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goddamnedtwisto posted:https://twitter.com/davidschneider/status/1410712790474633220/photo/1 That's James Wallis, best known for his fake PhD and for running a website service helping young students prostitute themselves to businessmen (AKA "Tories"). E: 127 is the largest integer that can be stored as a signed 8-bit value.
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Jul 2, 2021 10:14
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We've shaken off the homophobic and antisemitic Muslim voters and gained the peaceful and tolerant Conservative voters.
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Jul 2, 2021 10:14
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Weird that all these homophobic Muslims were voting for the loonie lefty woke party that couldn’t connect with the real English before.
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Jul 2, 2021 10:20
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goddamnedtwisto posted:https://twitter.com/davidschneider/status/1410712790474633220/photo/1 Getting big "I regularly devour human babies to feed off their lifeforce" vibes from this guy.
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Comrade Fakename posted:Weird that all these homophobic Muslims were voting for the loonie lefty woke party that couldn’t connect with the real English before. Please ignore that all the terfs regularly go to the same meetings as homophobic religious right pastors and forward newsletters about how trans is a plot by Jewish doctors.
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Jul 2, 2021 10:29
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A few pages ago someone mentioned hearing music and seeing pictures, together on their TV, you might enjoy this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qatsi_trilogy if you haven't already tried it.
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Jul 2, 2021 11:12
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Kind of a weird question, but my last living grandparent in the Netherlands passed away recently and I inherited a 1973 gold Krugerrand as a result (they had several stored away in their house in case poo poo ever went down -- WWII will do that to you I guess...). Has anyone had experience selling gold like this? I understand that I'll probably have to negotiate a bit, but I'm not sure what I should do to ensure I get the best price possible and minimise the stress involved in selling it. I'm in Scotland, btw.
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Jul 2, 2021 11:31
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just find a vending machine you can get it in. or a car park ticket machine and dont go back for the car until next year.
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Jul 2, 2021 11:46
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MeinPanzer posted:Kind of a weird question, but my last living grandparent in the Netherlands passed away recently and I inherited a 1973 gold Krugerrand as a result (they had several stored away in their house in case poo poo ever went down -- WWII will do that to you I guess...). Has anyone had experience selling gold like this? probably have to get it valued (& insured?) and sold at auction unless you want just the gold value melted down
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Jul 2, 2021 12:06
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Crankit posted:A few pages ago someone mentioned hearing music and seeing pictures, together on their TV, you might enjoy this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qatsi_trilogy if you haven't already tried it. I'm so pissed off I only found out about Koyaanisqatsi after my drug-taking days were long over. Mind you I'm fairly sure I watch it wrong because the time-lapse bits of cities and the demolition of Pruitt-Igoe are by far my favourite bits (the only thing that could make the latter better would be if the council members who deliberately crippled the estate were under the rubble) and I come away from it thinking "Woah the modern world is loving awesome and we definitely need to do more of this".
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Jul 2, 2021 12:11
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DesperateDan posted:
If the goal is to purge the majority of the parliamentary party, you are naturally going to get a majority against that. If your goal is less than that, it would needs to have very sharp boundaries to have a chance of success. Because those who are against being purged will present it as being against a wider group. And if they are enough of them, they will likely succeed in doing so. I mean, you have to go full Galloway before the left is ok with expulsion, and even that was controversial at the time. The right and center will be no different. To purge successfully, you need some binary issue like Brexit to establish who is safe. There is an argument that the story of the last 5 years was the failure to organise an official and formal rebalancing of factions led to activists trying to take things into their own hands. Which meant using social media to persuade MPs to retire, resign, or get distracted from effectively campaigning. The defence against that attack was cries of anti-Semitism, and so arguments of the form ‘Me calling you a oval office has nothing to do with you being a Jew, it because you are a useless centrist melt,’ Which you would need to have a media environment very different from the one that exists to win under.
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Jul 2, 2021 12:40
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JollyBoyJohn posted:Credit cards should not be used by anyone with a lack of discipline or self control with money True that, I managed to rack up something like 15k Euros in credit card debts alone, now I only own a debit card. I'm not even allowed to get another credit card for the next 3-4 years. A lack of self control and credit cards don't mix
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Feels weird to be genuinely gutted that Labour won an election, but that's 2021 for yaCrankit posted:A few pages ago someone mentioned hearing music and seeing pictures, together on their TV, you might enjoy this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qatsi_trilogy if you haven't already tried it. gently caress yes, this is so my thing Unlike twisto my drug taking days are most assuredly not over yet Sorry Twisto! EDIT - another thing I like to do is put on a 4K walkabout video on youtube (the ones that are like "night time walk around Tokyo in the rain 4K") and then listen to music watching that. Me and my bud sometimes do that together (online, of course) - watch the same stream and then we take turns putting on albums on w2g.tv Barry Foster fucked around with this message at 12:53 on Jul 2, 2021 |
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Libluini posted:True that, I managed to rack up something like 15k Euros in credit card debts alone, now I only own a debit card. I'm not even allowed to get another credit card for the next 3-4 years. Holy gently caress. I put 2 grand on a credit card to build a gaming pc and i had to talk myself into it for 6 months first and i hammered it down. I am Scottish though and by nature a tight fisted scrooge. In fairness my dad brought me up saying "always keep 3 months wages in the bank in case everything goes to poo poo" and thats a lesson to live by
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Jul 2, 2021 12:54
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My favorite, and only, phillip glass fact is that he apparently had a hand in designing this thing which was a musical instrument built as a joke out of an automat. So apparently in addition to the thing most people know him for he also had a sense of humour.
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Jul 2, 2021 12:55
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Barry Foster posted:EDIT - another thing I like to do is put on a 4K walkabout video on youtube (the ones that are like "night time walk around Tokyo in the rain 4K") and then listen to music watching that. Me and my bud sometimes do that together (online, of course) - watch the same stream and then we take turns putting on albums on w2g.tv Lol I had no idea this was even a genre, feel like I could make some money just by rigging up my 360 camera on a stick off my backpack when I go for a wander.
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Jul 2, 2021 12:58
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MeinPanzer posted:Kind of a weird question, but my last living grandparent in the Netherlands passed away recently and I inherited a 1973 gold Krugerrand as a result (they had several stored away in their house in case poo poo ever went down -- WWII will do that to you I guess...). Has anyone had experience selling gold like this? I was in a similar situation a few years back. I looked online to find the sort of price I might expect then took it round about 4 different gold buying shops (independent, not smelty downy ramsdens types) and asked their opinion. All gave about the same valuation and I went back to the one who gave the highest. No harm in haggling, think it might have got me an extra tenner? There’s also the eBay auction option, but for me I just wanted to know I’d get a fair price without much hassle and the above worked to that end.
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Jul 2, 2021 13:09
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OwlFancier posted:So apparently in addition to the thing most people know him for he also had a sense of humour. https://twitter.com/philipglass/status/1283854000392151041?s=21
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MeinPanzer posted:I'm in Scotland, btw. I hear Brewdog are in the market for gold.
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OwlFancier posted:My favorite, and only, phillip glass fact is that he apparently had a hand in designing this thing which was a musical instrument built as a joke out of an automat. I've been to a phillip glass concert in a former steel mill few years back and it was brilliant.
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Jul 2, 2021 13:28
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MeinPanzer posted:Has anyone had experience selling gold like this? Just take it around the jewellers in your nearest city. They will each give you a price and you can go back to the best one later. A Krugerrand likely won’t be melted down as it has collector value, so you may actually get a decent amount.
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Jul 2, 2021 13:45
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Oh great, more hiccups: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/travel-europe-vaccine-astrazeneca-covishield-b1876764.html quote:Millions of Britons could be shut out of European holidays because some AstraZeneca jabs are not automatically recognised by the EU vaccine passport scheme, it was reported on Friday. Turns out my first AZ was one of the 'not recognized' Indian ones. See here: https://www.nationalworld.com/healt...eld-jab-3294005 I'm NOT planning to go anywhere, but just thought I'd see what the lay of the land is so I got my covid 'passport' today and it gives the AZ batch codes on it. My first one was 4120Z001 - one of the Indian ones. So if you are planning to go abroad for whatever reason (and not every trip is a 'holiday' - one of my brothers works in France and hasn't seen his kids since January - simply cannot afford all the various tests, quarantine expenses etc) you need to check, check, check before shelling out dough on flights etc. ps Covid passport is only valid for 30 days - or there is an 'event' version not sure what that means. So you need to be sure to get an uptodate one if you are travelling.
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Jul 2, 2021 13:46
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Jesus Christ that website gave me cancer. The pertinent bit is: quote:The EU Digital Covid Certificate is now in operation to allow travel without the requirement to quarantine, but it will reportedly not recognise the Indian-made AstraZeneca vaccines with the batch numbers 4120Z001, 4120Z002 and 4120Z003. Edit: 4120Z002 was my first jab.
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Jul 2, 2021 13:52
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Lol I had no idea this was even a genre, feel like I could make some money just by rigging up my 360 camera on a stick off my backpack when I go for a wander. Do it and I'll watch it. I'm completely serious. Another thing I like to do is sometimes get a tin of soup, heat it up, poach an egg in it, serve that with a pork pie sausage roll
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Jul 2, 2021 13:58
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ururururghghghghghhhrrugh vuctory for mulky tea polutucs and wut uuuuugggss!!!!!!!!!!!!! ururrurghurhghghhgh labour is buuuuck uurhgh 
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Biggus Dickus posted:Jesus Christ that website gave me cancer. Sup vaccine bro, me too. I suppose this is what I get for jumping the queue.
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Jul 2, 2021 14:07
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Ah, the olders won't get their summer holdiays after all.
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Jul 2, 2021 14:13
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I think we oldies  get another booster in September so presumably that would help matters as long as it's not one of the Indian ones.
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Jul 2, 2021 14:13
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:I think we oldies That booster will (probably) be Pfizer or Moderna too, and as there's some evidence that having a mix of mRNA and AZ is more effective than two jabs of Pfizer we continue to get to lord it over the whipersnappers and their haircuts.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:That booster will (probably) be Pfizer or Moderna too, and as there's some evidence that having a mix of mRNA and AZ is more effective than two jabs of Pfizer we continue to get to lord it over the whipersnappers and their haircuts.
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Jul 2, 2021 14:34
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Great day to dump bad news and it not be noticed as the Merk is in town for Boris to pout and preen himself in front of the cameras. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-57694417 quote:The PPS said that given "related evidential features" it was concluded "there was no longer a reasonable prospect of key evidence in proceedings against Soldier F and Soldier B being ruled admissible". In other words "We waited and delayed it for so long, we can now say its too long ago to do anything."
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Jul 2, 2021 14:39
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Jul 2, 2021 14:41
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This is deeply upsetting. Not even a Proclaimers fan but Sunshine On Leith deserves better.
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Jul 2, 2021 14:51
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i had question time on for like 3 minutes last night because i'd just turned on the TV and was doing stuff in the kitchen for a bit, and people were talking about the toxic legacy of jeremy corbyn  lol
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Jul 2, 2021 14:54
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I think I had that game.
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Jul 2, 2021 14:58
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My first jab was an Indian batch.
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Jul 2, 2021 15:04
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https://twitter.com/PronouncedAlva/status/1410963372846288904?s=20 So it turns out the right wingers are right, Diane Abbott is a moron after all. “I wouldn’t do to Keir what the right of the party did to Jeremy” Why the gently caress not? You owe them nothing you absolute div.
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Jul 2, 2021 15:12
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https://twitter.com/leomiklasz/status/1410887726690353152 the tweet says exactly what happens but it's still extremely funny to read. fuckin' beeb.
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Jul 2, 2021 15:14
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happyhippy posted:Great day to dump bad news and it not be noticed as the Merk is in town for Boris to pout and preen himself in front of the cameras. Seems like standard practice for colonial soldier crimes tbh. Like the whole rape and torture of independence fighters and activists in Cyprus and whatnot.
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forkboy84 posted:https://twitter.com/PronouncedAlva/status/1410963372846288904?s=20 I mean yeah she’s a good person but she’s never been a good mp. They might actually be opposite positions.
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