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Flayer posted:The bungled response has been no help to the capital class either in this country, it's a downer for everyone. The US went ahead with the straight up "gently caress the people" option, we've gone for all-round incompetence that helps nobody.  I presume there is Boris rule 34
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I missed the memo on this... schools were actually open yesterday but not today? That is deranged
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It was good policy to open them for one day because "every day counts", apart from all of the ones other than yesterday
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jiggerypokery posted:I missed the memo on this... schools were actually open yesterday but not today? That is deranged yes now some of you may ask why on earth they would do that when presumably they had at least an inkling that they were going to shut down schools very immediately, and to those people I say that the government's only real crime is caring about children's education too much
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Flayer posted: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. There's no incentive to learn when there are zero consequences for being a worse than useless fuckup.
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Lol he was giving starmer poo poo yesterday too. Considering I only watched the first season of game of thrones when it was released I was surprised I recognised him https://twitter.com/miltosyerolemou/status/1346428185639088129?s=19 loving hell https://twitter.com/breeallegretti/status/1346423320376471553?s=19
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Red Oktober posted: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. Yep, and the response from the terminally imaginationless is that the only possible solution to this is women staying at home to look after the kids, like they have for all of human history lol... Liberals: "...and that's terrible" Conservatives: "...and that's great!" Those are the only two options. Nothing else to be done. Truly, we live in the only of all possible worlds
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loving hell https://twitter.com/breeallegretti/status/1346423320376471553?s=19 [/quote] That does look alarming, and it seems a reasonable assumption that teachers do have a higher rate of infection, however they've compared teacher rates to general population (rather than 'working age') which will skew the data as over 60s have lower rates.
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I think the point is that Greenwich is the one Williamson was threatening legal action against if they closed their schools. Feeling real despondent today thread. I just can’t imagine any possible route, at all, to things improving any more.
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Jakabite posted:I think the point is that Greenwich is the one Williamson was threatening legal action against if they closed their schools. The vaccines are the way out. They should have done this lockdown as soon as AZ was certified, allow the vaccine infrastructure to be sorted and then got the majority of at risk people jabbed very quickly. Hopefully this "lockdown" will help enough to give the vaccine teams a chance to get on top of it.
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Jose posted:take a break from this thread. seriously It really wouldn’t help. This thread is a fraction of where I get my political hit from, and one of the much better and more interesting ones. I’m doing plenty of other stuff too - working out, learning Spanish, but ultimately I just can’t see any way that society escapes from the downward spiral it’s in. If anyone can then please do say so. E: I meant generally. Even post-virus, where will we be?
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Lungboy posted:The vaccines are the way out. They should have done this lockdown as soon as AZ was certified, allow the vaccine infrastructure to be sorted and then got the majority of at risk people jabbed very quickly. Hopefully this "lockdown" will help enough to give the vaccine teams a chance to get on top of it. The one positive at the moment is that they're at least saying they're going to keep the lockdown in place until the most vulnerable were vaccinated. We should never have left the November lockdown though, what a loving idiotic decision. Of course I fully expect the lockdown to be lifted on 1st March even if the vaccinations don't go the way they want.
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Skeletome posted:oh and rowan atkinson is trending today for rallying against 'cancel culture' because of course it's real and important what do you hate about your new job? I'm also an immediate hater of jobs
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If you consider say, post war social democracy (which while not great is probably something a lot of us would be comparatively happy to live with) came after... the entirety of everything leading up to that in human history, then it perhaps provides an idea that people can and do rebuild after every catastrophe. It sucks that very rarely do the people responsible get their heads lopped off, and it also sucks that we are the people who have to live through the collapse, but society continues after us.
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sinky posted:There's no incentive to learn when there are zero consequences for being a worse than useless fuckup.
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Jakabite posted:I think the point is that Greenwich is the one Williamson was threatening legal action against if they closed their schools. Basically what I'm saying is, there is almost always a way to improve things in your own life, if not wider society, so just do that for a bit probably. Society's pretty hosed, but if you've done your part (which you have) you should be able to rest easy. Spring's coming, music still exists, even the tories can't cancel some things.
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Aidan_702 posted:what do you hate about your new job? I'm also an immediate hater of jobs I'm a product manager and I find the whole concept so dull and high-pressured. you're at your best when doing research with customers and working with teams to design things that solve customer problems, but 90% of the role is placating higher ups and getting bogged down in useless strategy because no one else has any direction Honestly I want to quit, take the time off to train and become a scrum master, because at least then I'm empowering people in a team to be happier when they work, but £1000+ for a mandatory certification is a big ask ):
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Aidan_702 posted:what do you hate about your new job? I'm also an immediate hater of jobs Oh god I hate my new job so much.
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Guavanaut posted:If anything, getting so close to any real change can provide the impetus for a future movement. Just need to make sure it isn't a weird Trotskyist sex cult. *yeah I know the party apparatus will be conspiring to make sure that doesn't happen again, and as we all know centrists are not at all prone to getting high off their own farts and endlessly repeating the same mistakes due to hubris,
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bump_fn posted:https://twitter.com/ElectionMapsUK/status/1346088853355040768 I mean I wouldn’t vote for Labour any more either. And lots of people simply cannot and will never accept that the government isn’t legitimately doing its best, and therefore the worse the situation is the harder they must be trying the poor dears The illusion of a functional society must be shattered
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Skeletome posted:Honestly I want to quit, take the time off to train and become a scrum master, because at least then I'm empowering people in a team to be happier when they work, but £1000+ for a mandatory certification is a big ask ): I have some doubts whether that's how it would be, in my experience the more "formally" agile a place is the more toxic the management is. Not that I'd ever say that to an employer.
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Sanford posted:Oh god I hate my new job so much. The part I hate about my job is how I have to do it for 37.5 hours per week in order to afford food, shelter etc.
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Guavanaut posted:weird Trotskyist sex cult. i will start the wiki
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TACD posted:I mean I wouldn’t vote for Labour any more either. And lots of people simply cannot and will never accept that the government isn’t legitimately doing its best, and therefore the worse the situation is the harder they must be trying the poor dears i absolutely get NOT voting for keith stardust but like how do you vote FOR teh tories
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TACD posted:lots of people simply cannot and will never accept that the government isn’t legitimately doing its best, Really want to ask one of these people "how would it look different if, hypothetically, the government were half-arsing it"
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bump_fn posted:i absolutely get NOT voting for keith stardust but like how do you vote FOR teh tories DesperateDan posted:i will start the wiki
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bump_fn posted:i absolutely get NOT voting for keith stardust but like how do you vote FOR teh tories I was ranting about this in an earlier thread. The voting booth doesn't contain a binary lever with Labour on one side and Tories on the other. The 62% not voting for Labour, fine, if you don't like them, you don't have to. The 43% FOR the Tories are making an active choice to vote for the demonstrably bad thing.
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Has anyone here managed to get any insulation through the Green Grant scheme? Every single installer I have contacted (around 15 of them now) has said they are not taking part. Unsurprising that a tory initiative is complete poo poo, but I would have thought the installers would want the work.
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bump_fn posted:i absolutely get NOT voting for keith stardust but like how do you vote FOR teh tories Collapsing turnout for one party causes another party's percentage share to rise. The Tories haven't necessarily gained voters, it's just that everyone else may well have lost them.
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OwlFancier posted:If you consider say, post war social democracy (which while not great is probably something a lot of us would be comparatively happy to live with) came after... the entirety of everything leading up to that in human history, then it perhaps provides an idea that people can and do rebuild after every catastrophe. I dunno, that was true for every big problem humanity faced before, that there were better times ahead, if you just struggle through. In My Sadbrained Opinion climate change will mean things just keep getting worse every year for gently caress knows how many centuries.
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