor he's resigning?
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Mr Owl posted:Ooooor he's resigning? hes going Back To School https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bbTEJCoNxw
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justcola posted:With the world beating track and trace system: What's happening with it? I don't venture out much, but I've not seen any signs for it anywhere, places that had it have now taken them down, nobody I know talks about the app besides one or two people ITT saying they ignored it as they have been playing disco elysium all month. The Govt is hugely incompetent, and is very aware that they've hosed this up massively, so they're telling journalists that they can't visit hospitals and telling hospitals not to let journalists in. Journalists being the pathetic little pissbabies that they are, none of them are willing to risk being kicked out of the "Offishal Guvverment The BBC decided during the middle of 2020 that they were going to focus on trying to be positive in their coverage. And, of course, the Govt isn't going to do anything that might make businesses angry, so they'll keep limping on with their worthless infinitely incrementing tier system. And Test and Trace was always dogshit, from the moment the Govt decided to make it effectively an honour-based system. But it's just the runny diarrhoea icing on the steaming shitcake that is every other part of this mass-murdering cadre's response to a global health emergency.
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Failed Imagineer posted:hes going Back To School Today's playlist 1. Schoooooool's out for Starmer 2. The Boy is back in town
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Recoome posted:isn't Drax a bad guy out of a James Bond book/movie? Moonraker? Fleming used the names of his posh mates for a lot of his villains. Goldfinger was named for the architect Erno Goldfinger whose cousin was a golf pal of Fleming, Blofeld for a school friend (whose son is the cricket commentator Henry Blofeld). Drax is named for Fleming's former commanding officer Reginald Drax, whose full name is the too-British-to-be-real Admiral Sir Reginald Aylmer Ranfurly Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax, KCB, DSO, JP, DL, who's the grandfather of that MP. It's a pretty spectacular example both of the ridiculousness of the British ruling class and just how bloody small and incestuous it is.
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Jose posted:drat who could have predicted this https://twitter.com/SenseiChanning/status/1345687077439082496?s=20 lol
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Preston is so loving stupid it's unreal https://twitter.com/Peston/status/1345679734282317824?s=19
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Jose posted:Whole world is laughing at us lol already gone
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Dabir posted:already gone https://twitter.com/joncstone/status/1345689318308896768?s=20 it's because they've actually been laughing at us for years (as they should)
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Random Integer posted:Didn't Pratchett have a ghost writer in his later years? I imagine having his words and ideas filtered through someone else would also impact the writing style You might be referring to either his assistant or his daughter Rhianna, who is also a video game writer (Overlord, Tomb Raider, Mirrors Edge etc). I'm sure they did their best but the sparkle was diminished.
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Mourning Due posted:Just had a dickhead on LinkedIn share this as "proof" that the pandemic is in fact a massive hoax and we're living in a dictatorship. There's not really a stats based rebuttal to what they're argung here because most of the time they're focusing on those limited numbers and ignoring context - so December occupancy rates might be the same but with a vastly higher % of them being more severe cases of COVID 19 requiring very limited access to incubators etc so there might hypothetically be the same number of beds around as usual but that's completely worthless if the patient you put in the bed then just drowns in their own fluids. April-June 2020 occupancy is way down from previous years because a shitload of elective operations were cancelled so people were at home rather than in hospital recovering and similarly with A&E the message the public had was 'Don't go to hospital for fucksake' so people didn't go to A&E for lots of reasons as well as all the pubs and workplaces being shut so there were less accidents happening. They disregard the excess deaths in April by flat out lying though - that respiratory death total isn't from the dataset they linked to and the ONS 'deaths in March and April from COVID 19' https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/datasets/deathsinvolvingcovid19intheuk specifically says there are 38,000 deaths involving the virus. So that last point is the major stats-based rebuttal I guess but everything about it is ignoring the context and then finding some combination of numbers that they think means something else was going on. Edit: To make it perfectly clear that they're lying my link states '5. COVID-19 defined as ICD10 codes U07.1 and U07.2' so they've lied by using the wrong ICD10 code range and claiming it contains something that it doesn't. namesake fucked around with this message at 12:25 on Jan 3, 2021 |
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This is interesting imo https://twitter.com/comedyunism/status/1345515958220300289?s=19
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Random Integer posted:Didn't Pratchett have a ghost writer in his later years? I imagine having his words and ideas filtered through someone else would also impact the writing style Not exactly. Pterry had to rely more on his PA Rob Wilkins as his capacities failed, particularly in the last year when he partially lost his sight, but the writing was always all him - Rob wouldn't dream of changing a word. What changed was that Pterry became less able to revise and polish the work. He also wanted to tell as many stories as he could in what he knew was limited time left to him. So what you're seeing in the later books isn't him becoming worse as a writer due to the PCA; you're just reading the first drafts.
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The description of things getting more outlined and told rather than shown fits that so well. Pratchett's process was always EXTREMELY iterative and involved a LOT of self editing, and that's what he lost the ability to do when he lost the ability to both read and type himself. Id nevertheless recommend the Tiffany Aching series even in light of that, if you want a sense of closure. It gave a good one, for me.
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Convex posted:At this point I'm surprised they don't have an alternative newsreader after each news item saying that everything the other presenter just said is all made up.
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Recoome posted:isn't Drax a bad guy out of a James Bond book/movie? Moonraker? Yes. I posted this in the last thread when the story first came out: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3949775&perpage=40&noseen=1&pagenumber=2#post510706363 quote:Wasn't Drax a Bond villain? 
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Jedit posted:Not exactly. Pterry had to rely more on his PA Rob Wilkins as his capacities failed, particularly in the last year when he partially lost his sight, but the writing was always all him - Rob wouldn't dream of changing a word. What changed was that Pterry became less able to revise and polish the work. He also wanted to tell as many stories as he could in what he knew was limited time left to him. So what you're seeing in the later books isn't him becoming worse as a writer due to the PCA; you're just reading the first drafts. Thank you for enlightening me. 
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Drax is also a village in Yorkshire and a short name for the big power station there.
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Is the "Starmer is going to resign" thing a meme or are people really that detached from reality? He's shite, should be 20 points ahead, but also not exactly tanking. Unless there's some internal beef reason people think he's about to resign?
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bustin keaton posted:Is the "Starmer is going to resign" thing a meme or are people really that detached from reality? He's shite, should be 20 points ahead, but also not exactly tanking. Unless there's some internal beef reason people think he's about to resign? It's a daft meme that took off.
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Kind of just a meme I think. Rumours of resignation are an excellent form of pressure
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Ah, gotcha Edit for content: I once had a man with van for a flat move in London. He said his most interesting delivery was when some pornographer filled the entire back of the transit with dildos, and he had to unload them all at the Excel centre
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bustin keaton posted:Ah, gotcha At an expo? Or like, fly-tipping?
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therattle posted:I watched The Social Dilemma recently, which is very good. It makes a persuasive argument that social media has massively increased political polarisation and led to the collapse of the centre. So the people clinging to centrist electoral politics are probably still thinking of that now-obsolete paradigm where there was a strong centre and elections could be won by appealing to it. I think it's more that the people that write that stuff are a small, incurious group who all know each other and just assume that the opinions held by them and their mates are generally accepted, rather than belonging to a small minority only.
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Meanwhile my dear mum just had a rant on whatsapp that the reason we have a Boris as PM is clearly because of people voting for things like boaty mc boat face.
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Pistol_Pete posted:I think it's more that the people that write that stuff are a small, incurious group who all know each other and just assume that the opinions held by them and their mates are generally accepted, rather than belonging to a small minority only. Oh, that too, definitely. It’s entirely possible that it’s both. Few things have just one explanation. Mebh posted:Meanwhile my dear mum just had a rant on whatsapp that the reason we have a Boris as PM is clearly because of people voting for things like boaty mc boat face. I bloody love Boaty McBoatface, and the British sense of humour is one of the positives of this country.
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Guavanaut posted:Drax is also a village in Yorkshire and a short name for the big power station there. UKMT January 2021 - Drax'd.
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therattle posted:I bloody love Boaty McBoatface, and the British sense of humour is one of the positives of this country. People keep saying that, but ya'll aren't that great at humour. There's some hits and a lot of misses, and when British people say this it always reeks of either nationalism or just people liking things because they grew up with them despite the things not being any better than the alternatives (see also: religion, chocolate oranges, parents' politics)
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