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Lord of the Llamas posted:Alexa what's the Streisand effect?
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Jul 14, 2021 13:39
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Jedit posted:Given that he's literally just suggested that blacks wishing to protest racism should use a Roman salute, I don't think he's asking for a do-over. He's either so monumentally ignorant that his remembering to breathe is a minor miracle, or he's deliberately race baiting. It's both. All the other pundits do the same thing but at least have the common sense to not be such a dumb oval office about it.
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Jul 14, 2021 13:40
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I really don't know how he manages it, I couldn't possibly come up with such consistently terrible takes on everything no matter how cushy a writing gig the Mail on Sunday offered me.
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Jul 14, 2021 13:50
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Mega Comrade posted:Oh Sian Berry has quit. I know a lot of people in here didn't like her for comments about Corbyn, but I think her reasons for this are commendable. was she the one who posted the green party rules/regulations on antisemitism in response to news that disaffected labour party members were looking to join the greens? cause even with everything else going on at that time, it stood out as monumentally daft
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Jul 14, 2021 13:50
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 Thanks for the fruits update, Twitter.
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Jul 14, 2021 13:55
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It's okay he's said that anybody making racist posts on the internet or in the Daily Telegraph for several years will be banned from the football.
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Jul 14, 2021 14:17
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Racism will include antisemitism and anything short of full support of genocide in Palestine will be verboten. "Take the Knee for Judaism" will catch on and there'll be viral videos of gammons kneeing in mosques with their shoes on.
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Jul 14, 2021 14:23
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Comrade Fakename posted:
He was taken out of context when he did that.
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Jul 14, 2021 14:32
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Azza Bamboo posted:"Take the Knee for Judaism" The IDF have courses for that I believe.
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Jul 14, 2021 14:40
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Got my ballot. Turner or Graham? I want to do my small part in NOT splitting the left so the Coyne gets in.
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Jul 14, 2021 14:49
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Got my ballot. Turner or Graham? I want to do my small part in NOT splitting the left so the Coyne gets in. Turner.
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Jul 14, 2021 14:54
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Z the IVth posted:The IDF have courses for that I believe. That's it, you're sacked from the front bench
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Jul 14, 2021 14:58
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Mega Comrade posted:Oh Sian Berry has quit. I know a lot of people in here didn't like her for comments about Corbyn, but I think her reasons for this are commendable. so the non-transphobe wing of the greens is purging itself?
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Jul 14, 2021 15:12
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Got my ballot. Turner or Graham? I want to do my small part in NOT splitting the left so the Coyne gets in. Turner, because Beckett endorsed him.
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Jul 14, 2021 16:11
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man warzone 2100 is fantastic
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Jul 14, 2021 16:50
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Inexplicable Humblebrag posted:man warzone 2100 is fantastic Word. I love end game artillery exchanges. Someone fires in range of a cb turrets and all hell breaks loose.
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Jul 14, 2021 17:04
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The amount of stuff the game simulates is actually really impressive for its time.
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Jul 14, 2021 17:09
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Got my ballot. Turner or Graham? I want to do my small part in NOT splitting the left so the Coyne gets in. As everyone else has said, Turner. Graham has the backing of the SWP, a few other weirdo Trot sects, and nobody else of significance.
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Jul 14, 2021 17:18
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I wish Earth 2150 would get the Warzone 2100 treatment, tbh.
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Jul 14, 2021 17:41
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Graham is a perfectly good candidate, potentially better than Turner, but hasn't gotten the nod from United Left and has less nominations than Turner so it's reasonable to throw in with Turner as he does appear to be the 'default' left choice. Don't be ragging on Graham though, it's everyone's fault there wasn't an agreement between the left candidates if the risk of losing the leadership is so high and if it isn't that high then multiple left candidates is good.
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Jul 14, 2021 17:47
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https://twitter.com/JoeCoxEastLDN/status/1415324732313030656?s=19 Lmao Edit: https://twitter.com/Vinncent/status/1415340935819505665?s=19
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Jul 14, 2021 18:02
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Follow up tweet makes it a bit clearer, home-owners is those who own outright as opposed to with a mortgage - only 10% of mortgage lenders are over 60 which makes sense
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Jul 14, 2021 18:34
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Gonzo McFee posted:The problem with kneeling is that you remind at least a third of Britain's population that they can't kneel without their massive guts pressing into their lungs and killing them, so it's really insensitive. I've never been so called out in my life.
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Jul 14, 2021 18:49
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Lol he looks like absolute poo poo.
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Jul 14, 2021 19:12
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He is.
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Jul 14, 2021 19:22
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ronya posted:
In universe, Azad is just an empire with bad politics. So it can be changed into better ones by political means. And if you are very very smart, very careful and somewhat lucky you can do so from outside. In contrast, the affront have bad _biology_; they actually do ‘naturally’ enjoy causing pain, rather than having to be indoctrinated that that is necessary for reasons. Changing them to not be bad would be to change them to be something other than what they are. Which, again in-universe, the Culture mostly considers to be sufficiently problematic to be just on the other side of the line of things they do. Hence book plot. If the Affront played an Azad-like game, the victory condition would be ‘how much pain did you cause’. If you played them at their own game and beat them, they would say ‘gently caress me, that is impressively cruel, I’m stealing that idea’. Autocorrect suggested Assad for Azad. Which gets into the reasons why, out of universe, Banks chose to write about one society then and a different one later.
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Jul 14, 2021 19:31
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Gonzo McFee posted:https://twitter.com/JoeCoxEastLDN/status/1415324732313030656?s=19 in case anyone is wondering it could mean a phrenic nerve irritation (lung / mediastinal cancer ) or some brain lump
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Jul 14, 2021 19:33
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Jel Shaker posted:in case anyone is wondering it could mean a phrenic nerve irritation (lung / mediastinal cancer ) or some brain lump Are either of those things caused by ostrich bites?
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Jul 14, 2021 19:47
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OwlFancier posted:If you want to read the player of games as a critique of meritocracy I would suggest that the takeaway is that their society puts someone at the top who is actually extremely committed to and very good at the thing that dictates rank in that society, but that the ultimate criticism is that that thing is entirely stupid and pointless Good postings about Player of Games. It's a valid book with good themes Personally I didn't really like it though. I remember reading the back cover of Player of Games: so there's some guy who is an outsider and takes part in some tournament of a really difficult game? Ok, I'm gonna guess two things: first, of course he will win in the end; and second, the exact mechanics of the game will never be described in any detail whatsoever. Read the book and yep, correct on both counts. 
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Jul 14, 2021 19:50
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I had a copy of the Guinness World Record book as a child. The only one I remember is that someone had the hiccups nonstop for decades (Google tells me 68 years).
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Jul 14, 2021 19:51
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So in other news (or maybe just news that wasn't being covered on British media/social media. I couldn't find it on the Independent website.) the UK Government have announced that there is to be no prosecutions for any crimes in the Troubles. UK Government announces statute of limitations on Troubles prosecutions, including British Army soldiers https://jrnl.ie/5495105 As you'd expect, the Right Wing press are covering this in a fair and balanced manner. https://twitter.com/PatrickFreyne1/status/1415345692789428230?s=19
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Jul 14, 2021 19:54
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Btw, Camrath, you should try to use your powers for good. The fudge is delicious but I'm trying to eat less sugar  Perhaps some kind of flapjack made of beans and carrots? Throw in a bit of flour as a treat. It's the same tech as fudge basically right?
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Jul 14, 2021 19:55
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Best cure for hiccups is orgasm. No seriously, it sounds like a #crafywank excuse, but it is. Unless you've got a tumour, in which case probably get some surgery once you've finished.
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Jul 14, 2021 19:56
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radmonger posted:Changing them to not be bad would be to change them to be something other than what they are. Which, again in-universe, the Culture mostly considers to be sufficiently problematic to be just on the other side of the line of things they do. Hence book plot. Not fans of "if nature is unjust, change nature"? The Question IRL posted:So in other news (or maybe just news that wasn't being covered on British media/social media. I couldn't find it on the Independent website.) the UK Government have announced that there is to be no prosecutions for any crimes in the Troubles.
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Jul 14, 2021 20:00
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Guavanaut posted:It's interesting why one would hold the ideology that changing ideology is fine but changing biology is impermissible. “Crimes”. So disgusting.
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Jul 14, 2021 20:16
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radmonger posted:If the Affront played an Azad-like game, the victory condition would be ‘how much pain did you cause’. If you played them at their own game and beat them, they would say ‘gently caress me, that is impressively cruel, I’m stealing that idea’. There's also a whole thing about always making sure you're getting stronger and breaking out of whatever is restricting you, whether that's the laws of physics, the dimensional plane you're on, mortality or even just your physical form. Their de-facto leader Oryx later reflects on this, realising that if he is defeated, if someone else beats him after all he's achieved, he wants to leave something of himself to help them continue their path to greatness (in his case a sword and after a long questline, a gun). He genuinely seems excited about the prospect of being killed because if he is defeated, if someone managed to get past all of his safeguards, then he was never the greatest / most efficient use of energy and deserved to die. His message to the races he wipes out is chilling, imagined as an ancient death cult, hell bent on malthusian carnage and absolute loathing for anyone they see as weak or worhless. What I'm saying is the Hive are Tories.
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Jul 14, 2021 20:28
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The Question IRL posted:So in other news (or maybe just news that wasn't being covered on British media/social media. I couldn't find it on the Independent website.) the UK Government have announced that there is to be no prosecutions for any crimes in the Troubles. This is going to be one of those things that in a hundred years time the public will find out the govt had proof of soldiers and IRA/UVF/UDA/RIRA/etc terrorists doing nasty poo poo and did nothing. Boris thinks this is a great goal he has scored, but this is NI. poo poo won't get forgotten for hundreds of years.
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Jul 14, 2021 20:44
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Unless you have found a way to make boris live for hundreds of years however it is probably a very good goal for boris.
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Guavanaut posted:It's interesting why one would hold the ideology that changing ideology is fine but changing biology is impermissible. The Culture are of course perfectly fine with changing their own biology, e.g. drug glands. Changing the biology of others against their expressed wishes does seem like a plausible moral and practical line to draw.
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