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Ewan posted:Why are you all focusing on wind turbines on hills anyway. Offshore wind is where it's at. Just build gently caress off massive wind turbine clusters off shore in the windy seas and we all good. Build some nuclear plants for your base load too and you have a green, sustainable mix. Maybe a couple of back up 'clean' (yes I know it's not completely clean) gas, just in case for those cold wintery days of surge energy. Off shore wind looks a lot better and they have plans to put up the biggest off shore wind park in Finland where I am.
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There were plans to put an offshore wind farm near Bournemouth, but my shithead MP (who just so happens to be connected to the oil industry) led a campaign against it and killed it off. No prizes for guessing which party he's in.
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Realised I'm not actually sure if my daughter's kindergarten is open today or not. It has kids up to age 6 which might stop it being considered a nursery, but also it's an independent Waldorf-based thing (gulag, yes) so gently caress knows what rules they follow. Called them once already this morning, no answer. No email last night. At this point I think we're just getting ready and heading over in 15 minutes to see what's up. Not even sure what I'm hoping for! e: Open today for everyone while they try to find out what the rules are for 5/6 year olds (my daughter is 5) sebzilla fucked around with this message at 09:50 on Jan 5, 2021 |
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bump_fn posted:pub takeaway beer banned Boris please bring back https://twitter.com/britcultarchive/status/1346181962499842048?s=20
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sebzilla posted:but also it's an independent Waldorf-based thing (gulag, yes) 
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Jan 5, 2021 09:53
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Okay I'm a diligent homeschool teacher but I'm not gonna do a PE lesson entitled "cosmic kids yoga harry potter session" because it looks like the same kind of algorithmic youtube bait about elsa and spiderman having kidney surgery I had better get my rashford vouchers too or there's gonna be hell to pay for posh chorizo at waitrose
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Jan 5, 2021 09:55
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Jan 5, 2021 10:04
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Given that the PM has successfully done Politics, there is no need for me to Oppose him in any way
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Jan 5, 2021 10:07
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Boris & Kier; the last two bits of overcooked spaghetti dangling forlornly over the edge of the colander.
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Jan 5, 2021 10:12
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seeing piers morgan support kier on tv fully blackpilled me its just the attempt to make it so there are two/three conservative parties but one of them will kill you with a disease and the other says they will try not to then the one that kills you polls higher anyway
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Jan 5, 2021 10:15
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If I didn't know who Starmer was and watched this interview I'd assume he must be a government minister.
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Jan 5, 2021 10:47
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*reading job description*leader of her majesty's most loyal- yep, I can do this, no point in reading the rest
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Jan 5, 2021 10:48
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peanut- posted:If I didn't know who Starmer was and watched this interview I'd assume he must be a government minister. I was thinking exactly this yesterday, I am genuinely not sure why he exists
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Convex posted:I was thinking exactly this yesterday, I am genuinely not sure why he exists He's basically controlled opposition at this point, even if he's too thick to know it.
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Jan 5, 2021 11:03
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Gonzo McFee posted:For four and a half years we were told that every time Labour didn't have a response ready within ten minutes of an event happening that it showed how terrible Corbyn was, how out of date and slow he was. They'd retweet whatever boiler plate nonsense the Lib Dems posted with phrases like "the real opposition". They'd suppress info on the right wing of Labour deliberately sabotaging communications and briefing against Corbyn to the press. For twelve months you have been asking: who is Keir Starmer?
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Just reading facebook this morning - my niece who has a 5 yr old (who was all excited on Sunday night to go back to school but now isn't) and her friends of similar ages with kids - quite a few single parents in there (and few of them became single parents intentionally), all their work cancelled. All having anxiety attacks, trying to homeschool the young kids while trying to do something, anything online to earn money. They are all in this 'self-employment' thing - doing hair, makeup etc for weddings and so on - all work cancelled for a year now with last year's floods followed hot on the heels by covid 19. I do not know why they do not qualify for Universal Credit though most of them only went 'self employed' mid-late 2019 in this kind of 'bits and pieces' work that loses them entitlement to benefits but if they are on benefits and advertise this work in local facebook groups end up with DWP turning up on their doorstep demanding to see 6 months worth of bank statements and so forth to show the pathetic amounts of money they earned. There seems no way out of this benefits trap. Obviously you don't want to give up benefits unless you can make more doing self-employed work, but if you try to build up your business they hammer you like a ton of bricks. Our local MP is a tory - hard right - if party leader said throw yourself into the fiery pits of hell, he would. Doesn't give a poo poo about people, it was reported to me by the parent of a child with autism when I was running the CLP FB page in the 2017 election that he had told her the kids should be euthanized. For fucks sake Keith - MAKE A BLOODY FUSS, even if that's all you do! Wretch!
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I just read an article yesterday in the Israeli FT equivalent (can't find it now and its in here anyway) that said that over the last year over half of the UK's power came from wind energy.
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Jan 5, 2021 11:21
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Has anyone got any footage of him actually saying "we should keep schools open" in the last week or so?
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Miftan posted:I just read an article yesterday in the Israeli FT equivalent (can't find it now and its in here anyway) that said that over the last year over half of the UK's power came from wind energy. I should rather think that's just the hot air coming out of old Boris Johnson's gob, op!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOL that is my trademark very biting, topical, HIGNFY-style wit 
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Jan 5, 2021 11:28
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Really though 60,000 odd people are needlessly dead due to covid because he's such a callous and useless oval office
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Jan 5, 2021 11:29
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Miftan posted:I just read an article yesterday in the Israeli FT equivalent (can't find it now and its in here anyway) that said that over the last year over half of the UK's power came from wind energy. Vitamin P posts a lot. (I will not let that terrible dad joke lie. It was my posting peak)
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jiggerypokery posted:Has anyone got any footage of him actually saying "we should keep schools open" in the last week or so? Starmer? No, that would be to definitive a position. Pretty sure he's just equivocated and talked about how we need to seriously consider some school closures, but not making any clarification on what kind or how many (e.g. national vs that weird London only closures they had). All part of his plan to try and paint the Government as being vague and not giving definite plans while himself being as vague as possible while not giving definite plans.
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Maugrim posted:I find the overall downward trend in energy demand over the years interesting (notwithstanding the 2020 uptick). I wonder what the reason for that is. Low energy lightbulbs! Industrial efficiencies (which could also mean them ceasing to exist) have seen that sectors energy requirements drop by 60% since the 70's compared with 12% for residential homes. I got this data from GCSE material lol. Miftan posted:I just read an article yesterday in the Israeli FT equivalent (can't find it now and its in here anyway) that said that over the last year over half of the UK's power came from wind energy. It doesn't look like its quite that much but it was the second largest means of production behind gas. Somebody linked this a page or so ago - http://grid.iamkate.com/
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jiggerypokery posted:Has anyone got any footage of him actually saying "we should keep schools open" in the last week or so? he said on Sunday afternoon that he "didn't want to add to the chaos that would be caused by having all schools closed tomorrow", which is a roundabout way of saying schools should stay open https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vr0sQwkVdAs tbf he did say that school closures were inevitable, although if they're inevitable it seems a bit shortsighted not to demand that they happen as soon as possible, so that doesn't win you many points. especially when you turn around to demanding immediate school closures 24 hours later (after it was briefed that schools would be closing) also you lose more points for saying it's too short notice to close schools when people have been talking about it for a week and you've deliberately waited until Sunday afternoon to make a statement I'll see if I can find some earlier statements but he was pretty much silent on the issue beforehand iirc
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I think his shadow education person said they must stay open but need to close but must stay open.
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Kieth generally seems to have adapted his Brexit strategy of hide and hope the problem has gone away by the time the next election rolls around and applied it to COVID. So provided there are absolutely no crises or serious issues facing the country in 2024 he'll be fine. https://twitter.com/multiplebears/status/1346371034606415873
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crispix posted:Really though 60,000 odd people are needlessly dead due to covid because he's such a callous and useless oval office Closer to 90,000 at this point
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Darth Walrus posted:https://twitter.com/johnjohnstonmi/status/1346191630240542722?s=21 It's looking obviously like they know what has to be done, they just really, really don't want to do it. Resulting in this, over and over. Part of the issue is that it's really, really common for both parents to work now (because our modern pricing of everything is based around that), so schools are basically childcare. Obviously this isn't an attack on families where both parents work (or single parent families), it's just that things are very different to how they were even 30 years ago.
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Jan 5, 2021 12:29
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peanut- posted:Kieth generally seems to have adapted his Brexit strategy of hide and hope the problem has gone away by the time the next election rolls around and applied it to COVID. So provided there are absolutely no crises or serious issues facing the country in 2024 he'll be fine. Every time he's talking about whatever nonsense the govt is doing I just get an extremely "hey it's not my problem" vibe from him, like he knows he doesn't have to do anything but fend off leadership challenges for the next 3 years
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Lungboy posted:I think his shadow education person said they must stay open but need to close but must stay open. yeah, yesterday morning lol https://twitter.com/KateGreenSU/status/1346031723528806402?s=20 although it's really just waffling bullshit about how "we want kids to be in school, the right place to be is in school" which could be read as more aspirational about the way things ought to be ideally than an actual position on how things need to be right now but that waffling bullshit is half the problem, and they very pointedly did not back teachers and call for school closures, choosing instead to harp on about chaos and confusion caused by the government's policy (a fair point, but maybe explicitly outline the only actual alternative?) but yeah, they specifically refer to school closures "as already happening, and more are inevitable" rather than "something that needs to happen nationally and immediately" from Sunday afternoon up until the government briefed it had changed its mind, all while complaining about the government's chaotic indecisiveness
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Haven't they learned by this point? Every single time they make the crisis worse by dithering endlessly and then having to implement the extreme measures anyway. Now it looks like we're facing over a thousand deaths a day at the same time we are rolling out the vaccine and the end is in sight. It defies belief. Not saying we could have been New Zealand but no reason we couldn't have been Australia and limited total deaths to something similar to what we'll get in just the next week.
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Flayer posted:Haven't they learned by this point? They never learn op
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Flayer posted:Now it looks like we're facing over a thousand deaths a day at the same time we are rolling out the vaccine and the end is in sight. It defies belief.
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Borrovan posted:If anything it seems more believable now imo: with the end in sight it's just a question of whether you'd rather kill tens of thousands of the vulnerable or slightly inconvenience the capital class, which is a very obvious question whomever you ask but for staggeringly different reasons But we seem to have settled on a formula that gives all the inconvenience while also killing tens of thousands.
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Borrovan posted:If anything it seems more believable now imo: with the end in sight it's just a question of whether you'd rather kill tens of thousands of the vulnerable or slightly inconvenience the capital class, which is a very obvious question whomever you ask but for staggeringly different reasons
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Lungboy posted:Someone should Photoshop Starmer onto the Iraqi information minister, that's about his level now. 
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