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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. She's been reading reddit and driving around North London finding pharmacies that will do it.
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Jul 6, 2021 10:28
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Just dropping in to mention a house nearby has started flying the county council flag alongside their permanent union jack. Standard stuff.
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Jul 6, 2021 10:28
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I hope they're doing it in the proper order of precedent, union, then nation/region, then county, then your own house flag that you made, it's very nice.
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Jul 6, 2021 10:33
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Jul 6, 2021 10:34
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Noxville posted:https://twitter.com/rewearmouth/status/1411597152997068801?s=21 PPE students are taught wrong, as a joke
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Jul 6, 2021 10:36
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It seems like individually, Politics, Philosophy, and Economics would be a good academic grounding to work in government. Why is it when you mash them all into one course it churns out absolute fuds?
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Jul 6, 2021 10:39
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Failed Imagineer posted:UK county councils have flags? Not as a rule, but counties do. https://britishcountyflags.com/
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Jul 6, 2021 10:40
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keep punching joe posted:It seems like individually, Politics, Philosophy, and Economics would be a good academic grounding to work in government. Why is it when you mash them all into one course it churns out absolute fuds? You're familiar with what Alexander Pope had to say about 'a little learning', yes?
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Jul 6, 2021 10:47
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lmao the state of our musicians
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Jul 6, 2021 10:50
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keep punching joe posted:It seems like individually, Politics, Philosophy, and Economics would be a good academic grounding to work in government. Why is it when you mash them all into one course it churns out absolute fuds? Because the way those things are actually taught in practice has been specifically designed so the most worthless failchildren of the aristocracy can pass.
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Jul 6, 2021 10:50
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keep punching joe posted:It seems like individually, Politics, Philosophy, and Economics would be a good academic grounding to work in government. Why is it when you mash them all into one course it churns out absolute fuds? Also it's pretty broad but shallow. Nobody is coming out of the PPE as an expert in Politics, Philosophy or Economics
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Jul 6, 2021 10:51
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Jedit posted:Not as a rule, but counties do. Brecknockshire in Wales, however: 
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Jul 6, 2021 10:58
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Jul 6, 2021 11:02
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WhatEvil posted:My brother was looking for someone to repaint his wooden windows on his house a few years back - he bought the house from new and he'd had it ~5 years and that's the point they generally need a light sand down and a new coat of paint. Can't remember how many windows he's got but I'd guess about 15, nothing too special. Obviously some of them are on the 2nd floor etc. This comes up a lot in the home networking thread (which is US-centric of course), where people want a small amount of Cat 5/6 running in their "drywall" and "crawl space", but get gently caress-you quotes back from electricians - but in that case it's more because it's a fiddly little job they don't really want to do, so they either put the customer off or get a big pay day, win-win. Using it as your entire business model seems ultra-scummy.
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Jul 6, 2021 11:02
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forkboy84 posted:Part of it is probably a self-fulfilling thing: because it's seen as the gateway degree to the establishment it attracts fuds at a high proportion. Nobody is coming out of an undergrad in any one of those subjects as an expert either, to be fair. That's not what undergrads are supposed to be about. But yeah, PPE is very much a 'I want to work in government' degree for a lot of people so it obviously attracts absolute weapons. In my experience philosophy deptartments are staffed mostly by leftists, economics and politics by liberals at best, so no wonder PPE students turn out the way they do.
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Jul 6, 2021 11:03
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Miftan posted:Nobody is coming out of an undergrad in any one of those subjects as an expert either, to be fair. That's not what undergrads are supposed to be about. Fair point, what I was trying to say was they'd have less expertise than someone studying exclusively any of the constituent parts. It's a degree for the ambitious rather than the inquisitive and I don't trust or understand ambitious people.
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Jul 6, 2021 11:08
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Sutherland's flag is very geometrically pleasing but also looks a tiny bit too much like one of those "no it's not got any of the banned symbols on so we're allowed to march around with it" flags German fash like.
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Jul 6, 2021 11:08
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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. Not that quick tbh. Think I had mine 1 week before that and can get the second one at the end of next week. If you go through https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/coronavirus-vaccination/book-coronavirus-vaccination/ you can book through there without having to wait for your gp.
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Jul 6, 2021 11:08
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A Tory MP has had to apologize after making fun on loyalist bonfires and flag noncing. It's a real Shane because I think this country would be much better if it was widely publicised how weird Northern Irish unionists are.
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Jul 6, 2021 11:12
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what you would more likely end up with is thumb-headed english people importing the dances of the loyalist people
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Jul 6, 2021 11:13
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they're much the same thing, after all do take care to distinguish NI unionists from loyalists though, many unionists find the whole thing mortifying
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Jul 6, 2021 11:17
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No one's coming out of an undergrad degree or really any degree as an expert in anything (shut up PhDs that applies to you as well) but extra lols at how thinly you'd have to spread 3 subjects.
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Jul 6, 2021 11:18
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I do kind of want to see a couple of EDL types attempting to tie a tablecloth they painted sectarian slogans on to a pile of pallets they nicked from a builders' yard and loving up repeatedly.
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Jul 6, 2021 11:19
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Failed Imagineer posted:Tell me about it man, I've got the quote for the timber, but I'm not gonna wait another year of having no deck to save a couple hundred quid max, the thing is probably only gonna be there 10 years tops. And that's presupposing that materials costs return to pre-hosed levels in the next year, which is far from certain I bought 2x4s to frame the walls of my shed, but I got it for a pretty good price, given the current situation. Holding off on the rest for now though. 1.7€ per meter for 2x4s of the type where one edge is live, cheaper and good enough for framing a shed.
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Jul 6, 2021 11:20
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also republicans in NI do the bonfire thing in august to mark the anniversity of internment  and they have marches, but the uniforms are much less colourful
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Jul 6, 2021 11:31
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His Divine Shadow posted:I bought 2x4s to frame the walls of my shed, but I got it for a pretty good price, given the current situation. Holding off on the rest for now though. 1.7€ per meter for 2x4s of the type where one edge is live, cheaper and good enough for framing a shed. How long do you expect to get out of wooden decking where you are? I ultimately decided it would get trashed pretty quickly and went with stone which is obviously $ but hopefully permanent.
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Jul 6, 2021 11:41
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It looks to me like Ashcroft is pissed that the government are using his audience as a Petri dish to see how many of them they can kill, so I'm failing to see what your problem is here.
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Jul 6, 2021 11:52
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stev posted:It really feels like they either knew exactly what they were doing or they're loving these headlines. If they cared about associating with pedos they wouldn't be a cryptocurrency firm in the first place.
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Jul 6, 2021 11:56
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Jedit posted:It looks to me like Ashcroft is pissed that the government are using his audience as a Petri dish to see how many of them they can kill, so I'm failing to see what your problem is here. Ashcroft posted:I had informed my agent months ago I wouldn’t be playing concerts with restrictions. Graun posted:He received praise from former Stone Roses frontman Ian Brown, who said it was “a solid decision and a great statement, Comrade”. Brown has vociferously opposed vaccination and lockdowns, including in his song Little Seed Big Tree where he sang of: “A forced vaccine, like a bad dream / They’ll plant a microchip, every woman, child and man”.
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Jul 6, 2021 11:56
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"I had informed my agent months ago I wouldn’t be playing concerts with restrictions." and Ian Brown jumping on board implies that the bit he most objects to is requiring a negative test to enter, not any of the rest. e: ^^ yes, that
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Jul 6, 2021 11:56
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Jedit posted:It looks to me like Ashcroft is pissed that the government are using his audience as a Petri dish to see how many of them they can kill, so I'm failing to see what your problem is here. “ I had informed my agent months ago I wouldn’t be playing concerts with restrictions” and being congratulated by Ian Brown would beg to differ
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Jul 6, 2021 11:56
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Richard Ashcroft and Ian Brown are dumb. What is Liam Gallacher's stance on Covid restrictions (probably better than you expect).
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Jul 6, 2021 12:04
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Borrovan posted:Sounds like his problem isn't with killing the audience, but with counting the dead (unfortunately) He doesn't want to be reminded of his career, then? Sorry Guava, I only got as far as the first para and it seemed to be saying the opposite of what you were.
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Jul 6, 2021 12:11
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forkboy84 posted:Bingo. Well, honestly it seems more like just taking morality out of it entirely & making it all very bloodless & "rational". A fun chapter heading in some (actually pretty good) notes:  (sadly less fun in text, click to embiggen)  Realtalk: reading an author is not tantamount to agreeing with it (and indeed a good introductory course and textbook should cover enough schools so that a student has a good sense of the 'lay of the land', so to speak). If encountering a new thinker makes one fall to one's knees in Damascene enlightenment, that is a very good reason to look for a literature review and set it in perspective. That's a good principle outside theory too really. However, undergraduate econ is normally not tuned with the expectation that the student goes onto graduate econ (unless one is at a really serious course). The ideal economics graduate student reads maths; undergraduate economics demonstrates neither interest nor skills useful at a higher level, since it changes so much. So even 'introductory' gets clipped back sharply. It's not even close to 'real' orthodox econ, it won't have time for 'real' heterodox econ either. One can always audit a few interesting modules, of course, to arguably the same level of depth at the end. (a good off-time approach to heterodox econ publications is to read other heterodox authors and see what they actually focus on within the school. It's v typical for a heterodox school to hype up its historic disputes - e.g., post-Keynesians really love the Cambridge capital controversy, because Robinson and Sraffa and Samuelson were in the mêlée - but one can flip open a few copies of the Journal of Post Keynesian Economics and readily note that there's nothing very much in active research that draws upon it. Proving too much is a very common weakness. In a modern age nothing stops those without an Athens login from just accessing a generous world of preprints) Anyway I am skeptical on the supposed political role of economists (even heterodox ones) - Piketty is a rockstar in France, and the virtues of l'économie américaine are not given much media respect, and yet.
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Jul 6, 2021 12:25
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Javid posted:Asked about his own future mask use, Javid told Today he would “carry a mask with me for the foreseeable future” and wear it in crowded and enclosed spaces. However, he said he would choose to not do so even if it was recommended if the space concerned was not crowded. Excellent. We have a Health Secretary that says that he would ignore mask recommendations in some circumstances. Really does feel like the Hancock video was released to get rid as he wasn't as aggressive as Javid.
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Jul 6, 2021 12:38
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https://twitter.com/SoozUK/status/1412183319979175940
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Jul 6, 2021 12:49
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goons posted:economics, orthodoxy I think a lot of the time the orthodoxy is like the absolute median viewpoint, in that yes it's the most kind of "common ground" starting presumption, but literally nobody actually agrees with it because nobody is "average", that's just not how averages work. (hopefully this makes sense in context & I'm not shouting at clouds, had my second vaccine on Sunday & feel alright but jfc my brain just will not function today)
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Jul 6, 2021 12:51
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Borrovan posted:critical terrorism studies
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Jul 6, 2021 12:54
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knox_harrington posted:How long do you expect to get out of wooden decking where you are? I ultimately decided it would get trashed pretty quickly and went with stone which is obviously $ but hopefully permanent. Our deck is 6-7 years old now and I figure it'll get at least double that. The actual frame will probably last much longer than the boards. I think the deck at my parents house must be 20+ years old, maybe 30. Has been painted a few times.
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keep punching joe posted:It seems like individually, Politics, Philosophy, and Economics would be a good academic grounding to work in government. Why is it when you mash them all into one course it churns out absolute fuds? You can drop one of the three at the end of the first year; given 'a year' is actually 3x 8 week teaching periods (split between three subjects) you can have someone tooling around the highest offices of the land banging on about their 'economics background' but who fundamentally has about 8 weeks actual taught education in the subject. If you break that down further as circa 40 days or 320hours it's not improbable to say that they've likely devoted more of their life to brushing their teeth. It does what it's designed to do very well, provide bluffers with just enough patter to be convincing to the non-specialist.
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