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therattle posted:At least the last three tweets if not more linked to here have been deleted. It makes reading the thread great. have you tried deleting your posts to keep the quality levels up? lol just kidding 230 - the upper bounds estimate of the number of worthwhile emails I have sent or received in my life time NotJustANumber99 fucked around with this message at 00:13 on Jul 22, 2021 |
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Lady Demelza posted:People make the same mistake about evacuation zones for things like natural disasters. It's not necessarily the area that will suffer devastation, it's the area likely to be inaccessible and/or without basic supplies (water, electric). If you fall over and break a leg, you better hope where you're laying is comfy, because it might take a couple of days for help to reach you.
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Jul 22, 2021 00:07
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if you ever want me evacuated just take all the booze and wifi to wherever you need me to go, dont talk to me ffs
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Jul 22, 2021 00:12
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in china if you don't wear your mask you get a beating
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Jul 22, 2021 00:13
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NotJustANumber99 posted:have you tried deleting your posts to keep the quality levels up? No, but I have reduced the number!
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Jul 22, 2021 00:14
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these days, if you say you are taiwanese they arrest you and put you in jail
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Jul 22, 2021 00:16
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and give you a beating
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Jul 22, 2021 00:34
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crispix posted:in china if you don't wear your mask you get a beating Every single piece of anti-chinese propaganda I've read in the last few years has made me more pro China. Billionaire tax frauds are disappeared, companies are expected to follow laws, quarantines are actually enforced, and now public health risks are patriotically assaulted? Sounds like paradise
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Jul 22, 2021 00:40
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in any society there are certain people who just need a beating, i suppose
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Jul 22, 2021 00:50
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personally i think if we had more schemes for the children then people would grow up to be better citizens and there'd be fewer folk in need of beatings
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Jul 22, 2021 00:51
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And the paradox is that a certain quantity of people who think that all social problems can be solved by giving people a beating just need a beating. Calculate by integration from zero to infinity. Then calculate by beatings.
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Jul 22, 2021 00:53
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factor in schemes for the children
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Jul 22, 2021 00:54
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Imo violence is only a "good" method against the extremely powerful, since they can just ignore everything else But maybe covid health traitors can have a little beating, as a treat
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Jul 22, 2021 00:57
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Stephen Benn, 3rd Viscount Stansgate, should be eligible for a bit of a beating on account of the views of his da too. It could factor in as a scheme for the children.
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Jul 22, 2021 02:00
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beatings as a scheme for the children is p much the victorian era
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Jul 22, 2021 02:11
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I'm in Hong Kong and it's 30 something degrees every day and the humidity is through the roof, but everyone is wearing a mask all the time when outside of the house. It does get hot but it doesn't actually stop you from breathing or anything, you just need to get used to it. Reading stories of supermarkets filled with unmasked people, some of whom are quite probably infected, is pretty horrifying tbh.
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Jul 22, 2021 02:33
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Rabelais D posted:I'm in Hong Kong and it's 30 something degrees every day and the humidity is through the roof, but everyone is wearing a mask all the time when outside of the house. It does get hot but it doesn't actually stop you from breathing or anything, you just need to get used to it. Oh I didn't mean 'wah I'm uncomfy so i won't wear a mask', I've been wearing a mask all the time I'm outside of the house since the pandemic started. But I am suffering a bit and struggling to avoid actual heat stress so I take it off to cool down.
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Jul 22, 2021 02:35
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Yeah sorry, I didn't mean for my post to sound that holier than thou. I just this week asked my parents (70+, in Suffolk) to put a mask on outside when they visit an open garden or whatever, they said "well it's outside, nobody wears masks outside".
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Spangly A posted:Every single piece of anti-chinese propaganda I've read in the last few years has made me more pro China. Billionaire tax frauds are disappeared, companies are expected to follow laws, quarantines are actually enforced, and now public health risks are patriotically assaulted? Sounds like paradise The 'they're disturbingly effective at genociding Muslims' one is a wee bit difficult to put a positive spin on, though.
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fuctifino posted:There were so many people not wearing masks when I went into town today. Even in the pharmacy, where there's a sign out strongly asking for people to wear masks, someone just walked in sniffling and coughing without a mask. It was similar in the supermarket too. Its not because they don't give a poo poo they are just following the advice of our glorious leaders
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Jul 22, 2021 07:25
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Rabelais D posted:
I'll be honest apart from a brief period right at the the start of this I don't think I've seen anyone wearing masks just walking outside on the street, but I understand that's pretty common in other countries?
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Jul 22, 2021 07:33
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Darth Walrus posted:The 'they're disturbingly effective at genociding Muslims' one is a wee bit difficult to put a positive spin on, though. That's mostly a bunch of nonsense made up by a far-right evangelist, OP. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Jul 22, 2021 07:40
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This area majority people wear masks indoors but not outdoors and the infection rate has always been lower than Sheffield where you see more masks - because we always did have the luxury of space and that’s the key really. Don’t worry about people going to open stately home gardens unmasked, do worry about packed Saturday morning high streets
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Jul 22, 2021 07:44
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I like a good beating
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Jul 22, 2021 07:50
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Not So Fast posted:That's mostly a bunch of nonsense made up by a far-right evangelist, OP. 😮 Is that true? Tbh I've not had time to properly focus on the Uighur situation (know that's an awful way to phrase it) in China. Who's the far right evangelist?
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Mourning Due posted:😮 No it's not and genocide denying ought to be a bannable offense.
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Mourning Due posted:😮 https://thegrayzone.com/2019/12/21/china-detaining-millions-uyghurs-problems-claims-us-ngo-researcher/ Look, I'm not going to claim there's nothing bad happening in Xinjiang, there's definitely a mass surveillance state operation going on aimed at cracking down on Islamic extremism and separatism, think of it more like China's own War on Terror. But claims of genocide are usually overblown exaggerations of what's actually going on and it does the Uighur minority no favours. Take for example the forced labour claims. There's been no proof of this beyond allegations by Adrian Zenz and his think tank, and companies like Sketchers who investigate their supply chain find no evidence either. But now you have Chinese companies refusing to hire Uighurs for fear of US sanctions. https://about.skechers.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/SKECHERS-USA-STATEMENT-UYGHURS-March-2021.pdf https://www.wsj.com/articles/chines...t.co/bCspZiQ2FV Not So Fast fucked around with this message at 08:15 on Jul 22, 2021 |
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Jul 22, 2021 08:12
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Currently trying to read an old FT intro to investing book and I have so very, very many ethical questions.
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Not So Fast posted:Take for example the forced labour claims. There's been no proof of this beyond allegations by Adrian Zenz and his think tank, and companies like Sketchers who investigate their supply chain find no evidence either. But now you have Chinese companies refusing to hire Uighurs for fear of US sanctions. BBC posted:Earlier, leaked documents known as the China Cables made clear that the camps were intended to be run as high security prisons, with strict discipline and punishments. I'm not denying that the US is almost certainly exaggerating things for political reasons, but Not So Fast posted:That's mostly a bunch of nonsense made up by a far-right evangelist, OP.
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Jul 22, 2021 08:46
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Not So Fast posted:Take for example the forced labour claims. There's been no proof of this beyond allegations by Adrian Zenz and his think tank, and companies like Sketchers who investigate their supply chain find no evidence either. But now you have Chinese companies refusing to hire Uighurs for fear of US sanctions. What about investigations using satellite photos that have shown that more than a hundred factories have been constructed abutting prison camps? https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/alison_killing/xinjiang-camps-china-factories-forced-labor Xinjiang really seems to bring out the tankies for some reason.
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Jul 22, 2021 08:49
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yarl%27s_Wood_Immigration_Removal_Centre though.
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cursèd thought for the morning: Yoga With Adriene Zenz
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Jul 22, 2021 09:07
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A company investigating their own supply chain and saying "welp no forced labour here" is not really something you can trust. I mean, companies always say that and keep getting found out for all sorts of violations whether forced labour or other abuses.
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Got my second pfizer shot yesterday and apart from a slightly more sore arm than last time I feel good. Good enough to go out on a 3 hour MTB ride yesterday evening! Still amazed at how slick and smooth the whole process was. Was a lot of people there too (Ashton Gate in Bristol) so lots of people are still very happy getting their vax.
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Aphex- posted:Got my second pfizer shot yesterday and apart from a slightly more sore arm than last time I feel good. Good enough to go out on a 3 hour MTB ride yesterday evening! Still amazed at how slick and smooth the whole process was. Was a lot of people there too (Ashton Gate in Bristol) so lots of people are still very happy getting their vax. There is a small issue with Ashton Gate, in that they took bookings for 2nd dose appointments until the end of September but will now be shutting in August.
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Not So Fast posted:That's mostly a bunch of nonsense made up by a far-right evangelist, OP. lol
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Oh, it's merely cycling an entire population through a series of concentration camps where they undergo horrific abuse, forced labour, and the crushing of all their beliefs, but they aren't death camps so it's all ok.
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Also all those mosques just happened to have structural issues that meant that they had to be bulldozed. Edit: Seriously, "well actually"ing about Xinjiang should be probatable. It comes up often enough in various discussions in D&D to be an issue.
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Jul 22, 2021 09:23
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e: nvm. Just pretend I wrote the above post.
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“Well, it doesn’t necessarily fit the formal definition of genocide, you see”. Agree that it should be probatable.
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