Bobby Deluxe posted:

Hmm, perhaps we should be looking at some way of getting the UV inside the body.

Borrovan posted:

I had a picture, still never got an alert

Also got a new phone since, should probably reinstall if people actually need it

sinky posted:

Finally, we have reached maximum guardian

spookygonk posted:

suck my woke dick posted:

thank god, Corbyn didn't win because then Britain would have gone backwards and become a third world country and international laughing stock.

lemonadesweetheart posted:

I think it's a mistake ye not having a well defined members list. It's too open to abuse.

suck my woke dick posted:

British society trip report: went to the post office with a bunch of accumulated parcels. Took long enough to hear the shift manager go on a rant about how Corbyn's brother is "one of them" and how, thank god, Corbyn didn't win because then Britain would have gone backwards and become a third world country and international laughing stock. Some extremely boomer line worker chimed in to say how some Corbyn meme the kids are sending around means they're basically brainwashed.

Lord Ludikrous posted:

Off topic slightly but some folks will get a kick out of this. It’s that time of the year where I get on with the depressing task of shopping around for car insurance when my current provider inevitably whacks the renewal up. Despite not having any offences or incidents.

One provider (who was surprisingly the cheapest so far) had a ClearScore style breakdown of all the various factors that determine the quote you get, which I’ve never seen before and it’s honestly pretty useful. But one thing caught my eye.




The gammons are going to love this if this kind of information becomes more commonplace. These days you get arrested and put in jail charged higher premiums just for being English!

Camrath posted:

I was certainly surprised on moving out from London to see my insurance (on a 13yo Audi A4) drop from c. £150/m to £19.70 a month.

Now admittedly I lived on a well dodge estate, but interestingly my employment status shifting from ‘unemployed owing to disability’ to ‘company director/confectioner’ was worth £15 a month in and of itself.

It’s loving voodoo is what it is.

Camrath posted:

I was certainly surprised on moving out from London to see my insurance (on a 13yo Audi A4) drop from c. £150/m to £19.70 a month.

Now admittedly I lived on a well dodge estate, but interestingly my employment status shifting from ‘unemployed owing to disability’ to ‘company director/confectioner’ was worth £15 a month in and of itself.

It’s loving voodoo is what it is.

OwlFancier posted:

It's systematized profiling and if they don't do it based on race it's only because it might be illegal.

Lord Ludikrous posted:

Off topic slightly but some folks will get a kick out of this. It’s that time of the year where I get on with the depressing task of shopping around for car insurance when my current provider inevitably whacks the renewal up. Despite not having any offences or incidents.

One provider (who was surprisingly the cheapest so far) had a ClearScore style breakdown of all the various factors that determine the quote you get, which I’ve never seen before and it’s honestly pretty useful. But one thing caught my eye.




The gammons are going to love this if this kind of information becomes more commonplace. These days you get arrested and put in jail charged higher premiums just for being English!

Comrade Fakename posted:

Ash Crimson drafting up a post already.

goddamnedtwisto posted:

Don't forget the "Show profile picture" bit, that's where I went wrong. Also you might need to tweak the radius a bit depending on how built-up your local area is - I cranked mine all the way down to 750m to try and minimise the amount of jobs on the other side of the river I see (not prejudice, just for once, just that the nearest crossings are miles away).

As it turned out as soon as I posted that another alert came in, which turned out to be picking up insulin from the hospital for a pregnant woman who was having to self-isolate, so between the warm glow of helping out my fellow human beings and the almost cartoonishly awesome reality that I just delivered literal life-saving medications on a Ducati I'm feeling pretty loving good about life right now.

sebzilla posted:

'member the Forde Inquiry?

https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/labour-antisemitism-forde-inquiry-leaked-report-what-happening

What were all that about?

OwlFancier posted:

An insurance company operating ideally will identify and exacerbate existing inequality, because sustaining damage to your car is a relatively higher risk for poor people then wealthy ones, and that should be reflected in the premiums.

Danger - Octopus! posted:

If people don't follow Jack Monroe, she's got a thread on twitter about how lovely some of the food parcels that replaced vouchers are.

https://twitter.com/BootstrapCook/status/1348698098139328513

Danger - Octopus! posted:

If people don't follow Jack Monroe, she's got a thread on twitter about how lovely some of the food parcels that replaced vouchers are.

https://twitter.com/BootstrapCook/status/1348698098139328513

sebzilla posted:

'member the Forde Inquiry?

https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/labour-antisemitism-forde-inquiry-leaked-report-what-happening

What were all that about?

AceClown posted:

"Being able to help so many people this last year has been an incredible experience and I wish to continue to do all I can to support the fund and its goals. I am generally online a considerable amount and this means I can respond quickly and efficiently to any support requests. I would very much like to carry on the work with the committee, we have work to do to line up charitable status and being involved in that would mean a great deal. Thank you for your consideration. gently caress the Tories."

Captain Fargle posted:

"Hello everyone, I'm Fargle. I'm one of the current committee members standing for re-election. I'm a very active member of the community on Discord and I've been with the Fund since the beginning. As a disabled man living on benefits I think a bring a good perspective to the group. It's been a great experience for me this past year and I'd very much like to continue in the role. Thank you."

Iymarra posted:

"I, as assuredly with the other candidates, have a desire to help people. Given how utterly screwed everything is at the minute, that help can really only be delivered in a number of ways. I'd like to help with the UKMT-SF because above all, it is pure and simple good work. Solidarity alone doesn't put food in a stomach or pay the leccy bills. In an ideal world, this wouldn't be needed but since we don't live in an ideal world, help needs to be distributed to those that request it.
Beyond these earnest statements, I have prior form in charitable works, having been on the charity committee for a organisation in the area from 2010 to 2015. In this capacity, I pushed and achieved funding from us towards a number of local events, including a Children's Gala, Highland Games and towards the local foodbank as a priority. I look forward to hopefully being selected and helping out directly, thanks."

Maugrim posted:

"You probably know me as that guy who posts the monthly updates and drafted the Fund's constitution. I like organising things, keeping orderly records and messing around with spreadsheets, which I feel are useful traits for helping to run any organisation. It's been a privilege to serve on the committee for the last ten months and I hope I'll be able to continue to do so as we work towards the Fund becoming a registered charity."

Tsietisin posted:

"Over the past year, the solidarity find has helped out many people from our forum, myself included. I would like the opportunity to give something back by helping the already great committee over the next year.
In addition to just wanting to help, I am also a qualified ICSA company secretary and will be help with regulatory issues that may arise.
I hope you will give me the opportunity to continue the great work started by the previous committee"

The DPRK posted:

"I would like to become a committee member for the solidarity fund because I feel close to the UKMT community and I would like to give some of my time and energy to help overcome the hardships some of our most vulnerable members are facing right now. I have experience working with food banks, homeless shelters, and soup kitchens, and right now I am unable to volunteer with any of those orgs in a meaningful way due to covid. Tackling poverty and financial hardship is very close to my heart and I would be very glad to be part of a project that is effecting positive change in people's lives. I am also a novice organiser and would really welcome the opportunity to cut my teeth learning from a project like this so I can apply my experience to other projects in the future."

Cast_No_Shadow posted:

I'm a long time goon and mostly read rather than post (discord aside). I work from home nearly every day so availability is high and I've plenty of time to dedicate. I don't think there's anything that really makes me any better than anyone else, I just want to help cause this community is awesome."

quote:

"I'm not much of a forum type but I spend a lot of time on the UK Goons Discord so people will know me better from there. When the fund first launched, I was a little skeptical, but since then I've seen it help plenty of people, myself included. I've given a little back and now i'd like to try and do more, hence putting myself forward for the committee. I've been working with a Mutual Aid in my local area for about a year now and it's been deeply rewarding to put my skills (I'm a self employed computer fixer by trade) to good use, and for a good cause. It's been a rough year and the Fund has been an absolute lifeline for so many people, and I just want to help if I can.

Good luck to everyone standing!"

The Perfect Element posted:

Also I'm annoyed cos I pitched the idea of sharing rating info with customers in my last insurance job as an 'innovation consultant' but I wasn't even allowed to put together a POC.

stev posted:

Insurers will never make their ratings transparent. They're terrified that doing so will cause every customer to game the system and pay next to nothing (which they would and should do, obviously).

stev posted:

Insurers will never make their ratings transparent. They're terrified that doing so will cause every customer to game the system and pay next to nothing (which they would and should do, obviously).

The Perfect Element posted:

I think someone else said it in this thread recently, but so long as you are legally obliged to have car insurance, the industry should be nationalised.

EvilHawk posted:

There's not really a lot of room for you to game the system (outside of fraud). You can't exactly change where you live. That being said, when I worked in customer service we would try and lower the premiums - the big one (and I'm not sure if this is true) is to put your mileage at 4,000 per year rather than 3,000. This seems paradoxical (surely if you drive less you're less of a risk) but a year or so before someone somewhere had said "put it at 3,000 it'll be cheaper!" so loads of people did and then... had accidents. So the underwriters saw this and said, clearly, if you're driving 3,000 miles you're more a risk and put that above 4,000. Mileage is one of the few areas you can game.

EvilHawk posted:

There's not really a lot of room for you to game the system (outside of fraud). You can't exactly change where you live. That being said, when I worked in customer service we would try and lower the premiums - the big one (and I'm not sure if this is true) is to put your mileage at 4,000 per year rather than 3,000. This seems paradoxical (surely if you drive less you're less of a risk) but a year or so before someone somewhere had said "put it at 3,000 it'll be cheaper!" so loads of people did and then... had accidents. So the underwriters saw this and said, clearly, if you're driving 3,000 miles you're more a risk and put that above 4,000. Mileage is one of the few areas you can game.