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Darth Walrus posted:https://twitter.com/peterayersbfg/status/1360507311249326082?s=21 Irish whiskey? Now Keith is spitting on the union.
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Darth Walrus posted:https://twitter.com/peterayersbfg/status/1360507311249326082?s=21 Two green reading lamps but different styles is deeply annoying to me. Did he abstain on choosing which sort he preferred?
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The world's finest Irish whiskey made by a Scottish lawyer who hated the Irish, perfect for self hating day drinking. I expected some kind of fancy barrister whisky and cut glasses rather than a bottle of the next step up from large clear glass bottles of blended piss and a couple of cups, but I guess that's the first relatable thing that kieth has done in a long while.
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Mar 11, 2021 15:33
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:I think it was Dave Gorman who did an episode on awards - 'voted best in class for cat food flavour duck & osprey' (awarded to only firm doing duck & osprey flavoured cat food). (NB I made that example up it isn't one Gorman did but I can't remember specifics). Essentially they make such narrow categories that only 1 or 2 firms satisfy that just about any product can win a 'voted best' award. Sorry for crosstalking over tacochat, but I completely forgot about another company I worked with that had posters up everywhere proudly stating something like "we're #12 in <publication>'s Top 100 Best Places for Young People To Work", which sounds pretty impressive. But when I, sad bastard that I am, went to <publication>'s website, I discovered that this was restricted to UK companies, and there were only 14 entrants, none of which you'd have heard of. This wouldn't annoy me so much if it was just yet another way for private companies to lie to consumers, but a good deal of public sector effort and money goes into chasing these arbitrary stickers that measure nothing, mean nothing, and trick people into thinking that your organisation is "good".
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https://twitter.com/noonanjo/status/1369081411924357122 Unnecessary comma there I think.
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Mar 11, 2021 15:36
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Darth Walrus posted:https://twitter.com/peterayersbfg/status/1360507311249326082?s=21 Sits around wanking into the flag hoping it'll get him votes but won't even buy British whisky.
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Darth Walrus posted:https://twitter.com/peterayersbfg/status/1360507311249326082?s=21 First thing Starmer's done in a long time that has made me react with "yeah, fair, I get that"
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Mar 11, 2021 15:41
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I would have thought Starmer would go for the Victory gin out of a tin cup
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Mar 11, 2021 15:42
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peanut- posted:I always click on stuff like this and am amazed by the number of replies that think it's real. Like the internet, and particularly Twitter, must be a very scary and confusing place for people who believe everything they see on it so readily. is it really that implausible that some cheap-and-cheerful greasy spoon place somewhere in london has made an incredibly low-effort "shove some things in a hard tortilla" meal and called it a "taco"? they're probably not asking £30 for it but i can see somewhere serving this at some price
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Mar 11, 2021 15:46
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Mar 11, 2021 15:54
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like i get that acknowledging that the peopel you were taught to look up to as patriotic heroes were in fact inhuman monsters but thsi is just part of growing up. quit being such loving snowflakes, tories
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Mar 11, 2021 15:56
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Surprised it's only one bottle. Must have a case stashed somewhere nearby. Two empties in the bin.
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Mar 11, 2021 16:14
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Darth Walrus posted:https://twitter.com/peterayersbfg/status/1360507311249326082?s=21 Thought those were the 'controls on immigration' mugs for a minute.
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Mar 11, 2021 16:26
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u brexit ukip it posted:A a consultant I think this is fairly accurate, though a lot of contracts we bid on are scored on both quality and price, usually 30-50% quality versus 70-50% price, depending on how much budget the client has. This is in environment/infrastructure consultancy though so we are expected to actually do work and deliver something tangible. I think what exactly you're consulting in does matter - if you're tied to a specific field or do consulting to develop specific products it's much more likely you'll be able to do useful work, but I strongly doubt that high powered do-everything or business consultancies are nearly as good at doing every possible task under the sun as they claim.
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I CANNOT EJACULATE WITHOUT SEEING NATIVE AMERICANS BRUTALISED!
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Mar 11, 2021 16:32
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sebzilla posted:Two green reading lamps but different styles is deeply annoying to me. Did he abstain on choosing which sort he preferred? I think they're the same style but orientated differently. (This post is not to be taken as an endorsement of Starmer's NuLabour.)
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Mar 11, 2021 16:35
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:I think they're the same style but orientated differently. (This post is not to be taken as an endorsement of Starmer's NuLabour.) Nah, one is bendy and one is straight. Some PRson probably thought 'oh poo poo we need to get this table to look busy someone get me an extra lamp'
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Mar 11, 2021 16:41
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I have a final job interview at a large consulting company tomorrow, wish me luck. Not even joking lmbo. It's a programmer role though.
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In my experience, consultancies are very good at putting together fancy Powerpoint presentations and infographics, and introducing buzz phrases/"values" to which the client business then zealously commits itself. There is a hell of a lot of style, and very little substance. They also do the classic of thing of pointing out flaws in the business which internal staff have been pointing out for ages, but because consultants have pointed out, suddenly management are listening and falling over themselves to acknowledge how much improvement is needed.
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The Perfect Element posted:In my experience, consultancies are very good at putting together fancy Powerpoint presentations and infographics, and introducing buzz phrases/"values" to which the client business then zealously commits itself. There is a hell of a lot of style, and very little substance. They also charge about £1000 a day per consultant, and come up with process changes that provide a net gain of gently caress all in efficiencies. What's important though is that some ops/department manager can claim that they launched a study into x (why everything costs so much) and cut costs by y (fired the 10 slowest staffmembers and their manager). keep punching joe fucked around with this message at 17:08 on Mar 11, 2021 |
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Maugrim posted:Harking back to 3D printer chat, let's say I have a glass shower screen with plastic hinges and one hinge has broken. Is it possible to create a 3D scan of the other hinge and print it using a 3D printer? In theory, yes, that's no problem if you know what you're doing.
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Mar 11, 2021 17:10
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So lol ate a possibly permanent twitter suspension if anyone is wondering, was getting mass reported for a anti-TERF thread which was gaining traction and they nailed me for hate speech the first time I swore.
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The Perfect Element posted:In my experience, consultancies are very good at putting together fancy Powerpoint presentations and infographics, and introducing buzz phrases/"values" to which the client business then zealously commits itself. There is a hell of a lot of style, and very little substance. Or someone internal is working unbelievable hours covering 3 vacancies and 2 long term sick and is told for months "we can't possibly let you have any temporary staff because budgets". Said internal person not only returns to work following an operation much sooner than she should have, hindering recovery considerably, but then quits a few months later with severe stress related illness (rather than do what everyone was suggesting taking 6 months off with full pay). New person is recruited (from a consulting firm), paid £20k pa more, and insists on having a full complement of staff. Company falls over themselves backwards to appease new person by paying off one of the long term sick persons, getting temporary staff to fill the other long term sick and the three vacancies and starts recruiting permanent staff to the vacancies. Still makes me loving angry all these years later. (Ask not for whom the bell tolled, it tolled for me.)
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look it's clear why the Queen is beloved: https://twitter.com/karpi/status/1369729594220249088
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So the Scottish Parliament will pass the 'controversial' hate crimes bill and it has fully broken the mind of Wings (not linking because gently caress that prick).quote:While the debate overran and will conclude with a vote tomorrow, there’s no suspense about the outcome. With the backing of the snivelling, hateful, misogynist Greens (one female MSP out of six, entirely by choice), the bill will pass and Scotland will become a country where almost anything you say could be a hate crime. These days, if you say you hate trans people, you get arrested and thrown in jail.
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Private Speech posted:I have a final job interview at a large consulting company tomorrow, wish me luck. Company who's name is four letters beginning with B by any chance? I've just got a job at a software consultancy too and I know they're still hiring more people.
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Surprise T Rex posted:Company who's name is four letters beginning with B by any chance? I've just got a job at a software consultancy too and I know they're still hiring more people. Nah it's a different one. e: something something personal information was here Private Speech fucked around with this message at 17:34 on Mar 11, 2021 |
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Surprise T Rex posted:Company who's name is four letters beginning with B by any chance? I've just got a job at a software consultancy too and I know they're still hiring more people. I don't care how much they say they'll pay you, working for the Borg is a bad idea.
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Maugrim posted:I don't care how much they say they'll pay you, working for the Borg is a bad idea. And you call yourself a socialist? Curious.
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https://twitter.com/GeorgeMonbiot/status/1370006854521208834?s=19 Watching Monbiot posting right now is nerve wracking, he's heading down the right path but I've seen too many people suddenly take an insane side route into Qanon insanity from where he is.
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Bobby Deluxe posted:https://twitter.com/GeorgeMonbiot/status/1370006854521208834?s=19 Reading it looks like he stuck the landing, hope he pisses off a lot of people who are fubpee-adjacent or worse. Personally, I still tilt slightly in favour of the EU being reformable with the support of a critical mass of assertive leftist governments, and that absent those conditions the EU may still have a role in restraining some of the worst harms commited individually by corporatist/neolib national governments. But I'm not really able to articulate a strong defence of that position and I'm definitely sympathetic to its detractors. I guess essentially it comes down to my quasi-religious belief in the possibilities of supranational organisations to effect positive global change, or at least my not being convinced that we understand supranational structures well enough to say otherwise, or that any alternative pathway is very promising
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I'm just happy that someone is finally making this point out loud, which was absent from both sides of the public debate. https://twitter.com/GeorgeMonbiot/status/1370008681815941123
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Agreed that one of the prerequisites for reforming the EU is probably "ditch the Tories". Although Hungary's trajectory is not exactly inspiring confidence
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https://twitter.com/BBCNews/status/1370056311073832967?s=20quote:Two UK internet providers have been helping the Home Office and National Crime Agency track the websites visited by customers. Can't wait to see Labours resp- 
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Mar 11, 2021 18:11
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Oh good. So what's a good VPN these days? I should probably get on that.
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Mar 11, 2021 18:17
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https://twitter.com/AyoCaesar/status/1370064864425689096 So another case of trying to stop someone from talking?
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Mar 11, 2021 18:34
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TheRat posted:https://twitter.com/AyoCaesar/status/1370064864425689096 more likely extrajudicial 'falling down the stairs' (which is bad)
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hey i mean, he has made cops look incredibly bad at more or less the worst time imaginable for it in terms of anti-police sentiment. it might just be plain retaliation.
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