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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Getting my head kicked in by my family. gently caress no The planning process isn't about coming up with a list of instructions to follow, its thinking about what might feasibly happen and ways to deal with it or do other stuff so that when poo poo does inevitably crop up your thoughts are already in order Dissing planning is an order of magnitude less annoying than the whole concept of wishing things into existence/the secret style woo though **page 58 boring fact** 58 pattern webbing was issued to me as an air cadet and it was terrible to use and smelt like sweat and mothballs but I stole it when I left anyway
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Getting my head kicked in by my family. No more than wearing a seatbelt is "wishing a car crash into existence".
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Jun 18, 2021 14:03
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Getting my head kicked in by my family. Tell them that not making a contingency plan is tempting fate and why do they want to tempt fate? If fate gets tempted, fate might come over and do a number on you all. Ask them what they will say to fate when fate, having been tempted, turns up at their door Sometimes you gotta fight bullshit with bullshit
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Jun 18, 2021 14:03
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Getting my head kicked in by my family. I mean, I guess it depends on what the bad thing is. In the Cold War a lot of people frowned on building anti-missile systems as it suggested a way you could be safe from nuclear annihilation, and if you could be safe in a nuclear war you wouldn't put 100% into preventing one breaking out. You're probably talking more, "Have a bag with some mars bars and clean underwear in in case my house gets flooded at 2 AM" style stuff than "end of the world nuclear apocalypse", presumably
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Gort posted:I mean, I guess it depends on what the bad thing is. In the Cold War a lot of people frowned on building anti-missile systems as it suggested a way you could be safe from nuclear annihilation, and if you could be safe in a nuclear war you wouldn't put 100% into preventing one breaking out. What I'm actually talking about it, my mum has been trying to sell her home in the countryside for 3 months now and hardly any views and no offers. She had put in an offer on another property (moving into town so she can walk to the shops instead of driving 16 miles round trip from the middle of nowhere) but needs to clear a certain amount to pay all the stamp duty and estate agent fees etc, so there is a minimum floor for her to sell the existing. Anyway, it all seems to be falling through as the other side want to get a move on. So I've been saying for ages, she needs a contingency plan for another winter up in the remote hills: communications (no mobile phone signal, no 4G signal so if the electrics go out, she has no internet either*), wood store, food store. Also, if the property she wanted to buy falls through, yet her home does sell, where will she live while looking for another place - rentals aren't in big supply round here especially for women in their mid80s! - as none of us have spare rooms. Everyone is screaming at me. *we got her an old-fashioned phone that plugs into the phone socket instead of one of those fancy walking around the house things so she could use the landline phone if the electrics go out but obviously not if the phone lines come down. Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 14:16 on Jun 18, 2021 |
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Jun 18, 2021 14:13
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That's brilliant, and also horrifying.
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Gort posted:I mean, I guess it depends on what the bad thing is. In the Cold War a lot of people frowned on building anti-missile systems as it suggested a way you could be safe from nuclear annihilation, and if you could be safe in a nuclear war you wouldn't put 100% into preventing one breaking out. Therefore by committing to build one, you're tempting a preemptive strike.
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Jun 18, 2021 14:15
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:The only argument that seems to get pushed for smart meters is so you don't get estimated fuel bills and how it is supposed to help you reduce energy consumption. Well ok but I don't want to do any spreadsheets and neither do, I'm guessing, most people. We had this chat in here before and you were told all the potential advantages of smart meters by people who were involved in working with them. But you have apparently, conveniently, forgotten all that so you can carry on with your spreadsheets. If I had a proper smart meter my car would know the price of electricity and only charge when it was cheap, free or profitable. The large scale energy savings offered by a network with smart meters, and devices, could be huge.
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Jun 18, 2021 14:16
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NotJustANumber99 posted:Well ok but I don't want to do any spreadsheets and neither do, I'm guessing, most people. We had this chat in here before and you were told all the potential advantages of smart meters by people who were involved in working with them. But you have apparently, conveniently, forgotten all that so you can carry on with your spreadsheets. You're right I'd forgotten about that. I shall beat myself up with a whip. I am a spreadsheet junky. (Still doesn't explain why the smart meters stopped my neighbours' storage heaters working though!)
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:Wait wait wait wait. Even stranger, there's a party called LDEM. Apparently they are the next big thing.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:(Still doesn't explain why the smart meters stopped my neighbours' storage heaters working though!) user error
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Jun 18, 2021 14:26
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I love a spreadsheet but I hate doing anything practical outside of the spreadsheet so reading the meter manually sounds like a bad time.
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NotJustANumber99 posted:user error Two separate neighbours in two separate flats?
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Also, if the property she wanted to buy falls through, yet her home does sell, where will she live while looking for another place - rentals aren't in big supply round here especially for women in their mid80s! - as none of us have spare rooms. Everyone is screaming at me. A caring nature will always be exploited. That doesn't mean you shouldn't have one, you just meed to be aware of your boundaries around people who will try and take the piss.
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Jun 18, 2021 14:33
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https://twitter.com/lbc/status/1405881552026976259?s=21 lol
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Jun 18, 2021 14:45
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Red Oktober posted:Scott was worth $36b in July last year, since then she's given away $8b, and is now worth $57b. The post I was responding to suggested a link between giving away money and wealth increasing. Not that the absolute level of wealth would still increase because of how it is managed, donations notwithstanding.
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Jun 18, 2021 14:46
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Columnist.txt: https://twitter.com/alanrmacleod/status/1405520524965335042?s=21
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JollyBoyJohn posted:Shouldn't need your heating on for another 5 months Lol
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His Divine Shadow posted:Never heard of microbore before, is it a UK thing? Most pipes here I think are between 15-22 mm most of the time. Not really a uk thing alone, it goes down to 8mm and it’s really easy to use to fit into old houses, which is relevant in the UK. It just can’t cope with the lower flow temp of a heat pump so going to 15mm everywhere now. Right now I spend about £750 a year on oil which is not great and the heat pump is over 100% efficient by the way they measure it, so should save money there.
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Jun 18, 2021 14:57
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Darth Walrus posted:https://twitter.com/beckettunite/status/1405830365844066305?s=21 That makes me think a lot of him, honestly. I was expecting them to split it. Good on Beckett.
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Jun 18, 2021 15:26
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Lol, the conclusions of the Guardian commentariat are: a) Time for a new Progressive Alliance! b) This is actually a very good result for Starmer because, see a) Progressive Alliance! Although, c) It's also rather bad but definitely all Jeremy Corbyn's fault.
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Jun 18, 2021 15:28
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already gone but I'm assuming they "accidentally" invited another fash onto one of their phone-ins
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OwlFancier posted:That makes me think a lot of him, honestly. I was expecting them to split it. Good on Beckett. https://twitter.com/MettlesomeTeri/status/1405649057041768449?s=19 I just hope the damage hasn't already been done, I see a lot of people in the racheal_swindon likes and retweets that were getting really angry and conspiratorial about Turner. Owen Jones has also been spending a lot of time on facebook replying to people blaming him for splitting the vote, although to be fair Jones' messaging has been less "the left needs to unite behind a candidate" and more "the left needs to get behind my friend Steve Turner and I am going to ignore any of Beckett's positives."
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Jun 18, 2021 15:41
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OwlFancier posted:That makes me think a lot of him, honestly. I was expecting them to split it. Good on Beckett. Bare minimum, unions should withhold funding from any political party that doesn't support reversing Thatcherite union laws. Especially the laws that made solidarity strikes illegal. loving bewilders me that's been on the books for 41 years without much challenge.
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Jun 18, 2021 15:43
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I would have really liked beckett to win but if he's the only one with the good sense to do what it takes to keep coyne out then so be it. They really should be using STV though jesus christ.
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Jun 18, 2021 15:54
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Yeah STV is basically built for single executive positions.
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Jun 18, 2021 16:03
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Pretty sure Beckett has been playing hardball this whole time and was always planning to concede, once he'd extracted sufficient concessions. I'd say he's a shrewd politician.
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Jun 18, 2021 16:05
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Two separate neighbours in two separate flats? multiple user error
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Jun 18, 2021 16:07
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All orders have now shipped. 
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Jun 18, 2021 16:21
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Camrath are you able to ship to NI? I'm not planning to buy because i am a basic person who buys basic things but i am curious to know if you can send fudge into NI from GB now
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Jun 18, 2021 16:44
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Eagerly awaiting the photograph of Sammy Wilson angrily brandishing a plate of fudge.
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Jun 18, 2021 16:52
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Somehow I've fallen into a Hansard reading hole, as you do sometimes "Mr. THORNE It enables them to buy goods, and that makes work for someone else. Sir H. SAMUEL Yes, but economically, after a period of years, there is nothing to show for it. It is not reproductive. Mr. MAXTON Except for human beings." Jimmy Maxton ruled.
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crispix posted:Camrath are you able to ship to NI? I'm not planning to buy because i am a basic person who buys basic things but i am curious to know if you can send fudge into NI from GB now I have a couple of regular customers in NI, and they keep ordering so I’m pretty sure the shipments are arriving. 
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Jun 18, 2021 17:06
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Didn't realize Labour lost their deposit at Chesham and Amersham! I suppose with only 622 votes it was pretty obvious, but my brain hadn't joined the dots.
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Comrade Fakename posted:Losing the support of the UK’s biggest union? Very. Unite threatening to bankrupt the labour party is literally why I wanted Beckett. I'll take Turner, but this means continuing the giant void where impossible-to-ignore leftists need to be, as we watch the dominance of socialist sympathies in u35s slip ever further away from us. You spent enough time around momentum to pick up some political instincts, so where are they? We are already on the worst path and Unite having a gensec in the Bob Crow mould was always the best available outcome. is it a prion disorder? forkboy84 posted:Somehow I've fallen into a Hansard reading hole, as you do sometimes glad I'm not the only one apparently laughing at glasgow '35
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Didn't realize Labour lost their deposit at Chesham and Amersham! They could've gotten 3 times vote their Tonty Blair endorsed candidate managed & still lost their deposit by a a couple dozen votes. loving rules. Maxton continuing to rule "Mr. GRAHAM WHITE asked the Minister of Labour if his attention has been drawn to the volunteer work scheme in Germany, whereby work has been provided for 200,000 youths on schemes of communal service; and if he will consider introducing a similar scheme into this country? Sir H. BETTERTON I am aware of the scheme to which the hon. Member refers. The hon. Member will appreciate that a scheme appropriate to one country may not be suitable for another. I am, however, giving the matter careful consideration. Viscountess ASTOR Is it not better to form a scheme appropriate to this country, instead of having no scheme? Mr. MAXTON Will the right lion. Gentleman notice the recent changes that have taken place in Germany when he is considering this matter?" Is there a more Liberal MP thing than going "hmmm, the Germans in early 1933 have got this very good system that we should copy"? 4 days before the Reichstag burned down, and a month after Hitler had been made Chancellor. Also this gem from 1st March, from a Tory MP in a debate about Germany: "Before the right hon. Gentleman replies, may I ask whether he will bear in mind the necessity of allowing the Germans to manage their own affairs?" Just loving yikes. Last I will post on this for now, but this speech from Maxton on the Private Members Bill he tried to put through is well worth reading: That this House recognises that the widespread poverty of the people cannot be removed within the framework of the capitalist order of society, which is not progressing towards prosperity but heading for collapse, and condemns the present policy of the Government as foolish trifling with a serious situation. forkboy84 fucked around with this message at 17:38 on Jun 18, 2021 |
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