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keep punching joe posted:I get the divide between lockdown/ease restrictions agruments, but it really baffles me why some people are so anti-mask wearing. It's such a minor thing that probably has a significant benefit yet apparently its now because of endless cluture war, if you wear a mask you're a virtue signalling marxist. What I'll be interested to see is how many of the virulent anti-maskers "it's destroying your freedom" types will start verbally and physically abusing those who continue to wear masks not allowing them their freedom to choose to continue. Angel number 146 symbolizes beauty, femininity, family, and love. It sets you apart from almost aesthetic balance and beautiful harmony. You are a person who is motivated with great sensitivity, but also the ability to treat people in a nice way. Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 08:30 on Jul 6, 2021 |
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:What I'll be interested to see is how many of the virulent anti-maskers "it's destroying your freedom" types will start verbally and physically abusing those who continue to wear masks not allowing them their freedom to choose to continue. Yeah, that inverted peer pressure is more than likely to build up if you're the only one in a place wearing a mask. I was chatting with a hairdresser recently and he mentioned they've always been fed up with folk coming in with colds and then infecting the staff. He said it would be great if they retained the authority (socially or legally) to tell someone to put a mask on or gently caress off if a customer brought a disease into the building. The problem is that it's currently the law that creates that power dynamic or places where the staff outnumber the customers at any one point in time.
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Jul 6, 2021 08:45
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Will businesses be allowed to insist on masks being worn on premesis? Similar to... Idk, a dress code in a bar or having to take your shoes off at a swimming pool or whatever.
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Jul 6, 2021 08:50
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I can't imagine why they wouldn't but I also can't imagine that they actually would do that when they can all rush to be the first to tell people to do what they want. Businesses are not known for telling people to behave or gently caress off.
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Jul 6, 2021 08:52
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Like any public health measure, it needs to be hooked into a normalization factor for doing it, and also an abnormalization factor for not. Like with anti-spitting laws for TB, they're no longer needed because people are generally encouraged to have a poor view of spitting everywhere outside the most rural of rural areas. Like with HIV/Aids and condoms it will probably have to be extragovernmental because they're committed to being poo poo and don't care. It's difficult because we're supposed to be inclusionary and understanding and allowing for difference, but at some point you really just need to treat anti-maskers like someone with their pants down doing a poo poo on your front doorstep.
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Jul 6, 2021 08:57
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Pistol_Pete posted:There's a lot of left-wingers on Twitter right now predicting a brand new lockdown come the autumn, which may or may not be correct but I wish they wouldn't sound quite so drat gleeful at the prospect. It turns it into another culture war issue where they cheerfully dance into the roles that the Tories have prepared for them. I've got some bad news for you chief: poo poo turned into a "culture war" on day 1 when the government decided that profits were more important than lives. Or to be more accurate, continued to believe rather than suddenly decided. Everything in politics turning into "culture war" has just become a new way to describe partisan politics. Also don't really know whose tweets you're reading but despite being on the doomer side of things (lol, I was such a massive pessimist that last March I was saying "we'll probably be in long down until the end of the school holidays", people thought I was mad, turns out I was but only in underestimating how badly the Tories would gently caress it up) I take no glee in being right. Coz it means people die who wouldn't otherwise. Preventable deaths & it sure as poo poo isn't people Boris went to school with dying because they can't get a hospital bed. I wanted to be wrong, but I wanted to be wrong & the government to have been overly cautious. Instead I'm right & the government are blasé about 15,000 additional deaths a year & it's loving horrific. Anyway, on the more good news front https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1411973605609574401?s=20 https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1412062668186345473?s=20
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Jul 6, 2021 08:57
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David Davis using up his other being right token early. https://twitter.com/DavidDavisMP/status/1412011563364589568
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The Perfect Element posted:Will businesses be allowed to insist on masks being worn on premesis? Similar to... Idk, a dress code in a bar or having to take your shoes off at a swimming pool or whatever. Probably but then your only going to end up with your business being surrounded by mobs of these cunts. 
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https://twitter.com/rewearmouth/status/1411597152997068801?s=21 Imagine being a shadow chancellor who studied economics for an MSc but admitting you haven’t read one of the most important texts in economic theory. Presumably either a liar, or afraid of what she might learn.
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I'm probably weird (no, don't answer that) but I downloaded the updated 2018-19 tax tables (latest year available) which I find interesting to ponder: Note: Only those with big enough incomes to pay income tax are included. So incomes below £11850 (18/19 tax year) and those paying themselves a tiny salary but taking a big dividend - I'm guessing there aren't that many of those in the scale of things - are not included. Median before tax salary for 2018/19 is just £25k (and pay has not exactly gone up much since then especially at the lower end) - am sure this is a revision downwards from last time I checked these tables out. 
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Jul 6, 2021 09:05
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forkboy84 posted:I've got some bad news for you chief: poo poo turned into a "culture war" on day 1 when the government decided that profits were more important than lives. Or to be more accurate, continued to believe rather than suddenly decided. Everything in politics turning into "culture war" has just become a new way to describe partisan politics. They'll accept the 15000 extra deaths no problem but if the virus significantly breaks through the vaccine they're hosed. It's like how they said they'd never lockdown again and nearly blew up the hospitals. They have a problem with material reality. All the people who don't care about the virus ultimately do. Because unlike a lot of things where they can talk poo poo and get away with it, if they keep on this route the virus is going to kick down their door and kill them. The plan for the rest of us now becomes surviving until the dust has settled.
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Jul 6, 2021 09:06
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Median before tax salary for 2018/19 is just £25k (and pay has not exactly gone up much since then especially at the lower end) - am sure this is a revision downwards from last time I checked these tables out. 
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Jul 6, 2021 09:10
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Can fully believe that this government would take payments in iTunes gift cards.
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Jul 6, 2021 09:13
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These days you get put under the rest and throne hinge ale if you say yaw in glitch.
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HopperUK posted:Here is my big project! ...I've been doing a lot of these tiny house kits. Absorbs me for ages in the evenings. I do get glue everywhere but that's one of the hazards of being clumsy in general. That is a lovely build. If anyone is interested in these things but is worried about building, there are hours of videos on YouTube of people putting them together. Very ASMR.
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Guavanaut posted:Ah but are you accounting for the new digital HMRC tax policy? I got one of those tax demands - unfortunately my main phone is a Nokia 105 and doesn't do posh stuff like go on the internet so I was unable to follow the link.  Am sure HMRC will be after me for not buying an iTunes card. After all, they still haven't issued my employer with my tax code* after over 3 months and thank god I have alternative funds because if I had no other savings paying 20% tax on a gross monthly income of just over £400 would be killing me. *I chased them about 3 weeks ago and they sent me a code but they haven't notified my employer who needs it from them apparently because a copy of my letter won't do.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:I'm probably weird (no, don't answer that) but I downloaded the updated 2018-19 tax tables (latest year available) which I find interesting to ponder: The differences between the median and the mean in those charts are pretty telling: the means show pretty good average salaries; the medians indicate that much of that is due to a relatively small number of people earning very high salaries and pulling the average up.
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Regarde Aduck posted:They'll accept the 15000 extra deaths no problem but if the virus significantly breaks through the vaccine they're hosed. It's like how they said they'd never lockdown again and nearly blew up the hospitals. They have a problem with material reality. All the people who don't care about the virus ultimately do. Because unlike a lot of things where they can talk poo poo and get away with it, if they keep on this route the virus is going to kick down their door and kill them. The plan for the rest of us now becomes surviving until the dust has settled. In the ensuing famine resulting from brexit - unharvested crops, failing food distribution chains, if you cook someone who dies from it does it kill the virus so it would be safe to eat them - with fava beans and a nice chianti perhaps? In which case carry on anti-maskers!
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Jul 6, 2021 09:21
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The kuru fights the covid so it's fine.
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OwlFancier posted:The kuru fights the covid so it's fine. If you're worried about Kuru you need to take the Prince Andrew route of selecting your dinner.
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Order a pizza and molest children instead of eating it?Jaeluni Asjil posted:with fava beans and a nice chianti perhaps?
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Noxville posted:https://twitter.com/rewearmouth/status/1411597152997068801?s=21 MSc conversions (if that's what she's done) are basically a sham, you can't do as much as an undergrad + masters in a single year, regardless of which other degrees you already have. They're still a good and useful tool for people wanting to change careers, but that's mostly because academia doesn't matter after uni. Private Speech fucked around with this message at 09:40 on Jul 6, 2021 |
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Welsh govt to tackle second homes crisis: https://gov.wales/welsh-government-announces-three-pronged-approach-address-second-homes-crisis quote:
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Noxville posted:https://twitter.com/rewearmouth/status/1411597152997068801?s=21 I mean it's 150+ years old. I doubt she's read The Wealth of Nations or Principles of Political Economy and Taxation. As far as the the study of economics in the late '90s that's ancient history & Economic History is its own course. University Economics departments tend to not be full of people with ideas outside of the orthodox.
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Meanwhile, in Nonce land: https://twitter.com/JamesMarchment/status/1412214799740674050?s=20 https://twitter.com/noncefinance/status/1412079348861923328?s=20
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Jul 6, 2021 09:40
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Has she at least read Atlas Shrugged?!
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I would imagine that the "economics" covered is just a million ways to say markets good and rich people wonderful.
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Jul 6, 2021 09:43
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Meanwhile, in Nonce land: It really feels like they either knew exactly what they were doing or they're loving these headlines.
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stev posted:It really feels like they either knew exactly what they were doing or they're loving these headlines. There was an explanation somewhere - they're from the Far East or something and had absolutely no idea of the British meaning of the word (and failed to google it). I guess there's not a lot they can do about the name now, probably very costly to change it, and I guess their target customers understand their meaning of the word! It's amazing how many do not google* proposed company/website names etc. I am in a FB group for people setting up very small businesses, and the number of them proposing names that even the swiftest of googles would show are either already in use or have undesirable assocations is amazing. I've posted comments such as 'I'd google that if I were you' several times. *other search engines are available.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:https://www.electricradiatorsdirect.co.uk/news/how-to-replace-storage-heaters-with-wall-mounted-electric-radiators/
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Jul 6, 2021 09:59
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Thinking of launching a step tracking app called Pedophiles Only. Hope its a success.
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Pistol_Pete posted:The differences between the median and the mean in those charts are pretty telling: the means show pretty good average salaries; the medians indicate that much of that is due to a relatively small number of people earning very high salaries and pulling the average up. There's another table in here with the percentile points if you want to look more in depth at that. It's in .ods (open souce) format if you download it. https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/percentile-points-for-total-income-before-and-after-tax-1992-to-2011 (Despite the heading it does go up to 2018/19).
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Jul 6, 2021 10:02
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:I guess their target customers understand their meaning of the word!
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:There was an explanation somewhere - they're from the Far East or something and had absolutely no idea of the British meaning of the word (and failed to google it). I guess there's not a lot they can do about the name now, probably very costly to change it, and I guess their target customers understand their meaning of the word! Most of their customers being on the fiddle.
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stev posted:It really feels like they either knew exactly what they were doing or they're loving these headlines. I expect it's the latter, the majority of their clientele is going to be non-British so after being a figure of fun on Twitter for a day, nobody they care about is going to give a poo poo, but lots of people will have heard the name and at most will be like "oh, it's that company who's name was funny to british people". The name makes "sense" for a cryptocurrency company, a nonce in cryptography is an arbitrary number used only once, which is an important feature of how cryptocurrency mining works. Nonce in this sense derives from "nonce words", which are arbitrary made up words used once, which in turn derives from the old idiomatic phrase "for the nonce" meaning "for now". I don't think anyone's really certain where nonce as a slang term for pedophilia comes from (it's definitely not an acronym), but the most plausible explanation in my view is that it's derived from "nancy [boy]", due to historical homophobia equating gay men and pedophilia.
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Shyrka posted:I don't have metered water, but I think there's some kind of connection on the street under a metal plate that can be shut off? But that'd do so for all the other flats too. Yeah that probably shuts off water to the whole building. The pipe with the stopcock (which would be your shutoff) should have a split after to take water upstairs, look for any boxing in the corner of the kitchen for likely locations for it. Of course if the stopcock is completely inaccessible you can't do much but you could get a new one fitted in a better location, you would have to have the whole supply shut off for a short while though. goddamnedtwisto posted:Also sometimes if your plumbing fucks up the first you know about it is when your circuit breakers go pop. Yeah that's another late night leak bonus: the electrics will trip and you'll have to try and stop it/deal with it in the dark!
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Jul 6, 2021 10:11
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For what is undoubtedly a terrible crime, nonce is such a pleasant sounding word.
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So princess kate has been double vaccinated apparently even though she only got her first one on the 28th of May. That seems awfully quick.
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OwlFancier posted:I would imagine that the "economics" covered is just a million ways to say markets good and rich people wonderful. Bingo. Well, honestly it seems more like just taking morality out of it entirely & making it all very bloodless & "rational". Because I'm a loving sad case (& not because I'm looking for any excuse to put off cutting the grass by another 30 minutes, honest) I went on the Cambridge website because they are quite good at giving you lists of what you'd be expected to read on a course. I can see across everything listed for the Economics BSc 1 chapter of Capital Vol.1 (on a course about the History & Philosophy of Economics), & then one course in sociology has the Paris Manuscripts, German Ideology, the Manifesto & Grunrisse & another in Politics that has a couple of previously mentioned plus 18th Brumaire & The Civil War in France. So like, you could read Marx but if you're sticking to courses on Micro & Macroeconomics & econometrics & not really engaging with the theory & the messy stuff, because Economists like to kid on that they are scientists & there's only one truth & look at these LAWS OF ECONOMICS drat you. I remember after the financial crisis a bunch of students got really narked off that their lectures basically ignored everything that was the cause of the crash & just kept on with the same stuff they taught before: meanwhile the world outside the ivory towers was crumbling. So they ended up starting a reading club when their lecturers wouldn't adapt their courses to reality. And really little has changed. It's an insular, narrow field. Rachel Reeves should have read some Marx because she's a politician & a Labour politician at that & that lack of intellectual curiosity is telling. But it is totally unsurprising to me that she didn't have to during years studying Economics because that's not how the field works academically. Someone might briefly acknowledge that heterodox economic theories exist but it'll be barely more than that, that's not what you're studying Economics for! NotJustANumber99 posted:So princess kate has been double vaccinated apparently even though she only got her first one on the 28th of May. That seems awfully quick. Wow, can't believe the monarchy gets privilege! This is unprecedented!
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