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WhatEvil posted:I'm not saying Starmer is an op but if you were in MI5 trying to uphold power for the establishment, and Starmer was your man, what would you have him do differently? I mean, I'd rather get my literal man in the office than just a moron like Boris who is absolutely on side and completely pliable, but such a bumbling oaf that he could easily gently caress something up and get our agents in Iran executed or something. e; 31 is like card game 21 but... your target is 31. Ms Adequate fucked around with this message at 23:34 on Feb 5, 2021 |
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BalloonFish posted:
Totally agree. I thought JC didn’t play the political game very well and that at least Starmer would do that. He doesn’t, and his policies (or lack thereof) are worse. What a disappointment.
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Guavanaut posted:That's the problem with broad 'race' based analyses, you call sickle cell a 'black' condition and you end up misdiagnosing Turks, Greeks, and other non-Africans with it, and wasting time running tests on Zulus who are less likely to have sickle cell than an average person picked from the street in Carmarthen. I ended up in an office with a manager from HR for saying non white. I am not going to provide a detailed description of the history of colonialism, slavery and its geography when explaining why you should be careful about putting on pneumatic tourniquets.
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honestly he's performed about as i expected - his role is to act as ablative armour for all the unpopular things the labour right thinks are necessary, for the next candidate to be the compromise/unity offering.
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Pistol_Pete posted:Re: Starmer, I just read a Marina Hyde article (yeah, I know) where she plausibly argues that, much as we tell our GP that we only drink 14 units a week (then get shitfaced), we tell pollsters that we want bland, managerial, centrist politicians (then go out and vote for energetic politicians who'll do fun, exciting stuff and keep us entertained). Starmer's incessant avoidance of risk bores the electorate to death and he'd honestly do better if he found a few good controversies and leapt into them with his fists swinging. Someone find Kieth a field to run through!
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Guavanaut posted:That's the problem with broad 'race' based analyses, you call sickle cell a 'black' condition and you end up misdiagnosing Turks, Greeks, and other non-Africans with it, and wasting time running tests on Zulus who are less likely to have sickle cell than an average person picked from the street in Carmarthen. Isn't screening for sickle trait just part of a routine blood panel for newborns anyway? Like, I don't think there's any time being wasted here, mothers and babies get screened for a lot of things that they may or may not have. And even if testing for variant hemoglobin was some onerous or expensive thing, you could still just have a decision-tree that started with a spectrophotometer and it would be a pretty ok first-pass filter. Like, race is fake and everything, but the one thing it's good at is broadly sifting people into buckets of slightly increased propensity to certain phenotypic traits. The problem then is that people go down a slippery slope of haplogroups and blood quanta and next thing you know you're James Watson and you don't get invited to any of the nice luncheons anymore and even if you do they make you sit next to Prince Philip
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Borrovan posted:Kieth's political beliefs are literally whatever he thinks will make people like him at the time. Hence why no fucker likes him. He's pure obedience doctrine, which isn't a thing but I'm gonna try and make a thing. It's complete obedience to whatever the power structure demands of him at the time, which is obviously neoliberalism-with-racist-characteristics in the grand sense but moment to moment Keith will absolutely do a cringe photo taking a knee when BLM are briefly powerful, he'll absolutely lie about being lefty to the membership for a leadership election, he'll absolutely be the biggest Remain guy when that's an emotive wedge issue, he'll absolutely declare hard Leave is fine actually when emotive wedge issues no longer benefit him, he's functionally a sort of jellyfish.
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Dogatron posted:I ended up in an office with a manager from HR for saying non white. I am not going to provide a detailed description of the history of colonialism, slavery and its geography when explaining why you should be careful about putting on pneumatic tourniquets. How did it pan out (the meeting)? Did the manager understand about the sickle cell anaemia?
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the loving toblerone fudge is out of stock already you absolute swine
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Kinda hoping this whole Handforth parish council zoom results in more centralisation of power. Far too many incentives for absolute fuckwits to get involved in spending public money, and inefficient planning and duplication of admin when the villages of Winifred-on-Tidley have a retired accountant who thinks benches and pedestrianisation add to shops; compared to Winifredtidleyside who are led by a retired quantity surveyor whose concerns are around making sure traffic flows neatly; with the resultant spend on custom signs from the taxpayers of cities where things happen; and equally hosed traffic/shopping for everyone else within 30 miles.Guavanaut posted:That's the problem with broad 'race' based analyses, you call sickle cell a 'black' condition and you end up misdiagnosing Turks, Greeks, and other non-Africans with it, and wasting time running tests on Zulus who are less likely to have sickle cell than an average person picked from the street in Carmarthen. Surely "he's black, so double check" rather than going "well technically we don't know his genetics are linked to two of the more populous regions for people of that colour so don't ask at all" is gonna end up in more racially discriminatory results, like that whole "Oh I don't see colour" thing. Nutapii fucked around with this message at 00:29 on Feb 6, 2021 |
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Nutapii posted:Kinda hoping this whole Handforth parish council zoom results in more centralisation of power. Far too many incentives for absolute fuckwits to get involved in spending public money, and inefficient planning and duplication of admin when the villages of Winifred-on-Tidley have a retired accountant who thinks benches and pedestrianisation add to shops; compared to Winifredtidleyside who are led by a retired quantity surveyor whose concerns are around making sure traffic flows neatly; with the resultant spend on custom signs from the taxpayers of cities where things happen; and equally hosed traffic/shopping for everyone else within 30 miles. I think the point was that people of Mediterranean descent can also get sickle-cell at a much higher rate than northern Europeans and making skin colour your only criteria for testing for sickle-cell in a situation where someone with the disease is likely to have a severe adverse effect means you risk missing people. TBH I'd have thought it'd be safer to test *everyone* in that situation, it's not like it's a massively difficult or expensive test and very occasionally random mutations can make the palest Viking-looking person suffer from it too. Actually, I wonder if the massive mechanisation of blood testing might be part of the problem here? Sickle-cell is obvious at a glance in a microscope, but almost all routine blood tests now are entirely automated - does the machine doing, say, a blood count actually notice if the red blood cells are misshapen?
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goddamnedtwisto posted:I think the point was that people of Mediterranean descent can also get sickle-cell at a much higher rate than northern Europeans
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The EU banned bendy bananas and bendy erythrocytes, post-Brexit everyone's free to get sickle cell. Bonus: preparedness for when malaria comes back into fashion in the British Isles in 20 years
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Inexplicable Humblebrag posted:the loving toblerone fudge is out of stock already you absolute swine that was me as revenge for giving me this av
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I bought extra, sorry not sorry.
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Dead keen on fudge but can I ask which ones are / are not gluten free again?
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Where is this link to the goon crafted fudge?
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https://www.fudjit.co.uk
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Inexplicable Humblebrag posted:the loving toblerone fudge is out of stock already you absolute swine
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Looks like most of the Toblerone fudge sales were to bots and scalpers, unfortunately. On ebay packs are going for three or four times the original retail price. Camrath should do more to stop this kind of thing. Shame!!
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The Perfect Element posted:Looks like most of the Toblerone fudge sales were to bots and scalpers, unfortunately. On ebay packs are going for three or four times the original retail price. Camrath should do more to stop this kind of thing. Shame!! Give verified Fudge+ subscribers priority on pre-orders!
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Thank you. I bought some fudge
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The Toblerone has certainly been a fast seller- well, all of it has, but that one in particular! I’m planning the batches for next week, so it looks like we’re going to have some more Toblerone, vegan oreo and one tbc. TACD posted:Dead keen on fudge but can I ask which ones are / are not gluten free again? So most of them are gluten free- however the kitchen is a domestic one where I also cook gluten containing stuff. I follow good hygiene procedure, but I can’t guarantee a lack of traces. It’s really only the ones containing biscuit in some form that have gluten as an ingredient. Camrath fucked around with this message at 03:11 on Feb 6, 2021 |
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You, plebeian classes: I cannot get the fudge I want Me, Matrician: I ordered a bunch of fudge just now no problem, because I do not like gross things
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Darth Walrus posted:The whiskey and ginger was excellent, so I'd like to see that making a comeback, and I deeply regret never trying the Irish cream. As does toblerone fudge you absolute bastards. Bloodly posted:Hm? I didn't realize 'quiz' was somehow a poor word? broke: quiz as a verb bespoke: quiz as an adjective
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too much coke: i identify as a quiz
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I can't stand baileys because it tastes like licking a chemical spill but there was this very nice cream that the penderyn distillery did called merlyn, I think, bought it as a gift one year and it was surprisingly good.
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The media seem to be rapidly turning against Starmer. I wonder if it's related to my previous post where he's just too boring for them to get any good stories out of and they want someone more interesting in charge? Here's a headline story in The Times today:The Times posted:
They're not calling him "hapless" yet but I think it's only a matter of time...
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speedrunning Nicola Murray's career trajectory
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https://twitter.com/johnestevens/status/1357826641758744576?s=20 Boris has finally saved the union, by sending the Queen's totally forgotten 3rd son to live in Scotland.
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Pistol_Pete posted:“Our problem is that the public wants Boris Johnson to do well. They think he’s had a really bad hand and they want him to succeed. We haven’t got permission to be in the room.” loving tell they still don’t get that the reason the public hasn’t turned on Boris is because nobody spent time hitting him on all the catastrophic fuckups last year that resulted in 100,000 dead! Stupid poo poo party, gently caress Labour.
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Pistol_Pete posted:Starmer’s allies insist the progress he has made since spring is enormous, but that shaking off the toxicity of the Corbyn years will take more time. “People don’t understand just how big the challenge is,” one said. quote:In Starmer’s orbit there is a sense of exasperation that what they see as basic elements of patriotism, which they regard as essential to regaining the trust of voters, are being questioned by a segment of the party. “Trust people on the left to over-intellectualise our bloody flag,” one ally lamented. what an absolute shower CGI Stardust fucked around with this message at 09:48 on Feb 6, 2021 |
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You've quoted the wrong Times editorial, the more telling one is this one outlining what Starmer needs to do to win full-throated approval from the pressquote:Voters will never warm to timid Keir Starmer All Kieth needs to do is publicly poo poo on teachers for not wanting death and to embrace the notion that Uber Drivers Like Their Job Actually and the great British public will become big fans. tbf I doubt he'd have any problem doing either of those.
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Late to Battle of France chat, but anyone who hasn’t read it already might be interested to try Blitzed, which is a fascinating description of how the Germans were high as kites on methadone as a matter of military “medical” policy (because it let them keep going) in 1940, and ended up going cold turkey out on the eastern front.
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Inexplicable Humblebrag posted:the loving toblerone fudge is out of stock already you absolute swine Having to make do with double Dark Chocolate. Thanks, Antifa.
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That second Times article has one thing in favour of 'suhkeef', it shows that as bad as he is now, he would he so much worse if he really listens to our godamnned atrocious media. I like the part that they mention that a successful party is one that is targeting minorities though, oddly honest. Also didn't know he was 58, looking forward to him ageing rapidly between now and the election (or more likely, his replacement). OwlFancier posted:I can't stand baileys because it tastes like licking a chemical spill but there was this very nice cream that the penderyn distillery did called merlyn, I think, bought it as a gift one year and it was surprisingly good. I actually added a bottle of Merlyn to my tesco order yesterday, if it's rubbish I'm blaming you.
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I really expected Keir when he won the leadership to be sort of milquetoast poo poo - I knew very little about him. I had no idea he was such an utter cretin and would be so spectacularly, actively poo poo lol :/
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Marmaduke! posted:That second Times article has one thing in favour of 'suhkeef', it shows that as bad as he is now, he would he so much worse if he really listens to our godamnned atrocious media. I like the part that they mention that a successful party is one that is targeting minorities though, oddly honest. Also didn't know he was 58, looking forward to him ageing rapidly between now and the election (or more likely, his replacement). It's very nice, not quite as sweet and cloying as Baileys. But do keep it in the fridge as it can go off, which I've never known Baileys to do.
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seems like there's a few articles about how boring Keir is https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/feb/05/britons-drama-keir-starmer-labour-leader-competence quote:Like all desperate thrill-seekers in this interminable lockdown, I was momentarily stirred to hear there were some handbags between Boris Johnson and Keir Starmer in one of parliament’s corridors after prime minister’s questions on Wednesday. Yes! Action! I briefly imagined the lightning exchange of cash bets as watching MPs behaved much like the hyped-up midnight crowd in one of those underground Chinese insect-fighting contests. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-55943661 quote:In her 2018 book the New Working Class, Claire Ainsley had warned politicians that while "policies do matter" they "should be viewed in the context of what the party or candidate stands for". and so on. I like the idea that journalists all sat together at some point this week and decided to run stories about how boring Keir Starmer is after he said he wanted to gently caress the flag and argued with Boris Johnson partway through PMQs. I reckon, like May, he'll stick around for a while yet. The whole thing is hosed anyway, this pandemic is a disaster and all the opposition leader is known for is how boring and poo poo he is, yet all the centrist wankers were pretty much begging for someone like this to take over Labour. How's the NIP doing anyway?
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Dogatron posted:I ended up in an office with a manager from HR for saying non white. I am not going to provide a detailed description of the history of colonialism, slavery and its geography when explaining why you should be careful about putting on pneumatic tourniquets. You can probably point to a much more broad-brush use of race in the eGFR of any U&E test. It's still clinically useful though. https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2028243 (when it was crucial to know kidney function at the institution I worked at we directly measured it with the radiolabelled EDTA method - very simple. I still have to get hospitals to directly measure kidney function sometimes and the US places have never heard of that, they measure 24 hours of piss) Guavanaut posted:Unless you know that the vast majority of your black presenting population is from the Congo or Niger delta region (as it is in Jamaica and the American South for reasons) you're better off asking what language they speak at home than going by skin melanation. Aaah... What language do people in the American South speak at home? I don't think this is going to be any better. knox_harrington fucked around with this message at 10:36 on Feb 6, 2021 |
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